2010 - 2015: I remember everyone of this songs! These are the songs that got played in the radio. Some of them I really like. We don't just have rap. But besides these songs and rap there are so many more musicians / bands or music genres in Germany you could discover...
@@gequetscht1031 ja, wie Powerwolf, Accept, early Unheilig/ Der Graf, Blind Guardian, Heaven Shall Burn, Eskimo Callboy (ja, ich weigere mich standhaft, sie "Electric Callboy" zu nennen), Klassiker wie Scorpions, Rammstein, Eisbrecher, U.D.O.... um nur ein paar zu nennen
2:10 Stop me from partying is the greatest translation bro i cried. Its actually "Holding you on me tight" but you are right "Halt" can also mean Stop and "Fest" can also be translated to Party haha Our language is so difficult
I guess he’s confused bc he only read „fest“ which means party. But here the word „fest“ means festhalten „halt“ dich and mir „fest“ Das schwierige an deutsch ist ja, dass unsere Verben sich in Sätzen aufteilen. Verstehst du was ich meine? Festhalten wird zu halt am Anfang und fest der Schluss 😂 selbst ich bin verwirrt ahhahas
@@xunvenile no not really; a translation could be "hold yourself fast on me". Festhalten is also two words in English in this case: hold...fast. German is just more consistent than English but in many cases German and English grammar match.
„This is when Sido peaked too“ Sido is always peaking the charts when he is releasing songs. His days when he had to hustle and dropping songs after songs are over. Nowadays he doesnt need to release regular to stay relevant.
That's hella nostalgic to watch as a German 🤯🙌 I might be only half through with the video by now, but I can already confirm that pretty much all of these songs were (and are) quite huge here and are still remembered nowadays 👀✌🏻
I, and many Germans too, will forever love the Song "Auf Uns" by Andreas Burani by heart. And to explain it shortly: football/soccer. The Song of the World Cup win Hit different
@@selectivemutismhelp yea and its so anoying that we have "diffrent" „why's“ So like „Wesahlb, warum, wiso, weswegen, darum, deshalb" and „deshalb“ mean in english why, why, why, why, why, why, and why
I guess it can also be confusing when we split a word in half and put each piece in a completely different part of the sentence. Like when "festhalten" becomes "Halt ... fest."
I mean it depends. I ain't a native german speaker but for me german was way easier than french and kinda easier than english. My native tounge is btw a slavic one.
This is very nostalgic for me as german, but im triggered that they only play the songs so short that the vibe cant really be delivered... Great video though
Yes... "Deutschland" is a good song with a good video. Because it shows the good times as well as the bad and the ugly times of Germany. And it reminds of all the shit that happened. But when people forget the bad times, could it be that all that crap is happening again
It also talks about the conflict of wanting to be a proud german while having the problem to be because of the history that happened. (Where Till Lindemann says "Will dich lieben und verdammen, Deutschland! Dein Atem kalt")
I love all the songs up to 2015, I don't know why but German mainstream after that wasn't my thing anymore and still isn't. I liked the older artist better
I listend to every Rap Song here on repeat and it was my Favorite Genre for years but honestly the Songs from 2010 - 2015 are the Classic and you get wayyyy more exited when one of these suddenly plays, they‘ll always be in every >2005 Germans Heart
I feel like I started to zone out of the German charts around 2016... I'm not too much into that kinda Rap and Hip Hop 😪 Definitly still feeling nostalgia though. I still looooove Mark Forster's music, Sportfreunde Stiller are great and Andreas Bourani had great music imo :) And I liked Cro a lot back then.
@@benedictbrettner9652 ne das ist quatsch, gibt noch genügend stabile rapper, man darf halt nicht in den charts suchen (sollte man bei keinem genre wenn man ein gutes beispiel sucht lol)
But it's harder to appreciate if u r not fluent in german. His lyrics are fantastic, but hard to understand. Even for german natives, because he uses a lot of irony
@@Kratogo even for german natives ? what are you talking about ? germany is so wounderfull for Irony and sarkastic jokes that it is easy to understand the song allone from the refrain.
@@allxtend4005 But do you remember wenn "Willst du" first came out? A lot of people thought it's pro drugs. They didnt get the message and irony, behind the lyrics
Bei dem ganzen Deutschrap mist ab 2016/17 habe ich schon gemerkt, wie meine Gehirnzellen beim Hören abgestorben sind. Dass ich da auch nicht ein Lied von kannte, erfüllt mich mit Stolz 😁
Gab auch mehr Pop Acts damals, aber die Rapper die dabei waren waren mega gehyped, weil das Rap Genre schon damals in der Jugend Cooler war als Pop, Sido machte es schlau in dem er melodische Pop Acts noch bis heute auf Songs mit ihm singen lässt, Cro machte es damals ganz anders, er sparte sich das Pop Act und mischte seine eigene Kombination in der er Rap & Pop zu Raop vereinte 2011-2015 war Cro die 1, nebenbei hat Sido auch für viel Aufmerksamkeit gesorgt durch seine neuen Mainstream Radio Songs ohne Maske und mit Deutschen Pop Stars, 2016-2018 war dann 187 & RAF Camora Zeit, gepaart mit vielen anderen Rappern die ab 2016 durch starteten (einige durch den 187er Push) darunter: ufo361, Luciano, Rin, Edo Saiya, Bausa, Dardan, Nimo, Veysel, Kontra K, yung hurn, Kmn Gang, Team kuku, Olexesh, Summer Cem, Ak Ausserkontrolle, Trettmann, Capo, Eno, Kurdo und und und, 2018 kamen dann noch Leute wie Lil Lano oder Samra dazu, 2019 kamen dann Leute wie Mero oder Apache207 & ab 2020 dominieren die Berlin Underground Rapper als erfolgreiche Newcomer z.B. Pashanim, Symba, Kasimir, Bhz, Makko, Lucio101, 65Goonz, yin Kalle, T-low, 01099, negatiiv og, Lugatti & 9ine
I'm still listening to a lot of these songs, especially Ich+Ich (Adel Tawil), Unheilig, Rammstein, Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen. I grew up with the last three artists and know them for the last 20 to 25 years. Great songs with great lyrics. In general I'm not a fan of German Music and that says a lot, because of the Rap stuff that I can't stand.
and Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt were zhe first too. and Schwester S, who became later Sabrina Sektlur in the late 90s. great Rap. One of my favourit hits are wrote by her and sang by Xavier Naidoo. "frei sein". Great lyrics this is my favourit version m.ruclips.net/video/ZsK27uAc3b0/видео.html
if you want to be very technical the first German "rap" was Rappers Deutsch by G.L.S.-United.... and yes that means Thomas Gottschalk was technicaly the first German Rapper (with Frank Laufenberg and Manfred Sexauer) but yeah Fanta 4 were the first who had any fincal and cultural impact
Rap ist wie eine Krankheit, es wird irgendwann vorübergehen, aber immer mal wieder auftauchen. Schlager dagegen wird es immer in irgendeiner Form geben (nicht, dass ich das gut fände...)
Oh, es wird schlimmer, je älter du wirst. Und ganz übel ist es, wenn die tollen Stücke deiner Jugend gecovert werden Edit: am schlimmsten ist es, wenn die schlechten Stücke gecovert werden... Sie werden selten beser
Können wir bitte unter lyrischem und melodischem rap differenzieren? Die Kommentare hier sind n bisschen hart wie ich finde😅 Klar hat jeder seinen eigenen Geschmack und muss nich unbedingt ein fan von hiphop sein, aber genauso gibt es verschiedene Geschmäcker in der hiphop bubble. Es gibt Rapper die definitiv auch mehr zu bieten haben und talentiert sind und selbst die Leute, die den allgemeinen Standpunkt vertreten das hiphop von grundauf scheiße is können mir nicht erzählen, dass sie keinen track von SIDO onder CRO gefeiert haben, welche selbst im damaligen mainstream beliebt waren
Man, these songs bring back so many memories and it's lucky you did this reaction so I can add almost all to my playlist. Atemlos I remember particularly because I was working in construction at the time and whenever there was a lot of manual labor involved the mates and I always threw around that song to make light fun of the situation. Nice one James, thanks, liked
"Deutschland" was like a history lesson with a very critical view on the many dark and horrifying part from Germany's history. If you read the text and read between the lines you can see this. Also in the Video there was a lot of historical background. After all: it was really criticizing and it should be understood as such.
One line in "Deutschland" says "will dich lieben und verdammen" which means "want to love and doom you". At almost the end of the Song, he sings about the fact that he can't love Germany even though he's a part of it. Which shows how much work went in to these lines
I love to see your progress in german And im so happy you got the message behind "deutschland" I hope you will stay happy with your content because i for my part love it
Meine Soldaten cuts really deep, when you understand the message and know the actor who plays in the music video. Both the musician and the actor give this song such a melancholic and desperate energy that it absolutely fits the topic. Its about the state you are in when you have been broken up with, everything reminds you of your ex and you have to shut down every little emotion like people are shut down in a totalitarian regeime. Especially fitting because the actor played one of the most tragic and emotional characters in the movie "Die Welle", a disturbing movie showing how easy totalitarian and exclusive society structures form. This song is a masterpiece and Maxim is someone who really gives you lingering emotions long after the song is over, a lot of melancholy wrapped in happy tunes. Good stuff if you are in the mood for some weltschmerz
I have seen a bunch of youtubers reacting to german content but your dedication to the german culture is outstanding. It's incredible to see you learning german and improving. In germany we would call you a "MACHER". Keep on rocking dude.
The dude with the deep voice in juju song is the front man from the band AnnenMayKantereit. They had some popular songs like Barfuß am Klavier Sido had his first pike before, mostly listend by younger people and than he changed the still and become more commercial (I would say)
Sido war damals mit seinem scheiß Aggro Berlin einfach nur ein Möchtegern-Gangster-Rapper. Aber auch er ist dann mal erwachsen geworden und macht seit 2010 vernünftige Musik. In ein paar Jahren werden auch die heutigen Autotune-Rapper erwachsen sein...
2012 and following wasn't when Sido peaked, it was just when he started making songs that don't consist of 80% swear words. He grew up with his audience and put more meaning in his texts, hence he would be played in radio more often and generally more accepted in mainstream.
