The election campaign has finally reached its most exciting phase.

CDU, SPD, FDP, Die Grünen and Die Linke have sent their official playlists to the streaming service Deezer, and they will survive the next few weeks in their variety of psychological interpretations.

The occasion was the second edition of the “Musik-O-Mats”, with the help of which young voters in particular can find out whether the party they want to vote for is listening to the best music they want.

One of the nine positions asked is “Which song are you listening to secretly?” - still “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys?

- and "What would be your song for the mobility transition?", A template for all Queen supporters.

In the end, as with “Wahl-O-Mat”, the percentages of agreement with the parties emerge.

The really interesting thing is the playlist available on Deezer, which in the case of the CDU must have arisen from an enviable exhilaration: “Can't Hold Us” is there, “Don't Stop Me Now” and the song by the Backstreet Boys that was secretly heard .

And if it weren't for a classic that contains the defiant line “And we got nothing to be guilty of”, if “monotony” wasn't ideal, then the Union could be accused of a lack of self-irony in the accompanying music of its political work.

Why "Macarena"?

In the SPD, the selection, apparently made by Kevin Kühnert, caused internal rifts because it contains the song “Macarena” and its stylistic spectrum, which ranges from the almost forgotten Hamburg band Tomte to MGMT to the FDP dissenting rapper Disarstar does not really want to satisfy anyone. By the time you get to Rod Stewart's “Maggie May” - “You led me away from home / Just to save you from being alone” - the willingness to benevolently acknowledge the alienation from your political partner is a thing of the past .

The Greens, on the other hand, rely on the impression of their song titles: “Don't Stop Me Now”, “Don't Stop Believing” and “Run The World” are supposed to compensate for the acoustic pain of the campaign song “A beautiful country”.

The AfD was not allowed to participate.

The FDP's selection sounds like a playlist that a young liberal who works sixty hours a week and is moved by his singularity late at night with a gin and tonic at the bar has in his ear (“I was gonna be that one in a million”) and leaves the left with Tracy Chapman and Udo Juergens' "Dear Fatherland" on the evocation of the revolution of bygone times.

And now it's very curious to see where the musical self-reinforcement works best.