Anoushik

Stormy, who said anything about "true friends"? The bottom line is that everyone first thinks of himself and what he can do to benefit first. I am just talking about the countries who, in this day and age, have similar goals and hopes for the future, and those countries are most likely to support each other in times of crisis. (ex. EU.) Turkey's intentions of benefitting-for-the-moment-no-matter-what-and-forgetting-everyone-else are so obvious. Unfortunately, the reason they are getting so much support from the US is because Turkey is the only secular country amongst those Muslim states, and loosing Turkey to religious fundamentalists would be a disaster according to the US. It's all about politics.

You are right Arpa. First, Turkey's history only dates back to year A.D. 1000, when those blood-thirsty monsters came from central Asia and conquered the Byzantine Empire in Anatolia. Second, the Turks are known internationally to be two-faced. A convincing example is WWII. Turkey avoided entering the war (1939-1945) until February 1945, when Germany's defeat seemed certain. There is no country that can (or wants) to call Turkey their friend and ally because it is certain that Turkey will stab them in the back just to gain a little, even if for that split second.

I do not want to offend anyone. It is just very unclear what is so appealing about something with arabic and turkish music with very empty lyrics. And I do understand that for parties and weddings uplifting music is needed and traditional folk music does not work. So why not listen to Armenian pop music even if we don't have much pop in the market? If the Armenians wanted to we could demand of the singers to change their style of singing and theirs choice of songs with something more pop with Armenian roots. So the question is not that we don't have access to Armenian pop and all we have to deal with is "rabiz". The "rabiz" music exists because Armenians want "rabiz" to exist. I just want you guys to tell me why you want "rabiz" to exist.

Hello everyone. I have just recently become a member. I searched through quite a lot of topics but I did not find exaclty what was interesting me. So I wanted to post this new topic. It is really amazing how many Armenians of all ages choose to listen to "rabiz" music. As a music major in college we have been taught not to dismiss any kind of music ingorantly without understanding it first. So, concerning "rabiz" I will not say yet that it is in very bad taste and people listening to that kind of music should be ashamed. Rather, I am asking of any fans of "rabiz" to please speak up and let me know what you find so appealing in that music and why you listen to it in the first place. I think you all know what music I am talking about, but just in case you need more detail it is songs sung by such singers as Aram Asatryan, Joseph, Tata, ... And, oh yeah, who could forget Spitakzi Hayko that is currently advertising about an upcoming concert here in Los Angeles? Thank you for your replies.