The song title means "It's all just stolen" .. So ALL the video sequences are references, copying famous music videos. The whole song is "copy-culture" critic. .. and yes! They love all the music and videos they refer to.
Video is "stolen" from 0:00 Trio- da da da 0:34 Queen - I Want to Break Free 0:57 U2 - Numb 1:20 Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love 1:39 U96 - Love Sees No Colour 1:42 The Beloved - Sweet Harmony 1:54 ZZ Top 2:05 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer 2:08 Genesis - I Can't Dance 2:16 The Cure - Lullaby
You need to know, that the band members of this Band were all in the Thomaner Chor, the most famous Boys choir in Germany with ITS own school, founded roughly 800 years ago.. so they basically learned to harmonize. The song is from the early 90s, I grew up with it
Just a quick correction: Jens Sembner was part of the "Dresdner Kreuzchor," which is as well-known as the Thomanerchor (actually, it's more internationally renowned during times of GRD). Both boys' choirs have a tradition of over 800 years, making them two of the oldest choirs in the world. However, there's no real competition between them. Every year, the choirs play a traditional soccer game against each other and celebrate together afterwards.
@@mabus4910 I raise you "Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!" "Gerhard Schröder - Der Steuersong" "Bully-Parade - Pumpgun Song" "Zlatko und Jürgen - Großer Bruder" just to name some songs my brain did just unlock again after reading 90s songs and your comment together.
If you are interested in "weird" German music culture: Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) or short: NDW. It was really a new wave that rolled over Germany. DAF, Trio, Nena, Extrabreit, Spider Murphy Gang, Hubert Kah, Fräulein Menke, Peter Schilling, Fehlfarben, Joachim Witt, Geier Sturzflug, UKW,… the list goes on. The origins lie in British punk / new wave music, but a very unique style quickly developed. What was particularly interesting was that the songs were sung in German. At that time there were only German hits for the older generation, and young people only listened to English-language music. The New German Wave discovered the German language for itself and actually revolutionized the German music world. It was a very, very creative, crazy, fun and freeing time. Some songs also became very popular in the English-speaking world and you probably know them too: Nena's "99 Luftballons" ("99 Red Balloons"), for example. Falco ("Amadeus") can also be counted among them, even though he was Austrian. Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" was also internationally known, as was Trio's "Da Da Da".
@@JaneSmith-rx6kx Daran hab ich hinterher auch gedacht. Pushed again ist ein großartiger Song! Auch "Nur zu Besuch" von den Hosen - bringt mich zum Weinen...
"Alles nur geklaut" means "everything is just stolen" The queeenesque part is stolen form Queen, the "bondage" part is stolen form U2s "numb", the part with the guitar playing girls is stolen from ABC [edit]ABC is wrong ...it was Robert Palmer[/edit], the beardy part fron ZZ Top, some Genesis, the Cure etc.
Fun Fact ... the "singer" (blond hair) in this video usually does just backing vocals - and the "ginger head" is the original front vocal singer - so you are completely right, he should have more lines than just "Eh-oh"
They’re all Thomaner Chor students (a boarding school for the Johann Sebastian Bach-focused Thomaner choir for boys). So, they have learned their profession and harmonizing since childhood and, after school, took their art to pop music…
Great reaction! I think you should react to Falco. He is from Austria, but sings in German. He was the first german speaking rapper and made great songs. Unfortunately he has already died. I love your videos on german music. Thanks for your reactions.
Also he is not a rapper, but a singer. He is the first German speaking artist that made it in the US Charts with "Rock Me Amadeus". Not only that, but he landed at the first place. He is also one of the first artist that mixed German with English ("Der Kommissar", "Vienna Calling", "Rock Me Amadeus"). Against what first poster said, he doesn't (only) sing in High German (standard german) but viennese dialect- and sometimes mix it too. - Greetings from Austria
@@Moonchild0 I take it you're saying with german lyircs? Out of curiosity, I looked up german musicians in the US-Charts. The first one with german lyrics might be Kraftwerk - Autobahn. Not too much lyrics, though. :-)
@@schallundrauch2378 I meant generall Falco music, but in particular "Rock Me Amadeus". There are two versions of it. The original is written in German, the 8-minute long version appeared on the US release from Falco 3 album. No other German song (again referring to the song "Rock Me Amadeus") has topped the US charts, yet alone made it first place. At that time it was something unheard from.
Its the 90s. Grew up with the princes. Loved them so much, and only much later in life i fully grasped the depth of their lyrics! And you had me dying when you called them DIE prinzen
I think the entire concept and song went somehow by you Dwayne. The Song is called Everything is stolen and therefore Die Prinzen copied famous videos for their video to stress on the song title.
