Concentrated Sadness

MoTrip decided the perfect setting for an emotional ballad called So wie du bist was a dark strip club. Everyone’s concentrated and sad, staring into mirrors, really feeling it. Where’s it more dramatic and deep than that? Nowhere.

I’m guessing MoTrip—Mohamed El Moussaoui—has spent some real time in places like this. Most people cry about breakups under rain with old photos. Mohamed’s emotional moments apparently happen surrounded by poles and neon lights. That’s how he feels things.

The wild part is who shows up: Lena Meyer-Landrut, the pop star who now wants to be called just Lena, working as a stripper with the same devastated look as everyone else. Makes you wonder what MoTrip did to end up with this many women looking destroyed. Probably never will find out.

There’s something honest about it, even if it’s ridiculous. A German rapper committing to this—strip club sadness as his whole emotional language—and getting a pop star to commit with him. That’s either genius or completely delusional, and I genuinely don’t know which is more interesting.