The Eurovision couple Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper blame their crazy performance at a preparty in Madrid on the technique, but according to Ronald Molendijk that is unjustified. “Nonsense!”
The us-knows-us committee of AvroTros has selected Duncan Laurence’s nephew and niece to represent the Netherlands during the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s about one Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper, whom no one had heard of until recently. And now it has become clear why.
“Were the in-ears!”
Mia and Dion performed last weekend during a Eurovision party in Madrid and that was so false that some are now calling for Sieneke and her organ to be taken out again if necessary. Well, then you must have made it very fur.
What’s the matter with those two? Can they sing at all? According to the AvroTros, there was nothing they could do about it. In the AD: “It was probably the in-ears (the earplugs, ed.), which prevented them from getting good sound. The technique was just not good and then it becomes very difficult.”
False and False
Ronald Molendijk does not believe the excuse. “In-ears are those headphones that really close off your ears. They are custom molded in your ear and then you hear almost nothing. Then a mix is made. One slide contains the music and the other slide contains your voice. Nothing can really go wrong with that.”
Mia and Dion, now also known as Vals and Valser, are simply not experienced enough, according to him. Ronald continues in Show news: “I’m in an app group with different music producers and I actually only got from everyone: ‘What the f*ck? Why are we sending this to Eurovision?’”
Ear out
If there is something wrong with your in-ears, just take them off, says Ronald. “Suppose something went wrong in some way, then you also see the inexperience of these artists, because a great artist – someone who is used to that – pulls that one earpiece right out of his ear.”
And then? “Then there are always speakers on the floor and if that doesn’t happen either, you turn them both off and say: ‘Stop!’”
Inexperienced
Patty Brard, who has sung with Luv’ for years, agrees. “Yes, then you take them both off!”
Ronald fears that favoritism takes precedence over quality at AvroTros. “We gave Duncan Laurence a lot of power on this song. He co-wrote it, co-produced it, it’s on his label and he chose those people.”
Fragment
The goofy Dion and Mia: