Maan de Steenwinkel was extremely popular for years and scored hit after hit, but she gave it all out of his hands. Now, after ten years, she no longer even has a record deal. “So tragic.”
Some artists start to believe in themselves so much that they think they are artistically capable of much more. André Hazes jr. Shoved his successful popular repertoire on the side for a failed new genre, and quickly turned back. Colleague Maan de Steenwinkel, on the other hand, is still rumbling in her experimental playground.
‘Become too much’
The self -overestimation of Moon – she will find her new alternative songs herself very artistically, but nobody listens to it – now leads that after ten years she has lost her record deal with 8ball. That is of course not surprising: if you deliberately no longer want to score hits, then the music business no longer makes sense in you.
That girl is just lost, thinks private boss Evert Santegoeds. “Of course a lot came to her at a fairly young age and a lot has happened. I think her is incredibly sweet and a beautiful girl, but it has all become a bit too much for her,” he says in the podcast Strictly private.
Tragic
It’s a shame how things went wrong with Moon, says Evert. “That is usually in guidance for him that then falls short. That is a tragic story, because it was an asset in the Dutch Showbizz, I thought, Moon.”
She went around as a potential song festival candidate for a while, but according to him that is no longer possible. “If she records a bit of a commercial, but if she records what she has been taking up lately, I think we’re not going to reach the final in Vienna.”
Niche market
If Moon wants a new record deal, it is better to do it normally again, according to the magazine maker. “It will work out, but not if it is experimental, because that is such a niche market, there is nothing to earn from it and that is where record companies, which are not already easy, are looking for.”
Evert also throws overlay. “If you make very commercial songs, you always think that you can and have to do more. With actors it is that you all want to play Shakespeare, even if you have good luck in a lighter genre, and that also plays a bit here.”
Middle of the road
Moon should not think that she is a great artistic talent, Evert concludes. “People think that they can put their own feelings and salvation in such a song and that everyone is going to the store. Yes, not everyone is waiting for that.”
“As far as I’m concerned, it can be a bit more middle of the road and a nice song lying out. Then you might also end up at that Songfestival.”