Why the Easter Bunny needs big ears: While traditional pop music culture sounds from the home systems at Christmas, Easter has its musical pitfalls. Jan Schmechtig wobbles somewhere between “Requiem” and “Band Aid”.
Easter is still not necessarily the yellow of the egg. It is neither a big family celebration in the sense of Christmas (even if the parents are visited), nor is it great for contemplation. Unless you are a strict believer. In terms of weather, the highlight is missing, you have to look for your gifts. Easter is sort of the boring little sister of Christmas.
Even musically Easter has to hold back: “Last Christmas”, “White Christmas”, “Christmas Time”, “Driving Home For Christmas” – what is there not for Christmas tree sound reinforcement. And Easter? Difficult. Anyone who has ever stood in front of the sound system at home at Easter and didn’t want to put in Verdi’s “Requiem” knows the problem.
A Google search for “Easter Music”, on the other hand, returns frightening results. In addition to “The most beautiful egg songs” (for children), there are also suggestions for the cynics among us, such as “Heavy Cross” by The Gossip. And even if there are “Easter songs” such as “Easter” by Patti Smith or Keith Green’s “Easter Song”, it is somehow missing, the Easter song par excellence. What can you do about it?
The music industry itself would of course have the option of placing rabbit ears on regular CD covers (like Nicki Minaj once did on “Pills’n’Potions”) and selling them as “Easter Editions”. Hidden bonus tracks would only be one of the highlights and at some point you’ve been listening to the songs of the formerly un-Easter album for so long that you associate Easter with them. This is cheap and involves little additional effort.
But you could also adapt texts to the Easter context. Here is a small example based on “Last Easter” formerly known as “Last Christmas”: “Last Easter I hid your heart, but the very next day you won’t find it anyway”. How the video could look like, we now leave to the individual imagination. But beware! In the worst case, actively calling for an official Easter song can lead to the next German “Band Aid” project. Hopefully they don’t know it’s Easter time.
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Jan Schmechtig blogs at Horstson.de about men’s fashion and music – and wrote this very timeless text in 2015 for musikexpress.de.