{"id":241065,"date":"2026-04-29T20:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/this-would-be-so-awful-german-musicians-song-begging-paul-seixas-not-to-sign-for-uae-team-emirates-goes-viral\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:03:41","slug":"this-would-be-so-awful-german-musicians-song-begging-paul-seixas-not-to-sign-for-uae-team-emirates-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/this-would-be-so-awful-german-musicians-song-begging-paul-seixas-not-to-sign-for-uae-team-emirates-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This would be so awful&#8217; &#8211; German musician&#8217;s song begging Paul Seixas not to sign for UAE Team Emirates goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-5e975894-1bf6-40f5-9561-2b4b981c289f\">The video has gotten almost half a million views so far. The sentiment is almost universal for pro cycling fans: Paul Seixas, please don&#8217;t sign for UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Creator <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eurosportandcry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/eurosportandcry\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">Kilian Willems<\/a> (<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVImxhWFNpxA-rToRi67RcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVImxhWFNpxA-rToRi67RcA\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">Killow<\/a> on Youtube) has written numerous short songs about cycling, including a 2023 anthem about German Mieke Kr\u00f6ger, but the song he posted last month has gained enough momentum to go viral.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-5e975894-1bf6-40f5-9561-2b4b981c289f-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">It has resulted in a recent interview with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Cyclisme-sur-route\/Actualites\/Video-ce-fan-allemand-a-ecrit-une-chanson-pour-supplier-paul-seixas-de-ne-pas-signer-chez-uae\/1671796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Cyclisme-sur-route\/Actualites\/Video-ce-fan-allemand-a-ecrit-une-chanson-pour-supplier-paul-seixas-de-ne-pas-signer-chez-uae\/1671796\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">L&#8217;Equipe<\/a> about the song and topic that is especially dear to French cycling fans.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">Article continues below <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"inline-block w-2.5 h-2.5 ml-2\" fill=\"currentColor\" preserveaspectratio=\"xMidYMid meet\" viewbox=\"0 0 1000 1000\"><path d=\"M1000 100L500 900 0 100h1000z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-2 pb-0 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Back in March, after Seixas finished second behind Tadej Poga\u010dar in Strade Bianche, <em>Cyclingnews<\/em> published an article about rumours that had surfaced that <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/teams-riders\/signing-seixas-when-you-already-have-pogacar-is-ostentatious-behaviour-lefevere-hits-out-at-uae-team-emirates-xrg-and-rider-agents-amid-speculation-over-19-year-olds-future\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/teams-riders\/signing-seixas-when-you-already-have-pogacar-is-ostentatious-behaviour-lefevere-hits-out-at-uae-team-emirates-xrg-and-rider-agents-amid-speculation-over-19-year-olds-future\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/pro-cycling\/teams-riders\/signing-seixas-when-you-already-have-pogacar-is-ostentatious-behaviour-lefevere-hits-out-at-uae-team-emirates-xrg-and-rider-agents-amid-speculation-over-19-year-olds-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UAE Team Emirates-XRG were interested in signing Seixas<\/a> from the Decathlon CMA CGM team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The topic provided the inspiration for the viral video by Willems, who is a longtime cycling fan in general, and of the team and their young new star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;I made that like during the last month, I was just checking <em>Cyclingnews<\/em> every morning and be like, &#8216;Oh, I hope nothing new happened there&#8217;,&#8221; Willems told <em>L&#8217;Equipe<\/em>. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m quite happy with how it turned out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;I have a history of writing songs about cycling topics,&#8221; Willems said. &#8220;I had a few lines from the song stuck in my head at some point, and then I thought, &#8216;OK, well, this will make for a fun video for Instagram&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-tQr4JZ7cRw6CyDvcWTQpsV\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-tQr4JZ7cRw6CyDvcWTQpsV slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"elk-dd9c710b-6385-4ace-9ee7-e82459f6bbe5\">&#8220;I was visiting my parents at that time, and I had none of my recording equipment or anything that I usually have,&#8221; he explained of the simple guitar and voice production. &#8220;I did not expect it to pop up like that at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Already the number one team for several years running, UAE Team Emirates-XRG have been so dominant they hardly need to thin down the competition by signing the only rider able to hold onto Poga\u010dar&#8217;s wheel in Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge. Since the rumours surfaced in March, there have been reports that French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron was personally involved in ensuring that Seixas remained in the French team.<\/p>\n<p>While Willems&#8217; song may not influence cycling transfers, he clearly hit a nerve with the topic &#8211; the Instagram post has almost 450,000 likes.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-2 pb-0 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            What to read next<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just crazy with what confidence [Seixas rides] and with how little time to adapt. He just goes in these races. He&#8217;s 19, but still, he gets the whole team like riding for him. And he shows no nerves, really. He&#8217;s the captain now, and he delivers with results already. So that&#8217;s quite impressive,&#8221; Willems said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then these first rumours started popping up &#8211; Team UAE is looking into signing Paul Seixas, or like his brother is training with them somewhere in Monaco &#8211; this would be so awful, because it would make it so much more boring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please stay where you are. Other teams are fine, please. It doesn&#8217;t have to be the same as Pogacar. Keep it interesting for us fans,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Willems has more recently posted a more refined version of the song to his Youtube channel.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-49e6f3cc-3106-4d3d-b748-c6583c2ab642\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paul Seixas, Please Don&#039;t Sign For UAE\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/No0ozPrlQtg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-cc8117e1-e719-4a51-a06c-aa70eb6c3f62\">Full lyrics:<br \/>Paul Seixas, you&#8217;re too good to just be Poga\u010dar&#8217;s successor.<br \/>Do you want to spend your winters riding zone 2 in the desert? <br \/>Do you want a Richard Mille watch or a statue in my garden?<br \/>And could you let my sculptor know if you&#8217;d like stainless steel or marble?<\/p>\n<p>And how lame would it have been if we had Jonas and Poga\u010dar on the same team?<br \/>And how cool to beat their ass on a Decathlon bike?<br \/>You&#8217;re the next Hinault, the chosen one, but won&#8217;t someone think of me?<br \/>Paul Seixas, please don&#8217;t sign for UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Seixas, I&#8217;m so tired of afternoon naps in July.<br \/>Now there is finally adrenaline inside of me, when I look at the start list.<br \/>Do you want to take the crown and be a hero?<br \/>Or do you want to win your first Tour &#8217;cause your teammates rode the Giro?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t sign for, <br \/>don&#8217;t sign for,<br \/>Don&#8217;t sign for UAE, Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t sign for, <br \/>don&#8217;t sign for,<br \/>Don&#8217;t sign for UAE, Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Seixas, I made some calls and I am happy to declare,<br \/>that there&#8217;s this castle in Versailles, the state of France would like to share with you.<br \/>Or you could run for president,<br \/>man, please just sign the documents.<br \/>If you stay with your team,<br \/>We&#8217;ll name some islands overseas French Paulynesia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/cycling-culture\/this-would-be-so-awful-german-musicians-song-begging-paul-seixas-not-to-sign-for-uae-team-emirates-goes-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video has gotten almost half a million views so far. The sentiment is almost universal for pro cycling fans: Paul Seixas, please don&#8217;t sign for UAE. Creator Kilian Willems (Killow on Youtube) has written numerous short songs about cycling, including a 2023 anthem about German Mieke Kr\u00f6ger, but the song he posted last month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6804],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}