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Bulgarians compete at this year’s Eurovision song contest with a plagiarized song

FOCUS News Agency

The Macedonian daily Vecer claims in an article Friday that ‘Bulgarians compete at this year’s Eurovision song contest with a plagiarized song’. The claim is published in an unsigned article titled “Voda* - is this a Bulgarian song or plagiarism?” The Macedonian accusations against the song ‘Voda’ do us a favor, the singer Mariana Popova, who performed the Bulgarian song at last year’s Eurovision contest, said commenting on the accusations. The motifs in the song ‘Voda’ are purely Bulgarian, from the region of Shopluk, the musician Stoyan Yankulov told Focus Agency. He added he had never heard a melody similar to the one he sings.“Balkan countries’ folklore has much in common. Along the same logic the Serbs can also say the song is theirs because the motifs sound much like theirs,” Yankulov explained and described the article in the Vecer newspaper as “a political jealousy on the side of Macedonia”.

*Voda - Bulg. 'Water' - the name of the Bulgarian song, which will compete at the Eurovision song contest this year.

FOCUS News Agency: Macedonian accusations against song ‘Voda’ do us favor: singer The Macedonian accusations against the song ‘Voda’ do us a favor, the singer Mariana Popova, who performed the Bulgarian song at last year’s Eurovision contest, told Focus Agency in a comment to the article published in the Macedonia Vecer newspaper claiming the song ‘Voda’ selected by Bulgarians to compete at the Eurovision contest this year is plagiarism. According to the author of the article the duo performing the song – Stoyan Yankulov and Elitsa Todorova – have looked for inspiration in the Macedonian history.Mariana Popova has stressed the song is a Bulgarian one and added that what such accusations do is to advertise the song. According to her the article is “very silly”.“I admire Elitsa and Stoyan and am proud that they are presenting Bulgaria at this year’s Eurovision,” Popova said.

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FOCUS News Agency:Motifs in song ‘Voda’ are Bulgarian, from Shopluk region: performer of the song The motifs in the song ‘Voda’ are purely Bulgarian, from the region of Shopluk, the musician Stoyan Yankulov told Focus Agency in a comment to the publication in the Macedonian Vecer newspaper claiming the song ‘Voda’ selected by Bulgarians to compete at the Eurovision contest this year is plagiarism.According to the author of the article the duo performing the song – Stoyan Yankulov and Elitsa Todorova – have looked for inspiration in the Macedonian history.Stoyan Yankulov has added he has never heard a melody similar to the one he sings.“Balkan countries’ folklore has much in common. Along the same logic the Serbs can also say the song is theirs because the motifs sound much like theirs,” Yankulov explained and described the article in the Vecer newspaper as “a political jealousy on the side of Macedonia”.
FOCUS News Agency:Leader of Gergyovden movement: Claims that Bulgarian song for Eurovision is plagiarism is a show of a sense for inferiority The claims of the Macedonian newspaper Vecer that the song Voda, selected by Bulgarians to compete at the Eurovision contest this year is plagiarism, is the latest, quite desperate show of lack of self esteem and a sharp sense of inferiority, also shown before by our neighbors from Macedonia, the leader of the Bulgarian movement Gergyovden Luben Dilov – Jr. said, a reporter of FOCUS News Agency reports. According to Dilov, the fact that the song ‘Voda’ made impression was a positive one.‘If this song did not cause enthusiasm and a feeling for cultural identity, it would not have upset them so much’, he said. ‘When you say that something is plagiarized from somewhere, you say where it has been plagiarized from. They say there was melorhythmic from the Mariovo region in Macedonia. There is no such a thing as Macedonian melorhythmics anywhere in any music-related article,’ he added.
FOCUS News Agency:Vecer, Macedonia: Bulgaria to present plagiarized song at Eurovision? The Macedonian daily Vecer claims in an article Friday that ‘Bulgarians compete at this year’s Eurovision song contest with a plagiarized song’. The claim is published in an unsigned article titled “Voda* - is this a Bulgarian song or plagiarism?” According to Vecer, ‘at least some parts of the song reminded of the Macedonian melo-rhythmics’, which, according to the daily, justifies the doubts that the duo, performing the song – Stoyan Yankulov and Elitza Todorova – sought inspiration in Macedonian history. The authors of the ethno-dance song, which reminded the music of Mariovo region in Macedonia are the performers themselves, which – as the Vecer daily writes – additionally casts shadow on the song. According to the daily it was a ‘folklore item’, which according to the rules of the contest is not allowed.