The career of André Hazes Jr. could use a boost. Will we perhaps see him again on the stage of the Eurovision Song Contest next year?
Things are going badly for André Hazes Jr.’s career. His new music is not catching on and that Ahoy concert is not selling out. What now? Could he be one of the six hundred entrants for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024? It is a record number: never before has the AvroTros received so many registrations. Registration is now closed.
‘Too much pressure’
André tells the talk show Humberto that he did not submit anything. “No never. I don’t watch it either. I don’t care much about it and I think the pressure would be much too much.”
Host Humberto Tan: “Which stress would you find difficult? Just all these people looking at you, or what?”
André: “It’s 500 million viewers or something, right? Yeah, no man!”
Humberto: “But you have that tonight too! Hahahaha!”
Great artist
But André wants to be such a great artist, right? He flies to America every now and then to see how they are doing there. “I think I’ve been back and forth to America 21 times in the past two years, yes. To watch shows. Then you really see that we are lagging behind in the Netherlands. When it comes to LED screens and what they can do there.”
The folk singer himself also wants to bring quality. “I think I am doing very well and only attract positivity. I don’t do strange things anymore. Fortunately, I am rid of all that bullying and I want to focus on the positive.”
Fittie with Humberto
Besides, Humberto begins: “I was thinking about the last time we saw each other. That is also in the documentary. Should we still talk about that or not?”
André admits: “I was just very angry with you at that moment.”
He grumbled in his documentary: “I sat with Humberto and it was so uncomfortable. It has only been about my private life and how I want to solve it. Yes, that just hit me so wrong. Then actually after Humberto I said: ‘I’m done with it.’”
Finger in wound
André is coming to talk it out now. “Yes. I’m actually here to apologize. No no no. No, but at that moment I was really angry. Looking back, I just realize: you’re just doing your job and everything you said was so true and so painful. I think I just really couldn’t have that at that moment. And now I am very grateful to you.”
Humberto: “I also understand that you are kind of angry, because every time you dig into some kind of wound with your finger, that is not fun. You just want to talk about your new album and single and you don’t feel like having a bullshit conversation about things that are going on. But somehow there always has to be some kind of pissing part first.”