Why Brit Pop and Bavarian Schlager are similar (understanding Lunsen Trio)
Well. So these educational posts suck, maybe. BUT, we may explain, and this is unusual, yes, because it IS unusual, why someone like Nick McCarthy, but also Seb-I, can be doing Brit Pop, then again Reggae / Dub / Dancehall, and then again Bavarian Folk, if not straight Country.
For instance, some people approach Dub from Techno, and would never go into Schlager. However, some approach Techno Dub thru things like Gabber and LOVE Schlager (see for instance Raketenbasis Haberlandstrasse and more precisely their project Schlagerhygiene on this).
SO when you dig a genre, you might not dig the other genre, but then the other person might dig both genres.
It may be noted, that folk, is just another form of song-writing, its has the pop song principles of recurring multiple parts, and lyrics + harmonics very much connected, mostly.
So what do you learn from Schlager? Good song-writing, maybe. Schlager is just basically the german Chanson, sung in German, not French, if it was English, you’d call this Jazz Ballad these days, sound much better, eh? Or Anthem, or Chant. Or Childrens Song. Or, its simple. Its easy, so you can sing along, you don’t have to be a musical expert to understand this, in other words, its POP, in the sense of popular and not unpopular music.
So popular music for bavarian schlager fans - means - you can play this at the Oktoberfest, and OK, we hate the Oktoberfest, its nationalistic and right-wing and such, BUT, apart from that, its not so easy to come up with music that everyone, after 5-10 liters of Beer, can still sing, right?
So the Lunsen Trio aims at song-writing 1) Bavarian Schlager but with more 2) modern non-nationlistic and very much open minded / open values Lyrics exactly 3) aimed at the People for instance at Oktoberfest so that they MIGHT get some better music but especially BETTER VALUES than the other mostly stupid “we are so happy in our little nationalistic world” - Lyrics they usually get from Bavarian Schlager and that will of course never really happen because, oh well, there is this big mental distance but NONETHELESS The Lunsen Trio tries and ends up…. where? In high culture, the theatre. Of course. But hey, still great, isn’t it, and its all about making simple powerful songs and lyrics happen, that are compact, not too complex, earworms, and whether you call that brit pop, or bavarian schlager, or folks, or dancehall, is really just up to you, its basically all the same, just in different languages intended for slightly different audiences…