No, what happened was YT glitched at that moment and I could not finish it. I usually go all the way, hopefully next time I can. Since I only do one take reactions that is unfortunately what can happen.
The song is about the ambivalent relationship of Rammstein and many Germans to their country, because of the violent and cruel history with extensive human crimes ("red line of violence through german history"), especially in recent history. Therefore the video features various events from German history, including Roman times, the Middle Ages, witch hunting and burning, Protestant Reformation, the November Revolution, the "Golden Twenties" and hyperinflation, Nazi book burnings, the Hindenburg disaster, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, the Weimar Republic, the Red Army Fraction (violent anti-capitalist terror alliance of young people and students against Nazis in high state and economy positions in post-war Germany), and the division of the country into West and East Germany including the Uprising June 17 in East Germany. The black woman represents Germany and one of the Colors of the German flags, sometimes as a victim, but mostly as a perpetrator. With her black skin she is also a provocation to all stupid racists A lot of people do not understand the scenes with the dogs. This breed of dogs are not German Shepards, but Leonberger. This breed of dog narrowly escaped extinction during the First and also Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars (Morgenthau-Plan) - both now have a second existential chance, just like the new German democratic constitution, which in future must be protected as strongly as if it were under quarantine (Judges in red robes, Rammstein members in protective suits with the dogs) The Holocaust was for this reason the greatest human crime because it was the first industrially organized mass murder in human history, by a country that was culturally at its highest point at this time and called itself the country of poets and thinkers. But it is precisely the high cultural and scientific level of Germany that unfortunately caused others to be viewed as subhuman who can be killed without pity, just like animals. Seeing other people as inferior has always brought a lot of suffering to people
@@MnemonicHack I and many historians have a completely different opinion on this. The Holodomor and Great Leap Forward were famines in underdeveloped countries due to stupid political decisions. The Holocaust was the first targeted industrially organized murder of people of a "different" culture and race by the most culturally developed country on earth in these days.
@@michaelfinck7487 One could say the Holocaust was stupid political decision, since the initial plan for it was simply displacement, and it escalated when other Nazi leaders came into their power. Another stupid political decision was for many, many nations to reject the expelled Jews, since that only accelerated the plans of the Nazi party in regards to the Jews. Hitler allowing the Holocaust to happen and Mao knowing the peasants are starving but deciding to keep exporting grain are two sides of the same coin.
@@frontrowchaos4597 I think if People would understand German's better they would not push so much for us to become more involved into military again. I don't think others will like the outcome in the long run. We are good in what we do and if that is murder we perform it on an industrial scale and with precision 😔
As an American, this song reminds me of similar feelings for my own country. Lots of good has happened, but our short history is full of terrible events as well. If we can only learn not to repeat it...
At first Rammstein got me with "Engel". There are so many amazing Songs. My special favorits ever: Spring (fan made video), Adios, Asche zu Asche, Zeig dich, Sonne.... and of course all the newer ones. So many options.... for every mood. A good diversion in bad times ... a good drive in better times. It can go intensive, profound, funny and crazy. You will see ... 😁🤘
I live in Scotland Rammstein tracks are regularly heard at biker (motorcycle} events over here, not live unfortunately, but saw them once in England absolutely blew me away with the stage effects
Deutschland is a great song and video but it is very complex and may disturb Rammstein 'newbies'. Please try 'Zeit'. Its so beautiful. Thanks for your reaction.
You did very well figuring it out. without subtitles, its difficult but you had the words so it helped you realize the love/hate relationship illustrated here.
Great reaction. Welcome to Rammstein. There is so much more. Rammstein is a band, formed 1994 in Berlin. As you have already seen, they have great videos and live performances. Here are some suggestions, which could be interesting. "Zeit" (Time) , "Adieu" (Goodbye in french), and for contrast "Dicke Titten" (Big boobs) :-) and live performances "Sonne" live from Moscow , "Rammlied" and "Ich tu dir weh" live from Madison Square Garden. Later some more :-)
It's an artistic view of Germany's history through the years. From Roman times,to WW2 and many secret messages throughout it. The production,the lyrical content and the whole creative team behind it ,in combination with the bands frontman (Till usually writes the stories for them videoclips) is epic. The official version is shorter,i hope you chose the extended. Also,at the end of some songs Rammstein chooses to enter segments of piano versions of the same album..songs with a different view on each one.. In this particular one they play Sonne at the end. Thank you
You said, "oh wow!" when the shot of the wings went up... please react next to Engel, live at Madison Square Garden to see more epic live performance...and the wings, up close! Great job reacting to one of the biggest bands in the world! Language is no barrier! NOTE: *Never* cut out the credits to a video! The artists and crews worked hard for their art, and we should give them due respect. Plus, many credit reel outtros have special music composed just for that purpose.
