Everyone for everyone
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| Felix Jaehn & Herbert Grönemeyer | |
| publication | April 22, 2016 |
| length | 3:30 (single version) 3:04 (album version) |
| Genre (s) | Dance-Pop , Europop |
| Author (s) | Michael Geldreich, Herbert Grönemeyer, Felix Jaehn |
| album | I. |
Everyone for Everyone is a song by the German DJ Felix Jaehn , in cooperation with the German pop singer Herbert Grönemeyer . The piece is the sixth single from Jaehn's debut album I and became known as a team song for the German national soccer team during the European soccer championship in 2016 .
Creation and artwork
The song was written jointly by Michael Geldreich, Herbert Grönemeyer and Felix Jaehn. The latter was also responsible for the production together with the German producer quartet Hitimpulse (consisting of: Jeremy Chacon, Jonas Kalisch, Henrik Meinke and Alexsej Vlasenko). In addition, the producer quartet also mixed the piece. The mastering took place under the direction of the Berlin producer Lex Barkey. The piece was recorded in the Berlin Hansa Studios . The single was released under the music label Island Records and published by Duende Songs Musikverlag, Polarbear Musikverlag, Sony / ATV Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing .
On the cover of the maxi single, only the artist names and the song title can be found in black letters against a white background. The performers (left justified) and the song title (right justified) are separated from each other by a small horizontal green line. An alternative cover image contains the logo of the German national soccer team (“Die Team”) in the top right corner . Inside the CD you can find the lyrics for Everyone for Everyone .
Publication and promotion
The first release of Jeden für Jeden took place as a single download on April 22, 2016. Two weeks later, a 2-track single was also released on CD and download. This has been expanded to include a remix by the London indie electro quartet Kid Cupid.
Everyone for Everyone was chosen by the German Football Association (DFB) to be the official team song for The Team during the 2016 European Football Championship . The first also used the song as the theme song for his coverage of the tournament, so the song could be heard at the beginning and end of all commercial breaks and during all daily summaries. Shortly before the European Football Championship, the DFB published a documentary on its YouTube channel entitled The Team: Everyone for Everyone . In this, the German national player Mario Götze reports on the emotional state of a footballer after winning a world championship and the connection between everyday football and music.
background information
- Cooperation between Jaehn and the German national team
How the cooperation between Jaehn and the national team came about, he himself said the following in an interview that was published on the official YouTube channel of the DFB: “I've been in contact with a few of the kickers for a long time and then we have heard music together at some point. I think the first ones I sat with were Jérôme , Mario and İlkay ; and then we just played music. I've shown them a lot of projects I'm currently working on. I also make a lot of different sounds and styles. Then we talked about music, a little bit about life and then they talked about what they do, which we all know what they do. But of course it's exciting to get an insight into what actually moves you. We have a WhatsApp group where some of the players and I are in, where you can always bounce ideas back and forth. I found that very interesting and somehow took it with me and then talked to Herbert about the topic at some point. It just came out that Herbert is also a big football fan and is totally interested in it. "
After Jaehn was finished with the composition, he met for an exchange with Mario Götze , İlkay Gündoğan , André Schürrle and Bastian Schweinsteiger, among others . He played the composition for them. They were enthusiastic about the instrumental and at the same time Jaehn asked the players for help by telling him what was going on with them before a tournament so that they could create the text. The exchange of ideas in the common WhatsApp group as well as the personal exchange formed the musical framework of the piece. Jaehn himself confirm that he and his team had implemented two or three ideas from the players. It is nice that the players have dealt with the topic so actively.
- Cooperation between Jaehn and Grönemeyer
After the musical framework was set up with the help of the German national team, they still needed a voice. It was clear that the singing had to be in German because they wanted to address the whole of Germany with the song. Not many could do that, so they quickly got to Herbert Grönemeyer. For decades he has been one of the most successful German musicians, who has also accompanied Jaehn from a very young age. He wrote “great texts” that got under your skin - and he was a big football fan himself. Jaehn himself told himself that it was an absurd idea, but Grönemeyer was immediately interested. They met in the Berlin Hansa Studios , where they would simply have sat on a sofa and Jaehn told the story of his WhatsApp group with the national team. According to Grönemeyer, they only talked for four hours before he began to write a melody on it. Both decided to write a text about it that should revolve around: "How is it when you are faced with a big, new task?"
- Cooperation between Jaehn, Grönemeyer and the German national team
After the first draft text was a tad too football-like, the second was more general. This second version went to the players as a demo recording . Before the England game in Berlin (March 26, 2016) Götze, Neuer, Khedira, Kramer, Reus and Trapp visited the musician duo in the studio and gave them personal feedback . Parts of these meetings can also be seen in the official music video. The suggestions from the players were constructive. For example, Götze came up with the idea of adding a short instrumental part after the first chorus. The players present not only contributed through their feedback, they also clap to the music during the chorus. Usually you take something like that off the tape. But the players stood there and clapped happily, which was very cheerful, says Grönemeyer.
- Grönemeyer as a repeat offender
For the second time Grönemeyer sang a title with Everyone for Everyone , which was directly related to a major football tournament of the German men's national football team. In 2006, his song Time That Was Turns , which he recorded with the African duo Amadou & Mariam , was the official anthem for the 2006 World Cup .
content
The lyrics to Jeden für Jeden are written in German. The music was made jointly by Michael Geldreich, Herbert Grönemeyer and Felix Jaehn; the text specially written by Grönemeyer. Musically, the song moves in the area of dance pop , disco and europops . The tempo is 142 beats per minute .
