German is not the first language you'd expect to find behind a global TikTok hit, which is why the success of "Gut genug" is even more surprising. The track was a collaboration between Berlin-based ...

Over five decades, popular songs in the U.S. and Germany have become more self-focused—as indicated by the use of pronouns such as "I," "me" and "mine"—while no such trend was seen for the most ...