I went to see Rotfront at Kaffee Burger with my dad in January. I would love to like this band, I love this song, I could have so much fun to this music. But there are just too many things about the lyrics that suck too badly. Without starting a long winded account of all of them just one example: "Berlin–Barcelona" boils down to a hymn to transnational stalking. A guy gets a no but pursues the woman anyway from Berlin to Barcelona, and feels less "small and helpless" in the process. He can't accept her "Leave me alone!" and we're supposed to sing along to it, and the hipster audience at Kaffee Burger does exactly that. Makes me wanna puke.
Feb 9, 2012
Rotfront Konzert im Kaffee Burger
I went to see Rotfront at Kaffee Burger with my dad in January. I would love to like this band, I love this song, I could have so much fun to this music. But there are just too many things about the lyrics that suck too badly. Without starting a long winded account of all of them just one example: "Berlin–Barcelona" boils down to a hymn to transnational stalking. A guy gets a no but pursues the woman anyway from Berlin to Barcelona, and feels less "small and helpless" in the process. He can't accept her "Leave me alone!" and we're supposed to sing along to it, and the hipster audience at Kaffee Burger does exactly that. Makes me wanna puke.
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ich war da bisher immer tolerant, habe großzügig selbstironie angenommen und lediglich etwas albern gefunden - aber vermutlich will ich diese band auch nur unbedingt gut finden...
ReplyDeletesicher bin ich mir da bei deinen "nocturne" - die sind klasse
Danke!
ReplyDeleteUnd das mit dem gutfinden wollen kann ich gut verstehen, geht mir ja auch so. Aber gerade nach der Kommunikation, die das Posting noch nach sich zog, hat sich bei mir leider der Eindruck erhärtet, dass es ihnen schlicht egal ist, und die Ironie als so eine praktische Ausrede für alles benutzt wird. Leute, denen das nicht genug ist, sind dann bloß die Spaßverderber, die den Witz nicht kapieren. Wie überall sonst halt auch, wenn man auf sexistische Scheisse hinweist.
Ach, verdammt.
These are so riveting and original.
ReplyDeleteHey, thanks!
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