Armenia 2024: Ladaniva - Jako

[Kala]

Rumours are going round that Armenia have selected Anahit Hakobyan to represent them in Malmö. The Eurovision Nancy Drews have noticed that a bunch of people on the Armenian delegation have started to follow her over the past few days. She was a contestant on The Voice Armenia.

I can't find any of her own material online, but here she is singing Qami Qami, the JESC winner in 2021 from ASFM veteran Maléna.

 

[D5K]

Well that production sucks all of the goodness out of Qami Qami.

 

[auretz]

A contestant from The Voice with no released material of her own seems... like not the sort of thing you should be wasting an internal selection on. Fingers crossed the song is worth it!

 

[rhythmbandit]

She's just pulled out.

 

[Madíson]

(That account has fewer than 200 posts and started in early February with this. The account name refers to a popular type of bread.)

 

[Madíson]

Do we know anything about Armenia’s entry yet? This seems more mysterious than ever.

 

[auretz]

Supposedly it won’t be released until next weekend and we may not even get the artist name until then (unless the EBU put it on the official site after Monday’s head of delegation meeting)

 

[auretz]

Nevermind - turns out the initial rumours about Ladaniva were right after all!

 

[Soldi]

Omg!!!!!

 

[Soldi]

The way this year just keeps SERVING!

 

[Madíson]

Hurrah!

 

[Madíson]

 

[Dark Carnival]

Omg!!!!!

Why? What? Who is she?

 

[Dark Carnival]

She's just pulled out.

What? I’m so confused by this tweet?

 

[Soldi]

Why? What? Who is she?

They’ll hopefully be bringing us a WHIFF of the SOUK

 

[Madíson]

Why? What? Who is she?

*They. An Armenian girl and a bearded Frenchman.

 

[rhythmbandit]

They’ll hopefully be bringing us a WHIFF of the SOUK

I sent this last year to ASFM. It felt very Eurovision-y.

 

[auretz]

Supposedly this is the song:

 

[VoR]

Not so much a whiff as a STENCH of the souk

Love it. Not sure it's very competitive though.

 

[Lucille]

It’s a bit too much of a MOOD PIECE for my taste.

 

[Penelope]

OMG are we about to get an Artsvik KETAMINE DISASTER?

 

[Kala]

I love it but it’s just not very much of a song is it?

 

[Dark Carnival]

OMG are we about to get an Artsvik KETAMINE DISASTER?

SIGN ME UP

 

[Lucille]

I mean it’s basically an INSTRUMENTAL and I don’t see how they could make it engaging without live instrumentation.

 

[auretz]

The full rumour is that it’s being revamped as well. Of course, it could just be another hysterical eurofan rumour

 

[Penelope]

Issuing rumours that I have decided to revamp the screaming fit I had last night

 

[Penelope]

Wait sorry, thought this was the Ireland thread

 

[Kratz]

I want to writhe about to that

 

[VoR]

Apparently it IS Jako, but a significantly restructured version of the song.

 

[Pingu]

The song has been given a subtle revamp and reuploaded. I wouldn’t call it significantly different, it’s just been made more dynamic in some parts:

 

[Kala]

This can’t be their Eurovision song. It was uploaded in July 2023.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

This can’t be their Eurovision song. It was uploaded in July 2023.

Eurgh, were you one of the ones that told the EBU about the Ukranian peasants in 2021?

 

[Pingu]

This can’t be their Eurovision song. It was uploaded in July 2023.

It was released on 29th September so I assume it was a private upload prior to then.

 

[VoR]

As we know, the EBU are very strict about this rule and never arbitrarily bend it

 

[Kratz]

As we know, the EBU are very strict about this rule and never arbitrarily bend it

That’s rich!

 

[Kratz]

Anyway, I like this. Shades of the iconic Inga and Anush

 

[auretz]

It feels a weird choice to use a song from an album that has one of the fewest streams

 

[Pingu]

I like it Simon, it’s got the fun factor!

 

[bypass]

Its great

 

[VoR]

Love it!