Oh please react to some more Die Prinzen! They're an amazing band with great funny songs who recently kind of had a comeback. Some recomendations: "Deutschland", "Millionär", "Mann im Mond" are amazing. Also check out another legendary german band with a similar name: "Die Ärzte"
They indeed started their career under the name "Herzbuben" ("Jack of hearts") in the late 1980s in GDR, and gained some popularity since their style was fresh and uncommon (and somehow politically critical, too). After the German reunion they changed the name to "Die Prinzen" ("The Princes") since they did not want to be confused with the Bavarian folk music duo "Die Wildecker Herzbuben".
This was the known pop-version! An accapella version and a rock version is avaible, too. These guys are professionally trained chor singers, who did this just for fun, but went through the roof in the 90s ... they are still making music and are very into LGBT as some of them are gay. Love their music and work since their breakthrough song "Küssen verboten" in 1992. *kiss
@@juwen7908none of them, but they are very open minded. The whole band, but in particular front singen Sebastian Krumbiegel (the red head) are pretty political, socially critical, and fight for democracy and human rights. It shows in songs like "Du musst ein Arschloch sein" or "Bombe".
Its a lot of fun to watch you seeing this Video of my chuldhood the first time! Was the first cd my big sister bought and brought home! You are such a funny guy. Greetings from Germany
Eooh... remember that legendary concert in Wimbledon called "lLive Aid", when Freddie Mercury had the whole stadion in his fist, singing with them... "Eohhh...." I LOVE thie! And of course: Queen was FIRST!
When i was 5 i was the biggest Prinzen fan. One day they called me on the phone and i was soo happy. But turned out it was just my brothers pretending to be them 😂😂😂
OMG; I totally forgot about this song 🤣🤣🤣 this must have been released in the early 90s if I remember correctly? At least I was barely a teen when this came out and I'm in my 40s now 🤣
It was a commentry on the German Music scene that had (and to some degree still has) a tendency to sometimes be very inspired (one might say copy) stuff from other countries in particular UK and US. Sometimes going so far to basically just use the same texts just in a German translation that fit the beat and message.
I thought you would recognize what they did after the lyrics, but you didn't. The "stole" a lot of videos and wrote a song about stealing songs. But obviously you only recognized queen and not all the others. Sledgehammer and Genesis are iconic. Thats a must to know.
Most of them have sung in the Thomanerchor /Choir of the St.Thomas Church in Leipzig/Germany. Harmonies they can…! “Die Prinzen” is used by the group since 1991.
I'm not quite sure, but I think they met as children in the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. The Thomanerchor is a really famous boys' choir and is over 800 years old. So they know how to sing together.
i would say we got quite a few bands with funny texts, its just mostly the problem that many wont read the text in their language afterwards, but if you like this kind of music i would recommend EAV(Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung), Knokator, Wise Guys, Otto Walkes(most loved german comedian),Jürgen von der Lippe(also a comedian but also makes music), Das Niveau, JBO and not to forget Die Ärtzte! and much more!
It's all stolen... but offical stolen, Queen, Palmer... everything was first. The song itself was original... the video is a compostion of musicvideos. More like a hommage to the "big" musicians. But Die Prinzen r very welcome every day in my life... if they don't steal anything here! 🤪😂🤣
i loved dancing to this song, i still can sing along all the lyrics... damn i was like 8 when it came out? and the video was so funny as a child, and the song so catchy... haha, watching die prinzen you should listen "küssen verboten" of them next :D
Title is: "Everything stolen" They recreated music videos from Queen U2 Robert Palmer (can't remember) (can't remember) ZZ Top Peter Gabriel Genesis The Cure
"Alles nur geklaut" is German vor "Everything Is stolen" and the Video Containes Several Clips based on other Music Videos. The Song was Written in the Early Nineties and Came Out and the shortly after the german reunification. Die Prinzen or in English the Princeprincess is an eastern german Pop band concsiting of for quire boys from Leipzig. The Video Clip is a parody of existing popular music video clips. The lyrics saterize greed in of the newly arrived capitalism in eastern germany. These guys have several Songs concerning this topic.
Actually songs today are so short because of streaming platforms like spotify, which only count a song as played after it's been listened to for a set % of the song. But there is also a 'shortest time' for something to be counted as a song. And those two things combined make about 2:30 a sweetspot for a song.
Die Prinzen used to be singer in a childrens choir and from there they started out as an acapella band. They have some serious skills there. This is one of their later works, where they are drifting more towards mainstream pop music. Songs like "Gabi and Klaus" or "Fahrrad" show their true potential a lot more. So you might want to look at that as well ;) German music videos tend either to be plain boring or get down some very creative and witty visual works ... either of art or hillarious absurdity (maybe to prove germans have humor after all ;)). Some that fit into that category are: Die Ärzte - "Männer sind Schweine", "Manchmal haben Frauen" or "Yoko Ono" Knorkator - "Buchstabe", "tut uns leid" or "Weg nach unten" Rammstein - "Deutschland", "Keine Lust" or "Amerika" Deichkind - "Keine Party", "Immer gerade aus" or "wer sagt denn das?" (you already had a look at Deichkind, but missed these gems ;))
It's funny how he asks if this band did it first or the other band, while the title translates as "everything is stolen" and in the next moment the song also sings "this is all stolen, sorry" 🤣
Hey there! Watch the video again. You already found out which part was obviously stolen from Queen,I'm sure you'll get some other hints ;) I really enjoy your reactions! Greetings of a German living in Austria.
