Comments on: It’s Not All Like This

By: mum

mum — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:43:24 +0000

Um, I don’t know about the westvlaams…but even I could hear how different the dialect was from what you speak..like another language! And, I do wonder what the lyrics were with all the background action!

By: Heather, Queen of Shake Shake

Heather, Queen of Shake Shake — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:46:01 +0000

OMG! You don’t even have to play Dutch music backwards to hear Satan talking!

By: judie

judie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:52:02 +0000

glad you had a taste of home, I bet it helped a whole lot! it’s always nice to know that you are being taken seriously and that you do indeed have a following, so don’t ever stop your blogging because you never know who you will run into next

By: Zerilda The Superfluous Blogger

Zerilda The Superfluous Blogger — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:43:04 +0000

the second one sounded naughty.

By: Jientje

Jientje — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:23:02 +0000

I had never heard of either of them before (oops!) and I like the Spinvis song a lot. Makes me hungry for more, I love the lyrics. The second one however… ewww! I don’t think his westvlaams is representative for … westvlaams! If you want to hear Westvlaams, try Willem Vermandere. He does it for me, and after all, I am westvlaams by origin!

By: Goofball

Goofball — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:20:06 +0000

Oh but you’ve posted Arno before and Gabriel Rios and …no? Ok true, they didn’t sing in Dutch. It’s a simple fact that a lot of the Dutch lyrics represent cheesy music though as I had mentioned in my post about “Beleuvenissen Vlaams” 2 weeks ago as well.

and don’t worry about not understanding Filip Kowlier well…that counts for most of us indeed :p. But I do love the Westvlaams dialects nevertheless. It’s so cute.

do you like Axelle Red? And Bart Peeters? and (Flemish) folk groups such as Laïs and Urban Trad? Yevgueni is becoming more popular and Eva De Roovere has some good stuff as well.