Sieneke Peeters would like to go to the Eurovision Song Contest again, but she will certainly not receive any support from the men of Today Inside. “She really was a tragic low point.”
Camp artist Sieneke Peeters (34) participated in the National Song Contest sixteen years ago, where all participants sang their own version of the song ‘I am in love (Sha-la-lie)’ by Pierre Kartner. When the audience and jury could not reach an agreement, he single-handedly named her as the winner. “Then do it Sieneke!”, he said at one point.
Tragic low point
It was not a success in Oslo: the Netherlands did not reach the final and finished fourteenth in the semi-finals. Now, however, Sieneke has indicated that she wants to go to the song festival again on behalf of our country. “I just came to have a look, so I lived my dream there, and to experience that again, yes, that seems really crazy to me of course.”
It meets with little enthusiasm from the men of Today Inside. “I am especially concerned about the fact that Sieneke has indicated that she wants to participate again,” Johan Derksen sneers. on the talk show. “Eight years ago it was the tragic low point in Eurovision history with the song Sha-la-lie.”
Bad song
Sha-la-lie was not something to listen to, according to Johan. “I had never heard a worse song. She is a nothing singer and then I think: can someone make it clear to her that she should not participate?”
Wilfred Genee then starts a fragment: “Don’t you think this is good?! Isn’t that really nice?”
René van der Gijp: “Maybe she has developed.”
Table guest Tina Nijkamp: “A terrible song. Terrible.”
“That one!”
Tina notes that Sieneke was only sent by chance. “Father Abraham chose that then. You know? That was the finale when Yolanthe Cabau was standing there.”
Johan: “Yes, and that he didn’t want to say who he wanted to win.”
Tina: “Yes, then he said: ‘That one!’, and then it was Sieneke.”
Wilfred: “Don’t do that, Sieneke?”
Johan: “No, that’s not possible? We are dying of good singers. We have Mel, Davina Michelle, Anouk, Miss Montreal and the new star Sanne van Nassau. They can all go to the Eurovision Song Contest, but we have to keep them for the marquee circuit.”
