''Jamma nich'' is a studio album by German pop singer
Nena
Gabriele Susanne Kerner (born 24 March 1960), better known as Nena, is a German singer and songwriter who rose to international fame in 1983 as the lead vocalist of the band Nena with the Neue Deutsche Welle song "99 Luftballons". In the same ye ...
. The title is a colloquial rendering of the German injunction ''jammere nicht!'' ("don't complain" or "don't whine"). Nena wrote the album with
Annette Humpe
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Ideal
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,
Ich und Ich), who also co-produced, and
Luci van Org
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Lucilectric
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).
Their involvement may explain the "
synth pop
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tendency" that makes it "a unique kind of semideparture in her catalog". By the time ''Jamma nich'' was released, Nena was pregnant with her fifth and final child but continued a full round of TV and promotional appearances in support of the various singles released from the album until late into her pregnancy. The first official single was "Ganz gelassen",
[ which at one point was called "Riesenarschloch", a swear word included in the lyrics.][Singles from ''Jamma nich'' at ''Nena.de''. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
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"Ganz gelassen"
"Alles was du willst"
/ref> there were also promotional single
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s "Jamma nich" and "Auf dich und mich".
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
Nena.de
the official Nena website
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1997 albums
Nena albums
German-language albums
Polydor Records albums