Doom Doom: Fliegende Haie in the Signal Chain of Brazilian Funk and German Electro Pop
Jan König and Kristina Paulini Bring a Dancefloor Single Onto Their Autumn Tour
Doom Doom sets Brazilian funk beats inside the sharp electro pop that Fliegende Haie have made their trademark since 2020. The whole single is done in two minutes and 24 seconds. The duo from Munich, Germany, released it on 16 October 2026, the fifth night of their ALLE GEHN DUMM tour.
Fliegende Haie’s Doom Doom sits in the playlist below, between Latin pop, Br-pop, phonk, reggaeton and other Brazilian funk records, and every article about the band sits on the Fliegende Haie artist profile. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Press play on Doom Doom, then read on.
Every link in the chain behind Doom Doom is a choice the band made. There is a beat with its roots in Rio de Janeiro, a writing team of four and a release timed to the tour. So this piece follows that chain in order, from the hook to the writers to the stage.
Fliegende Haie Move Their Sharp Electro Pop Onto Brazilian Funk Beats for Doom Doom
Start with the beat, because the band changed it. Fliegende Haie file their own catalogue under DnB, electropunk and dark hyperpop. On earlier records the duo traded rapped and sung lines over trap drums, clean basslines and synths. Doom Doom moves that sound onto Brazilian funk beats.
Brazilian funk, also called funk carioca, grew up in Rio de Janeiro out of Miami bass and freestyle. In Brazil, the phrase baile funk names the parties rather than the music. That origin explains the borrowing. It is a rhythm for a crowded room, and the band has set it under songs they describe as electro pop with a message, biting and loud.
The title does part of the work as well. One word, said twice, is easy to carry out of a venue after a single play.
Fliegende Haie Wrote Doom Doom With Two Co-Writers and a Motto About Wounds That Heal
So who is in the chain? Jan König and Kristina Paulini, the two members of Fliegende Haie, wrote the words and music. They have written together since 2020. Lucie Glang worked with them on the lyrics, and Christoph Oswald co-composed the track and produced it.
The band states its subjects plainly on its own pages: the oppression of women, mental health and sexual unfreedom. Their motto is that sharks tear wounds open, because they have no wish for tomorrow to look like today. It closes on a pun that only works in German. Hai, the word for shark, sits inside heilen, to heal, so only what bleeds can heal. An earlier single carries the same image in its title, Ich blute, I bleed.
The tour takes its name from their single Alle gehn dumm (roughly, everyone is going dumb). That song looks at a world of smartphone zombies, emotional emptiness and despots hungry for power. Its answer is to lose control on purpose, dancing and shouting for something better. Doom Doom arrived inside that idea, as a dancefloor single released while the tour was on the road.
Fliegende Haie Keep Doom Doom Short and Release It a Week Into Their 23-Date Tour
Then there is the structure, and it starts with the length. At 2:24, Doom Doom matches the duo’s recent singles. Clowns klatschen runs 2:23, OKF 2:13 and Walpurgisnacht 2:36. The songs make their point and leave.
The stage shapes the release as well. The tour opened on 9 October, and the single came out a week later. That was the night the band played the Schlachthof in Kassel. By the band’s own count the tour runs to 23 dates. Still ahead are Regensburg on 19 November and Aarau in Switzerland on 28 November. Then three Austrian nights follow in Graz, Klagenfurt and Vienna from 3 to 5 December. In Marburg on 9 December the producer Aufmischen, who worked on Walpurgisnacht and Clowns klatschen, opens the night. After that come Berlin, Jena, Leipzig, Dresden and Ulm, and the last show is at Soho Stage in Augsburg on 19 December.
The way they sell the tour is part of the design too. Alongside regular tickets, the band offers a supporter ticket that costs a little more. The extra pays towards a ticket for someone who is short of money.
Support also comes from outside the band. Initiative Musik, the German funding body for popular music, backs the tour with federal culture funds. Fliegende Haie are in the third phase of BY.on, the top-level development programme of the Verband für Popkultur in Bayern. That backing puts a tour of this size behind a single the band released on its own.
Bonde do Rolê, Deichkind and Anitta Mark the Two Roads That Meet on Doom Doom
All of that rests on two traditions, and three acts mark them. Bonde do Rolê, from Curitiba in southern Brazil, mixed funk carioca with borrowed rock riffs. They toured with CSS in 2006 and released their debut album, With Lasers, in 2007. Their records showed that Brazilian funk could carry another genre on top of it. That is the job it does on Doom Doom.
Deichkind formed in Hamburg in 1997 and started in hip hop. Later they added electronic dance music and called the result TechRap. Their songs satirise consumerism and a society built on performance. Fliegende Haie belong to that German line of loud electronic records with a target, and they aim theirs at power, gender and mental health.
Anitta took funk into the centre of Brazilian pop. Her self-titled debut album entered the chart in Brazil at number one in 2013 and went platinum. Since then she has mixed pop, funk, reggaeton and electronic music. Her career is the clearest sign of how far the beat has travelled. On Doom Doom, it arrives in German electro pop.
From the TopMusic.News curator team: “We added Doom Doom to our Latin pop, Br-pop, phonk, reggaeton and Brazilian funk playlist. It hears the beat from across the Atlantic, through German electro pop. That gives the list a new point of view.”
Play it before the next tour date, and play it twice. On a record this short, the second listen is where the build shows. You hear the beat from Rio, the bite from Germany and nothing left over.
Stream Doom Doom on Spotify and watch the video for Ich blute on YouTube. Fliegende Haie are also on Apple Music and Deezer. Follow them on Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and their YouTube channel for the rest of the tour.
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