Not Alone (Aram Mp3 song)
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| Single by Aram Mp3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 5 May 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | February 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Universal Music | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Garik Papoyan, Aram Sargsyan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Not Alone" is a song by Armenian singer Aram Mp3. It was internally selected to represent Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark. The song was revealed on 14 March 2014.
On 31 December 2013 Aram Mp3 was selected by Armenian First Channel to represent Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. On 21 February 2014 it was announced that Aram's song is already chosen, but the song will be premiered together with a music video by March. Overall the broadcaster received 75 songs from domestic and foreign composers.
The song recording works begun in February 2014. On 14 March the song and music video officially premiered on AMPTV.
The music of the song was written by Aram himself, while the author of the lyrics is Aram's friend Garik Papoyan. When asked about the song message, Aram said, "You should never give up and always fight for love. One kiss can change everything." "Not Alone" is a mix of ballad and dubstep. It starts with piano accompaniment, and in the middle of the song there is also violin. The dubstep part of the song starts after repeating "You're not alone..." few times. The song ends as it started; with piano accompaniment.
The official remix version by DJ Serjo was released a few days ago before the first semi-final of contest.
The song mostly received positive reviews and was considered as one of the main favorites of the 2014 Eurovision. Jess Denham of The Independent called it an "empowering dubstep ballad".Daily Mirror entertainment writer Carl Greenwood gave the song 1 star out of 5 and said, "This song is the musical equivalent of homoeopathic sleeping pills - there's nothing to it but it's still enough to knock you out for a solid eight."Sofabet editor Daniel Gould stated that "The song is not typical Eurovision fare", because of its structure. Gould called it "a big tune: structurally daring, contemporary and cinematic in feel." Alex Fletcher from Digital Spy called the song as a "standard Eurovision brooding fare for 1 minute 53", and then continuing his article he notes, "Then there's a key change. Eurovision loves a bloody key change. It then morphs into a dubstep banger with extra knobs on." Azerbaijani Haqqin.az website's editor Yulia Mammedova writes that "Not Alone" has a very professional arrangement, but then adds that such a professional arrangement is possible to do only in Europe or somewhere in Turkey, meanwhile the arrangement of the song was done by Armenian musician Lilit Navasardyan in Armenia.
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