EUROVISION BETTING ODDS: SIRUSHO, ARMENIA
Stuart Heritage

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March 27 2008
Los Angeles

Here it comes – another daily instalment of Eurovision betting odds.

Exciting, huh? Oh, you big kidder, it is.

Eurovision fever is already sweeping the continent, you’ll be pleased
to know. The Norwegian entry is number two in the Norwegian national
charts, the Belgian entry is seventh there and this week’s entire
top 15 in Sweden are all entries in the Eurovision qualifying round.

Let’s pray that never happens here – anything that heps to give John
Barrowman credibility as a judge is all wrong in our books.

Here are the Eurovision betting odds for Armenia, with help from
Paddy Power…

Armenia – (pop. 2,976,372; a landlocked Eurasian country in the
Caucasus region): Sirusho, Qele Qele

In Armenian ‘Qele Qele’ means ‘Let’s go’, as in ‘let’s go to the beach’
or ‘let’s go and drown animals for sport’. However, quite what Sirusho
wants us to let’s go and do is never made explicit, partly because
she spends quite a lot of the song wailing "From my Armenian soil I
came to bring the wind of the mountains" like a vaguely apocalyptic
gypsy woman. But don’t let the opening of Qele Qele fool you, because
this song is one of the favourites to win Eurovision this year. We’re
not sure why – it could be because it sounds a bit like Shakira,
or because it sounds like Sirusho is singing "ooh Kelly ooh Kelly"
and a lot of people called Kelly will vote for it because they’re
thick. But even if Sirusho doesn’t win Eurovision for Armenia,
at least the song is perfectly set up to soundtrack the sort of
tourism commercials for North African countries that they show on
news channels in continental hotels. Also, this is the third of
our Eurovision betting odds profiles, and the third pretty female
performer. A pattern forming? Current Eurovision betting odds – 6/1