by Peter Löcke //
Germany is going hollow and the reason is an electronic party song from 1999. The song is called "l'amour toujours" and comes from the poetic pen of music producer Gigi D'Agostino. Poetry is a bit of an exaggeration, as the lyrical refrain consists of a "Döp-dö-dö-döp". But Döp-dö-dö-dö-döp was rewritten as an extreme right-wing slogan. Since then, nothing has been the same. Germany's political media are united. Germany must be de-musicized. For the sake of my duty as a chronicler, I'll start at the beginning. The disaster begins with an episode of the RTL series "Sylter Geschichten", which has actually been canceled.
A handful of yuppies in front of the Sylt beach bar Pony are bouncing, drunk with joy and actually drunk. They let themselves go and sing unsingable songs. I don't want to repeat the tastelessness because of the Streisand effect. Naturally, the Sylt snobs, as BILD calls them, film themselves and the video goes viral. Reichsbürger also among rich citizens? Germany in a state of shock. The consequences? After the shock, Germany is flooded by a wave of outrage.
The Sylt snobs are pilloried, their names and addresses published, they are dismissed by their employers, distant third-degree relatives distance themselves. That's a good thing, says Armin Laschet on "Bericht aus Berlin". This should become the standard in similar cases. On this occasion, Laschet bids farewell to Tina Hassel's last broadcast with warm words and thanks her for the many years of good cooperation. Good cooperation instead of critical distance between politics and the media is standard. I digress. Back to the media outrage.
Without alliteration but equally outraged, STERN reacts in the form of a swastika in a champagne glass. This is what the cover picture of the Sylt champagne Nazis looks like. The Hamburg magazine will find the Hitler diaries one day after all. I'm sure of it. Two weeks ago, the SPIEGEL cover also showed a swastika under the German flag. In both cases, this is not a trivialization of National Socialism, but of course the opposite. To be on the safe side, SPIEGEL asked Gigi D'Agostino - this is no joke - what the intention of the song was. The music producer gave the all-clear: "My song is about love". Nobody could have guessed that, given the title "l'amour toujours".
By now, every C-list politician and D-list celebrity has commented on the incident with appropriate gasps. Let's skip this tedious part and get to the real consequences, the Streisand effect mentioned at the beginning. The 25-year-old song storms the charts and Germany's shooting festivals. The horny Layla of 2024 is called "Döp-dö-dö-döp". The new summer hit is on the index and will be banned at the 2024 Oktoberfest. There's no better marketing than a ban. But the song is still sung and played, even by foreigners. For example, Turkish soccer fans sang the far-right slogans on the small Schlossplatz square in Stuttgart to celebrate Galatasary Istanbul's championship. This makes fans of black humor and self-irony laugh, while moralists get into trouble. If they criticize the Turkish fans, they are xenophobic. If they don't, they are too. Sometimes it's a vicious circle if you think things through to the end.
The song "Immer die Liebe" also has concrete consequences for the state security service, popularly known as the Stasu. The Stasu normally only has to come out in the case of truly state-supporting crimes such as the theft of a rainbow flag in front of a town hall. Now he has to take action every time a drunken mob goes off the rails at a village festival and starts chanting "Döp-dö-dö-döp". And all because a handful of drunken yuppies have let themselves go in front of a beach bar. Where will it end? I'll tell you. It will end in widespread de-musicization, a "resist the musical beginnings"!
Folk songs are folk songs, so they are suspicious per se. The discussion has already taken place. Of course, songs like "Zigeunerjunge" by Alexandra are on the cancel culture list because they spread right-wing extremist stereotypes. If these banned songs are now joined by Ballermann hits and the electronic music scene is annexed, I fear for the future. After all, any catchy song can be rewritten. The more primitive the better. If you replace Scooter's "Hyper Hyper" with the surname beginning with H of an Austrian dictator who was active in Germany 90 years ago, for example, the next national crisis will ensue. If the song then calls for you to "Put your hands in the air", it's a full-blown Nazi scandal. I don't want to have these images in my head, these sounds in my ears. But there is already hope through a musical counter-movement.
RBB happily announces that there will soon be a solidarity concert from the left-wing milieu. Bands like KIZ will perform at this concert. In the videos of this anarchist band, AfD members of parliament are slaughtered in a bestial and politically correct manner. KIZ also impress with subtle verses such as "knife blade in the journalist's face". Remember: these are the good guys! Maybe Frank Walter Steinmeier will come to this concert and bring Feine Sahne Fischfilet with him. Nothing is known for sure.