I did not mean to do that. YT decided to glitch at that exact moment and I could not finish the video. All my reactions are raw and real first time views. No editing is dong on my reactions so if YT decides to mess up I can't fix it later. Thanks for the view and comment.
@@frontrowchaos4597 Oh gosh...sorry I sounded so bitchy! I just know that there's gonna be many more big, epic videos in your future discovery, and wanted to make sure you knew not to cut them or the fans would chew you up! Apologies for my tone!
@@amygoodson-catlady You were right and I thank you for your comment. You were not bitchy at all. I appreciate the info you gave me for my future reactions. Thank you for supporting my channel, I really appreciate it!
Thats an excellent way of putting: listening to this here in the UK, he is "demanding your attention" is a great way to portray it. Like a warning given the content.
First of all, I have to thank you for your great reaction to this video by Rammstein, it's really great, not everyone understood it, many in Germany didn't understand the video and what the message was in the video. I would be very interested in your reaction to the video Adieu by Rammstein
Great reaction! Thank you. It's always good to hear musicians from different genres reacting on music that they are not at all familiar with. It blurs the borders between different types of music exposing one underlying thing - the art that makes us see, hear and feel what the other is trying to say, show and express.
Thank you so much for your comment! You are exactly right, there is so much great music out there that most will never hear unless they seek it. I appreciate your view and comment!
It’s one of the most complicated and controversial videos they made. Literally every scene in this video is symbolic down the very tiniest of details. Generally you are correct that it’s their relationship with Germany. They love being German but at the same time hate the dark history.
Hello there, here´s a few more Rammstein Tracks you maybe like to See: "Sonne" Original Video is worth looking. it´s from 1998 i think. "Ohne Dich" Original Video "Benzin" Live "Du riechst so gut" Live Greetings from a German (Eifel) Country Man.
Let me introduce you to another very addictive band of three sisters called *The Warning.* Their music has classic rock roots but mixed with newer genres. Some songs veer towards grunge, some to punk, some more metal, etc. Besides headlining their own tour this year, they toured with Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless, toured with Three Days Grace, opened for Guns 'n' Roses, opened for Foo Fighters, and toured Mexico with Muse. Try 'Disciple', 'Evolve', and 'Animosity' to start.
Hi, I'm from Germany. Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars. A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc. The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space. The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too. The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time. Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany. The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means: Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity. So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state. So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old. The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike). That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history. The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees. The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees). In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle. After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background). The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion. The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation. One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers. The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket. This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain. A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp. The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses. The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man. The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialist German state in the east that existed before the German reunification. Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp). The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams. Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example. The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events. PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany. PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages. In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it). But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war. The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened. PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too. PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII. PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet. Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem. Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything). The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world). This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere. The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way. When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way). So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else". That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song. The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore. This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore. We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore. It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking. Finally: The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin. I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because: a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄 Greetings Mega
PS: UA-cam didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here: The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler. The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform. Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day. Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings. PPS: The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history. As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
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@Travis: very nice. 🤩 Rammstein is pure art. But be careful you are falling into a general deep rabbit hole of European Metal Music. Nightwish, Rammstein - I hope you will continue your journey and discover all the other fantastic bands too. Epica, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Within Temptation, Ayreon to mention some melodic ones. 🤩🤩🤩
I am afraid I am now in the hole and will not be able to get out! I am so glad people like you have turned me onto a whole new genre of music! Thank you so much for your view and comment, I really appreciate it!
@@roycecharlton4924 I had been waiting for my chance to see them for 25 years....either too late on getting tickets or couldn't travel at the time.... thankfully they added that 2nd date in Sept, otherwise I would have missed them again. If they tour the US again.... I will be there.
@@tshelton5111 So that makes you my age or so... 41-43? Hell if you think you could remember this, but if they ever come back to SoCal I want to go tailgating with my RV. Maybe I'll see you there.
@@roycecharlton4924 A little older..... I was 24 when Du Hast hit the scene in 97..... I have been hooked ever since. Hoping they do make at least one more round to the US.... if so, perhaps I will see you there. Until then....Adieu, Goodbye, Auf Wiedersehen
Believe me, UA-cam must react to the Song "Zeit" from rammstein. And you have to activate subtitles. I had tears in my eyes and goospumps, hearing the first time. Greetings from germany Jocki
I think your modest approach of an interpretation is about spot on. Sure there are many specific details and artistic examples you can delve in for hours, but i think in general you are just right on by what you said. Best regards from Schwarzwald/Deutschland.
I love to watch rammstein reactions. Not inly because I love rammstein but also because as a German I love how people interpret their lyrics and videos Great reaction. I would be happy if there is more to come. I saw people already wrote some suggestions but i really have to suggest you checking out Puppe or Wiener Blut if you want some of their musically heavier songs and if you want go see their lyrically soft or saddening side i suggest you check out Was ich Liebe, Diamant, Seemann and Donaukinder
Great reaction, I realy enjoyed it. The meaning of the video has already be explained by others and many others have suggested to listen to "Zeit" (in my opinion the best piece of art that rammstein produced). Just one little correction at 8:51: Swarovski is austrian, not german. ;-)
At one point in the song, he sings "uber allen." I think it was jab at the German national anthem that says "uber alles," part of the anthem that is now illegal to sing in Germany because the phrase is so closely associated with Germany in WWII and those guys we probably can't mention on UA-cam.
Born in Germany and it being one of my native languages. Here is my understanding of the hidden of symbolic meanings of the video with the interpretation of the lyrics. The black lady's persona in the video is "Germania" and she represents Germany (the nation / the people) and in many scenes where she appears the colors black, red and gold (colors of the German flag) are dominant. The video as well as the lyrics are a critical review on Germany's history. Main scenes of the video: The first scene with the roman soldiers refers to the battle of Teutoburg forest, the first time the German tribes untied under Arminius against the Romans and ambushed them on their march back to their winter camp + completely annihilated several legions - the Romans would never return and fortify at the Rhine - this could be seen as the birth of the German identity. The red laser beams throughout the video I think are guiding thread (German expression "roter Faden"" translates to "red thread" and translates to guiding principle / guideline of a story) When Germania (black lady) in golden armor (black red gold as main colors of the scene pushes the standard into the ground she raises all the dead medieval knights - a reference to the strength of the German people who recovered time after time throughout history from catastrophes (especially, but not only) in the middle ages (crusades, Hunnic invasion, plague, etc.) - the additional meaning I think is the fact that German people several times followed their countries call for War - even if they were already beaten up (e.g. after WWI going into WWII). The standard I guess refers to a relic which was part of the Imperial regalia of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation ("Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation" - the conglomerate of mostly German territories which was ruled by a emperor elected by the highest ranking nobles of the realm and persisted from the 10th century until 1806). This relic, the Lance of Longinus, is dated back to the 8th century and was said to contain in it's tip one of the nails that were used in the crucifixion of Jesus. It was supposed to make any army that carries it into battle invincible. It can still be seen today in a museum called "die Schatzkammer" (the treasure chamber) in Vienna, Austria. Next scene (fistfight) is from the roaring twenties, the period between the two world wars where upper class society was decadent on the backs of ordinarv people + entertainment industry was born. Next scene shows the Hindenburg disaster (famous German Airship which blew up in flames) during a time of growing industrialization 1930s. Next Scene is from the communist elite in eastern Germany who was indulging in party and Champaign while ordinary people were poor and the main idea of communism should be equality of the people. Then the scene in the middle ages - where the monks (representing the church) feast on Germania (the land) and suppress the common folk (underneath the table). The scene in the prison again refers to the roaring twenties, as Germania is dressed in a Prussian uniform suppressing the German people. Additionally money is thrown away by everybody, a reference to the big inflation in Germany after WWI. Then the rockets (Nazi German was working on the first warfare rockets called V1 and V2 (V standing for "Vergeltung" which translates to retaliation - fitting to the picture with the rockets, the lyrics are an alliteration on "über" a german pre-syllable/prefix meaning over. "Überheblich (overbearing /presumptuous), Überlegen (superior) Übernehmen (taking over), Übergeben (handing over), überraschen (surprise), Uberfallen (ambush), „Deutschland, Deutschland über allen" (Germany, Germany above everyONE). The line „Deutschland, Deutschland über alleN" (Germany above everyONE) is a reference to one of the verses of former national anthem of Germany which was in use from 1922 to 1945 and got excluded after WW2 for being too nationalistic. In this verse there was a line "Deutschland, Deutschland über alleS" (a subtle difference to the line in Rammstein's version translating to "Germany, Germany above everyTHING"). The actual verse with this line was already written in 1842, long before the formation of Germany as a Nation (which only happened in 1871) - therefore "Germany, Germany above everything" was relating to the importance of uniting the several German ministates, kingdoms and Duchies into one nation. After WWI this verse got taken into the national anthem of Germany as it spoke to the patriotism of the German people but later officially excluded from the anthem since it was deemed too nationalistic. Today this verse/line is generally frowned upon and would be associated with Neo-Nationalism. Using this line in the scene with the concentration camps including the subtle change from "Germany above everyTHING" (which has already the nationalistic connotation) to "Germany above everyONE" which carries an even more nationalistic / racist meaning is a very clever double-reference to the doctrine of racial supremacy in the Third Reich. The Concentration camp prisoners have svmbols sewn on their jackets for the groups the Nazis hunted and killed (yellow star for Jews, Pink triangle for Homosexuals, red symbol for political adversaries (communists). Germania is on the side of the Nazis and has an eyepatch (representing the blind eye that many Germans turned on the atrocities of the Nazi regime. The Scene where Till is dressed as a woman refers to the left wing terrorist group called "Rote Armee Fraktion" - a terrorist association in the 1970s responsible for several political assassinations and murders as well as a famous kidnapping of German Diplomats in Stockholm. Then there is the scene with the stake at which books are burned by the Nazis and people are burned by the church (inquisition). Later the monk (church) and the Nazi soldier hug (as the church did not go against the Nazis when they came to power and both organizations were responsible for a lot of intolerance and suffering in their times. The scene where Germania is dressed in white with a Halo I think refers to the positive, the strength of the German people who recovered time after time from several catastrophic disasters in their history. Later she gives birth to puppies representing the German people. The puppies are from a rare breed of dogs (Leonbergers) who's population got almost extinct in both world wars (symbolized with the dogs wearing gas masks) but recovered after the wars. In these scenes the band members wear space suits - in mv view a reference to the (hopefully) better future of the German people. In the verv last scene of the outro vou can once more see Germania with national colors (black, red gold) with black lipstick, red eyes and golden armor before a red/ black background holding an eagle, the heraldic symbol of Germany.
Finally, below the lyrics of the song as they perfectly convey the message of the problematic relationship many Germans have to their homeland, wanting to be proud of it but not being able to due to it's difficult history: One further remark to one of the more important lines of the lyrics: The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) refers to the fact that the German people with their identify have been around for thousands of years, however the actual state of Germany as a nation was only founded very late (1871) thorough the unification of several mini states (Prussia, Hessia, Saxonia, Bavaria, etc.) Here now the lyrics (copied from the internet): [Verse 1] You (You have, you have, you have, you have) Have cried a lot (Cried, cried, cried, cried) Separated in spirit (Separated, separated, separated, separated) United in heart (United, united, united, united) We (We are, we are, we are, we are) Have been together for so long (You are, you are, you are, you are Your breath's cold (So cold, so cold, so cold, so cold) The heart in flames (So hot, so hot, so hot, so hot) You (You can, you can, you can, you can) 1 (I know, I know, I know, I know) We (We are, we are, we are, we are) You (You stay, you stay, you stay, you stay) [Chorus] Germany - my heart in flames Want to love and damn you Germany - your breath's cold So young, and yet so old Germany! [Verse 2] 1 (You have, you have, you have, you have) I never want to leave you (You cry, you cry, you cry, you cry) One can love you (You love, you love, you love, you love) And want to hate you (You hate, you hate, you hate, you hate) Presumptuous, superior Take over, hand over Surprise, invade Germany, Germany above everyone [Chorus] Germany - my heart in flames Want to love and damn you Germany - your breath is cold So young, and yet so old Germany - your love Is a curse and a blessing German - mv love I can't give you Germany! Germany! X [Bridge] You We All of you You (superior/overpowering, unnecessary) 1 (Übermenschen (translates to "superior humans" - a term the Nazis implicitly used for themselves as the calles other races "Untermenschen" - translating to "inferior humans"), wearv) We (The higher you climb, the further you fall) You (Germany, Germany above everyone [Chorus] Germany - your heart in flames Want to love and damn vou Germany - my breath's cold So young, and yet so old Germany - your love Is a curse and blessing Germany - my love I can't give you Germany!
