Comments on: Schnappi Schnappi SCHNAPP!

Schnappi Schnappi SCHNAPP!

chicobangs — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:29:24 -0800

Schnappi! Contrary to popular belief in the rest of the world, the German pop charts are not dominated by over-the-hill American TV stars. In fact, the current #1 single, outselling even the usual imported subjects is a silly little ditty about a baby crocodile. (Think of it as the German version of SpongeBob Squarepants, kindasorta.)

I'm passing on the earworm to all of you via the four versions listed here. You're quite welcome.

By: driveler

driveler — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:43:02 -0800

I can't believe this is really the #1 single in Germany. The beatbox one is frightening.

By: MsVader

MsVader — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:52:11 -0800

Do you ever get the feeling that the Germans are just putting us on? I mean, really... Schnappi, David Hasselhoff, the Scorpions???

By: kavasa

kavasa — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:00:10 -0800

It wasn't so much that we thought Germans only listened to Hasselhoff as that we thought Germans had terrible taste. Which of course hasn't changed.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:09:30 -0800

eww...it reminds me of that other song by a kid a few years ago. They performed it on that Prince Albert music awards show.

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800

Well, the dominant opinion here for a while has been that a 4-year-old can do a better pop song than Ashlee Simpson.

By: Mamapotomus

Mamapotomus — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:16:57 -0800

Don't miss the Santa Schnappi X-Mas Mix Gah.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:23:31 -0800

MsVader, don't you dare dis the GREATEST BAND EVER EVER EVER. ROCK AND ROLL UBER ALLES! Okay, I'm done.

By: Slack-a-gogo

Slack-a-gogo — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:24:23 -0800

Production values aren't very important over there, are they? I think even Jordy would throw a diaper-load at this. At least now I have another song to my Torture Tape mix.

By: NoMich

NoMich — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:39:41 -0800

Jordy, that's it. As I was listening to "Schnapi," that Jordy song is all I could think of. Well...actually...I was thinking of "The Zoo".

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:42:02 -0800

That's it! Jordy! At least that had a good dance beat.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:58:29 -0800

More info! Apparently, her name is Joy Gruttman, and she's all of four years old. You all think you're such big manly men types, picking on a four year old like that. I just hope you're all real happy with yourselves. Pshaw.

By: lazy-ville

lazy-ville — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:12:18 -0800

The children's song MC Koppakuoriainen unfortunately only a small sample was the number 1 christmas song here in Finland, I think it's better than Schnappi. If you didn't guess, it's about a beetle who is also an MC.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:22:58 -0800

I really liked her song. It was catchy, and she sung it really well for a four year-old. Better than any song I've written or sung, that's fersure.

By: true

true — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:31:03 -0800

I just back from France, and on the German television we got they were selling Schnappi ringtones. It was not nearly as good as "sweety the chicken" though; the jingle for that will be stuck in my head long after British Airways finally finds my bag.

By: threehundredandsixty

threehundredandsixty — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:38:15 -0800

German pop music certainly is in a class of it's own - unless you dare to go the Cote d'Azur in august and have your synapses fried by the French counterpart. I thought, by the way, the burden of predatorial angst was captured rather well in that little tune.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:44:47 -0800

Schnappi is Klaus Meine. You heard it here first. And lazy-ville's rapping Finnish beetle link rules.

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:29:48 -0800

Germany doesn't love Hasselfhoff? Oh, S(ch)nap(pi)!

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:36:19 -0800

MC Koppakuoriainen gets the fuck down.

By: muckster

muckster — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:33:37 -0800

Love it. Here's the rest of the charts.

By: stokast

stokast — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:20:39 -0800

must... fight it!! must... not... make ... a remix..!!!! [mp3 link] GAHHH!! dammit! where did that hour go?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:56:11 -0800

i like it much much better, stokast! it's like she's causing the apocalypse or something : >

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:23:28 -0800

Oh, mercy, if you follow the links at the end of the MC Koppakuoriainen excerpt, you can get to a karaoke version with the music, the beetle, and the lyrics on screen. But it's all in flash, so no linkin'.

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:35:40 -0800

Shillin' for profit, chicobangs? C'mon, I know you got shares in the Schnappi Light Industrial Concern. What's the catch? Merchandise?

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:20:31 -0800

Okay. Shit. I'll come clean. I am Joy Gruttman. Schnappi? That's me. I am four years old. This whole thread is a self-link. It was a high-minded attempt on my part to usurp that punk Hasselhoff and assume the mantle of MY OWN KNIGHT-RIDER-BAYWATCH-ROCKSTAR-EVERYWHERE-ELSE EMPIRE. I'll accept my bannination quietly.

By: sien

sien — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:34:27 -0800

Am I the only one who recognizes this as the new Einsturzende Neubauten collaboration with Rammstein?

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:17:53 -0800

Yes.

By: AJaffe

AJaffe — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:33:00 -0800

You're all forgetting the single greatest musical entity ever to come out of the Fatherland... HEINO!!!!

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:48:27 -0800

Forgetting? How can one forget the great Heino? But when's his next record coming out, eh?

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:33:26 -0800

And don't forget den wahren Heino, either.

By: steef

steef — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:10:45 -0800

Ich wünsche mein MTV! Schnappi, der Kleine Krokodil: das musik video (windows media).