“It’s the absolute journey into me here,” Clueso marveled at the end of the current “Sing mein Song” episode. At the VOX exchange concert, the Erfurt musician spoke, among other things, about his time in child psychiatry and also found time to flirt with an admirer and colleague.
It’s only been a year since Clueso was at the “sing my song“-Couch in South Africa. The Erfurt musician, whose real name is Thomas Hübner, is again in the anniversary season of the successful VOX show. In the fourth episode, everything revolved around him.
Before he took part, he always thought “why do they keep hugging and crying like that,” he said at the beginning. “But you just sit here, are immensely reflected by your own songs, by the story that goes with it. Every song that has learned to walk is charged with life, and then the wave hits you. That’s something special. ” Would this wave hit him the second time?
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“Sing my song”: Nico Santos becomes “Michael Jackson from Mallorca”
He was a bit tired “because I chatted with Alli for a long time yesterday,” said Clueso. It was half past six. “I was almost up again by then,” laughed Nico Santos. He brought the round with “37 degrees in paradise”, a song about sex, then only once on operating temperature. “There are Congos,” said Silbermond singer Stefanie Kloß in amazement, and then Santos started drumming to his summery R&B version. “Michael Jackson from Mallorca – that’s for sure! But in the best sense of the word,” praised host Johannes Oerding.
Meanwhile, Stefanie Kloß took on “Barefoot”, a song about trying new things. She complained that as an artist you often don’t get any praise for something new that doesn’t work right away. “I think it’s such a shame, because being brave is what keeps us all alive and what makes us alive,” she said – and then bravely picked up the harmonica herself. Clueso was delighted. “Beautiful. I was just in a thousand places at the same time. You picked out a heart.”
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All are Clueso fans
But there was also a lot of love and compliments for Clueso himself, because his colleagues all turned out to be big Clueso fans. Santos always heard Clueso on his headphones on the way home from school, while Lea and her friends played his music up and down when they sat together in the park. Stefanie Kloß said that Clueso was “99 percent a reason why we accepted here”, and Montez described him as a “pioneer for German pop music with urban influences”: “Without you my music would not exist today.”
Even Johannes Oerding admitted to having Clueso’s song “Kein Bock zu geh’n” in his playlists for 20 years. “I had it on CD in Disc Man, put it on the first big iPod. It’s one of the few songs – maybe one of three – that has migrated from every hardware medium to this day.”
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It crackles between Alli Neumann and Clueso
However, Alli Neumann shot the bird off. “Even my dog is into Clueso,” she said, admitting that Clueso was one of her first German music crushes. “I thought so, ey, sing a love song for Clueso, by him, for him … Now I can’t look at you anymore, so uncomfortable,” she stammers and becomes very embarrassed. “But don’t get me wrong, that’s over,” she tried to save, which was almost impossible to save.
“You said musical crush, you couldn’t take that the wrong way – unfortunately,” Clueso replied. When Neumann then intoned “Paris”, sparks flew: she danced, he beamed – and suddenly jumped up to dance with her. “Oh, if little Alli saw that!” Neumann grinned mid-song. After that, the two happily hugged. “You brought me to Paris again,” beamed Clueso.
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“I just hung out in this clinic, cool too”
In between, Oerding tickled entertaining anecdotes out of Clueso – how he was caught spraying or did nonsense in home economics class. “I was an absolute halftime clown,” Clueso recalled. “Because I just had a lot of energy and didn’t know where to go.” This not only led to his expulsion from school at some point, but also to a stay in child psychiatry.
“I don’t know how old I was then. 12 or 13. I was just very conspicuous and that was a cry for help from school,” he said. He had to do thousands of tests back then. “As a child, it’s drastic on the one hand, but it’s also cool because there’s no school on the other. I just hung out in this clinic, cool too. There was a little something to eat, you could play in the yard.”
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“This is the absolute journey into the self here”
After six weeks, however, his parents picked him up again because they noticed that he was not feeling well. “The funny thing is: I have my studio in this mental hospital today!” Clueso reported. “I actually slept in my old room the first few nights.” – “What kind of twist is that? You can’t make that up!” Nico Santos was puzzled. “I think it’s funny because I caught up with the past for the first time and not it me,” Clueso replied very poetically, which amazed his colleagues even more. “It’s so awesome. You talk like it’s a song!” Montez found.
The protea for the song of the evening went to the band again because Clueso couldn’t make up his mind. The 43-year-old seemed visibly touched at the end. “On the one hand I want to be totally awake and be here, on the other hand I’m thinking a thousand things at the same time,” he said. “This is the absolute journey into the self here.”