You're 100% correct about your assessment of this video/song. This song is about the band's love/hate relationship for their home country Germany. They want to be proud of their country, but some of the dark history that Germany has is unspeakable. If you want to hear a softer sampling of Till's vocals, I suggest checking out their song "Zeit". That video is also as good as if not better than this one. Zeit translates as "Time".
The three figures ar from Norse mythology and called Norns (fated female beings). Their names are Urd (fate), Verdandi (the becoming) and Skuld (guilt; that which is to be). Their names are considered Nordic equivalents of common medieval conceptions of time in the form of personifications of the past (Urd), present (Verdandi) and future (Skuld).
please never skip the credits of a rammstein video. normally i give a thumps down if someone doing that, but you was almost throught and you reaction was one of the better ones because i could see that rammstein is truly impressing you. welcome to the rabbithole of rammsteim and enjoy your journey . greetings
Welcome. YT decided to glitch at that point and I could not finish it. Since all my reactions are not edited and are one take reactions it is what it is. They are alway raw and real and sometimes technology just does not cooperate. Thanks for the view and comment.
So I don't know where you live but in Southern California at Universal Studio's we have Halloween Horror Nights. They have had other bands represented in a horror house, but I think Rammstein would be awesome. Plus Universal Music owns them, yet it never happened yet.
Rammstein is not about horror, their songs are telling mostly storys of the edge of our society, they are real life (and yes sometimes horrifying) They provoce us, but there is also a lot of beauty. I don't see them in a horror house 🙂. For me Rammstein is pure art. Unbelievable live and with some fantastic videos (Adieu, Zeit, Mein Herz brennt etc.)
@@bobsuisse2 I know they are not horror. However neither is Alice Cooper (x2), Black Sabbath or The Weekend, but the made horror mazes out of their music.
Right out of the box they are showing the historical battle for Teutoburg. Fighting the Romans. If you look up into the trees you can see where the Germans hung the Roman soldiers t hey killed.
Nice Review. You have to check Zeit,Adieu,Zick Zack, Dicke Titten, Mein Herz brennt, Ich will, Angst, Radio, Sonne or Keine Lust. Also great videos. Best regards from Germany. Keep going on
I can only speak from a Western German point of view, and please bear in mind that all Rammstein members were raised in the GDR, but I was raised and educated in school to carry the weight and guilt of the terrors that happened during WW II (boths my parents were born in 1945). In 1986, I visited the states at age 16 the first time on my own and had to earn some pocket money by babysitting. On my second job, I stepped into a living room to meet a 5 year old who greeted me with the words "My parents told me you're German?" to which I complied and I heard: "Oh, so you killed my grandparents." And I just felt guilt. Feeling proud to be German was never an option for me and the whole concept of having pride because you were born in a specific part of the world never made sense to me. And to me, Rammstein feels pretty much the same. Cheers from Germany 🤘
Welcome Germany! I am sorry to hear about your experience with the states. I know things were done that were wrong, but you did not do anything like that. I so appreciate your view and comment! Have a great day!
@@frontrowchaos4597 don't worry, I have had many excellent experiences in the USA and with Americans to make up for it. I was just trying to elaborate on the dichotomy of patriotic feelings that was planted in the German boomers. Wishing us many more positive and connecting experiences, with the help of Rammstein and other German and European bands 🤘
Their song about the USA could also be interesting for you ... ua-cam.com/video/Rr8ljRgcJNM/v-deo.html . There is also a video with English subtitles, but the picture quality is not that good ... ua-cam.com/video/mndU2380diE/v-deo.html
The thing about Rammstein videos is you watch one and think it's the best video you've ever seen...then they release another one that's even better. You should check out Adieu very soon.
