Barfuß Am Klavier - AnnenMayKantereit (Reaction)

‪@AnnenMayKantereit‬ I think is truly becoming one of my favorite bands. This song was somber, touching, and relatable. Beautiful sums it up pretty well. Heartbreaking too. I can't say enough about this performance.
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[@itsnotflat]

I'm from Germany, and in German the lyrics of this song are quite simple, straight forward, with a bit of ("working class"?) dialect - but on the other hand they are breathtaking poetic and their rhymes take you straight down a rabbit hole. For all who don't understand German very well - it's a beautiful love song, rough like his voice, barefoot.

[@rdmname]

lmao how dare you call our northrhine westfalian accent "working class"!? just wow. the audacity and insinuation

[@itsnotflat]

@@rdmname Sorry, no offense, I myself would sound very "plattdeutsch", like a fisherman right from the boat. Just take the line "Du und ich, wir waaarn zu weeenich." He's not trying to sound "hochdeutsch".

[@Yurio-09]

​@@itsnotflatit's Cologne dialect, no?

[@Rosea_30]

@@Yurio-09yes, they are from cologne and speak "kölsch".

[@Yurio-09]

@@Rosea_30 oh, I know, I'm German myself (but ty) :)

[@Daylenify]

Henning is chill as fuck. met him a few times in some homeparties here in cologne. Pretty humble chill guy

[@TheIAmThat]

The lyrics are just so beautifully honest. Every time they write about a person, they play that song personally to the person in the song before the public release it. - so no one has ever surprised by. “Hey, isn’t that you and that song”. And it isn’t always easy. Henn said Pocahontas was the most difficult one for him emotionally. I think when people share something personal and real with the word is when music turns into art . I hope you return to their Proberaum Sessions again, may be with “Ausgehen”. I love that AK produce so many live versions of the songs without being on stage.

[@christophstahl8169]

Glad you liked it. That was the song that introduced most of us to AMK and started their rise almost 10 years ago. The translation is ok, buit still very auto-generated. You can tell ChatGPT that these are lyrics to a song and you want translated lyrics (so it might also consider rhymes and numbers of syllables).

[@melodyeripley6731]

This one is amazing! Out on the street like that.. the ambient noise going on around him just makes it even more beautiful! Absolutely love it! My son and I discovered them about a year ago.. we are absolutely addicted! These boys are very special.. so much great music coming from them. Collaborating with the most talented musicians in the world! If you watch when they do, the enthusiasm for what they do just explodes out of them. They love making gorgeous music and sharing it with everyone..

[@Krokostad]

Pocahontas and this song were the first popular ones in Germany, if I remember right. I love this song so much! And seeing the people, the cars, the bikers behind him, reminding me, that life goes on, even if you have the feeling it has to stopp...

[@Noname-ko9jy]

One of my favourite songs from them is the live version of 'Orangenlied'. I looove the feeling it gives me as a listener and i fell in love with it immediatly.

[@ajjbs7580]

It is genius how he can capture emotions in the simplest way.

[@GeschmidtenKot]

Thank you for your kind words and genuine reaction. It really is a sad song and hits me hard every time. But that's apparently my cup of tea. Wish you all the best, stay as you are! Greetings from Germany :)

[@elizabethhansen6984]

Im 63 and I cant believe how lucky I am to have accidently clicked on a video of this band. I think it was a reaction short on Tic Toc.

[@reesofraft4166]

I love AMK and it is nice to hear a non-native speaker listening to music the way most people around the world do - falling in love with a song without (most times ever) understanding it. this song gives me a similar vibe of the melancholy / yearning that i get when listening to REMs 'night swimming' somehow cheerful, but subdued by heartache. his voice and the songs are soo good. I love listening to their albums.

[@elizabethhansen6984]

The first time I heard these voices they literally took my breath away. The last time I felt like this was when I first heard the call to prayer in Saudi Arabia. I mentioned Queen earlier, now Im feeling John Morrison as well. This band does what art is supposed to do. Move all of our senses.

