Rainbow colors (song)

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Rainbow colors
Kerstin Ott
publication July 27, 2018
length 3:48
Genre (s) Pop - hits
Author (s) Berislaw Audenaerd,
Kraans de Lutin ,
Steven Fritsch,
Kerstin Ott,
Jan Niklas Simonsen
album Courage for disaster
Cover version
2018 Kerstin Ott & Helene Fischer

Rainbow colors is a song by German pop schlager - singer Kerstin Ott . The piece comes from her second studio album, Courage for Disaster, and thanks to the duet with Helene Fischer, it gained greater fame in her home country.

Creation and artwork

The song was written jointly by Berislaw Audenaerd, Kraans de Lutin , Steven Fritsch, Kerstin Ott and Jan Niklas Simonsen. The mixing, production and programming of the piece was done through the collaboration of Brötzmann and Lüth, who can also be heard together on the keyboard. In addition to Brötzmann and Lütz on the keyboard, the well-known studio musician Jörg Sander was hired to play the guitar sounds . The mastering was carried out by HP Mastering Hamburg , under the direction of the studio owner Hans-Philipp Graf. Rainbow Colors was published under the Polydor music label , published by Edition Balalaika Media, Edition Kerstin Ott and Edition Phlexton, and distributed by Universal Music Publishing .

On the cover of a promo single - next to the artist name and song title - you can see Ott's upper body. She wears a white T-shirt, a black and white Adidas jacket and is equipped with an acoustic guitar . The background, in which other acoustic guitars can be seen, is designed in the colors of a rainbow , which flow into one another. The cover picture is the same as on the album Mut zur Katastrophe , only the color scheme is different . The artwork is by Sabine Schiller.

Publication and promotion

Rainbow colors were first released as a promo single on July 27, 2018 for single download. Three weeks later (August 17, 2018) the song was released as part of Ott's second studio album, Courage to Disaster . Again two weeks later (August 31, 2018), Rainbow Colors was released again as a promo single.

In order to promote the song, a number of live appearances took place during prime time at the Schlagerbooom - everything sparkles! Everything is glittering! on ARD , at Willkommen 2019 on ZDF or at the Schlagerchampions - Big Festival of the Best 2019 on ARD. In addition, there are other live appearances such as in the ZDF television garden , the evening show of the Bavarian radio and every Sunday on the ARD. The music streaming service Amazon Prime Music used the song for a radio commercial in 2019 and 2020. In addition, Rainbow was the theme song for Berlin Pride Week .

content

The lyrics to rainbow colors are written in German. The music and the text were written jointly by Berislaw Audenaerd, Kraans de Lutin, Steven Fritsch, Kerstin Ott and Jan Niklas Simonsen. Musically, the song is moving in the field of Pop - Schlager . The tempo is 123 beats per minute . In terms of content, rainbow colors is about tolerance in society , but above all in love. The song deals with marriage for everyone , but is particularly intended to show that love in any form of partnership is normal and always something wonderful. Ott has been married to a woman himself since 2017, and it is an autobiographical piece. Ott himself said the following about the content of the play: “Basically we are all just people who strive for the same goal: to be happy. There are a thousand different ways of life; we should give everyone the chance to be happy in their own way. No one should presume to dictate to another what he or she should wear, what he or she should feel, or whom he or she should love. The song is a clear statement against intolerance and bigotry; and a loud 'yes' to diversity and humanity . Because life is colorful - rainbow colors colorful! "

The song is based on two stanzas and a chorus. It starts with the first verse, followed by a pre-chorus and finally the actual chorus . The second verse is followed by the chorus before the song ends with the same pre-chorus as before the first verse. In addition to Ott's main vocals, the voice of co-author Simonsen can also be heard in the background.

“Come on, let's paint the world.
In rainbow colors, we want them everywhere - rainbow flags.
Come over! Come on, let the world shine.
In rainbow colors, you can see them everywhere - rainbow flags. "

- Refrain, original excerpt

Music video

The music video to rainbow colors celebrated its premiere on August 17, 2018 on YouTube . You can see three different stories. On the one hand you see happy homosexual couples again and again, for example in their everyday life or during their wedding . On the other hand, a little boy can be seen again and again who comes home from school and immediately goes to his desk to paint. With the help of wax crayons , he creates the image of a whale, which is composed of many leaves. Third, you see Ott again and again at different locations singing the song. The rainbow in the form of flags or balloons can always be seen in the background . At one location, Ott is initially alone in a garden, towards the end of the video, her wife Karolina joins them and the two kiss. The total length of the video is 4:01 minutes. As with various Ott music videos before, Oliver Sommer from AVA Studios was again directing the film. To date, the music video has over 45.4 million views on YouTube (as of December 2019).

