The Funny Sad of Your Life™® (2023/24), ca. 50

nostalgic songs from a time after capitalism
for tenor and ensemble with electronics

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​on texts based on advertisement slogans, written by the composer

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With The Funny Sad of Your Life!™®, the German/Danish composer and singer Mathias Monrad Møller, together with Ensemble Garage, takes the dilemma of late-capitalist affluent societies as the starting point for a series of ironic love songs. His ‘Lovesongs’ are based on poems that Møller has compiled from advertising slogans: cheap poetry that become ironic hymns to capitalism. Møller’s dystopian ‘songs’ resonate back to us from a future in which capitalism no longer exists, but in which you long for it; because you were worth it.

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first performed by Ensemble Garage and me, on 26th of October at Alte Feuerwache, Cologne​

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FINAL ORDERS

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All the news that were fit to print

were built to last
never went out of style
 

You cared enough to send the very best

went further, obeyed the thirst

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I reached out, tried to touch someone

Challenged everything
And we were done.

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Good things would come to those who’d wait.
 

You tried harder
A diamond was forever

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