Parents and children can recognize each other in the Dein-Freunde-Songs and, quite incidentally, adopt the perspective of the other – the band at the concert.
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Children love the lyrics of the band “Your Friends”. But even adults can’t get the songs out of their heads. Why is that? A pair of parents on the therapeutic sound art of children’s music.
uo get to the beach in summer as car-free city dwellers, we borrowed our grandparents’ BMW. With the windows open, we drive past the ice cream parlor in the village center and listen to hip-hop at a considerate, moderate volume. But the children in the back seat roar along with the lyrics: “Ah, Puschen – Puschen real good!” An older couple looks over disapprovingly. Our strict superego reacts immediately: Is it inappropriate to let our children sing these lyrics out loud in public? But then we see a family on the sidewalk, whose children join in happily. The parents grin over.
The band Deine Freunde, who sang along with the song “Komm aus den Puschen”, has been bringing an ingenious combination of casual lyrics, fat basses and good danceable beats to German children’s rooms for ten years now. The more we dance and sing to it with our children, the more often we as parents sit on the sofa afterwards and discuss the fact that this music can do more than other children’s songs. And more and more often we lose ourselves in technical discussions.