Went to see them twice last year I live in Colorado and flew out to see them in Chicago and San Antonio. Denver was easier when they played in 2012.lol Figured I am not getting any younger and neither are they.I am 67 and went by myself and it was just fantastic.
I feel like the ONE thing Ive never heard ANYONE point out when watching this video is that in the scene where Germania gives birth to the dogs (fucking WILD sentence) You can see an ox and a donkey in the background, so it represents the nativity scene. Like Germany was supposed to bring forth something beautiful, but instead its 7 dogs. Or maybe its meant to represent how we make it out to be beautiful but really its not. Idk theres analysis to be had but its like 11 at night so
Rammstein . So to actually pronounce the name , roll the R and hit the AMM with a hard AHH sound or like when we say ROM files for computers when you come up to the M part of their name . I love that your getting into it tho.
If you truely enjoyed this and want to know more, I would strongly suggest an analysis by the youtuber "three arrows". This video basically presents the core aspects of german identity and history of the last 2000 years in a mere 9 minutes.
I'm a big Tom Macdonald fan and a big fan of Rammstein but you wanna some real guitar check out the man the myth the legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. God rest his soul. Even the late and great BB King once said Stevie was the best guitarist he's ever seen
Your analysis of what Rammstein wants to say is completely correct . The problem with the video images is that even as a German you have to be very interested in history in order to understand it, which makes it all the more difficult for non-Germans . the boxing refers, for example, to the berlin boxing clubs of the wild 20s, they were gangster clubs. or wildly made up with sunglasses and MP refers to the left terrorist group RAF in the 70s (RAF = Red Army Faction)
thanks for your video, you were already on the right path. Each ray of light reflects an era and its impact on history. As at the beginning, 1 laser beam = one epoch until the Romans arrived. There the timeline splits. Middle Ages, US colonization, world wars, Hindenburg in flames, etc. The fact that Rammstein chose a person of color to personalize "Deutschland's" in the video naturally led to a controversy. And with full intention. The fact that the combative, fearless, personified Germania is currently being pushed by the band in the wheelchair reflects the current state of Germany... But what fascinated me the most is the fact that Rammstein, in the certainty of producing such a video, will not find any advocates in Germany, you can't make any money with it and have produced such a monumental video at your own expense! It cost millions and shows that the cost hasn't stopped Rammstein from interpreting your take on the Ger story.
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania. ‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene. We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on. We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods. The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners. This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media. Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century. Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day. In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich. Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event. Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact? There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box. There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her. Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
I WISH everybody would have had your interpretation of this song and the recognizing the great achievements that comes and came from Germany Unfortunately we do not allow much patriotism Ffot example, as soon as you have a German flag hanging in your window, you are called a right-wing extremist or a Nazi nowadays. everything that is German is virtually no longer desired and the German flag has been replaced by the rainbow flag. Official buildings mostly only show the European flag and nowadays the Ukrainian flag and sometimes the rainbow flag. The German flag is the least shown, if ever.
The pride and the shame of germany in this video,please more rammstein Videoclips Mein herz brennt Sonne Ohne dich Ich will Du riechst so gut 98 Adieu Live: Engel Feuer frei Benzin etc
Meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben, still is best translated with my love I cannot give you ; not that I won't , but that I can't.and:you're totally right with your assumption.
This song, to me, is equally a celebration of Germany and it history, as well as an indictment of the very same history. As much as they want to love their country, they cannot due to the atrocities carried out in its name. It's also an indictment on the idea of nationalism in general. To love a country one must accept the bad things in its past as well as the good. You can't just whitewash away the parts of history that you don't like. No one knows this as much as Germany.
Sheeeesh... so much symbolism...but to refer to what u were saying: I think that the germans will forever be guilty for their past and that should be the case for everybody! Forever, as the spaceship passing the red laser at the end might symbolize... Amen.
I agree the generation that the actual Germans who took part in that will be guilty but not the country as a whole. I don't believe it is right to blame people who actually had nothing to do with it. Thanks for the comment.
