"L'amour toujours"

Gigi D’Agostino: How his love song is canceled

Entire generations danced and dance to the rousing, apolitical and harmless catchy tune "L'amour toujours" by the Italian star deejay - and now the song is to be banned and outlawed because of a few stray, right-wing extremists? An inventory of the insane hysteria and the unbearable hijacking of things we hold dear.

The news really hit home: Because of rewrites with far-right lyrics by some drunken affluent boys on the island of Sylt, the organizers of the Oktoberfest don't even want to play the song "L'amour toujours" as a precaution. "We want to ban it and I will ban it," Oktoberfest boss Clemens Baumgärtner told dpa: "There's no place for all that right-wing bullshit at the Wiesn."

And now it's getting weird: the song itself is not right-wing extremist, but it has taken on a "very clear right-wing extremist connotation", said Baumgärtner. This was followed by fan zones during the European Football Championships, and the roar is now also being reported from Lower Austria and Carinthia. Ö3 and Kronehit pulled the song from their programs. How can you let yourself drift like that?