The Country needs new men
| The Country needs new men | |
|---|---|
| Ina Deter Band | |
| publication | 1982 (album) 1983 (single) |
| length | 3:47 |
| Genre (s) | Neue Deutsche Welle |
| Author (s) | Ina Deter |
| Producer (s) | Micki Meuser |
| album | The Country needs new men |
The country needs new men is a song by the singer Ina Deter from 1982. According to official information, the group Ina Deter Band is the interpreter. The song made its breakthrough in 1983. Its title line was then either unchanged or especially as a text framework for the winged word .
background
Ina Deter had previously worked as a songwriter for four albums . Only in a few tracks of their fourth album, All Beginning Are We , even a drum kit appears. After Ina Deter got to know bassist Micki Meuser and guitarist Manni Holländer and it was decided to perform as a band, the music changed in a brisk direction.
The trigger for the creation of the song New Men Needs the Land was the name of the then current album Welch ein Land! - What for men: the group Extrabreit , whom Ina Deter saw on a record cover or poster in the southern part of Cologne . She was so upset about the supposedly self-righteous statement that she wanted to give a wink answer. As with almost all of the songs published by Deter, she wrote the lyrics and composition herself.
The country needs new men as part of the album of the same name in a studio in the English village of Clare (Suffolk) . The following are named as studio musicians: Guitar : Ina Deter and Steve Carroll; Bass : Micki Meuser; Keyboard : Hitta Thomas and Micki Meuser; Drums : Frank Jermann. Micki Meuser was the producer. In the period from 1982 to 1983, the time of strong media reception, the Ina Deter Band , on the other hand, sat next to Deter as front woman and guitarist from the musicians Manni Holländer (guitar), Micki Meuser (bass), George Kochbeck (keyboard) and (with the TV appearances in the summer of 1983) Roberto Cinzano (drums) together. The single was released by the record company Phonogram . On the darkly black, gray and pink record cover, the performer looks at the viewer through a site fence. The B-side consists of a song called The Ice Cream Spoon.
description
The assignment to a genre is controversial. The song and Ina Deter's fundamental oeuvre in the 1980s can best be rated as pop rock . Especially the song New Men Needs the Country was also overlaid by the Neue Deutsche Welle .
From the composition ago, the series mainly verses , the chorus and sections with a distinctive synthesizer - melody together. In terms of content, the point is that the singer is desperately looking for a suitable man for herself in various spectacular ways. For example, she scratches her wish into tree bark , distributes it on leaflets and plans to put it up as neon neon letters. Furthermore, there is also a passage from the song If you are like your laughing , with which she appeared in 1976 in A Song for The Hague , the qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest . The refrain "I spray it on every wall - the country needs new men" contrasts with the rest of the content. Between the words “each” and “wall” there is a yodel-like jump from chest to head voice.
What is remarkable about the studio recording of the song New Men Needs the Land is the strong alienation of the voice towards an imperious, beastly and older-sounding timbre , as it does not occur in any other release of Deter (as of 2016). The overemphasized, voiced alveolar vibrant (the rolling R ) is particularly important . The live performances were therefore not very close to the version that had become known on the sound carriers.
When performing live, Deter sometimes modified the text; It was sometimes said that “the men are sometimes quite fed up” instead of “not quite fed up with the men”, or at the end “the country has great women” instead of the headline. During the concerts she also held the microphone in the audience and let the fans express what demands they would like to “spray on the wall”.
success
Although it was released in 1982 and already featured on some music samplers, the single did not make it into the German charts until the end of June 1983, and although it stayed there for 14 weeks, it did not get past 22nd place. Such a phenomenon can also be observed in many classics by other interpreters from the 80s. At the same time, however, the album climbed to number 13 and remained in the charts for a total of 19 weeks.
In July 1983 Ina Deter presented the song in the ZDF hit parade, which was very popular at the time . Far behind Codo (DÖF) and the now little known Comment ça va (The Shorts), but before the later even more popular Wahnsinn (Wolfgang Petry), she reached third place, which meant she was allowed to perform again in August without rating.
effect
The song was interpreted ambiguously in public. In conjunction with Ina Deter's general commitment to the women's movement , it was often assumed that it contained a militant, socially critical message. Even Ina Deter's friends, who provided a passport photo of themselves for the collage on the album cover, felt misled. New men needs the country was partly boycotted by the radio stations ; at least in the case of the Europawelle Saar , the index came up. Norddeutsche Rundfunk filed a criminal complaint because the line "I spray it on every (house) wall" allegedly contained a call for property damage. The producer Micki Meuser reported in 2016 that he was still regularly receiving statements of hate directed at Ina Deter.
Nevertheless, the text structure (new) (...) the country quickly needs to become a winged word in all areas of life , whether in advertising, as a slogan for various political parties or as a newspaper headline. Based on the distribution in the entire German-speaking area - up to the Belgian region of Eupen and the Italian South Tyrol - it can be seen that the subject does not necessarily stand for Germany , just as little for nation. In addition, the women's movement adopted the slogan. Ina Deter wanted to protect the verdict in a three-year legal process modeled on Gone with the Wind , but without success.
In the following album With Passion , Deter did not create another sensational lyrics. The 1986 album Women are coming slowly - but with the title song of the same name again contains a piece built according to the same pattern, for which Deter raised his fist in performances. Nowadays, Ina Deter is considered a typical representative of the one-hit wonder with New Men Needs the Country . The song belongs to the standard repertoire of Neue Deutsche Welle parties and compilations .
Cover versions
Apart from versions by studio musicians who play a song for samplers as true to the original as possible due to the lack of licensing of the original, and simpler implementations in YouTube culture, only three cover versions by other performers can be listed (as of 2016): In 1996 Housemouse covered the song in the style of Happy Hardcores , in 2001 Die Parasiten presented a punk - and in 2004 LOVE pres. Valezka a contemporary R&B version. For the 2007 released album A Miracle , Deter re-recorded her song himself.
Web links
- Appearance on the ARD show Formula One , June 1983 - shortened studio version
- Concert recording as part of the BR show Rock from Alabama , February 1983 - music and singing live
- Appearance in the ZDF hit parade , July 1983 - music playback, vocals live
- Appearance in the ZDF hit parade , August 1983 - music playback, vocals live
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Ina Deter - Songs live loud and quiet (DVD, 2005)
- ↑ Ina Deter - The Live Album (LP, 1987)
- ↑ Info at swisscharts.com
- ↑ Statistics on Chartsurfer.de
- ^ A page with statistics on the ZDF hit parade
- ↑ a b broadcast male. Female. Do not know. Cabaret artists on political correctness and the gender debate in the series Querköpfe on October 12, 2016 at 9:05 pm on Deutschlandfunk . Audiostream at www.deutschlandfunk.de/querkoepfe.843.de.html , listen from 4'42 ″, sections archived under: < Part 29 ( Memento from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Part 30 ( Memento from October 12 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Part 31 ( Memento from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Part 32 ( Memento from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Part 33 ( Memento from October 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive )>
- ↑ Application example of the idiom in Ostbelgien
- ↑ Application example of the idiom in South Tyrol
- ↑ Proof of the cover version
- ↑ Proof of the cover version
