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HP Baxxter with slogan and fire torches
You are sitting in front of the news ticker on Friday morning, perhaps thinking a little more about the discussions about the young woman who misses partying in the Corona period - and a headline from the German press agency catches the eye:
HP Baxxter: "It can there is no fight between old and young ".
These are surprising words of warning from Hans Peter Geerdes, known as HP Baxxter for a good 25 years, and as the bleached screamers of the shortest slogans at Scooter, the trash techno trio.
Who has long since turned his "Hyper Hyper" battle cry into an - ironicising himself - additional career as an advertising figure.
But if you open the message, the impression from the headline is confirmed: Here he speaks as the voice of reason, rather quietly.
"Corona should not be taken lightly, we have to show solidarity and help to contain the pandemic," the press agency quoted a statement.
However, he, Baxxter, understands the young people who sit at home and cannot get started.
"But under no circumstances should there be a fight between old and young. The disease should be taken seriously, but fear and panic are not always the best advisors."
Wise words, but on what occasion might they have been spoken?
The message also provides information about this, of course: Scooter released a new single this Friday.
Take a look right away.
A scooter mobile, a black transit, drives through the picture - with fire torches, they don't do it underneath.
But the street is noticeably empty.
Gothenburg, as if dead, the club "Park Lane" closed.
Inevitably, one thinks of the clips from spring - Andrea Bocelli from the empty Milan Cathedral on Easter Sunday, Tocotronics "Hope" with elegiac black and white views.
So does the second wave of corona music videos begin here?
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Scooter mobile on the streets of Gothenburg
Maybe, but it sounds completely different: HP Baxxter can be seen in a warehouse, "I don't give a penny", he says and then yells: "FUCK TWENTY-TWENTY".
The usual Eurotrashbeat is on, but the message is gloomy: "A nightmare came true / the worst year ever".
Baxxter himself was infected with the corona virus in the spring and suffered from mild symptoms, reports the dpa.
In the summer of "Bild" you could read of his concern about the future of the live industry.
But melancholy ballads are of course not to be expected from Scooter.
The tone remains combative ("We've got the Power"), slightly insane ("Insane in the membrane") and heroic, albeit with a somewhat surprising prioritization ("First we save the rave, then we save the world").
Baxxter had urged solidarity.
That you sometimes feel a little stupid and annoyed?
He sums it up with the rhyme "Feeling like fools / I hate all the rules".
So maybe "FCK 2020" is actually something like the song of the year - or at least the song for the year.
With that the beat ends - but the poet HP Baxxter does not dismiss us without a final piece of wisdom.
Don't you sometimes feel trapped in the wrong program?
Certainly.
Worse still: "Stuck on the wrong channel / like chained to a dead camel".
Has Jimmy Kimmel heard of it, the US late night presenter who had so much fun with Scooter's "How Much is the Fish?"
would have?
With material from dpa
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feb / dpa