Bulgaria: Victoria releases her sixth and last potential ESC 2021 entry “Growing Up is Getting Old”

Bulgaria: Victoria releases her sixth and last potential ESC 2021 entry “Growing Up is Getting Old”
Thursday, 18 February 2021

  • The Bulgarian Eurovision 2021 hopeful, Victoria, released this evening the last of her six potential entries for Rotterdam, titled “Growing Up is Getting Old”. 

    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 the sixth and last candidate song running for Eurovision 2021. 

    The track “Growing Up is Getting Old”  is written by the Bulgarian artist and the Swedish songwriters and music producers Maya Nalani, Helena Larsson and Oliver Björkvall.

    The Bulgarian artist says about the songwriting process of ”Growing Up is Getting Old”:

    “This is one of the first songs I wrote back in 2019 and it all started with the idea I had for the phrase “growing up is getting old”. Together with Maya, Helena and Oliver, we started to build around it and I believe we created something beautiful. The live instrumentation of “Growing Up is Getting Old” makes the song very special and I hope people will also fall in love with the song.”

    VICTORIA about the story behind the song:

    “Growing Up is Getting Old” is really dear and personal to me. You can grow in many different ways. Sometimes going back to your roots, to the place you feel safe and the people you love, helps you find your purpose on Earth. This is the case for me. When I listen to the song I think of my mother, my father, my sister, my friends. All the people that mean the world to me.”

    On Friday, Team Bulgaria will launch the online platform that will allow music fans from around to world to share their feedback about the 6 songs directly to VICTORIA and her team. Exclusive information about the platform will be released on the news website for Eurovision Bulgaria – eurovision.icard.com.

    Thus the song selection sees the following entries running for the contest in Rotterdam: 

     

    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.

     

    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.