Juli Gilde

In the organizer's words:

Why actually, why actually, why actually, YES WHY NOT?

Juli Gilde has written a new song together with songwriter and former Wir sind Helden member Jean-Michel Tourette.

A song about being in love, getting lost in your own brain, riding the subway and hazel eyes. About going crazy because you can only think about this one, very specific person all day long.

And that's exactly what the song sounds like:

Fast, wacky, with the right pinch of 2000s feeling, glittering synths and blaring electric guitars.

The drums were played by Jan Rentschler, produced by Chris Trumpf (Jupyter, Eala) and the track has a wonderful lightness that makes legs dance and heads nod along. Somewhere between Nena, Wir sind Helden and her very own universe, Juli finds a nostalgically beautiful sound that you want to listen to for the whole summer. And quite honestly: why not?

Juli Gilde on "Why actually?":

"The song we've all been waiting for! No, I'm kidding, but I really like it. This pinch of 2000s nostalgia that Jean-Michel Tourette conjured up when we wrote the song in his studio in Hanover last year is really fantastic. It always takes me back to a time when I used to drive to the lake in the evening with my parents and siblings, feet dangling and some Wir Sind Helden song playing on the radio. A scented tree on the rear-view mirror, a swimming crocodile in the trunk. Just summer. My song is also a bit about summer, but mainly about that situation when you've fallen in love and the other person just won't disappear from your mind. Annoying. And a bit beautiful too."

About Juli Gilde:

Juli Gilde was born in 2002 and appeared on the Berlin scene a good three years ago. Within a very short time, dozens of established musicians fell in love with her voice and her incredible songwriting talent, so that Juli has now written songs with artists such as Jeremias, Paula Carolina, Moritz Krämer and Francesco Wilking, or writers such as David Jürgens, or played support for Jeremias or Element of Crime.

Juli's lyrics are eloquent, poetic and throw images into the world that you've never heard before but have felt a thousand times. In 2022, Juli released her first, more folky EP "French Bookwood", a tribute to her childhood and youth in the Berlin suburbs. This was followed in 2023 by the EP "Euphorie und Panik!" and the single "Rosarot", shimmering indie pop songs reminiscent of Phoebe Bridgers, 2raumwohnung or Judith Holofernes. Juli is currently working on her debut album, which is due to be released in winter/spring 2025.