People often approach singer Leyla Saribekyan in the street and mainly ask one question: what will happen to the end of Armenian national culture? The singer approaches that issue pessimistically and promises that, looking at what’s happening in the industry today, she can’t predict a bright future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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That which is taking place in the Armenian music industry today, according to Saribekyan, is a calamity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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In her words, people fill the halls of the K. Demirdjyan Sports and Concert Complex who have completely no connection with song and music, and more so, with art.<\/p>\n
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The singer is concerned that, even after the passing of law, state-level concerts are organized where famous singers come on stage and lip sync to recorded songs. [A law was recently passed in Armenia which prohibited singers from lip syncing during concert performances.]\n
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Singer-songwriter David Amalyan, also present at today’s press conference, isn’t concerned so much with lip syncing. In his words, what’s important is not how, but what.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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“Let them have something to say, let them lip sync,” said Amalyan, commenting on good lyrics being the key rather than whether a song is sung live or pre-recorded.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Amalyan added, however, that a singer who has good lyrics and sings well won’t allow herself to lip sync.<\/p>\n
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“After all, every good song is patriotism. It’s not important, that the word ‘homeland’ be in each line of the song; the song can be about love, nature, a thousand and one things, but let it be in normal Armenian,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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