#elektrischemaidchen

The boys in 2023: Let's make a song about two female scientists who can't be together and get lost in space. The boys in 2024: Not happy with the arrangements. There's still a highhead and a bell missing. More cowbells. Maybe we can re-record all the vocal parts? I'm missing a special emphasis.

Maidchen in 2024: Two days here, the first song about Kant's Categorical Imperative completely finished. Bam! ;) Party!

So, now we are allowed to post it here too:

Elektrische Maidchen are very happy to announce that our first Remix will be released on 20 November: On the new Kontrast single ‘D3r Diktator’. This song probably couldn't come out at a more appropriate time…

‘D3r Diktator’ is the first single from an upcoming concept album, which will be released in 2025 and is set in a dark future in which a broadcasting centre (Sendesaal) determines people's lives and brings them to line. Depeche Mode is also banned. (Which I personally don't think is such a bad thing... ;)) Typical Kontrast topics, you see ;) So if you're looking for the ghost in the machinery, you'll find some teasers here:

This is a very special honour for us: Kontrast have been around for 30 years, it feels like we've only been around for a week ;) Their last single ‘Tanzmaschinen’ stayed at #1 in the German Alternative Charts for weeks.

So, if that happens now, it's all for art. Granny wouldn't be amused anyway....;)

So we went all out again yesterday…corsets, straitjackets, cigars….and the thing was already finished last night. As you can see from the label posting in the background, the cognac wasn't just a prop…;) We will also post a lot of outtakes here. Here is a foretaste:

(Our ‘vibration therapy’ box is a 200 year old Russian glove box that Lacelove tried to repair with hot glue (!!!) while filming. Well...)

And remember: it's not a good idea to write on your arm with quills. Those things are razor sharp and I'm actually wearing a bandage now.

‘So, we're in Bayreuth on Friday…’ Lacelove said casually. And I look at the calendar and curse. 3 days left. Panic at the disco. Have we actually prepared anything yet? Hardly. Do we have a plan? Oh yes. Can it be realised? We have no idea. And that's mainly because of these stupid masks. Apart from the fact that it's totally crazy to even take these things with us: You can't really see or breathe through them, which is really really fun. Especially as none of us really want to walk around outside wearing them. Expressing things? No way.

And while a lot of people now know who I am (because I advertised the Maidchen on my private channels from the outset and have long since admitted that I'm involved here…my reputation is already ruined everywhere anyway), the other two have a problem.

Why do we wear masks at all?

-Because it's fun and you all can make educated guesses

-Because they match with our music. Even though we're costume geeks, we're probably extremely bad at getting that across.

-Apart from Lacelove, we're no stage hogs. On the contrary. I'm regularly on stage, but at the same time I find it terribly uncomfortable and have suffered from stage fright for as long as I can remember. And I hate people. Stones are okay. Coppelia is shyer than Chopin and Fluttershy combined.

-The most banal answer: jobs. (And we actually still have real jobs, besides music) I'm not allowed to reveal Lacelove's real job (oh, she has a lot of secrets! International woman of mystery!), Coppelia is a teacher. You can imagine that 90% of our songs might be a bit…professionally difficult.

Hence the masks. But they suck. I mean, artistically I'm quite happy with them, but they're just completely wrong for videos. What to do now? I have no idea yet. Let fate decide. Today a first check with half mask and veil. No better either.