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Release Day! ONLYFRANZ out now

Dear friends of cultivated hysteria,

Today we are pleased to announce that our new album ‘OnlyFranz – 31 Intimitäten mit Franz Liszt’ has been released and is available wherever streaming is available (Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, Apple Music...the list is long and beautiful). All 31 songs were released here on Tumblr during last year's Lisztober, and our thanks go first and foremost to @franzliszt-official, without whom this challenge would not have been possible.

Elektrische Maidchen — OnlyFranz - 31 Intimitäten mit Franz Liszt

Neues Release kommt am 17. Oktober 2025

And we wouldn't be us if we hadn't prepared a little music video for today, which you can watch here. ;)

By the way, if you want to be in our next video, get in touch! We are accepting video guest contributions for ‘No. 27’ until November, so give your Franz Thirst free rein!

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Haters gonna hate, @franzliszt-official ;) (I’m not going to go on explaining here that these AI scenes will make up a full minute of the entire self-made music video. There’s also stop-motion with Barbie dolls and shadow theatre, so don’t start crying ;))

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Why do you support AI

Dear, there is a whole lot of mail I had not realised I had accumulated...

For this particular topic, I refer to my dearest @elektrischemaidchen.

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Thank you, @franzliszt-official

I’d love to invite everyone to ask me this question, if it was meant for us. But only if you don’t ask it anonymously and are genuinely interested in a long answer. ;) Well, you could ask anonymously, but let's keep it real.

The short version – to start with – is as follows: I am a musician who has been active in the music industry and the poetry slam scene for more than 20 years; I have a classical background, am signed to record labels with three of my other bands, and am no longer interested in discussing my own songs with any male bandmates or producers. I no longer wish to work as a ghostwriter or singer for anyone and not even be mentioned in the booklet. Let’s not even get started on payment. Otherwise, I’m what you’d call an invisible studio singer. If you are smart, look into the credits for my songs, find my name and see how many mentions on discogs and so on you will find. Maybe 3 or 4. In over 20 years.

I use AI as a tool to produce my own self-written songs, just for the sheer joy of it and so I don’t have to fork out 600 euros to someone who then does the mastering themselves using AI. The music I make is a mix of my own songs, written in note books, sometimes on guitar, uku, piano, Vochlea Dubbler, AI and DAW. And tears. I’m open about it, I don’t infringe on other people’s rights (we could also have a chat about the ethical justification for using samples), and I’m absolutely fed up with discussing it. But you’re more than welcome to do so anyway. Word! I will be honest, I swear.

I’d also like to invite everyone to a music weekend with absolutely no computers involved, where we lock ourselves away and write an amazing album together. Strangely enough, no one has accepted my invitation on social media so far.

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"Hey, let's try AI for our next Franz Liszt video!"

AI:

(I still prefer @franzliszt-official ;))

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It's time, @franzliszt-official . It's time. ɐllı sǝıp˙˙˙æɹı sǝıp

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I have been imprisoned in a box

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NOOOOOOOO

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can someone talented write a musical about chopin and liszt like they wrote one for mozart and salieri

someone spread the choliszt prophecy like they spread the mozalieri prophecy

thank you @boticellisangel for the ask you sent i just thought of it again and i need a choliszt musical

matter of fact it would add infinite years to my lifespan

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Well, don’t know if we are considered "talented", but we are actually planning a Liszt musical in 2026...which could be yaoi maybe 😅 In the meantime listen to our other 56 Liszt songs (plus Chopin)

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Lisztober25: #12 Chasse neige or There is no proper life in a wrong one

Well, we have finally reached it: The end of Lisztober 2025. And just like last year, there's tumbleweed (or should we say Tumblrweed!) all around us. Are we truly the only ones who saw the entire challenge through to the end again? What's up, fellow Lisztians?

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So, we conclude our little musical project today with the terrifying realization that the birth of the new Messiah of Music has caused a shift in the space-time continuum, allowing Yog-Sothoth-Franz Liszt-the dark matter and intersection of all Liszts across every quantum continuum- to engulf the Liszt3000. At this point, only Arnold Schönberg and Adorno from the future can help. (Do I believe that nobody has been able to follow me for a long time? Probably. But it's still fun.)

