American Reacts To Most Popular German Songs from 2000 to 2009

[@burger3387]

In 2006 the football World Cup was in Germany, that's why there were so many football songs. You must watch videos about the 2006 World Cup. the atmosphere was incredible

[@Krokostad]

Schnappi was our Baby shark song 😂

[@samsungtab3977]

But Schnappi can be heard without cringing.

[@Gokudo87]

You should check your volume settings. Your microphone volume is very low compared to the videos. So when you talk during the videos I don't hear you. It's like this for the last few videos already, so I thought I point it out. But other than that I like to watch your reactions, keep doing them.

[@ZerosWolf]

The 2000s were the tens of casting shows, that's where those "girl" and "boy" groups come from. Edit: Also some of the solo artists like Alexander and Mark Meloc

[@biloaffe]

6:55 and 2:10 are both very successful children's songs. They were sold, downloaded and used for cell phone ringtones so often that they made it into the German charts.

[@ManafaeVOD]

Germany has a big metal (also goth) and techno culture ... I would check out the wikipedia articles about Loveparade and Wacken and maybe Wave Gotik Treffen, some of the largest fests in the worlds for their respective genre.

[@chnoxis]

The song at 6:53 (Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil) is originally a song for the TV show "Die Sendung mit der Maus". This is a very famous and really good show for children. (You have to check out. Especially the "Sachgeschichten".) But I don't know why anymore, it was for a short time in the music charts. And a little request: Please synchronize the volume from the microphon and the video. The videos are often loud and the micro is at the same time very quiet.

[@autinerd]

When you want to continue reacting to German music, I would recommend you to use the video series "Best Ranked German Song Each Month" by Chrizly-Charts, they have to each song a sentence with facts about the artist and/or context.

[@burger3387]

Now I have to say something. You're right about techno, the best example being the Love Parade in Berlin around 1998 

[@ReneMuntel]

Roundabout 20 Songs of These came from Artist/Producers based/hometown in the City of Hagen.😉

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Anette Humpe?

[@ReneMuntel]

Yes, and her sister Inga. Nena is from Hagen to.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@ReneMuntel Yep! And of course Extrabreit, which I like very much...

[@SuperUltimateLP]

05:20 rammstein "Amerika" is definitely worth a reaction on its own! It takes a critical view on the american culture export and dominace over the world! This is not a song about conspiracy theories nor is it a song praising america... Its all sung in german except one part.. "THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG!"

[@juliafa6462]

Yeah, every year mostly in the summer holiday time is a song with spanish vibes or/and text in the charts. For xtra holiday feeling. The youvsee the germans relaxed setting in a cafe and get tanned😂 Some of the hits aren't even good but for our german ears maybe groovy (las Ketchup song, macarena).

[@mats7492]

A lot of these early 2000s No. 1 hits were by TV casted groups that were disbanded after releasing only one song..

[@m.l.1320]

Only Nu Pagadi and Room 2012 released 2 songs . Every other had 2 albums and at least 6 songs in the charts. exept Queensberry they had 1 album and 3 songs.And then threre where the german versions of american idol ,the voice,star search and many more casting shows, most of them had only one song ecept alexander , mark medlock, stefanie heinzman and lena meyer-landrut.

[@thedutchhuman]

The hermes house band was a dutch band ''The Hermes House Band is a Dutch pop band, established in 1982 by members of the Rotterdamsch Studenten Corps, a fraternity/sorority in Rotterdam, Netherlands.[1] They have released more than 25 albums and singles.'' say's Wikipedia Peter Fox (kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHPJnIygobyYaZo ) and Ich & Ich ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIW9nHVtqJV8epY ) are also very good to listen to.

[@fliplefrog8843]

Many of them were americans, stationed in DE, and produced by DE. In this case, there were a lot of germans in it.

[@sorenwitte7637]

And fun fact Sarah Connor is from a little place called Delmenhorst near me

[@MrFreezeYo]

I would totally love you digging in Rammstein - their videos and live shows are amazing. But you have to get lyrics or subtitles and maybe do some research about the band and the song before, it is worth it.

[@Xzibitfreek]

Definitely felt like a step down from the previous decades. When you look at the 80s-90s, you had quite a few songs and artists that made it big internationally. The 2000s and the 2010s in fact feel too commercialiced, just copying the pop songs of whatever was successful from the US and you see significantly less people making it big internationally from Germany. A lot of these songs were from the German casting show which created so many generic pop songs, the shows themselves were much more about the drama and people who are marketable rather than actual singing talent and genuinely good and unique songs that are worth revisiting in 2024. For instance you saw a lot of "No Angels" in this list because they were popular at the time but theyre pretty much irrelevant nowadays and nobody outside Germany even knows who they are. On Spotify they have a monthly listener count of 404k. Compare that to Rammstein who almost feel underrepresented in this list, have 11,6m monthly spotify listeners and pretty much the only artists of the 2000s who made it on the international stage besides a few one hit wunders. The 2010s are a bit better with artists like Milky Chance and a lot of artists in the EDM genre who made it big internationally.

[@m.l.1320]

Also Felix Jaehn and Robin Schulz .But late 2010s there is a lot of Gangsta Rap.

