Lang Lebe Die Gang

So years ago I basically made this blog into a Lena Meyer-Landrut thing after her Eurovision win. Might as well admit that now since if you’re still curious why anyone cares about her, that’s my fault.

She’s just dropped a track with Genetikk, these masked German rappers, called Lang Lebe Die Gang. It’s for some Netflix show, which I’m not going to sit here pitching because unlike a lot of people, nobody’s paying me to.

The actual thing though—it’s really good. The beat works, the rappers are solid, and Lena sounds like she’s actually into it. Which matters because she’s capable of so much more than the harmless nothing-pop they usually give her. You’ve got Helene Fischer and Sarah Connor and Andrea Berg out there absolutely destroying German music on a regular basis, and here’s Lena actually doing something real.

Maybe this is it. Maybe she breaks through all that noise. Wouldn’t that be something.