TV review
“Sing my song”
The most famous unknown band in the world makes the group dance
SDP make everyone dance with “Sing meine Song”.
© Markus Hertrich / RTL
Almost everyone knows their songs, hardly anyone their names: The focus of the second episode of “Sing mein Song” was the Berlin band SDP. They infected all fellow musicians with their good mood.
“The songs are better known than we are”: Not many can say that about their music. This is undoubtedly the case with the Berlin duo SDP. Almost everyone knows the songs, hardly anyone knows their name. This could change now. Because the focus of the second episode of “Sing mein Song” was Vincent Stein and Dag-Alexis Kopplin. The two have known each other since they were twelve and have been making music under the name SDP for more than 20 years.
Since they were often confused with the SPD at the beginning of their careers, the two included the SDP party book with an LP – with rules like: “If I don’t like an SDP song, that’s my fault and I’m ashamed.” But this phase is long gone: “We are not a party. We have founded our own state: Bunte Rapublik Deutschpunk” – this is also the name of their album released in 2014.
It also contains the title “Dance out of line”, with which Clueso opens the evening. The song goes well with his life, says the man from Erfurt, who already talked about his many expulsions from school last week. In fact, he makes the song his own – spontaneously improvising into the second verse.
“Sing my song”: SDP make the group dance
Lotte then turned “I just want that you know” into a glittering jazz ballad before Elif added a gentle reggae beat to “Ne corpse”. Kelvin Jones took on “stay short forever”. “This can be our song for this season,” the singer justified his choice.
How good the “best-known, unknown band in the world” really is was shown when SDP presented their own song “The Most Beautiful Days”: although it was brand new and unknown to everyone involved, it was immediately catchy and created a party atmosphere. Then it got quieter again: The symphonic metal queen Floor Jansen sang “Unikat” as a piano ballad, host Johannes Oerding ended the round with “Millionen Liebeslieder”.
A happy Dag-Alexis Kopplin described the evening as a “positively traumatic experience” and justified the verdict as follows: “I will never be able to sing the songs without thinking of you.”
The fact that the two Berliners are more than superficial party guys was also proven when they were voted for the best performance of the evening. Because there are two of them, they were also allowed to award two flowers: Floor Jansen received one for her soulful version of “Unikat”. The second flower went to Kelvin Jones “because I was so moved by your story”. The native Zimbabwean has to think of his grandmother, who lives in South Africa and whom he only sees very rarely, when he hears the line “Let’s stay briefly forever”. Every time could be the last time, says Jones, which is why he sang his version of the song for his grandma.
This shows that even harmless mood music can contain a deeper message. In the case of SDP, dancing and thinking are not mutually exclusive.
“Sing my song” is always on Tuesdays at 8:15 p.m. on Vox. The current episode can also be streamed on RTL+.