Rumours are now that Gor Sujyan (the vocalist from Dorians) has been internally selected as Armenia's 2013 representative with the song selection happening on March 2nd!

 

Shame it isn't Sirusho if this is true, but maybe he is good!

It has been confirmed that Gor Sujyan will be Armenia's representative.

 

Armenian broadcaster ARMTV has announced that Gor Sujyan, lead singer of the band ‘Dorians’, has been selected to represent the country in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. In the national final on 2 March, the public will select their song.

 

Dorians were one of the acts that publically declared their interest to go to last year’s contest in Baku, however after ARMTV pulled out over security concerns they were unable to take part.

 

http://escxtra.com/2013/01/gor-sujyan-sele...for-eurovision/

He's terrible.

Eugh. Why have they done this?! I suppose he might be good, but still, I wanted Sirusho!

From eurovision.tv:

 

Tonight, Gor will perform four songs. Out of these, a combined vote of the TV public and a professional jury will decide the winning entry. The titles of the songs in the competition are as follows:

• Toy Planet
• Lonely Planet
• No Time
• The Truth

The composers of the four songs will not be disclosed until after the national final. However, it is known that foreign as well as local songwriters have entries in the running.

Edited March 2, 201312 yr by Ryan.

This national final is just beginning if anyone's interested!

'Lonely Planet' won, and it was the best song of the 4. All of them were ok, but nothing amazing. I'll post the song when it appears on YouTube!

 

EDIT: Here's the song in low quality:

 

Edited March 3, 201312 yr by Ryan.

Interestingly, 'Lonely Planet' was composed by the world-famous English guitarist and songwriter Tony Iommi who also is a founder member of heavy metal band Black Sabbath! The lyrics is written by Armenian Vardan Zadoyan.

The Armenians have changed their entry name to 'Dorians'. Here is the official preview.

 

This sounds nowhere near as bad as I thought it was in studio HQ. In fact, the chord progression in the verses is rather nice.

Amongst my least favourites, and I genuinely think this'll be the third final in a row without Armenia.

This sounds nowhere near as bad as I thought it was in studio HQ. In fact, the chord progression in the verses is rather nice.

 

Indeed, I honestly quite like it.

This is hideous. His voice is INTOLERABLE on the chorus.

It's one of the most boring songs in existence. I'll be amazed if it qualifies to the final, especially with Albania in the same semi.

Albania's is actually SUPER CATCHY! This is dull and lifeless in comparison.

Absolutely! Albania will definitely steal the rock vote in SF2. Had Armenia been in SF1, I'd have been a bit more concerned that it would reach the final.

Shoot me if you want but this just keeps growing on me, although granted I do wish it was sung by somebody with a more tolerable voice. It kind of reminds me of Because You Loved Me by Celine Dion in certain parts! :lol: I really find it rather melodic and far better than the Albanian mess!

I bought the CD today and on first listen through declare me another fan of this now! I agree about it being rather melodic and it's miles ahead of Albania in quality, now that is abysmal.