#aftonbladet

[b-skarsgard]

Bill Skarsgård attending the premiere of Nosferatu in Sweden Dec. 9th, 2024

[late2thepartysblog]

He is actually the most handsome man in the world! <3 <3 <3 Rocking ALL the looks from the stylish, cool and sophisticated rock icon to the soft, cute, casual angel next door. <3

Source: Instagram

[omarsarms]

What does it mean to you that fans come here to see you?

– They do the shows. I have fans who come to all the gigs and who travel from the other side of the world. Without them it wouldn't be the same, and it's so crazy that they can do it. I'm so happy and grateful.

Way Out West- Aftonbladet

[rebeccafergusonfan]

Rebecca Ferguson photographed by Peter Knopp | Aftonbladet | 1999

[andiatas]

Aftonbladet: The Bonus Prince is suspected of 23 crimes

The Oslo police's preliminary investigation is complete. Now, the case surrounding the "bonus prince" Marius Borg Høiby is being expanded. He is suspected of a total of 23 crimes.

- We have conducted an extensive investigation, the police say at a press conference.

In August last year, Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit's son Marius Borg Høiby was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his then-girlfriend.

Since then, the suspicions have been expanded several times and also include rape, sexual assault and assault against three of his former girlfriends.

Høiby has admitted that, under the influence of alcohol and cocaine, he was violent and destroyed things in one woman's home in Oslo, and that he threatened a man in his 20s. He denies all other charges.

At a press conference on Friday, the Oslo police announced that they had completed their preliminary investigation. They had conducted a "comprehensive investigation", and the case would now be updated.

Høiby is now suspected of a total of 23 crimes:

One case of rape with intercourse.

Two cases of rape without intercourse.

Four cases of sexually abusive behaviour.

One case of domestic abuse.

Two cases of assault.

One case of vandalism.

One case of unlawful threats.

Five cases of violations of a no-contact order (basically, violation of a restraining order).

One case of insulting the police.

Five traffic violations.

However, the charge of assault by one of his former girlfriends is dropped.

The conclusions are now being handed over to the prosecutor, who will decide whether to prosecute him.

When asked if the police have questioned any members of the royal family during the investigation, a straightforward answer comes:

– We have had no contact with the Royal Family, say the police.

Excerpts from an article by Aftonbladet, published on June 27, 2025, at 11:08. Translation and editing for clarity by me.

[thecruelbeast]

Ghost är hårresande bra på hemmaplan

KONSERT Borta bra, men hemma i Linköping bäst.Ghosts efterlängtade hemkomst är en träffsäker triumf. Sofia Bergström recenserar spelningen p

Review of the Linköping concert by Sofia Bergström at Aftonbladet. She gave the show 5 out of 5 plus signs.

"Ghost is hair-raisingly good at home

CONCERT Away is good, but home in Linköping is best. Ghost's long-awaited homecoming is a surefire triumph.

Ghost Location: Saab Arena, Linköping. Audience: Sold out, around 7,500 souls. Length: 110 minutes. Best: Most of it. Worst: The heavy bass sometimes drowns out Tobias Forge's fine voice, which would have liked to have taken a bigger role in the soundscape. Question: When do you think Ghost will do their first headline gig at Ullevi?

LINKÖPING. Ghost is currently sailing in a rarely seen tailwind.

A few weeks ago, the rock band made Swedish music history when their latest album "Skeletá" secured first place on the American album chart. For those of us who have followed Ghost and Tobias Forge's success closely, the impressive chart placement didn't come as a major shock. Those of us in the know knew it was only a matter of time.

The hype for this week's two Swedish gigs has been enormous, on social media as well as in the national media. The festivities are already starting outside Saab Arena. Teenage girls dance to the “Scooby Doom”-swinging “Square Hammer.” Pope replicas in sequined jackets and choir robes stroll confidently through the expectant crowd. Goth nuns in white make-up shiver in the cold May weather. Some have been queuing since 5am this morning to nab coveted spots at the riot fence.

