let's go
| let's go | |
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| Gunslinger | |
| publication | 15th July 2014 |
| length | 4:06 (album version) 3:36 (single version) |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| Author (s) | Niels Grötsch, Kristoffer Hünecke , Jakob Sinn, Johannes Strate |
| Award (s) | Bundesvision Song Contest winner title |
| album | Always on the move |
Let's go is a song by German pop-rock - band gunslinger . The piece is the third single from her fourth studio album Always in Motion and the winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2014 .
Creation and artwork
The song was written by Niels Grötsch, Kristoffer Hünecke , Jakob Sinn and Johannes Strate . The single was produced by Philipp Steinke , with Clemens Matznick at his side as co-producer. In addition to the production, both were also responsible for the recording. The mastering took place through 24-96 mastering in Karlsruhe under the direction of Robin Schmidt. The song was mixed at Hansa Mix Room in Berlin under the direction of Moritz Enders. Chris Rodriguez on bass and Philipp Steinke on keyboard were also hired as instrumentalists. The song was released under the Columbia Records music label . On the cover of the maxi single - in addition to the inscription of the artist and the song title - the capital letters R and H can be seen against the background of a beach backdrop. The cover picture is identical to that of the album, only the background design differs from the original. The cover picture was shot by Benedikt Schnermann and designed by Stefan Mückner.
Publication and promotion
The first release of Lass uns geht took place on July 15, 2014 as a single download. The physical single was released two months later on September 12, 2014 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The maxi single was released as a 2-track single and contains a remix version of Let's Go by Helgi Jonsson with the title "Island Version" as the B-side .
In order to promote the song, there followed, among other things, live appearances during prime time in the Eurovision show The big grill show , at Geht's noch ?! Kaya's week , in the single annual chart edition of the ultimate chart show and during the Grand Prix Party on Hamburg's Reeperbahn following the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 . In September 2014, Lass uns geht accompanied commercials for the German music streaming service Ampya and the German TV station RTL II .
- EM song for concerned citizens
In the run-up to the 2016 European Football Championship , AfD politician Alexander Gauland caused a scandal with his remark about Jérôme Boateng , when he claimed in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung : “People think he is a football player. But they don't want a Boateng as a neighbor. ”The satirical magazine extra 3 picked up on this and asked the question on Facebook :“ What are they doing now during the EM? ”. On June 2, 2016, the magazine gave a musical answer to this during its latest issue: The moderator Christian Ehring presented together with Revolverheld and the author Heinz Strunk ( The Party member ) an EM song for the "concerned citizens", whereby it was is a modified version of Let's Go .
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The lyrics to Lass uns geht are written in German. The music was written by Niels Grötsch, Kristoffer Hünecke, Jakob Sinn and Johannes Strate and the text by Kristoffer Hünecke and Johannes Strate. Musically, the song moves in the field of pop-rock . In addition to the main vocals of Strate, the remaining members of Revolverheld can be heard in the background, as well as the two musicians involved in the production, Chris Rodriguez and Philipp Steinke, and the singers Jonatha Brooke , Anne de Wolff , Ulrich Rode and Valentine Romanski .
The song is about deceleration: out of everyday life and away from things that stress or boring, towards freedom and the good life, so the tenor. The text also addresses the fact that far too often people do not notice how captivated they are by supposedly important everyday problems.
- Refrain, original excerpt
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- Refrain, Em song for the concerned citizens
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Bundesvision Song Contest 2014
Revolverheld won the Bundesvision Song Contest 2014 for their state of Bremen with 56 points ahead of the band Jupiter Jones , who played for Rhineland-Palatinate , with the song Suddenly the world stops (124 points). During the scoring of all 16 federal states, Revolverheld set themselves apart from their fellow competitors early on by a clear margin. From their home town of Bremen and nine other federal states they each received full points. In the run-up to the performances, small clips were shown for promotion, where Stefan Raab and the Heavytones met the performers in a rehearsal room. Here they all played an acoustic version of their first contribution, remain friends . During their performance, they referred to their accompanying music video by depicting the beginning of the video as puppets.
This was Revolverheld's second participation in this competition. Already in 2006 they competed for Bremen with the title Friends to Stay and at that time took second place behind Seeed , who won for Berlin with the song Ding . For Bremen it is the first victory at the BSC.
