Detlev (song)
| Detlev | |
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| Ixi | |
| publication | 1982 |
| length | 3:51 |
| Genre (s) | Neue Deutsche Welle |
| text | Gaby Tiedemann ("Ixi") |
| music | Felix Kautsky (as Felix Clemens ) |
| Label | Metronomes |
| album | The Hickey (All Hits In Maxi Version) (1983) |
Detlev is a song by the German singer Ixi that was released as a single in 1982 . The song is assigned to the Neue Deutsche Welle .
background
Detlev was recorded as Ixi's first song after she met her future producer Felix Kautsky in a Hamburg restaurant. The text is from Ixi; the music of Felix Kautsky. When the later co-producer Balthasar Schramm sent the demo to the record company Metronome , it was used there as a birthday present for the boss of the company, whose first name was "Detlev". This allowed them to take over the company's product manager and Ixi got a record deal. The single was produced within three days. The song Maso Maso Masochist was used as the B-side .
The single was released with two covers . On the one hand with Ixi in front of a tiled wall in pink, on the other hand as a pure tile pattern with artist's name and a cryptic explanation: "IXI = ICKXZSI".
The song was released a year later on Der Knutschfleck (all hits in maxi version) , the only album (basically a compilation ) in Ixi's short career.
content
The song is about a girl who tries to seduce her boyfriend into prostitution because he has a positive attitude towards men. An unusual perspective for the time, the classic understanding of roles was different. However, the book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo described a similar scenario in which both protagonists went to work. Despite the similarity of names ( Christiane F's friend in the book was also called Detlev), the book and the song have nothing in common. Rather, Detlev was already a cliché name for homosexuals through the Detlev songs by Friedhelm Riegel .
success
The song did not make it into the German charts because the song caused controversy because of the line Detlev I ask you, come on the streets for me in Germany and was hardly played by the radio stations. For this reason, a censored version was created in which the "dash" was beeped away. But even this was unsuccessful. The play was defended by the youth magazine Bravo . Ixi tried to market herself as a representative of the “Neue Frechen Welle” based on the Neue Deutsche Welle. As a debut single, the sales figures were sufficient to be able to produce the successor single Der Knutschfleck .
The music video of the song was played one year after it was published on the ARD music show Formula One , the Bavarian radio did not broadcast it as a censorship measure. Homosexuality was still a taboo topic on German television at the time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Michael Tann: "Don't give me a hickey - all just not a hickey" - that's what it sounded like in 1983 from all radio stations , interview with Gaby Tiedemann, ichwillspass.de, around 1992
- ↑ GEMA - Members - Online Database - Musical Works. December 17, 2012, accessed May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ a b NDW - Walls of gray cities. The New Deutsche Welle 1977–85 . Bear Family 2015. pp. 12-15
- ↑ Der Knutschfleck (All hits in maxi version) on Discogs
- ↑ Ralf J. Raber: I want all of this to exist! - Homosexuality on Record, Part 2 (1952–1976) ISBN 3-89916-076-2
- ↑ Katja Kullmann : Generation Ally: why it is so complicated to be a woman today , Eichborn Verlag, 2002, p. 18