[@voyance4elle]

It might sound weird but it makes me so happy that you got emotional!! It's wonderful that you resonate so strongly with his beautiful music and you're sovulnerable and sincere. Lovely!! Just a wonderful reaction - I love your appreciation!!!! I'm such an AMK fan - have been for so many years :)

[@occultured9722]

Hi, Walterooski, thank you for another AMK reaction! I love your heart-felt reaction and cried with you a little bit about this shatteringly beautiful song. In fact, it's the first song Henning May ever wrote, when he still was a 17-year-old high school student. The video was made about 2014/15, when he was in his early 20s. (He's 32 now - how time flies!) It's through this video I first discovered AMK about nine years ago. I remember that this haunting song and video (and of course Henning's voice) - and the strange name of the band AnnenMayKantereit, too - have stayed in my mind since then. However, as I am not into pop music since the 1990s (I am 55 now and more of a classical music guy), unfortunately I didn't follow this band's career and only re-discovered them for me a few weeks ago. Since then, I became somewhat obsessed with AMK, but relieved that I am not the only one (shout-out to Suvi et al.!) I really love how this music transcends language and cultural boundaries and speaks to so many different souls throughout the world. I think their early songs are still their best or at least most powerful ones. Another example of an early AMK song with poignant lyrics is “Oft gefragt” (“Often Asked”), which is also kind of a love song, but not about a girl, but to Henning's father, who raised him and his brother as a single parent after their mother had left the family. (Translations of songs' lyrics are always tricky, as essential features like the sound and the rhythm of the German words, rhymes and alliterations, allusions to German idioms or other songs etc. get lost in translation.) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXicXp2Jpr2tarc As much as I admire their early works and their beautiful career since then, I am also eager to follow their future artistic development and hope for many more beautiful songs by AnnenMayKantereit in years to come. (Provided there ARE still years to come for human civilization.)

[@suvijii841]

It's a great feeling to find other people who are on the same wavelength with you & your favorite artist. At first, it feels like it's only you relating to the songs, like no one around really gets what I'm feeling - and then, slowly, other people just kinda start showing up; sharing their thoughts that are surprisingly close to yours.. and you feel kinda validated. Like you're not so alone anymore.

[@walterooski]

This was so perfectly said and I couldn't agree more with the sentiment.

[@suvijii841]

@@walterooski I hope you'll enjoy the rest of their songs, too. I just got all of their records I ordered all the way from Germany yesterday :D Atm my favorite one is "Ozean", the live version by Henning. Talk about an emotion that is transmitted through his face..!

[@walterooski]

@@suvijii841 currently, I think my favorite a toss up between Vielleicht Vielleicht, Pocahontas, and Barfuß Am Klavier. I love the English covers too, but they don’t have the songwriting he does.

[@suvijii841]

@@walterooski Yeah, I started with the covers, too, but after I started listening their originals I haven't been listening the covers any longer. It's like I don't even notice the language any more. I even sing along with the German lyrics 😄

[@CalmCaterpillar]

There's an anecdote that, when AnnenMayKantereit weren't well-known yet in Germany, they opened for a rock band in Stuttgart. So imagine a venue full of rockers and bikers, the curtains go up and there's a scrawny boy sitting at a piano. The audience thought that it was a joke, but then Henning played this song. And a friend of mine was at that concert, he told me that you could hear a pin drop afterwards and before the audience applauded, everyone was just stunned.

[@sarahweber2208]

This is the first song I heard from them. I saw them in concert a few years ago and there I heard their song "Sieben Jahre" and burst into tears during the concert because it's a song about losing someone which make me think of my brother. I'd love to see your reaction to that one, it's very emotional 💗

[@DakotaDogProductionsAk83]

Thank you so much for sharing the Feels with us. This is a masterpiece, and I needed to hear this tonight. Considering the Birds for sure…❤️‍🩹🙏

[@scottchalupa6324]

Love love love AMK, and your reaction to this song is why things like it exist. It takes creatures like music and poetry to reflect (quantify, as you put it) human things like finding an almost happy comfort in old, familiar pain. That's Cohen-level sh*t right there.

[@janinexger]

Beautifull how you played that little piece in the end😊❤

[@petrabohnhoff1410]

One of the Songs I like most. Real early one taken outside, not cleaned... When they made their first album and the sound all cleaned I was so sad. Think how young they where making such an amazing poetry. Its so touching and I love that it is in German. So many words to choose for expressing feelings.

[@winterlinde5395]

Great to see you back with AnnenMayKantereit. I think you would be great friends, you and the guys!

[@Sleepgodx]

love your reactions, love these songs and what they all come into. you're helping both make and bring beautiful content into the world and the people. Keep it up, plz for everyone

[@mojo0307]

Great channel. Love AMK. One of my favorite songs is Sieben Jahre with Henning and Severin. I think you would love it too.

