André Hazes jr. will probably never get rid of it: his vengeful old team of writers. It’s a case of your own fault, big bump, but the revenge is very sweet. “Ha ha, what a flop!”
Choosing a new one sound It is of course André Hazes jr.’s right to go, but the way in which he has put aside his old team of writers is anti-social. Bram Koning, the captain of that team, is rightly angry, but his rancor is boundless. He gives a different interview every week in which he gets his gram.
“Not unhappy!”
André, who suddenly calls the records he made with Bram ‘oldies music’, certainly gives enough reason to do so. The new music he makes with Billy Dans turns out to be a huge flop: his comeback single didn’t even make it to the Top 40. And his comeback concert? Doesn’t even run!
What does it do to Bram that the new single Deel Van Mij does not catch on? “Former team Hazes is not entirely unhappy – and I say that very neatly, haha!”, he screams in weekly magazine Weekend.
Flop from here to Tokyo
Bram thinks it’s funny that André is going on his nose so hard. “Just before the release of his single, André’s lyricist Billy Dans came up with a great interview: ‘We’re going to make it all the way! His old team has dropped stitches, but we will show what we can do with a modern pop touch.’”
He continues: “And then there is that record, on which the Netherlands drops out. On YouTube I believe he only has 130 thousand views. The first folk singer that comes along already has more clicks – and I’m talking about C singers. So you can say: it’s a flop from here to Tokyo. It is also the least streamed song to date.”
Career over?
We may not hear from André in a few years, Bram suggests. “They themselves know that that record has flopped, they come up with a second song so quickly for nothing. But I hold my heart. If it is indeed the same kind of record, he better go live in America.”
He continues: “Of course they are now sitting there with their hands in their hair. Because everything is going wrong now: his latest record flops, ticket sales for Ahoy are not going well. (…) To be honest, I am afraid that his career will soon be over.”
Not loyal
One thing is certain: everyone in the music world now knows that André has no loyalty, says Bram. “I’ve heard in the corridors that they have approached the entire writing community in the Netherlands, but all those writers fit for it, they also think: then we’ll be at a writer’s camp for two or three days and then we won’t hear from him again.”
“Then he goes on with someone else, like a Billy Dance,” says Bram. And if André comes back to him on hanging legs? “The love is over.”