Well

Well
Peter Maffay
publication	1983 August 1, 1994 (Live)
length	4:10
Genre (s)	pop
text	Rolf Zuckowski
music	Peter Maffay
album	Tabaluga or the journey to reason
Cover versions
1995	Once again
2002	Scooter
2008	Alexander Marcus
2010	Adoro
2011	23 ( Bushido & Sido ) feat. Peter Maffay
2012	DJ brainstorm
2015	Peter Maffay & Udo Lindenberg
2019	ASP

Nessaja is a song by Peter Maffay from the concept album Tabaluga or Die Reise zur Vernunft from 1983, which was also released as a single. Especially because of Maffay's 1994 release of a live version of the song as a single under the title I never wanted to be grown up / Nessaja's song , the song is sometimes also titled with Nessaja's song or the chorus line I never wanted to be grown up . The text of Nessaja was written by Rolf Zuckowski . In the German single charts , the song reached number 17, making it the most popular song from the entire Tabaluga series. Nessaja has been covered several times by various artists. The best-known version is the song of the same name by the band Scooter from 2002, which reached number one in the German single charts and a top 10 position in several other European countries. According to the record awards, this version has sold over 265,000 times. Also commercial and media attention reached a 2011 together with Peter Maffay under the title adult be released version of the Berlin rapper Bushido and Sido .

content

The song represents the last station of the dragon Tabaluga on the album , where he meets the turtle Nessaja. With the song she tells him that she never wanted to grow up and has always remained a little child at heart.

Track list

Single (1983)

1. Well - 4:10
2. Tabaluga - 2:22

I Never Wanted To Grow Up / Nessaja's Song (Live!) - Single (1994)

1. I never wanted to grow up / Nessaja's song (Live!) - 3:50
2. The notes have faded away - 5:55

Commercial win

With Nessaja , Maffay was able to place himself in the German single charts for a total of 18 weeks in 1983 and reached its highest position at number 17 over two weeks. The live version of the song I never wanted to grow up / Nessaja's song , published in 1994, reached number 83 in the German single charts and was in the top 100 for a total of 7 weeks.

Charts	Highest ranking (1983)
Germany	17th

Charts	Highest ranking (1994)
Germany	87

Cover versions

Scooter version (2002)

Well
Scooter
publication	April 8, 2002
length	3:28
Genre (s)	trance
music	Scooter
Label	Sheffield Tunes
album	Encore - Live & Direct

A trance version of Nessaja was released by the group Scooter on April 8, 2002 as the first and only single from the live album Encore - Live & Direct , on which the song was the only previously unreleased Scooter title. The song reached number 1 in the German singles charts and was awarded a gold record in Germany and Norway .

Track list

1. Well - 3:28
2. Nessaja (Extended) - 5:18
3. Nessaja (The Ultimate Clubmix) - 7:08
4. Shortbread - 3:55

Commercial win

In Germany, Nessaja stayed at number 1 in the single charts for a total of 3 weeks and reached the top 10 in many other European countries. In Germany, the song received a gold record for more than 250,000 units sold. At the Echo Awards 2003 , Nessaja was awarded in the National Dance Act category.

Annual charts (2002)	placement
Germany	18th
Austria	24
Switzerland	78
United Kingdom	119

Charts	Top ranking
Germany	1
Austria	2
Switzerland	7th
United Kingdom	4th
Denmark	5
Norway	2
Finland	7th
Australia	24

country	Award
Germany	gold
Norway	gold

Use in other media

This version was also used for the beginning of the film Brüno by Sacha Baron Cohen .

Being an adult (version with Bushido & Sido)

Well
23 ( Bushido & Sido ) feat. Peter Maffay
publication	October 14, 2011 (album) December 9, 2011 (single)
length	4:08
Genre (s)	rap
text	Rolf Zuckowski , Peter Maffay , Sido , Bushido
music	Sido , Bushido , Peter Maffay
Label	Sony BMG / Columbia
album	23

In 2011 Peter Maffay recorded another version for their album 23 together with Bushido and Sido under the title Being Grown up. This version was able to place itself at number 29 in the single charts in Germany and Austria.

background

At the suggestion of Bushido, who had already had a successful collaboration with the pop singer Karel Gott under the title Forever Young, Sido and Bushido had already planned to set a song from Maffay's Tabaluga musical to work on 23. After the rappers had tried various other versions, Bushido asks Maffay personally about a collaboration for being an adult , which the singer immediately agreed to. Growing up was originally intended to be a heavily advertised single. However, before such appearances on television shows such as Schlag den Raab could come, the collaboration between Maffay and Bushido & Sido came to a standstill.

