Roxeanne Hazes has a new single: No sorry. On the stage of MatthijsContinues she played the song last night and talked about the deeper meaningbehind the song. Where there is always a lot to do about her brother AndréHazes, especially after the controversial documentary that came out this week,people have a lot less to complain about Roxeanne. In fact, the viewers athome praise the singer.
Matthijs Continues is a BNNVARA program on Saturday evenings. VeteranMatthijs van Nieuwkerk presents the program, in which music, humor and movingconversations are central. Yesterday, among others, BLØF, Geike Arnaert,Roxeanne Hazes, Manon Spierenburg, MY BABY and Ronald Snijders performed theirmusical arts.
Van Nieuwkerk thinks it’s a beautiful record
Daughter Hazes says that she is doing very well. She is having a good time atthe B este Singers behind it, has dived back into the studio and is going ontour. And then there’s the new single. “I think it’s a really beautifulrecord,” says Van Nieuwkerk. He says that he has always been a fan of hermusic.
“Perhaps I’m imagining this, because André was your father, but André’s bluesis in your songs,” thinks Van Nieuwkerk. “The pain, the melancholy.” Hazes:„It is funny that you say that. I think if I’ve inherited something from him…I’ve inherited a lot of things from him: things in my face or charactertraits. But the melancholy of his life, I think that is a bit the Hazes DNAthat is in me. So I also notice that I find a lot in my own songs.”
Hazes: ‘Song is about gaslighting’
The singer wrote No sorry together with Kraantje Pappie „I wanted to make asong about gaslighting. A theme that is not yet discussed much in theNetherlands,” she says. Van Nieuwkerk asks if she can explain this term „gaslighting actually means emotional manipulation. That’s something I’vebeen through quite a lot around me, so I wanted to make a song about it.”huhhe is not an angry song according to the Hazes scion. „It’s actually a veryhopeful song, about someone who comes out of that and finds the strengthagain.”
“I will be a victim or a hero, but I am not the perpetrator,” Hazes finds themost beautiful sentence from the song. „This is how I express how a_gaslighter t_ work goes. If you address someone about their actions, such as:’You are hurting me with this or I don’t like this’, you will often noticethat someone says: ‘Yes, but you are doing this and how can you get over this?tell me.’ So that person is always the victim, the hero, but never theperpetrator.”
Bløf frontman Paskal Jakobsen recognizes a lot in the song. “It really hit mehard,” he says. “But that may also be because I also have people with atheatrical personality disorder in my very close environment. And you justhave to deal with that. It arrives.”
Viewers are fans of Roxeanne Hazes
The viewers at home have a lot of praise for Hazes. The song is popular and sois the singer herself. “Once again, very impressed with Roxeanne Hazes. A topsinger with a unique sound who always manages to amaze me,” writes one viewer.The comparison with other family members is also never far away. “That Roxanneis the best, nicest and smartest in that Hazes nest.”
@RoxeanneHazes:> what a woman! Own path, eye for her own story but not ‘living on it’,> respectful to family, never provoked to gossip and silent in storms, and yet> so grown into a woman of her own, strong and showing vulnerability!> #matthijsgoing> on> #life> doll> #blues>> — Tan tan (@SusanH79) October 23,> 2022
Roxeanne Hazes…>> Didn’t like it at all before…>> But what a nice young woman that has become who can also sing.>> Would that brother Hazes also dry up nicely?😉#Matthijsgoing> on>> — M.Dentz (@marijkedentz) October 22,> 2022
What a lovely woman Roxanne Hazes is, and what a beautiful song! > Such a shame that she is always addressed (here) to her family, what can she> do about it.. ️#matthijsgoing> on>> — LammyGr (@LammyGr) October 22,> 2022
Funny that you after that> #Hazes> docu suddenly understands exactly who is in which camp and why. Beautiful> song by Roxeanne. #matthijsgoing> on>> — Jolanda (@jeeveehaa) October 22,> 2022
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