Roxy Dekker has only just started, but major Dutch artists such as Antoon already want to work with her. That’s where the hit came Satisfyer from, which already went viral on TikTok. Yet she doesn’t like to be known as a ‘TikTok artist’.
“It’s indescribable what’s happening,” says Dekker about the success of the song Satisfyer, which has been in the top 10 of Spotify in the Netherlands since its release. The song scored even better in the first weeks than her summer hit Anne-Fleur Holiday, which has now been listened to more than eleven million times on Spotify. “My dream is really coming true. It’s hard to realize that it’s all real.”
Satisfyer started for eighteen-year-old Dekker with a phone call from Antoon. “He congratulated me on the success of my previous single and immediately asked to go into the studio together. I was very surprised and I was really jumping after hanging up.”
Antoon still had a song that he had worked on with singer Maan. She did not release the song after all and Antoon thought it would be something for Dekker. “I wasn’t completely convinced, because it was really a Maan song. We changed the song and made it completely Roxy. After that, the whole team was so enthusiastic.”
Maan sent Dekker another message after hearing her version. “She said she hoped it would bring me a lot. That was also a moment, because I am a big fan of hers. I have seen several of her concerts.”
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Roxy Dekker – Satisfyer
‘I was almost crying in bed from the tension’
The expectations for Satisfyer were highly tense. “That created a lot of pressure. I had confidence in it, but I almost cried in bed from the tension of whether it would really be well received.”
Dekker didn’t have to wait long, because as soon as she shared a fragment of the song on TikTok, it was picked up en masse. “When that first TikTok didn’t go normally, I could breathe a sigh of relief. I pushed through myself that the part with the text “Houdini, I’m disappearing, poof“had to come in. Everyone on TikTok ran with that, so funny.”
The first TikTok video she made with Satisfyer, was an immediate hit. Yet Dekker has not discovered a formula for success on social media. “I don’t actually understand TikTok itself. I don’t think anyone does. I don’t take it all that seriously and maybe that works well.”
‘I’m trying to get out of that box’
Dekker, who participated in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2019 as part of girl group 6TIMES, was afraid that Anne-Fleur Holiday would give her a certain image. In that song she sings about the holiday of a stereotypical girl from the Randstad with a wink. “I had that song for a year, but I didn’t release it yet because I was afraid that people would take the song too seriously. And that’s exactly why not me as an artist.”
Dekker wants to make “more serious music”, which is less focused on gimmicks. “Look, Satisfyer (named after a sex toy, ed.) also has a gimmick, but it sounds different. I have collaborations coming up that will hopefully help me be seen more as a real artist. I am now mainly known as a TikTok artist. That makes sense, because things are going fast on TikTok, but it of course starts with making the song. That is sometimes forgotten and I think that is a shame. That was the danger Anne-Fleur Holidaythat you are pushed into a box. I’m trying to figure that out now.”
Until then, Dekker also enjoys the performances she does in student houses. “Students sing along the most of all. I am received by my peers as if I were a celebrity. That is bizarre. It is that I have a fear of contamination and that student houses are often so dirty. If they tidy up a bit more, I would like to come there more often.” , she laughs.
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Roxy Dekker – Anne-Fleur Holiday
2023-11-27 04:02:00
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