Ilse DeLange has spent in recent months in Nashville and knew that her old musical buddy Waylon happened to be there. “But we didn’t see each other,” she admits.
After their performance at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 it went really wrong between Ilse DeLange and Waylon. The two had been able to exploit their successful duo shelter under the name The Common Linnets – they were second – internationally, but that got in the way of a fierce fight. Ilse no longer wanted with Waylon and vice versa.
Megaruzing
Why? Ilse was too stingy and wanted more than half. “Not much has happened, except that I said: if you want to work with me, it must be a fiftyfiftydeal. She didn’t want that,” the singer revealed at the time. “They went on, but it didn’t become what it could have been. The magic is gone.”
Ilse was really pissed off; He just wanted to cash with The Common Linnets, but didn’t want to give up much to Waylon. Eventually she exchanged him for someone else and never wanted to see him again. “When we were nominated for an Edison, she didn’t want to be on one stage with me,” he said at the time.
Set?
That quarrel was ultimately a kind of settled, but fat friends have never become Ilse and Waylon again. Because of the guy that he did not agree with, Ilse has seen international success pass by. Now, after months of public begging, she has again received a roll in the lucrative talent show The Voice.
Anyway: Ilse has been in Nashville in recent months and is what Waylon was there too. “It is the place where Bart and I want to write when I want to write songs. Coincidentally, Waylon was there too lately, also because he wanted to write songs. I understood that he had taken his family,” she says in the Story.
Don’t miss long
Ilse, who has no children himself, understands that from Waylon. “I can imagine that. You don’t want to miss them for that long.”
Did she not walk to him or drove in Nashville? “No, we didn’t see each other in Nashville. It would have been fine if that had been the case.”
“We’ll see”
There is no fight anymore, Ilse emphasizes. Will there ever be a Common Linnets reunion? “I never exclude anything. We’ll see what comes our way. I like to follow him on his path and I know he does that with me too.”
“I never quickly say no to opportunities anyway. That also applies to a new participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. I would like to participate again, be on stage again.”