When asked about the kissing scene with her wife, Ott said that the idea for this originally came from her "video maker". He said it would be great if they did something together in front of the camera. That plunged them into a small “catastrophe” because they had to do “a million” kissing scenes before they even had anything up their sleeves. In principle, Ott and her wife would make sure not to stand in front of the camera together that often, but here her wife was immediately there.

Contributors

Song production

Artwork

Companies

reception

Reviews

  • The German-language Schlager portal schlagerplanet.com called rainbow colors a "hymn to marriage for everyone".

Charts and chart placements

Rainbow colors reached position 23 in Austria and stayed in the charts for a total of 26 weeks. In the Swiss charts , the single reached position 19 in nine chart weeks, its highest chart listing. In Germany, the promo single missed a chart entry into the official Top 100 single . However, the single was placed at position twelve on the Conservative Pop Airplaycharts and for several months in the German iTunes daily evaluations and reached its highest ranking at position six on October 21, 2018.

After Die immer lacht and Scheissmelodie it is the third chart success for Ott as a writer and interpreter in Austria and after Die immer lacht the second in the Swiss charts. Brötzmann thus reached the charts in Austria for the 43rd time and the Swiss single charts for the 36th time in his writing or producer activities. For Lüth as a producer, Regenbogenfarben is the seventh chart success in the Swiss charts and the fourth in Austria. De Lutin reached the single charts in Austria and Switzerland for the second time as an author after Ey DJ ( Culcha Candela ) with rainbow colors . For Audenaerd, Fritsch and Simonsen, rainbow colors represent the first chart success in Austria and Switzerland.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 23 (26 weeks) 26th
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 19th (9 weeks) 9

Awards for music sales

In January 2020, Regenbogenfarben was awarded a gold record in Germany for over 200,000 units sold, making the song one of the best-selling hits in Germany .

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg gold 200,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg 1 × gold
 200,000

Cover versions

Kerstin Ott & Helene Fischer

General information
Cover image for the duet version of rainbow colors .

In the year of its publication, Ott recorded the piece again, in a duet, with the German pop singer Helene Fischer . Both presented the song for the first time at a joint live appearance on the Helene Fischer Show 2018 on ZDF. In contrast to the solo version, the duet was released as an official single on the same day. The duet - like the solo version - was only available as a single download. The stanzas are sung alternately by both of them, the first part being performed by Ott and the second by Fischer. The pre-chorus and chorus both sing together. While the first stanza is gender-neutral, the second stanza addresses different forms of partnership. Ott sings about lines that refer to homosexuality .

Charts and chart placements

While the solo versions of Rainbow Colors missed a chart entry, the duet version reached position 20 in the German single charts and stayed in the charts for 36 weeks. In addition, the single reached position nine of the official top 15 German-speaking singles . Like the solo version, the duet was able to place itself in the German iTunes daily evaluations for several days and reached its highest ranking in second place on December 26, 2018. In 2019, the single occupied position 82 in the German annual single charts .

After Die immer laughs and Scheissmelodie it is the third chart success for Ott as a writer and performer in the German single charts. For Fischer it is the 14th chart success as an interpreter in Germany. Brötzmann reached the German charts for the 76th time in his work as an author or music producer. For Lüth, Regenbogenfarben is the seventh chart success in the German single charts as a music producer. De Lutin reached the German single charts as an author for the fifth time. For Audenaerd, Fritsch and Simonsen, rainbow colors represent the second chart success in Germany after every million colors ( Gestört aber GeiL feat. Voyce).

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 20th (36 weeks) 36
Annual charts
Charts (2019) placement
Annual charts (2019)
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 82

More cover versions

  • 2018: The Smurfs , the music project around the Smurfs released a cover version of rainbow colors entitled Dreamed on the album Hey, Mister DJ .
  • 2020: Giovanni Zarrella ( Arcobaleno ), the German-Italian singer recorded the song in Italian for the "Gold Edition" of his fourth studio album La vita è bella .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  8. ↑ Schlagerchampions - Big Festival of the Best 2019 , Das Erste, January 12, 2019.
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  11. ↑ Every Sunday , Das Erste, August 26, 2018.
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  25. ^ The Helene Fischer Show , ZDF, December 25, 2018.
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  32. ↑ Katrin Voigt: Giovanni Zarrella: Even Kerstin Ott celebrated him for this! schlager.de, January 8, 2020, accessed on January 17, 2020 .