Queer animals

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Queer animals
Sookee
publication March 10, 2017
length 3:28
Genre (s) Hip hop
text Sookee
music Danger Dan , Riffsn, Timo Sauer
Label Buback
album Mortem & Makeup

Queer animals is a queer - feminist song of rapper Sookee . It was released on March 10, 2017 as the second video extraction from their fourth studio album Mortem & Makeup . With plenty of allusions from the animal kingdom, the text calls for more tolerance towards queer lifestyles and, according to Sookee, is a "reply to the conservative nonsense".

content

In the three stanzas of the song, Sookee lists the sexual practices of various animal species and suggests that humans should compare themselves with animals more often in this regard. In addition to male and female homosexuality , promiscuity , trans and intersexuality , monogamy and group sex are mentioned . In addition, she criticizes Charles Darwin (see sexual selection ) and takes the view that sex is fun and not just for procreation . The text uses some expressions from the queer scene such as "F2M" ( female to male for male transgender ).

The refrain is portrayed from the perspective of a conservative person. The first line alludes to a statement made by Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2013. In the ARD - electoral arena Merkel to the question of a spectator after adoption rights replied that they deal with the full equality of same-sex and heterosexual couples "schwertue" on this issue.

“ I tell him honestly, I have a hard time with it.
There wouldn't be anything like that if I were Federal Chancellor.
If suddenly everyone is gay, then humanity will die out.
You have to choose - men or women. "

background

Two homosexual bitches
Two male mallards

In an interview with the website queer.de , Sookee affirmed that all animal references in Queer Animals had been researched and not “out of thin air”. In fact, “queer animals” are the subject of the interdisciplinary research field Human-Animal Studies , although there is disagreement as to whether terms like “queer” or “homosexual” can be applied to animals. There is also a debate about whether “queer animals” should be used to refute the supposed unnatural nature of homosexuality. A much-cited example of the rearing of boys by same-sex couples in nature is the mourning swan , which is also mentioned in the song. In addition, the text of the song gives the following examples of "queer animals":

Music video

The music video matching the text was monstrously produced by the Berlin animation studio . It was released on Sookee's YouTube channel a week before the album Mortem & Makeup was released on March 10, 2017 . The animals mentioned above, depicted with colorful contours and partly anthropomorphic , can be seen indulging in their sexual habits on a black background . In the refrain, people are shown on TV and at demonstrations, whose conservative standpoints are acknowledged with incomprehension by the watching animals.

reception

The song received consistently positive reviews online. JUICE said that Sookee was able to devote himself to the topics of gender and sexuality in such a way that one “stick with it”. The track is "especially now, when a YouTuber who would like to be a rapper generates millions of clicks with homophobic statements ( Mert Ekşi , note), a positive alternative". The Tagesspiegel saw in the song and Sookee's live performance, in which she wore a headgear in the shape of a snail, a proof that political rap and humor do not have to be a contradiction in terms. In an interview with Sookee, Oliver Marquardt described queer animals with a wink as a “biology lecture”. The Berliner spoke of a social envy of the animal world, where there are no socially prescribed gender roles and where sex often serves as a “means of avoiding conflict”. She also criticized people who tried to legitimize their conservative family image with the natural purpose of reproduction.

In Austria , the song was number one in the FM4 charts for a week from March 25, 2017 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sookee: "In five years we will have openly gay rappers". queer.de, March 25, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Sookee - Queer Animals. genius.com, accessed October 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Angela Merkel on equality for homosexuals - ARD Wahlarena - 09.09.2013. YouTube , September 10, 2013, accessed September 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Helen Keller: Queer. In: Lexicon of human-animal relationships. Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2015, pp. 299–301. ISBN 978-3837622324 . Reading sample .
  5. ↑ Sookee - Queer Animals // Video. JUICE , March 10, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Queer animals under the aluminum hat. Der Tagesspiegel , June 11, 2017, accessed on October 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Oliver Marquardt : Sookee on "Mortem & Makeup", queer animals, children of the right, conspiracy theories. rap.de, March 7, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ The FM4 Charts from March 25, 2017. ORF , March 25, 2017, accessed on October 9, 2017 .