2023-05-28 06:00:00
The current single explains what you have in this band. Musically arranged to echo their glam rock origins, the Sparks report on “Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is” from the inner perspective of the very youngest of earth’s inhabitants. Supplemented by a music video with primarily crying babies, an image of early existential despair emerges. “All your standards must be so very low / This is not a place that I’d want to go / How can you exist in a place like this? / I surely can’t! Oh no!” Not “Get me out of here”: Actually, like in Doctor Freud’s textbook, you want to go back as soon as possible. Or the main thing anyway, hush, hush somewhere else.
It’s no coincidence that you can already see a young woman with melted mascara sitting in front of her latte on the cover of her new and meanwhile 25th studio album “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte”. This is also observed very closely by the US brothers Ron and Russell Mael in the accompanying lyrics. Research into the causes is on the program: “Is it due to the rain / Or is she in some pain? / She looks physically fine / Guess it’s something benign.”
Because existential despair can perhaps set in following birth, but it certainly does not become less likely in later years, at the end of the song everyone is essentially crying into their hot drink. At this point, the root of all evil seems to have been found: “I guess the world is to blame…”
The Sparks, who have been producing tirelessly since their debut album “Halfnelson” in 1971, are considered the chief ironists of a dazzling pop universe between the chairs. With songs like “Angst In My Pants” or “(Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your Country?” in the luggage the art of exaggeration is used. After theatrical art pop masterpieces such as “Kimono My House” with the hit “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us” (1974) and the turn to synth pop and (Italo) disco in 1979 produced by Giorgio Moroder Stylistically, the duo left out little or nothing on their album “No. 1 in Heaven”.
According to Ernst Jandl, “The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte” is now once more from from to to. In addition to a song regarding the peek-a-boo hairstyle of Hollywood actress Veronica Lake, who died in 1973, in a modern electronic setting, a song of praise to the escalator arranged as a homage to the German electro avant-garde, and a trip to North Korea to mark the military march, you can also hear it a technoid status report from the club queue and a joint venture between ballet music and operetta rock.
But the band is in top form when they come up with scenarios in “When You Leave” regarding what can happen behind the scenes when you’re regarding to leave – to draw the consequences: “I’m gonna stay – just to annoy them / I’m gonna stay – just to piss them off!” So the Sparks on Herbert Achternbusch’s footsteps: “This area has destroyed me, and I’ll stay until you notice it.”
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