Here's an excerpt of the statement that pops up when you visit the Blumfeld homepage:
Wer aber meint, Blumfeld als Vordenker für seine Anbiederung an ein deutschtümelndes ( Massen- ) Publikum missbrauchen bzw. denunzieren zu können, dem sei mit dieser Mitteilung noch mal ausdrücklich erklärt, dass wir für derartigen Populismus und Vaterlandsliebe jedweder Art nach wie vor nicht zur Verfügung stehen.
I haven't been following this myself, but they refer to a trend in which German-language pop music is used as a means of 'normalization' of contemporary culture, making it 'ok to be German,' that kind of thing, without (they suggest) really considering the impact that recent German history, that is, National Socialism, should still have on a German cultural identity today.
(Perhaps I'll translate the statement later; it shows that something we tend to think of as a bit of an academic argument can have relevance in daily life, as well.)
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