The music of my childhood, I love it! Nearly all of them had a classical music education. They went to really famous boy choirs, so they are really good at singing acapella. These acapella thing and the humor is what makes their music so iconic. There is so much more of them and everything is funny as hell.
We in germany have a tendency to be all no-nonsense and serious. Thus, it is considered a special quality to be able to "not take oneself too serious" in recreational and artistic activities . We have two german bands who have made this their main theme: "Die Prinzen" for the pop-genre and "JBO" for rock and metal. Also renowned comedian and author Hape Kerkeling has done similar things in more classical art (review "Hurtz" for this). Michael "Bully" Herbig has taken a similar approach on some Hollywood movies. All of these are over the top colourful, dabbling with lgbtq-themes, glamorous and often just weird. Btw: JBO have done their own take on "Alles nur geklaut" where they claim they just stole it from "die Prinzen" :D
The story of the Prinzen is rather interesting. They all started as members of the Thomaner Choir in Leipzig (when they were boys at the age of around 10). That's also the reason why they are so good with (a capella) musical harmonies. Later in life they decided to form the pop group Die Prinzen which became succesfull in german speaking countries. More of their hit songs/videos I can recommend listening to/watching: (Du musst ein) Schwein sein / (You have to) Be a Pig ruclips.net/video/wyP8D82AuR4/видео.html Millionär / Millionaire ruclips.net/video/ezQs0sB8Q0s/видео.html Küssen verboten / Kissing forbidden ruclips.net/video/sX-kH7KeAwU/видео.html Gabi und Klaus ruclips.net/video/9qKo2_ZH5Bk/видео.html [actually their first top ten hit] Btw, the group was produced by Annette Humpe. (Another national treasure in Germany from the 80s onwards. She was a member of legendary punk band Ideal with iconic songs like "Blaue Augen" or "Eiszeit". Maybe think of her as a somewhat german equivalent of British singer Blondie.). As a producer she took The Prinzen under her musical wings which is one of the many reasons why their songs are so ear-catchy.
As others pointed out, the song means "All just stolen", and all scenes are copied from other videos. As for the Queen video, it itself is actually a reference to a british soap opera "Coronation Street" that was popular at the time.
I think I posted it under another of your videos, but here it is again: "ie" in German is just a long English "e" sound "ei" in German is just a long English "i" sound so basically if you see "i" and "e" together, look at the SECOND letter, NOT the first.
I had the song on cassette when I was 5-6 years old and I played it until my brother, who was eight years older, lost his nerve, took the cassette out of the stereo and destroyed it 😶🤣
I recommended this song to you and I am glad you did this video. This band is also very political and critical to society which shows in songs like "Bombe" or "Du musst ein Arschloch sein".
Hey, Dwayne, really good reaction! I'm loving your positivity and cheerfulness which is really nice and soothing in the raging chaos that is the internet😂 I believe, in your last Peter Fox reaction, you were asking about rappers that are on-par with him. There is one that I would say matches his profoundness, creativity and style: Alligatoah. Really worth checking him out! In contrast to Peter Fox, his focus is social criticism rather than more personal topics. But his lyrics really are genious. I fear, some might even get lost in translation for you but I think you should try it😊 Two of his best and most popular songs are (imo): 1. Willst du 2. Nachbeben I think you'd love them too😊
I love how he thinks that's the early 80s when that song is from the early 90s iirc. Like, Freddie Mercury was already 6 ft under when that song was written
The title of the song translates to "this is all just been ripped off, all of this is stolen" - therefore the clip "cites" a number of earlier music videos. The lyrics are available in English here: ruclips.net/video/ODS21MfcNxQ/видео.html and here: ruclips.net/video/k5ybfzRjCyw/видео.html And here a cover version w/o lyrics: ruclips.net/video/v9khUsqDUBI/видео.html Die Prinzen were established under this name in 1991 (they were first founded in 1987 as "Die Herzbuben", but had to rename themselves to not to be confused with the "Wildecker Herzbuben"); four of the members knew each other from their time in the Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig, a boys' choir founded in 1212; Johann Sebastian Bach served as Thomaskantor = director of the choir from 1723 to 1750) in the early 1980s, the fifth had been member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor (a boys' choir in Dresden founded in the 14th century). Their first albums were mostly a capella songs.
3 years ago, Die Prinzen re-recorded the song together with band "Deine Freunde" in a slightly modernized version. It's "Alles nur geklaut 2021" if you want to check it out.
