OG3NE

I thought the thread was going to be about random vehicle registration numbers

Yes indeed, that clip is in the list too!

M4 YBE
W3 CLD
R3 PLY
W1 TH
C4RR3G

Yeah OG3NE is good. They also did a well received theatre tour. Sold out everywhere.

And there is a lot of good Dutch music! But whatever you do dont go and listen to the music of Lil Kleine or you dont want to listen to Dutch music ever again. :-P

No way haha.

As a coach in The Voice of Holland he's quite funny though. Cool guy, bad music.

The Andrew Sisters reborn for our time.

I listened to three from the list in the OP. They're at best okay, at worst quite dull. They're skilled singers but the vocal style and the songs themselves are too blandly generic for me, and the voices quite clinical. But I recognise it as a type of stuff that's generally very popular.

I'd be interested to see what the other good Dutch music is that was mentioned a few posts earlier if you can suggest any recommendations timothyd .

I've no idea who Lil Kleine is but the photo above looks like everything about it has been carefully teased into place at a molecular level by a combination of software and business meetings.

I've linked to here from a general music thread I started yesterday.

You can say a lot about Og3ne, but their songs aren't that diverse imo. For me they all sound samey. But truth be told, I think they are good, but I'm not really a fan.

Backdrifter, I'm afraid that I'm not the best person to ask that, since I'm mostly into hiphop.
But if you ask me, here some examples of Dutch music I like:

De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig:
Anouk:
Anouk:
Blof:
Doe Maar:
Spinvis:   

And my personal favorite, the late Maarten van Roozendaal:


And just for reference, Lil Kleine:


And one of Holland's biggest solo stars, Marco Borsato:

That is the cool thing about taste in music, it is very personal. I really believe it is all about what people recognize as beautiful. I also believe that certain factors while growing up play a very big part in this.

In the case of OG3NE many of their choices are so extremely musical and complex, that I really believe that it flies over some people's heads. It might be an unrecognisable blur for some who grew up with, let's say, only rap music, or rock.

To me, Lil Kleine is an embarrassment. I truly fail to understand why he even gets attention. He is an unintelligent kid who has a hit called "alcohol and drugs" and he speaks those words a few times and jumps up and down while doing it. Meanwhile he is in the media a lot, seen in fights with the police, audiences throwing glasses of beer to him, in interviews he says he only wants to be rich, etc. This actually has nothing to do with music. But maybe it just flies over my head because the way I grew up and my worldview and music view are formed by completely different things.