Enough violence. Enough hatred from the right and the left. I personally like French chansons. Jacques Brel or Edith Piaf, for example. Chansons are not always about love, but often. It's always about l'amour. Charles Aznavour sums up the Sylt scandal best. So as not to overwhelm SPIEGEL fact-checkers, he sang his chanson in German with foresight. What Aznavour sings, I would like to say to the faces of both the morons on Sylt and the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
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Sources
[1] Surveillance camera shows the group of people discussed throughout Germany in the red circle at the edge of the celebrating crowd of guests: https://media.video.taxi/embed/wN7WGqpPTbib
[2] Tagesschau shows the clip of the group of guests circulating on social media in the main evening program and on the tageschau.de website: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/schleswigholstein/ndr-video-aus-sylt-sorgt-fuer-empoerung-feiernde-groelen-nazi-parolen-100.html
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A wonderful chanson by Charles Aznavour. Who would have thought that in 2024 a decadent, ageing frigate called
Germania could be dedicated.
Yes, that inner uneasiness when something was rotten in the state...already oppressed the Danish prince and so a genius like Shakespeare took up the cause. But at the highest level!
Today, when something gets out of hand and offends common sense, the Berliner rules dryly:
Nightingale, I hear you chirping!
In the meantime, we find ourselves in a MEDIAL ALPINE DREAM that actually leaves us speechless! Sad balance sheet!
The first videos in which the song was "rewritten" appeared on social networks months ago. At the time, they were recorded at small village festivals.
When the big hype started, I was surprised - it's no longer a new topic. But it is - if you don't follow the extremely fast-moving social networks more closely. And they are also the reason for the almost worldwide excitement. Without social media, the video wouldn't have gone around the world, no one would have been able to report on it so effectively, no one would have been denounced.
I remember my youth. How often there was that one bird who thoughtlessly and carelessly imitated old voices from the Nazi era through the foil of the cigarette packet - maybe even asked about "total war". Even as punks...
I can tell you - I work at a school with almost 90% migrants. Racism starts somewhere else entirely. How often this song plays at our secondary school - I can't get the sound out of my head. Standing at the checkout humming it and being shouted at by the do-gooder that I'm a disgusting Nazi and should fuck off... What the hell is wrong with this country? I strongly recommend taking a look at the youth... But we've known the problem for decades.
On the whole, I agree with this article. But I wouldn't describe these young people as snobs or complete morons! The so-called Minister of the Interior, on the other hand, is. I also wouldn't generalize in such a way whether everyone who sang this little song belongs to a higher educational class. It sounds a bit like social envy on the part of the media. In my opinion, these sounds were not "sung" there for the first time, nor did these young people invent the lyrics on the evening in question. What is really shameful is that a real hunt has been organized! These celebrating people are not so important as to justify this fuss. What about the SPD's election poster? Which reads: Germany to the Germans and the statement by Scholz, "we must deport on a large scale"! ??( The poster has since been withdrawn)
There really are more important issues in our country at the moment that are worth discussing and getting worked up about! But people are always successfully deflecting attention from this.
Ich schließe mich allen „Vorkommentatoren“ an.
Eine Gruppenvergewaltigung im „Sylter Ponyhof“ wäre wohl schnell unter den Teppich gekehrt worden…
Oh God, the United Left-Greens are hunting down everything that's not up to scratch. End-time mood. You have to take the pig for a walk. The people watch with amusement or even annoyance at what the compliant journos serve up to them every day: Sometimes a rabbit as a hunter, sometimes a dinghy as an explosives transporter, sometimes a pocket-sized Goebbels, sometimes a president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as the hunted, sometimes a couple of grandpas as super-terrorists, sometimes roaring drunks as super-Nazis, you name it. Jungle camp as a template. Hilarious in its intellectually thin style, if it weren't so damn serious.
Jo mei, wir leben seit C in einem hypochondrischen Dilemma und um da nicht rauszukommen, gilt es „immer schön lustig bleiben“.
Wenn Namen, Gesichter, Adressen veröffentlicht werden für eine besoffene Grölerei, dann wird von Staatsseite zur Menschenjagd aufgerufen. Eigentlich ist das ein Aufruf zu Gewalt, der ebenfalls eigentlich strafbar ist. Aber wie wir die letzten Jahre feststellen mussten, gelten Gesetze in Deutschland nur noch, wenn es politisch genehm für die selbsternannten Eliten ist. Ich denke aber, dass dieses „Phänomen“ eine sogenannte Psy-Op ist, denn die Empörung muss aufrecht erhalten werden. Seht alle, wo überall Nazis lauern und fürchtet Euch. Der Feind kommt immer von Rechts, so ist es nunmal im real existierenden Sozialismus. Kleine lustige Anekdote: eine chinesische Publikation hat die Grünen als rechtsextreme Partei eingestuft.
