Nessaja
1983 August 1, 1994 (Live)
Nessaja is a song by Peter Maffay from the concept album Tabaluga or travel to reason from 1983, which was released as a single. Especially because Maffays 1994 successful single release a live version of the song under this title, the song is sometimes also with Nessajas song or the chorus line I never wanted to be an adult titled. Was written Nessaja of Rolf Harris. In the German single charts, it reached # 17, making it the most popular song from the entire Tabaluga series. Nessaja was repeatedly was covered by various artists. The most famous is the same song the band Scooter from 2002, which No. 1 on the German singles charts and in several other European countries achieved a top 10 ranking. According to the records awards, this version has sold over 265,000 times. Also commercial and media attention reached a 2011 together with Peter Maffay be published under the title adult version of the two Berlin rapper Bushido and Sido.
- 4.3.1 background
- 4.3.2 content
- 4.3.3 production
- 4.3.4 Title List
- 4.3.5 Music Video
- 4.3.6 Commercial success
Content
The song is on the album is the last station of the Dragon Tabaluga, where he met the tortoise Nessaja. She tells him with the song that she never wanted to be grown up and always a little child has remained.
Title list
Single (1983 )
I never wanted to be an adult / Nessajas Song ( Live!) - Single ( 1994)
Commercial success
With Nessaja be Maffay could place in 1983 a total of 18 weeks in the German singles chart, reaching over two weeks with number 17 its maximum placement. The 1994 published live version of the song I never wanted to be an adult / Nessajas song reached # 83 in the German single charts and was also placed in the Top 100 a total of 7 weeks.
Cover versions
Scooter Version ( 2002)
April 8, 2002
A trance version of Nessaja was born on 8 April 2002 as the first and only single from the live album Encore by the group Scooter - Live & Direct, in which Nessaja which was the only previously unpublished Scooter titles. The song reached # 1 on the German singles chart and was honored in Germany and Norway with a gold record.
Title list
Commercial success
In Germany Nessaja held a total of 3 weeks at number 1 of the singles charts and reached in many other European countries, the Top 10 In Germany, the song received a gold record for more than 250,000 remote units. In the Echo Award 2003 Nessaja Award category National Dance Act.
Use in other media
This version was also used for the beginning of the film Brüno Sacha Baron Cohen.
Be grown ( version with Bushido & Sido )
October 14, 2011 (Album) December 9, 2011 ( Single)
In 2011, Peter Maffay took together with Bushido and Sido under the title adult be another version for their album 23. This version was able to place each number 29 of the singles chart in Germany and Austria.
Background
Sido and Bushido had set to music on Bushido's proposal, which had previously been titled Forever young successful cooperation with the pop singer Karel Gott behind, for the work of 23 planned a song Maffays Tabaluga musical anyway. After the rappers had tried several other versions, Bushido requested at Maffay personally for cooperation for adults to be, which agreed to the singer immediately. Being allowed to grow was originally intended to be a heavily advertised single. However, before it could result in the corresponding appearances on television shows such as Schlag den Raab, however, the cooperation between Maffay and Bushido & Sido came to a halt again.
In autumn 2011, Bushido was awarded the Bambi in the category of integration. This badge has been criticized from various quarters because of the content of previous Bushido texts sometimes bitter. The crooner Heino was consequently his, conferred on him in 1990 Bambi back. Maffay, the Bushido had handed over the award as award presenter, turned it in the public debate on its first page and appealed to the society that Bushido gained from this a "second chance ".
A little later, Bushido, Maffay and Sido were in an issue of the ZDF show Markus Lanz guest, which due to a heated discussion of the guests with lance and cabaret artist present also as a guest Gabi Decker on Bushido and Sido's musical past and the violence of representation of the music video to their previously released single So I'll do it for increased media attention made . A week later Maffay then ended the cooperation with the two rappers because its claims to particular Bushido for the future publications of this kind not wished to relinquish.
Content
The sung by Peter Maffay chorus of the original song Nessaja will be growing ever rapped a verse Bushido Sido or supplemented, in which both explain each, that one should not lose its youthfulness in aging through.
Production
For the production of the song, the producer Beatzarre and Djorkaeff revealed not only Bushido and Sido responsible. The melody of the song was recorded while the Wrocław Orchestra, conducted by Joris Bartsch - Buhle. It was recorded that song in Copenhagen.
Title list
Single
Music Video
Be the complete black -and-white music video for adult shows Bushido front of burning garbage bin, Maffay on a ship and Sido in a backyard, the wall of which is described with the text of his verse, their respective contributions of the song present. All three protagonists meet not during the video, the end of the video Bushido and Sido are, however, shown together in split-screen.
On Youtube, the video until today (November 2013) has been called more than 9.5 million times.
Commercial success
Could be growing place in the singles charts at number 29 both in Germany and in Austria. In Germany, held the title a total of 8 weeks in Austria for 6 weeks in the charts.
Other cover versions
In 1995, the Group Once Again recorded a cover version of the song.
Later cover versions are often also based on the Scooter version Nessajas. Thus, the German singer Alexander Marcus interpreted in 2008 just this for the album Hands on Scooter, on which several performers took up different scooter hits new, new.
2010, the group released Adoro on their album Happiness is a new version of Nessaja. DJ Brainstorm coverte the title in 2012.