From BZ/dpa
After his success with “Zukunft Pink”, Seeed singer Peter Fox has released a new solo single with “Vergessen wie”. However, the 51-year-old did not initially announce a new album on Friday.
However, via Seeed’s newsletter later that evening, Fox pointed out more material that he had been working on with his co-producers. “The Krauts and I picked up, weighed, put down, tweaked, and put back a few of the many songs we had in the works,” the musician wrote. “In the end we decided on three songs that will now be released in relatively short succession.” “Forget how” is the beginning.
He doesn’t want to know anything about a comeback either. The musician had landed a huge success with his first solo album “Stadtaffe” in 2008. Last year, the dance floor specialist was on the road with a celebrated Seeed tour.
The cover of Peter Fox’s new single “Forget How” Photo: dpa
Fox secured prominent support for the lyrics of the new song. Kraftklub singer Felix Kummer, one of the busiest songwriters of recent years, contributed to the lines.
The somewhat slower, but danceable beats of “Vergessen wie” lead back to the dance floor. Fox – paraphrased in the accompanying text as “over 40 kids my age” – celebrates memories of the nightlife gone and the return to the clubs and bars. “No one calls” is the song’s first line, the days pass by in the same way. But Fox “wants to get out into the night”, off the sofa, away from “Glotz&Chill”.
The refrain analyzes the situation: “Have forgotten how” and “don’t know how to do it anymore / but the city is alive”. The way back into the scene calls up old attitudes: “And it can’t be / isn’t ok / to lie down before one /”. Although the refrain lines with a celebrated night turn into a “know again how to do it”, time has also left its mark on the returnees from the dance floor: “Who of you can do it again tomorrow?”
A video for the new single also went online on Friday. On his Facebook account, the singer reports on filming in a seedy glamor disco in Italy.
For the summer, Fox, born Pierre Baigorry in Berlin, has been booked solo for a number of festivals. “Don’t call it a comeback,” says the release of the second single. And further: “But the present just got a little bit pinker. See you on the dance floor.”