Try Anyway

Hey, I’m Anny and this is Try Anyway; my first own song I ever went to the studio with - it's now grown up and ready to be shown to the world as the monumental piece it's always been to me.

I wrote Try Anway after fulfilling my dream of winning The Voice of Germany (at the 6th attempt) in 2022, and had all these huge feelings inside of me. It was finally clear to see that I meant what I said when talking about following my dreams until they come true - I'm very stubborn in that regard, but it had worked out!

I still remember vividly how my childhood bully prophesied my downfall - that I'd be living penniless, under a bridge and all. But I had proven her and lots of people with that same mindset, wrong. On TV. For everyone to see. As someone with cripplingly low self esteem, that's worth a song. Not just any song, but a large, epic, Eurovision-worthy ballad. (Spoiler: Eurovision rejected it, but I'm a pro at rejections, I'll try again, anyway :)

The reason I held on to this song until I deemed it perfect is that it concludes everything I stand for - it's an anthem about who I am, a declaration of my meaning in life. Try Anyway is the feeling that, no matter how many childhood and/or adulthood bullies pray for your downfall or don't even believe in you to start with, you have to try anyway and will succeed eventually. I'm not spiritual, let alone religious - but I firmly believe in the power of believing in yourself. Because if you don't do it, no one else will.

I'm beyond happy that my story proves this point but I also see the many struggles we, as a society, are facing. Try Anyway is about our generation simply wanting a future worth living and having to overcome all these obstacles on the way. We want - we NEED - to change the world, even if nobody thinks that we can. But "there's still hope in us and we'll try anyway."

That specific line was recorded with a children's choir from the Ahr valley - a region severely affected by the 2021 floods. I was a volunteer there and experienced first hand what it means to work together in a broken world, to achieve the impossible. That feeling is something nobody can take from you once you know it. That feeling is Try Anyway.

Now turn the volume up and give it a listen!

Much love,

Anny

Wish i could breathe, breathe freely

Wish i could read the news and smile

Wish we could be all we were promised

Wish we could love and walk and dress and talk as we like

They say that we're hopeless, they say that we're nuts

That we don't have the heart, the knowledge or the guts

To teach and to learn

To change the world

But we'll try, try anyway

Try anyway, try anyway

And we'll rise above your mistakes

And we'll try anyway, try anyway, try anyway

I hope we'll keep a purpose

Hope will never lose our strength though it ain't perfect

No matter what they say, wanna feel alive

So one day we'll be free to see the other side

They say that we're hopeless, they say that we're nuts

That we don't have the heart, the knowledge or the guts

To teach and to learn

To change the world

But we'll try, try anyway

We'll try anyway, try anyway

And we'll rise above your mistakes

And we'll try anyway, try anyway, try anyway

There's still hope in me, there's still hope in us

(there's still hope in us, there's still hope)

There's still hope in me, there's still hope in us

(there's still hope in us, there's still hope)

There's still hope in me, there's still hope in us

And we'll try, try anyway, we'll try anyway, try anyway

And we'll rise above your mistakes

And we'll try anyway, try anyway

And we'll try, try anyway, try anyway, try anyway

And we'll rise above your mistakes

And we'll try anyway, try anyway

Try anyway

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