Generally, I'd say we had and have a lot of bands that don't take themselves, but their art serious. I'd recommend you take a look at Knorkator and J.B.O. they do what we call 'Fun Metal'
Can you please react to “Unter den Wolken” by Die Toten Hosen ? Also more from the time of ‘Alles nur geklaut’ I recommend you to listen to “Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann” by Nena
You didn't get the whole idea of the song, that most of the video parts were stolen imitations from other famous music videos of the 80's (even the bondage scene, but i can't recall, where it is from)
The band used to be choir singers in a famous boy choir in East Germany. And I always thought this song was a bit of a critique of pop culture, because there is often not a lot of variety. Most popular songs just sound like all the others. These guys had an education in classical music and for them the malaise of pop music must have been extremely obvious. This was early 90ies, when there suddenly were a bunch of these lame boybands topping the charts too. I guess this take resonated with German music fans, which is why this song was rather well recieved in Germany.
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The song title means "It's all just stolen" .. So ALL the video sequences are references, copying famous music videos. The whole song is "copy-culture" critic. .. and yes! They love all the music and videos they refer to.
JBO did a metal-version of this song
Thank you for commenting this so I don't have to
Besser hätte man es nicht erklären können xD
The Last part of thr Song ist Missing. It is Not the whole song
today the song is more relevant than ever, with people like david guetta stealing cult song and making bad copies.
Video is "stolen" from
0:00 Trio- da da da
0:34 Queen - I Want to Break Free
0:57 U2 - Numb
1:20 Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
1:39 U96 - Love Sees No Colour
1:42 The Beloved - Sweet Harmony
1:54 ZZ Top
2:05 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
2:08 Genesis - I Can't Dance
2:16 The Cure - Lullaby
Korrekt
Thank. I always wanted to know which music was “nicked”
@@NoldorianElf the Videos, not the music
Dwayne is just to young to understand the subtext of the video 😅
@@GepflegteWildnis Sure. I was there, when MTV started in Germany. Golly I am old.
Dwayne: Who came first?
Song: Everything just stolen :D
😂
...and the whole nation already knew....
"Who copied?" When the litrally sing that everything is copied😂
The harmonies are so great because these guys used to sing together in the famous Thomaner Choir from Leipzig.
die means not⚰️....der die das ... All members sing in the Thomanerchor 🗣️🎹🎷🎺
Actually Jens Sempdner sung at the Kreuzchor of Dresden.🙂
The harmonies are absolutely classic Bach(Johann S.)-Style for the same reason.
You need to know, that the band members of this Band were all in the Thomaner Chor, the most famous Boys choir in Germany with ITS own school, founded roughly 800 years ago.. so they basically learned to harmonize.
The song is from the early 90s, I grew up with it
Just a quick correction: Jens Sembner was part of the "Dresdner Kreuzchor," which is as well-known as the Thomanerchor (actually, it's more internationally renowned during times of GRD). Both boys' choirs have a tradition of over 800 years, making them two of the oldest choirs in the world. However, there's no real competition between them. Every year, the choirs play a traditional soccer game against each other and celebrate together afterwards.
@summersun6536 that's right, thanks for the addition 😊
Everybody in Germany who is like older than 25 knows the words to this song. They were superstars in the 90s
There are two german songs I know by heart to this day. This one and "Ich find dich scheisse".
@@mabus4910 I raise you
"Die Fantastischen Vier - Die Da!?!"
"Gerhard Schröder - Der Steuersong"
"Bully-Parade - Pumpgun Song"
"Zlatko und Jürgen - Großer Bruder"
just to name some songs my brain did just unlock again after reading 90s songs and your comment together.
If you are interested in "weird" German music culture: Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) or short: NDW.
It was really a new wave that rolled over Germany. DAF, Trio, Nena, Extrabreit, Spider Murphy Gang, Hubert Kah, Fräulein Menke, Peter Schilling, Fehlfarben, Joachim Witt, Geier Sturzflug, UKW,… the list goes on.
The origins lie in British punk / new wave music, but a very unique style quickly developed. What was particularly interesting was that the songs were sung in German. At that time there were only German hits for the older generation, and young people only listened to English-language music. The New German Wave discovered the German language for itself and actually revolutionized the German music world. It was a very, very creative, crazy, fun and freeing time.
Some songs also became very popular in the
English-speaking world and you probably know them too: Nena's "99 Luftballons" ("99 Red Balloons"), for example. Falco ("Amadeus") can also be counted among them, even though he was Austrian. Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" was also internationally known, as was Trio's "Da Da Da".
Thank you👍🏼 Do not forget IDEAL❤
Just don't do "Fred from Jupiter"...or do?
If you were as old as me you would recognize every single copied artist/band in this video 😂 It‘s sooo obvious.
Yeah thats the Point
Well, I'm 33 and recognized nearly everything.
You don't have to be that old.
