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21:15 CET, Nationaal Songfestival
Live: National final in the Netherlands
The song representing the Netherlands in Oslo is already known: Ik Ben Verliefd (Sha-la-lie), written by Pierre Kartner. Tonight's five Eurovision hopefuls, who have all been coached by well-known Dutch singers, will present their own, individual versions of this song and the winner will be decided by 20% audience voting, and 80 % jury voting. The jury is consisting of Radio DJ Daniël Dekker, singer and actress Tatjana Simic, singer George Baker, and three times Eurovision winner Johnny Logan, whose votes will each have an impact of 20%.
How to watch?
A webcast is available at the official website here. After the show, the press conference with the winning artist will be streamed there as well.
Participants
- Sieneke (coached by Marianne Weber)
- Vinzzent (coached by Grad Damen)
- Marlous (coached by Corry Konings)
- Peggy Mays (coached by Albert West)
- Loekz (coached by Frans Bauer)
LIVE
The show has just started.
Yolanthe Cabau van Kasbergen, tonight's host, welcomes the audience and elaborates on the procedures of tonight's show and introduces the coaches of tonight's five Eurovision hopefuls.
Now, a video clip is being shown with the five participants talking about themselves and their participation in the Nationaal Songfestival.
After the introduction of the participants themselves, the jury, who will have an impact of 80% of the outcome, is being introduced and the composer Pierre Kartner talks about his expectations of tonight's show.
1. Sieneke
17 year-old Sieneke, coached by Marianne Weber, is the youngest of the particpants and the first one to take over the stage. The beginning of Sieneke's version of Ik ben verliefd sounds like being lost somewhere in an amusment park. As the song emerges, it sounds a bit like swing and Sieneke seems like the right singer to perform such a happy-go-lucky song. Her vocals are faultless, however, one might hope that this arrangement won't be the best of tonight's versions.
2. Vinzzent
Vinzzent, the only male particpant, is the next to perform. His version of Ik ben verliefd features some light Reggae and Latin elements. It is very questionable if he is the right performer for this kind of song and if he stands a chance against the others, who are all young female singers. However, he looked really comfortable on stage and his performance was not too bad.
3. Loekz
The girlband Loekz, coached by Frans Bauer, comes with a very oriental version of Ik ben verliefd. The sound and the optics do not match at all here, with Loekz' colourful and very weird styling one can only guess what their intentions for this performance might have been. The arrangement might have aimed at pleasing certain Eastern countries, thus this approach seems like trying to make the song something it simply isn't.
4. Peggy Mays
Peggy Mays, coached by Albert West, is the second last participant. She is performing in a blue evening dress and has a background choir at her disposal. Her interpretation of Ik ben verliefd is a bit slower than the other participants' versions and more melodic. Vocally a solid performance but the singer herself might be a bit too low key.
5. Marlous
Marlous, coached by Corry Konings, is the last of the Dutch Eurovision hopefuls. The arrangement of her version will be probably be considered to be the best one, as it is very dancable with a nice beat. Marlous herself looks like she ready to hit the beach and is probably the best choice to perform these kind of Schlager songs. Both her looks and voice are a bit reminiscent to Smurfette, which might also be quite suitable, considering the composer's background. All in all, a favourite for the ticket to Oslo.
A recap of all performances is being shown, making the decision easier for the judges and the audience in the hall. Johnny Logan performs his 1980 winning song What's another year. He even forgot the lyrics despite performing the song for 30 years now...
The votes are being cast. Sieneke and Loeks both get two points from the jury but the vote sof the audience goes to Vinzzent. Therefore it is up to Pierre Kartner to choose the winner. He first refuses to choose the winner but then goes for Sieneke.
Related polls
- The Netherlands decided: How much do you like Ik be verliefd (Sha la lie)?
- esctoday.com National Final Awards 2010: Best PERFORMANCE not to qualify in the NETHERLANDS?
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She have to give some of charm to the show! This song have to be sing with some joke in behaviour.
