Cork's Eurovison entrant Bambie Thug responds to hateful social media messages by urging people to 'live in love'

Ireland’s newly crowned Eurovision non-binary entrant and the self proclaimed ‘witch-king’ of ouija pop, Bambie Thug from Macroom, has responded to torrents of hateful messages on social media following Friday night’s Eurosong win by asking people to remember that they are ‘human too’.

The Cork born and raised singer and musician took to the Twitter/X platform on Sunday evening to issue a riposte to what amounted to a pile on from anti-LGBTQIA+ posters following Friday night’s performance on the Late Late Show.

“I am a hard-working person who has pushed down doors for myself my whole life,” they wrote.

“I have gone through so much trauma and still show up with love after every obstacle and hard time.” 

The singer said that if their expression of art moves people to hate and anger then they are the people who Bambie Thug sends the most love to.

Bambie, who has created their own record label ‘Haus of Thug’ said no one was obligated to come on the journey with them.

“But do yourself a favour and don't waste your life hung up with hate, internalised homophobia, misogyny, transphobia and self hate.

“Practice self compassion and perhaps you will learn to live in love.

“Don’t be mad because I haven’t forgotten the art of play, fun, and creation and you have. Sending you warm gold energy of kindness x.” 

Meanwhile, the singer is already seeing the benefits of their success in the Eurosong contest as thousands of new fans are downloading the Cork musician’s songs on streaming platforms.

Bambie Thug is topping Ireland’s Spotify viral chart with their song Doomsday Blue and the Eurosong winning entry is also at number 7 in the iTunes charts. 

The singer is no stranger to the streaming scene as their various songs have been downloaded on different platforms more than 60 million times.