Is this not the happiest song on the planet?

I found the song rather grating. Moreover, I thought Swiss were supposed to be so incredibly sophisticated and worldly, but this is one step up from Grand Ole Opry to me.

The title means Let us party tonight. She sings about Bayern, so I don't think it's Swiss German, just German German

Correction, she does mention Swiss being her homeland

Unfortunately she sings that Switzerland is her homeland. So op is correct, this song is Swiss German.

R1 There is a stereotype that Swiss outside of Zurich and Geneva are gun-toting bumpkins. That stereotype exists for a reason.

It's a polka! They all sound like that, OP.

But it’s so kitsch and tacky, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s german-German

The lyrics translated:

"Let us celebrate tonight/ Because tomorrow is a day of doom and horror/ Soon we all suffer horribly/ And die miserable deaths,/ Yo do lo lo lo lo lo..."

R8 Is this black metal I've been hearing about?

[quote] Is this not the happiest song on the planet?

Almost

Here's a better cut in which you can see the sign waving. What dies it proclaim? We like to think it says 'This bitch is numbrr one!'

What 'does' it proclaim?

What kind of event was this? Is this the Swiss German version of Branson, MO?

Say what you will but that TV set is magnificent.

Ugh, my immigrant father used to listen to stuff like this. We’d make fun of it. Now that he’s dead I feel very sad about not understanding. He was homesick.

This is a New Year's Eve celebration on Swiss German TV. I didn't know the typically somber Swiss Germans could have this much fun.

Is she lip-syncing? Where are the other musicians?

There are musicians and back up singers to her right but it seems they are all playing along and she is singing to her huge hit recording of this song. I'm impressed with her accordion skills.

Let us party today...

From ? to Bavaria

Until the morning

Switzerland is my homeland

That's all I could make out thanks to that loud ass accordian (and my pitiful German)

[quote] I didn't know the typically somber Swiss Germans could have this much fun.

When you're miserable in a heavily passive-aggressive way for 364 days a year, you have all that pent up frustration needed to let loose and get smashed that one day.

Heute gehe ich in die Abtreibungshütte.

I only know Spanish and English so the sweet lady in the video could be singing about the end of civilization as we know it for all I should know. However, her accordion chord progressions are tight! She can sure enough play! I wonder if she plays the guitar or piano as well because she's good.

R22 Why that's just a bagpipe with pleats.

Maybe she's a Glockenspiel virtuoso?

Boy, that is really white.

R22 And she's got a nice rack.

This is beyond tacky in that unmistakable Mitteleuropäisch way.

Where is German Gay Guy when you need him?

He returned to his original moniker: Att Manscher.

OP would love living in Houston, where you hear music like that blaring from Mexican cars all day and all night long.

Lass uns heute feiern = let’s celebrate (have a party) today Von Kärnten bis nach Bayern = from Kärnten (in southern Austria) to Bavaria Alle unsere Stress, auf die Sorgen = all our stress caused by our worries Wollen wir vergessen bis morgen = we want to forget them until tomorrow.

Ah, sorry for the terrible formatting.

Verziehung!

Macht nichts.

Thank you. That's fantastic.

R30 Come on now. Mexican music sounds nothing like this Swiss folk music. Here's the big queen Juan Gabriel, one of the most prolific Mexican song writers and performers. I loved that guy.

R31 Where I live is not recognized in this song. I don't feel a sense of inclusion here. It's intentionally disempowering, and my dislocation should be acknowledged. I won't clap.

Isn't German Gay Guy getting plowed in Spain right about now? Hope things work out for him.

Meghan, r36, are you OK?

R30 Everything outside your head must sound the same.

Here's another popular Swiss German performer. Oh, gurl, smell the cookies.

When the song ends, it's a real letdown.

It needs to be looped into a one hour performance.

I could see a drag cabaret ensemble do magic with this number.

R30 Mexican Americans listen to Alps polka music?

[quote]Here's another popular Swiss German performer. Oh, gurl, smell the cookies.

Pretty funny his song is called 'The Frau of my Dreams'

This type of music is popular in Alps part of Germany, Austria, Swiss and Slovenia.

Here's Slovenian version

^^ Makes Sandra Ledermann sound like Dame Shirley Bassey. Hvala lepa.

R44. Hilarious. That should be the Official Datalounge Frauen Theme.

You'll be a hit at Thanksgiving dinner. For guitarists:

A reminder that GGG is neither

German

nor

Gay

nor a

Guy

Even my dogs like this song.

According to his song, the totally hetero bloke at r44, is desperately seeking a woman who won’t get on his nerves…

R8 Everytime I read this I cannot stop laughing.

I had nothing to do so I played the youtube vid with the German lyrics and translated them via Google. This is the real translation, minus the part with the Yo do lo lo lo lo lo..."

Let's Celebrate Today from karnten to bavaria all our stress also the worries we want to forget until tomorrow Let's Celebrate Today from karnten to bavaria also in the schweitz of my homeland Let's Celebrate Today from karnten to bavaria all our stress also the worries we want to forget until tomorrow Let's Celebrate Today

I like that sentiment. Damn right. Let's have a good time right now!

There's something primal about this song. It taps right into homosapien DNA. I bet our cousin primates would like it as well

Roman Peters is like a gay Swiss Lou Canova. A Lounge act.

The sign says Work will set you Free!

No it says something about number one. This song was a huge hit. Sandra Ledermann must have poor management. She could have toured the world but she's gone quiet.

