2024-10-21 11:27:00
They have already sung against many things: cyclists in the city and dance theatre, Michael Ende’s children’s books and guitar sellers. Tocotronic created songs against their environment out of the environment. Against who or what else? Not that in the 1990s there weren’t neo-Nazis, fascists and “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out!”. But others are responsible for it: “Rock against the right”, “Ass eh, Zäng ussenander” and the doctors with the “Cry of love”. Tocotronic preferred to practice ironic and anti-protest songs such as “All I want is nothing to do with you” and “We come to complain”. A long time ago.
It’s called your current song “Because they know what they are doing”. Here’s how it goes: “These people are dangerous / Because they know what they’re doing / These people are dangerous / They are completely undistorted / They live completely for granted / Terror as a distorted-looking identity “undistorted.” mean: no more irony, da nowhere. Tocotronic illustrate their warning song in the video and play it in an empty hall in front of a screen on which monster trucks crash into each other. “Maybe they are the symbol of the darkness of our present and the infamy that it is taking over in us, around us and around us”, they explain in means of social communication. “Everywhere we must fight them, not by engaging in their violence, but by fighting their strength with weakness. With that in mind: Rock on! Your Tocs.”
Us against them. THE Us Even in the 2000s and 1920s he felt quite at ease in a parallel society which, based on the “Hamburg School”, had colonized the main German cities. Tocotronic sang: “I’m new to the Hamburg school and I don’t know my way around yet.” It seemed like this, the intellectual irony of the nineties that the record company L’Age D’Or had in mind for a new golden age of German pop music: “Pop can’t be stupid” sang “I Want!” be part of a youth movement be”. So much for the old one Us. Your new one Us Two years ago they sang “Never again war” and “Youth without God against fascism” and “No will triumphs”.
Who are the new others? The right-wing radicals of the nineties, aged completely insensitive to bands like Tocotronic and their children, shouting “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out!” when Gigi D’Agostino’s “L’Amour toujours” plays, they call the song “Döpdödödöpdöp” and we want to be a youth movement. Tocotronic instead sing: “This is why we need to fight them / Because they are more and more / This is why we need to fight them, but never with violence / If we kiss them on the mouth, make them cold.” Rock speech against Döpdödödöpdöp. Against people who know exactly who their enemies are, from men without tenacity to city cyclists.
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