“She’s prettier, younger, hornier” is currently being chanted at many city festivals. The hit “Layla” causes agitated minds. The CDU parliamentary group leader thinks it is wrong to ban the song.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – CDU parliamentary group leader Manuel Hagel has spoken out against a ban on the controversial Schlager hit “Layla”. “You don’t have to like the song. You don’t have to hear the song and you don’t have to play the song if you don’t like it,” said Hagel of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart. “But I didn’t think banning the song was the right instrument, because it serves censorship in art.” Sexism doesn’t work at all, said Hagel. “We have to be sensitive when dealing with the question. But you can always argue about taste – and it’s the same with art.”
Opinions are divided on the sing-along song about a “brothel” who is “prettier, younger, hornier” because of accusations of sexism. SPD faction leader Andreas Stoch is also against censorship. “Even if things are absolutely tasteless – like this song – I think discussions about censorship are exaggerated.” A few days ago there was criticism in the SPD because the song, which was criticized as misogynistic, was played in the SPD moving van on Christopher Street Day in Stuttgart. On a video shared on the Internet, Stoch can also be seen bobbing his head happily on the moving truck to the song. He didn’t recognize the song right away and rocked along briefly, he said afterwards.
It bothers him that the authors of the song make “even more economic friction” through the discussion. “Such debates do not actually achieve the goal they are pursuing, but make this song even more prominent than it ever deserved.”