Nicht zu vergessen die Einfaltslosigkeit bei den Videos: Immer ein Sportwagen, viel BlingBling dank Goldkettchen, ein paar leichtbekleidete Frauen und generell ein Getue, als hätte man den längsten Schlong im Universum. On Top: Die Songs klingen alle gleich. Ja, ab 2017 sind die Deutschen Top 10 in diesem Video echt zum Fremdschämen...
just found your vids and I am enjoying them :) 2:10 the translation is more like "hold on to me, when life is tearing you apart" ... Halt dich an mir fest = hold on to me, it is a very emotional song where a person offers another one to be his/her "safe haven"
Someone mentionend that you should react to "Lieder" by Adel Tawil. I wanna add: Do a translation of the song. Maybe you get a little surprise while doing.🙂
James, I know that this video is nearly 1 year old by now, but could you (PLEASE!) do a video on German rock/ metal music starting with bands like Scorpions, Rammstein, Karat, Puhdys, Subway to Sally, In Extremo, Oomph, Eskimo/ "Electric" Callboy, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, The Boss Hoss etc for the more "mainstream" part, then a second one with true metal bands?
honestly, I stepped out from listening to german music in 2017, especially because of autotune. I'm not a big fan of it, so the german music didn't gave me good feelings, I was more and more annoyed from that. I would suggest to listen to older german top 10 as well. If you like autotune it's fine of course, I'm not ordering you to listen to any kind of music, just my personel oppinion. But Roger Cicero for example is a very good example of german Music (sadly died in 2016) without autotune (mostly Jazz & Pop). BTW: I like your progress in the german language 😀
Too crazy! Your first video i saw was your reaction to geography now - germany. Grear to see how your german improved especially reading and speaking. Keep going 💪The flashbacks to the music are real. Even if I wouldn't go along with the order or some songs in general.
Überrascht mich fast, dass ihr die noch kennt 😅 also gerade bei 2007… da warst du doch bei deinen meisten Songs so klein, dass du sie nicht mal mitbekommst :D
@@ida2886 das überrascht mich auch, hatte voll das Gefühl dass dein Jahrgang so die 2000 wieder voll feiert, also so Stil mäßig zumindest, - was für mich total komisch ist 🤣
That stream yesterday was fun, went and listened to more of them after it was over lol Also Nur noch kurz die Welt retten will never not make me nostalgic
"stop me from party" :DD you are right... "Fest" is kind of something like a party but there is also a totally different meaning to it. Best english word for "fest" comming into my mind is "strong"! so "halt dich an mir fest" means nothing ealse than "hold on tight to me"... love your reacts man it`s so much fun to watch them as a german so all i can do is sending you a lot of LOVE!!
2:34 This is one of the much emotional songs from Germany. The Song tells, why are you on this world. When you understand the lyrics than you know, what the Background of this is. ^^
I knew from 2010: • number 6 (Pflaster - Ich & Ich) • number 4 (Disco pogo) • number 3 (halt dich an mir fest - revolverheld) • number 2 (monsta - culcha candela) • number 1 (geboren um zu leben - unheilig)
Ging mir auch so... Ich muss nachher mal meine Schwester fragen, ob sie damals die Musik auch so kacke fand, die die Jugend gehört hat, als sie in meinem Alter war (ich bin jetzt 31 und als sie 31 war, war ich 17)
@@yannikm.7741 dann sind wir ja etwa gleich alt. glaub bis auf die eurodance zeiten wars ok 😄 aber eins kann man den 90ern und 00ern nicht vorwerfen, dass sich alles gleich angehört hat 😉
I feel like you know more about German music than I do as a German. 😅Well I'm not into German music very much and I mostly listen to Rock/Alternative which is not really in here.
Unheilig is one of the best artists. Unheilig is a band and der graf is the singer you have seen. He sings about the death from his grandmother and more. My mom was going to his last concert. It was such a good time.
Alligatoah is a legend. I can give you "Mit dir schlafen" or "Stay in Touch". Very much social criticism and very good voice and a super sympathetic person.
I feel a bit like much of your chat couldnt relate because theyre simply to young... I mean yeah, we all pretended to be the guys that are to cool for those songs and we would only listen to Bushido and stuff, but those are songs that get me pumping in the clubs today and we used to love them secretly😂😂
2016 was the last year with good german music playing in the radio. After that it was only rap and autotune songs. We still have really good german music and artists/bands, but they're not as "mainstream" and popular anymore :/
2014-2019 German music gives me such good memories it was the last years before I moved, used to just enjoy life, stay on the soccer field for hours with friends blasting whatever was popular at the time 😢 times changed man…
Rapping in German but Austrian Technicaly the first comercialy Succesfull Rapper were Fanta 4 though there were some Acts already going around but not with any public impact. And if you want to be very technical the first German "rap" was Rappers Deutsch by G.L.S.-United.... and yes that means Thomas Gottschalk was technicaly the first German Rapper (with Frank Laufenberg and Manfred Sexauer)
late to the party but I have to say I hate the post spotify charts, it is 50% music that plays in malls and 50% autotuned deutsch-rap... hard times for someone that grew up with 2000´s rock
It´s hard as a rock/metal person these days. Everywhere you turn it´s schlager/aggro rappers and the only thing worse than the music are the fans of each genre. I can stomach early 2000s hip hop and charts in general but it got worse every year. I hope the trend turns towards rock music again very soon, when everybody is fed up with those aggro wannabe gangsters.
Yes, I remember most of these songs until like minimum 2016. "Lila Wolken" by Marteria ft. Yasha and Miss Platnum (2012) was the song to which I got my first kiss from my first boyfriend (I was 12, close to 13 y/o by that time)
if you dont know capital bra, fler and much more are snitchers as well, the do the same thing, the people are just against bushido because he stays loyal to his music style and hits every time place number 1. They are jealous. bushido just snitched because to protect his family. The others talk and snitch to get attention.
