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What ties adult alternative pop/rock together is a sense of maturity: it's essentially mainstream, pop/rock-based music of the '90s that appeals to a more refined, mellowed-out adult sensibility, intentionally or otherwise. The rock & rollers tended to be more laid-back, prizing songcraft and good vibes above visceral energy, and the others -- especially the singer/songwriters -- made music for thoughtful contemplation. At its worst, adult alternative pop/rock was a superficial approximation of the substance in its alt-rock inspirations -- often because of performers' assumptions about what constituted maturity. Anxious to make music that was pretty and likable, some artists wound up inoffensive to the point of blandness; others self-consciously tried to sound "deep," resulting in forced melancholia and heaps of overwrought, amateurish poetry.
The Ich+Ich track is really terrible. 'I've been waiting so long for the one moment, I am on the lookout for 100 percent'. I mean. There's bland. And then there's bland. This kind of forced rhyming is normally reserved for Schlager songs.
So much so that I always failed to separate those two. In Echt's case, it appears 'adult alternative' is entirely appropiate to describe their efforts to get away from the not at all adult beginnings (e.g. Wir haben's getan = we did it)...
This kind of forced rhyming is normally reserved for Schlager songs.
Didn't notice - for such songs, I have automatic lyrics filter on :-) *Traitor*, n. A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.