oikotimes.com, Greece
Dec 3 2008

System Of A Down really interested or is this a promo stunt?

It all started with the NME.com report last summer that the Armenian
originated group of SYSTEM OF A DOWN was said to be approached by the
Armenian national television for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. The
issue though seems to be more promotional than true. In recent
interviews the group keeps saying that they are not going to be
reunited especially for the contest.

During their summer statements SOAD said that if they represented
Armenia they would like to do it so with a political song, something
that weirdly ARMTV haven’t denied and something that EBU itself would
have not allowed. The weird story will come to an end in about a month
when the Armenian state television will open its cards for the Moscow
2009 bidding.

It will be interesting to see if the broadcaster will actually come to
negotiations with the band making them reunite but in that case, the
image of the national entry might be damaged, despite the group’s
popularity. The songs with political lyrics in Eurovision averagely
fail in the contest and we would like to remind to ARMTV that SOAD are
very popular in the US and not in Europe where the TV station aims to
get points for!

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