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Exclusive: 3JS for the Netherlands!
Yesterday morning, popular radio DJ Giel Beelen spread the rumor that 3JS will represent the Netherlands next year at the Eurovision Song Contest, but the broadcaster didn't want to confirm anything - neither did one of the bandmembers. Nevertheless, an internal source within the broadcaster confirmed to us that the rumor turned out to be true.
3JS is a Dutch band from Volendam, which consists of Jan Dulles, Jaap Kwakman and Jaap de Witte. The band was founded in 2002 and its name is based on the first letter of the bandmembers' names. Their debut album in 2007 Watermensen was a great succes and brought them national recognition. In that same year they received a 'Zilveren Harp' - a Dutch music prize that is awarded to emerging talent. Another 2 albums followed: Kamers van m'n hart (2008) and Dromers en dwazen (2010).
Today, Radio DJ Daniel Dekker will officially confirm 3JS' participation in his radio show 'Gouden Uren'. The confirmation is expected to be on around 11.00 am and all further plans for both the 'Nationaal Songfestival' and the Eurovision Song Contest will be revealed as well.
You can listen to 3JS' latest single Geloven in het leven below:
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Norwegian bloke
Well, Serbia, Armenia, Moldova, B&H definitely not! 
What a stupid comment Galantis Loukakis
Yeah... And what is a modern country?
@galantis
for "aged people"? okay... and how old are you?
I can't understand why a modern country such as the Netherlands sends songs for "aged people" and a bit passe. I mean the image of a modern country should be modern with a modern sound.Sorry about that, this year the song and the whole stuff was simply sh.t. Next year...i doubt once more. galantis. athens
I am sorry, but Sieneke's song was sh.t.
Bad entry and a Big BIg Mistake, slovenia and finland gave her the most points".
@leo
stupid comment, I'm so sorry.
sieneke achieved the best dutch result for six years (with always english "modern" entries) and missed the semi-top10 by only four points due to unfair and bad-luck-based circumstances: if she had participated in the 1st semi-final on tuesday or if all countries had voted in her semi-final, she would have gotten in.
as ya said, it's time to represent the netherlands and nothing else.
As long as the Netherlands sing in dutch, they won't be succesfull at the eurovision, especially when it's the way of music that the Dutch broadcaster TROS (nationalistic old way) wants to have it. That has nothing to do with modern music.
I have also listened to some songs of the 3js and it's not really great (type of music that's not for europe), won't qualify for the final. It's a pitty, because the netherlands have such a great international music scene and modern (tiesto, elize, liz-kay, armin van buuren, within temptation, Ferry Corsten, Anouk, Esmee Denters etc.etc.) And i am also convinced that it's only the choice of the dutch broadcaster TROS to please their abonnees. It must be different because you represent your country and not only the broadcaster and his abonnees. Hope and wish the dutch will bring some really international entry for eurovision in the future. They have it inside their country, big international artists, so bring it!
I liked The Dutch entries in 2010, 2008 ect. But their has never been that "OMG amazing" moment.. in a long long time. I seriously hope these guys have an awesome song. (with some English lyrics please.. Dutch is a horrible language to sing in unless your saying "Sha La Lie Sha La La La" over and over again )
The lead singer has an amazing voice. But all their songs are very slow and kinda like Irish pub songs.. (but in Dutch) I seriously hope for something more modern, techno or rock. with strong vocals and a catchy beat. That is what a boyband needs to suceed. They need to listen to songs from bands like 'The Script' for example. They could win Eurovision with ease!
@just me and my guitar..
last year there were a great many "eastern countries" giving most of their points western entries whereas those local jurys left their point in bordering areas (examples: armenia, albania, turkey, ...). however, as I already mentioned I agree that all in all it was western juries' turn to ignore other culture groups thence we had a pro-western movement of the 50/50-result and especially of the jury-only-ranking. I guess it was the other way round this year, al we can do is hope to come to know detailed lists very soon. other possibilities of comparision concerning this jury-system we still don't have so far.
the azeri incident would be an exceptional case *if* it really went that way as reported (depictions were often different and sometimes inconsistent). e.g. no armenian televoter will get in trouble if he votes for azerbaycan, or an (greek-)cypriot for turkey, and so on...
