S'eho Erotefti [Import]

Sakis Rouvas (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 28, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B00261E160
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #711,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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TITLES:
1. S' EHO EROTEFTHI 2. NA M' AGAPAS 3. HARTINI ZOI 4. SPASMENA FILIA [I'LL GIVE YOU MY HEART] 5. MILA TIS 6. HILIA MILIA 7. PROSPATHO N' ALLAXO 8. CAIRO 9. GIA SENA EGO BORO 10. ELA NA KANOUME MIA EFHI 11. EGO HORIS EMENA 12. MES STIS VITRINES SE KITO 13. OSO ISE EDO 14. DORO STI SIOPI 15. STAMATA TI VROHI [IF I COULD STOP THE RAIN]

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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Plastic , soulless love songs for the masses, July 4, 2009

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giovanni (Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: S' Eho Erotefthi (MP3 Download)

Sakis Rouvas has always been wonderful to look at but not much to listen to . Having been around since 1992 and now approaching his forties , the pop star seems to be on a quest to win time and stay forever goodlooking and youthful ....but is he interested in contributing anything noteworthy to pop music , greek or international ?...

... nah , not really . An album of his gets released every now and then , then quickly gets forgotten while nowone seems to remember a tune or like one specifically , yet ask any greek female ( his target audience ) and often male and she/he will tell you that Rouvas is super talented and also a great person in character .

Album number ten " Se Eho Eroteyti " is mostly filled with love ballads so syrupy that could send a diabetic to the grave at first listen . Rouvas' voice has always been his biggest weakness , a screeching instrument that hasn't got any huskier or more melodic with the pass of time . Overdramatic hit single " Se Eho Eroteyti " is nothing next to the corny " Prospatho Na Allaxo " or " Gia Esena Egw Boro " in which the singer doesn't blush when singing that " for you i'll make the weather change / i'll make mountains meet / ill make the trees blossom in the mid of winter ..." . Rouvas approach to the dance floor is not much better , whether on the euro-trash of " Mes Tis Vitrines Kito " or the arabic flavored " Cairo " which must be the most awful thing he ever sang .

The problem here is not the album itself . Rouvas is not the first nor the last to release superficial pop music . Boybands and handsome pop stars are international phenomenon that has for a long long time now . Though while in other places their careers are short lived and then a new , fresher face emerges , greeks have somehow put all their hopes for a possible international music success by a greek artist on this man , not giving any of their attention or money to anybody else trying to break through . There was a cypriot boy band called One for example , who had released many popular ( equally trashy ) hit singles in the late 90's but never did experienced even in the slightest way , the kind of admiration Rouvas has been enjoying for the biggest part of his two-decade career .

At the first few years of his career , the saying was that " he might not have a good voice , but he puts on a great show " . Nowadays it's an overall thumbs up . Yet the focus has always been on Rouvas' personal , social and sentimental life . Every step the singer takes drives fans and tabloid crazy . As for the music , well nowone gives a damn . And this is the supposely most important pop artist of this country , a man who was included in the closing ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and was selected twice ( withought allowing other artists to compete ) to represent Greece in the ( unbelievably popular at least here ) eurovision song contest .

Simple fact is that Greece is happy to remain hermetically closed in it's own bubble , with a number of untalented pop idols ( Despina Vandi is also one of the first that comes to mind ) and a small industry aggresively keeping them under the spotlight .