No it isn‘t at all. Music is something very individual and has the magic to take one to his own very personal and sometimes most vulnerable or most happy place. Sometimes even both. Without harm to oneself and others. This modern Schlager is nothing for me, though. But I love the old Schlager from the 50s and 60s mainly and even here already the old, innocent style, like performed by Conny Froboess for example.
Ah yes, this gem here is probably my favourite. Conny Froboess and Peter Kraus were the dream couple on German and Austrian film screen back then. I love this love song.
I know I know, it‘s in English and Mey’s having a strong German accent (if also by far not as strong as mine, lol). That’s why I post it in the German music thread, lol. But I love the song and I love that he sings this song together with his daughter. And I love to hear his voice. Even when it‘s in a strong English accent.
I am no fan of tattoos, but I love that - if his daughter already had to have one - it‘s a fox with the German title of a song by her dad „Liebe ist alles“. Yup.
Here’s the song I referred to yesterday.
English translation (sort of, as the found translation is terrible and I tried a few corrections):
Love is everything
It is a good and a true and a sweet, all-embracing feeling.
It does not let itself be predicted, it does not force itself, and it does not fit into any calculus.
It may be for a moment and for always, it is free from
Compulsion of time.
It’s the part, it’s the whole universe, it’s every
Tiny.
It is the ever new pathetic film scene in infinite repeat.
Love Is Everything, Love is more!
It is the Laughing of a stranger in the hallway where you pull the waiting mark,
It is the little black street dog, peacefully dozing in the midday sun.
It is the friend who is looking for you at midnight again and frys something for you, and who listens patiently to your sad story.
And for a Six-Pack from the night station
He throws himself for you in the traffic.
Love Is Everything, Love is more!
It is the blank-beloved bear from which the wood wool pricks you, your old rowing boat waiting at a hidden place.
It is the old house, that creaks and whispers softly: “do you remember how it smelled after apples and adventures in the attic?”
The chest that locked door, the wooden step which whispers: “come here, come here!”
Love is everything, love is more!
Someone waiting on the platform, in the huddle a flare, a
face, the idea and the hope, just a fleeting eye contact in the pale neon light. It is the longing and the caressing, the embracing,
But also the melancholy already, and the “for always”, breathed to the ceiling of a shabby guesthouse.
It’s the bitter and the sweet and it lets you become light as a feather and teardrop heavy.
Love is everything, Love is more!
It is the ever new pathetic film scene in infinite repeat.
Love is everything, love is more!
That’s nice, Gunda, but where does it come from?
Take the most beautiful girl in the world, give her a tattoo, and she becomes disgusting to me.
Do mean where the song comes from? Reinhard Mey.
No, love. Where does it come from? What is the root source of love?
I would love to know what triggers the feeling to be willing to give up one’s life for someone else.
Obviously, love. I’d still like to know where it comes from.
a damaged brain, a normal one would find a way to save a person without doing something stupid
Oh so you mean sacrificing your life for another is not something you would do if you could save another, even if it’s the only way?
i do not believe it is ever 'the only way"
But you wouldn’t sacrifice your life for another?
always and for everyone
but it depends on your definition of “sacrifice” lol if you mean kill myself then ofcourse not
No, that not what I mean and you know it.
uhm no i dont
Indeed, people in love aren‘t acting rational. That‘s why it would be so fantastic to find out the reason why the brain gets „damaged“.
Not if I don’t act by intuition. If I am able to think about it, I wouldn’t save someone I don’t love for the price I would die. Even in the first aid courses you learn the first rule which means your own safety comes first.