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Eurostars in Russia
Bilan, Alehno and Lorak join Sirusho at the AMA's
As reported earlier this week, Sirusho, the Armenian representative in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest will be attending the Armenian Music Awards in Moscow, where she is nominated for Best Artist together with Hayko and Andre who also represented their country in the two previous contests. More Eurostars will be joining Sirusho in this high profile event. Dima Bilan, the Russian hope in Belgrade, Ani Lorak, the Ukrainian Shady lady and Belorussian Ruslan Alehno have also been confirmed to be present and perform their Eurovision entries.
The Qele, qele promo CD single is about to be released and it will be distributed to members of the media during Sirusho's promo tour and during press conferences in Belgrade. It will contain two original remixes of the song, as well as the karaoke version and the official video clip as well. The remix tracks will be available to download on the official Armenian Eurovision website starting tomorrow, 4th April.
When in Moscow, Sirusho met with Dima Bilan and together they had a photoshoot session for a well- known Yerevan journal. Footage from the shoot can be watched below.
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comedy.
really u r comedy u know well your name, becouse what u writting is comedy,u speak confusedly,every thing u wrote is incorrect & stop it, u r azery or turkish, your songs r cheap,& we will see who win in the end.
@ Rita
as I heard it will not be the same scenario, but who knows
maybe even that is better than some "plastic" songs and people on the scene. and i hope he will win or maybe bulgaria, i just like those songs
@Ivica
To win with such a lousy song, Dima doesn't need to sing in perfect English, all he needs to do is to drop down on his knees and spend half of his performance wiping the floor and weeping over the microphone. There is a bunch of fans who wil vote for him only because they admire this type of miserable scenery. Good news for the Belgrade crew, is that after Dima, no stage cleaning. The floor will be reflecting as a mirror!
@.... comedy
u should be grateful to me for that good advice,the fact that u think people have many accounts is enough to say that u have some real problems.honestly u need a doctor.
btw,i love simpsons,do u have any problems with simpsons too?
Mr/Ms Bart J. Simpson
Why should I listen to you when I know my health condition is not poor like yours where I and other people who puts down reaction and get attack by you and people like you or maybe one ill person with many accounts?
Sad as it never stop. I will make sure this is my last reaction of honesty for you because you don't deserve it Bart J. Simpson the irrelevant cheap cartoon to Eurovision, join junior eurovision and take cheap Armenian song with you.
@.... comedy
find a good doctor,no honestly i am not kidding.
byebye
Dima is the best this year,
And for those who are arguing about his English , if you knew little bit more about music you would notice that it was made with purpose and for synchronization , so pls shut up.
Moscow 2009, 12 points from Macedonia!
Rita
Why are you bitching Azeri and Turkish people then? At least they are telling their true opinion, since you are paranoid about these people tastes and preference why do you bother to come here?
Honestly, some people just want to attack other people as if they own this website.
If I say Armenian entry is cheap and not gonna win I can say it as much as I want. Don't read it if it hurts you. The truth is Armenian entry is nothing special and nothing difficult to create, it would be better for Junior Eurovision. That is my opinion and I am entitled to that. Attack me as much as you want and make borring and useless excuses.
@libra s
i would have been surprised if you had said the opposite, you azeri and turkish fans definitely have nothing other to do than just come on armenian entry page and bitch! good luck to you though
i did not know that Dima Bilan was in Turkey...(singing believe in playback)
url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9m22nFwvU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T9m22nFwvU/url]
Dont like the song at all. Ordinary and maybe below average song. Sorry not a right choice.
@Max
You said it.The system.The voting system is unfair and it needs to be changed. What are the options? One phone number = one vote?
Right,Bart J.Simpson!!! i guess he must go to opera 
haha yes ignore the mentals!!!(and their cheap comments)
They are soo afraid greece or armenia will win that they cant stop trashing the pages! But what can u do? awww
@projectzero00
plz dont respond to that mental guy,these responses are the best excuse for him to write more and more shits.imagine just bucuz of this: "I am the one come and discover me" he thinks the greek song is a jesc song,i bet he has never heard any madonna or mariah carey or maybe he thinks all those american pop singers are also jesc singers.what about mariah careys "touch my body" is that also a jesc song?...lollol
Oh come on Night comdey,u just promote armenian and greek entry!!!! but u dont understand coz ur a kid! WE ARE FED UP with your CHEAP and once more CHEAP comments(i think u like that word coz ur also CHEAP?
Back to topic.
Sirusho is so happy she must really think that she is gonna even win the contest. These cheap lyrics and music should have been chosen for Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Oh and also Greece is just another worst entry that thinks hey, I am the one come and discover me, baby doll. These people bring the quality of eurovision down because they are just trying to promote themselves, these rank amateurs.
The truth I never used swearing words when talking to others, but if people like you are swearing and proving what they are doesn't matter if I say you are psycho or not. Like I said the truth is truth. Go back and read your nasty comment/attack on me and think before you reply.
This is my last comment for you, appreciate the honesty.
Good bye
@A Night of Musical Comedy
Hahaha! thx dude u made me laugh! Seriously u believe these things u say? You have insulted and argued with every single person that comes from a country whose song you just dont like and I am a psycho? pffff You r not even worth it...hater!
