Song 1For a girl
Text and execution: Tom Van Kalmthout
Music: Bart Rijnink
The song ‘For a girl’ by Ron van Zalm sauce (Tom van Kalmthout) originated from years of frustration. Van Kalmthout: “I and I think I had many boys. I fell on older girls and they fell on even older boys. I was a boy anywhere else than on my head without any hair. Girls were a cup bigger and had breasts. It was obvious that they were totally unreachable. “
The song is a mix of small art, full of interesting rhyme, and rap. “Cabarap, someone called it. Terrible word, but okay, I get it. I have always had a huge preference for rap and small art. Rap was my high school. Kleinkunst is what I got to know at Theater School by Jurrian van Dongen. But small art is often fussy. Rap is sloppy and usually incorrectly rued. By combining it you get this weird thing. ”
The first version of the song was already written years ago, with Yannick van de Velde, for the first performance of their duo Rundfunk. “But we found out that together we mainly wanted to make scenes. So I didn’t do anything with the song for a long time. Until Corona came, the theaters closed and I sat at home. Then I started producing it with Bart Rijnink. It is a kind of AI machine. You throw something in and he translates that into some musical. We eventually wanted to grab the atmosphere of such a men’s pub, where I climb a little drunk on the table and to tell about the struggle that we men experience. ” Joking: “Because of course that is really not a cat piss.”
Song 2 The construction
Text and execution: Manu van Kersbergen
Music: M. van Kersbergen, T. van Zutphen, B.pleij, A. Smit, L. de Bruijn
When Manu van Kersbergen was busy writing a new performance, the sentence “In the beginning was the word”. “I don’t know where it came from. Perhaps another vague memory of my own Catholic education. “
He searched for what the meaning meant and came to the Gospel of John where it says, “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God.” He used the sentence for his song ‘De Construction’. But the opposite happens in this song. There the Word creates God. “Language creates stories, also archives, breaks and fixes. Language creates reality. It is not there, unless we record it in language. The song has thus become the core of my performance The rediscovery of heaven. He is about the fact that as a writing performer I have always used language as a matter of course, without reflecting on what that language does. ”
‘The construction’ starts with a choir. “Symbolically, the choir was always the bridge to heaven. Reach up in singing together. ”
Then sings/raps/word art of Kersbergen sings about what the word created: expectation, delusions, hierarchy, intolerance, repression, boundary, dominance, confusion, distinction, abstraction, relevance, worship, imagination and discrepancy.
There is no judgment in the text, Van Kersbergen emphasizes. Not about God or about man. “Occasionally I get a message on Instagram that I am not allowed to use the Bible like that, but luckily many other religious people can withstand that. They are also looking for new interpretations. “
Song 3Crib
Text, music and performance: Arjen Lubach
Arjen Lubach does not give interviews to writing press. This interview is an exception because he finds the nomination a nice reason. The interview took place via e -mail. His nominated song, ‘crib’, is about the hypocrisy of the Dutch.
The song seems to be about the fat me from Dutch people. Why?
“The Dutchman – not except for myself – likes to take others the size, but sometimes loses sight of the fact that he is also guilty of inconsistent behavior. That is frustrating and funny. The song is actually an ode to that hypocrisy. Anyone who sees that hypocrisy is in small things may judge more about others. “
Have you puzzled with the perspective?
“Singing the song from the you perspective immediately makes it very grumpy. I also don’t want to pretend that I am sung from the behavior of the Dutchman. If I want to insert on the highway, I am angry if people don’t let me do it. If others want to insert, I am angry that they want. “
Have you seen our behavior change?
“In comparison with the past, it is of course nice that we have stopped with slavery, forced marriages, witch persecution, child labor, electoral restriction, etc., at the same time, we have become a bit more anti -social in recent decades. It makes me sad when I read that medical staff in hospitals take off their name cards for fear of being threatened by patients or family. Or that news organizations get their logos from satellite trucks as a precaution. I just don’t know how to turn that tide again. “
What frustrates you the most?
