 At a press conference on 25 November 2013 at the Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum , AVROTROS announced that DeLange and Waylon would both represent the Netherlands at the 2014 Eurovision contest , performing as a duo under the name The Common Linnets . The band 's name , taken from a songbird commonly found in rural areas of the Netherlands , can also be a colloquial term for " homely country folk . " Having known each other since adolescence , the two artists had been working on an album in Nashville as a " side project " when the idea of competing at Eurovision as a duo was formed . 