Both their songs are sucks!
I aint even gonna respond to that psychopath the:
ProjectZero00
This peron is swearing, I am not, we can see who has got big massive problem.
Thanks for proving me right.
@ NORO MMMO
Don't turn my words around... I've never said that neighbours shouldn't vote for a song only because it comes from the neighbours... It's often like that here - people turn your words around, so long until they become ridiculous...
"OH, they are neighbors, we shouldnt vote for them"...... Are you serious??
You can spare your two question marks - I've never written anything like that you are misquoting here...
So, that's how you can consider diaspora voting - of course Serbs are voting for their home country when they live in - let's say - Croatia. They are paying much more attention to this song than to others and if it is halfway pleasant, they are voting for it - quite natural.
You can't blame the people for doing so, but in the end you get what we get - a completely unfair, biased voting... And that's not the fault of the Serbs, Russians, Armenians or Greeks - words that you want to put in my mouth - that's the fault of this voting system...
@ Rita Belindarian
Don*t bring the example of Finland. Finland gets a few of the Scandinavian and Baltic votes anyway, but allowedly, that wouldn't have helped them to force a victory... Finland in 2006 were extreme - so they were creating controversy and awakening attention... I know many people in Germany who watched the Contest only because of Lordi... But you can't claim on the Western countries only to bring something similar and then get a decent result, not when Greece's Sarbel, Armenia's Andre or Turkey's Kenan join the Top10 easily with unoriginal, bad songs...
If you don't have a song like Finland's - you can't demand for it every year - then one of the countries with the biggest support of "unfair" points wins. Don't tell me that [i]Molitva[/i] would have won if the UK have sent it in... Serebro would have perhaps joined the Top10 - or rather Top15 - if they were a German group. And Sarbel - sorry - would have never reached the final, if Portugal were responsible for him...
You say that MY country is always giving 12 points to Turkey, no matter the song. You're right, that's exactly what I'm blaming. That's definitely not my fault, because I'm voting for at least one up to three countries every show and not only for Austria, Switzerland and France. Last year I preferred Netherlands, Andorra and Hungary in the semis - a colourful mixture, more than you can get often from "East"-fans...
But I'm a fan and not the fans are affecting the outcome, but the large masses of voters. And in the Western countries - I can observe it very well in Germany - the interest is declining more and more. People are saying: "Whatever we send, we don't stand a chance of getting a Top10-place" and if they have other possibilities, they aren't watching anymore. Many of the Eurovision parties which were going on mostly in the gay scene are cancelled, because many people don't want to watch the same scenario over and over again - the scenario where you can predict quite surely the points the countries are giving to each other...
And that's a vicious circle - the interest degreases, the minorities are keeping on voting - voilà: our "douze points" go to - Turkey! hey....!
This year could eventually become the last try for many countries. France is sending a topstar, Germany has send two very fresh entries in the last two years and is now bringing the most successful girl group of Continental Europe, Iceland, Malta, Belgium, Denmark for financial reasons - all of them are countries who could step out if they aren't doing well and, more likely, if the Eastern countries have booked again the first places for themselves...
Russia has really no forcing song this year, Ukraine and Greece, too. No need to talk about Belarus. Armenia is sending an Ethno-song which we have heard a thousand times now in the last four years after Ruslana...
There ARE better songs in the competition. And even so, I'm pretty sure that we will see Russia and Armenia joining the top3...
okay - that's all for now! long answer, but I still see a need for defending myself - still a good sign...
And please dont call "KIEV".......... "KYIV", only "KYIV"
esc is the AREA OF FREANDSHIP!!!!!
GREAT COMMENT DUDE!! ESC IS NOT ABOUT FRIENDSHIP BUT ABOUT SONGS!!! GOD, THESE THINGS DESTROY EUROVISION!!! EVERY COUNTRY MUST VOTE FOR THE SONG THEY LIKE AND NOT THE SONGS OF THE FRIENDLIEST COUNTRIES!!! GOD!!!!
i hope ARMENIA WILL givs to UKRAINE 12 points..... becouse we are friends
Rita, well i dont want Armenia to give 12 pts to Russia too! I wish Armenia gives 12 to Greece,if not then to Ukraine! And it's wrong to vote for Bilan only coz he's famous in Armenia! But what can we do with all Dima's fans in Armenia? They will vote even without AMA performances!
I hope Armenian 12points go to lovely Kalomoira from Greece! ou bien Ani lorak
Nevertheless,it is great to see 4 Eurostars in AMA.we can see a bit how will be the performances on ESc stage(a bit)
you know what by inviting this 4 candidates to AMA, the ArmTV makes a huge mistake. They are trying to influence peoples voting in advance. If they are going to perfom their ESC songs at AMA so people will already have an idea about the songs and the performances. It's wrong. Really wrong. I don't want Armenia give 12pts to Russia because of Dima. His song sucks! I'm sorry I hate to say that but we can't give each year 12pts to Russia because we know Dima Bilan or some other Russian starlet. I wish Urkaine gets 12pts or Serbia, but not Dima.
Hate that song!
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