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"Let Me Try" was the Romanian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, performed in English by Luminiţa Anghel and Sistem.
The song is an up-tempo number in the eurodance style. Anghel addresses a lover, telling him that "I don't wanna say goodbye", implying throughout the lyric that their relationship is coming to an end. She asks why they "couldn't give it one more try", and tells him that "I will find a way to make you stay".
At the Contest, the performance featured Anghel's backing group (Sistem) banging on what were designed to appear as drums of industrial waste and wearing the lids of these drums as shoes. Anghel also took part in these activities during the instrumental sections of the song.
BBC commentary on both nights of the Contest likened Anghel to Ruby Wax due to her hairstyle.
Due to Romania's failure to place in the top 10 at the previous Contest, the song was performed in the semi-final initially. Here, it was performed fourteenth (following Norway's Wig Wam with In My Dreams and preceding Hungary's NOX with Forogj, világ!). At the close of voting, it had received 235 points, placing 1st in the 25-strong field and qualifying for the final.
System of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is a rock band from Southern California, formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar), Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), Shavo Odadjian (bass, background vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums).
The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums; from which three debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and won the award in 2006 for Best Hard Rock Performance for the song "B.Y.O.B.". The group went on hiatus in August 2006, but reunited in November 2010, embarking on a worldwide tour in 2011.
Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, and Shavo Odadjian all attended Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School while children, although because of their eight-year age difference they did not meet until 1992 while working on separate projects at the same recording studio. They formed a band named Soil with Tankian on vocals and keyboards, Malakian on vocals and guitar, Dave Hakopyan (who later played in The Apex Theory/Mt. Helium) on bass and Domingo "Dingo" Laranio on drums. The band hired Shavo Odadjian (another Rose and Alex Pilibos alumnus) as manager, although he eventually joined Soil as rhythm guitarist. After three years, only one live show, and one jam session recording, Hakopyan and Laranio quit the band, feeling that it was not going anywhere.
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