The long lines that squirm like black anacondas make it feel like the arena won't be able to satisfy the prevailing Ghost hunger. That feeling is reinforced the second the band opens with "Peacefields." When Linköping native Tobias Forge – in the role of his latest pope persona Papa V Perpetua – dances with great pomp onto the stage with lush arm gestures, the venue seems to expand as a result of all the ecstasy.

With a steady hand, the frontman and his seven nameless ghosts then lead the audience through a show where Ghost surpasses themselves on every level. The stage production, styling (Forge probably breaks records for the number of cool outfits), pyrotechnics and delivery are among the strongest of their career and pave the way for a buffet of hair-raising highlights. “Satanized” opens the doors to a disco at the bottom of Dante’s inferno. The chorus is a goddamn earworm that winds its way into the brain’s hippocampus while setting your hips in an exciting Elvis-like sway.

The weight of “Rats” makes it feel like someone is pressing a defibrillator against your chest, electric shocks coursing through your body with every drumbeat and thrashy riff. And the energy that the occult colossus “Year Zero” conjures up has the potential to awaken the dead from their eternal slumber. No matter what Forge & co throw in the way of the peppy audience – lush Yngwie Malmsteen hard rock (“Faith”), bubblegum pop retro rock (“Dance macabre”) or schlagergo playing (“Darkness at the heart of my love”) – everyone involved feels completely lost in the moment. Which may have something to do with the lack of mobile phones, which are strictly prohibited tonight.

Before the first encore, Forge can't resist the temptation to drop all facades and address the Linköping audience in Swedish. He talks, noticeably taken by the situation, about how he long ago skated in the ice rink next door and daydreamed about playing in the arena. This summer, the 44-year-old will stand on the big stage at Madison Square Garden, a feat that few Swedish musicians can boast of. But the question is whether tonight's gig at home is not a bigger milestone. At least rite here, rite now.

Footnote: On Friday, May 23, Ghost plays at Göransson Arena in Sandviken."

[omarera]

Breaking down the Aftonbladet article putting into Swedish context, at least my perspective. Markus is viewing the award as a music award and he has strong opinions on what his music taste is. People should vote as he wants lol. So a positive thing g here is that Omar seems to have a lot of votes. He is always very sarcastic and often have one line slaps sticks liners in his articles and is always straight forward. Markus wants it to be a his taste of “best music “ award but in reality fans are voting based on their own taste and dedication to vote. He needs to change his view of what Rockbjörnen is and why people vote.

Long post ahead…

Some nominations are the joke of the year. Doesn't just stand out. It sticks the eyes.

Ok, I have a few questions. La Gunilla? Fröken Snusk? Where did the musical taste go, dear audience? Is it out drunkenly riding a valley horse?

Since Rockbjörnen is Aftonbladet's prize, I should probably hold back.

It will be such a bad atmosphere otherwise.

The taste is different. After rain comes sun. It's always worse in Gällivare. Take pastors in Knutby with a grain of salt, and so on.

But one of the nominations doesn't just stand out. It sticks out the eyes of sensitive people.

Gunilla Persson? What is she doing here? Her contribution in the Melodifestivalen, "I won't shake (la la Gunilla)", was quite a lot. But "Breakthrough of the year"? What to say about it? Hawk tuah?

Nominating her is like watching the pole vault final at the Olympics, watching Armand Duplantis break a new world record and then giving the Gold of Achievement to a falcon.

I interpret everything as Aftonbladet's dear readers trolling us. If La Gunilla is the breakthrough of the year, you might as well give the bear to Babsan's chorizo ​​hit "Give me a Spaniard", even though the song was released in 2011.

That would be about as reasonable.

For context: Babsan you all know 🫠 but Gunilla Persson is known for being a “Hollywood wife reality star” and she is just loved or hated and just a strong character. She is not a music artist and the actual new breakthrough music artists gets in her shadow.

Another nomination makes me demand that Sweden should introduce a driver's license test before people can express themselves about music. Otherwise, there is a great risk that many people will accelerate backwards towards a red light on the left side of the traffic. That is, cogs in the run-up by voting for Fröken Snusk.Her mix of knight fun and epadunk in a pink robber's hat would only have been a given winner if Rockbjörnen introduced the category "Joke of the Year".