I mean I do and I'm born 2000
@@auraluna7679 but it helps...
😂
Musik meiner Jugend...wie wäre es mit Ärzte schrei nach Liebe..ist ungefähr die Zeit
Oh yes, that is an absolute MUST!
Deine Schuld is also strong.
Schrei nach Liebe is a MUST!!!
Und " pushed again" von den Toten Hosen.
@@JaneSmith-rx6kx Daran hab ich hinterher auch gedacht. Pushed again ist ein großartiger Song! Auch "Nur zu Besuch" von den Hosen - bringt mich zum Weinen...
"Alles nur geklaut" means "everything is just stolen" The queeenesque part is stolen form Queen, the "bondage" part is stolen form U2s "numb", the part with the guitar playing girls is stolen from ABC [edit]ABC is wrong ...it was Robert Palmer[/edit], the beardy part fron ZZ Top, some Genesis, the Cure etc.
Weren‘t the guitar women Rod Stewart? 🤔
@@klarasee806 Nope. We were both wrong. It was "addicted to love" by Robert Palmer. I corrected the original Comment
And the Beatles walking at the end, no?
@@lynnm6413 No, it's Genesis (I can't dance)
@@lynnm6413 No. "I can't dance" by Genesis
Fun Fact ... the "singer" (blond hair) in this video usually does just backing vocals - and the "ginger head" is the original front vocal singer - so you are completely right, he should have more lines than just "Eh-oh"
In my memory Tobias sings almost as much songs as Sebastian. He's not only a background singer
They’re all Thomaner Chor students (a boarding school for the Johann Sebastian Bach-focused Thomaner choir for boys). So, they have learned their profession and harmonizing since childhood and, after school, took their art to pop music…
Jens Sempdner was a student of the Kreuzchor in Dresden.🙂
From the East! They are excellent‼️❤
Great reaction! I think you should react to Falco. He is from Austria, but sings in German. He was the first german speaking rapper and made great songs. Unfortunately he has already died. I love your videos on german music. Thanks for your reactions.
Yep, Falco is a great artist! Would love to see a reaction to "Jeanny (Part 1)"!
well, not high german... 😂
Also he is not a rapper, but a singer. He is the first German speaking artist that made it in the US Charts with "Rock Me Amadeus". Not only that, but he landed at the first place. He is also one of the first artist that mixed German with English ("Der Kommissar", "Vienna Calling", "Rock Me Amadeus"). Against what first poster said, he doesn't (only) sing in High German (standard german) but viennese dialect- and sometimes mix it too.
- Greetings from Austria
@@Moonchild0 I take it you're saying with german lyircs? Out of curiosity, I looked up german musicians in the US-Charts. The first one with german lyrics might be Kraftwerk - Autobahn. Not too much lyrics, though. :-)
@@schallundrauch2378 I meant generall Falco music, but in particular "Rock Me Amadeus". There are two versions of it. The original is written in German, the 8-minute long version appeared on the US release from Falco 3 album.
No other German song (again referring to the song "Rock Me Amadeus") has topped the US charts, yet alone made it first place. At that time it was something unheard from.
Die Prinzen was one of my favourite Bands growing up. 😍 I still like them a lot. As a kid I would sing along loudly. 😆
Its the 90s. Grew up with the princes. Loved them so much, and only much later in life i fully grasped the depth of their lyrics!
And you had me dying when you called them DIE prinzen
Hui. Ein alter Klassiker. 😳❤️
That song was published in 1993.
Freddi Mercury died in in 1991.
I think the entire concept and song went somehow by you Dwayne. The Song is called Everything is stolen and therefore Die Prinzen copied famous videos for their video to stress on the song title.
If you like harmonies you have to listen to "Wise guys - Radio" or "Wise guys - Sommer"
He definetley should listen to them!
Do you mean "Radio" with "Cabrio"?
@sternentalerswald yes. Of course. Thanks. Corrected it.
I love the song radio! So good!
thats so funny ... thats my childhood music i haven´t hered 25 years and i can spell every word =) thats crazy
I love the Prinzen, same like the Ärzte too^^
Ps: die Prinzen = the princes , & die Ärzte = the doctors)
Die Gleichung ist falsch. Lass mich das korrigieren.
Die Ärzte = die beste Band der Welt
Oh please react to some more Die Prinzen! They're an amazing band with great funny songs who recently kind of had a comeback. Some recomendations: "Deutschland", "Millionär", "Mann im Mond" are amazing. Also check out another legendary german band with a similar name: "Die Ärzte"
03:44 " I think it's the 80's" Trust me, they couldn't made this video in the 80's because they grown up in the GDR
Das Lied erschien im September 1993
@ASteingraben ach ne. Echt? Das hat er dann im Video auch rausgefunden
They indeed started their career under the name "Herzbuben" ("Jack of hearts") in the late 1980s in GDR, and gained some popularity since their style was fresh and uncommon (and somehow politically critical, too). After the German reunion they changed the name to "Die Prinzen" ("The Princes") since they did not want to be confused with the Bavarian folk music duo "Die Wildecker Herzbuben".
