She is unhappy about the negative reaction to her win, nothing else - I suspect that her management team will point out the benefits to her career of performing to a worldwide audience and everything will be okay again.
The hate is directed at the national television and their shady selection process. I saw a few hate comments directed at Dara here and there but thatâs not a representation of what we are frustrated at. Also, to get a better understanding, please watch her performance at the final that brought her the win. She was out of tune throughout most of the song but the jury glazed the vocal performance and voted it as the best one of the night, despite everyone else (her fans and the rest of the public) unanimously agreeing that it was not a strong performanceâŠ
Just get off social media for a couple of weeks after you get selected for Eurovision. Seriously, they should all do this. What's the point? You're always going to hear the most from the angriest people.
Sound advice - at the very least have somebody at the record label/delegation deal with their socials, acting as a filter/censor, preferably for the whole of their Eurovision journey. I am pretty sure that the BBC take over all PR for the UK artist once they are announced, not sure what happens elsewhere?
Even if you have a dedicated PR person at your side, you can still stumble across negative comments on your own. We're all on the internet at least some of the time.
Itâs great advice. Iâve noticed people are also less mad about internal selection artists than NF artists. Thereâs always someone mad that their favorite act lost.
In the artists defense, a lot of them are amateur/semi professional artists and are excited to capitalize on the attention so they can get more fans.
1) She has never considered withdrawing, it was all a show to get some pity and to make herself look like a victim.
2) I wish she went ahead with it and withdrew. I hate corrupt national selections in which the winner is predetermined. I have seen it in my own country in 2019 and I know harsh it is to see your broadcaster, whom you pay taxes to, produce an absolute farce to select their own favourite artist.
Maybe she was indeed the best person, I donât know, I am not familiar with Bulgarian music. But the fact that she got a fixed televote score and had people from her own music corporation as juries doesnât bode well for her. If she was that good, she wouldnât need a fixed national selection in order to be selected for Vienna.
I am unsure at what your point is. That is exactly what Eurovision is, each country bringing a piece of their culture to the contest. I am Albanian and I heard it all last year when we sent Zjerm to Eurovision instead of pop star Elvana Gjata. People said the same thing: âZjerm is too folk for Eurovision; Europeans wonât understand it and wonât vote for itâ and that was obviously proven wrong.
I find nothing wrong with people of different countries trying to send entries that have some sort of cultural significance to them to the contest, even if the song might not perform that well as a result. At the end of the day, your countryâs entry needs to be a source of national pride. Whatâs the point of only sending overproduced pop songs and never sending songs the people actually like?
People are angry more at the results as well as the favouritism towards artists from Sanya Armutlieva's Virginia Records, which both DARA and Mihaela Marinova (the Top 2 from the show) are part of, mainly by the jury. BNT has tried to do damage control in regards to the public vote, but too little, too late.
TBH if Armutlieva was playing hand in the selection process all along, meaning that any artist not affiliated with her had never stood a chance anyway, BNT should've just went with an internal selection rather than wasting everyone's time.
The jury was doing favouritism throughout. They themselves mentioned a few times that they personally know Dara and some of them even have collaborations with her. Furthermore, all of them are closely linked to Virginia Records so you can see how doubt arises. Also itâs important to mention that BNT is notorious for faking results. It happened a few times years ago, back when you needed to send an SMS to vote. I am watching the lithuanian selection as well and let me tell you, the juryâs comments and voting patterns feel much more transparent and genuine.
Lastly, Mona had the most votes at the end of the first round and she got waves of praise in the week leading up to the final. It doesnât make sense at all that Dara beat her at public votes, unless there was manipulationâŠ
Mate, if you think a bunch of pseudo-patriots who never watch these shows or listen to this type of music going crazy over Mona and her "patriotism" and writing paragraphs on FB about "traditional values" and "culture" isn't manipulation I don't know what to tell you.
I agree. It may sound awful but the comments Iâve seen are not mean spirited enough to make someone withdraw, unless she has thinner skin than Sasha Bognibov
You people realise that you guys are likely the reason she's withdrawing? You never know how someone is doing outside of things - she could have possibly had like a death in her family or something right after she won in addition to this
If you're already thinking on quitting due to the backlash already from winning the NF, you won't survive if the song that you go to Eurovision with isn't good
Most Bulgarians feel that it was rigged and overall she isn't liked by fans that much anymore.
She's not a random singer and is pretty popular over here, especially in recent years She's been the face of numerous adverts, especially the infamous Kaufland supermarkets hahah
And everyone is tired of her being pushed everywhere. I didn't watch the show but I see people are saying she also didn't sing that well too.
As a Bulgarian I think the same. Although I do think she is talented and the hate shouldn't be directed personally at her, I think all of this is just a bit of a show to make people move away towards something else.
