Blumentopf: Solala
One could be forgiven if the term "hop-hop" does not immediately pop into one's head when one thinks of Bavaria. But Blumentopf has been busting out the rhymes for well over a decade from Bavaria's capital city, Munich.
Blumentopf's entry for Bundesvision is their track Solala. Perhaps it was an unintentional comment on their song, but solala translates roughly to "so-so", and frankly that's how this song strikes me. Perhaps it's almost inevitable that an ensemble hip-hop act like Blumentopf would be compared to the Beastie Boys - which I never particularly liked either. But surely, Blumentopf does nothing with their music to discourage this comparison. The lyrics bounce from one rapper to another over a Casio sounding back beat based on Queen's Another One Bites the Dust. Some of Blumentopf's other music is far more interesting and engaging, but here it just sounds like it has all been done before.
Perhaps the saving grace of Solala are its lyrics, which are about as pointed and obliquely political as you can get in a mass media music competition. Unfortunately, lyrics alone are seldom enough to make a song more than solala.
Prediction: If this were a judged competition, and if the wind was blowing in the right direction, I'd say that Blumentopf and Solala might have a shot. As this competition is judged by the public calling in on their phones, I have somewhat less faith. Solala simply lacks the musical hook that is needed to set it above the competition. My prediction is that Solala will place somewhere in the bottom third.
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