“If I had to choose, I would say: how we close our eyes to the machine that is built to eat animals. People who are angry because of neglected dogs, but then work a pork chop inside in the evening. Politicians who eat meat find so important that even public health, liveability and animal welfare become subordinate. “
Song 4 God has a question
Text, music and performance: Lisa Ostermann
After the profit of the Poelifinario for Best Cabaret Program in the Engagement category for her Easy to handle Is Lisa Ostermann now nominated for a song from that show, in which God addresses humanity. Not angry, but surprised that we were able to keep it up for so long, while we were actually just an experiment: the last species that God came up with, where on the ‘leftover day of creation’ all the feature ideas he still had left in.fo
“Humanity is currently not in a positive light through all the wars and destroying the planet. But I still love people because we always keep hope, no matter how horrible things are. Or joke, no matter how cunt everything is. We are like the orchestra of the Titanic, we keep going.
“First I let God be Bozer. So, you were a temporary experiment, why are you not extinct, I am bored mega. I wanted to say that God is impressed by ‘hope’ and does not understand how we get it. But my friend said, “I don’t understand that song.” Then I started again. “
Where most gods want something from humanity, it does not do that. From those low expectations there is a love for people in the song. “So, you are great in all joys. But God also says: ‘There is no denying anymore, the earth gets too hot, you die out. Since I realize that, I can’t think about anything else because I have become attached to you. So please teach me how I can keep hoping. “
Song 5The land of milk and honey
Text: Flip Noorman
Music and performance: Flip and the Normans
What is striking about the song ‘The Land of Milk and Honing’ by Flip Noorman is how his raw, deep voice contrasts with the angel singing of soprano Vera van der Bie, who in the chorus Het Requiem in the chorus In Paradisum Deducant in Angeli Sings: “May angels guide you to paradise.”
The song is in Norwegian show Animal farmbased on George Orwell’s book, sung from the character Raaf Moses. “It stands in the book in front of the Russian Church that helps the people suppress by saying: if you work hard enough and you don’t care how heavy life really is, you will be in the promised land. I chose to pull that idea to the here and now. To sing from today’s populists, who serve the world of 1950, about the Land van Ooit. Or actually a country of never, because in my opinion it never existed.
“I found it exciting to write. I often crawl into the skin of characters that I do not agree with, but those are often up-tempo numbers. I can put irony in that. Ballads were a place where I always had to be sincere of myself. Now I have to seduce a people into a heaven that I don’t believe in. “
Noorman sometimes jokes that it is good for his program that Trump and Wilders have been chosen “The song is now better understood. But actually the show was an indictment against liberal capitalists. Also under Biden and Rutte, part of the world was abused for our wealth. We get a lot of clothes sweatshops. People in lithium mines work for our phone calls. Our world has been very unfairly distributed for much longer. “
Song 6Life song
Text, music and performance: Piet van Eeghen
The song ‘Levenslied’ by Piet van Eeghen was a boxing match between form and content in the making process, says the comedian. You don’t notice anything anymore, it is striking how well the content and the form support each other.
The song starts in a three -quartersmate that Van Eeghen sings over with the text: “All the beauty goes into three.” To sing afterwards: “Life, for the rest, is stressful pastime. It does not go in three, but from: 1-2-3-4-5. ” And then the rhythm changes and you feel the stress increase as a listener. You go on a journey, in the unrest of your own head.
Iin the five -quarts mate van Eeghen sings about the daily stress. The seven -quartz measure that follows is about the misery in the world. The Elfwartsmaat is about the world in your head, where daily problems and worldly problems come together in a mush of thoughts and non-logical questions.
“The song came into existence when I played a five -quartem mate behind my piano, without text and ulterior intention. I felt how restless I got out of it. As if I had two cups of coffee. Then I played a seven -quartem mate and it felt very compelling, the feeling that you don’t have a second to breathe. I wanted to do something with that. First I played all the rhythms, but I noticed that the audience needed guidance to understand the song. ”
From Elfwartsmaat the song returns to five quartz mate. “In the base we think I think in a five -quartem mate. Occasionally it is broken by a three -quarter measure. And lately a little more often when we open the newspaper through a seven -quarts size. “