Bulgaria: Victoria releases her fifth potential ESC 2021 entry “The Funeral Song”

Bulgaria: Victoria releases her fifth potential ESC 2021 entry “The Funeral Song”
Wednesday, 17 February 2021

  • The Bulgarian Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Victoria, released this evening the fifth out of six potential entries for Rotterdam, titled "The Funeral Song".

    A few days before VICTORIA released the titles of the songs of her upcoming debut EP “a little dramatic”, one of which will be her Eurovision entry in Rotterdam next May. Today the Bulgarian act released one more candidate song running for Eurovision 2021 after This is the fifth potential Eurovision song released by VICTORIA for 2021, after “Ugly Cry”,  “Imaginary Friend", "Dive into Unknown" and "Phantom Pain" previously released. 

    “The Funeral Song” is written by VICTORIA herself  joined by Helena Larsson, Chris Samuels, Nellie Fors, Oliver Björkvall. In “The Funeral Song”, the Bulgarian artist brings attention to the importance of being honest and staying true to yourself.  

    VICTORIA’s “The Funeral Song” is a statement – if you can’t love yourself, how are you going to love somebody else? The song also looks at another important topic – how honest are the people around us? The final track from “a little dramatic” is a message from VICTORIA to Victoria.

    VICTORIA says about the song:

    “What happens when we lose everything? What should we actually appreciate most while we are here on Earth? With this song I want to tell people that they should take care and live in the moment. We all need to love and cherish ourselves."

    After all the songs are released, a special online platform will be launched which will allow music fans around the world to leave comments and feedback about the 6 potential songs. This will be part of Bulgaria’s selection process for Eurovision 2021. VICTORIA and her team will also look for feedback from focus groups specialising in music, TV, radio and Eurovision experts to make their final decision.

    The Eurovision Bulgaria project in 2020 and 2021 is a public–private partnership between the Bulgarian National Television and Ligna Group. Bulgaria's participation in Rotterdam is supported by the fintech company iCard - official sponsor of VICTORIA and Eurovision Bulgaria.

    The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 will take place on 18, 20 and 22 May in Rotterdam. Bulgaria will take part in the second semi-final on 20 May.

     Tomorrow VICTORIA will release her last candidate song titled“Growing Up is Getting Old”.

     

    Bulgaria in Eurovision 

    Bulgaria debuted in ESC in 2005 in Kiev. The Balkan country has already 12 participations in the contest and has made it to the Grand Final show only 3 times. in 2007 represented by Elitsa and Stoyan (5th place), in 2016 it was Poli Genova (4th place) and in 2017 Kristian Kostov was the runner up.

    Bulgaria’s last participation, after 2019 withdrawal, was in 2018 with Equinox and their entry “Bones“which finished 14th in the Grand final.

    Last year Victoria Georgieva was selected by BNT to represent the country at Eurovision 2020 with her song “Tears Getting Sober”. Although Victoria’s Eurovision 2020 journey was interrupted by the cancellation due to the covid-19 outbreak, the female act will have a second chance to represent the country next year as BNT confirmed that it will stick with its ESC 2020 hopeful.