"Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt" (English: "People Life Dance World") is a song by the German satirist Jan Böhmermann.
On 6 April 2017, Böhmermann criticised the German pop industry and the Echo Award ceremony, which was planned for the next day, on his show Neo Magazin Royale.
[3] Among other things, he criticized Max Giesinger, Tim Bendzko and Matthias Schweighöfer who, according to Böhmermann, did not write their own lyrics and focused more on the revenue their songs could earn rather than meaningful content.
Böhmermann says that the words in the title Menschen (English: people), Leben (life), Tanzen (dance) and Welt (world) describe the four most-used themes in German pop music.
Stern wrote: "you cannot illustrate the state of German pop music in 2017 any better than with a song that was written in such a short time and composed by apes.
[11] The singer of the German band Die Toten Hosen, Campino, said during the 2017 Echo Award Ceremony in a reference to the video: "It's better to be uncool than a cool asshole, who cannot be constructive in any way."
[12] Böhmermann responded on his Facebook page, still impersonating a rising young musician, with empty phrases and quotes from songs of German pop poets and Die Toten Hosen.