Supersize (album)

Supersize is the debut studio album by German rapper and singer Shirin David, released for digital download and streaming on 19 September 2019 by Juicy Money Records.

Prior, David had primarily been a YouTuber and only ventured into music as a featured artist on Ado Kojo's 2015 top ten-hit "Du liebst mich nicht" ("You Don't Love Me").

Prior to the release of Supersize, Shirin David was primarily a YouTuber and was also known to the general public due to her involvement as a judge on the 14th season of the German talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

[2][4] For Supersize, David mainly collaborated with the composers Chima Ede and FNSHRS, whilst Xavier Naidoo,[A] Maître Gims, Kool Savas, Sera Finale, Beatzarre and Djorkaeff also contributed on selected tracks.

[5] Prior to the album release, the rapper handed out ice cream to students of selected German schools during a promotional endeavour and uploaded making-of videos related to the songs to her YouTube channel.

[3][17][18][19] The album, built around trap beats, occasionally delves into ballads, reggaeton and 1990s-inspired music,[14][17][20] with David's rapping dominating on songs such as "Gib Ihm" ("Give Him") and "Ice".

[14] "Fliegst Du mit" ("Do You Fly with Me"), whose content differs from the aforementioned, talks about David's complicated relationship with her father, who abandoned her when she was a child, and the long lasting effects his departure had on her.

Mirco Leier, writing for laut.de, questioned David's status as a rapper and hip hop artist, claiming that she utilized the genre "solely as a means to an end".

[24] Der Spiegel's Andreas Borcholte stated that "music seems to be just an accessory in this enactment" and sarcastically opined that "you could also have called the record 'Supersale'" since he believed generating profit was David's main goal.

She further commended "On Off", which she likened to Beyoncé's "Baby Boy" (2003), and thought that "Gib Ihm" was inspired by "Super Bass" (2011) by Nicki Minaj and had "the best German pop refrain of the year".

David became the first German female rap act to have a number-one album in Germany since Tic Tac Toe ( pictured ) topped the chart in 1997. [ 31 ]