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Vielleicht Vielleicht

MilleniumKid x JBS

Language
German
Released
2023
Genre
pop
Level
A2+
Difficulty score
661
Duration
2:23

How to study this song

The card for “Vielleicht Vielleicht” is built from 36 study entries at A2+: 15 German words, 4 adjectives and 17 verb forms. Start with the glossary: Zeit, Welt and Lüge come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 17 distinct forms against 4 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the goal is recognition: hear a word, place it, keep going.

The words of this song, in several languages

Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.

Vocabulary

DEENESITFRPTNL
Zeittimetiempotempotempstempotijd
Weltworldmundomondomondemundowereld
Lügelie, untruthmentirabugiamensongementiraleugen
Gesichtfacecara, rostrovisovisage

What this song teaches you

Level · A2+

Vocabulary words
15
Adjectives
4
Word combos
7
Expressions
10
Verb forms
17
Quiz questions
35

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Background

About the song

«Vielleicht Vielleicht» — "maybe, maybe" — is a German indie-pop and synth-pop single by MilleniumKid with JBS, released by Warner Music on 20 October 2023. It lasts just two minutes and twenty-two seconds. MilleniumKid wrote and produced it himself, with production help from Benjamin Friedrich, known as Nasskalt; JBS contributes his voice. The song later became part of MilleniumKid’s debut album «Dystopie», released in April 2025.

MilleniumKid is the stage name of Yasin Sert, born in Gießen, Hesse, on 1 January 2000 — the very first day of the new millennium, which is where the name comes from. He only started making music in 2022, and he writes, produces and arranges everything alone. His sound mixes new wave, synth-pop and indie rock with touches of techno and drum and bass, and critics often place him in the so-called "new New German Wave" of the early 2020s, a generation of young acts reviving the synthesiser-driven German pop of the 1980s.

JBS is Jan Bennet Schemmer, born in 2005 in Ibbenbüren in the Münsterland. He started playing guitar at six, joined a school band at eleven and in 2021 began producing beats, which is why he first called himself "JBS Beats". The two had already scored together earlier in 2023 with «Unendlichkeit», a song that spread through a TikTok trend with more than twenty thousand user videos and went gold in Germany.

The story of «Vielleicht Vielleicht» is one of patience. It did not explode on release: it entered the German singles chart only in April 2024, at number 87, half a year after it came out. From there it kept growing, mostly through streaming and social media, and in July 2025 — almost two years after release — it reached the German top ten for the first time. Its peak, number six, came in September 2025. Few songs take that long to arrive.

The lyric is a portrait of a relationship at its end. The narrator hopes the other person still thinks of him from time to time and asks for a little more time before everything he has falls apart. He sees through a reassurance that is not true, asks the other to go far away and take the confusion with them, and imagines his pain burning out until only embers and ashes are left for the wind. The paradox that holds the song together is that he sends the person away while admitting he cannot let go.

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gezicht
Stückpiece, parttrozo, pedazopezzomorceaupedaçostuk

This card holds 10 more words. You meet them when you play the song.

Adjectives

DEENESITFRPTNL
schwerheavy, hardpesadopesantelourdpesadozwaar

This card holds 3 more adjectives. You meet them when you play the song.

Verb forms

DEENESITFRPTNL
denkstyou thinkpiensaspensitu pensespensasdenk je
gibgiveda, danosdai, daccidonnedágeef
zerbrichtbreaks apart, shattersse rompesi spezzase brisese partebreekt
sagstyou saydicesdicitu disdizeszeg je
zeichnetdraws, marksdibuja, marcadisegna, segnadessine, marquedesenha, marcatekent
stirbtdiesmueremuoremeurtmorresterft

This card holds 11 more verb forms. You meet them when you play the song.

For a learner, the song is short, slow and repetitive, which makes it an excellent first listening exercise in German. It is also full of useful grammar. The most important point is WORD ORDER IN SUBORDINATE CLAUSES: after «bevor» (before) and «weil» (because) the conjugated verb moves to the very end, and when there is a modal verb such as «können», the infinitive comes just before it. The chorus drills this pattern again and again.

The second point is the VOWEL CHANGE e → i in strong verbs: «geben» becomes «gib» in the imperative, «nehmen» becomes «nimm», «sterben» becomes «stirbt» and «zerbrechen» becomes «zerbricht». The third is the prefix «zer-», which, unlike «weg-» or «auf-», never separates from the verb. And the fourth is SPOKEN GERMAN WRITTEN DOWN: infinitives sung with a missing e (vergeh’n, verbrenn’n), «mal» cut to «ma’», and the first-person ending -e dropped from a verb.

Finally, the vocabulary is built on images: embers, ashes, a heap, a sea of tears — «Tränenmeer» is a compound of «Tränen» (tears) and «Meer» (sea), a perfect example of how German builds new words. One phrase even uses an old dative ending that modern German has almost lost, «im Winde» instead of «im Wind». Learners may know it from the German title of «Gone with the Wind»: «Vom Winde verweht».

Did you know?

MilleniumKid’s stage name is literal: Yasin Sert was born on 1 January 2000 in Gießen, the first day of the year 2000, and he chose a name that says so.

The song was a slow burner. It came out in October 2023, entered the German chart in April 2024 at number 87 and only broke into the top ten in July 2025. It then ranked fifteenth among the best-selling singles of 2025 in Germany and twenty-second in Austria.

JBS sings on the track but was not involved in the studio work: the writing and production belong to MilleniumKid and his co-producer Nasskalt.

Before becoming simply "JBS", Jan Bennet Schemmer released music as "JBS Beats". In 2023 he also won the Sparkassen youth culture prize of the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The official music video, directed by Dan Trautwein, premiered on 5 January 2024 and had passed eighteen million views by early 2026.

In 2026 the song crossed into a completely different world: a party version was released by Almklausi, Isa Bella, Kasermandl Duo and DJ Ramazotti — acts from the German après-ski and Mallorca party scene.

MilleniumKid has said that he takes his inspiration from all over the musical map rather than from other German artists, and that a song needs only a few seconds to convince him.

Charts & streaming

Released on 20 October 2023 by Warner Music, «Vielleicht Vielleicht» entered the official German singles chart on 12 April 2024 at number 87. It reached the top ten for the first time on 25 July 2025 and peaked at number six on 12 September 2025. In Austria it reached number fifteen, and in Switzerland number 63, where it stayed on the chart for 27 weeks.

In the year-end charts for 2025 it was the fifteenth most successful single in Germany and the twenty-second in Austria.

Certifications: gold in Germany (300,000 units), platinum in Austria (30,000), gold in Poland (62,500) and gold in Switzerland (15,000) — more than 400,000 certified units across the four countries. Its predecessor, «Unendlichkeit», had peaked at number 34 in Germany and also gone gold.