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GERMANY - TEAM DEUTSCHLAND

Here is the new way to promote political messages in Germany. You take a drunk, unwashed guy who looks like he is going to vomit any second now—which is exactly how you feel when you listen to this terrible piece of rubbish they call a song—and tell him to raise his fist up in the air as an expression of emotion. He must hold every tone, though a female holds them longer because she is misunderstood asa "rock singer." And then there must be Schlager music playing in the background. These are the rules of "Team Deutschland Song," written for the conservative Party in Germany.

We love the upcoming German elections this year, so sexy and indulgent, and and above all we do love this hunk of junk produced by Leslie Mandoki, whom some of us probably still know as Dschinghis Khan.

They really can't rhyme for shit, they use the worst synths and cheap drums, and on top of that the song structure is missing any kind of surprise effect--which is the German election campaign in a nutshell. It's boring, reactionary and not a single concern is real.

FELIX NICKLAS