Rote Rosen

Song of the Day 08/11/2022

Rote Rosen by Verhaltenstherapie and Konstanze

This fun song is by one of my closest friends, an older sibling to me, in some sense, whom I care about very much. Funnily enough, his name is also Gordon, only he’s German and has a better hairline. It isn’t up to me to decide who has the superior creative mind (it’s me), but I suppose that doesn’t really matter. Let the masses decide! A successful film and theater director, Gordon Kammerer started the music project Verhaltenstherapie (behavioral therapy in English) during the pandemic. This newest single features his sister, Konstanze, also one of our roommates around a decade ago, apparently now quite the harmonizer. The brother-sister duet works; chemistry exists, objectively and in theory. 

Thank god for all the art coming in from friends that isn’t shit. It’s such a terrible feeling to force yourself to lie—‘oh my god, it’s so, what's the word...good!’—even worse to try and do something many like to call ‘constructive criticism’, the most longwinded form of fuck you. What I like about Gordon as a person is that he’s fundamentally interesting and caring, a good combination, but this little piece isn’t about Gordon as a person. What I like about Gordon’s work is that it’s often very likable, compelling, always has a touch of drama, sardonic humor, a natural lust for the absurd, a gravitation toward the abnormal and transcendent. I'm lucky to be able to find pleasure in a friend's art. Awkward interactions are therefore saved. Life can be enjoyable.