Since Saturday evening was held the first place of the notorious ‘Five Chair Challenge’ in the ‘X Factor’, it was Oh Country soloists of the 23 who stood for the shot, as there were selected the five soloists, who went on to bootcamps.
It took Michael Dandanell the stage with great confidence and told initial that he at the request of the Oh state had chosen to sing a number of the Kim Larsen – instead of the song ‘Forever’ by Danish Volbeat, which is actually originally the plan was.
But he would apparently never have done.
in the Middle of its external selected, Oh Land: to stop him on the grounds that his voice sounded too much like Kim Larsen. Therefore, she asked him – somewhat surprisingly – to sing a second number.
Fortunately, bar the fruit, and Michael got the chance and a chair. It lasted only a moment, for later in the program, the chair was taken from him for the benefit of any of the other participants.
– It was you who wanted me to sing Kim Larsen, said Michael Dandanell addressed to Oh Land, while he subsequently said the following of his exit:
– I am disappointed. I should have kept me more to my own gut feeling. But I took the advice from Oh Land to sing Kim Larsen, he said, while Oh Land found that she indeed had asked him to sing Kim Larsen, but not to sound like him.
Michael is definitely not happy with the fact that he was stopped during his performance. Photo: Lasse Lagoni /TV2
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En Ekstra Bladet prisoners Michael Dandanell over the phone prior to Saturday’s broadcast, he does not hide that he to this day still feel very unfairly treated by Oh Land.
– It was killing the king open. This is what I feel. I went in a trap, and it was stupid. I should never have listened to Oh Land. I should have done, what I felt was the right thing, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
According to Michael Dandanell, he tried to convince Oh Country, that it was not a good idea, that he sang and Kim Larsen.
Before the workshop we received an email that we should sing something, that could get time in the audience, and when I usually play with my band, is ‘Forever’ one of the songs that really make it. So I thought that I should sing it, he says, and continues:
– For the workshop, I say so Oh Land, that I would like to sing it, and she asks the critical, which is why I would like to sing the song. She says, however, that she likes that I sing in Danish, and that I should sing something Kim Larsen. I said directly to her, that I knew not whether I dare it. There is a very big berøringsangst compared to Kim Larsen, because he means so much to many danes, so I didn’t feel like it. She was, however, agree with himself that it would be really good. I doubted, but chose anyway to go along with it to the end because I thought that she knows what she is talking about.
According to the Oh Land was Michael too much like Kim Larsen. Photo: Lasse Lagoni/TV2
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Therefore, he felt also well and truly taken for a ride, when he got to know that Oh Land didn’t like what she heard during the ‘Five Chair Challenge’.
She knew how it sounded, for she had heard me sing Kim Larsen prior to the workshop, so I felt really røvrendt and stabbed in the back, and I think it was really disrespectful, that I was stopped in the middle of it all. I was really angry. Give me a law to make the number complete, for I also shows respect for the judges, and so I expect you to do the same with me. But it seems I was something damned mess, he says, and continues:
I lost really completely the desire to be there, and I was totally confused when I was stopped. I think that Oh Land should have given me a more fair chance, and sent me on, so I could prove that I have a good sound. However, when it is said that, it’s the ultimate pat on the back to get to know, that one sounds like Kim Larsen, says Michael, who is daily among the second player in a Kim Larsen kopiband.
Oh Land thought, ultimately, that she had chosen the right team to go far in the ‘X Factor’. Photo: Henning Hjorth
– Oh Land said it here, finally, that she really had asked you to sing Kim Larsen, but not like Kim Larsen. What do you think of the announcement?
– I will give It not much. I have sung in ten years, so she needs to look away from it. I’m not a polished diamond, so I think that I should have had the chance. But I went in a trap, and it just was not smart, he says.
– But I was really sorry in the situation, and it was my little son Louis also. I think already that there was a strange mood when I took the stage, and it went so then.
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– if you withdraw, that you asked up in the program in retrospect?
– I do not regret that I put up. I walk away with a raised brow, and then I play on with my band. Now it went to, and one has to just respect and move on, and luckily I have full time in my career today.
After Saturday’s ‘Five Chair Challenge’ sees Oh Land hold out, in the following way: Nicklas Mietke, John Obhasa P. Clausen, Ilona Mihaela Artene, Kaspar ‘Kali’ Andersen and Elina Sutinen.
Ekstra Bladet has been in touch with Oh Land, who has the following to say about Michael’s criticism:
‘It to follow a piece of advice, is not the same as to secure a place in the live. So would all those who could follow a afford the go ahead. It is a tough competition, and someone goes ahead and others do not’, she writes in an email, and continues:
‘the Interruption was about to give him a chance to. And only because of the extra chance he got a chair. And so there is no more soup to cook on the nail’, says the judge.
