Waylon is pissed off after racist remarks about dancers

In case you missed it: Waylon was on RTL Late Night yesterday to talk about the Song Festival. The whole event took on quite a sharp undertone when Humberto asked why the singer was boycotting De Telegraaf and the AD in Lisbon.

“Things were said following the first rehearsal that had to do with racism and that affected me greatly,” said Waylon. “I read in De Telegraaf, and then they hide behind reactions from others, that it seemed like I was a lord being worshipped by four slaves. And more of that kind of stuff. Also things that were even less nuanced, let’s just say it out loud: what are those monkeys doing around him.”

The comments affected not only Waylon, but according to him also his dancers. “Those guys were terrified that they would have to go home, that it was over. You sow unrest within a team, that’s something the media can do, determining the temperature in a country.”

Waylon is still fuming about the fact that he is just a ‘simple farmer from Apeldoorn’ who doesn’t want to pretend, but does believe immensely in what his team has created. “We tried to create something together that could really connect. It’s such a shame that that connection is immediately destroyed. I can hardly find my words. I just don’t understand it.”

Check out the fragment here back.