I was just thinking yesterday that I'd love to see you react to this. Great timing xD
This was the known pop-version! An accapella version and a rock version is avaible, too.
These guys are professionally trained chor singers, who did this just for fun, but went through the roof in the 90s ... they are still making music and are very into LGBT as some of them are gay.
Love their music and work since their breakthrough song "Küssen verboten" in 1992. *kiss
Echt, wusste ich nicht. Wer von denen ist denn queer?
Trust me, none of them is gay. 😊
@@juwen7908none of them, but they are very open minded. The whole band, but in particular front singen Sebastian Krumbiegel (the red head) are pretty political, socially critical, and fight for democracy and human rights. It shows in songs like "Du musst ein Arschloch sein" or "Bombe".
Its a lot of fun to watch you seeing this Video of my chuldhood the first time! Was the first cd my big sister bought and brought home! You are such a funny guy. Greetings from Germany
Eooh... remember that legendary concert in Wimbledon called "lLive Aid", when Freddie Mercury had the whole stadion in his fist, singing with them... "Eohhh...." I LOVE thie! And of course: Queen was FIRST!
they stole that, too. ay-oh.
They are a fantastic accapella Group...with a lot very good songs. This one is from 1993...greets from Hamburg
When i was 5 i was the biggest Prinzen fan. One day they called me on the phone and i was soo happy. But turned out it was just my brothers pretending to be them 😂😂😂
The original is from 1993, but they rerecorded a couple songs for their 2021 album, including this one.
OMG; I totally forgot about this song 🤣🤣🤣 this must have been released in the early 90s if I remember correctly? At least I was barely a teen when this came out and I'm in my 40s now 🤣
As a German I literally sang the song as soon as I read the title
It was a commentry on the German Music scene that had (and to some degree still has) a tendency to sometimes be very inspired (one might say copy) stuff from other countries in particular UK and US. Sometimes going so far to basically just use the same texts just in a German translation that fit the beat and message.
I thought you would recognize what they did after the lyrics, but you didn't. The "stole" a lot of videos and wrote a song about stealing songs. But obviously you only recognized queen and not all the others. Sledgehammer and Genesis are iconic. Thats a must to know.
Most of them have sung in the Thomanerchor /Choir of the St.Thomas Church in Leipzig/Germany. Harmonies they can…!
“Die Prinzen” is used by the group since 1991.
All the sequences are copied from famous videos, Queen, U2, Robert Palmer, ZZ-Top and all.
Genesis (I can't can't dance) and Peter Gabriel (Sledgehammer) as well.
Can't for the life of me think of the song with all the nudes atm, though. 😊
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Some people posted lists, it's 'The Beloved - Sweet Harmony'
@@DerEchteBold Thank you. 🙂 Ich hab's schon gesehen.
You need to listen to their acapella versions of their songs. Their classic training makes them so good at it.
I'm not quite sure, but I think they met as children in the Thomanerchor in Leipzig. The Thomanerchor is a really famous boys' choir and is over 800 years old. So they know how to sing together.
No, it's the 90s. Die Prinzen came from Leipzig, were all members of the Thomaner Choir, and became famous after the German reunification.
I recommend "Vergammelte Speisen" from them.
It means"rotten foods" and it's more crazy
Die Prinzen are a classic 90s band here in Germany. And they have many more great songs!
i would say we got quite a few bands with funny texts, its just mostly the problem that many wont read the text in their language afterwards, but if you like this kind of music i would recommend EAV(Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung), Knokator, Wise Guys, Otto Walkes(most loved german comedian),Jürgen von der Lippe(also a comedian but also makes music), Das Niveau, JBO and not to forget Die Ärtzte!
and much more!
Have you noticed that there's absolutely no instrument playing, except percussion/drums? It's only the guys' voices singing.
It's all stolen... but offical stolen, Queen, Palmer... everything was first. The song itself was original... the video is a compostion of musicvideos. More like a hommage to the "big" musicians. But Die Prinzen r very welcome every day in my life... if they don't steal anything here! 🤪😂🤣
There is another version from J.B.O. And it was funny to hear that after so long not hearing the original. Love both.
i loved dancing to this song, i still can sing along all the lyrics... damn i was like 8 when it came out? and the video was so funny as a child, and the song so catchy... haha, watching die prinzen you should listen "küssen verboten" of them next :D
Title is: "Everything stolen"
They recreated music videos from
Queen
U2
Robert Palmer
(can't remember)
(can't remember)
ZZ Top
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
The Cure
"Alles nur geklaut" is German vor "Everything Is stolen" and the Video Containes Several Clips based on other Music Videos. The Song was Written in the Early Nineties and Came Out and the shortly after the german reunification. Die Prinzen or in English the Princeprincess is an eastern german Pop band concsiting of for quire boys from Leipzig. The Video Clip is a parody of existing popular music video clips. The lyrics saterize greed in of the newly arrived capitalism in eastern germany. These guys have several Songs concerning this topic.
