Roxeanne Hazes has a new record to release and that is why she was on the talk show Khalid & Sophie last night. Did that produce brand new Hazes juice? Not quite…
Sensation seekers are helped out of their dreams immediately at the start of the conversation by hostess Sophie Hilbrand. She clearly indicates that there will be no juice on the table. “Roxeanne, I’m so glad you’re here. We’re going to talk to you about your new record, we’re going to talk about you, we’re not going to talk about your mother.”
Not about Rachel
Huh, that’s a shame. The fryer can be turned off, no croquettes on the table. But why not? Sophie: “You don’t want that, you can’t do that, that also has to do with legal matters. If people have joined from Boulevard: you can return immediately, because that is not what this is about. We’re going to have a nice chat about music and your album.”
Roxeanne doesn’t say a word about it, but smiles politely and looks approving. Of course it makes sense that they would Khalid & Sophie has demanded not to talk about her mother, because then the media would not talk about her new music, but only about the misery in the Hazes family.
Six years of nothing
Why hasn’t Roxeanne made anything new in terms of music for six years? Where was she? “I spent a lot of time in the studio, among other things, but I also became a mother in the meantime. In principle, an album was ready four years ago, I must say, just because of my own mental state…”
…She threw that album away. “I was not yet able to release a full album at that time, because I had been depressed for quite a long time and a major reason for this was becoming a mother. Not necessarily that my child caused that in me, of course, but it was very much the pressure from outside.”
Failing mother
Moreover, there were ‘things going on in my private life’, according to Roxeanne. “That made me constantly feel like you’re a failing mother because things don’t work out.”
She was also reminded of her own childhood. “It’s no secret that I grew up with a father who drank a lot. Unfortunately, this sometimes makes you feel unsafe in your home situation. The moment you become a mother yourself, you are very much thrown back and you think: which things do I like from my youth and which things do I take with me and which things do I leave behind?”
Proud of last name
Many people argue that Roxeanne is the only normal Hazes. Isn’t she ashamed of that name? “I also get a lot of pride from my last name. I am really proud of who I am and who my father was.”
Two hours later, Roxeanne was completely criticized for this TV appearance. Johan Derksen in Today Inside: “Her father sang exactly what belonged to him, but she wants to bring the Dutch song into that chanson corner, but she can’t handle it. It’s unbelievable the way she sings it.”
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