What would you say if no one heard you, asks Sophia in “If you close your eyes”. It’s a good question whether, by looking closely at yourself, you can tell if you really are who you are. This is a question of meaning that primarily, but not only, concerns young people. Because it’s about conforming to role models, serving clichés, playing games, because that’s the only way to achieve supposed success. And there is never any risk of revealing the true self, one’s own identity. The catchy pop song by Sophia, the trained goldsmith, makes it clear: be who you really are. The downside: not everyone likes it. But one more core question: Is it important to please everyone? No.
Maeckes also has his opinion on the subject of authenticity. The German rapper addresses this being, which is all too often only an appearance in our viral world. Real friends are what you need when you’re on the ground. “Pirouette” successfully addresses this imbalance in personality. Easygoing song, good message.
Wallis Bird, born Irish and living in Berlin, asks a different question in the first single from her new album “Hands”, which has been announced for the end of May: “What’s Wrong With Changing?”. Change is the salt in the soup of life. If you don’t change, if you don’t react to changes in your thinking and actions, you may be standing still for the rest of your life. Quite apart from the fact that the personal horizon will remain very small.
In the quickly absorbing rhythm of the song, Wallis Bird takes stock of milestones in her life with a powerful voice and a correspondingly strong mood. Her time in London, which allowed her to get to know other cultures, her liberation from state and church in order to openly advocate gay marriage in strongly Catholic Ireland, all of this has always brought about change for the artist. There is nothing wrong with that, because only with change do we move forward. Cool song that catches your ear and also serves the mind at the same time. Because one thing is also certain: No matter what changes around you, big or small: Change always starts with yourself.
How about real love? It really begins with the yes word, the unmistakable promise to go through life together, connected in the heart, even if the sun can’t always shine. The wedding is an expression of this special connection between two people, where there is so much emotion in the air that your heart can almost beat. Why did I just think of that? Because there’s the movie Marry Me that Jennifer Lopez did the soundtrack to because she’s the lead in it too. And what is there to hear? A lot of heart and soul and many rhythms that can get your Spanish blood pumping. “Pa Ti (For You)” also turns every cool party into a guaranteed Howler. The fitting light pop muse for a romantic comedy. Short content anyone? Jennifer Lopez plays a pop diva who marries and develops feelings for someone else at her live TV wedding. What is the German title of “Marry Me”?: “Married at first sight”. To ask?
Alynda Segarra is Hurray For The Riff Raff and thus reflects on life, the world in and of itself. In “Nightqueen” from the second half of her new album “Life On Earth” (Nonesuch) she hits the nerve of the times. In the slow rocking step of her special electro-pop sound she focuses everything on the text. “If the world can’t find me, then I leave everything behind me,” she sings in the chorus – and that gets deep under the skin.
And finally back to authenticity. How is it to be understood when an artist sheds a chosen name (Lions Head) in order to also be who he is as a songwriter in private? That’s what happened to Manhattan-born singer-songwriter Ignacio Uriarte, now undifferentiated as Iggy. “This Is Iggy” (Columbia) is also the logical name of the album on which the young man proves to be a little seducer when it comes to penetrating the center of the auditory nerves with ease. He did it with “Crocodile” and “Miss You”. Maybe because he now makes music the way he feels privately…
Source: Nachrichten
