SDP and Bela B. turn the spotlight on the music business itself in Das Lied, a song that gleefully admits it is about… absolutely nothing. From the very first spoken lines, the duo jokes about poor sales, missing TV gigs and the urgent need for a hit. What follows is a tongue-in-cheek checklist of every chart-friendly cliché: Auto-Tune, an annoyingly sticky hook, a greenscreen video, swaggering guest features and a children’s choir for extra “epic” points. By proudly declaring that the lyrics are meaningless while repeating them until they stick in your head, the band parodies how easily empty pop formulas can sell.
Beneath the prank lies a sharp critique. Each goofy verse calls out the industry’s obsession with clicks, ad placements and image crafting, showing how songs can be built like fast food—cheap ingredients, catchy flavor, zero nutrition. Bela B.’s cameo plays along with the joke that star power fixes everything. In the end, Das Lied is both a ridiculously catchy earworm and a sarcastic mirror held up to modern pop culture, daring listeners to notice how often we dance to songs without ever hearing what they say.