Germany National Selection Review - Kate Krause-Boger

Germany does not send Ben Dolic again. Instead they are sending Jendrik Sigwart. But who is he? When you first come accross Jendrik you are reminded of 2 hyperactive Irish twins who took part in ESC twice. Their energy level seems to be the same. However, in contrast to Jedward, Jendrik can actually sing. He has a muscial education and has been on stage in various musicals. He also created his own songs, releasing them on youtube. So how did Germany get to pick this Hambuger? Apparently Jendrik is really keen on Eurovision and missed out on his chance in 2020, starting to campaign on TikToc to get selected for 2021 even though there was no call to action from the broadcaster. However, his quirky persona, with ukulele and tap dancing got noticed and one thing let to another and now we have the young blond representing Germany.

Leading up to the release of the song, Jendrik released multiple videos about the production of the video - appareantly all selfmade, low-budget. Those videos in themselves are quite entertaining if you have time and you can endure German at the speed of light, check them out.

Now about the song " I don't feel hate" it is an upbeat number with - as you might have guessed ukulele and tap dancing. The song writen by Jendrik tackels the issue of haters in the world and the message seems to be, if you are hated on, rather than hating, feel sorry for the hater; be your own person.

The music is like the video all over the place with so many imputs that your mind struggles to catch up with everything. Will this fair well in ESC2021? It is a rather catchy song - but unless DE gets to perform as one of the last 5- it might get forgotten. Sidenote: Would you not love to have this song played right after Finland? (they go: "Put your middle fingers up. Take a shot, throw it up and don't stop. I'm living that life on the dark side" and then Jendrik follows with "you can wiggle with that middle finger, it'll never wiggle back to you cause I don't feel hate")