I very much like the old Udo like him yes. So often hear as before like and I can not - that he comes to me for but sometimes too pathetic and often to betroffenheitslyrisch therefore, the strings fiddle always too nice, and most of his harmonies are now known also. Udo like and I appreciate very much, he accompanies me, since I can remember, by my life, my best and my saddest moments I connect with his music - but now (and that may also be on your own getting older) I hear it only in phases , where he is an experience with goosebumps live still. His latest album "I Do not Know" - which I find one of his best ever, and therefore was almost clear that he is not such a blast is with "Real Life" again can bang out. And so it is for now also come. I think the new album - please forgive me - quite simply knitted. Both musically and lyrically. Since nothing surprising here is several texts reach not more than "rhyme you, or I eat you" level, since none of the songs touched me particularly resonates or longer after, partly some text seems formulated bissel awkward. A bit annoying are also slow these songs over the Internet and through modern times - since the artist punishes the title of his album itself lies: Either one is "the center of life" - with and then include the Internet and certainly also its dangers and responsible use new media give them. Or you're just more "left out" and then laments about "glass man" and love messages on mobile phones, and then that's nothing bad - that we must do so with almost 80 readily. But then one should stand by it. Really bad album is not, no! The Udo who makes art so that's a genre of its own, which has indeed the Udo Jürgens Song invented, does not sing Schlager, who is also not a songwriter, not a cabaret singer in the literal sense - the Udo simply writes UDO Jürgens songs. This can be compared with anything else that is around in and simply ingenious. "Really bad", such an exceptional artist like Udo is one, so do not be. But really well the new album has not taken. Rather a bit lukewarm, a bit flat at times and usually quite predictable. But even this level you have to hammer out only once - and one must also say honestly: The Udo, who does his job now for over 50 years. And he makes it really, really good - who, please, enough about so many decades in the German-speaking countries to Udo Jürgens zoom? I do not know anybody! And who writes songs that accompany the life of thousands of people across generations and have accompanied? So you have to look long and will not find the second! And after all this time, there's just sometime sometimes played every note as each harmony is already composed on the piano, as everything has been told about love and about life - as one can not every time something completely wonderful, new , and never come up and succeed Innovative said. And inasmuch as "the middle of life" is not outstanding, but certainly become quite a good, medium-colored and dignified Udo plant. My personal favorites: "The life you are," and "Ten to eleven."
Addendum: Udo is now since 3 days dead and I am very, very sad.. In all the things "living no song more", it is suddenly so quiet without him, and since he has been with me throughout my life with his music, it is now as if a part of me died with him. I would not, that I am, would not have given him and his songs. He took me and my life - without knowing it - shaped and influenced, he wrote the soundtrack to my life, he was able to touch something in me and bring to the blades. I have allowed this because it was not difficult to be able to admit it. And there will be no one whose songs could touch me in this way and reach, as the majority of his songs, connected with his incomparable voice, could. It was a gift to be allowed to leave of his songs, his voice, his art, his charisma, his lust for life taken by the hand. Merci, Udo. You've been a really big one! And I will always be missing from now without you something.
