Did you hear? They’re just saying it on the radio – that soon the discotheques will also be allowed to vaccinate against Corona! Niiiiice! That gives the Super Duper Super Ape Dollybuster Booster! Here the vaccination rates are about to fly through the roof! Hey, Mrs. DJ, I’d say put a record on, put a hot groove under the needle and then bang that thing in the biceps, yeah!!! … wait a minute: the pharmacies? Oh I see. How boring.
But that’s a good thing. You know the joke about the tourist who looks down from the gondola and asks the locals if someone has fallen down here before – “Why? Are you bored?” Don’t you know? Regardless, you get the picture. Nothing against boredom, like a little more of it.
Persistent pandemic, eco-armageddon, shift to the right and worldwide humanitarian catastrophes
I don’t know about you: The elephant is in the room, you can hear it horning on all channels, but we avoid it because, in addition to the ongoing pandemic, eco-Armageddon, shift to the right and global humanitarian catastrophes, we don’t have another apocalyptic one Integrate the topic into our everyday lives – then the 6-year-old asks if the Third World War is actually coming, and it becomes clear: maybe it would be good to switch over to the escapism hit radio more often. Or to pursue conflicts for psychological hygiene, in which the good guys can still become heroes.
For example: Neil Young vs. Spotify in the Joe Rogan case. The old hippie grandees still uphold decency. The rest has to play along, because there’s no other way, right. “Rock millionaires like Neil Young can of course afford such a confrontation!” And Neil Young is known to be one of the last great rock millionaires, lounging on his yacht; but the others always have to keep their ass moving so that the dough is right and are as helplessly at the mercy of the “services” of the streamers as the Allgäu dairy farmer is at the mercy of the price dictates of the discounters. Then they get 0.3 cents per song or 32 cents per liter – which is what is left after the Rogans of this world have collected their millions.
But alas, what’s the use of a boycott. For example, I refused to watch the Olympics in Beijing. Ha! The sponsors were really annoyed! Me too. Please note that as a 24/7 home officer, I am actually nervously dependent on the regular return of such major TV sporting events that have been splashing along for weeks and are pleasantly indifferent. It’s just that the chattering doesn’t work anymore when you know that the “hosts” are carrying out a genocide at the same time as the ski circus. “But the athletes have been preparing for these games for so long! Been working towards it for years!” Yes, exactly. And now they’re involved in this lousy business. Like the poor pop stars and dairy farmers. That’s how it is in the market economy. And vaccination doesn’t help, not even in the disco.
This column first appeared in the Musikexpress issue 04/2022.