The piece consists of two stanzas, a bridge and a refrain. The song begins with the first verse, followed by a bridge and then the chorus for the first time. The same process is repeated with the second stanza. The song ends with an outro that repeats the last two lines of the chorus after “Everyone for Everyone”. The refrain is made up of two rhymes . The main song of the song comes from Grönemeyer alone; Jaehn only works as an instrumentalist. According to Island Records and Universal Music, the song is supposed to connect and merge two generations and contains the statement: “Cohesion is above the ego, cooperation leads to success! Everyone for everyone. "
“And the tremor that carries you away, where happiness pulsates.
It's called life and the head turns, euphoric.
This is life, one for all and all one with you.
Everyone for everyone, the promise happens together. "
Music video
A total of two music videos have been published for each for each . First, on May 31, 2016, a poetry video premiered on YouTube. As in typical lyric videos, the current lyrics are always displayed during the video. There are no large visual effects during the video, you can only see the names of both artists in the upper left corner and the lyrics on the lower right edge. It is the same color scheme as the cover picture for the single. Directed by Berlin Heat.
The second, official music video, was shot on March 26, 2016 and premiered on June 10, 2016, two weeks after the lyric video was released. It begins with Jaehn, who is initially walking alone on a beach. Shortly afterwards he can be seen playing football with his friends on the said beach. Meanwhile, Jaehn wears an official top of the DFB. After this scene you can see Jaehn's daily routine the next morning, who makes his way to the recording studio. In this he meets Grönemeyer and parts of the German national soccer team, with whom he records the piece. From the national team, Mario Götze , Sami Khedira , Christoph Kramer , Manuel Neuer , Marco Reus and Kevin Trapp are present in the studio. In the further course, alternating scenes from the DFB documentary The Team: Everyone for Everyone , other people playing football as well as Jaehn and Grönemyers (during a live performance) can be seen. The total length of the video is 3:30 minutes. Directed by Olaf Heine . To date, both music videos have over four million clicks on YouTube (as of March 2018).
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reception
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Those in charge of the ARD were enthusiastic about the piece and the cooperation between Jaehn and Grönemeyer. “This duo, like football itself, connects generations. I am really pleased that we have a song on ARD again this year, which we will hopefully combine with another title for our team ”, said program director Volker Herres . The ARD sports coordinator Axel Balkausky made the statement: “Felix and Herbert in one team. To translate it from music to football, it is as if Mesut and Günter were playing in a team. More is not possible."
The song fell through with the German magazine Musikexpress , they titled the piece among other things as "Musical Cabinet of Horrors". The song contains “808-Rattlesnake-Snares”, a whining Grönemeyer, “Tropical-Großraumdisse-House-Beats” and a pathetic “We-hold-everyone-together-are-a-team-chorus”. What reads like a “ perfidious dream” of a “ sadistic young producer” is bitter reality. The piece is difficult to understand because of the unrecognizable intention of this cooperation. Jaehn is probably enjoying the current success to the fullest and the music labels want to milk their cash cows; And that is currently going very well with a cozy “Bauspar-House”. All he has to do is write off his musicality and artistic standards. The fact that Grönemeyer sings morally borderline lines, such as “It is the waving colors for which everything is worthwhile”, would not be questioned by the “common consumer” given the “foggy feel-good sound”. Papa and son should just lie in each other's arms happily and proudly while the best scenes of the first half race through the airwaves. Should you one day ask yourself what all this has to do with football, the song could still have a “1A career” as the soundtrack of the next “ Bundeswehr image campaign”.
Charts and chart placements
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Everyone for Everyone reached position 27 in the single charts in Germany and stayed in the charts for a total of eight weeks. In addition, the single was able to place itself in the iTunes daily evaluations for several weeks , reaching its highest rating on June 13, 2016 with position seven.
For Jaehn as an interpreter, this is the fifth chart success in Germany. It is his fourth chart success as a producer and his third as a writer after Book of Love and Voice . Grönemeyer reached the charts as an interpreter for the 39th time with Everyone for Everyone . In his writing activities he reached the German single charts for the 42nd time. For Geldreich it is the second chart success as an author after Hey Girl ( Cro ). The members around Hitimpluse all reached the German single charts for the first time.
Web links
- Music video for Everyone for Everyone (lyric video) on YouTube
- Music video for Everyone for Everyone (official video) on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e “Everyone for Everyone”: Jaehn and Grönemeyer feat. "The team". dfb.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Felix Jaehn, Herbert Grönemeyer - Everyone for everyone. discogs.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Repertoire search. online.gema.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Felix Jaehn / Herbert Grönemeyer - Everyone for Everyone. austriancharts.at, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ The ARD EM song 2016 is certain: Everyone for Everyone by Felix Jaehn and Herbert Grönemeyer. universal-music.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ The team: Everyone for everyone - Documentary. youtube.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Interview: Felix Jaehn on 'Everyone for Everyone'. youtube.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Behind the Scenes: Felix Jaehn and The Team in Exchange. youtube.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ BPM for 'Everyone for Everyone' by 'Felix Jaehn'. songbpm.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Felix Jaehn & Herbert Grönemeyer with the song 'Everyone for Everyone'. mix1.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Everyone for everyone (poetry video). vevo.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Everyone for everyone. vevo.com, accessed March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ “Grusel EM Song” on ARD by Felix Jaehn and Herbert Grönemeyer. tz.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Musical horror cabinet: Herbert Grönemeyer sings for Felix Jaehn. musikexpress.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Felix Jaehn / Herbert Grönemeyer - Everyone for Everyone. officialcharts.de, accessed on March 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Felix Jaehn & Herbert Grönemeyer - 'Everyone for Everyone' German iTunes Chart Performance. itunescharts.net, accessed March 8, 2018 .