ROQUESTAR

What are the people around us doing? How are they doing it? "Don't we all want to understand that all the time?" asks Alli Neumann, who metaphorically lands as a sparkling star on hard asphalt with her third studio album. ROQUESTAR she has to find her bearings there first. Inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, who is known for his strangeness became known and dares to do something, also to be seen, Alli blinks between standing out and fitting in. The Musician has long been moving fluidly in this duality and oscillates between the poles – one wants to be loved, right?!

The musician plays with this ambivalent thought, which seems unsolvable, and delivers with her album ROQUESTAR contains 12 songs that are driven by exactly this urgent hunger for recognition. “They tell of the will to be loved.” A truth and also a psychosocial utopia, perhaps, “in which many find it again,” says Alli, and yet comes across as shameful because it becomes clear: We are terribly dependent on the outside world, which we are so often fed up with. With "I can't do anything," Alli writes exactly against it: A self-ironic homage to imperfection – against all expectations. Wanting to be loved, despite or precisely because of ... being a rock star, Alli says: "everybody's favorite misfit." How it works, the thing with loving, that always goes hand in hand with how one loves oneself, is reflected in the simultaneity of their songs: While Alli portrays a new love as escapism in “From Another Star” to Funk, “Baby let yourself fall to to learn to fly,” she reminds us in the grunge rock ballad “Never lose again” how toxic it can be to choose to give up on a person.

On ROQUESTAR, everything seems to be in motion. The musician provides impulses. Sometimes accusations, Requests that speak of longing, but never answers. Also because that doesn't fit Alli, the artist. who loves to move as much as the world she flies through. Through genres and formats – as a musician, Actress, on stage, also on television, an artist who experiences herself, lives herself, a colorful character, Alli loves, also their integrity. And while the songs blend organically within themselves and together, one hears with a certain Two unusual instruments play with precision. Two baroque, which musically Together with her producer Novaa, she lets the cemberlo and bassoon adapt to the prevailing synth and Kraut-Pop sounds, while the bassoon is banned from pop music by most.

Alli can show that. "Being loved for not being loved," she describes herself, only ever as an attempt. Remarkably is that the musician has never lost any fragments of her self despite her pace and curves over the past few years. So while she is writing between the lines about a ROQUESTAR identity in 2025, she has long since become one: a star that falls from the sky to the ground of a stony reality, looks around and tries incessantly. In the eternal struggle between loud and quiet, Kraut and folklore, protest and retreat. Between amused and political, big city and Country life, 80s and Baroque. Alli and her music sometimes shine brightly and sometimes dimly into
this world, but shine, they really always do.