BULGARIA – Bulgaria’s 2017 representative Kristian Kostov is heading for a new musical path with his new song. “Better” combines electronic music and beat while with the lyrics the performer thinks that he will feel better and will overturn a situation that does not satisfy him.

Kristian Konstantinov Kostov is a Bulgarian-Russian singer. He was a finalist in season one of The Voice Kids Russia and a runner-up in the fourth season of X Factor Bulgaria. He represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song “Beautiful Mess“, finishing in 2nd place.

In January 2018, Kostov won the EBBA Public Choice award. In January 2019, Kostov was one of seven first batch singers who would be performing in the seventh season of Hunan Television’s singing reality-competition Singer (previously I Am a Singer).

Kostov was born in Moscow to a Kazakh mother and a Bulgarian father. He has an older brother, Daniel, and a younger sister, Sofia. As a child, he learned Bulgarian from his father, while his brother taught him English.

At the age of five, Kostov began singing and playing the piano, because he was very shy and needed to open up a little. By that time he joined Moscow-based vocal group “Neposedi“, which has also gathered Russian duet t.A.t.U for the first time. Around the same time, he was struggling with muscular dystrophy, which he revealed in a YouTube video in 2017.

In 2011, Kostov left Neposedi in order to concentrate on his solo career. In 2012, Kostov represented Bulgaria in the junior version of New Wave, an international contest for young performers of popular music.

On 5 May 2019, Kostov witnessed the accident involving Aeroflot Flight 1492 at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia.

LYRICS

I’ve been burned so many times
But it never crossed my mind, you’d do this
Didn’t see the warning signs
Cause I look for good inside, so stupid

Lately I ain’t makin new friends
Probably cause I’m sceptical I’ll get hurt
Thinking it will happen again
I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna be this way

Does it ever get better
Cause I wanna feel better than I do
Right here, right now
I wanna know
No no no no no

Does it ever get better
Cause it feels like it never wants me to
Right here, right now
I wanna
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way
No no no no
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way
No no no no
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this

Tell myself “Get over it”
But I’m stuck in negative
Can’t help it
Trying hard to shake it off
Cause I miss my happy thoughts
You sure got me lost

Lately I ain’t makin new friends
Probably cause I’m sceptical I’ll get hurt
Thinking it will happen again
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way

Does it ever get better
Cause I wanna feel better than I do
Right here, right now
I wanna know
No no no no no

Does it ever get better
Cause it feels like it never wants me to
Right here, right now
I wanna
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way
No no no no
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way
No no no no
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this

I can’t take another sorry
Usually I’m not this bitter, no
It’s just hard to trust somebody
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way

Does it ever get better
Cause I wanna feel better than I do
Right here, right now
I wanna know
No no no no no

Does it ever get better
Cause it feels like it never wants me to
Right here, right now
I wanna
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way
No no no no
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way
No no no no
I don’t wanna
I don’t wanna be this way