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Farin Urlaub, Rodrigo González and Bela B .: "Three times we have 'Wetten, dass ...?'
declined."
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SPIEGEL:
More than eight years have passed since your last studio album, and your anti-Nazi song "Schrei nach Liebe" was released 27 years ago.
On "Hell" there are now two songs that - in very different ways - deal with right-wing populists.
Did you feel you had to postpone an update?
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Bela B .:
Many people apparently had the feeling that we had to modernize "cry for love".
In the meantime KIZ sang "son of a bitch" instead of "asshole", Fler used the song to dissolve a rapper colleague, we forbade him to do that because it was too cheap for us.
The song has now outgrown us and has become a symbol.
The meaning of the song and what is liberating about the chorus stands for itself.
It has become folklore, but good folklore because it is directed against the bad guys.
SPIEGEL:
In "Schrei nach Liebe" you smacked right-wing extremists a juicy "asshole!"
opposite.
On "Hell" you now sing about how you can convert a Nazi friend back to goodness through empathy: "Because with love everything will be fine in the end," the song says.
Is that your current recommendation for action?
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