Saturday 18 March 2017

Armenia 2017 - Artsvik - Fly With Me


So we're all in safely, as Armenia has finally revealed. But after keeping us waitng for so long, was it really worth the wait? Well kinda. For this a curious confection to be sure. The twenty-odd second teaser that they gave us last week hinted that it would pick up massively once we'd taken a trip through the lady's hair pipe - but no!

Instead it goes the other was and chills incredibly, all the while punding out an insistant Eastern beat, enmbroidered throughout with a lilting suggestion of a melody. And it's great. It's moody, smart, and just a little bit lustful, and I can imagine this as the beautful light relief in the middle of an album full of techno bangers. But is it really Eurovision?

Hmm, we're not too sure. Because for all it's art and allure, is anybody going to get it on showbizzy Spring Saturday night? Are even the juries going to become infected by its charms when it's surrounded by apes and yodelling and topless men? We're really not sure at all, and fear that it's one of those classy songs that just passes people by. What whatever anybody thinks of it. That's one of the most beautifully shot videos we've ever seen at this contest. Not that this will get you very far on the big night, of course.

1 comment:

  1. So much effort in Depi Evratesil to get...THIS.

    It's all a bit meh for me - Artsvik was the power ballad queen in the selection process and I know she would have been up against lots of others but she knocked it out of the park every week before Christmas...

    I think that Armenia might now be out of the Final - I almost wish that sultry Marta had made it, at least her nation would have had something original to support.

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