The unbearable emptiness of Frank Dane’s radio show takes on bewildering proportions. Clapping and shouting for André Hazes jr. Is he the best, but one critical question? To much asked.
Frank Dane is actually the face of everything that is wrong with Radio 538. The radio station was once the number one in the Netherlands, but nowadays the increasingly irrelevant station is no longer even in the top five. The dirt-cheap sister channel Sky Radio, a kind of Spotify playlist but with commercials, is included.
Cheering Frank
Astonishing? Well no. The figureheads exude so much emptiness that it’s just a bit embarrassing to be a 538 listener. The morning DJ, Wietze de Jager, continuously shouts that he wants a dad’s day and hopes for parental leave, while the afternoon DJ Frank pours a limitless amount of very sweet muck over the listener every day.
Especially the conversations that Frank has with fellow celebrities are really out of date. The radio DJ and his sidekicks seem to be having a kind of competition to see who can get deep in the guest’s ass. Cheering, laughing, clapping, screeching, roaring: it crowdparty blows out the speakers every day. But is the listener waiting for that?
‘Plagiarism’ song
No. On a day when André Hazes jr. dominates the headlines of the show media, Frank really only has one task when he has the folk singer on the phone live on the radio: what about his new ‘plagiarised’ single Deel Van Mij?
Precisely a medium that attracts so many music lovers should be interested in it, but no… Frank wants to know from André if he might want to follow him again on Instagram. André has unfollowed everyone to make a clean sweep, but the radio DJ only wants one thing: “Would you like to follow only me? Oh come on!”
What a schoolyard level.
Publicity stunt
André explains why his entire Instagram page has been wiped clean: “I read that it was a publicity stunt and so on. That may be the case in terms of the people behind me, but I just thought my Insta was just a mess. There were quite a lot of pictures on it and I sometimes scroll with my son, but behind every picture I have a memory, you know?”
He continues: “And those were not always nice. I just want to start completely with a clean slate and also on my Insta. I just want it to be neat there and not that I see a drowned head every time.”
Gavin DeGraw
Frank really avoids a question about André’s new single Share Van Mij at any time, can be heard in the broadcast on 538. The short clip that the singer shared from his song resembles the Gavin DeGraw hit Fire one-on-one, and everyone outside of the radio DJ is wondering how this could have happened.
Talking about his Insta page, André at one point makes a joke about the plagiarism row: “I’m going to follow one person and that’s Gavin DeGraw, because I’m taking his music now. haha. I need to keep up with him, right?”
The opportunity for Frank to respond to it. Because what about those similarities of that chord progression, the key, the tempo and that melody line? No. Laugh, screech, roar. And clap! Joelen!
Scoop
André’s song will premiere on Thursday. Where? You guessed it: Frank Dane’s afternoon show. André loves that, such a warm slime bath. Like his mother Rachel, he berates anyone who even slightly criticizes him. Patty Brad? Unfollow immediately. Wilfred Gene? On the blacklist.
André completely immerses himself in his uncritical environment, but according to Privé star Jan Uriot he better wake up now that his ‘plagiarism’ song is under fire. “This is going to be a lawsuit, watch it.”
How bad is the damage according to RTL Boulevard expert Rob Goossens? Fairly. “Robin Thicke and Pharrell once even had to tap 4 million from Marvin Gaye because of Blurred Lines!”