Lenny Kuhr was overwhelmed with praise following her performance on Even Tot Hier on NPO1 on Saturday night. The Eindhoven singer sang a song about Louis van Gaal in the humorous program to the tune of his hit De Troubadour. “This is out of category,” wrote one fan at De Admiraal on Twitter. The snippet is spreading like wildfire on social media.
Watch Lenny Kuhr’s song about Louis van Gaal, the Admiral, here:
Lenny Kuhr is still having a good time Monday morning, at home on the couch. “Obviously it remains to be seen how it plays out if you do something like this, but everyone is really full of praise. I’ve had so many beautiful reactions.
It’s not Dutch, lurking for a counter possibility
He makes us win without shining, the admiral, Louis van Gaal
Lenny Kuhr was allowed to try twice quickly. “Very exciting. You have to be super focused to tell the story well. And also special, that you have to sing it so fresh from the pen. It was so topical. And Niels and Jeroen were nervous too. happy. ‘Great!’ they shouted.
If the Netherlands had lost to America, the wording would obviously have been different. And the presenters of the program were not entirely sure of the basic text either. “It’s quite funny, they wondered. Now I sang ‘it’s not nice’, but in an earlier lyric that was still ‘boring’, for example. And they doubted whether the line “he’s smart and we’re dumb” was brilliant or wrong.
We thought, oh why? Oh man, change that system
But he is smart and we are stupid, Admiral Louis van Gaal
Jeroen Woe and Niels van der Laan were also very enthusiastic about Lenny Kuhr’s performance. “I’ve never had such a tough guy here, they said. Live in one go.”
The creators of the program probably got the idea for the song for the admiral through the performance of Lenny Kuhr in 1974 for another national coach, Rinus Michels. “Then we went to Spain, where the orange team was in training camp. for the song The General. It was great.”