I’m confused. After all the complaints about frauen somebody finally produces one and what does she do? She YODELS. This is not what I was led to expect.

I must say, this video includes two things I did not think existed.

#1 A pleasant-looking Swiss woman.

#2 Who smiles.

R1, outside the Nazi-laundering banks and shitty art festival the Swiss are about as worldly and sophisticated as the average inhabitant of mid-state Pennsylvania.

R17 Pretty bad lip syncing

Sandra Ledermann = Fraulein. Not Frau. I would wager her mother is Swiss Italian hence the attractive features.

This is...

Let us not forgot

The song loosely translates to : "yes, we are the whitest people on Earth"

OP's song reminds me of the Beer Garden at Milwaukee's Holiday Folk Fair of the 60s and 70s.

Now, for a little kid, the HFF was truly a fascinating event.

R63. Please tell me you're not suggesting the Swiss speak Swedish.

She has an Austrian accent but it singing in Standard High German. (She's not singing Swiss German). The lyrics are about meeting a man who will satisfy her the way the Bavarian Alps do. It's from a popular annual New Year show that has been playing for decades in one form or another. Germans love to join together across their borders to celebrate their unity as a people.

Sound familiar?

Well, it's not. Not really.

[quote] This is beyond tacky in that unmistakable Mitteleuropäisch way.

Tell us more please about the tacky mittel European underclass.

Why do that, when we can tell you about the horrifically Fascistic Swiss "upper" class?

This happy thread is about music.

Why didn't this song go to the Eurovision Song Contest? La Suisse, douze points. A sure winner.

R63, that is definitely what is meant by a 'gay song'.

Funny how Americans always call (especially on DL) Germans and Brits, the ugliest people on the planet, when most of the white Americans have either German or British background.

.,.,

We should share examples of mindless happy music from all over. Spread the love.

Yeah, but not rock. Happy folk music from around the world. Or funny folk music from around the world Happy happy

I did not realize how different Swiss German would be when I first heard it existed.

If you want to experience Swiss German in the States, you can go to New Glarus, WI at certain times of the year - they apparently have singing competitions or gatherings and you can hear it spoken.

Swiss German is a completely oral language.

R76 So no Shiny Happy People?

I’ll begin because this is the most embarrassing example. Sydney Devine got Scottish grannies all hot and bothered for decades. He packed out theatres with his McElvis act, and got all the old ladies quivering when he suggestively wiggled his arse. The music was always a cheesy as this.

Any self respecting gay man should ONLY celebrate while playing this German song!

No, any self respecting gay man should ONLY celebrate when playing something by Fancy:

My German bf is of the opinion this is not Swiss German but sounds more like low German with an Austrian accent.

So she's a fake Swiss?

She's a Swiss Miss

[quote]Why didn't this song go to the Eurovision Song Contest?

Dutch singer Sienke did go to Eurovision with her 'schlager' song Sha La Lie but failed to qualify for the grand final

[quote] Why didn't this song go to the Eurovision Song Contest?

Because nobody outside the German-speaking countries and maybe a handful of Eastern European ones such as Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, and Hungary would've given it any points. It would've been considered too outdated and cheesy even for the ESC.

When I was in Istanbul over a decade ago, I heard this song everywhere, adding to the joy of being in that incredible city. It's dance-pop, but with Turkish folk music accents.

^^ That is beautiful. It sounds very much like Andalucian folk music, Flamenco, for obvious reasons if one knows one's history .

R71 Cause it's a folk-ish polka-ish song, not trashy pop song

R80. Sydney Devine wasn't a folk/traditional music singer but he was hilarious because he fancied himself a Scottish Elvis Presley.

R86. I like that song. It grows on you. I'm a huge Netherlands fan partly because the Dutch always think I'm one of them because I'm tall 6'3" and light-eyed.

Swiss, Swedish, Texmex, whatever. The squeezebox always says "Roll out the barrel and we'll have a barrel of fun!"

R81. Rex Dildo made me LOL. Is that a wig? And the song is hilarious. He sings in German about Mexico then he throws in the Italian ' adio' Mexico. I guess 'adios' didn't have enough syllables

R91, I can’t find any Fran and Anna videos. If I did my disgrace would be total.

r95. No wig. Rex Gildo was very popular with this song. When "Schlager", lost popularity in Germany he did the hard tour. Singing at furniture outlets, car dealers etc. He jumped out of his bathroom window suicidal. He was married to his cousin, no children, separated but no divorce. He was buried alongside his manager who died before him. Also his wife was buried in the same grave. Tragic story.

rop. She sings with a German Swiss kind of pronouncation. The hard, guttural "r" is specific for the region in between the Austrian country Vorarlberg and the adjacent Swiss Kanton St. Gallen und Graubünden. She sings in a kind of Swiss Hochdeutsch, but you can tell, where she is from.

Edit: She is from a farm from a small place called Welschenrohr in the Kanton of Solothurn.

Thank you for the Sandra Ledermann info. A good music promoter could have brought her international stardom playing festivals and TV slots from Tokyo to Buenos Aires. She's adorable. Now one can't even find her one CD

Here are a few clips from songs on her CD. Not nearly as good as her big hit.

OP here. Let's expand this thread to include folk/traditional dance as well. Some of it, in fact a lot of it, is utter drudgery but some is beautiful and happy.

For best European folk dance I nominate the Irish and Greek.

This clip is cheating a bit because this is a professional ballet company in Athens not local citizenry. Every one of these hot guys looks gay.

And you vill enjoy it, Jawohl!