Johan Derksen has seen André Hazes jr. continuously in front of the camera everywhere in the past week and now wonders whether he is on drugs again. “Because when you hear him talk like that…”
André Hazes Jr. has been in the media lately. The folk singer literally appears in front of every camera crew he encounters. He also sat at the table with Beau van Erven Dorens, where he indicated that ‘it hurts’ when people praise his father André Hazes like that. “Because you do your best yourself, you know? And that hurts.”
“On drugs again?”
Not his father, but he is now entitled to the name ‘André Hazes’, thinks junior. And what about his father? That is André Hazes sr. What an overestimation of self, think the men of Inside today.
Dinner guest Özcan Akyol: “He doesn’t want to be called a ‘junior’ anymore either. He should really be called André Hazes now, so he thinks: I am now at that level.”
Johan Derksen worried: “Would he be on drugs again? Wasn’t he off drugs? But when you hear him talking, you think: he’s gone again.”
Tribute
It is arrogant that André Jr. claims his father’s name, thinks Johan. “In America you have a lot of singers, like Hank Williams Jr. He is already in his sixties! That is the son of country singer Hank Williams, but he bears that name with honor, also to honor his father. Hans Kraay Jr. has always done that.”
Wilfred Genee: “Isn’t that also a tribute to your father? Especially if you have a father who has achieved so much.”
René: “Yes, of course man.”
America
André jr. pretended to Beau that they are also interested in him in America. Johan: “He is now starting to bluff that America is interested in him. Let me tell you one thing: nobody in America is interested in André Hazes jr.”
René: “Surely he should also lower the bar for himself?”
Johan: “Party tent level.”
Half ton
René thinks André Jr. should just enjoy the money and not be such a jerk. “Do you know what André has to do? Performing three times in one evening on Saturday for 15 thousand euros. Half a barrel, you come home and you first roll on the floor with laughter at home and then you have a nice glass of wine and you don’t think about it anymore.
“But he thinks there is a great singer in him,” says René.
Johan: “Yes, he really thinks he is a great artist. That’s a misconception. That was his father. In America they have a better singer in every third-rate pub than that Hazes.”