Nina Hagen - Nina for President

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All for one, one for all
United we stand, divided we fall
All for one, one for all
United we stand, divided we fall

My name is Nina, ich bin ein belina
I run for president, a new world government
The new world's government, is a screen
We call it green dream, we will get the planet clean

1991 is the time, open up your mind, and listen to the rhyme
We need some unity, in every community
Get down, here's the opportunity
We need a leader, to speak up on the issues
Those who take offence, sorry if we dissed you
Its critical, in the political arena
The rhymes i wrote, yeah, to vote for Nina!

I say aloud, time's run out, we bleed
The poor and hungry are in need
They need to eat, ??? ???
Food, and we are being rude
To eat a holy cow is to eat another dude
It will put your karma in the worst of moods
I'm not telling lies, but this is why the rainforest... dies

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You ready to join?
And dare to share?
Come on, be fair
Let me say it live, on the air
Unification is the hardest combination
One love, one love nation...

We're never gonna see, solar peace campaign
To fight world pollution and stop acid rain
South Africa, to the Berlin Wall, all negativity, must fall
So in this election, make your selection
We need a new leader, Vote for Nina!

No more fakes, no more mistakes
This movement is sweeter than a million cakes
People have to know, that many politicians
Are under only private superstitious missions
I always really wanted to tell you this
Do you really know what Religion is?
Religion is to help, one another
To love and to share, like a good mother
Now if you are a muslim
Or a jew, a christian, a buddhist, or a hindu
A yogi, a flower, or a lulu, your love is to god
And he loves you... ??? ???

All for one, one for all
United we stand, divided we fall
All for one, one for all
United we stand, divided we fall

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Ok, No more torture, we're going to be free
Stop messing around with atomic EN-AR-GY
Love life, and peace, can only begin
If you know in your heart, sun shines from within
Love all your brothers, and love all your sisters
Love all the Mrs. and love all the Misters
Don't be shy when sharing your money
Be like the bees, sharing all your honey
Test my notion, the perfect peace potion
Can be found in the wake of the green seas motion
The long, rocking swerve, the mighty blue ocean
If you love peace, the perfect peace potion
Then we will find it with the sweet sea creatures
The spine of a dolphin is a built in feature
You will learn much peace with the whale as your teacher
Good Morning MC Shaun, very nice to meet you

You ready to join?
And dare to share?
Come on, be fair
Let me say it live, on the air
Unification is the hardest combination
One love, one love nation...

All for one, one for all
United we stand, divided we fall
All for one, one for all
United we stand, divided we fall

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Catharina “Nina” Hagen was born March 11, 1955, in (communist) East Berlin. An opera prodigy by age 9, a pop star in East Germany by age 17, she emigrated to West Berlin by age 21. Rumors have it that she was kicked out for being too “punk rock”. The Urban myth is false, but the reality, in spirit? Close enough.

Nina Hagen has since become a household name in most of Europe, as a singer-songwriter-actress with a reputation ranging as wide as her 5-octave vocal prowess, from the “scandalously lunatic, unlistenable freak” to the “inspiring diva-divine goddess of music” (die-hard devotees choose a version of the latter “descriptive”, in various languages…).

By 1983, “the Mother of Punk” had Giorgio Moroder producing her fourth LP, Fearless, a fearlessly un-punk album, and too strange to dub as a purely pop/new-wave record. It yielded a Top 10 12” night club dance track in the U.S., Nina’s original “New York, New York”, opera chops intact.

Ten years earlier, Nina’s commercial career began with Automobil, with a big hit in East Germany (yes,in the formerly Soviet-controlled Eastern “GDR” Bloc of Germany), “Du hast den Farbfilm Vergessen”. Translation: “You Forgot the Colour Film”. This 1974 song wasn’t “punk”, but its lyrics? An ambiguously clear metaphor, a clever jab at the constraining drab “gray” of wall-bound East Germany. Luckily the Soviet authorities did not execute Nina nor Automobil’s musicians for such subversion. The music was and remains just too … musical. It even has a video, sort of…

“The Mother of Punk"? Nina’s prominence in the punk and new wave “scenes” of the late 1970s and early 1980s began in earnest with 1978’s “The Nina Hagen Band”.

Since then, Nina’s colorful, prolific career, including film and stage acting, on-camera political/religious zeal (particularly as a “Talk Show” personality), and sought-after “guest vocalist” (many, many songs by varied and numerous acts feature Nina’s vocals) has, in the U.S., been relegated to that of a 3-album cult artist, if measured by American label-support. Youtube, drenched with official and unofficial-Nina Hagen cornucopias, does her “influence” far more justice …

Albums available in the U.S. (as non-import, e.g. on iTunes and U.S. flavoured streaming sites) include her insane-alternative-WTF 1982 NunSexMonkRock (originally on CBS Records), her 2001 “comeback” album, Return of the Mother, and her Christian-blues-alterna-country-gospel-covers album, 2010’s Personal Jesus.

Nina’s repertoire of 15 studio albums includes her 1999 double album of Vedic chanting Om Namah Shivay, released for charity.

Generally, her “spiritual” nature is often conveyed in her music. Was “Personal Jesus” a “devotional” religious switch from Shiva, et al? Was she really abducted by benevolent extraterrestrial aliens? Is she a “prophet” or a “wack-job”? Is she a “real” nut-case, versus a phony-media-grabber, preaching didactic “conspiracy”-type theories and political views to fuel the P.R. of her “character”? Answer: probably not, given her intensely comical and serious persona is anti-establishment, and anti-record labels. Does that makes her a “true” artist?
She’s the mother of punk, so what the funk?.