I think, the greatest problem is the song himself, oldfashioned and backwards. It's absolutey not interesting which version they send to Oslo, no version would have a chance to get the finale.
when push comes to shove guys
lets be honest
the best version of the song i honestly think is, and always will be the orginal demo by Pierre Kartner himself
and i think in the end he chose the version nearest to the style of his demo so i think it was a just decision, even though it did seem a bit lightharted and random
and its good to see a country send a song that is actually a very nationalistic song
in dutch
dutch instrumentation
very kitchy
@ Anyone I launched a rant
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Marlous should have been sent to olso i think maybe this catchy song could maybe sneak into the final 
very happy & cute song
oh no oh no this songs scares me a lt, and Sieneke's performance, was good vocally but the version isss soo creap, and i can't believe she is 17... i'm 30 something and i look wayyyyy toooo much younger than her... girl please shame on you
@Purple cow
Read again, I think I already wrote the answer to your question.
the audience chose the guy? WEIRD!
i don't know if it was fixed whatever happened with Pierre and being uncomfortable about the choice between Loekz and Sieneke.
@ Purple Cow hiding under the sofa
No maybe not this year because there's nothing you can do to save this mess...
But I have seen in the past though...
anyway good luck or something.. I like your country and people so you deserve some luck I guess 
Time for toilet! I guess it might be the weakest entry by far.
Forgot to add the crucial sentence - 'complaining most about our own entry'
@New in Town
Well are the Dutch fans complaining anyway? No, they aren't. The people are always complaining.. in fact this year we are ourselves the ones who are complaining most, including our entire population this time.
Is this 2010 or 1967? The Dutch don't seem to know the difference!
First time I heard about this, I thought it was a viral, a hoax. But it appeared to be real. Well, in ESC everything is possible, so..
Listening to the 5 candidates, I heard only one who was really self-confident and singing nearly without fault, and that was the chosen version. So I guess the coiche is okay.
I think that after scaling the ESC to our national dutch-schlager artists, it will be interesting if this song gets through to the final. A reason why we might get points is the nice backing sound (the pipes from amsterdam) and the self confident good singing nice girl. If she can do that in oslo, it might get through. And lets be honest, we want Netherlands in the Final after year, special this year when some commercial station is doing a song-contest on the same time. Of course, ESC is much better then stupid Angela Groothuizen!!!
Netherlands is one of those countries who have no reason at all to complain about their results and eastern/diaspora voting.
The last good entry Netherlands send was 2000, I also enjoyed 2006 for some reason (although I know most people didn't) and now this thing!
Start take this contest serious before complaining.
No wonder Anouk will NEVER agree again, you should have let her enter when there was still a chance she actually would agree... now the reputation is just too low.
Pierre Kartner wanted to flip a coin to decide the winner. Can you believe it?
He was unhappy to make the choice because he found them equally good. But he had to make a choice, and he was angry that he was not allowed to flip the coin I guess.
I think if he had flipped the coin, EBU would have started serious investigations...
@Laila
But do you support the way it was chosen? That's the most unfair way ever.. The guy just said a random name, I don't think you understand Dutch but he was like 'Whatever - SIENEKE!' And that throw away hand move of him .. it said enough. This was not democratic, has never been democratic.. and we should be boycotted
pure crap... atm im a shamed to be dutch...
I think Pierre preferred Peggy.
No no no Jesper there's only one banana republic in Europe and it's Italy, as we say in italy, the missing ones are always wrong, and believe me living here makes you really think that this is a banana republic. Anyway Finland has choosen something very finnish and Netherlands something very dutch, it sounds like a dutch amusment park
@Dutch people
Stop apologizing for the song - it is better than Glennis and Edsilia and you didn't apologize then.
I am happy Sieneke won instead of Loekz. Pierre made a good choice, lol. They should have had televoting instead though.
Two jurors choose Sieneke, and two jurors choose Loekz. The public choose Vinzzent, so Pierre had to make the decision. And he didn't want to. He even suggested to throw a coin.
In the end I think it was the best decision. With the "draaiorgel" it sounds very Dutch, and with this song that is maybe best. Stay true to your roots. But frankly I don't care how this will end in Oslo.
i dont think we will see netherlands this year in the final.. but
the best of this night is Marlous
Vinzzent was the only more or less good for me... with great backing singers.
Anyway, we knew we cannot make miracles with a poor song...
Very disappointing... like the final choice procedure... A real joke !
OMG Sieneke's version is boring!!! why they chose her??? 
( no energy at all! Loekz had energy and their version was somehow interesting and could have attracted some votes from televoting.
So was Pierre just dragging it out or was he genuinely unhappy with the choice he was being given?
He seems quite angry when he eventually chose! Could somebody tell me what on earth just happened?
Drama. Still better then Norway.
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