Friday is the preliminary decision for the ESC in Liverpool. Someone like the fictional character Ikke Hipgold could do the event good with her self-satisfaction.
There’s joy in the sangria bucket: Ikke Hipgold in action. imago images
Ikke Hipgold is a polarizing figure. The producer and Ballermann entertainer is jointly responsible for the chauvinistic and anti-woken thigh-slapping “Layla” and Malle hits like “Drinking is shit, but we do it anyway”.
And with that you already know where you have to locate songs and singers intellectually: somewhere between lobotomy and Schinkengasse. His fans don’t care that hip gold is an art figure, it seems authentic to the 46-year-old, his true identity and stage figure fit together perfectly.
Lots of hate from the ESC bubble
This is exactly where it gets interesting, because Ikke Hipgold wants to represent Germany and somehow also Mallorca at this year’s ESC in Liverpool, the city where the Beatles come from.
The preliminary decision is on Friday, and the excitement about the participation of Ikke Hipgold, whose real name is Matthias Distel, was enormous in advance. Because the mood cannon with the wig symbolizes everything that the ESC is not, an event that is now as predictable as Christmas and that has been taking itself far too seriously in its queer homeliness for years. What Hip Gold can confirm: “A damn lot of hate” was thrown at him from the ESC bubble, the singer said in an interview.
But why actually? Because apart from the content of his songs, which is worth discussing, the character Ikke Hipgold is so old-fashioned in its blustering chauvinism that you can hardly really work on it seriously. And whenever someone was sent to the ESC race who artistically stirred up the event a little with its long tradition (Lordi, Stefan Raab, Buranovskiye Babushki), it did the ESC quite well in its often pathetic complacency. Please send Ikke Hipgold over there. Or at least someone else with a sense of humor.