Armenia Places Seventh in Eurovision 2010 Final
Armenia, Arts & Entertainment — By Liana Aghajanian on May 30, 2010 1:39 pm
Eva Rivas at the 2010 Eurovision Finals in Oslo. / © Giel Domen (EBU)
After all the glitz and money poured into the Europe’s most glamorous event, which commenced after two semi-finals and an almost four hour long finale, Germany’s cute, eccentric Lena took the top spot with her song “Satellite,” followed by Turkey’s rock group maNga and Romania’s infectious duo Ovi and Paula Seling. All the apricot stones in the world couldn’t have helped Armenia’s Eva Rivas place in the top three, but they did land her in seventh place – an accomplishment that might have been aided by her own prominent apricot stones.
Dubbed by British television presenter Graham Norton as winner of the “Miss Caucasus” title, Rivas’ earned 12 points – the maximum from a country – from Russia, Israel and The Netherlands. Armenia also received a surprise eight points from Spain. Armenia awarded 12 points to Georgia for Sofia Nizharadze’s ballad, “Shine,” 10 points to Russia for Peter Nalitch and Friends’ Lost and Forgotten” and eight points to Ukraine’s Alyosha for “Sweet People.”
Eva Rivas backstage with Jivan Gasparyan and friends a the second Eurovision semi-final. / © Indrek Galetin (EBU)
Finishing with 141 points, Rivas’ performance was more or less exactly the same as her semi-final number, although her hair (still as long as ever) was styled more appropriately for a televised appearance.
Still, distraction reigned in Rivas’ performance, so much so that it made focusing on the song at hand was a difficult task.
Then there was that giant apricot ‘stone’ on stage, which blossomed after one of Rivas’ dancers poured some imaginary water from his vase on it. Then there were the dancers and backup singers all together, fluttering on stage while she was singing. Her outfit and hair already made her larger than life, so adding more to the performance only took away from it.
Still, the buzz on social media networks like Facebook and Twitter however, made it apparent that “Apricot Stone” was an infectious hit.
Armenia first entered the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006, with André’s “Without Your Love” placing eighth. While sister duo Inga and Anush placed 10th with their song, “Jan Jan,” Sirusho’s 2008 performance of “Qélé Qélé” gave Armenia its best ever rank at fourth place. With the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Berlin, fans will have to wait one more year to see what Armenia has in store for its sixth entry into the competition.
Watch Eva Rivas at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Final below
Tags: apricot stone, armenia eurovision, eurovision 2010 final, eurovision 2010 results, eva rivas, lena germany, manga
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Loved all your twitter comments during the show yesterday,very funny! Great job covering this event Liana!
She just isn’t hip enough to be liked by western Europe in her own right (she is let’s face it, kind of weird looking and there is something really fake about her smile), and Europeans hate Russians, which is ultimately what she is, rather than Armenian. Moreover, no one cares about apricots from someone else’s “mother land”. The people who looked like they were from Shrek also were a distraction, and made it all look hokey and in poor taste, which for Eurovision is a feat in and of itself.
Don’t forget, she also offended all of the European media when she called the contest “not honest” in front of them all during the drawing for show order. Even the Azeri girl couldn’t have been any sweeter. Eva just looked like a rude b*itch after that.
Sandy, yes I agree, she is a b*tch, like all other girls in this contest, and I love this b*itch. At least, she says what she thinks. Eva is great. She has charisma and talent. Other issues are irrelevant.
Good job and very funny on the article and covering the event on Twitter. First, I don’t know why Armenia chose her to represent Armenia. Does she even speak Armenian? Second, Armenia needs to change its tune and submit more up to date songs.
Not everyone was rude. Eva was not charismatic as much as she was offensive, and not in a good, Mariah Carey-diva way. She is not classy, no matter how much Russian mafia money back her. Have you heard her version of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean?” ROFL! This chick is pathetic!
We can hate Eva as much as we can (she does not speak armenian, she does not look armenian, she is not from armenia, she is not beautiful, etc), that is what we armenians do every year; but there is on e simple fact that we need to remember she is representing armenia. It is always the case that someone could have been better than the one chosen. Just face it, she was 100% better than Lena from Germany. So no matter what we say no matter who we send it is not the time for Armenia to win. It is all about business and sponsors. If this song contest was on professional level, ukraine should have taken the first place.
Stop being mean to Eva, everyone. I don’t like it. She is my girlfriend and it upsets me very much when people insult her. You’re all just jealous. She is the best Armenian woman in the world and super duper sexy and we’re going to get married on April 15th next year.
The only thing Armenian was Djivan playing the duduk for a little bit. Seriously, this represents “Armenia”? Even the announcers were making fun of it. C’mon people!
LOL @ the comment above mentioning Shrek. It really looked like a life like cartoon. Also at one point the guy dancing with the jug reminded me of Jackie Chan in Drunken Master for some reason.
I hope next time we send an Armenian, and are we allowed to sing in Armenian in Eurovision? English just sounds so odd and fake.
If we can win #7 with crap like this just imagine how much better we can do.
She`s done a good job! My friend gave her voice to her… Congratulations for that! But sometimes the dreams explode… That´s live and it`s business! I saved the song on my Computer and in my heart. Also Greece had a good song. I´m a German, feel happy, that our song was the winner, but it is not the best for everyone. Maybe every song has Qualities… OK? Let`s look to the future and remember: Its only a song…
It sad to see that even armenians hate Eva I’m armenian too but I think Israel shoud won.But eurovision is only politic so we Armenia are in soviet block and have huge Diaspora so this Eva is in top ten
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