i thought about if i was going to write about blümchen seeing as i do like this project a lot and i thought, to hell with it. i really should because it's not like anyone is going to stop reading this blog if i did seeing as i've stated that i love eurodance, written entries about alexia and u96 and all that jazz.
also no one actually reads my blog any ways besides a select few and the rest who visits my blog usually comes for free musics and is usually disappointed when they don't find it. i hope you people stay for the blurbs and my ramblings but i doubt it. but let's get down to the nitty on this one.
i discovered blümchen when "ich bin wieder hier" hit the airwaves in this country, that song was a game-changer in the modus operandi with the blümchen project as it was a) not a cover of an older german song, but a 90's club hit, in this case rozalla's "everybody's free" b) the tempo was not at the usual happy hardcore speeds and was down at 140 bpm.
along with some promotion and a few other hit singles she suddenly had a fanbase in sweden but it was known that within the crowds that liked happycore, she wasn't interesting and it was very vanilla. but it all didn't matter in the end since the more serious hhc fans favoured the dutch and british stuff so it wasn't going to be big in that crowd.
but the formula of the project followed like a few others, singles were remakes of older songs and they were pumped up with ultra girly vocals, a banging tempo with a plain four on the floor with no distorted kicks. and of course reverse bass, luscious synths some cutup breakbeats (usually "think") and very present acidlines.
the team behind the project was arn schlürmann aka paralyzer, producer with roots from the german new wave movement and stani djukanovic aka silence and occasionally lukas hilbert and other people. jasmin wagner who sang was a bubbly personality and she did bring out a good vocal perfomances even outside of the standards of happycore.
this single was a big hit over here and even though "ich bin wieder hier" was the breakthrough, this fermented her status and was a single that was brought out after the album titled "jasmin" had been released. it had high rotation on tv & radio and was a great song.
the song is like many other blümchen song based on an other german song, in this case the hook is borrowed from german band roh. one of the members of roh was lukas hilbert and i think after they did a crossover version featuring guitars with previous single "blaue augen" (also a remake, in that case of ideal's 1980 new wave hit) they decided to full on do a rock version with roh.
this combination is immense and it brings out a slightly different dimension of the song. the big changes is the vocals are done without autotune and the synth melody is done with hilbert & carsten pape vocalising it. they also add backup vocals and all round moshy vibes. i really love the original but i think this version oneups it in so many ways.
the outcome is very over the top but then again the original was over the top so it's not a case of tautology, it's just all round fun.
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