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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Tobson Ranking: #36 Armenia

Sorry to break it to you, but a great personality isn't worth much if you don't have a song to back it up with.



Emmy - Boom Boom (Armenia 2011)

Rather like Croatia, it seems the Armenians too are painfully aware of how little of song they have to offer.

There is a hook, admittedly. A hook that will stick in your mind and haunt you. A hook as pleasant as having a wasp stuck inside your head. But a hook is a hook is a hook and should never be underestimated.

Sometimes you can take a weak song and add a fantastic show and the result will be breathtaking. Sometimes a good act will just underline how weak your song is.

Poor little Emmy can't do much about it, and her slipping and sliding on a number of notes does the package no favours either.

But there is one very positive point proven by all this: when Armenia sends in a bad song, they are left in the semis. Just like everyone else.

So now we can drop the talk that they are always guaranteed a spot in the final, regardless of what they enter.

A very good thing for Armenia, in the long run.

My grade: 1 / 5

1 comment:

  1. Fantastic - glad that it got dumped by Europe - it was rubbish. For the record - the performance was decent and lively.

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