After his harsh statement against the press, Duncan Laurence is being dragged through the mud in the SBS 6 program Shownieuws. “He’s becoming a bit of an annoying little guy.”
It is quite a rookie mistake for someone who considers himself a world artist: Duncan Laurence left his own concert in Paradiso on Saturday evening without saying thank you or saying goodbye. After only seventy minutes, his performance was suddenly over, while his fans were still waiting for some better-known hits. They were quite disappointed.
Nervous breakdown
In addition to being a singer, Duncan is also known as someone who is sometimes quite confused with himself: he ran – at least in the past – from panic attack to panic attack. He will have one again nervous breakdown media such as Shownieuws suggested. That program attempted to get a response, but its management declined to respond.
Yes, and if you as management remain silent, such a rumor mill can start running very quickly. And only once it had gotten going did Duncan come up with a response. He apologized for his very short appearance and also lashed out at the media who dared to speculate about his sudden departure.
Annoying little guy
Private boss Evert Santegoeds finds Duncan’s reaction aggrieved, he says Show news. “He doesn’t blame himself, but we know that a bit about him. We also saw this last year at the Eurovision Song Contest when all kinds of things went wrong. Yes, he is becoming a bit of an annoying guy in my eyes.”
He continues: “I think it’s fine that you end a concert without saying anything and without making it clear that it’s over and that the song you sing from the balcony suddenly turns out to be an encore… I think it’s fine, but the The audience was left completely in amazement.”
‘A bit strange’
It remains strange that Duncan simply ends his concert without expressing his thanks or asking for applause for his band, Evert thinks. “It’s a bit strange. I learned as a child that you say ‘hello’ when you enter somewhere and when you leave, you say ‘hello’, but that apparently did not come across that way to Duncan.”
Colleague Ronald Molendijk also thinks that the performance lasted ‘very short’ and has particular difficulty with the fact that Duncan did not ask for a final applause for his band. “Just make sure you give your crew credit.”
‘Do your job!’
Duncan urges show journalists to deal with more important matters such as wars and abuses, but Evert finds that a bit easy. “If he does his job, I’ll do mine.”
If you don’t want rumors, then you just have to answer, Evert concludes. “We always try to see it from both sides, but it is difficult to work if management does not respond.”