Friday, June 18, 2021

Bulgaria - VICTORIA - growing up is getting old

Single version digital release image

11 - 170 pts / 3 - 250 pts in semi 2
After a year contemplating Bulgaria planned to return to Eurovision 2020 with Victoria Georgieva (Виктория Георгиева). 
We all know what happened but it was a bummer for Victoria especially as she was doing well in the polls.
So Victoria is back for 2021 and she released a digital a 5-track EP A Little Dramatic on February 26.
VICTORIA don't like no capitalization 
This includes 5 of the potential Eurovision songs. 
A sixth track in the running, Ugly Cry, was already released earlier.

On March 10 it was announced that the song selected from the bunch is growing up is getting oldThe song is written by Victoria Georgieva herself, Maya Nalani, Helena Larsson and Oliver Björkvall.

All songs can also be heard here at Victoria's ICard pages.

a little dramatic EP tracks:
1. imaginary friend
2. growing up is getting old
3. dive into unknown
4. phantom pain
5. the funeral song
VICTORIA wasn't in the mood to use any capital letters. All songs exceed the 3 minute limit so a Eurovision version was released on March 18.

a little dramatic (Deluxe)
On June 18 a Deluxe version of the EP was released. It has 10 tracks including the acoustic version of the Eurovision entry, the Eurovision version and the original.
1. imaginary friend
2. growing up is getting old (Eurovision version)
3. dive into unknown
4. phantom pain
5. the funeral song
6. ugly cry
7. alright
8. tears getting sober
9. growing up is getting old (acoustic)
10. growing up is getting old (original)

All about Victoria's 2020 song Tears Getting Sober and its versions is here at the Rotterdam 20/20 Collection.

2020's digital single

Victoria Georgieva, a former X-factor contestant,  has released several reasonably succesful singles in Bulgarian and a few in English. 
She is currently still working on her first album which was originally expected around Eurovision 2020. 
Victoria is still dedicated to her work giving Bulgarian stray cats and dogs a new home, so there's that.

Versions
growing up is getting old - eurovision version
- digital release 18-3, Rotterdam 2CD
growing up is getting old - eurovision version karaoke
- on the official karaoke album (digital)
growing up is getting old - original EP version
- digital EP a little dramatic 26-2
growing up is getting old - acoustic
- on digital Deluxe EP 18-6

Charts
Bulgaria top 40: 37, 30, 23, 14, 10, 18, 38, -

Links and sources
Victoria Georgieva WebsiteFB, ICard Eurovision pages Shop

1 comment:

  1. Eurovision version is now released:
    https://music.apple.com/pl/album/growing-up-is-getting-old-eurovision-version-single/1557759917

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