From comedy to the complete opposite
Interestingly, Adele is number 1 in the albums chart and number 2 in the singles chart in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, there are also a few songs in Dutch (all of which, even if you don’t speak Dutch, probably have titles with a clearer meaning than Chasing pavements):
3 – Jeroen van der Boom – Alles min één
As well as having a rather brilliant name, Jeroen is the one who was drafted in to join De Toppers after Gerard Joling left in a huff. De Toppers will be representing the Netherlands in May in Moscow – it really is that time of year when 30% of the people on this blog are, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, this video is a bit less schlager. Synopsis seems to be: Jeroen breaks up with someone, feels mightily depressed, then goes and sings in front of hundreds of people, and everything’s fine again. Have you ever tried this and does it work? Let me know.
8 – André van Duin – De balletjes van de Koningin
Meanwhile… well… yes. André is an actor, singer, writer, etc, who has had a very long career and feels the need to celebrate it with songs like this:
9 – Dio feat. Sef – Tijdmachine
A bit of Dutch rap about trying to win someone back. Yes, it’s about a time machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT6tpUbWOms
Partly because of the video (which goes from looking like phone footage to being fantastic within about a minute), and partly because of André van Duin, I really, really like this.
Meanwhile, a bit further south, people in Flanders are buying / downloading (maybe not legally) / at the very least listening to… an awful lot of stuff in English actually. Other than the number one hit, that is:
Now this is depressing. Andy Sierens was a rapper who died in December. His greatest wish was to record a single and, with famous Belgian band Hooverphonic, this is it.
