Netherlands – The Dutch national broadcaster TROS has announced today that the participants in the national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 will be announced on January 5. Originally the competitors were supposed to be revealed in the “first weeks of December”. According to TROS the amount of entries submitted went way beyond what they expected and in order to assess all the songs thoroughly more time would be needed. In total over 500 submissions were made.
This year the selection will be produced by John DeMol who is the mastermind behind television shows such as “Big Brother” and “The Voice of...”
Last year the Netherlands failed for the seventh consecutive time to qualify from the semi-final with the popular band “The 3Js”. They even came last in their semi with only 19 points.
Here is their entry “Never Alone“:
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“participants in the national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011” I think you mean 2012 ;).
This is a great problem for the Netherlands to have – here’s hoping for an exciting NF and a great entry to bring them into the Final in Baku!
of course ^^ I had the same problem last year… Hopefully it’s 2012 soon and I won’t be confused no more ^^
John de Mol ehm…I’m sure will be one of finalist from The voice candidate. It’s ok…!
I really wanted 3Js to pass the final, but no it didn’t :( For me nothing was wrong with this song
I am happy many applied for the next NF, so now I just hope they will pick a good and pass.
Best of luck Netherlands
A Dutch friend told me that this had been submitted, I hope it makes the final cut. It’s in Frisian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8xj4B9DOuI
thanks for the link, some part of the song sounds like they were singing Danish :)
but I didnt like the song, its very ordinary one
I’ve got a few more links that were submitted, no word on who’s making the final list, but here’s a taste of what’s been mailed
http://soundcloud.com/songfestival/la-the-voices-nothing-can-stop Toggie and Shevek will LOVE this :P
I like the last song “the smell of happy songs”.
LOVE it! And a song in Frisian would be sooo great!
The list of entries being made public is endless so I’m not writing any articles until it’s been trimmed down :x
Ooops, didn’t mean to make a face that’s so angry…
haha ^^ I never thought you could ^^
Netherlands is easily my least favorite esc country of the past 10 years, along with the Uk