[@FlotLoten]

You should also react to Orangenlied. The Piano in this just blew my mind

[@suvijii841]

Yesss!!! The live version is ❤

[@u.z.9383]

Great video. I'm not sure if you got the meaning of the most important words to a 100% right : "gemeinsam einsam" is a paradox: being together but at the same time feeling alone. You can physically sit beneath your partner and in your heart feel like you're miles away. The love has gone and it comes to your mind that it's over. I may be wrong but I think your translation read: "share a moment of solitude". That's a different meaning in my opinion.

[@emiliostrange]

when i saw this first it made me crush on henning HARD! :)

[@DerKiesch]

My take on the lyrics. Even though ChatGPT was actually quite good (so I looked at it for inspiration when my translation was not good), it missed some subtleties. And again I am sitting, barefoot on the piano, (hope this is correct; basically I'd interpret this line as him sitting at an actual piano playing it; hence "on" and "the") I dream lovesongs and sing about you (the "dabei" means: While dreaming love songs I sing about you) you and I we were peculiar - not for me for those who were bothered that we were heard at night I sat with you together lonely and in silence, I remember best lying lonely together (the contrast between lonely and together is stressed in the German lyrics especially since the words "gemeinsam" (together) and "einsam" (lonely) are so similar) Every morning after at your place; you naked in bed and me barefoot on the piano And again I am sitting barefoot on the piano I dream lovesongs and sing about you You and me did not work You wanted to know everything and this drove me away, To be honest [it drove] you [away] - you did not stay any longer with me. (words in [] were not said but are the implied meaning) And thus I am sitting barefoot on the piano to love. (different word order in german) And again I am sitting barefoot on the piano I dream lovesongs and sing about you You and me, we were not enough (even though he actually says the word "wenig" for "too little", the better translation seems to be this variant) And again I am sitting barefoot on the piano dreaming of you. I'm dreaming about you and dream about you The "dabei" in the last part again can't be easily translated (and is in each of the dreaming about you parts) but again means that he is dreaming about her while sitting on the piano / playing the piano - there is no single word in English for "dabei", the literal meaning is "while doing this"

[@deniskramer3562]

Perhaps you should try out "Lass es kreisen". It is a post covid song and my favorite song of AMK.

[@Anni_Mau]

Yes, the live in köln version!

[@peterpaul5820]

Could be also a great post winter song, it's fitting

[@deniskramer3562]

@@peterpaul5820 Yes. It fits for most negative things. Like depression or a three-week visit from mother-in-law or something like that.

[@DP-xl1wv]

Love AMK❤ - thanks for sharing💗

[@foxboi_finnek]

You shall listen to "Hurra die Welt geht unter" by K.I.Z. Feat Henning May (the singer of AnnenMayKantereit)

[@ameliemenzel4871]

Loved your reaction because I love annenMayKantereit as well ❤❤❤

[@belinda35]

I just love his voice so much! Sounds like he had a pack of unfiltered Camels and a fifth of whiskey for lunch. Love it so much. Thanks for the reaction.

[@walterooski]

That description was perfect hahaha. Seriously, my favorite voice in the world right now.

[@belinda35]

@@walterooski It's fantastic! Thanks for introducing me to it!

[@walterooski]

FYI: comments like this are what makes being a reactor fun. Introducing people to music and learning with people as I got. It’s a real gift. Thank you for branching out and giving it a listen with me!

[@belinda35]

@@walterooski Glad I did.

[@M4tti87]

Somehow it has a Jazzy version of a french Chanson vibe :D

[@helfgott1]

Now THATS music ❤❤😊😊

[@compypompy7961]

Walterooski, you are such a loving person.

[@meininki]

I really enjoy your reactions. When it comes to videos of German men playing the piano and singing about love, I feel like you might like these two: Danger Dan - Eine gute Nachricht and especially Enno Bunger - Regen For the second one, make sure to watch the TV Noir version (amazing way to use a piano).

[@egdebor1]

Sorry hab schon soviele Reaction von dir gesehen und jetzt erst gesehen ... Mein Abo hast du . Mach weiter so ich mag dich.

[@walterooski]

I am honored ❤️

[@snyper701]

I Love youre Videos!greets from.germany ❤

[@jeffromero6054]

You don't need a translation to hear the sounds of love lost... amazing song and voice.

