Ronald Molendijk finds it ridiculous and ridiculous that Marco Borsato’s music is suddenly welcome again at the major TV event The Passion. “That man was sidelined for four years!”
The KRO-NCRV has decided that Marco Borsato’s music is welcome again at The Passion now that he has been acquitted in the abuse case against him. His song Hoe Het Danst will be sung during the upcoming edition. A boost for the singer, who obviously hopes for rehabilitation, but is still struggling with serious image damage.
‘Really so sour!’
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden is annoyed that Angela de Jong has spoken out against the return of Marco’s music in The Passion. “I find it so sad,” he says Show news.
Desk chair Ronald Molendijk then: “What do you think is sour?!”
Jordi is surprised: “We have completed that process, haven’t we?”
Ronald: “No, man! That man was sidelined for four years!”
Jordi: “No, we agree. I do think that music should be included again.”
Charity
Ronald finds it extremely hypocritical. “No! That music should never have been removed! This is not sour. What is sour is that you have principles when it suits you. That is what the KRO-NCRV pretends to do here. It is a broadcaster that is for charity, but then they whore out the entire story of Jesus, which is about a journey of suffering.”
“It’s about: we just kill someone who was standing with a different sound. Then there is someone who is just put in a corner, namely Marco Borsato, and then they say (put on a screaming voice, ed.): ‘Whoa! We don’t want anything to do with that for a while, because imagine if one of our members thinks anything of that!'”
In our arms
If Ronald finds Marco’s Passion comeback ridiculous, what should KRO-NCRV have done? Jordi: “Do you think they shouldn’t have used his music now?”
Ronald then: “I think they should never have stopped it. And then suddenly it’s a kind of: let’s pretend it’s okay again and hold him in our arms again.”
Public confession
How can KRO-NCRV solve this? “A public confession, so just: sit on a talk show or sit here, and invite me too, and tell me how on earth you brought this up yourself,” says Ronald.
“I grant everyone his or her faith, but this is just… I find it so embarrassing.”
