Is it a farewell or a fresh start? These are the theories that Cros brings to the funeral of his panda mask.
Musician Cro (30, "Easy") makes the net go crazy with his latest video on Instagram and Twitter. What does the funeral of his panda mask mean? The fans disagree. While some see their best childhood and youth memories floating away, believing that the singer will stop forever, others want to believe in a new beginning with a new album and a new mask. Or is there even a third option? Will Cro be Carlo Waibel?
Is Cro burying more than his mask?
Cro's last album so far was released in 2017. Since then it has become quiet about the German pop and rap artist. He had his last tweet in November last year – and now that. A number of fans are shocked by the latest suggestions. They believe that burying the white panda mask marks the end of his career. "That doesn't really happen now?" Asks an Instagram user, apparently shocked. Another writes about the video: "There is now all the joy and hope of my youth."
Time for a new look?
Not all Cro fans paint the devil on the wall because of the video. They seem to have hope that the artist could reinvent himself in 2020. "I guess he's got a new panda mask on the line. A gold or something," a fan on Twitter speculateswho is not alone in his opinion.
The reasoning: In the music video for his single "Baum", Cro ran his previously known self with the panda mask in 2017. Since then, it has only appeared with a new, much simpler model. "And it will be the same again," fans of the artist are confident.
"Cro is dead, long live Carlo"
Still other fans go one step further. Although they fundamentally support the theory of a new look, in their opinion there will be no new panda mask. Instead, Cros Video is a promotion for new music, which the artist is supposed to launch under a new name: Carlo Waibel, his birth name.
This assumption could support this assumption in an interview with the singer in 2017. At that time he told the online hip-hop magazine "Juice": "The big plan to take off the mask is there. But I'm someone who does things for a long time I often wait two years for something to come out. " The time may well have come now.
Has rap colleague Bausa messed up?
It seems unlikely that Cro will completely give up his existence as a musician. Last but not least, rap colleague Bausa (31, "What you call love") recently gave hope for the 30-year-old's comeback. In an open question-and-answer session with his fans on Wednesday (July 29), Bausa revealed on Instagram that he could well imagine working with Cro. He said: "I think Cro is hanging out in Bali and doesn't really feel like German rap, which I can fully understand. But when he's back, why not?"