[@juwen7908]

I just rewatch your AMK reactions and wanna tell you, that I miss it so much. Are you able to get over the troubles with yt? The sun goes down over Berlin while I send greetings to you 😉

[@coellnbrueder8879]

He managed to put into words why the relationship didn't work out. How will the girl feel who inspired him to that song?

[@Tobias-nx4hr]

Yeah, its a great song and video. It is a bit sad, because its actually about loneliness.

[@walterooski]

I think that’s why it hit me so hard because I have been there in that same loneliness, ya know? It felt like hearing a song about my own story and that was heavy and amazing.

[@RobNorbert]

If you like that kind of german musik, please hear "knorkator" 🙏

[@ralfgraebel4257]

Rio Reiser vibes

[@foxfirest]

my favourite song of AMK

[@katjawege6886]

Great song, great reaction. I am not quite sure if you have already reacted to "Ozean"? Another great sad song and very touching lyrics. Love from Germany ❤

[@walterooski]

Ozean - AnnenMayKantereit (Live from Frankfurt) (Reaction) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZK5q4N3ntiKfrs

[@walterooski]

Ozean (Henning's Version) - AnnenMayKantereit (Reaction) kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3nSi4WNiM91jdU

[@katjawege6886]

@@walterooski Thank you!!! ❤️

[@taupegrillon5975]

your AMK reactions are hilarious 👍

[@DerKiesch]

I wonder what your take on "Herbert Grönemeyer - Demo (letzter Tag)" would be. For context: With the album this is on he was processing his wife's death.

[@MandyWollmuth-hz8zc]

Meine teaenen laufen bei dieser reakrion ununterbrochen.

[@Birnklaus]

❤

[@lucaaa03]

you should check out „vielleicht vielleicht“ by amk it’s suchh a sweet song i‘m sure you‘ll love it (gets stuck in my head all the time)

[@walterooski]

I went back in time and grew my hair out to do that reaction for you! AnnenMayKantereit - Vielleicht Vielleicht (A Blind Reaction) kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIulg56be5ije5o

[@lucaaa03]

@@walterooski omg! 😂 love you thanks

[@walterooski]

The sad part about those reactions is that I didn’t think to look up the lyrics until after it was over. Before I heard Ozean, Vielleicht Vielleicht was my favorite song (with Pocahontas being a super close second). As far as Vielleicht Vielleicht… The lyrics in that song made me really connect what type of love I wanted in my life after divorce. A beautiful picture of simple and easy love that comes natural.

[@lucaaa03]

@@walterooski yeah i agree while emotion definitely translates without words it’s still even better to have the lyrics while you react to the song! like i’m from germany so i understand them obviously, but i remember learning english in school by my teacher showing us cool songs and we read the lyrics to them :D and vielleicht vielleicht is so beautifully optimistic which is rare for a love song (they are usually full of drama) and my life is already too much drama so i like optimistic cute songs haha

[@KT-ml9mt]

@@walterooskiif you haven't yet, check out the lyrics to 'Nicht Nichts' - they hit me everytime

[@LEkuxer357]

sry guys, im german.. what does he mean with a "amk" song ?

[@rebeccarenzl6531]

So kürzen die seinen Namen. Ich glaube der ist zu schwer auszusprechen 😅

[@rebeccarenzl6531]

Ich glaube der Name ist zu schwer um ihn auszusprechen, darum verkürzen sie den einfach 😊

[@LordUkobach]

Please react to Tommi from AnnenMayKantereit!❤

[@winterlinde5395]

And I love that there are so many versions of Tommi out there. Live on big stage, live at Cologne carnival with costumes or in a late night show where Henning sings a duet with the host. You get to know so many different sides of them.

[@LordUkobach]

@@winterlinde5395 evary time they play Tommi it's a new version. I'm from Cologne and watched AMK so many times, it's always different and always same at once, guess you know what I mean. 😉 And since this year there's no Studio version of it...

[@walterooski]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGLKdKl_iN1sd5o

[@OberZinober]

I suggest Käptn Peng for example. It´s a vibe and the lyrics blew me away. but it´s german as well... sry

[@cap.luisfigo9401]

Please, shut up. Listen the Song and talk later.

[@ajjbs7580]

It is genius how he can capture emotions in the simplest way.

[@ajjbs7580]

It is genius how he can capture emotions in the simplest way.