Helene Fischer release new single “Vamos A Marte” ft. Luis Fonsi

This is the song we’ve all been waiting for. For more than four years, in fact. That’s how long it’s been since Helene Fischer last gifted us with new music, with her number one album “Helene Fischer”, the most successful album of 2017 and 2018. Since then, we’ve awaited the return of the biggest German pop star with growing impatience. And now, the time has come. Helene Fischer is finally back – with a new single and album later this year that ranks among the greatest and most exciting of her career. The new song on which she completely reinvents herself as a singer, as an artist. Helene Fischer has never sung so passionately, so physically, so intensely; she has never used her voice so playfully yet with so much virtuosity.

“Vamos a Marte” is the name of this song, let’s go to Mars: It’s a duet sung with Luis Fonsi, the global superstar from Puerto Rico. In 2017 he had the biggest summer hit of the decade with “Despacito”. Luis Fonsi has helped Latin pop attain its current musical world standing in recent years like no other artist. The two have known and admired each other for a long time. In 2018, they sang his hit “Échame La Culpa” at the Echo Music Awards, as well as “Despacito” at the end of the year on the Helene Fischer show. Back then, you could tell right from the start and all throughout how close they are, how they complement each other and how much each asks of the other – they challenge each other, they bring each other out of their shells while singing to rise to whole new heights together.

That’s exactly how it is on this incredible song: Over an elegantly stumbling, voluptuous beat, Helene Fischer and Luis Fonsi sing to each other. They meet on the dance floor on a summer night, “the moon is our sun” sings Helene Fischer. But the moon is not enough for Luis Fonsi: “Vamos a Marte”, he urges her, let’s go to Mars. “We dance, very slowly at first” she sings: “then you come close to me / it feels like a thousand degrees”. They move closer, they lose control, they come together as one voice, one beat, one movement. At first, she sings only in German and he only in Spanish, but then Helene Fischer slips into his language: “Tú bailando / yo intentando estar en tu nivel / no me puedo concentrar”. She’s losing control – but at the same time she’s taking the lead musically.

At first they sing in turn, but soon they’re singing together, in an ecstatic fusion of languages: “We speak one language – without words”, it’s the language of bodies, of dance, which can transcend all boundaries. In how many songs has this language already been sung? But it’s the way that Helene Fischer and Luis Fonsi make this transgression, this physicality, this ecstasy audible in their singing: that’s what’s unique. The way they play around each other, bewitch each other, entice each other, is wonderful - but what’s truly special is the way Helene Fischer uses this game to unleash the full richness of her voice, its voluptuousness, its allure, and, as the song works its way ceaselessly to a crescendo: its incomparably awesome power.

You can hear that Helene Fischer herself was involved as a writer on “Vamos a Marte”. She wrote this song to suit her perfectly – but in such a way that it presents her as a singer with completely new challenges, and takes her into uncharted territory. “Vamos a Marte” also means: We’re listening to an artist who’s on her way to new destinations, to Mars and beyond.

Luis Fonsi too is enthused: “It’s such a great honour for me to be able to record “Vamos a Marte” with the one and only Helene Fischer. She’s an artist who can do anything, she’s truly capable of everything. And it was super exciting to sing a song in German and Spanish – that’s something I’ve never done before. Thank you, Helene, for inviting me and for letting me be a part of this incredible song! I can't wait for the world to hear it!”

In truth, what “Despacito” was for the year 2017, “Vamos a Marte” will be for 2021: the biggest and most beautiful summer hit we have, especially right now when we want nothing more than summer, freedom, to meet other people to a soundtrack that makes us forget everything around us and turns us into happily dancing bodies: as if we had already reached Mars. “Vamos a Marte” is the summer hit of 2021. And what’s more: it’s a great song by a very great artist who has reinvented herself here yet again. Thankfully it’s not the only new song we’ll get to hear from Helene Fischer this year.