CVJM (song)
| YMCA | |
|---|---|
| Extra wide | |
| publication | May 28, 1996 |
| length | 2:30 (radio mix) / 2:57 (album mix) |
| Genre (s) | German rock , punk rock |
| Author (s) | Victor Willis , Henri Belolo , Jacques Morali |
| text | Kai Havaii , Stefan Kleinkrieg |
| Publisher (s) | Hansa music production |
| album | Every day every night |
CVJM is the title of a song by the German band Extrabreit that was released in 1996 on the album Jeden Tag - Every Night . This is the cover version of the number one hit Y.MCA by the American disco band Village People , which was originally released in 1978. The German-language text of the song was not translated, but rewritten, giving it a biting, ironic tone.
background
The first German-language cover version of YMCA was published by the group Sunday 1978 with the cast of Norman Ascot , Silvia Gehrke, Jutta Kulitza and Peter Schröder, the text for this version was written by Christian Heilburg . It was based closely on the content of the original song.
Other cover versions of German artists followed, but mostly had a humorous or satirical character (for example Conditorei by Trude Herr 1978, LMAA by Günter Willumeit 1979 or also Stabs-UvD by Mike Krüger 1980).
For the extra-wide album Every Day - Every Night , singer Kai Havaii and guitarist Stefan Kleinkrieg planned the recording of two cover versions: On the one hand, a German version of the Slade hit My Oh My from 1983, as well as the reinterpretation of the CVJM material. Together they wrote a new text that approached the topic in an ironic way.
Text comparison (1st stanza), on the left the text from Sunday, on the right the extra-wide text:
Boy why are you hanging out like that
I say: boy, there's no reason for that!
I say boy: take a good look around.
There is so much to experience.
Boy: If you don't know where to go, watch
out boy, because I'll tell you where to go:
Do you know the triangle with the letters
on the door of the YMCA?
Oh boy - I used to be like you too,
boy - but then I joined them,
boy - here with us in the club,
it's off, off, off, off, off, off.
There's a table football tournament in the morning,
then mashed potatoes at lunchtime,
quickly cleaning the kitchen and hissing a Clausthaler,
we're having fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun.
CVJM was the first song of the album released on March 4, 1996 and was released as the second single on May 28, 1996 . The single version was a remix by Uwe Hoffmann , which was called “Radio-Mix” and was 2:30 minutes long. The album version produced by Klaus Scharff and Ingo Krauss, on the other hand, was 2:57 minutes long. Other songs on the publication, which was sold exclusively as a maxi CD, were Heroin and Zur Zeit . Both songs were also part of the album.
The music video for CVJM was shot by Jo Heim .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on cover.info , accessed on December 29, 2019
- ↑ Single information at discogs.com , accessed December 29, 2019
- ↑ Booklet of the CD