Pigeon Spins Featuring an Interview with CARUS

Oct 29, 2025
2 min read

CARUS - Wisch Wisch

With Wisch Wisch, CARUS officially steps onto the world stage – raw, direct, uncompromising. Not a glossy pop moment, but a rebellious act of liberation. A song that shakes rather than soothes. A call to pay attention instead of simply swiping away.

Wisch Wisch is a striking wake-up call against stagnation, denial, and comfortable truths. The song revolves around overwhelm – both with what churns inside us and with the pressures of our surroundings and the world: personal crises, relationship struggles, inner battles, societal tensions, and political discourse. It captures those days when everything feels too much, inside and out, and we feel the urge to retreat, to swipe problems away, to ignore them.

The motif of “swiping away” runs like a red thread through the song: the glossing over, the covering up, the ignoring – on a personal and collective level. CARUS challenges this inner autopilot that prefers to suppress conflict rather than face it. At the same time, the song questions the ambivalence of the self-care discourse – the fine line between genuine self-nurturing and emotional detachment. For CARUS, who also works as a mental coach, the truth lies in connection: self-work means staying open to oneself, to others, to the world.

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