Compared to last year, this was arguably the most chill Lisztober we've had here so far. Only 12 songs, instead of last year's 31; the musical framework was also predetermined. And yet, there's always a certain melancholy at the end. At least here; the rest of the Maidchen- Listeners and Lacelove are probably thrilled they won't be spammed with Franz in a while. ;)

Last year, on November 1st, I immediately had a small nervous breakdown from pure relief, but at least I did it in style at Franz's grave in Bayreuth. And before that, already on the highway. That probably won't happen this year. Well, hopefully.

Both Lisztobers (and the Weihnachtsbaum- Challenge in December) have, in total, resulted in 57 songs about Franz Liszt (not counting the ones already on our albums). We've successfully completed 3 music videos (the fourth is underway) and released the album OnlyFranz this month. Our thanks go first and foremost—and as always—to @franzliszt-official, our record label Eygennutz- and to all supporters, listeners, and everyone who joined us on this ride again.

Thanks also, @chopinski-official for letting me use your character here ;)

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You all need Liszty in your lives!

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Lisztober25: #11 Harmonies du Soir or An etude star is born

We are approaching the end. The penultimate song, @franzliszt-official

In which Liszt3000 reveals to me that in 20 minutes, rather than 9 months, I will give birth to his transcendental child and the new Etüdenstein, who is simply the new Messiah of the music world: Ernestiranz Agnes Cembalola.

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And for those who are now wondering whether you get nuts in Lisztober: yes. But it's still pretty cool ;)

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Lisztober25: #10 Allegro agitato molto aka Appassionata

The 10th quest. We are slowly approaching the end, dear friends. Two more songs, then this Lisztober will be over. And just like last year, we are looking forward to the end with mixed feelings. @franzliszt-official

Unlike Chopin, for whom the search for the last études of power unfortunately ends today. He only has two sad eyes... and for good reason. Sorry, @chopinski-official

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This one was really difficult, dear friends. At the beginning of this challenge, I thought Feux Follets could be my final opponent – far from it. It turned out to be ‘Allegro agitato molto’ (aka Appassionata). At one point, I was about to just rap again, but then I had the saving idea of returning to my roots – long, long before Elektrische Maidchen, I used to make gothic cabaret music... and in the end, that saved my butt for this song. As a tribute to Rasputina, the Dresden Dolls and Emilie Autumn, today's number is also pretty over the top, it absolutely had to have a cello in it... And yet it's still a bit funny... at least I hope so.

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Lisztober25: #Interlude - I f***ed Franz Liszt on his birthday night

Happy 214th birthday, Franz Liszt!

-Explicit ;) -

And what better way to celebrate this day than with a steamy song? There are two things that really turn me on: Franz Liszt and... archival work. Combine the two: boom.

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Lying on a leopard skin in front of the fireplace in a wooden cabin and combing through the Liszt collection in the Anna Amalia Library? Or chatting with an employee of the Bibliothèque nationale de France while sipping my red wine, asking him or her to find the new location of a Liszt notebook from 1833 that was last catalogued in 1987?…. Soooo hot. GOD!

So, if any of you ever want to start an OnlyFans account, in which you read aloud some Liszt sources not yet discovered in already existing academic literature, you can make a quick buck with me. Just saying...@franzliszt-official

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Are you doing alright? Considering the fact that you said you wrote a song while feverish.

Yeah, I have the flu at the moment, and had some fever on the weekend, while writing that peculiar song. But it's Lisztober and I have to deliever anyway 🫡 Thank you for caring! 😘

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Lisztober25: #9: Ricordanza

The ninth song, the ninth étude stone. Unfortunately, it's Thalberg's thumb. So @franzliszt-official, @chopinski-official and I have to go back to Belgiojoso's salon and repeat the famous duel. Which is a little more heated than last time. And a cat explodes too.

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You should never write songs when you have a fever. I did. The whole thing has become very unwieldy by our standards, but that's because I completely shredded Franz Ricordanza this time and perhaps took away some of the piece's original character. You'll all have to get through it now. And of course it had to be about Thalberg's thumb, because Franz was accused of brazenly stealing Siggi's thumb melody in this étude. ;)

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Lisztober25: #8 Wilde Jagd

Metal, guys! We need some metal today to accomplish this epic battle between Albatross Wagner, Liszt3000, Fryderyk of Rivia and yours truly: Me.

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And to do so, Wagner not only calls the Wild Hunt into battle, but also the entire crème de la crème of the Germanic pantheon to rob @franzliszt-official of his étude stones. Incidentally, @chopinski-official is fast becoming my favourite character in this saga xD

And because the whole thing is supposed to be part of a book project, that thing is 13 minutes long again. And again in English, because the words are shorter and just more epic and stuff.

