When They Drifted
Late night, glass of wine, scrolling through Facebook. Checking in on old friends. What are they up to? Married? Kids? But it’s never just normal updates anymore. Your feed fills with right-wing slogans, immigrant-bashing memes, conspiracy theories about refugees. People you actually liked, now drowning in hate and desperation and whatever lies they’ve bought into.
Fettes Brot’s new song Du driftest nach rechts
is about exactly this. Du driftest nach rechts—you drift right. They drift right. The band frames it like a love story, which somehow makes it worse because maybe that’s what it feels like: someone you care about becoming completely unreachable. War and peace can’t exist in the same place. It’s set to a disco ballad, which sounds all wrong for something this depressing, but the contrast somehow works. You can dance through the sadness of it. You keep riding even though you know where it lands.
The band being this direct about the politics didn’t sit well with people who’ve already made peace with the rightward shift, who are banking on everything sorting itself out. But the song isn’t for them anyway. It’s for the rest of us standing on the sidelines, watching people we knew disappear into something unrecognizable.