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Actually songs today are so short because of streaming platforms like spotify, which only count a song as played after it's been listened to for a set % of the song. But there is also a 'shortest time' for something to be counted as a song. And those two things combined make about 2:30 a sweetspot for a song.
I never saw the music video until this reaction. Funny to understand that I never got the real references of the text passages.
Oh wow, that was a blast from the past. 😂 Love it, haven't heard this in forever but in the 90s everyone could sing this word for word, even us kids.
Die Steigerung ist Lieder von Adel Tawil.. Wie viele Songs sind dort versteckt?
Die Prinzen used to be singer in a childrens choir and from there they started out as an acapella band. They have some serious skills there. This is one of their later works, where they are drifting more towards mainstream pop music. Songs like "Gabi and Klaus" or "Fahrrad" show their true potential a lot more. So you might want to look at that as well ;)
German music videos tend either to be plain boring or get down some very creative and witty visual works ... either of art or hillarious absurdity (maybe to prove germans have humor after all ;)).
Some that fit into that category are:
Die Ärzte - "Männer sind Schweine", "Manchmal haben Frauen" or "Yoko Ono"
Knorkator - "Buchstabe", "tut uns leid" or "Weg nach unten"
Rammstein - "Deutschland", "Keine Lust" or "Amerika"
Deichkind - "Keine Party", "Immer gerade aus" or "wer sagt denn das?" (you already had a look at Deichkind, but missed these gems ;))
It's funny how he asks if this band did it first or the other band, while the title translates as "everything is stolen" and in the next moment the song also sings "this is all stolen, sorry" 🤣
Hey there! Watch the video again. You already found out which part was obviously stolen from Queen,I'm sure you'll get some other hints ;)
I really enjoy your reactions! Greetings of a German living in Austria.
The music of my childhood, I love it! Nearly all of them had a classical music education. They went to really famous boy choirs, so they are really good at singing acapella. These acapella thing and the humor is what makes their music so iconic. There is so much more of them and everything is funny as hell.
We in germany have a tendency to be all no-nonsense and serious. Thus, it is considered a special quality to be able to "not take oneself too serious" in recreational and artistic activities . We have two german bands who have made this their main theme: "Die Prinzen" for the pop-genre and "JBO" for rock and metal. Also renowned comedian and author Hape Kerkeling has done similar things in more classical art (review "Hurtz" for this). Michael "Bully" Herbig has taken a similar approach on some Hollywood movies. All of these are over the top colourful, dabbling with lgbtq-themes, glamorous and often just weird.
Btw: JBO have done their own take on "Alles nur geklaut" where they claim they just stole it from "die Prinzen" :D
The story of the Prinzen is rather interesting. They all started as members of the Thomaner Choir in Leipzig (when they were boys at the age of around 10). That's also the reason why they are so good with (a capella) musical harmonies. Later in life they decided to form the pop group Die Prinzen which became succesfull in german speaking countries. More of their hit songs/videos I can recommend listening to/watching:
(Du musst ein) Schwein sein / (You have to) Be a Pig ruclips.net/video/wyP8D82AuR4/видео.html
Millionär / Millionaire ruclips.net/video/ezQs0sB8Q0s/видео.html
Küssen verboten / Kissing forbidden ruclips.net/video/sX-kH7KeAwU/видео.html
Gabi und Klaus ruclips.net/video/9qKo2_ZH5Bk/видео.html [actually their first top ten hit]
Btw, the group was produced by Annette Humpe. (Another national treasure in Germany from the 80s onwards. She was a member of legendary punk band Ideal with iconic songs like "Blaue Augen" or "Eiszeit". Maybe think of her as a somewhat german equivalent of British singer Blondie.). As a producer she took The Prinzen under her musical wings which is one of the many reasons why their songs are so ear-catchy.
Jens Sempdner was a student of the Kreuzchor in Dresden.🙂
Anette Humpe was also part of the very successful duo ich+ich.
@@juwen7908 Or in duo with her sister Inga Humpe she had more iconic hits like Yama-ha, Careless Love. Many reasons for being a fan! 😁
They even made a remake of the Song a few years ago
The song was written in the early 90s and the song title means: "Everything is just stolen". Greetings from Berlin.
You Brits had some outlandish music over the decades as well. Stuff like the Safety Dance by Man Without Hats.
they have probably a ministry for Man without hats too if they can have ministry of silly walks.
As others pointed out, the song means "All just stolen", and all scenes are copied from other videos. As for the Queen video, it itself is actually a reference to a british soap opera "Coronation Street" that was popular at the time.
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If I'm correct, they started as a choir for church.
