The party phenomenon of 2025?
Is that a … wobble contact? The headlights flash. They flicker through the club and the singer on stage sings in the storm: « Wobil, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble, wobbly, wobble, wobbly contact! » This is the name of his hit, who spills through charts, beer tents and pubs these days. The singer is called Oimara And describes his attitude to life in the song: sometimes he feels like an old lamp from the 70s. Sounds abstract? Sounds strange? The song sounds like millions.
The year 2025 is just four months old. The carnival cat has evaporated, the Ballermann season only opened fresh, the Oktoberfest is still far-but maybe the party scene has already found its hit of the year. « Wackel contact »: six weeks in first place on the German Singlecharts, at the top also in Austria and the Switzerlandalmost 70 million streams on Spotify on the net. The Oimara, type of Bavarian Bengel, is amazed: « It is completely escalated, » he said in the « Ringlstetter » Promitalk, on Bavarian Radio. « You don’t expect something like that. »
Is « wobbly contact » a hit like « Mambo No. 5 » and « Macarena »?
Sometimes a single catchy tune is enough to drill into the pop culture memory in the long run. Lou Bega had his « Mambo No. 5 », Fools Garden her « Lemon Tree », then there was silence around her. Now it is quiet again about DJ Robin and apron – The spiritual fathers of « Layla », the « Puffmama » shocker from 2022. And who knows a second song by Los del Rio?
The HIT history of the Oimara did not start in the area disco, but in the nature of the Alps. It is actually called Benedikt Hafner, born in 1992 at Lake Tegernsee. His parents run an alpine pasture, he grows up in the mountains. The father loves blues, the son sings and plays guitar early on. His cooking apprenticeship in the hotel Mallorca Throws « Beni » Hafner soon and dreams as a songwriter from the great beer tent hit. So if there is a dress code for its concerts, then costume.
Funeral burner « Wackelktakt »: Oimara appears in the Augsburg canteen
Long snake in front of the club canteen in Augsburg. People in lederhosen and transition jackets, with beer bottles in hand for the long path to the bouncer, and at the end of the hundred meters: three young women in the dirndl. Good friends. « We have been hearing the Oimara since 2024, we even knew it before ‘wobbly contact’, » says one, and the other: « We practically discovered it. » Loud prustions. « The Oimara sings German texts, you don’t hear that often today. And then he also mixes it with Bavarian. It can be easily singed along. » The women exclude the fact that the Oimara will only remain a one-hit wonder: « No! Now he already has the next hit, the ‘zebrautrip horse’. »
The bodies are crowded in the club, a Tyrolean hat protrudes from the crowd. The Oimara itself is not a spectacular appearance, it carries shirt over leather pants and freshly bleached hair. Yesterday beer king on Malle, today Augsburg, he chats with the audience about the madness of success: « Is it Eich Guad? » He asks. « Mia A, » he says and you can well imagine that he also speaks so nicely with the bolds on the alpine pasture. A little spectacle, on the other hand: his « loose contact » song text. Then the lyrical self compares with a lamp. « If I were a piece of furniture, then I would be a lamp from the seventies. » This is followed by the explanation from the electrical trade: « I like to glow, I like to go out, I don’t care about the fuses. » He sucked entire nuclear power plants empty, with 8000 amps. At this point a thought experiment: if a high school student in a German school attachment-topic: metaphors in poetry-such a text would be forced to give the top grade. Sophisticated, seamless metaphor between electrical needs and excess.
The Oimara presents new songs in the Augsburg canteen
This stands out from the lyrical level of other party anthems (« I have a onion on the head, I am a kebab », « I have three hair on my chest, I’m a bear »). The text idea didn’t come to the Oimara in the beer rush either, but when he shopped with his girlfriend in the furniture store. Feuilletonists from the Frankfurt general now operate poetological analysis: In the text you will discover a reference to Wolfgang Petry (« Helle, Helle, Helle is ned » instead of « hell, hell, hell »), then an idea of »Highway to Hell » according to AC/DC. The song lines jump between Bavarian and standard German, suitable for beer halls throughout the language area. The club in Augsburg fidgets to the song for six minutes, wiggling all party guests. The mood changes from the pre-glow to the steam sauna phase.
But the Oimara wants more, he presents an EP on tour, a small album. He accompanies a band with a trombone and trumpet. Sometimes this mix sounds like a beer tent, then like a chapel from the Balkans that discovers the techno for itself. This is how the text level changes: the Oimara sings from the suff among men, until everyone wakes up and wakes up the next day. Brachial, genital, Ballermann potential. Then he also plays with system and cultural criticism: « The art of art is to forget art and run the mainstream. » The stuff to the marquee hit has « the zebra crossing horse », because: what was there at first? Zebra or zebra crossing? The search for henne-egg principle ends with the « zebrautrastriphipfreiphipfreifhorstorstrezhiper ». Gaga, Dada, but family -friendly.
Does the songwriter Oimara have a long party career?
A woman in the front row is already wearing the zebra hat, as a sign of her Oimara love. How far will the swing carry the singer? The hype? The marketing? The song has exploded in the carnival season, maybe spill over Mallorca to the Oktoberfest-« and then it will be a Christmas number, » says Oimara in the BR-Talk and grins. It would be a rare success in a time when hits quickly burn up, in the TikK hustle and bustle and in the YouTube oversurance. Watchel contact is actually a mistake in the circuit. Does this wobble create a permanent favorite career?
