In Amsterdam, skuth also began writing song lyrics and in 2023 - now 27 years old and at home in Cologne - dared to appear as a singer himself for the first time. In a TikTok video, he sings to Paula Hartmann, asking her to invite him to her long-sold-out Cologne show. The video promptly goes viral and Paula actually invites skuth to her concert shortly afterwards. For skuth, this was the final signal to lock himself in the studio and work on his own debut.