Despite all her flops, Marieke Elsinga is allowed to try something again from RTL 4: she is in the jury of the new TV trial play Play That Song Again. How does she do it? “Terrible jeans.”
After Make Up Your Mind, Carlo Boszhard and his friend came up with something new, namely Play That Song Again, a TV show in which artists ‘iconic’ songs from the past give a new look. In reality, it is one big self-felicity, whereby the Dutch jury members put the occurring Dutch candidates an incredible amount of feathers in the ass.
“It’s True!”
It started immediately in the first minute yesterday, after a performance by hostess Chantal Janzen. After her song, she announces the very big Carlo Boszhard (“Carlo Boszhard, there he sits. The Showman in heart and soul!”), After which he goes in Metersdiep with her: “First compliments: that opening can only be Chantal Janzen! Yes, yes, yes, It’s True! “
Sigh, can’t this just go after drinks? Anyway: in addition to Carlo, the faint Billy Dans and Qmusic lagging singing Marieke Elsinga are in the jury. A Dreamteam or have Chantal and Marieke taking their umpteenth flop?
No flop
It’s not a flop, says viewing grade authority Tina Nijkamp on her analysis canal. “There was little competition for Play That Song Again, but of course it was exciting for Carlo Boszhard and his friend Herald. How did their format start? Also exciting for Chantal Janzen. It was her first TV performance as a presenter in 2025.”
“How did it go? Just like with the one-off makeup your mind a follow-up at that time? It could be. It could be. It could be a lot of promoted play that song again. 721 thousand viewers. Not very much, but there was not a lot of TV watched. In the commercial target group 25-54 years it was really good.”
Amusing
Play That Song Again was also the best viewed program of eight hours and half past eight. “Make up your mind started on 15 May 2021 with a one -off special with more than 1.2 million viewers.”
What did Tina think about it? Entertaining and amusing, she says. “But I missed very authenticity. A little too much Incrowd also. It was not clear whether artists themselves had chosen the numbers or not. That also remained too vague with the remix, I thought. Felt somewhat fake. “
Jeans
According to Tina, the purpose of the program must be much clearer. And the jury? “It was too enthusiastic. Was real cringe. And as the creator of the format, Carlo was strange in the jury. He will have already heard those songs at home all? “
Moreover, Tina really does not like the styling of one of the jury members at all. “The jeans of Marieke Elsinga are very strange. That does not fit in such a glamor format.”
Dressing party
Media journalist Jef Willemsen is also not enthusiastic. “Do you know what the big man of Play That Song Again is? The artists first replay the clip,” he writes on X.
“Nice dressing party but it does not add much to reinventing a hit. Plus it pulls the pace out of the show. Let participants choose themselves and start their version immediately.”