Then so. Now it feels easier to breathe.

For context: Fröken Snusk performes in a pink mask and have songs like “Ride me like a Dalahorse” and “the Gynecological”. Fröken Snusk kind of translates into Miss Naughty. She is though very popular among kids and teens mostly. A guy behind her pulls all the strings and she basically sings the songs. She wants to take a bigger role and is starting to change her image. The song she did in Mello she was a co-author on and she was also the winner of this year’s “The mask” showing off she has great voice. Taking of the mask having her pink mask on. Some songs were also taken down from Spotify due allegations of manipulation of streams. But many love her. Others hate her.

Otherwise, this year's gala seems to be a classic duel at dawn between two relatively young men: Omar Rudberg and Benjamin Ingrosso.Omar can win four Rockbears and Benjamin three, which is due, among other things, to the fact that "Benji" has not performed at Gröna Lund this year and therefore cannot be nominated in the category "Grönan live act of the year".

There is nothing wrong with Rudberg, but if the prize is still about music, Ingrosso should sweep home everything. This summer he took on a new giant leap as a stage performer.

For context: I won’t riot against Markus, so if that’s what you want to read, move on. He acknowledges that it is a duel between them and he has probably seen the numbers of votes. That is positive news for me. There are not just Omar and Beji nominated and Omar and Benji seems to be close in voter numbers (if that’s the reason he writes the article and want to prime Benji winning)

Stating “there is nothing wrong with Omar, but if the prize is still about music, Ingrosso should sweep home everything”.

Music is subjective, and Markus saying there is nothing wrong with Omar is like a compliment coming from him. I prefer Omar’s music and we all know he is not recognized is Sweden as any of us thinks he deserves. I fully agree with that. I also agree that Benji is the biggest artist this year and he has taken leaps both performance wise and with his music. He has done an outsold European tour ( similar to the one Omar will do) and he has had several hits dominating the charts with a little bit of, for him, music style and quality. He has also had a very successful summer tour ( designed by the same person who designed Beyonces stage performance). He has had arena show in Sweden, very few Swedish artists pull that off. He IS the biggest Swedish male artist atm. So I understand Markus viewpoints. Omar is still in the beginning of his career, he has just started performing on stages and has his first tour announced. It’s not possible to compare them. Benji has so much more experience and has released so much more music. Omar is already great but he will have more music coming out with better producers and he will ofc evolve even more on stage. I see many compare Benji with Harry Styles and that’s where my references goes as well. He kind of has similar stage clothes and also the reading signs and having people proposing on his stage. So he interacts with the audience in a similar way.

The trolling part when it comes to Benji is that Benji has been/is by some hated just bc he is a nepo kid and his family. He had a FB group with 9000 members called “we who hate Benjamin” when he was 9yo. And yes he has benefited a lot from his family background and the benefits that comes with that but he also gets hate. And he still has that feeling with him it seems and seem to consider himself as a kind of an underdog needing to prove himself. So him being the biggest artist atm, and if he doesn’t win some will see it as people voted on other artist to make him not win and build on the narrative that it is bc he is a Wahlgren/Ingrosso. He also gets votes for that reason ofc, people loving him and his family, rather than people loving his music.

But all together, La Gunilla and Fröken Snusk might win, loved by the people but maybe not the best music. Omar is loved and have dedicated fans even though Benji is the biggest artist this year. And has the music that has been recognized. Markus seem to prefer his music, I prefer Omar’s music.

Regarding the trolling history for Rockbjörnen, last year Hooja won four categories, they are also liked and loved by kids and people all ages I guess, they wear masks and do fun songs with kind of silly lyrics. Listen below. But they were also “outed” and their names and life’s were written about by Aftonbladet last year which was quite controversial since they wanted to be anonymous for their sake and also their families. They live north in Sweden and lead somewhat just normal family life. So, that was also probably one reason people voted for them. A way of trolling as well.

[couturefaith]

I’m honestly very sick of sweden undermining how talented omar is + his achievements.