When asked why they are participating again, they said the following in an interview with tvtotal: “The BuviSoCo is a big family gathering. Many bands we are friends with will be there again this year. That always ends with a passable party. In addition, there is no other program on German TV in which German-language music gets so much attention. "
- Number of most 12-point awards: 10
- Highest score achieved in the competition: 180
- Highest gap between first and second place: 56
- Lowest Highest Score: 10 (Along with Peter Fox - Black to Blue and Xavas - Don't look back anymore )
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Before the competition, Revolverheld bet not to win and otherwise to appear at the next Werder Bremen home game in the Weserstadion . After the win, the band played their winning title on the following Tuesday, September 23, 2014 before the game against FC Schalke 04 .
Music video
The first music video for Let's Go celebrated its premiere on July 21, 2014 on the Vevo video portal . You can see concert and backstage excerpts from their 2014 Always in Motion Tour . The total length of the video is 3:25 minutes. Directed by Patrick Wulf.
The second music video celebrated its premiere on September 17, 2014 on the MyVideo video portal . The video begins with a children's birthday party, where all the children are dressed up as knights. While all the children storm into the living room to watch a Gunslinger concert (Gunslinger as puppets), a boy is picked up by a girl on a horse. Together with the horse they go through nature and go fishing, fly a kite, steal a basket of apples, scratch their initials (L + L) in a tree and let off steam in a pile of hay. At the end both of them stand together with the horse in front of a large castle. The video ends with them shaking hands like a couple in love and moving on with their horse. The total length of the video is 3:33 minutes.
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Reviews
The former German national soccer player Marco Bode wrote the following in "Track by Track" about let's go :
“Nice, slightly melancholy song about the longing for peace, nature and the time to deal with the important questions in life again. Routine and without inappropriate effects, this is what “let's go” sounds like, and yet it is difficult to classify into a particular genre. Good thing, because the thoughtful text is in the foreground, which prompts us all to stick our heads out of the rabbit fur again and think about the meaning behind the stressful everyday life. "
Charts and chart placements
Lass uns go reached position four in the single charts in Germany and stayed in the top 10 for three weeks and in the charts for 29 weeks. In Austria, the single reached position 39 in the charts in seven weeks. Although the song did not make it to number one in Germany, it was still the most successful German-language song in the German single charts for a period of two weeks . In 2014, the single placed 68 in the German single annual charts.
For Revolverheld this is the 14th chart success in Germany and the tenth chart success in Austria. It is her fifth top 10 success in Germany . With Lass uns geht Revolverheld achieved the second highest chart position in the German single charts after Helden in 2008 .
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Awards for music sales
In March 2015, Lass uns geht was awarded a gold record in Germany for over 150,000 units sold.
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 gold
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150,000 |
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1 × gold |
150,000 |
Cover versions
- 2018: The Irish rock singer Rea Garvey covered the piece as part of the VOX music show Sing my Song - Das Tauschkonzert and presented it in the opening broadcast of the fifth season - on the theme evening of Johannes Strate / Revolverheld . He rewrote the stanzas in English; he left the refrain in the original. It was the first time that Garvey appeared with a German-language title. The piece can also be found on the accompanying sampler.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunslinger - Always on the move. discogs.com, accessed September 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Back of the cover
- ↑ Let's Go (Single Version) - Single. itunes.apple.com, accessed July 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Let's go single. amazon.de, accessed on September 15, 2014 .
- ↑ The big grill show. zdf.de, accessed on September 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Gunslinger. facebook.com, accessed September 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Markus Wehner, Eckart Lohse: "Not as neighbors": Gauland insults Boateng . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 29, 2016, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 10, 2017]).
- ↑ EM song for “concerned citizens” becomes an internet hit. focus.de, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
- ↑ 6 questions to Gunslinger. tvtotal.prosieben.de, accessed on September 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Revolverheld play in the Weserstadion. weser-kurier.de, accessed on December 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Gunslinger. facebook.com, accessed July 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Gunslinger - Let's Go. officialcharts.de, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Gunslinger - Let's Go. austriancharts.at, accessed on October 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Top 100 single annual charts 2014. officialcharts.de, accessed on March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on April 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Sing my song - The Exchange Concert, VOX, April 24, 2018.
- ↑ Sing my song - The Exchange Concert, Vol. 5 (Deluxe Edition). itunes.apple.com, accessed May 1, 2018 .
| predecessor | position | successor |
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Either way ( bosses ) |
Winner song of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2014 |
Stomach and head ( Mark Forster ) |
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Löppt ( De fofftig Penns ) |
 BremenBremen at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2014 |
Ghosts ( Gloria ) |