I’ve been reading, staring and listening like hell again, that’s why there are enough tips from the pop culture universe again!
WE WANT TO SEE THE DOCTORS
WE WANT TO SEE THE DOCTORS
WE WANT WE WANT
WE WANT TO SEE THE DOCTORS
I was at a concert again, you guessed it: It was the band Ja, Panik and it was sooo great! But there are other concerts planned so far, such as No Angels and Die Ärzte. And here we are at:
Podcast of the week: “This one love – 40 years of the doctors”
The doctors are currently on their Berlin club tour and Marco Seiffert accompanies them with a microphone and sweet questions. He not only asks the band about, for example, their own doctor memories, live anecdotes and favorite songs, but also fans and employees and it’s really nice. Anyone who loves Die Ärzte knows their concerts are the greatest and if they’re still there, there’s still hope, and this podcast is really a declaration of love to our doctors (nobody calls them that). For example, you learn that Rod’s favorite doctor’s song is “Lemon Ice Cream”. Oh Rod, I love you.
Here’s the podcast: https://www.radioeins.de/archiv/podcast/diese_eine_liebe.html
And it’s summer, it’s hot, there’s also lemon ice cream:
Album of the week: Sigrid – “How To Let Go”
With her second album HOW TO LET GO, Sigrid reminds us how much one can be in the mood for music. It literally breaks out of her: Here, take my hot pop, so that it accompanies your summer. To me the songs sound like they’ve been around for years. Haven’t I already danced to them, learned them by heart, recommended them to my best friends, haven’t I already walked home with them at night, haven’t I put them on my lists long ago? Nah, it really is a new album and it doesn’t remind me of all sorts of things because it’s copied or something, but because it just is family (I think it means in German: familiar) sounds. Do you know how I mean?
Song of the Week: Peach Kelli Pop – “Better Off Alone”
That’s it. My summer hit 2022 (for now). It’s just the perfect cover of one of the best summer hits of all time. The original was sung by Alice Deejay and dates back to 1999 as you all know. Or there was an instrumental version before, but who cares. This version is well-known and popular here:
Incidentally, it is also worthwhile to deal with Peach Kelli Pop in more detail; she has already released some power pop albums as well as other great cover versions, such as the theme of Sailor Moon or tATu’s “All The Things She Said”.
Video of the week: Olivia Rodrigo and Avril Lavigne sing “Complicated” together
Omg, omg, omg, Olivia Rodrigo and Avril Lavigne sing “Complicated” together!!! About two weeks ago Rodrigo Lavigne just brought Lavigne on stage in Toronto, the two are totally excited. Unbelievable that they are almost 20 years apart in age and that Avril’s album LET GO was released when Rodrigo (born 2003) was still curd in the window, as we old folks say!
Anniversary of the week: 30 years GZSZ
That is mainly in this list for the service. JO GERNER LIVES FOREVER. After RTL teased nasty that the super lawyer villain, who you can understand every few years, should die, relief came yesterday. Katrin Flemming (or as we fans call it: Theatrical Version) was allowed to say the ingenious sentence “I have to go too – to your funeral!” But he survived. Experienced! Forever! Forever JG.
Here’s a little tip for spending money: There are old GZSZ episodes on RTL+… Maybe you haven’t had a trial subscription yet, or you know someone who shares their account with you. If you used to watch GZSZ, you will immediately know what the room looked like when you watched the respective episodes, what cell phone you had or who you had a crush on… If you want that.
Not the book of the week: Kurt Krömer – “You must not believe everything you think: my depression”
Phew, anyone who knows me knows that I’m willing to let Kurt Krömer get away with everything because I just find him super hot and also kind and funny. But this book makes it very difficult for me. In it, he addresses his depression, his stay in the clinic and what comes afterwards, and as many people as possible should relate to it. But all the people with depression that I know – and I know too many – I can’t find them there. But there must be those who understand Krömer, because, as he reports, they have invaded his mailbox by the thousands. But maybe it’s also a class question… A couple of weeks in a clinic and then everything’s fine? That’s probably only possible if you’re sure afterwards, job, apartment, social environment, few triggers. In general, I miss seeing the structures in all the depression books and stories on social media, that capitalist constraints make us ill or contribute to depression, that we can’t figure everything out on our own, we can’t endlessly optimize ourselves , but that for some objectively life is difficult and it makes them depressed.
I don’t think Krömer has to write a communist manifesto, but it’s as easy for very few as it is for him, and that’s not his fault, it’s that of the system. What I do resent, though, is that he comes out a little late in the book with the fact that he’s a private patient. Before that, you should find yourself quite a lot and feel strengthened. Only to find out: For you, reader of the health insurance patients, everything will be completely different with the healing. And so far I have also interpreted the word “single parent” quite “differently”, which Krömer often uses for his situation. He is: “Single father of 3 children”. Hm, I don’t know. His mother lives with him at his house, he has a nanny who sometimes works full-time, the ex-wives take the children regularly, he is often on tour… I don’t know of any woman who would even consider herself a single parent under these circumstances. I think for men, maybe single parenting just means the kids live with you? Makes you think.
Abortion of the week: “Dirty Dancing”
Because of “frighteningly topical”, people on the Internet are currently reminding us that even if right-wing politicians try to reverse self-determination rights for women, the topic of abortion can no longer be erased from pop culture. And so I watched Dirty Dancing again, and yes, although it’s often forgotten because of the melons and the Hebe figure and the champagne that usually comes with Dirty Dancing movie nights, it’s actually a movie about Abortion. But why is this such a central topic? Screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein told Vice five years ago:
“When I made the movie in 1987, about 1963, I put in the illegal abortion and everyone said, ‘Why? There was Roe vs Wade – what are you doing this for?’ I said, “Well, I don’t know that we will always have Roe vs. Wade,” and I got a lot of pushback on that. Worse than that, there were also very young women then who didn’t remember a time before Roe vs. Wade, so for them I was like Susan B. Anthony, saying, ‘Oh, just remember, remember, remember.’”
If you’re looking for more abortion representation in film and television, there is this wonderful channel on Instagram that collects examples.
But now real talk again: you all kindly watch the ESC and before that you blast yourself with all the best-ofs of the past decades and all participant videos and keep me up to date, because I don’t have time to do it look at (off howling).
What happened until now? Here is an overview of all pop column texts.
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