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How Angelina Jolie Look-alike May Win Eurovision 2010
On May 29th the world will know the name of the 2010 Eurovision winner. This time the winner may well become an Angelina Jolie look-alike Eva Rivas representing Armenia.
This evening I heard that the European bookmakers are lowever the bets on Eva Rivas because of her increasing chances of becoming the winner of the 2010 Eurovision with her song Apricot Stone. Armenia is a relatively new entrant into the Eurovision Song Contest and Eva is the 5th representative the country is sending to the competition, which this time takes place in Oslo.
In the past few years Eurovision voting was highly politicized. It is widely held that friendly countries give votes to one another and to their neighbor. The citizens for a particular country cannot vote for their representative. Thus, to make a comparison with the American Idol imagine each state sends only one representative for the Idol. You are in North Carolina and can vote for any state but yours. Now, let's say the representative of California is very good and South Carolina is OK too. You decide to vote for South Carolina because it is your neighbor. If South Carolina wins, next year it gets to host the American idol FInale. This in turn means more tourism, more revenues for SC and puts it on the spotlight.
This is how Eurovision use to be in general. Eastern Europeans used to vote for each other, Scandinavians for their neighbors and so on. However, few years ago the organizers, finally realizing this situation, changed it. Now the 50 percent of the vote comes from the international jury. Thus, the potential winner should have both, neighboring countries in the final and a great song performance to get the votes of the jury.
Eva Rivas seems to have both and this is why apparently bookmakers have lowered her bets anticipating her to become the possible winner. This young girl, who many say, looks like Angelina Jolie (see the image comparison where Eva is on the right), has a great song and the and the favor of the neighboring countries.
Her song Apricot Stone has every winning component. It starts moderately, then grows in the rhythm. World renowned duduk player Jivan Gasparyan, who participated in the creation of so many Hollywood movies, will accompany Rivas in her Eurovision performance. Watch Eva Rivas singing Apricot Stone here.
When it comes to the countries giving her the vote political reasons, many of those countries that historically have given Armenia a high vote are already in the Final. Six of these countries are in the Semi-final and at least some of the will go to the final. There is also another dimension to this aspect. Eva Rivas is half Armenian and half Greek. She has spent most of her life in Russia and it expected that she may get more votes because of her half being Greek. Countries supporting Greece and Russia may also give Eva substantial number of votes because of that very reason.
However, we wish that the best singer becomes and the best song become the winner of the 2010 Eurovision. Rivas will make her first performance on May 27th. The final will be held in Oslo on May 29th.
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