Crazy how different music taste can be. I found most of the song rather cr*ppy.😅 Plus songs like „Bros“, „Was du liebe nennst“, etc. I only know because of the metalcore covers by Callejon.🤔😅
So funny before you realised, that the No. is not part of the title; still like you James. (btw Your German is getting better year by year! Impressive how you did it all by your own!)
you can see that after 2016 there was a shift in terms of musical genre....my childheart lives for the 2010-2015
Same, will be so happy when german rap isn't popular anymore
Ohh ein Basti viewer XD
Same
@@zmquf_3956 wie du da drauf kommst ist mir ein Rätsel lmao
Du meinst ab 2010 is Kacke geworden😂
2010 - 2015: I remember everyone of this songs! These are the songs that got played in the radio. Some of them I really like. We don't just have rap. But besides these songs and rap there are so many more musicians / bands or music genres in Germany you could discover...
I love german (Power-)Metal
@@gequetscht1031 ja, wie Powerwolf, Accept, early Unheilig/ Der Graf, Blind Guardian, Heaven Shall Burn, Eskimo Callboy (ja, ich weigere mich standhaft, sie "Electric Callboy" zu nennen), Klassiker wie Scorpions, Rammstein, Eisbrecher, U.D.O.... um nur ein paar zu nennen
Deutschrap ist halt scheiße
Ja! und dann immer so auf lange Autofahrten
True ich finde ja German Rap ja noch als einer der schlimmsten deutschen Musik Arten und kann rein garnitchs damit anfangen.
2:10 Stop me from partying is the greatest translation bro i cried.
Its actually "Holding you on me tight" but you are right "Halt" can also mean Stop and "Fest" can also be translated to Party haha
Our language is so difficult
ja man, bin gestorben ''stop me from party'' :D
hahagaagagaa
I guess he’s confused bc he only read „fest“ which means party. But here the word „fest“ means festhalten „halt“ dich and mir „fest“
Das schwierige an deutsch ist ja, dass unsere Verben sich in Sätzen aufteilen. Verstehst du was ich meine? Festhalten wird zu halt am Anfang und fest der Schluss 😂 selbst ich bin verwirrt ahhahas
I just didn't expect him to translate it that way 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@xunvenile no not really; a translation could be "hold yourself fast on me". Festhalten is also two words in English in this case: hold...fast. German is just more consistent than English but in many cases German and English grammar match.
„This is when Sido peaked too“
Sido is always peaking the charts when he is releasing songs. His days when he had to hustle and dropping songs after songs are over. Nowadays he doesnt need to release regular to stay relevant.
Erfinder und Gott des Raps
That's hella nostalgic to watch as a German 🤯🙌 I might be only half through with the video by now, but I can already confirm that pretty much all of these songs were (and are) quite huge here and are still remembered nowadays 👀✌🏻
and then you saw the second half and asked yourself. "am i old?"
True 🥲
@@swissarmyknife7670 Exactly 🙌
"nostalgic" .. wtf xD
@@swissarmyknife7670 🤝🏽
I, and many Germans too, will forever love the Song "Auf Uns" by Andreas Burani by heart. And to explain it shortly: football/soccer.
The Song of the World Cup win Hit different
100%
10/10
It was also the song we sang at the last day when i finished highschool. It holds a lot of memories :)
Wird für mich immer mit dem WM Sieg verbunden sein
@@rap4live39 10:55
2:06 This just made me realise how damn hard german has to be to learn 😂 Every word has like 3 completely different meanings
German actually got more different words. Like 1 word in English could have 2 or even 3 meanings in German.
@@selectivemutismhelp yea and its so anoying that we have "diffrent" „why's“
So like
„Wesahlb, warum, wiso, weswegen, darum, deshalb" and „deshalb“ mean in english why, why, why, why, why, why, and why
Is it really that hard?
That's hard to imagine if you're a native german speaker
I guess it can also be confusing when we split a word in half and put each piece in a completely different part of the sentence. Like when "festhalten" becomes "Halt ... fest."
I mean it depends.
I ain't a native german speaker but for me german was way easier than french and kinda easier than english.
My native tounge is btw a slavic one.
This is very nostalgic for me as german, but im triggered that they only play the songs so short that the vibe cant really be delivered... Great video though
Ja und bei Manchen Liedern haben die so komische stellen aus dem song genommen. Like nehme doch mit the iconic stellen
Probably bc of copyright
Yes... "Deutschland" is a good song with a good video. Because it shows the good times as well as the bad and the ugly times of Germany. And it reminds of all the shit that happened. But when people forget the bad times, could it be that all that crap is happening again
This video teaches so much that special part of German history. I think it's a masterpiece, the combination of lyrics and visuals are on point.
It also talks about the conflict of wanting to be a proud german while having the problem to be because of the history that happened. (Where Till Lindemann says "Will dich lieben und verdammen, Deutschland! Dein Atem kalt")
that was a real masterpiece of history, such a amount of lil pieces of history in there, fantastic!
Oh if u would have known what is happening in 2024 XD
Do you mean the whole AFD thing?
German law of music. Every song must begin with a number. 😂
Lol why is no one commenting about this, it’s so frustrating 😂😂
💀
I love all the songs up to 2015, I don't know why but German mainstream after that wasn't my thing anymore and still isn't. I liked the older artist better
same and unfortunately I have some friends that listen to that crap.
ja same
Same. Posed Gangster shit and autotune. I am Out!
Same it’s all the same shit and it’s not even good, just cringe
German rap is just not it, indeed!
