Jan Smit still doesn’t seem to have fully recovered from the burnout that took him two years off, says Evert Santegoeds. “He is a coiled spring about to burst.”
Some fans of Jan Smit think that he has sung too little during a performance in Hasselt, because he took a lot of time to read notes from other fans and take pictures. “They better do this after the performance. He could have sung two or three songs more,” complains one Nancy, for example, online.
Excited feather
That reaction from Nancy, and one from Nico, is with surname and all by Jan in his Instagramstories thrown with the pithy comment: “When are you actually doing it right? 🤷🏻”
It’s not common to see your fans like that and square public and according to Private boss Evert Santegoeds, it shows that something is going on. “Jan is as tense as a wound spring about to burst, I think. Of course, he hasn’t been doing well for years,” he says in his podcast Strictly Private.
Dead end
Evert thinks that Jan is not feeling well. “His career has really come to a dead end and you can also see from his reactions to the criticism about the Eurovision Song Contest: he can’t stand that, he can’t deal with it.”
He continues: “Whereas he used to be very laconic in life and as a Sunday child of showbiz has been incredibly successful from a very young age… Yes, he does not know how to handle that now. That is a great shame, because it is natural not done that you are going to indulge yourself with name and shame on a fan who thought you sung a few songs too little.”
Above Jan
Jan will not make himself popular with this, says Evert. “That is not at all how we know Jan, actually. But he did yesterday and that just shows that he is not quite the old Jan.”
He concludes: “He may have called his latest album ‘Boven Jan’; I am not convinced that that is indeed the case.”