A little in love (with André Hazes)

I just maneuvered my car into the speed trap at Vinkeveen when my best friend called. Did I have anything to do that evening? Nothing big or exciting, except some Netflix (on Saturday night). Did I want to go with her to André Hazes in Ahoy? Uuuuh, yes of course. So I quickly took my boating license exam, which I passed, celebrated my mother's birthday, and went straight to Dré.

It is a formula 

You need to know that Annick and Tessa has a bit of a crush on him. Actually, let's drop the bit, because at the Friends of Amstel they were swaying like a bunch of schoolgirls to Leef. I didn't have this. Until Saturday. Through Ahoy, I too became a little in love with André. The nerves at the first song, how he really got a bit upset when the Hazes lookalike wasn't in his place but was getting beer, his pretty nice moves, the ‘no guts no glory’ attitude. It's a kind of formula, every five minutes more André makes you a little more in love.

Not my genre 

I do wonder how that can be. Lotte suddenly felt warm from Jay-Z after his concert with Beyoncé in the ArenA, even though she had never looked at the man like that before. And I had it with André in Ahoy. While, how do you say that, in every way he is normally not my genre. The musician a.k.a. the artist seems to have a intoxicating effect during a performance. Sometimes there are even special medical teams ready at concerts for fainting fans. No worries, I was just a little in love and intrigued that evening and it didn't come close to screaming or passing out.

The sexual strategy 

Charles Darwin also noticed the phenomenon and found an answer. Music seems to be a sexual strategy. Frogs and deer and even rhesus monkeys (!) seem to do it to attract the opposite sex. So basically, music is simply a kind of call and you feel attracted to the artist as a (in this case) woman. So we can't help it, it's André Hazes' sexual strategy there in Ahoy and the venue was sold out three times, so it works. Furthermore, music has the most effect on your emotions, which seems to be a neurological fact, and voilà: there you have your (I) crush on André Hazes. Apparently. And I even thought it was because of his smooth dance moves.

By the way, André will be in Ahoy again in 2020, on October 31, and that just happens to be my birthday, so now you know where I'm celebrating it.