I listend to every Rap Song here on repeat and it was my Favorite Genre for years but honestly the Songs from 2010 - 2015 are the Classic and you get wayyyy more exited when one of these suddenly plays, they‘ll always be in every >2005 Germans Heart
Kannst du das ausweiten, bin erst 2006 geboren und kann mit dem Scheiß deutsch Rap nichts anfangen
@@obviouslyniko geht mir genauso, bin aber mitte 2007
Bei der Liste von 2016 fehlt eindeutiger der Song "Ich und mein Holz". :D
Best German Song ever!!!
Aber sowas von !
I feel like I started to zone out of the German charts around 2016... I'm not too much into that kinda Rap and Hip Hop 😪
Definitly still feeling nostalgia though. I still looooove Mark Forster's music, Sportfreunde Stiller are great and Andreas Bourani had great music imo :) And I liked Cro a lot back then.
Yeah German rap lost his soul after 2016/17
@@benedictbrettner9652 Yea But that came on the whole world Hip-Hop was growing in Latin speaking countries aswell
@@benedictbrettner9652 ne das ist quatsch, gibt noch genügend stabile rapper, man darf halt nicht in den charts suchen (sollte man bei keinem genre wenn man ein gutes beispiel sucht lol)
The guy who made Willst du is still making great music. some of the best german music ive heard
But it's harder to appreciate if u r not fluent in german. His lyrics are fantastic, but hard to understand. Even for german natives, because he uses a lot of irony
That Song is a must on every school trip
@@Kratogo even for german natives ? what are you talking about ? germany is so wounderfull for Irony and sarkastic jokes that it is easy to understand the song allone from the refrain.
@@allxtend4005 But do you remember wenn "Willst du" first came out? A lot of people thought it's pro drugs. They didnt get the message and irony, behind the lyrics
Bei dem ganzen Deutschrap mist ab 2016/17 habe ich schon gemerkt, wie meine Gehirnzellen beim Hören abgestorben sind. Dass ich da auch nicht ein Lied von kannte, erfüllt mich mit Stolz 😁
Same
bei mir war 2018 Schluss selten so einen Schrott gehört vollkommener Dreck
Gab auch mehr Pop Acts damals, aber die Rapper die dabei waren waren mega gehyped, weil das Rap Genre schon damals in der Jugend Cooler war als Pop, Sido machte es schlau in dem er melodische Pop Acts noch bis heute auf Songs mit ihm singen lässt, Cro machte es damals ganz anders, er sparte sich das Pop Act und mischte seine eigene Kombination in der er Rap & Pop zu Raop vereinte
2011-2015 war Cro die 1, nebenbei hat Sido auch für viel Aufmerksamkeit gesorgt durch seine neuen Mainstream Radio Songs ohne Maske und mit Deutschen Pop Stars, 2016-2018 war dann 187 & RAF Camora Zeit, gepaart mit vielen anderen Rappern die ab 2016 durch starteten (einige durch den 187er Push) darunter: ufo361, Luciano, Rin, Edo Saiya, Bausa, Dardan, Nimo, Veysel, Kontra K, yung hurn, Kmn Gang, Team kuku, Olexesh, Summer Cem, Ak Ausserkontrolle, Trettmann, Capo, Eno, Kurdo und und und, 2018 kamen dann noch Leute wie Lil Lano oder Samra dazu, 2019 kamen dann Leute wie Mero oder Apache207 & ab 2020 dominieren die Berlin Underground Rapper als erfolgreiche Newcomer z.B. Pashanim, Symba, Kasimir, Bhz, Makko, Lucio101, 65Goonz, yin Kalle, T-low, 01099, negatiiv og, Lugatti & 9ine
Haha Nice!
Ging mir genauso 😄
I'm still listening to a lot of these songs, especially Ich+Ich (Adel Tawil), Unheilig, Rammstein, Die Ärzte and Die Toten Hosen. I grew up with the last three artists and know them for the last 20 to 25 years. Great songs with great lyrics. In general I'm not a fan of German Music and that says a lot, because of the Rap stuff that I can't stand.
The very First German Rap Group was "Fanta4" or "The Fantastic 4" and even they started with English Rap but become famous with German Rap in the 80´s
and Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt were zhe first too. and Schwester S, who became later Sabrina Sektlur in the late 90s. great Rap. One of my favourit hits are wrote by her and sang by Xavier Naidoo. "frei sein". Great lyrics this is my favourit version m.ruclips.net/video/ZsK27uAc3b0/видео.html
if you want to be very technical the first German "rap" was Rappers Deutsch by G.L.S.-United.... and yes that means Thomas Gottschalk was technicaly the first German Rapper (with Frank Laufenberg and Manfred Sexauer)
but yeah Fanta 4 were the first who had any fincal and cultural impact
Fanta4 were great, but Thomas D's Reflektor Falke implemented philosophical poetry into rap which is also an impressive achievement
Falco was the first german rapper keks😂
@@Ehrle6969 österreicher
Waren die Jahre 2017 bis 2019 wirklich so Rap-verseucht? Wenn das jetzt top ist, läster ich nie wieder über Schlager.
Rap ist wie eine Krankheit, es wird irgendwann vorübergehen, aber immer mal wieder auftauchen. Schlager dagegen wird es immer in irgendeiner Form geben (nicht, dass ich das gut fände...)
Leider ja. Sehr Rap und gleichzeitig Autotune verseucht. Schmerzt echt in den Ohren dieses Gejaule zu hören.
Hoffentlich geht die Phase bald vorbei und die nächste wird nicht noch schlimmer.
