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Three observations:
1. Our faces, our hands
When Conan O’Brien moderated the Oscars in 2025, he said “Welcome to the Long-Form-Content Awards” and hit the target disc blacks of the zeitgeist. When Timotheé Chalamet, who did not get any Oscar for his bob-dylan representation in “A Complete Unknown” that evening, still had hopes, he said in the “This Past Weekend” podcast on YouTube that he would visit all podcasts, because people hung too much on YouTube and therefore hardly had time for the cinema. The fact that the currently most sought -after and best -known young actor in the western hemisphere feels that he, not his face, but his film, would not be seen enough, since the people are hypnotized online to see someone who has nothing to offer than two hands and a face that is happily and shame -free to prepare an unhealthy protein shake is a state of inaccurate sadness. You can read it in “Desperation” by Heike Geißler (Suhrkamp, 2025), or listen to the cheerfulness in black magic.
Stella Sommer, i.e. that joy, posted her single “Im Cold February rain” several times on Instagram, and wrote that publishing songs today feel like you are throwing them into a digital abyss, because Meta Drossele will apply for her songs. The platform does not want external content, no door out. She wants to capture us, our faces, our hands.
2. And the hand in front of the mouth
Famous people, like that Timothée Chalamet and his girlfriend Kylie Jenner, have to make an old gesture socially acceptable again. It is the hand in front of the mouth when speaking in public places. Cuming is back without being called whisper. The reason is also here: social media, TikTok. There are people with accounts, such as Tismejackieg – according to their own description “Ur Local Deaf”, ie “your local deaf” – who have dominated the art of lip reading and have set themselves the task of setting public interactions between celebrities lip -reading. So you now know that the small talk of people with a lot of money in the account is as cheap as that of people with little to mediocre amounts of money in the account. It remains questionable whether the hand in front of your mouth will prevail in conversations in the presence of cameras even with non-famous people.
Actually, it should be like that, because everyone wants to be famous. A “Perfect Celebrity”! So the new album from Lady Gaga should have been called, then she decided to name less tone deaf mayhem – threatening chaos – due to the overall situation. Her concept still provides to imitate Celebrities like Michael Jackson, Prince or Taylor Swift without marketing the album – such as Halsey with The Great Imperserator (2024).
3. But don’t we have too many fingers on our hands and too many teeth in the mouths?
In “How Bad Do U Want Me”, Gaga squeezes into a Taylor swift costume, completely with spoken bridge, high chorus-backing vocals and cutting high-school lyrics with shattered jeans. Wait, gaga in tattered jeans? Gaga in jeans ??? When you listen for the first time, you think: Oh, a Taylor Swift song sung by a Lady Gaga-Ai. Somehow good, but also well soulless.
The internet then finds in several reels that the song is a fact of Gaga original and then lets it sing by a Swift II, which then-How Original! – “How Bad Do U Want Me (Taylor’s version)”. In the meantime, Germany argues about how many debts it wants to accept for military spending, and almost nobody denies that culture continues to be strongly, stronger and strongest. Because we don’t need anything anymore. We have everything. The AI will mix all content so that it will occur to us as always brand new despair …
This column first appeared in the music express edition 5/2025.