Second Semifinal is tonight. Eric Saade became so popular across Europe that he secures Sweden a finalist in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday. But as the 19-year-old entertainer say, anything can happen.

Eric Saade and his team came to Düsseldorf already on Tuesday of last week, and rehearsals have been replaced by interviews, dinners and briefings.

- But I’ve actually been able to take it easy in a few days. Lots of sleep, exploring in the city and enjoy the nice weather here. But now the chaos has begun again, “said Eric Saade and laughs.

Perhaps not so surprising. Much must run smoothly for the second semi-final which takes place this evening. The dance is perfect. The song also. And glass cage – yes, it has to break.

It’s been a lot of talk about the problems with the glass cage?

- No, therefore I have never been worried. The media magnifies everything. I usually keep away from everything that is written about me. I really do not care. I’m here to focus on music and my appearance.

Your number appears to stand out so far?

- Yes, and with the glass cage, but there aren’t many countries in the Eurovision over the years that have made modern hip hop and street dance to their songs. So ‘Popular’ stands out clearly. Then we’ll see what the people like this year. Eurovision Song Contest is a competition like that, I think, it is simply impossible to compete in music, but it is more what people like. If viewers like pop will go great, If they don’t, the result can’t be good.

But of course he is aiming to win. Failure to do so would be foolish. But for Eric Saade, Eurovision Song Contest is just one stop on the road in his career. There is so much more than this, “he says. As a summer tour and a new album that’s around the corner.

Let’s enter in a time machine, which is your first strong memory of the Eurovision Song Contest?

- It must have been when Lena Phillips was in 2004 with “It Hurts”. I had 13 years and thought she was so extremely sexy, I was easily able to marry her, have. She rocked and that’s probably why I remember most.

What were you told when I arrived as a little fairy to you that morning and told that you would be at 2011 Eurovision?

- I had actually thought that you had smoked a bit too much of something. I didn’t knew what was happening. Eurovision was not my biggest dream then, but it was really the greatest scenes I dreamed of. And it’s a big stage here. But I could never expect that my career would begin this way.

But how do you feel … like “Popular”? Now, you are in a state that it is so good and you feel so confident with it that you want to get married or are you getting tired of it, glances and longing for other tracks?

- I go and not listen to “Popular” in my iPod directly, but I’m at the beginning of my career so it gets funnier and funnier and funnier every time I do it. When I go out on summer tour, I will run it as a showpiece. It will be awesome I think.

And this fall, well then, he’s out and ready conquer Europe – again.