Loreen has applauded Johnny Logan for singing her winning Eurovision Song Contest track Euphoria on stage during the first semi-final on Tuesday night.
The Swedish double winner, who made history as the first woman to triumph twice at the competition, will return to the stage of the contest on Saturday at the Malmö Arena in Sweden to perform a blend of her new single Forever as well as Tattoo.
Last year, Loreen won the Eurovision in Liverpool with Tattoo, when the UK hosted on behalf of Ukraine.
She first won the competition in 2012 with Euphoria.
The 40-year-old singer told the PA news agency that she watched Logan - who won Eurovision for Ireland in 1980 and 1987 singing What's Another Year and Hold Me Now, respectively, and wrote Linda Martin's 1992 winner Why Me? - on her phone.
She said: "The first thing that hit me was, like, 'This is a really hard song to sing... what's he going to do?'
"Oh, not like, 'How is he going to do? How's he going to make it?' Not like that, more like, 'How is he going to interpret the song? How is he gonna make it his own?', which he did.
"And, you know, usually when things like this happen, I get really shy because it's just like someone is singing your song... and it was very beautiful with the orchestra, the strings."
Loreen also called Logan's emotional rendition "real" and said she "definitely" wants to do a duet with the 69-year-old but he has "been too busy".
Loreen, who earlier this week announced tour dates for 2025 including at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre, did not rule out doing Eurovision for a third time.
"If somebody asks me and my gut feeling is saying, 'Yes, yes, yes, yes', and I'm like, 'OK, I need to get a song'," she said.
"Either way, if my intuition is saying 'yes', I guess I just have to go with that. Although, I don't understand it, because I definitely did not understand it last year."
Source: Press Association
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