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Soundtrack to the Swedish feel good comedy Livet Ar En Schlager from 2000. The movie was made by Susanne Beer based on a script written by Jonas Gardell. Popular Swedish actor Helena Bergstrom plays Mona Bergstrom a sweet euro-vision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and have 4 children, all named after her favourite Swedish euro-vision pop stars. Her brother is a cross-dressing guy self-titled Candy Darling. Mona works on a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. Davids parents has abandoned him as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in Davids heart, and vice versa. Davids goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to The Cardigans, a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him. The soundtrack are made up of popular Scandinavian music artists, several of them have been euro-vision competitors. Some of the tracks were exclusively made for this album Track listing: 1. Carola -If Life Was A Song 2. Lars H.U.G. and Lill Lindfors -Come Along 3. Lena Philipsson -I Believe In Miracles 4. Thomas Helmig -Superstar (Once In A Lifetime) 5. Sos Fenger -Girlthing 6. Jean-Pierre Barda -Lovecity 7. Tine Bjerggaard And Sunzet -Right Here, Right Now 8. Charlotte Nilsson -Jag Vill Bara Alskas Av Dig 9. Bjorn Kjellman -Handen Pa Hjartat 10. Regina Lund -Karleksikonen 11. Helena Bergstrom -Aldrig Skall Jag Sluta Alska Dig