Who are you?
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May 14, 2010 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Music | |||
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15th |
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Beatgees , Christian Behrens |
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Who are you? is the fourth studio album by the German rapper F.R. (Fabian Römer), which was released on May 14, 2010 by Warner Music .
Emergence
Who are you? was produced by the Beatgees , Römer dispensed with features . He described the album as a very personal work. The photos for the album artwork were taken by Paul Ripke . According to Römer, the idea for the artwork came from a dream. In the weeks leading up to the album's release, Römer presented daily videographic comments on the individual songs on his YouTube channel.
Style and background
"Son of a Preacher Man" is the first single from the album. The video for “Son of a Preacher Man” premiered on the website of the music channel MTV on April 27, 2010. In the background you can hear a gospel choir on the album version . The song deals mostly with paradoxical statements ("liquid stone, dry wine, slightly hard to believe but I'm back in my old freshness ...").
“The common thread of the album is actually that most of the songs are very“ questioning ”and torn. That's why I found Son of a Preacher Man so fitting as the first single. On the one hand, you can interpret the text as a totally offensive announcement, bursting with self-confidence. On the other hand, he is also quite self-critical, or rather torn. "
According to FR, he could not have imagined a “looser” title like “Excess All Areas” before. This is also related to his personal life situation, which has relaxed. “That's what I live for” describes an ordinary morning from two different perspectives. The first stanza is accompanied by a continuous piano melody that is intended to achieve a melancholy mood. The second verse, on the other hand, is accompanied by a melody that creates a more cheerful atmosphere. The song has track number 15, with the hidden track being heard on the same track a short time later. "Give it here" is for the time being FR's participation in the series "Shut up" by AggroTv. On the album you hear the "Shut up version" with a chorus . The song contains ironic allusions to German C celebrities and self-deprecating allusions ("Sentences like F ** k your mother would hardly have expected from me ...").
reception
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Dani Fromm wrote for Laut.de that through the collaboration with the Beatgees , the beats were much more mature and appropriate than in the previous releases by Römer. The young rapper is not trying to “take on poses that you wouldn't buy from him anyway.” Overall, who are you? Römer's best album so far.
The first single, Son of a Preacher Man , reached number one five times in May and June 2010 on the MTV- produced program Urban TRL .
On May 28, 2010, Who are you? for one week at number 49 in the German album charts .
Track list
The album contains 15 regular tracks, plus the hidden track Let me repeat .
- priorities
- Son of a Preacher Man
- Sometime
- Give it to me
- Choice of agony
- Elbows out
- Volume beats
- FrRrRrRrRr
- Excess all areas
- Second 1
- Don't fool yourself
- No way around
- Who are you?
- Until you are there / Are you there until ...?
- That's what I live for
- Let Me Again ( Hidden Track )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c www.rappers.in: Interview with FR accessed May 27, 2010.
- ↑ rappers.in
- ↑ a b c Disc review on laut.de.
- ↑ Sources chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 May 27, 2010.
- ↑ mzee.com