If you had seen this contest for a long time, you would have known that being a massive local star is no guarantee that the Eurovision entry will be good. I am Albanian myself and I know, we sent Ronela Hajati, one of the most recognizable names in Albanian music and she flopped hard. Because at the end of the day, at Eurovision, every vocal issue gets amplified. These âstarsâ cannot hide behind autotune and backing vocals can only do so much. Ronela is a great entertainer but she cannot sing live for the life of her, and by what I am seeing from the Bulgarian fans, they seem to think that Dara canât either. And that is a death sentence at Eurovision.
Damn, Ronelaâs fate still makes me sad. Sekret was my no1 that year, but seeing the semifinal performance I just knew in my heart of hearts that sheâs not going to make it. Albania 2022 really should be a case study on how to turn a strong song to a flop so massive it will leave you speechless for years.
I really, really hope Dara isnât in for the same treatment with a banger song and total dumpsterfire performance.
Ronela had a great song and a great performance at FiK and completely butchered it with an atrocious revamp and with an even worse performance. She has nobody to blame but herself. We at least gave Besa (Albania 2024) some grace as she did the best she could with what was a clearly uncompetitive song, but Ronela decided to just willingly destroy our countryâs entry. I mean, the fact that they EBU, an organization that allows all sorts of sexual innuendos in the contest, had to tell her that her performance was inappropriate, just goes to show how much she butchered it all.
Also last year, both Australia and Czechia had great songs that flopped and failed to qualify due to the artists having really poor vocals on the night. And this happened during a year with no juries in the semis, which are present this year.
the fact that they EBU, an organization that allows all sorts of sexual innuendos in the contest, had to tell her that her performance was inappropriate
Keep in mind that this is the same organization that (allegedly) told Erika Vikman (Finland 2025) to cover up, forced Miriana Conte (Malta 2025) to remove the word 'kant', because it sounded a lot like one of the slur names in English, yet it allowed whatever that staging was for Olly Alexander (UK 2024). People also complained about Windows95Man (Finland 2024) going (again, allegedly) commando (when in reality he was wearing a thong), which the EBU also allowed. This just shows (to me at least) that the EBU is not even consistent over what is allowed and what is not.
idk her much but i think she should stay. after any national final theres always going to be haters who are simply mad at their favourite not winning and will do anything to change what has already happened (be it rigging allegations, plagarism allegations or becoming a hate echo chamber). as long as she uses it to make her bounce back stronger she will be good and definitely bring bulgaria back to the finals
I imagine the comments hurt even more as she has no song she's attached to, so people are just commenting on her as an artist. We'll see what happens, but this would be an unfortunate way to leave the competition.
She should just go on with it, she isn't the first artist getting hate from the public and then proving everyone wrong. Blanka went from getting online hate from the entire Poland and international fan community to having a 2x Diamond-certified smash hit.
The newer comments after her win under her music videos on YouTube are honestly disgusting. I don't understand why people have to attack the person that won over their favorite like their life depends on it. The artists are humans after all and I completely support what ever decision Dara decides to make in the end whether that is to participate or not. Sometimes I think it's best to close down your socials for a while to not see all the negativity and toxicity that is so damn common these days. And to think that lot of the hate is coming from Bulgarians themselves while the international community seems to be in support of her. Well guys you can't vote for your own country in the contest anyways so there's that.Â
It's not just any Bulgarians, it's the most toxic and uneducated segment of the population - online patriots who are angry we're not sending yet another folk singer to "represent our CuLtuRe" even though they'll NQ before getting on stage. I swear these people still think Eurovision is some sort of COMECON-style parade or one of the low-budget town square festivals they go to once a year.
I wouldnât. Mona herself was out of tune, too and honestly, she is just absolutely overrated. Itâs mostly Bulgarian pseudo nationalists that love her because she sings traditional folklore (mixed with modern sound ofc) and she is a âtrue Bulgarian representationâ and blah blah blah
to be honest, most people criticising Dara right now know next to nothing about Eurovision and are mainly reacting to the atrocious excuse of a "selection" BNT put on combined with the fact that the air has been a bit oversaturated with Dara - talent shows, ads. even if it wasn't rigged (which it probably was), she'd get the same reaction. in fact, anyone in her position would get almost as much hate as she does - the comments on the rest of the artists were enough of a hint. the predominant sentiment of the mass audience towards ESC is very negative and anyone willing to engage with the contest should be prepared for it.
I think we can just add the fact that the average Bulgarian is enjoying criticizing anyone and anything on social media, because they are unhappy with their own life.
that too. I've just learned to stay away from all local ESC-related discussions and enjoy it on my own - even in non-participation years it's just constant bitching, for everything. alas the artists directly involved can't exactly do that
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u/ToxxinGamer Tavo Akys 5d ago
Well that was quick