Body cells rock
The Body Cell Rock (also: Every cell in my body is happy ) is a spiritual dance song by Astrid Kuby and Michael Mosaro . A version recorded at seminars and lectures, in which the audience was encouraged to dance and sing along, has had a high number of views on YouTube since 2007 . The catchy tune is supposed to raise the mood, but is also often the target of criticism and ridicule.
Emergence
The Austrian chansonnier Michael Mosaro reported in an interview with Spirit TV about the creation of the song that the dance therapist Astrid Kuby forgot the music CD she needed for her lecture at a trade fair in Hanover and asked Mosaro, who was also exhibiting, for spontaneous accompaniment. She sang the song idea to him and the performance was so successful that they went to other trade fairs together. During a lecture in Munich a video was made in which Kuby, her husband Clemens Kuby and Mosaro performed the song and the accompanying dance on stage. The mixed-age audience sings and dances after the speakers.
Publications
Mosaro released the video when he first set up his YouTube channel in December 2007, which now has over 1 million views. The re-upload from another user, however, has so far reached over 14 million views. In 2008 the song came out as a single CD in several versions on ZYX Records . It is also included on Astrid Kuby's two albums, Spirit Dance and Sing & Dance .
Musical structure
The song in C sharp major consists of two verses , each four bars long, which are sung first by the pre-dancers and then by the audience. The rhythmic structure of the 4/4 time is accentuated by the alternation of quarter and eighth notes. The first verse oscillates between the tonic C sharp and the dominant G sharp and initially only jumps between the three tones C sharp, D flat and ice. The verse ends in C sharp, His and A sharp in the last bar at the end in A sharp minor. The second verse transposes the pendulum movement to A sharp, G sharp and the tonic C sharp, as well as the manageable set of tones on A sharp, G sharp and ice. The last bar is again identical, but is not sung by the audience in the repetition, but called. This four- verse verse is repeated several times in the song - there are no other song elements.
content
In the text presented from the first-person perspective , one's own body is attested to wellbeing. The body is called as a collective of body cells , each of which is "happy" and "in a good mood".
Importance, Criticism, and Success
As a viral video, the title found some cover artists - including in the hip-hop , techno and heavy metal genre.
The doctor and motivator Stefan Frädrich thought the video was “a bit silly”, but was convinced of the mood-enhancing effect of the “catchy tune” in everyday life. In a bad mood or in difficult situations, it enables a “suitable thought”, a positive feeling that the mood is able to follow, which is why he likes to recommend the song to others.
In 2010, Christian Kortmann judged the seminarians shown in the video in an Internet video of the week column in the online edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Collectively, they admit that life out there is too much for them. They want childlike naivety back, they just want to be happy. "He further criticizes the simplicity of the grammar and choice of words:" in a good mood "is an" 80s late-fugitive formulation "that means" nonchalant " to be able to express. The bottom line is that the song performed as a mantra cannot induce the self-healing powers claimed by Kuby and Mosaro; rather, the lecture is "esoteric nonsense" that makes the visitors of the expensive seminars "neither happier nor healthier, but only poorer". However, Kortmann also acknowledges the catchiness of the song when he states that the song “puts the listener's brain cells in a state-like state of swaying (...), the mantra reverberates for a long time. You can hardly defend yourself against it. "
Michael Mosaro himself is aware of the ambivalent reactions to the song and accepts that in addition to serious letters of praise, many viewers of the video also make fun of it. He states: “The essential thing is that the message (...) reaches everyone. And once it's inside, it doesn't get out that fast. And with that the goal is achieved. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Spirit TV: Body cells rock - Michael Mosaro on the creation , YouTube 2010 , accessed on September 14, 2016
- ↑ a b c Astrid Kuby & Michael Mosaro: Every cell in my body is happy . YouTube 2007 , accessed September 14, 2016
- ^ Mosaro: Body cells rock by Mosaro & Astrid Kuby. December 31, 2007, accessed November 16, 2018 .
- ↑ vidomat: Every cell in my body is happy. May 13, 2008, accessed January 23, 2020 .
- ^ Astrid Kuby: Music , Astrid Kuby. Dancing, Singing Joy of Life , accessed on September 14, 2016
- ↑ Manuel: Der Körperzellen -Rocker , Vital-Genuss.de 2008 ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 14, 2016
- ↑ Stefan Frädrich: Be in a good mood again immediately - how does it work? . YouTube 2014 , accessed September 14, 2016
- ↑ Stefan Kortmann: Guru und Mantra-Gang , Süddeutsche Zeitung 2010 , accessed on September 14, 2016