Oh, es wird schlimmer, je älter du wirst. Und ganz übel ist es, wenn die tollen Stücke deiner Jugend gecovert werden
Edit: am schlimmsten ist es, wenn die schlechten Stücke gecovert werden... Sie werden selten beser
Können wir bitte unter lyrischem und melodischem rap differenzieren?
Die Kommentare hier sind n bisschen hart wie ich finde😅
Klar hat jeder seinen eigenen Geschmack und muss nich unbedingt ein fan von hiphop sein, aber genauso gibt es verschiedene Geschmäcker in der hiphop bubble. Es gibt Rapper die definitiv auch mehr zu bieten haben und talentiert sind und selbst die Leute, die den allgemeinen Standpunkt vertreten das hiphop von grundauf scheiße is können mir nicht erzählen, dass sie keinen track von SIDO onder CRO gefeiert haben, welche selbst im damaligen mainstream beliebt waren
Dein Deutsch ist sooooo gut geworden, echt unglaublich! Love your confidence! Deine Videos zu gucken macht super viel Spaß!
wieso kann der deutsch ?
@@wu-tangman6657 Er lernt es seit Jahren.
When I saw SEEED I instantly felt nostalgia… Peter Fox is such a legend in German music history
Man, these songs bring back so many memories and it's lucky you did this reaction so I can add almost all to my playlist. Atemlos I remember particularly because I was working in construction at the time and whenever there was a lot of manual labor involved the mates and I always threw around that song to make light fun of the situation. Nice one James, thanks, liked
Well, I had to refresh my playlists on Spotify... those songs were so nostalgic. They have gotten rare on the radio here in Germany.
"Deutschland" was like a history lesson with a very critical view on the many dark and horrifying part from Germany's history. If you read the text and read between the lines you can see this. Also in the Video there was a lot of historical background. After all: it was really criticizing and it should be understood as such.
One line in "Deutschland" says "will dich lieben und verdammen" which means "want to love and doom you". At almost the end of the Song, he sings about the fact that he can't love Germany even though he's a part of it.
Which shows how much work went in to these lines
your german evolved insane. Much respect for that dude 🔥🔥
Ab 2016 gings steil Bergab. Dieser Deutschrap ist garnichts für mich.
Ich fand auch den Kram davor schon (größtenteils) schrecklich. Mag ich einfach beides nicht.
@@dif4797 🤣🤣🤣🤭
@@dif4797 nachdem rap finde ich sogar die lieder davor schon geil.
@@allxtend4005 auch ein fairer Punkt xD
Die meisten Lieder vorher sind schrecklich weiss nicht wie man zu so was viben kann aber Geschmacksache...
I love to see your progress in german
And im so happy you got the message behind "deutschland"
I hope you will stay happy with your content because i for my part love it
Meine Soldaten cuts really deep, when you understand the message and know the actor who plays in the music video. Both the musician and the actor give this song such a melancholic and desperate energy that it absolutely fits the topic.
Its about the state you are in when you have been broken up with, everything reminds you of your ex and you have to shut down every little emotion like people are shut down in a totalitarian regeime. Especially fitting because the actor played one of the most tragic and emotional characters in the movie "Die Welle", a disturbing movie showing how easy totalitarian and exclusive society structures form. This song is a masterpiece and Maxim is someone who really gives you lingering emotions long after the song is over, a lot of melancholy wrapped in happy tunes. Good stuff if you are in the mood for some weltschmerz
I have seen a bunch of youtubers reacting to german content but your dedication to the german culture is outstanding. It's incredible to see you learning german and improving. In germany we would call you a "MACHER". Keep on rocking dude.
The dude with the deep voice in juju song is the front man from the band AnnenMayKantereit. They had some popular songs like Barfuß am Klavier
Sido had his first pike before, mostly listend by younger people and than he changed the still and become more commercial (I would say)
Sido war damals mit seinem scheiß Aggro Berlin einfach nur ein Möchtegern-Gangster-Rapper. Aber auch er ist dann mal erwachsen geworden und macht seit 2010 vernünftige Musik. In ein paar Jahren werden auch die heutigen Autotune-Rapper erwachsen sein...
2012 and following wasn't when Sido peaked, it was just when he started making songs that don't consist of 80% swear words. He grew up with his audience and put more meaning in his texts, hence he would be played in radio more often and generally more accepted in mainstream.
After watching this we learned James Bray reacted to every german rap song
Deine deutsche Aussprache ist richtig gut geworden! Respekt 👍
Pls react to Wadde hadde Dudde da Eurovision Song Contest from Stefan Raab 🤣😂😂
I love how he thinks the numbers are related to the song Titels, like „ fünf Berlin city girls“ but it’s actually just the rating of the songs ahahah
Im glad that im not the only one who stopped listening to german chart music around 2016/2017 😂
Really nice Video i know all this songs , really nice to hear them again, thank u James Bray
wie man in dem video einfach so gut sieht wie krass die Qualität deutscher Musik abgenommen hat. den ganzen deutschrap kann man sich nicht geben
Nicht zu vergessen die Einfaltslosigkeit bei den Videos: Immer ein Sportwagen, viel BlingBling dank Goldkettchen, ein paar leichtbekleidete Frauen und generell ein Getue, als hätte man den längsten Schlong im Universum. On Top: Die Songs klingen alle gleich. Ja, ab 2017 sind die Deutschen Top 10 in diesem Video echt zum Fremdschämen...
just found your vids and I am enjoying them :) 2:10 the translation is more like "hold on to me, when life is tearing you apart" ... Halt dich an mir fest = hold on to me, it is a very emotional song where a person offers another one to be his/her "safe haven"
holy shit 2012 was busted. Ärzte, Deichkind, toten hosen and seeed? love em
Rammstein is one of the most misunderstood bands i know cuz they just show the reality to people and people dont like the reality
The Song "Auf Uns" was on place 2, because Germany won the WM in this year and this song was played on the WM Party.
