From the very first beat, Ich Muss Gar Nichts feels like Antje Schomaker slamming her fist on the table and shouting “I owe you nothing!” The German singer pokes fun at music-industry tastemakers who say indie pop is dead, that only trap, rap or “some old white guy like James Blunt” can matter. She refuses to chase hits, rewrite herself for playlists, or tone down her social criticism just to fit a festival line-up. Every “Ich muss gar nichts” is a guitar-strummed eye-roll at those rules.
In the second half, Antje widens the spotlight to every expectation piled on women: be ambitious but not “difficult,” be sexy yet modest, stay thin but not too thin, have kids before thirty while climbing the career ladder. By listing these absurd contradictions, she exposes how impossible the checklist really is. The chorus then flips into a rallying cry—an energetic reminder that real relevance comes from authenticity, not from box-ticking. Fun, cheeky and fiercely empowering, this song invites you to sing along, turn up the volume and delete a few “musts” from your own life.