Just last week I was sitting drinking sangria on the beach in Mallotze, documenting “one or the other” on Instagram and countless messages came in, from strangers and friends, but also from people I knew and valued as left-wing radicals and feminists the internet. It was always the same: How much would you like to be at the Ballermann, secretly of course, I lived the dream, wouldn’t be as stuffy as many other leftists, hahaha. So in 2022 it’s edgy and even progressive to roar with Oli.P “Angels” and “So bist du” in the Bierkönig, if I had known that how much babble could have been saved in the last few years … Well … But it is also a great song:
A week later there was a concert by the doctors in Berlin at Tempelhofer Feld. After it was canceled on Friday due to storms, we wanted to go there on Saturday and that turned out to be the more unpleasant of the two evenings. The atmosphere was rather mediocre, the opening act were the cringe kings of SDP (“Women are like beings from another planet / It’s like the Chinese, I have no idea what they’re talking about”*) and it worked out with the doctors not really better either. Playing songs listlessly, that’s perfectly fine with me, but these political announcements on Facebook with columns of comments in between, always alternating between real urgency and boomer irony, I wish I’d rather go back to Döpdöpdöp on the island … I was there again on Sunday, to erase the Saturday experience and because all sorts of people suddenly had tickets left over, at least it got a little better. But even then Farin repeated his little saying from the day before: “Call out the Nazis”, don’t bring anything to a doctors’ concert, because there weren’t any here, “we’re the good guys”. Makes you think, when you recapitulate what kind of experiences you have already had with people with whom you only have “the doctors hear” in common.
It’s the old song, the eternal blind spots of leftists when it comes to their own racist and misogynistic socialization and (co-)perpetrators … The book “Punk as F*ck -” published by Diana Ringelsiep and Ronja Schwikowski now throws light on part of this problem. The Scene from FLINTA Perspective” light. After many members of the punk scene have already reported on their experiences with misogynist behavior under the hashtag #punktoo, the book just published by Ventil Verlag contains further stories of people and their experiences in the punk scene, whether as artists or fans.
I used to only admire the punk scene from afar and I thought everything was much better with the guys in the Großraumdisse, until I realized that unfortunately that wasn’t quite true. I was also reminded of the fact that we don’t just have to be “against Nazis”, but against inhuman attitudes by everyone, through the very good and informative episode of the podcast “Rice and Shine”, which 30 years later comes back to those affected by Rostock-Lichtenhagen. What happened back then showed how quickly “good guys” who were open to “foreigners” can become spectators of a rampaging mob or part of the ignorant majority of society, who only feel really sorry again when it’s over – and themselves so afterwards they can stage again as the good guys.
Being good also means sticking with it in the face of headwinds, it takes persistence. It’s not enough to show up as a super guy on a stage while others do the work. Further recommendation on the spot: the SR documentary about Marlies Krämer, “The Gentle Rebel”. Krämer became known because she wanted to be correctly gendered by authorities and the Sparkasse, because she wanted to be visible as a woman – and she also made much more visible in interviews and at demos, namely what women do, where they work, what they do socially. Pretty punk.
album of the week
Now to my album of the week! The only punk genre that I’ve really indulged in in my life is of course pop punk and unfortunately there’s no real scene there, unless it used to be at home in front of the telly or today in front of Spotify is also considered a form from AZ . Anyway, I’m more than happy that pop punk is back. Whether it’s WILLOW, Meet Me @ the Altar, Stand Atlantic or Beach Bunny – we put on the Vans and put the edding in our pockets. Neon pink is combined with black again and the U is stylized as a V again. And that’s where Demi Lovato comes in with her awesome new album HOLY FVCK. After her seemingly disoriented back and forth between pop and R’n’B, now this pop-punk album, which seems really well-rounded and suits her well and sounds as if she really enjoys it. It’s also a bit of a return to “their roots”, at least it brings back memories of “Camp Rock”, or more generally of the awesome early/mid-noughties Disney pop-punk era when Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan and Ashlee Simpson released their awesome debuts. It’s also worth checking out last year’s documentary about Lovato, Dancing with the Devil, which explains all of the combative tracks on the record. Check out tips: “Holy Fvck”, “Substance”, “Eat Me”, “Wasted”, “Feed”.
And then there’s “29,” the unsubtle song about grooming, pretty obviously exactly what Lovato experienced with actor Wilmer Valderrama when she was 17:
“Finally twenty-nine
Funny, just like you were at the time
Thought it was a teenage dream, just a fantasy
But was it yours or was it mine?”
Here’s a pretty impressive live version on Jimmy Fallon:
After Taylor Swift’s remake of “All Too Well” and Billie Eilish’s “Your Power”, this is the third mainstream hit in a very short time that deals with the topic of men dating girls. Time’s up for the Leo DiCaprios of this world. He broke up with a mid-20s again and the internet is full of memes about his creepyness. Another super guy who is so committed to combating climate change, but privately doesn’t check anything at all.
Couple of funny things about him:
Leonardo Dicaprio when his girlfriends reach 25 years of age pic.twitter.com/4KOiUbIb5U
— Stop Inventing S’V (@DayaJolieME) August 30, 2022
@natsingssongs since we’re talking about Jake we might as well bring up Leo ✨? #jakegyllenhaal #youloversstaymyage #songwriter #celebritiesfacts ♬ original sound – Natalie Burdick
… and of course this very good graphic from Reddit (from the dataisbeautiful account):
What happened until now? Here is an overview of all pop column texts.
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