"Layla" (German pronunciation: [ˈlaɪla]) is a hit song by DJ Robin & Schürze that reached number one on the music charts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the summer of 2022.
The song is entirely in German and tells of the singer recently having been approached on the street by the owner of a brothel whose madam is called Layla, a woman who is described as being "schöner, jünger, geiler"[1] ("prettier, younger, sexier";[2] the word "geil", of which "geiler" is the comparative, is somewhat hard to translate into English, see the article on a 1986 song under that name).
This kind of music is often played in large disco pubs and seaside resorts on Mallorca which are often frequented by younger visitors from German-speaking countries; on mainstream radio stations, however, this genre usually receives only very limited airplay.
Austrian radio station Ö3, which broadcasts the Austrian top 40 chart show every week, but does not play songs containing foul language (e.g. certain rap songs in German), decided to play "Layla" without any censoring;[6] so did German TV station ZDF in a family show on daytime television.
Additionally, instrumental covers by professional and amateur musicians have appeared on the Internet, including a rendition by a band from the Bundeswehr.