Bulgaria 2021: Victoria - Growing Up Is Getting Old

[VoR]

Seems Bulgaria's plan is to have last year's hopeful Victoria release a few singles between now and May, and go with the one that gets the best reaction.

Here's the first possibility, Ugly Cry

 

[GinAg (39)]

That's such a simple and brilliant idea.

 

[Apoca]

It sounds like smart pre-selection process - but Ugly Cry ain't it.

NEXT.

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

That sounds better than that DIRGE she sent last year already, at least it has a BEAT! It's almost like Billie Eilish's You Should See Me In A Crown NEVER EXISTED!

Still waiting for the glittering return of queen Kristian Kostov though, 2022 belongs to HER!

 

[GNL]

I annoyed my boyfriend by saying that she was a Billie Eilish clone. The new song doesn't change my opinion

 

[dUb]

Oh THAT SHE IS

 

[D5K]

I loved her 2020 entry but this isn't the one for 2021; next please!

 

[Tisch]

https://escxtra.com/2021/01/30/victoria-invites-eurovision-fans-to-help-with-the-song-selection/

5 track EP "A Little Dramatic" coming in February, and she wants OUR HELP to choose which of the songs will be the entry. The EP will include Ugly Cry.

Each song will have a "visual" on her YouTube channel as well.

 

[VoR]

Next potential entry 'Imaginary Friend'



This was doing the rounds last year before she picked Tears Getting Sober. It's nice enough, but I'd hope she's recorded something better in the intervening year.

 

[VoR]

Today's song



Again, very pretty. But these are all starting to sound a bit much of a muchness so far.

 

[Jacques]

Oh Victoria, not 2020 leftovers There's a reason you went with Tears Getting Sober and not them. Let's hope this is just a promo tactic for the EP and they've already settled on her actual entry and they're saving it until last.

 

[VoR]

And another one...



Possibly the most shamelessly Eil-ish one yet, but at least a bit different.

 

[VoR]

Another chirpy uptempo bop. 'The Funeral Song'

 

[ButterTart]

Well, these are all horrible. Mind you, I could never understand the love for those three minutes of misery she sent last year, either.

 

[Lucille]

She’s no ROXEN!

 

[ButterTart]

She’s no ROXEN!

You're right, at least she has that going for her.

 

[Tisch]

Thread to be renamed Biktopia pls

 

[ButterTart]

Thread to be renamed Biktopia pls

In a sec, I'm in the middle of amending the Biktopia Beckham threads.

 

[Kate]

Thread to be renamed Biktopia pls

Came in here just to see if anyone had said this.

 

[Penelope]

In a sec, I'm in the middle of amending the Biktopia Beckham threads.

Biktopia Beckham: racist?

 

[Dark Carnival]

You're right, at least she has that going for her.

As if this wailing bitch could come up with anything as good as Cherry Red!

 

[Jacques]

The Funeral Song is my favourite so far but pinning all my hopes on the final track or else this is a major glowdown

She’s no ROXEN!

And THANK GOD for that

 

[Pingu]

Unless the final track has been radically changed from the demo of it that was floating around last year then I wouldn’t hold out much hope.

 

[Soldi]

It is quite a shame they’re all a bit bland. Now the dust has settled, Tears Getting Sober was probably my favourite from last year. It’s the only one that I listen to on a regular basis at least.

 

[VoR]

Last one

 

[VoR]

I think that might be the best one. But I'll have to reflect on it a bit.

Poll added.

 

[Jacques]

After all that and I think "Ugly Cry" is probably the best option now! I do like "The Funeral Song" but it's not really a song title we need at Eurovision this year

It is quite a shame they’re all a bit bland. Now the dust has settled, Tears Getting Sober was probably my favourite from last year. It’s the only one that I listen to on a regular basis at least.

It was definitely in my top 5, and I still think it was a potential winner if the juries didn't take to any one of The Roop/Dadi/Little Big and they split the public vote a bit. Such a shame that she can probably get mid-table at best this year

 

[Soldi]

The EP is out on Spotify now.

 

[GNL]

There is something quite CAMP about a CHILD putting out songs with titles like 'growing up is getting old' and 'phantom pain'

I'm glad the zoomers are as EMO as I was.

 

[dUb]

CONFIRMED

 

[Soldi]

YAY! What a brilliant day for REVEALS!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Well this is lovely for a non-qualifier.

 

[Soldi]

 

[Эулия]

‘Growing Up Is Getting Old’?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

YES SWEETIE?

 

[Soldi]

YES SWEETIE?

ITS OKAY TO LIKE BALLADS DARLING, TRY IT ONE DAY!

And this is a nailed on qualifier albeit not the contender Tears Getting Sober could have been.

 

[Эулия]

My general feeling about Vicky last year was NOT AS GOOD AS ROXEN but we shall see how this turns out. I don’t especially enjoy hating ESC entries so, unless there’s a really good reason to be spiteful like the artistes wearing matching teal tracksuits with motifs of their own faces on the top half, I shall keep an open mind

 

[ButterTart]

Waited patiently for it to start and then it ended. This is background music to a wallpaper advert; it doesn't even have the emotional core of something like When We're Old, it's just a listless waft of nothing.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

And this is a nailed on qualifier

Did you listen to the same thing the rest of us did?

 

[ButterTart]

Dive Into Unknown was the only semi-interesting one out of this shower, and even then it'd go on my playlist for completion's sake and never get listened to.