Top DJ Armin van Buuren, 46, believes he has been treated “in a strange way” by the Eurovision Song Contest selection committee. So he was no longer keen to participate on behalf of the Netherlands in the future.
“No, that path has been cut,” he said Thursday night. View news. “I placed an order a while ago, and then I was treated really weird… I didn’t even get a call back.”
Armin van Buuren, voted the best DJ in the world five times DJ MagazineShe presented a song in 2021 with singer Yap Raisima. The choice ultimately fell on the relatively unknown S10 singer-songwriter, who represented the Netherlands in Turin in 2022 with her song depth.
We had to call ourselves
“We haven’t even heard if we’ve become a yes or no,” says Van Buren now. “In the end it wasn’t us, OK. But then we had to call someone to find out it wasn’t us. That’s very strange, when I think they really wanted me to do it. Maybe it was just a misunderstanding, I don’t know, but I don’t think that’s Absolutely global.
Van Buuren and Risima wrote their song at that time without the need for a song festival. “Armen and I were in the studio together to record some songs, but not with the idea of doing it for the Eurovision Song Contest,” Risima told this site. But suddenly we got a song that we found very suitable, and then we had the idea to send it in.” According to him, about 400 songs were presented that year.
Stien den Hollander (22), as the S10 is truly called, eventually finished 11th. depth It became a hit in the Netherlands, reached number one in the Top 40, and was on the chart for seventeen weeks.
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