Nina Hagen - Only Seventeen

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Birds bring me this message
It helps to start my day
Heaven still does us favors
Like the Indians used to say
Keeping alive in a dying world
The basics remain the best way
This ain't nothing you haven't heard
But the new age is here to stay

Chorus
So young you should not be lazy
Work hard, but don't make yourself crazy
Who's gonna listen when you disapprove
They say the excuses have all been used

Giving this world all you can of yourself
And somebody still isn't satisfied
Trust yourself, if no one else
Be strong, you know you're gonna make it

Chorus

Young! Savage! And only seventeen
Big! Power! You're my living dream
Super! Great! The leader of the scene
So young, savage, and only seventeen, only seventeen
So young, so strong, I will follow you
So big, so great, I'm in love it's true
Get me, I'm ready, if not I will be blue
If you want me to I'd follow you
Just ask me to, yes I love you

Nothing in the world comes before it's time
Like it or not, so is this life designed
Old dogs and new tricks must be kept apart
So when you give love it must be from the heart

Chorus

Young! Savage! But only seventeen
Big! Power! You're my living dream
Super! Great! The leader of the scene
So young, savage, and only seventeen, only seventeen
So young, so strong, I will follow you
So big, so great, I'm in love it's true
Get me, I'm ready, if not I will be blue

You're too young to be exposed
Radiation's burning through your clothes
Your heart's on fire, your mind's ablaze
In (AN AGE OLD) a stranger waits

Youire seventeen, a teenage dream
Your heart is the rhythm of the acid scene
Whereis a nightclub icuz you gotta go
The people know where the bass bands blow
And the rhythm and the body
But youire not satisfied
You wanna take your mind on a little ride
You're only seventeen and right through the night
So () the wisdom of your life

Make me your queen
You are my dream
I know you're big
I hope you'll dig
My Angebot
I'm the Chinese Goat
If you want me to
I'll follow you
Just ask me to
Yes I love you ...

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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?.