The big stages are Andrea Berg’s second home
Published: Thursday, Oct 17th 2024, 10:10
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Pop star Andrea Berg is releasing a new album. And she will be on stage in Zurich next March. She promises her fans nothing new. She remains true to herself and her successes with a "confessional pop album".
Again and again she sings of endless love, happiness and great longing, often also of sadness, hopeless rage and sheer boundless passion. All accompanied by a catchy chorus, usually a stomping discofox and synthesizer. For more than three decades, Andrea Berg has used this recipe to send her fans into a state of bliss; she fills the halls on sold-out tours, has sold more than 16 million records to date and has received eight Echos.
She has named her new album "Andrea Berg" with a dozen self-written pop songs. There are ballads like "Du bist der Kompass" and "Nirgendwo anders", but also typical hits like "Gib mir Deine Hand". She says she worked on the album for three years: "You have to be a long-distance runner, because every story is mine, every word is mine," she promises her fans. "It's exactly what it says on the tin."
No new paths
Berg remains true to her line and her new album is also firmly in Schlager hands. "I'm not changing my style," she says. And she doesn't have to reinvent herself either. "I'm continuing with the songs and lyrics because I realize that it gives people something, that they find support in my music." She doesn't want to go down other paths. "I want to make hits. And that's enough for me." She is an entertainer. No more and no less.
Of course, Germany's pop queen will continue to win over her fans with her new album. But there are more and more of them, and they are increasingly younger. Her fans have already experienced what she sings. The pop star's music is therapy for them, a "chicken soup for the soul", as Berg herself calls it. "I always want to give people something without this heavy self-pity, this terrible drama compensation," she says.
"Giving wings, because everyone has their own baggage to carry," she calls it. After all, a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. "And if I write down my saddest moments, that is, if I write down the pain and put it on an album like this, then it's also a help for people who might be in a similar situation." Her fans could perhaps hold on to it and say to themselves: "Okay, Andrea has been through this too, then I can do it too".
Songs for the pop heart
"Andrea Berg" - the album - offers few surprises, but above all routine hits. And why not? There are pleasing melodies, ingratiating choruses, not really new musical achievements, but songs for the pop heart straight from the hit forge, heartbreak stories and the one or other typical pop song kitschy frankness such as "Ich habe heute Nacht mein Herz verloren, ich sucht' es überall". Just the usual. But the impressive success proves the trained doctor's assistant and surgical nurse Berg right.
One of the things she tried to do with the new album was to make it positive. "I wanted to convey this lightness without being superficial," she explains. The new work is a self-confessed pop album. "It has a corresponding depth and yet it still has disco fox melodies. You can hear this lightness, with which you can escape from everyday life and also flirt a little."
Tour with performance in Zurich
From next February, the Krefeld-born singer plans to bring her new songs and bestsellers such as "Du hast mich tausendmal belogen" and "Diese Nacht ist jede Sünde wert" to the stage on a major arena tour. Under the motto "Party, Hits, Emotions - The Tour", she will be singing in 21 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Zurich Hallenstadion is on her program on 16 March. These stages are something of a second home for Berg. While she regularly turns down talk show invitations, rarely gives interviews and doesn't pose for home stories in glossy magazines, she can feel safe in front of thousands of people in halls.
"On stage, I'm a ramp sow," she says. "In the stadium or in the arenas, I have the microphone, I can deal with anyone, that's my profession and the safest place in the world for me. I'm the director there. I have the feeling that I can embrace everyone emotionally." In real life, on the other hand, she is not so extroverted, but rather a little reserved.
For Andrea Berg, this "real life" takes place in her home in Aspach near Stuttgart. Here, where she hangs her daring stage outfits in the wardrobe and puts on her flannel shirt, Berg not only runs a hotel with her second husband - the sports manager and hotelier Uli Ferber. An arena is also part of the Berg-Ferber empire. In Aspach, the red-maned Berg cultivates the image of the approachable and warm neighbor next door, sometimes bringing a schnitzel to the hotel guests' table and having a chat. "Natural", "down-to-earth", "herself" - these are the values with which "Andrea" should remain associated, even in the new album.
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