Ina Müller's strong new album “55”: Laugh when it's not enough to make you cry!

It's grumbling again!

The follow-up to Ina Müller's 2016 gold album “Ich bin die” appears with twelve new songs.

Heartbreak, a declaration of love to Hamburg and a lot of self-irony: a must for fans!

• At 55, the singer took on the first little niggles in the middle of life

• The album is available in three versions: as a standard CD, a limited 2CD premium edition with a bonus CD that offers nine duets with guests from “Inas Nacht”, and as a limited double vinyl

• The singer would like to go on tour again in 2022

The title alone is so typical of Ina Müller.

"55".

The coolest woman on German television chooses a number as the headline for her new album, which is due out today, for the third time.

Again this is a charming, self-deprecating reference to the powerful-voiced Adele, who overwrites all of her albums with numbers.

For the British woman this means: "19", "21", "25".

At Müller: "Female, single, 40", "48", "55".

So confidently you sweep away any youth craze.

This is how it sounds when a woman is at peace with herself.

Well, how you can be at peace with yourself.

Ina Müller, who always seems loosely fluffy in her unsurpassed drinking, talk and warbling program "Inas Nacht" (tendency rising with every further glass), is in truth an avowed perfectionist.

Here, every minute of broadcast is (self-) critically prepared and followed up.

Well, perfectionism is such a thing, especially when you get older.

Every wrinkle seems like a provocation for those who are looking for flawlessness, every increased pulse rate after jogging five meters like the punishment for too little discipline.

Unless you have understood - like the blonde from the north - what alone helps against the constant self-flagellation: humor.

Because laughter, unfortunately the beauty industry wants to make us forget, still causes the most beautiful furrows on the face.

A little Barbara Schöneberger, a pinch of Nena - and lots of Hamburg girls

Well, at 55, in the middle of life, it grumbles again: “Everyone has to wear their six-pack,” she sings in “Laufen”.

A song that could have been written by one of her contemporaries in German show business.

“At some point I planned / I will run a marathon / Today I'm about to / buy myself a stairlift” - that sounds like a little Barbara Schöneberger, a pinch of Nena - and a lot of Hamburg girls.

We romantics, of course, first look at the small print.

Who wrote and composed here?

Most of the lyrics come from the singer herself, in combination with male helpers.

Clear words, few frills.

Instead, with subtlety and wit.

But Johannes Oerding was always involved in the music.

The two have been a couple for years - and the fact that he is only 38 shouldn't really be an issue anymore.

But it is.

Precisely because it is neither for both of them.

How did numbers like "Squirrel Day" come about?

A whimsical song about getting things wrong all the time, another thing that increases with age.

You imagine the two of them together making a happy song out of it - the most enchanting advertisement for serenity in the face of circumstances that cannot be changed.

Much self-irony - and sadness

Ina Müller is vocally not an Adele.

That's one of the reasons for the tongue-in-cheek CD title.

Every line she breathes reminds of a wild life with lots of drinks and even more cigarettes.

Cheers to the politically most incorrect number of the new album: "Smoking" - a declaration of love to the glowing stick.

Wonderful.

In general, love.

As funny as the gifted entertainer is, her ballads are always the most beautiful.

“When God wants” and “Almost lasts longer than tight” hit the broken heart.

And even if the break has healed for years - Müller manages to remember great feelings, with a lot of sadness, but even more confidence.

Because: "From now on, every day counts as much as three" - smile and go.

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