They did a 2021 version of this song aswell! Highly recommed it!
We had to sing this in music class all the time😭
It’s from the 90s if I remember correctly.
its peak 90s but they are from east germany so it still looks like the 80s. the former soviet zone was a bit behind. but they are grrrrreat musicians
This video is from the earliy nineties, not from the eighties 🕺🏼
Die Prinzen had hit after hit.
I think I posted it under another of your videos, but here it is again:
"ie" in German is just a long English "e" sound
"ei" in German is just a long English "i" sound
so basically if you see "i" and "e" together, look at the SECOND letter, NOT the first.
"Be cool, speak deutsch! Can you speak ein bisschen deutsch with me? Be cool, speak deutsch with me! Maybe than vielleicht versteh ich sie."
Jawoll, yeeeeaaah ❤
Yes the MVs Ideas are stolen thats because the Song theme is that he stole everything. There is also a longer Version of this Song
I had the song on cassette when I was 5-6 years old and I played it until my brother, who was eight years older, lost his nerve, took the cassette out of the stereo and destroyed it 😶🤣
I recommended this song to you and I am glad you did this video. This band is also very political and critical to society which shows in songs like "Bombe" or "Du musst ein Arschloch sein".
Hey, Dwayne, really good reaction! I'm loving your positivity and cheerfulness which is really nice and soothing in the raging chaos that is the internet😂 I believe, in your last Peter Fox reaction, you were asking about rappers that are on-par with him. There is one that I would say matches his profoundness, creativity and style: Alligatoah. Really worth checking him out! In contrast to Peter Fox, his focus is social criticism rather than more personal topics. But his lyrics really are genious. I fear, some might even get lost in translation for you but I think you should try it😊
Two of his best and most popular songs are (imo):
1. Willst du
2. Nachbeben
I think you'd love them too😊
Dude your the first persone i've eve met who didn't know the origanel songs.
I love how he thinks that's the early 80s when that song is from the early 90s iirc. Like, Freddie Mercury was already 6 ft under when that song was written
How often do you want to restart or pause the video?
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There is this joke here in Germany that song is the national anthem from Poland. As a Polish woman I think it's funny
I'm wondering do you have the lyrics to the song pulled up ?😊
ich liebe die prinzen nice
The title of the song translates to "this is all just been ripped off, all of this is stolen" - therefore the clip "cites" a number of earlier music videos.
The lyrics are available in English here: ruclips.net/video/ODS21MfcNxQ/видео.html and here: ruclips.net/video/k5ybfzRjCyw/видео.html
And here a cover version w/o lyrics: ruclips.net/video/v9khUsqDUBI/видео.html
Die Prinzen were established under this name in 1991 (they were first founded in 1987 as "Die Herzbuben", but had to rename themselves to not to be confused with the "Wildecker Herzbuben"); four of the members knew each other from their time in the Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig, a boys' choir founded in 1212; Johann Sebastian Bach served as Thomaskantor = director of the choir from 1723 to 1750) in the early 1980s, the fifth had been member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor (a boys' choir in Dresden founded in the 14th century). Their first albums were mostly a capella songs.
next the jbo version ;)
The song is from 1993, probably also the video.
Klauen is a colloquial for stealing, so I would also use a coll. for translation.
"It is all nicked" is a better translation in my opinion.
Die Prinzen - Alles nur geklaut is from 1993
our 80´s ... waths fashion an musik is was actually in our 90´s :)
Bin seit über 30 Jahren Fan 😍
Haven heard the song in a long time. It’s fitting even more nowadays than it did in 1993.
3 years ago, Die Prinzen re-recorded the song together with band "Deine Freunde" in a slightly modernized version.
It's "Alles nur geklaut 2021" if you want to check it out.
this is art and social criticism
if you want to hear more singing from the redhead, he's the main singer in their song "küssen verboten"
Generally, I'd say we had and have a lot of bands that don't take themselves, but their art serious. I'd recommend you take a look at Knorkator and J.B.O. they do what we call 'Fun Metal'
If you read behind the lines it is actually a critique about "treuhand" after the german unification and capitalism in general.
Can you please react to “Unter den Wolken” by Die Toten Hosen ?
Also more from the time of ‘Alles nur geklaut’ I recommend you to listen to “Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann” by Nena
You didn't get the whole idea of the song, that most of the video parts were stolen imitations from other famous music videos of the 80's (even the bondage scene, but i can't recall, where it is from)
The band used to be choir singers in a famous boy choir in East Germany. And I always thought this song was a bit of a critique of pop culture, because there is often not a lot of variety. Most popular songs just sound like all the others. These guys had an education in classical music and for them the malaise of pop music must have been extremely obvious. This was early 90ies, when there suddenly were a bunch of these lame boybands topping the charts too. I guess this take resonated with German music fans, which is why this song was rather well recieved in Germany.
When the GDR kinda just fell apart. These guys were from the former GDR.