A Dutch scholar told Radio 1 without mercy that the King's Song is a bad song, full of grammatical errors and faltering sentence constructions. "In the 40 lines of verse there were at least 25 errors," he had calculated.
Despite all good intentions, if something is not good, it is not good. This also applies to products and services. You can polish away a cosmetic error during an update, but you (hopefully) cannot get away with a structurally bad product. Choose quality above all and your product will sell itself.
4. Bashing is fun!
Whether it's about the weather, football, television programs or the boss: we Dutch people like to complain and have become very good at it over the centuries. It also creates a bond, finding something terrible together and expressing it as wittily as possible. Admittedly, John Ewbank's creation is also a Groene Draeck of a song, so then you make complaining easy.
Things haven't been going well for SBS6 for a while now, actually since the moment John de Mol and Sanoma invested a lot of money in it. Now, most programs aren't worth writing home about, but there are also some that are actually quite good, but aren't allowed to be by the public. So they are being criticized on forums and social media and the camping channel gets the years of shouting ("This Is The Program That The Whole Of The Netherlands Is Waiting For!") like a boomerang in its face. Complaining is a popular sport and as a marketer, try changing public opinion.
5. Bashing is happening faster than ever on the internet
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“With all of us, with all of us,” Henny uae phone data Huisman once sang. How nice it is to be together. Watching football together, going to Amsterdam together on Queen's Day and finding the King's song stupid. Well, the latter is not so difficult, but there was a difference between finding it and saying it. Thanks to social media, that is no longer the case.
Within no time, petitions and alternative versions appeared, columnists started talking about 'stoning' and 'old-fashioned dragons' and Twitter users fell over themselves to bury the song even deeper. Ignoring it didn't seem to be an option on Friday afternoon.
Football coaches often talk about the corner where the blows fall and on the internet that corner is bigger than ever. If you get caught up in it, you can hardly get out and the storm breaks loose in all its fury, rightly or wrongly. What is wise in that case? Ignore, react or something in between? Who knows, may say.
6. People find their opinion very important
“Fifteen million people”, Fluitsma and van Tijn once sang in a song that was collectively embraced (and was covered for the RTL thank-you song 'Queen of all people '). There are now a few more and they all have their opinion. And there is something in the Dutch that has to be shared right away.
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