Someone mentionend that you should react to "Lieder" by Adel Tawil. I wanna add: Do a translation of the song. Maybe you get a little surprise while doing.🙂
One of my favorite’s. 😊
2016 - when the corruption of the German Music industry started happening
James, I know that this video is nearly 1 year old by now, but could you (PLEASE!) do a video on German rock/ metal music starting with bands like Scorpions, Rammstein, Karat, Puhdys, Subway to Sally, In Extremo, Oomph, Eskimo/ "Electric" Callboy, Die Ärzte, Die Toten Hosen, The Boss Hoss etc for the more "mainstream" part, then a second one with true metal bands?
honestly, I stepped out from listening to german music in 2017, especially because of autotune. I'm not a big fan of it, so the german music didn't gave me good feelings, I was more and more annoyed from that. I would suggest to listen to older german top 10 as well. If you like autotune it's fine of course, I'm not ordering you to listen to any kind of music, just my personel oppinion. But Roger Cicero for example is a very good example of german Music (sadly died in 2016) without autotune (mostly Jazz & Pop).
BTW: I like your progress in the german language 😀
maybe it's me getting old and being all like «back in my day music was much better» but this complete overuse of autotune is killing me
What about Rammstein or Sarah Connor?
@@sollte1239 I'm not the biggest fan of them both, but yes, they make pretty good music, mostly without autotune
Too crazy! Your first video i saw was your reaction to geography now - germany. Grear to see how your german improved especially reading and speaking. Keep going 💪The flashbacks to the music are real. Even if I wouldn't go along with the order or some songs in general.
I was born back in 2004 and im so fucking nostalgic right now
As a 2007er me too
Überrascht mich fast, dass ihr die noch kennt 😅 also gerade bei 2007… da warst du doch bei deinen meisten Songs so klein, dass du sie nicht mal mitbekommst :D
@@Pillemir ja das stimmt allerdings ist gerade die 2010er musik in meinem jahrgang sehr beliebt muss ich sagen
@@ida2886 das überrascht mich auch, hatte voll das Gefühl dass dein Jahrgang so die 2000 wieder voll feiert, also so Stil mäßig zumindest, - was für mich total komisch ist 🤣
@@Pillemir weiß auch nicht wieso 😂
german charts is always that kind of music that your parents would play on a long drive home and you cant turn it off and slowly getting insane
You sure they play Apache, Juju and Captial Bra? 😂
@@treisir.9649 apache is a helicopter and capital bra is the dude from the pizza i never bought
Wow from 2017 onwards German Music Really went down. All i hear was Autotune Shit.
So weird how it changed instantly when the year changed. There’s no real decline, just a straight drop in quality.
"Halt dich an mir fest" => "Stop me and my Party"
This one made me LOL as its a genuinly BRILLIANT translation xD
(It's "hold tight to me"). 2:06
That stream yesterday was fun, went and listened to more of them after it was over lol
Also Nur noch kurz die Welt retten will never not make me nostalgic
holy shit dude i just saw your channel after a year or so and your German is fantastic, keep it up :)
.. Glad he got the number thing quite in time lul
nostalgic to watch as a german but also crazy to see how old some songs are. like in my memory they only 3 years old.
Also alle diese songs laufen teils immernoch im radio
"stop me from party" :DD you are right... "Fest" is kind of something like a party but there is also a totally different meaning to it. Best english word for "fest" comming into my mind is "strong"! so "halt dich an mir fest" means nothing ealse than "hold on tight to me"... love your reacts man it`s so much fun to watch them as a german so all i can do is sending you a lot of LOVE!!
2:34 This is one of the much emotional songs from Germany. The Song tells, why are you on this world. When you understand the lyrics than you know, what the Background of this is. ^^
Vor zwei Tagen wurden deine Video in meine Timeline gespült und ich bin jetzt schon Fan 😂 sehr geile Reaktion
Beginner Because in 1999 2001 it Starts With Rap in Germany .. they made the foundation for the rap today :)
Beginner, 5 sterne Deluxe, Fettes Bro....ja das waren noch zeiten.
Fanta Vier - 1992 Die Da
Wenn es danach geht Äi Tiem 1989
Einfach alles gefühlt nostalgie , ich lieb das video hahaha
na die Lochies fehlen noch auf der Liste
I love how James didnt get the numbering of the songs and thought the numbers are part of their title in the beginning
"Halt dich an mir fest" - Stop me from partying lmao 😂 comedy gold
Interesting that 2016 German Rap took over the charts so fast
I´m pretty sure since 2016 the spotify klicks affect the chart rating
I knew from 2010:
• number 6 (Pflaster - Ich & Ich)
• number 4 (Disco pogo)
• number 3 (halt dich an mir fest - revolverheld)
• number 2 (monsta - culcha candela)
• number 1 (geboren um zu leben - unheilig)
Ich hab geheult als ich den Grafen sah😕
since 2017 you know more musicians than me 😄 autotune was the worst invention in music history 🙈
Ging mir auch so... Ich muss nachher mal meine Schwester fragen, ob sie damals die Musik auch so kacke fand, die die Jugend gehört hat, als sie in meinem Alter war (ich bin jetzt 31 und als sie 31 war, war ich 17)
@@yannikm.7741 dann sind wir ja etwa gleich alt. glaub bis auf die eurodance zeiten wars ok 😄 aber eins kann man den 90ern und 00ern nicht vorwerfen, dass sich alles gleich angehört hat 😉
Very nice, I very appreciate it to see it as a german in germany. All good to you gof bless you! Grüsse aus Stuttagart🇩🇪❤️💪👍 Thank you
I feel like you know more about German music than I do as a German. 😅Well I'm not into German music very much and I mostly listen to Rock/Alternative which is not really in here.
