{"id":88524,"date":"2018-07-25T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=88524"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:02","slug":"rotterdamse-studentenband-scoort-nummer-1-hit-in-frankrijk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2018\/07\/25\/rotterdamse-studentenband-scoort-nummer-1-hit-in-frankrijk\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam-based student band scores No 1 hit in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to France\u2019s football team, a 24-year-old hit by Rotterdam\u2019s own Hermes House Band is currently ranked No 1 in the French top-40. The hit in question is the party version of Gloria Gaynor\u2019s \u2018I Will Survive\u2019, whose \u2018la-la-la\u2019 bit is particularly popular with Les Bleus<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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On 16 July, the team\u2019s coach, all the players and even President Macron himself sang the song by the Rotterdam-based student band at the tops of their lungs in front of the \u00c9lys\u00e9e, the French President\u2019s palace, where the footballers had just been honoured for their FIFA world title. Mark Snijders, a former member of the Hermes House Band, could not believe his luck. \u201cThis is happening to us because of the French football team. And the best thing about it is that an entire country is singing our little student ditty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I Will Survive\u2019 has been a hit all summer, as it was in 1997 and 1998 (when France also won the World Cup). \u201c<\/em>It was the world title that did it. Everyone in caf\u00e9s, streets and squares in France was going la-la-la,\u201d Snijders told us.<\/p>\n

The Hermes House Band released the song in 1994, having paid for the release itself. A few years later it was a No 1 hit in the Netherlands. \u201cIt didn\u2019t become an international hit until a couple of years later. And despite the fact that we had a few other hits abroad, we were never able to get a repeat of that first No 1 ranking.\u201d Until now, that is, thanks to Les Bleus<\/em> singing the song on a very public occasion.<\/p>\n

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