Jack you are ranting. Why are you making this a Russia/East/Soviet/Communist issue.

It is a well known fact that Diaspora Armenian pop music is not as high a level of musical/lyrical, i.e. artistic form. here is the equivalent in &quot;soviet&quot; music. But, in Armenia due to organized musical education from an early age it is normal and true that more people of higher standards are produced. 

So  please don&#039;t make this an artificial us/them issue when there isn&#039;t any.

Back to Paul Baghdadlian being a &quot;legend&quot;. I strongly disagree because...he simply is not up to universal standards of what it means to be a legend. He was a good mainstream commercial pop singer, and a lot of people loved him, that&#039;s fine. A lot of People loved Boy George when he was at the top of his career, so what?. But if you want to call him a legendary as well, then go ahead.  There is no need to feel &quot;offended&quot;, non is intended.