Scooter: C/D

this has got to be their 10th "I'll rave till I'm dead" song, gotta admire the dedication

The English Wikipedia entry for HP Baxxter is beautifully vandalized.

its that time.
weather is crap.
news is full of crap.
i need something to make me smile.
and bloody hell, Scooter do that in excess.
i put on a couple of tracks half an hour ago thinking that would be enough.
more fool me, this stuff is audio crack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOk0kpTkRys

just in time for single of the year

They're livestreaming a gig right now on Youtube, in case anyone's missed it.

turned it on in time for "How Much Is The Fish?", thanks for the tip

Never seen them live before, H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.

I was hoping they would finish with Move Your Ass, and they did! :)

lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band

sad lols at the pumped in crowd noise :/

he has no idea how to talk to a crowd of zero

lmao just realized they got a new guy in the band

It was only today that I found out that two of three original members have left the group and only H.P. is still left. Apparently one of the two left already in 1998, I guess I haven't been paying much attention to Scooter for a while... :)

that's what all the different chapters are - every time HP says something like "it's Chapter Number FOUR!!" that means someone left the band.

amazing that even with a crowd of 0 they still do the pyrotechnics and fake guitar playing...love these guys

H.P. Baxxter is in pretty good shape for a 53 year old.

56 even!

Oh, Wikipedia and Discogs have conflicting information on his birth year.

holy shit, the cover art for their next album:

https://images.genius.com/f10910e33ce5d98414594828ea6bbb28.1000x1000x1.jpg

haha.
but of course.
love it.

I mean I have to buy that just to put it on the wall right

you can zoom in on it here, truly a work of art

https://e.snmc.io/i/fullres/w/af511e89e49cd14ef2c91baee6ea72f5/8946286

well fuck, the album is actually pretty good. hate to say it but it's maybe a good thing that Rick quit the group, doing something other than chipmunking old 70's AOR hits and stealing New Wave melodies has actually made them quite interesting again

Having given Scooter the benefit of the doubt after their (at best) ambiguous Lockdown song, it's disappointing that HP Baxxter has just described attempts to make the German language more gender-equitable as a 'Verunglimpfung der Sprache' ('a denigration of the language') and 'Idiotensprache' ('idiot language')

https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/scooter-frontmann-positioniert-sich--h-p--baxxter---gendern-finde-ich-zum-kotzen---38374118

The language debate concerns issues such as the masculine plural noun being used in German for plurals referring to both genders. A call for all Bürger — (male) citizens — to follow coronavirus rules is also meant to apply to Germany’s Bürgerinnen (= female citizens). The best-known solution, the 'Gendersternchen', involves placing an asterisk before the feminine word ending to explicitly include women and non-binary Germans - Bürger*innen.

By sneering at this, Baxxter is aligning himself with some pretty dodgy conservative language groups, and also making people reconsider whether they let him off too lightly on the anti-lockdown song.

And as one commentator put it, every Scooter song denigrates two languages at the same time.

Dude’s near 60, can’t keep up with the kids forever.

it’s no more important to be nice apparently

‘Live can be hard, but Scooter is harder.’

Rave Witches treads the fine line between terrible and magnificent as well as a lot of their old stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AsPwoOeFcU

*life

new album is hilarious as usual

WHEN NOTHING GOES RIGHT!! GO LEFT!!

MOST STUFF! YOU HEAR IN A NIGHTCLUB! SOUNDS LIKE A COW! FALLING IN A BATHTUB!!