It seems that Claude does not have to fear the troll army in the rest of his musical colleague Dotan, for he is – at least for the stage – very enthusiastic. “This can’t go wrong anymore.”
It was a huge shock in the spring of 2018: De Volkskrant came up with a huge article about singer Dotan who completely changed his life. The singer turned out to be a huge troll army to heaven and blacken fellow artists. He managed extremely many fake accounts and pretended that real people were.
Dotan Lyrical
Dotan will never get rid of his unreliable and somewhat scary image again, but he hopes to rehabilitate again. That’s why he was in the talk show last night Beau on Sundaywhere he was confronted with images of our national song festival entry: Claude.
How does Dotan look at that boy? Is he jealous? Is he going to bombard that kid with his troll army? No, he says he is very enthusiastic. “I listened to it a few times, yes. I think hey is fantastic.”
“The song too!”
It? So not the song? Yes, says Dotan. “Oh no! Also the song, but I mean: he just has everything, and I am also super proud, because every time I have to do something in a radio program, for example, his number often comes by, so he is also simply played internationally.”
Dotan is really very positive about it. “He is super sympathetic and he really sings very beautiful.”
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Host Beau van Erven Dorens agrees. “He is also so positive and cheerful compared to the previous candidate, which always hung something around. He is very accessible and very likeable.”
Table guest Ellie Lust: “At the top three. I think so.”
Dotan: “I don’t know enough about the Songfestival, but when I see him – and I often watch it with my friend from America – then you think: this can’t be otherwise, that he wins?”
Beau: “Well, winning, I don’t know yet, but if he comes at the top, we will already find it beautiful.”
Not in tone
Eddy Zoëy is slightly less enthusiastic. He has seen Claude’s performance at Eurovision in Concert and says in RTL Boulevard: “There is a kind of structure in terms of pace in that song. What is true: he is not entirely in the tone, and that can happen, especially with those stupid in-ears, that sometimes goes wrong, but it is a good singer.”
And then to think that Claude didn’t even dance there, says colleague Aran Bade. Then, according to him, purer singing becomes even more difficult. “He did not dance and the care of the singing is often at the expense when you are going to dance. He didn’t do that now. That he really wanted to concentrate on the singing.”
Does Aran have any advice? “You also have to sing that ‘La La La’ accurately. Not so much of ‘La La La’, that also has to be done on point. (…) I still find top five feasible. “