[@simon2083]

Almost every singer is from Germany or atleast the producer

[@XxSimon2]

I get it but also like how you are confused about Schnappi :D

[@juwen7908]

The Techno scene was very big in the 90's in Germany. Berlin was THE hot spot world wide. Check out the Love Parade! But even then it was more the club sccene then the charts. The charts were nominated by the euro dance trend. But in the 2000's there wasn't a lot of Techno anymore outside of the clubs. I guess, you just mean the more up beat songs, but this is not really Techno. Greetings from Berlin 😎

[@astral_hearts3454]

Madcon and Sunrise Avenue are I think the only ones that arent german other than that some of them might be austrian and French Affair are French and german alway could be wrong tho heh Update uuh I think Madcon are on this list bc one of the guys is from germany, and the song Fairytale gone bad was produced in germany! tho Hermes house band are from the netherlands !oh well update one of the madcon singers is from saarbrücken germany and the Sunrise Avenue song was produced in germany!

[@YukiTheOkami]

O also dont know where the techno u noticed is coming from I saw a lot of pop songs even some with likenthis samba like rythem There was like 2 orn3 techno thingys in this list xD not a lot

[@MellonVegan]

The vast majority of these people is German, born and raised, since you asked. It was definitely fewer of them in the 90s video but still the majority. For some it's also a bit difficult to tell bc we Germans tend to look at nationality over ethnicity where it feels like anglophone people (so people from English speaking countries) focus more on ethnicity. Ofc both concepts exist in both areas but to me as a German, nationality (so just what your ID says) is much more important. So the guys from Boney M. (did I spell that correctly? The group from the 80s video) were all born in the Carribbean iirc but if they became German citizens, that makes them German in my book. But that's obviously a bit more difficult to ascertain. People's Wiki pages will always tell you where they were born but may not mention their citizenship. The vast majority of German music is written in English, by the way, so that's not a good indicator at all. I just let Bing AI look up some numbers and it says 60-70% of all music made by native artists in Germany is recorded in English. Less than 10% is recorded in German. Other languages do show up every now and then (especially Spanish, I think) but rarely so for each individual language. Not sure if instrumental songs were included in this statistic, btw. I sure do think so though bc I can't see how it'd add up to a total of 100% otherwise.

[@mickypescatore9656]

It's a shame that you only hear a few seconds of these song lists!

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Wirklich? Der ganze casting show Müll?

[@patrickschindler2583]

Those who sing English also want to conquer the English market. With German titles, you don't expect any great chances.

[@TheKilaby]

or they simply sing in english because different languages fit better with certain song types. Most of the time its easier to write a pop songs in english.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Wirklich? Rammstein...

[@Mocking_Muppets]

Rammstein: Hold my beer.

[@patrickschindler2583]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Ramstein is an exception. Maybe also because a certain need has developed. A woman in New York once harassed what she saw as a German tourist for speaking German. In the 1970s after World War II, young people turned away from German-language music because they were looking for their own to bond with to set boundaries between parents. The market flourished and the English market expanded. Then at some point came groups like Skorpiens and in the 80s groups like Nena who produced 99 balloons in German as well as in English. To serve both markets. The pronunciation was perfected so that German and English groups could no longer be distinguished. And now, I'll come back to the present. Now it seems that even though you don't understand the language, the German language somehow seems more poetic. There is no other way to explain why you suddenly discover Reinhard Mey in German, who has been in the business for 50 years. The same applies to Grönemeyer. But these are all pretty delicate plants.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@patrickschindler2583 Tell me, do you think I'm a 12 year old? I experienced a lot of the things you're talking about firsthand, like the good Nena. I saw this story about the harassment by chance and it was only relatively recently and the American snipe was completely drunk. The fact is that for many young people in the 50s and 60s, German pop music was simply too boring and it was the music of losers. In the 70s, that started to change. Small correction... Reinhard Mey's first appearance was in 1964. You were only wrong by 10 years. But it doesn't matter... The NDW was emancipation from the English-speaking dominance. And the most important German contribution to popular music of the 20th century was the development of electro-pop. This development, which had an enormous influence on numerous musicians, also promoted the development of various other musical styles. Kraftwerk is the source of inspiration here. None of this comes up in your statements at all! Maybe you should go to school again, kid... ​

[@Ioschu]

When you do a reaction video, it would be nice if one could at least understand what you are talking about. The volume of your micophone is way too low compared to the video.

[@juwen7908]

For your information, it's nearly impossible to hear your comments. We just see you talking, but don't get what you are saying.🤷 Too quiet!

[@LexusLFA554]

Die is not spoken like the english word. It is essentially the "e" sound twice.

[@Korbin0815]

a lot of great songs I forgot. Except Rammstein.

[@davykorse5264]

The Hermes House Band is not from Germany but 100% from the Netherlands!

[@Hallo-sz6hk]

all bands shown in the video are german or produced by a german label

[@fliplefrog8843]

What i hate: as far as i know u can replay upto 30s before a copyright strike hits u. But these vids almost play 5secs! Too little to show off and advertise the song. Wouldn't the artist love to be advertised??

[@Lightkie]

Dude, up your microphone, you are barely audible over the music.

[@AnonymousG3R]

2000 - 2010 was the worst decade of german music. Especially all the casting Artists/Bands with the same producer like Brosis and No Angels, Alexander Klaf, Mark Medlock, Piedro Lombardi, Daniel Küblböck and a couple more. And all the cellphone ringtones which came up into the charts. Also all the Mallorca binge drinking songs. Xavier Naidoo turns out do to the pandemic it is freaking Nazi. 2022 when the Ukraine war began he makes the Rick Role and he stopped sharing conspiracy theories. Nena was a Idol for me in the 80s but at the pandemic she was also turn into a conspiracy theorist.

[@justme8841]

Shut up.

[@justme8841]

You are a loser 🤣