in fact the israeli entry in 2009 was about the mid-east conflict: its timeliness and politically charge is hard to top indeed.
by the way i've mistaken... of course I ment "western central european countries", sry for that.
as one can read in several forums the 50/50-results are anything else than "widely accepted". otherwise there wouldn't be always huge discussions again and again even if it's not the actually thread's topic. just take a glance at the main topics (here and at eurovision.tv) and you'll see most of reactions disapprove of manipulating the public's choice by juries.
anyhow for sure there are people looking for scapegoats and excuses if the results don't come as they wished for. it's a (bad) human nature that ever hath been, still is and always will be.
but it's not about certain placings respectively if they come to someone's mind or not, it's about the main principle and a fair, as well as democratic as possible competition.
finally we send something normal i had kinda enough of all the circus
Well i think it's actually pretty good that the Netherlands send something like this to Eurovision 2011. I think it will probably do well by the juries AND by the televoters. Good luck!
and it is always the same way :
Juries vote for our favourite song --> juries save the contest
Juries vote for a song we don't like --> televoting is more objective and juries are biased..come on ! plz grow up a bit..! discuss a matter on a serious basis rather than changing your mind based on the circumstances ?
@ bjorn
for you it might be much better..not for the others..and in which way exactly are the jurie results more political than biased televote really ?
Juries have fixed quite a bit the unfairness since televote was never a representative of "different music taste" as you mention..always a regional matter with diaspora nad neighbouring vote ruling...I can't see how the juries do that anyway concering the majority of the juries vote..
This is the way how the jurys were always. In jurys in the 70s were housewives. That was also not better.
I don´t understand why people wanted the jury back anyway. Televoting is much better. And the jurys also give points to the neighbours. This year the jurys runied the results in my eyes.
And judgeing a song is always a thing of different tastes of music. Also an "expert" has things he likes and things he doesn´t like. That´s normal.
He can judge songs in ESC just like me, you and other ppl!
By his personal taste, and not with some musical criteria! 
And in all countries juries it's like that!
Here we had 5 persons in jury who all work on RTS! ts,ts,ts!
It's bad and unprofessional! 
Bjorn
Sorry but that's not enough!
That just shows ho bad new ESC jury is! It's totally unprofessional!
I don't blame Germany don't get me wrong, but whole new ESC jury, thus German jury among them!
His main profession is actor, presenter and comedian.
@ Mina X
How can you say, that the German Head of Jury never had any connections to music? Hape Kerkeling is not just a comedian, he´s also a singer. He released severel songs.
And he was also the host of three German national finals. He was the best person to choose for the head of jury.
And just wait. If everything works good, he will be the host of Eurovision next year. People in Germany love him and he loves Eurovision. That´s the best combination.
About the Dutch decision: Again a great act. The Dutch can again be proud of their singers.
I agree with CC X here!
the examples you mention (apart from the fact that most of them do not represent any notable reality if we carefully read the results of the last decade) are such a small minority compared to the biased televote..especialy the one about eastern european televote giving points to western europe (!) and juries don't is,sorry,a little more than hilarious as anyone can see the recent voting history...plus I never talked about azeri and turkish juries..but it was primarily the turkish televote who gave 40.000 gap for that entry..if you consider juries biased and that thing objective you are rather biased yourself...moreover it was the televoters who voted for armenia in azerbaijan that were arrested..so it's generally the country's problem not the juror's..they should be disqualified that's for sure for the whole of their voting sustem not their jurors only..as for turkey giving points to armenia (if 11 000 televoters are considered something important compared to the almost 60000 biased votes to safura..) there are still a lot of armenians to turkey..enough to cast this kind of votes..
As for Israel 2009 that is just your opinion and nothing more..sorry but you are not in the mind of every juror plus saying that it was voted because it had a humanistic (rather than political..ukraine 2007 was much more political..) meaning I really can't follow that..how is that related ? every country has a line to favor israeli politics ? its totally pointless...
and last for the central european countries if you refer to slovenia or hungary i would rather call them balkan friendly considering the way they vote with televoting only...
anyway the differences in the results the last 2 years are rather obvious and widely accepted..I was not the only one who protested against the biased televote after the results in 2008 2007 2006 etc...It was a general demand by the people who got tired by all that tele-politic circus.you have the right to disagree but that's the voting system..the reactions would be rather stronger if we got back to 100 % televote.if you weight the reactions you represent a minority between the fans who care about the contest..so it would better be one reacting rather than thousands..simple as that..
