Mae Muller doesn’t want people to “pity” her over her Eurovision.
The 26-year-old singer represented the UK during the annual international song contest earlier this year with her pop single ‘I Wrote a Song’ and finished in second-to-last place but has insisted that she has “laughed it off” since despite initially making a TikTok where she implied that she did not want to talk about the situation.
She told BBC Newsbeat: “When I made that TikTok I was still spiralling. I was like, ‘Oh my God, my life is over’. But I knew I had to address it in my own way. I didn’t want it to be a ‘doom and gloom moment’ because I can’t deal with people pitying me. The second I did that, everyone laughed it off with me and it highlighted it’s not the end of the world.”
The ‘Me, Myself and I’ singer went on to add that she had “so much fun” in the time that followed the contest and was finally able to write her new album ‘Sorry I’m Late’ after finding herself so busy during the build-up to the international competition.
She added: “I really felt people were on my side. I had so much fun with the fans and despite the pressure, I was able to be myself. I had no time to write so I didn’t write a song for six months. I didn’t have the mental capacity because it was so all-consuming. So I was like I’m going to put writing on the back burner and just focus on what’s in front of me. After coming out of Eurovision, it meant I wasn’t twiddling my thumbs. I had a whole album to promote so we had to keep going