‘I thought we could see past language, but we really can’t.’
Helen Brew is a Chemistry Teacher.
Without knowing anything:
Well… After last week which I really enjoyed, I thought you would throw me some kind of curve ball, but you really didn’t. What a good song. The only thing about this that I can fault (yes, I really liked it that much) is the lack of a music video. Last week I gauged everything I learnt about the song from the music video, this week I had to really sit back and listen to the music. And shockingly, I have absolutely no idea what was going on. But that didn’t really matter to me. The sound was so reminiscent of the music I grew up listening to as a rebellious teenager during the 1970/80s I could really relate to it on a ground level. It was pretty easy listening as well, for someone who likes rock music, that is. To me it was so similar to the sound of Western rock music that it didn’t really bother me that I could understand the German words.
After being informed:
Only 1 million views? That really shocks me if I’m honest with you. The sound is so English, so American that I really thought it would appeal to us Westerners… I thought we could see past it being language but we really can’t. And that to me is quite sad really, we are so stuck with what we are fed by the media in England and America that we don’t try to explore any further… It must be so hard for musicians outside of Anglo-America to make anything of themselves because we are the biggest markets in the world. Saying that, it’s difficult for Anglo-American artists to make it here as well. I simply wish I could understand it because the political undertones would be so interesting to hear for someone, such as myself, who was growing up in a time of political unrest.