Singer Claude gets a big sneer for his choosing from Ben Cramer. The elderly Crooner finds the young singer unsuitable for the Songfestival. “A dark man who sings in French, it’s quite something!”
The song C’est La Vie with which Claude will represent us for a long time at the Eurovision Song Contest cannot count on approval from Ben Cramer. He really pretends the artist and his song in the newest Weekend. “It’s not my cup of tea“, The singer, who is annoyed that Claude is not simply sings and talks in Dutch.
Not a word
Ben finds it worthless. “I don’t think the melody is that special, the beginning even looks like something, but I can’t place it. The chord diagram is very familiar to me, more songs have been made with that.”
It is also not good that Claude sings partly in French, he thinks. “I don’t understand a word of French, so I don’t know what it is about. That will soon have more Europeans. Furthermore, it will be a up-tempo number and that is in, you hear no different. I understand that the song comes in well with many people, but not with me.”
Paw
Ben also points to the skin color of Claude and the confusion that it can bring. “English and French are of course not international languages and Dutch. Moreover, the words sound harder with the G’s, that is also one thing. There are plenty of examples of songs that did well in Dutch during the Songfestival.”
“But English will look better internationally. Only we have a dark man who sings in French and English and has a French name, but he comes from the Netherlands. That is quite something, if you start thinking.”
Problem
What Ben’s problem is is completely unclear. Claude sings in French, but it is mainly Bens’ views that smell like a musty baguette from 1964. What is this about?
No, according to Ben it really isn’t going to be. “Personally, I wouldn’t just put the song just as well before bedtime.”