First of: beautiful, that I got to know you. For that alone, the television evening has already paid off with the preliminary round for the Euro Vision Song Contest: The group Laing, the Souler Andreas going and you three new chapters interesting artists from Germany have opened for me. In your case, I even changed my purchasing behavior: normally I can wait an eternity until a CD traveling towards second-handed me. This time I have even taken greater logistical effort for me to get your songs without delay in the Discman. Something I like: a long train ride with new music to the ears. And I have never regretted the quick purchase.
While I myself am sitting in the train, it occurs to me that you will not travel now anyway to Vienna. Do you regret that? I think ultimately that's perhaps just as well. I'm not sure if you had really fit well in the large, glitzy Euro Vision family, whether they like because one of the have commenced. You're doing so more music for indoor as for outdoor use, so it seems to me, and in the excitement of the biggest music show in the world one way or another treasure may be lost after all. Especially your fine, your own way of dealing with the German language, full of nuances, full of perspectives on deeper levels: This opens up not all, let alone on the international stage. The gold of tomorrow is not a by-designed, with perfect timing fired in the European music scene laburnum rocket, but something for which you dig or at least must be attentive. I love to find more than finding you sing, feelest to own answers, know as much about as always on the move and thus will avoid to be defined and marketed statements with clearly defined (artistic).
Most am pleased that you are once again at last a singer who seals all their own songs, composed and accompanied live on the piano: one takes you from the first second on, what you sing. And is funny, what associations you wake me how much German pop history mitläuft in me when I listen to your songs. If you sing about love, you'll girlish, hauchst and sometimes as Nena säuselst. In temperamental your own voice is rough, dashing: now I get out, that they be strongly reminds me of Carolin Fortenbacher. The way I stay in the same song a bit like utter bloibö: I know the Ina Deter, or by Cora (Amsterdam)? And then the ballads, especially my favorite song Gold of tomorrow might be one on one of Grönemeyer, in harmony and in sets at the piano, but also in your way to rhytmisieren the words to stretch the vowels, to grind the voice from below ...
Please do not misunderstand me: I do not mean as a criticism! Rather, I felt in your music from the first note at home. My concern as to a family gathering: It is interesting, sometimes amusing, sometimes quite touching to see how they all go together somehow, with which imprints the different generations have grown up, of which models or habits you can not dissolve or will but also the points at which you very own ways of doing things ready and determined and capable. That there emerge in you associations towards songwriters, soul, rock and German -Pop, but also pop, no sign of the bottom sealed Loss headed or arbitrariness, but a natural dissolution of boundaries between genres is thanks to me. Of these, one can only benefit, I think. And besides, it makes you very personable.
The chorus line Always, always, always when it stood before you, you did not recognize it, from your first Euro Visions suggestion luck accompanies me as catchy since 3 days. Its content would actually be good next wonder there are always fitted (when they meet you, you must also see), with which the young Katja Ebstein ersang a good third place in the Grand Prix in 1970. Such happiness shall we (the face accompanied by the boos mandate rejection of selected number 1 Andreas but rather be-cares-looking) Ann Marie wish. And I hope you maybe on a small Berlin live stage to be able to see each other again. We are here: this is your simple but enormously exculpatory statement in the face of all vain and Vergänglichkeiten in this day and age. And elsewhere:'ve no idea but I'm staying.
I hope so!
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