Allons enfants de la patrie

[Rik Jungmann]

Lijsters,

Wat is dit voor een bekrompen gedoe over dat songfestival?

Ik dacht dat alleen Fransen deze tik hebben en zich daardoor regelmatig
belachelijk maken.

Laat de liedjes maar lekker in het Engels gezongen worden. Als je het al
belangrijk vindt om douze points te krijgen kun je maar beter een beetje
klantvriendelijk zijn naar al die jury's en iets verstaanbaars zingen. Goed
voor de business en verder volstrekt onbelangrijk.

Dat een staatssecretaris en een D66 tweede kamerlid zich in een dergelijke
non-discussie menen te moeten mengen vind ik al helemaal verbijsterend.
(Misschien iets voor het europese parlement? Daar worden wel meer onzin
discussies gevoerd.)

De Nederlandse liedjes bloeien de laatste paar jaar als nooit tevoren.
Songfestival of niet.
Dus, waar hebben we het over?

Rik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kees Bezemer <keesctb at xs4all.nl>
To: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl <D66 at nic.surfnet.nl>
Date: zaterdag 30 januari 1999 14:04
Subject: littlethings dutch in english: "bloody shame"


>Hallo allen,
>
>Bijgaand een kopie van de mail die ik vandaag heb gestuurd naar de
>"littlethings" mailinglist, een list waar nieuws over het Eurovisie
>Songfestival wordt uitgewisseld.
>Gezien het onderwerp leek het me ook relevant voor de D66-lijst.
>
>M. Vr. Gr,
>
>
>Kees.
>
>>***Enjoy the 1999 season with the Little Things***
>>
>>
>>Hiya peoples,
>>
>>Here is some news from todays issue of dutch newspaper "Trouw":
>>
>>Dutch Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs, Rick Van der Ploeg
>>(PvdA-Labourparty), is going to ask dutch broadcaster NOS to take care of
>>more songs in dutch language in future festivals. He is not happy with the
>>fact that all songs that compete for being the dutch entry in Jerusalem
are
>>in English.
>>Member of Parliament Boris Dittrich (D66-Social Liberal) says it is a
>>"bloody shame". (Those words are not translated). He had asked Van der
>>Ploeg to stand up for the Dutch and Frysian language.
>>
>>Frysian languase was this year for the first time competing for a place in
>>the national final. The alderman for cultural  affairs of the city of
>>Leeuwarden, Arno Brok, did send the frysian tango "Rosa Montes" to the
>>selection committee. He tought that if English would be possible, than at
>>least also the second language of the Netherlands should be possible. In
>>this song -that did not make it- the Frysian chansonnier Douwe Heeringa
>>tels about the sad faith of Arganinian Rosa who is seeking for asilence
but
>>ends up in prostitution.
>>
>>Boris Dittrich is afraid that dutch language and identy lost because of
>>commercial reasons. His opinion is that "Dutch is a language that we can
>>present ourselves with, also in the international area." He also said that
>>he always watched the songfestival, but prefers to call it
>>"liedjesfestival", and that it is a bloody shame we are not sending a
>>beautifull Dutch song. "In the past we had also beautifull entries with
>>Corry Brokken, Lenny Kuhr and Ruth Jaccott. And in the seventies we were
>>able to send some entries in English, but what did we get? 'When you take
a
>>shower, when you pick a flower, sing ding a dong...' Does that make you
>>happy? D66 is a pro-European party, but nevertheless we think we may be
>>proud on our own identity."
>>
>>According to the NOS, did the selectioncommittee, with chairman Willem van
>>Beusekom, only looked to the quality of the songs, was language no
>>selectioncriterium and did commercial reasons play no role at all.
However,
>>NOS-spokesman Fred de Vries did confirm that the record-industry was
>>represented in the -further secret- selection committee. He stated that in
>>the end, only one thing is important: that the selected song could get a
>>high score. Furthermore a large majority of all songs that were send to
the
>>committee were in English.  He assured that if evryone is a bit patient,
we
>>will find out that the level of the songs are much better than Whenn you
>>pick a Flower.....
>>
>>
>>Greetings to all,
>>
>>Kees.
>>***The Little Things Mailing List, 1999***
>>Please Note: This list is for CURRENT NEWS only. All Eurovision chat
>>or conversation should be posted to allkinds at Majordomo.net
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>
>------------
>Kees Bezemer
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>