Summer?
It's been shorts weather recently - last night, even in the middle of the night it was perfectly comfortable in shorts :-) Summer has begun - and the tourists have poured in to remind us as well. This really is becoming a bit of a destination.
There's a new website www.andreforarmenia.com for Andre's eurovision entry. Eurovision is absolutely huge in this part of the world, and Armenia's participation will give it some massive exposure. Tens of millions (perhaps hundreds of millions?) will now associate Armenia with Europe, will hear Armenian lyrics, will perhaps want to learn more about the people, the country... such a small thing, but so big. Each country has one entry - so there is equal exposure for countries large and small. If he wins it would be HUGE - not just for the PR exposure, but also because the next contest would be held in... Yerevan!
There's a new website www.andreforarmenia.com for Andre's eurovision entry. Eurovision is absolutely huge in this part of the world, and Armenia's participation will give it some massive exposure. Tens of millions (perhaps hundreds of millions?) will now associate Armenia with Europe, will hear Armenian lyrics, will perhaps want to learn more about the people, the country... such a small thing, but so big. Each country has one entry - so there is equal exposure for countries large and small. If he wins it would be HUGE - not just for the PR exposure, but also because the next contest would be held in... Yerevan!
posted by Raffi K. at 11:46 AM
13 Comments:
It is hardly possible to associate Armenia with Europe with that song contrary, it is easier to associate Armenian with Turkey or Azerbaijan as many people currently do. I tried to do my best (unsuccessfully) to listen to that song from start to end . Not only it has nothing to do with Armenian or Armenia ( lyrics are in English, music 99% Turkish) but it is also out of date i.e. it is a copycat of past Turkish Eurovision songs.
No Armenian should vote for this song otherwise it will encourage creation of further rubbish.
I posted my say in that website let's see whether they welcome critisizm.
Ah please just give it a rest, it's the same old record for the last couple of months,We get it, u people don't like the song, the singer etc etc etc. Stop taking it so seriously it's just a cheesy song competition that only "new europe" cares about.
I love my country and it’s people but you have no idea how frustrating it is to watch them criticise every little thing that really doesn't warrant criticism when you consider all the other things that their time and efforts can be spent on. I just wish you guys would get some sense of perspective and objectivity and spend a little less time chasing things that are completely irrelevant.
Wasp, I'm sorry I didnt get your email address so I couldn't reply directly.
I set up the website, I don't work for Andre, The public tv, the government, or anyone, I just thought we could give Andre a bit of support.
I have my qualms with the song too, but I won't be posting your comment just because the site is created to encourage, not debate our entry for Eurovision.
It's also interesting that I have not recieved one positive post apart from the non Armenians that are already on the site..
It's quite a shame..I think it's too late for this debate.
Ha-ha, can't agree more with Anna! Who gives a damn about this Eurovision contest, anyway? When Raffi described it as some kind of Super European Cup, my jaw dropped. Come on, neither critics of the song (ya, I heard a clip and was not impressed) nor the supporters should make it an ARMENIAN question, almost an IDENTITY question: it is exactly "just a cheesy song competition"! One day a good song will be presented, another day - a not so good one, not a big deal...
We'll grow out of it, of course, but it is so amusing to watch this "national battle" now and recall it in, say, 10 years!
It reminds me of the funniest episode with McDonalds opening its first franchise in Moscow some 15 years ago. Defying the whole concept of "fast food" the poor and naive (oh man, I would give so much to return to that fantastic Soviet naivity and human solidarity!) Russians lined up for a MILE (I am not kidding you) to get a burger! :)
No way! I always thought that was just one of those stories that my parents told me about the "good old days" !
You're right about the national battle thought, I guess it's easier to focus all of their/our frustrations on a totally inconsequential issue rather than face up to the reality of what's happening to ordinary citizen of our country.
Bravo, Anna! You took the words right out of my mouth.
Bravo!
Oh, how cool. We get to be associated with Europe. *rollseyes*
Is it possible to say ANYTHING without being subjected to scorn? Turkey's milked the European/Asian thing forever now, is it ok if we do too? Is it ok if Europeans realize we're right here in their backyard and decide to come by and check out our country in person? Is it ok if Andre - whos song I have never even commented on - sings something that actually borrows from neighboring countries who influence the music here, just as we influence theirs?
Uffa...
What is "Turkish" anyway, can anyone explain?
I hear Greek melodies more than Turkish, an Armenian duduk bit, the zurna - an instrument played all throughout the Middle East, as well as Asia, Europe AND Armenia, the oud which is played mostly in the Arab world and Greece ... so explain to me how this became a so-called Turkish song.
I do think he should have sang the song in Armenian, but oh well, it's too late now.
I wish Andre all the best and I really do think if all we Armenians supported the guy as much as the non-Armenian fans do we really do have a chance of at least being in the top 10.
Raffi and Anna are both right. Eurovision is big in the European media but it is also VERY cheesy.
Anything turkish is what was previously Armenian, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Arab and all others' possessions and ideas they plundered. So let's not give "Turkish" any credit for having created anything original in the last 700-800 years of their existence besides the Turkish toilet which is basically a whole in the ground to dump in.
Pedro said: "So let's not give "Turkish" any credit for having created anything original in the last 700-800 years".
How about the "original" Ottoman Empire? :)
Andre is great! a real modern day Kharabaghtsi-Armenian Champion. I feel he has the most potential of changing the current “Hard Core Rabiz”musical physiology in Yerevan. Having musical success outside of the CIS will unquestionably lift-off the black from many primitive or regressive rabiz performers.
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