A forbidden summer hit at a music festival. With its catchy rhythm, the piece layla by DJ Robin and Schürze is a staple of folk festivals in Germany, where it has topped the download charts for three weeks.
But the song also includes a non-unanimous lyric: “I own a brothel and my pimp’s name is Layla / She’s prettier, younger, sexier.”
Earlier this week, officials in the city of Würzburg, Bavaria, declared the hit non grata and asked that it not be played at the local festival that lasts until the end of the week and welcomes its thousands of visitors in tents where it flows Beer. the sound of the popular German variety.
“Stupid or Bad Taste”
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann lamented the ban. “You don’t have to like the lyrics of pop songs. You may even find them silly or tacky. But officially banning them is, I think, a step too far,” he wrote on Twitter. .
The youth movement of the conservative CDU-CSU party was also criticized for playing the song at a regional party conference last month. Social Democrat MP Sophie Frühwald had accused the organization of “pure and simple sexism”, saying it showed the party was not serious about promoting women.
miniskirt and blonde wig
The video for the song features two young women arriving in a town, where they are led to the so-called Layla, depicted as a man in high heels, a black miniskirt, and a blonde wig.
This queer touch does not detract from the message, according to Michael Fischer, a music expert at the University of Freiburg, who assured the magazine Der Spiegel : “Of course the song is sexist.”
Source: BFM TV
