It's not a joke, it's country So we are, through some odd coincidence of fates, blessed with a TV in our room (something rather out of the ordinary among residents, since we're not paying for it and apparently it normally costs 12 Euros a month to rent). One of the channels we happen to get is Viva, a German VH1 equivalent, and being that our other options are CNN, one French channel and six or seven Spanish channels (none of which show anything particularly interesting for people who don't speak English), we've been watching a whole lot of it.

As a result, I've suddenly been introduced (and when I say introduced, I mean "I've watched these same videos about 15 times over") to quite a bit of German music, some of which is pretty damn cool.

One particular oddity, though -- and this is a shockingly popular group for some reason that totally escapes me -- is Texas Lightning, a German "country" group composed of an American woman and four very, very German guys who... uh... yeah, perform country songs. In English. And are top-rated in several charts in Germany, and were Germany's representative in the Eurovision contest. WTF, Germans?

Some artists/songs/videos that I've kinda (in some cases, to my own shock) grown to like, though:

- Lafee - Virus
- Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
- Bob Sinclair - Love Generation
- Rosenstolz - Ich bin Ich (This song has a very cute video)
- Tobias Regner - I Still Burn (I just think this song is silly)
- Seeed - Ding (Most. Bizarre. Music Video. Ever. Really needs to be seen to be believed.)
- Rapsoul - Gott schenk ihr Flügel (German rap is cool)
- Oomph! - Gott ist ein Popstar (uh, yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like)

And there are a few more I can't recall offhand (like one fun song that's all about Cinderella). European videos are so much fun. :D I won't even get started on the commercials...  ¶ 13:09