"Layla" as an Internet hit by the Army Music Corps: "You encouraged people"
Created: 2022-08-04 12:41 p.m
By: Matthias Lohr
No song is as controversial as the Ballermann hit "Layla".
Now a version of the Kassel Army Music Corps is celebrated.
Its manager does not understand the excitement.
Olpe – Tobias Terhardt is almost a bit embarrassed that he landed a small internet hit with his army band in Kassel.
"It would be nice if we could get similar attention with other music," says the director of the North Hessian Bundeswehr Orchestra.
But online, people are not clicking on the overture to the Strauss operetta "Die Fledermaus", which the corps performed two weeks ago at the Schützenfest Olpe, but on an orchestral version of the Ballermann hit "Layla", which is Germany's most controversial song , as reported by hna.de.
Heeresmusikkorps Kassel plays "Layla": The city should have given up a long time ago
There are several recordings of the musicians' performance in Sauerland on YouTube.
The most shared clip has more than 170,000 clicks.
There is a lot of praise in the comments.
On Twitter, however, Kassel's "Layla" mostly reaps malice.
A user writes: "Jana from Kassel was just the beginning.
We should have given up the city a long time ago.” What makes some people so angry?
The song by DJ Robin and Schürze has been suspected of being sexist for weeks.
The text says: "I have a whorehouse and my whorehouse mom's name is Layla.
She's prettier, younger, hornier."
Celebrated in Olpe: The Kassel Army Music Corps performed at the Schützenfest in Sauerland.
Our picture shows one of the parades.
The Ballermann hit "Layla" was also performed at the square concert, which some find sexist.
© Bilderdienst.de
The Junge Union Hessen received a shit storm after the piece was played at the state parliament in Baunatal.
It was banned at the Kiliani folk festival in Würzburg.
All this made "Layla" even better known and more popular.
Terhardt cannot understand the excitement.
“For me, the debate is completely overblown.
If you search, you will find sexism in many songs,” says the 41-year-old, who is not only thinking of hip-hop songs, but also of hits from the past such as “Scandal im Sperrgebiet” by the Spider Murphy Gang.
Heeresmusikkorps Kassel plays "Layla": "You encouraged people"
The "Layla" version of the army band was a spontaneous action.
A musician suggested the song.
The grades were distributed quickly.
Samples were not necessary.
According to Terhardt, it was “a matter of ten minutes.
Musically there isn't much behind it.
The song consists of only four chords.” The visitors in Olpe liked it immediately, and how.
“People have gone steep.
I've rarely experienced anything like this," says Terhardt.
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On YouTube, the soldiers are not only celebrated because of the music.
A commentator praises: "Thank you comrades, you have encouraged people." Another notes: "A great compliment that you have shown the moral apostles." And one writes: "Finally a part of our Bundeswehr that shows where it's long.
We are the people.” Many people are obviously fed up with being told which songs, books and films they are allowed to like.
Terhardt doesn't believe in bans either: "People have fun doing it, and that's a good thing." Visitors also danced to "Layla" on the Kasseler Zissel.
On the other hand, critics on Twitter note that the Army Music Corps is financed from taxes.
Are citizens allowed to play something like that in uniform?
Terhardt points out that the appearance in Olpe was off-duty.
Of the more than 60 musicians in the Army Music Corps, only 36 were on duty shortly before the annual leave.
They received a fee: "So the performance was not financed from taxes." The lieutenant colonel has another tip for critics: "We only played the song instrumentally.
None of us sang the lyrics." (Matthias Lohr)