Workshop Netherlands

  • Exercise Dutch Pop music

    Almost everyone loves music in the Netherlands, but with more than 17 million inhabitants you get a lot of different tastes in music. Some people love classical music, some like rock music, a lot of people love pop music, there are people that only listen to English music, others prefer Dutch music and there are people who like all sorts of music. The Spotify app has over 4 million users in the Netherlands, Spotify is a digital music, podcast, and video streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and other content from artists all over the world, the app has around 113 users worldwide, 5 million Dutchies are part of it. At the end of every year Spotify releases a list of the top ten of the most listened music artists per country. You could see this list as a list that names the ten most popular music artists in a country.

    According to Spotify some of the most streamed music artists worldwide in 2019 were Drake, Post Malone, Dua Lipa and Ariana Grande. These artists also do really well in the Netherlands, but in the Dutch version of Spotify’s top ten most listened artists list we see that there were almost only Dutch pop, dance and rap artists on the list. But what makes the Dutch pop music so popular nowadays? Some Dutch artist even have songs that got popular outside the Netherlands. You might heard of Martin Garrix a famous Dutch DJ, Mr. Probz who got popular with his song Waves or our Eurovision song contest winner 2019 Duncan Laurence with his song Arcade. 

    Exercise

    For this exercise about Dutch music you are going to do some quick research about Dutch music artists that you know or that you might have heard from. You can work by yourself or in duo’s. If you Don’t know any Dutch artist you can pick a name from the list.

    The final product of your quick research is a mini essay about your chosen artist, make use of photos you found online and tell us in your mini essay who this artist is, How got this artist famous and what you like about him or her. Listen to songs on YouTube and share you opinion about the artist in your mini essay, look up the artist on google and find your information about your chosen artist. You might find some funny facts about the artist that you can share. Be creative! You’ve got 30 minutes! So let’s get to work!

    Upload your final product in Twinspace.

    List of Dutch artists you can use:

    • Duncan Laurence
    • Martin Garrix
    • Mr Probz
    • Afrojack
    • Maan
    • Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
    • Bizzey
    • Lil Kleine
    • Armin van Buuren
    • Tiesto
    • Yellow Claw
    • Within temptation
    • Andre Hazes
    • Golden earring
    • Nicky RomerO