In autumn 2011 Bushido was awarded the Bambi in the Integration category. This award was heavily criticized from various sides because of the content of earlier texts by Bushido. As a result, the pop singer Heino returned the Bambi he had been awarded in 1990. Maffay, who had presented Bushido with the award as laudator , initially sided with him in the public discussion and appealed to society that Bushido deserved a "second chance" from it.

A little later, Bushido, Maffay and Sido were guests in an edition of the ZDF show Markus Lanz , which was due to a heated discussion between the guests with Lanz and the cabaret artist Gabi Decker, who was also present as a guest, about Bushido's and Sido's musical past and the portrayal of violence in the music video her previously released single So I do it attracted increased media attention. A week later, Maffay ended the collaboration with the two rappers, because according to his statements, Bushido in particular did not want to do without publications of this kind in the future.

content

The sung by Peter Maffay chorus of the original song Nessaja is in his adult supplemented by one each rapped verse Bushido and Sido, in which both each explain that one should not lose in aging its youthfulness.

production

In addition to Bushido and Sido, the producers Beatzarre and Djorkaeff were responsible for the production of the song . The melody of the song was recorded by the Breslau Orchestra, conducted by Joris Bartsch-Buhle. The song was recorded in Copenhagen .

Track list

single

1. Being an adult - 4:08
2. Growing Up (Instrumental) - 4:08

Music video

The completely black and white music video for being grown up shows Bushido in front of burning garbage cans, Maffay on a ship and Sido in a backyard, whose wall is written with the text of his verse, reciting their respective contributions to the song. None of the three protagonists meet during the video, but at the end of the video Bushido and Sido are shown together on a split screen .

The video has been viewed over 19 million times on YouTube to date (as of May 2017).

Commercial win

Growing up was able to place himself in the singles charts in Germany as well as in Austria at number 29. In Germany the title stayed in the charts for a total of 8 weeks, in Austria for 6 weeks.

Charts	Top ranking
Germany	29
Austria	29

Further versions with Peter Maffay

Peter Maffay recorded the title several times with other artists. In 1998 he sang the title with José Carreras on his album Encounters . In 2015 he interpreted it on the fifth Tabaluga concept album Long live friendship with Udo Lindenberg . In the same year he took it on as part of the Ein Herz für Kinder campaign with Mario Adorf .

More cover versions

In 1995 the group Once Again recorded a cover version of the song. In 2002 the tenor Volker Bengl sang the title on his album Leb ' dein Träume .

Later cover versions were often based on Nessaja's scooter version. In 2008 the German singer Alexander Marcus reinterpreted them for the album Hands on Scooter , on which several interpreters re-recorded various scooter hits.

In 2010 the group Adoro released a new version of Nessaja on their album Glück . Helene Fischer released a live recording of the title in 2011. DJ Brainstorm covered the title in 2012. Tim Bendzko was featured on the third giraffe sampler in 2014 with the song.

In 2015, the German pop singer Axel Fischer released a cover version of Nessaja , for which he was also awarded the Ballermann Award in the “Best Cover Song” category. In the same year the harmonica player Michael Hirte published an instrumental version of the song on his album Sehnsuchtsmelodien .

In 2019 Alexander "Asp" Spreng and his gothic novel rock band ASP released a cover version of Nessaja as a bonus track on the bonus CD of the album Kosmonautilus .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources (Scooter): DE AT CH UK DK NO FI AUS
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Awards (Scooter): DE NOR ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Chart sources live version (1994): DE
5. ↑ Annual chart sources (Scooter): AT CH UK (PDF; 317 kB)
6. ^ Brüno (2009) - Soundtracks IMDB.com
7. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources (23): DE AT
8. ↑ ^{a b} Sido and Bushido: It's not about reconciliation , fr-online.de, October 13, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2013.
9. ↑ Interview: Sido & Bushido juice.de, January 12, 2012, accessed on November 27, 2013.
10. ↑ Outraged Heino returns Bambi because of Bushido , welt.de, November 12, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2013.
11. ^ Riot at Lanz - "We are all Arschlöcher" welt.de, November 25, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2013.
12. ↑ Bushido and Sido ensure a spicy discussion at Lanz derwesten.de, November 25, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2013.
13. ↑ Lanz: Indictment Talk with Bushido and Sido , November 24, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2013.
14. ↑ Maffay reveals - times don't change Bushido , welt.de, December 2, 2011, accessed on November 27, 2013.
15. ↑ Because of violent videos: Maffay gives Sido and Bushido a basket .
16. ↑ A heart for children. (No longer available online.) Tabaluga - wasistfreundschaft.net, December 5, 2015, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 15, 2015 . 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.  
17. ↑ Shop - 2CD "Kosmonautilus" - Digibook Edition. Retrieved December 3, 2019 .