@just me and my guitar..
as I said I know there are national broadcasters taking the contest very seriously thence using "professionals" as well. however, it proves jury's casting is voluntary and the EBU don't care 'bout it at all.
moreover, it's ridiculous to value entertaining music by "technical criterias" the way machines could do. and even if these "professionals" have those adequate skills I doubt they vote only owing to them without any subjective influences. thus it becomes an random vote.
nonetheless commercial success never marks a song as good or bad. especially demanding and authentic songs, even national-language entries in general have a more difficult way to enter the charts.
jurors are biassed that manner they are notable persons with the task to represent the country's offical broadcaster (that is in many times connected to the politics) worthy. so it's impossible for them to vote for a hostile country without suffering consequences (however, it even never would come to their mind of course). on the other hand it's important to maintain friendships and business relationsships.
examples:
*turkish jury never gives votes to armenia, televoting doeth
*armenian jury never gives votes to azerbaycan, televoting doeth
*(greek-)cypriot jury never gives votes to turkey, televoting doeth
*last year ukrainian jury boycotted russia for interior reasons concerning national preselection
*last year central european juries gave an average of 80%-90% points to western european countries, televoting didn't
*asian and most eastern european juries gave an average of 80-90% to eastern european countries, televoting didn't
*extremely high votes for a political song (israel 2009) that placed last by public
*and so on
...
I'm sure this year we even will have a stronger bloc-voting by juries than last year... perhaps more by eastern juries (last year it was quite up to the western ones).
let's hope to see the detailed results soon.
@ CC
You judge considering only the german jury an non proffesional.But there isn't only th german jury in this contest.There were other 38 juries and most of them had music proffesionals in them.Apart from considering offensive the fact that you keep calling the jurors "corrupted" and "political" without presenting any examples concering the voting you are quite wrong about the music market factor.With the exception of Dima Bilan no russian entry had any success in the charts around the ex soviets (much less around the rest of europe..)..that's not the fact and we are all aware of that...
Good luck Netherlands, I hope this year we're going to listen a real modern and nice song from these guys..
the head-juror of the german jury in 2010 was a comedian who never had any connection to music at all
So was their esc representative
loooooooooooool
Back onto the juries again?
The point with the jury is that you are far more likely to find independence in such a small select group than you will in 100,000 random people from the general popular. For example, the jury cannot vote for country XYZ a thousand times. In fact, it's impossible. Even if there's one dodgy jury, there's 38 others to annul the impact.
Juries do a far different job, as history shows with the results. Even this year, the top 5 is totally different except for Germany as the winner. Even then, that was incredibly close with Germay only pipping Belgium, while the televote voting had Germany the runaway winner.
Yes, as long as they are independent, why not ESC fans on a jury? I'm sure the last 5 fans to post here would make an excellent jury. 
Norwegian bloke
hhahah, of course I know her performance of "Love or hate" in Telenor Arena in Norwegian X factor final! 
Mario Mir
Well maybe that's not good system for you coz you see a lot of amateurs in online NF, but I think it's better coz as you said even without it things won't change very much! Thus why not to allow foreign fans to have some fun voting in that online NF!
For me it's fun for sure and checking all songs is interesting, always can find several good for me!
That's how it works for me!
Plus later there is NF with 10 chosen songs!
And what fun I have of watching NF with 3 songs composed by same composer with not so god artists! Almost nothing!
So that's it!
@ just me and my guitar.. [61885]
They are judging music as journalists, yes. They are not random in THAT way. I think of them as random in a way like; Another fan of ESC could done an equally god joob. And no, it's not up to me at my own to say that the juries was bad. I do agree at the most of the results, but that 5 people together do an eqaully impact as for example 100,000 voters together is not the right way, I think, however I'm satisfied with their favourites or not 
BTW, lovely nick! I've just heard "Me and My Guitar" here in Sweden at the radio Fully deserved 6th place
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