And anyone who thinks this dramatic battle is the end of Liszt's reign is sorely mistaken!

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Lisztober 25: #7 Eroica or Fryderyk of Rivia

No Liszt month without Chopin! And unfortunately, I may have gone a little overboard here…@franzliszt-official

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Almost 13 minutes. No one is really going to listen to the whole thing. Incidentally, it was originally even longer, but I took out the chorus several times. But it's EROICA, and it has to be epic. So, Franz and I try to convince Chopin that he has to compete with us as Fryderyk von Rivia against Albatros Wagner's Wilde Jagd – and die what feels like 400 truly (!) gruesome deaths to become the united new, first Polish national hero. This was very important to me because of my Polish roots. This song was decided on right from the start of Lisztober. On the one hand, because I really wanted to make a Monty Python-esque ‘Bravely bold Sir Robin’ song that never ends… and on the other hand, because my image of Chopin is now so influenced by @chopinski-official that I had to incorporate that too ;) It's in English again because the words are shorter here too. Otherwise it would have been 3 hours long.

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Lisztober 25: #6 Vision or Albatross Wagner

And now... THE RISE OF ALBATROSS WAGNER! MUHAHAHAHA! @franzliszt-official

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Every good story needs a villain. And the villain's theme song to go with it. And as befits Albatros Wagner, with a lot of catchy Jim Steinman-esque bombast, MORE CHOIRS, and a few lousy puns (for our German listeners: Yes, it's actually ‘Ich picke’, not the other word that rhymes with it. Maybe I thought it was funny. It's not actually that funny, never mind!)

Musically, Vision ties in directly with Feux Follets, which I'm mentioning because no one else seems to have noticed. What no one else seems to have noticed either is that the whole Albatross story is actually an allusion to Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner...get your shit together, tumblr! ;)

Oh, Franz, you are an old fool, And now I'll tie your stones around me. Your incense stinks of vanity, Your cross was never that wide! We both rise Not above the music??? And you really thought That it would stay that way? I am Albatross Wagner, I will soon rule the world! I'll peck your daughter, now give me your money! For art is for the gods, and I am their prophet! I am Albatross Wagner – For you it's too late! Too late! Too late! The kings hated me, Lisztling took my splendour and light, I fled to Zurich, poor and misunderstood, but here I am again, am I not... brilliant? For these stones bestow power, sound becomes creation, chaos and night, whoever possesses them can rule the heavens – and think from the keys! I am Albatross Wagner, I will soon rule the world! I'll peck your daughter, give me your money now! For art is for the gods, and I am their prophet! I am Albatross Wagner – For you it's too late! Too late! Too late! Then no one will hear properly anymore! (‘Only German, only Wagner, only destruction!’) Then there will be no bread, no wine, no money – (‘Only the best Saumagen in the world!’) I am Albatross Wagner, I will soon rule the world! I will peck your daughter, give me your money now! For art is for the gods, and I am their prophet! I am Albatross Wagner – It's too late for you! Too late! Too late!

I stuff the sky into my magic horn, blow lightning and storm into my wrath, I am the sound that never fades, hoo-hoo! and no one, no one can resist! Now I take the stone of vision, caw, caw, connect it to the Tristan tone, when minor and major attack each other, so that even the last ones understand: I am Albatross Wagner, I will soon rule the world! I will peck your daughter, give me your money now! For art is for the gods, and I am their prophet! I am Albatross Wagner – For you it is too late! Too late! Too late! For art is no longer a virtue, it burns, it screams, it strikes, it consumes! It does not listen to Mendelssohn, who is completely useless! I am Albatross Wagner – too late! Too late! Too late! I am Albatross Wagner, I will soon rule the world! I will peck your daughter, give me your money now! For art is for the gods, and I am their prophet! I am Albatross Wagner – It is too late for you! Too late! Too late! Then harmony and duty will end, only sound and Siegfried's light will remain, no more amen, no more gloria – only Tristan, sauerkraut, yes, yes! Germania! I am the composer of damnation! And the applause... belongs only to me! I am Albatross Wagner, I will soon rule the world! I'll peck your daughter, give me your money now! For art is for the gods, and I am their prophet! I am Albatross Wagner – It's too late for you! Too late! Too late! Liszt... your light is extinguished.

The Etude Stones now belong to... ME. AND NOW GIVE ME MONEY!!!!!!