Same. Most of the songs here annoyed me back in the day when they were being used. 😅
Sooooo Nostalgie hab tränen in den Augen
u need more german fans... its so much fun watching reacting an US to german things 😀
So many flashback songs in this video 👍🏻
Unheilig is one of the best artists. Unheilig is a band and der graf is the singer you have seen. He sings about the death from his grandmother and more. My mom was going to his last concert. It was such a good time.
damn ur benDZko and "-tsch" pronunciation in general was on point, sick work
Please more German music videos
Greetings from Aachen 👋
These videos rock!! 😍
Damn that's bringing back some olde memories. Greetings from germany ✌️
Alligatoah is a legend. I can give you "Mit dir schlafen" or "Stay in Touch". Very much social criticism and very good voice and a super sympathetic person.
This is "Pre-Snitching-Bushido"😂😂😂😂😂barley was falling off my couch man😅
I feel a bit like much of your chat couldnt relate because theyre simply to young... I mean yeah, we all pretended to be the guys that are to cool for those songs and we would only listen to Bushido and stuff, but those are songs that get me pumping in the clubs today and we used to love them secretly😂😂
2:11 Nope "Hold on to me" or "Hold on tight to me". Because the "halt" and the "fest" are both coming from the word: "festhalten"
2016 was the last year with good german music playing in the radio. After that it was only rap and autotune songs. We still have really good german music and artists/bands, but they're not as "mainstream" and popular anymore :/
Mhmm well it's still popular enough to regularly take no1 in the Album Charts, those Bands+Artist just don't chase the Singles anymore i guess
2014-2019 German music gives me such good memories it was the last years before I moved, used to just enjoy life, stay on the soccer field for hours with friends blasting whatever was popular at the time 😢 times changed man…
Krass wie der Rap irgendwann die Charts übernommen hat
Great entertainment, bro! You should repeat it with the 80th and 90th!
15:15 Bro there was Falco before. He was „officially“ the first german Rapper
He rapped but his music wasn't hip-hop. Finally, it was a great combination^^ RIP Hans Hölzel
Rapping in German but Austrian Technicaly the first comercialy Succesfull Rapper were Fanta 4 though there were some Acts already going around but not with any public impact.
And if you want to be very technical the first German "rap" was Rappers Deutsch by G.L.S.-United.... and yes that means Thomas Gottschalk was technicaly the first German Rapper (with Frank Laufenberg and Manfred Sexauer)
late to the party but I have to say I hate the post spotify charts, it is 50% music that plays in malls and 50% autotuned deutsch-rap...
hard times for someone that grew up with 2000´s rock
It´s hard as a rock/metal person these days. Everywhere you turn it´s schlager/aggro rappers and the only thing worse than the music are the fans of each genre. I can stomach early 2000s hip hop and charts in general but it got worse every year. I hope the trend turns towards rock music again very soon, when everybody is fed up with those aggro wannabe gangsters.
bushido mades 2022 a really hard song in year 2022 against his enemys it called hmp2- bushido and king sonnyblack listen to it its really good.
Bye bye by Cro is a song i'm actually performing with my Band at the Gymnasiums Springconcert👌👌🇩🇪
Cro is one of the best German singers
This video was great. What a nostalgic journey 😂
I love how you go crazy when Deutschrap starts at 2017 hahaha
Yes, I remember most of these songs until like minimum 2016. "Lila Wolken" by Marteria ft. Yasha and Miss Platnum (2012) was the song to which I got my first kiss from my first boyfriend (I was 12, close to 13 y/o by that time)
if you dont know capital bra, fler and much more are snitchers as well, the do the same thing, the people are just against bushido because he stays loyal to his music style and hits every time place number 1. They are jealous. bushido just snitched because to protect his family. The others talk and snitch to get attention.
"Lila Wolken" was my Banger for Partys and BBQ Partys with friends, i heard this song like 10.000 Times
Crazy how different music taste can be. I found most of the song rather cr*ppy.😅 Plus songs like „Bros“, „Was du liebe nennst“, etc. I only know because of the metalcore covers by Callejon.🤔😅
Same here!
Same! As a german metalhead I hate most of those songs here
So funny before you realised, that the No. is not part of the title; still like you James. (btw Your German is getting better year by year! Impressive how you did it all by your own!)
Du sprichst langsam besser deutsch als viele die schon Jahre in Deutschland leben 👍👍👍
I forgot so many beautiful songs from the past, 2010 to 2015 was just my youth in addition to heavy metal♥️
Skipped 2016-2019 only heard the old stuff from gzuz and bonez
Ohne Autotune kann gar keiner heute mehr singen.
Kommt ganz drauf an, was man so hört.
that's crazy to hear the old songs. Sido is a lively legend. And mark forster for me too