Bulgaria BULGARIA 2021 - VICTORIA - Growing Up Is Getting Old

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Playing tetris with my feelings
Trynna keep them all inside
Hollow shadows and my soul is spilling over, I'm out of time

Closing every door
Wanna be alone
Lonely is a way that I survive
Sick of wanting more
Sitting on the floor
Wondering where all my feelings go

Nervous system's aching
Growing up is getting old
Anxiety is draining
Getting up is growing old

Don't get it, there's an ocean of emotion that I'm carrying inside
I am cautious,
Cause I've never understood how so much can fit in little me

Star crossed soul
And I'm used to letting go
Sink deeper in the flow of it
My demons know exactly where my fears
Are hiding all my tears

I'm torn by nervous system's aching
Growing up is getting old
Anxiety is draining
Getting up is growing old

And if I ever take that second to leave my worries behind
Maybe I could tread the waters of time
Get out of my mind

Growing up is getting old
Getting up is growing old

If your world is breaking
And growing up is getting old
Know that you're worth saving
And getting up is all you've got​

 

[John1]

Imaginary Friend snapped big time

 

[Pål Nordahl]

Well this is just sublime. Soft hands embracing this fragile heart of mine. Thank you, Victoria.

 

[hijirio]

This one is not my cup of tea.
Looking forward to 'funeral song', which will surely be a chalga bop

 

[Ezio]

Imaginary friend is much better than ugly cry. I would also say it is not quite there with tears getting sober

 

[Ana Raquel]

ha impact

 

[Mrm]

I'm not a fan of the "Imaginary Friend: TBH..I hope better is yet to come..

 

[DanielLuis]

"Imaginary friend" is great and I can't wait to hear what's left, because knowing Bulgaria's team they would never release the most competitive one so early.
I was fearing that no matter what I would always be disappointed in Victoria's 2021 song when comparing it to TGS but I think I can rest assured that won't happen

 

[MAD20]

This girl is amazing. I thought she'd not be able to come up with something close to TGS, but wow, this is really good. Impatiently waiting for the other songs

 

[Mainshow]

Why hasn't been the song made available for purchase on iTunes yet.
Meh.

 

[Realest]

Pretty impressive Start even without the Help of Milanov. Im curious about the remaining Songs.

 

[Mainshow]

Just bought "Ugly Cry", "alright" and I Wanna Know" on iTunes - Actually, she hasn't released a bad song yet.

"Imaginary Friend" as well as "Ugly Cry" would be part of my current Top 2 now.
Can't wait for the other songs to be released!

 

[marty]

i dont want to discuss each of her songs every other day. they just should find the right song themselves.

 

[Sammy]

I really loved "Tears are getting sober" last year. In fact it was my winner, but these two songs don't catch me. I hope we'll get something different the next days and not 5 versions of the same...

 

[DanielLuis]

I really loved "Tears are getting sober" last year. In fact it was my winner, but these two songs don't catch me. I hope we'll get something different the next days and not 5 versions of the same...

I mean it's clearly her style, every single song she has released so far has been in this dream-pop genre.
So I wouldn't expect anything much different from that in the rest of the songs, nor should that be the case really.

 

[Sammy]

I mean it's clearly her style, every single song she has released so far has been in this dream-pop genre.
So I wouldn't expect anything much different from that in the rest of the songs, nor should that be the case really.

You can have variation inside a style as well...

 

[Leydan]

Imaginary Friend is obviously superior to tears getting sober. Sorry, but Tears getting sober was some disney sounding mess, the music with the backing vocals could have easily been in some way old disney movie. It was so tragically overrated for what it was. Imaginary Friend sounds very similar, but it doesn't have that old disney music vibe to it and overall is better. Still, not my sort of thing.

 

[theditz83]

I like Imaginary Friend. The humming in the background at the start really harks back to that sounds from Tears Getting Sober, but this definitely feels more current and less vintage or stuck in a time warp.

It does always confuse me when songs come into the frame for Eurovision that will need 10-15 minutes trimmed from them to make them eligible - I know it wouldn't be hard to do this, but I wonder why they aren't released in their final 3 minute version first and then perhaps afterwards release an "extended"/album/single version.

 

[Mimmon]

Uhm to be honest I did not expect that soon...

 

[njdevils94]

She's releasing one song each day so the schedule is (Sunday-Thursday) ofther than Ugly Cry which has been out for months now.

 

[mauve]

Unless she doesn't give us at least ONE song that differs from her soft-dreamy-pop-style, she won't be any near my top 10. Maybe Victoria's music is just not meant for me ...