Every day you can read what NU.nl readers think of the news of the day. Today: reactions from readers and others involved about the Dutch Eurovision duo Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper. They were again unable to keep a tone at their performance this weekend.
“Isn’t this a basic requirement?”
NOWyou Newslady: “How can we send ‘singers’ who can’t keep a tune and sing out of tune? That’s a basic requirement of a singer, isn’t it? It feels a bit like an accountant who doesn’t know what debit/credit is… I get the tension, etc., but we don’t send novices, do we?”
‘They can sing, but this is asking too much of them’
NOWyou SockClurp: “Hello internet, a graduated professional singer here. No, it’s not always clean. Mia and Dion can sing quite a bit, but the song just asks too much for the duo. Mia has some trouble with her head voice and wants to sing too loud. What Dion does is also very difficult. He sings above a man’s voice break, but he still needs some time to color and intonate his sound.”
“The piece doesn’t quite fit their voice, but to immediately bully their qualities as singers into the ground is again typical Dutch media. And it has an impact on their career and on the focus that they will soon need.”
“The stereotype that many people have about singers: you can sing or not sing once, you were born with that… That is very crooked and incorrect. 90 percent of the good singers you listen to now started as people who ‘cannot sing’. You can train everything you hear! Also intonation.”
‘We’re going to hit a blunder’
NUjij’er Wouters: “What a blunder we are going to have with these two artists. And I can’t even blame them. The organization could have at least watched a few live performances by these people to find out that they just aren’t particularly good singers. Self-proclaimed Eurovision connoisseur Cornald Maas can also blame himself for this.”
‘We are working on it with a whole team’
A spokesperson for AVROTROS informs NU.nl: “I can only agree that it was not good. We are working hard on it with a whole team. We will continue with that in the coming weeks.”
‘Good singers, but they underestimate the impact of nerves’
Song festival reporter Lara Zevenberg from NU.nl responds: “They are not bad singers. I have heard before that they can sing, but they are fairly inexperienced. I think they underestimated the impact that an audience of five thousand people has on their nerves, and therefore on their voice. And soon it will be also an audience of millions. This time it went better than last week in Madrid, but they are just not there yet. And with three weeks left until the semi-finals, it will be very exciting. They then have to play away four countries. Whether they succeed , is really totally uncertain now.”
“This is not an easy song. Mia and Dion have to sing a lot from high to low in three minutes. It’s very clever if you manage to do that in one song, but it’s incredibly difficult. It’s not for nothing that people have been worried about that since the song came out. You keep hearing it go wrong on that front. As soon as they have to change pitch, they shout themselves over.”
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