No artist likes it and yet it happens to them all: they are put in a music booth. Snelle is trying his hand at his fourth album Twenty eight to break away from the expectations his audience has of how he should sound.
“My mother didn’t call me Dwars Bos for nothing,” Snelle, whose real name is Lars Bos, told NU.nl. “I just get very upset when people expect a certain direction from me. When I am told exactly what to do, I don’t do it.”
Fast, known for hits like Stay sleeping in Madly in love, started his career as a rapper and some fans find it difficult to let go of that period. He is regularly told that he should make music “like before”. “But that was in the past. I can’t do much with that. It’s nice that they like what I did then, but that’s not what I want to do now.”
What does Snelle want to sound like? Twenty eight? “I’m increasingly confused about which box I should fit into. My songs are characterized by the lyrics and not by a specific genre. This record contains a trap/hip-hop-like song, rock, but also a piano song.”
The artist thinks he has grown, especially vocally Twenty-four released. “I’m still not the best singer and I never will be. But I have really started singing better. I have also invested more time in that.”
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Snelle & Thomas Acda – Rock ‘n Roll in the Netherlands
‘Songs are taken from the life of a 28-year-old’
His songs are about everyday things. Just like Adele, Snelle names his album after his age for the second time. “Because the songs are taken from the life of a 28-year-old,” the singer explains.
“I think the things that make me happy are not that different from any other twenty-something,” says Snelle. “I notice that I run into the same things and I actually like that. Okay, I’m known, so some things come easier to me and other things are more difficult. But it also depends on how much weight you put on it.”
He is therefore not concerned with how he is portrayed in the media or what image there is of him among the Dutch public. “I have long since stopped Googling myself or looking up myself on social media. Then you don’t unconsciously form people’s opinions.”
You won’t soon hear Snelle sing a song about what it’s like to be on tour. He sings about winter blues and how bourgeois and not rock ‘n roll his life is. “Sometimes as a band we make something that is fun for us, but not for the outside world and then we don’t release it.”
‘My mother shed a tear at the song’
Op 28 Snelle does not shy away from giving an insight into his family life. The singer wrote the song At This Dan especially for his mother. “Tupac also made a song for his mother, so I had to do that too. Shameless,” the singer laughs. “Kraantje Pappie too, by the way, that might be a more appropriate comparison.”
The song took shape after the singer spent a weekend in Barcelona with his mother. “Just to celebrate that we are mother and son.” He played her the song for the first time the day before this interview. “I had her in my studio to play the entire album. As is the case with mothers, of course she shed a tear. She really loved it.”
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Quick – At This Dan
2023-11-17 12:42:00
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