Do we really no longer have any real problems? I just wonder what will become of this country? What an incredible spectacle. I don't believe it any more.
What about disturbed ... how could the names be published? I recently had to take a data protection course, after which I came to the conclusion that it might be better to forget even your own name.
I have saved it, encrypted of course, so that I can leave comments.
Anyway, it seems more important now to stock up on washing-up liquid before the Sylt sticker removal campaign starts. The shelves will be empty by then, with a maximum of one bottle per household per month.
The Spiegel cover I saw the other day - unintentionally - gave me many hours of nausea and mental confusion.
Likewise the event and its surroundings: see above.
Here my thanks for equal taste in such things has a good place
Couldn't it be that the yuppies from Sylt really meant the Berlin puppets of the Deep State?
Very well and wonderfully sarcastically written. If it wasn't so scandalous and horribly embarrassing, I'd laugh, but it all sticks in my throat
Jacques Brel, „Dame bêtise, comment fais-tu, pour avoir tant d’amants…“ immer noch aktuell zweifellos. Aber wo bleibt das Positive?
Let's wait and see how the verdicts turn out, if we ever find out. Good lawyers sort things out, and so does time. And the day after tomorrow there'll be the next scandal, I promise.
Perhaps it is time to quote Boris Vian and the Déserteur.
Hautsache die „böse“ Partei wird diskreditiert! Wird dies wirklich die gewünschte Wrikung haben, oder das Gegenteil bewirken?
In my town, too, a party poster is displayed which, in my opinion, shows an unconstitutional symbol that has been crossed out but is still clearly visible. Where is the outcry in the media, where is the responsible public prosecutor initiating an investigation?
A wonderful article that hits the nail on the head. Thank you for it. I will share it with my circle of relatives and friends in the hope that it will bring some of them back to thinking for themselves. As I said: hope dies last.
All my life I never had any reason to sing Ausländer raus until 2015, there were plenty of opportunities to avoid non-European immigrants, especially Muslims, which Germans also used extensively, as you could see from the fact that even before 2015 there were large districts and areas where Muslims were among themselves. I have always considered the constant building of mosques and the immigration policy that has been going on here for decades to be completely wrong and misguided, so I could have sung this song even before 2015. When immigration policy creates enclaves of Muslim culture in a small country, something is wrong. Now I would like to sing the slogan 'Foreigners out' myself every day from the balcony, because I see nothing else since 2015. The most primitive of the primitive with all the decay that goes with it. This formerly beautiful middle-class district will soon be just as garbage as Berlin Neukölln, Berlin Wedding, Duisburg Marxloh, Marseille and others. I would have liked the young people to have published a joint video in which they showed their balls and stood by their statements and said which foreigners and what exactly they meant. But in a dictatorship like the one we have, they know full well that would be the end of them. It already is. Now they'll have to suck cock until the end of time to purify themselves or leave here. Europe could have coped with a small number of non-Europeans. But it has not been able to cope with the Muslim immigration that has been taking place here for decades. Even in the 60s, Turks in Neukölln were slaughtering sheep etc. on their balconies and attics, making noise, praying etc., etc. That's why the Germans moved away from Neukölln. Europe is no longer Europe! It has been destroyed, and this country is the worst of all! Dictatorship is characterized by language bans, thus thought bans, totalitarian behavior, song bans, artist bans, persecution of dissenters, synchronization through slogans, framing in institutions, etc. That's exactly what we have. Everyone who can is just fleeing this country ruled by sick people.
Nur noch Geisteskranke in Deutschland. Es ist nicht mehr zu fassen, was die „Guten“ so alles von sich geben.
I love reading this commentary and it makes me smile. What are the media getting upset about, what are journalists picking up on and what are people horrified by? There is no relativization! Attention is being drawn to the smallest of scenes. Calm and distance would do us good.
Thank you, Mr. Löcke, for the wonderful essay, and
Thank you, Mr. Langemann, for the publication, and for the excellent taste in music.
Der beste Kommentar zu den zersetzenden Vorfällen einiger „Schnösel“ (und mehr sind sie nicht!) und den hyperventilierenden Gutmenschen.