{"id":3435,"date":"2016-01-13T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2016-01-14T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:22:30","slug":"onze-experts-over-kick-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/eurosong2016\/onze-experts-over-kick-the-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Our experts have to say about &#8217; &#8216; Kick the Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">This week let us two music experts the five <em>eurosong<\/em>-listen to songs and reviewing. Every day may you of showbiz journalist Jelle Banerjee and music reviewer Jon Vella a critical view on the potential entries.\u00a0Today: Amaryllis Uitterlinden and her <em>Kick the Habit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3386\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3386\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zes-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"zes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zes-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zes.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\"><\/a>Jelle Brans, journalist the latest news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poor Amaryllis. The girl has been all about 48 years or something thereabouts to the road, and yet to them in this type of crochet matches coming into Office to her musical where to can wear out. Chapeau so for courage and perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>We write also <em>Kick the Habit<\/em> yet. Production, there were some <strong>nice flourishes<\/strong> to this song, with a distinctive violin part, cute bells and a chorus immediately meezingbaar. About halfway through the song unfortunately falls a bit flat. To in Tom Helsen-terms to stay: she went for singing the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Amaryllis promises by next week a striking, dramatic act; something we also would expect at this number. It is also the only thing that can save her. Only seems to have cast the child itself wrong. Amaryllis is the <strong>trippy flower girl<\/strong>, with the lovely angelic voice and ditto look. So we doubt whether they can credibly himself into a<em> no fucks given<\/em>-diva. But secretly thumbs we that the hair works: during this number geb\u00e9urde at least something on the stage. Our <strong>personal favorite<\/strong>, against my better judgement.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vierenhalf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3438\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3438\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vierenhalf-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vierenhalf\" width=\"158\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vierenhalf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vierenhalf-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Vierenhalf.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\"><\/a>Dennis Van Goethem, music reviewer Het nieuwsblad<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear friends, the miracles are not yet out of the world. For the first time since times immemorial has a <em>eurosong<\/em>-candidate its own weapons forged, which is unique in this dystopia of predictable pop anthems. But then stops also the contribution of Amaryllis Uitterlinden to this race. Her song is <em>Kick The Habit<\/em> but so-so, her stage presence a <strong>pastiche on Florence Welch<\/strong>. In the series she does fit though, as these five candidates are all in the same bed sick. But the symptoms \u2013 creativity on the back burner and lack of its own face \u2013 the hardest Act on at Amaryllis.<\/p>\n<p>Strange, because the Antwerp has the most stripes on her credit. Although they coasted to the side of high peaks \u2013 trembles trembles \u2013 <strong>Ozark Henry<\/strong>, the most senior person this <em>eurosong<\/em> the gray mouse. Needed this motley gang of promo girls and poster boys <em>FC the champions<\/em> , was Amaryllis Doortje: a faded appearance, including sheep laugh. Wegzappen that trade, play a game of curling in the Canadian amateur series seems to us more fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>Agreement,<em> Kick The Habit<\/em> is not the worst song and even has something that looks like a<strong> catchy chorus<\/strong>. But that bring to you by after a round or five. And thus don&#8217;t by in this little world. This song further excels in mediocrity: sticky lyrics, wrong melancholy strings and a sometimes false voice. Also, how embarrassing Amaryllis wooden on the buhne was about to shuffle. <em>Kick The Habit<\/em> not invites into a voluptuous seduction dance, and would drown in Sweden inglorious between the usual bombasme and violence. A <strong>good attempt<\/strong> of the experienced candidate, just wide gebuisd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fitvids-video\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube\"><a class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CdopC69cS44\" video-title=\"Eurosong 2016 - Amaryllis: Kick the habit\" title=\"Play Video &quot;Eurosong 2016 - Amaryllis: Kick the habit&quot;\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#000\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CdopC69cS44<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two showbiz journalists listen with a critical ear &#8216; Kick the Habit &#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[873,784,254,1071,1171,1156,1088,19],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurosong2016","tag-amaryllis","tag-amaryllis-uitterlinden","tag-eurosong","tag-eurovisie","tag-florence-welch","tag-kick-the-habit","tag-ozark-henry","tag-songfestival"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}