@@frontrowchaos4597 Hi again. I dont think this is about blaming people anymore, but to stay alert as a better society in order to watch carefully what happens in our fragile democracy... so hopefully we can learn from history.
This song is about the feelings to germany from the german people. I thinkk it is to complicated to tell it one comment, but you surely know about ww2 and those incredible crimes that happened along with it... I personally, as a german, think, that they want to express theyre love of the germany today but can not get over the past...
It is a very and intense song for sure. I know that things were done in the past that were really wrong, but that's the past and we just need to look forward. Thank you so much for your view and comment.
@@frontrowchaos4597 thanks, in this case I would like to suggest either Stray Dog Man from Bill Sutton for Filk or When you're dead from Voltaire for gothic country. I'll drop a sub, and see where this is going.
Kudos for watching the whole song. Most people turn it off during the outro music.
he should have let the video finish though, he cut it short
@@mowhawk5924 true but other reactors have turned it off away sooner.
No, what happened was YT glitched at that moment and I could not finish it. I usually go all the way, hopefully next time I can. Since I only do one take reactions that is unfortunately what can happen.
@@frontrowchaos4597 ok i forgive you then mate lol
Never turn off during their outro! Yes, kudos.
The Rammstein rabbit hole is very deep, and a lot of fun!
I can't wait to do more! Thank you!
The song is about the ambivalent relationship of Rammstein and many Germans to their country, because of the violent and cruel history with extensive human crimes ("red line of violence through german history"), especially in recent history. Therefore the video features various events from German history, including Roman times, the Middle Ages, witch hunting and burning, Protestant Reformation, the November Revolution, the "Golden Twenties" and hyperinflation, Nazi book burnings, the Hindenburg disaster, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, the Weimar Republic, the Red Army Fraction (violent anti-capitalist terror alliance of young people and students against Nazis in high state and economy positions in post-war Germany), and the division of the country into West and East Germany including the Uprising June 17 in East Germany. The black woman represents Germany and one of the Colors of the German flags, sometimes as a victim, but mostly as a perpetrator. With her black skin she is also a provocation to all stupid racists
A lot of people do not understand the scenes with the dogs. This breed of dogs are not German Shepards, but Leonberger. This breed of dog narrowly escaped extinction during the First and also Second World Wars and is symbolic of the German people, whose existence was also strongly threatened in those wars (Morgenthau-Plan) - both now have a second existential chance, just like the new German democratic constitution, which in future must be protected as strongly as if it were under quarantine (Judges in red robes, Rammstein members in protective suits with the dogs)
The Holocaust was for this reason the greatest human crime because it was the first industrially organized mass murder in human history, by a country that was culturally at its highest point at this time and called itself the country of poets and thinkers. But it is precisely the high cultural and scientific level of Germany that unfortunately caused others to be viewed as subhuman who can be killed without pity, just like animals. Seeing other people as inferior has always brought a lot of suffering to people
Wow, I sure appreciate your comment, the info is priceless! Thank you so much for that! I greatly appreciate your support!
I'd have to say the Great Leap Forward was the worst, with the Holodomor coming in second and the Holocaust third.
@@MnemonicHack I and many historians have a completely different opinion on this. The Holodomor and Great Leap Forward were famines in underdeveloped countries due to stupid political decisions. The Holocaust was the first targeted industrially organized murder of people of a "different" culture and race by the most culturally developed country on earth in these days.
@@michaelfinck7487 One could say the Holocaust was stupid political decision, since the initial plan for it was simply displacement, and it escalated when other Nazi leaders came into their power. Another stupid political decision was for many, many nations to reject the expelled Jews, since that only accelerated the plans of the Nazi party in regards to the Jews.
Hitler allowing the Holocaust to happen and Mao knowing the peasants are starving but deciding to keep exporting grain are two sides of the same coin.
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I think if People would understand German's better they would not push so much for us to become more involved into military again. I don't think others will like the outcome in the long run. We are good in what we do and if that is murder we perform it on an industrial scale and with precision 😔
This lyrics talks from my Soul as a German. Till really is a „Dichter und Denker“ ❤
Interesting! Thanks for the view and comment!
As an American, this song reminds me of similar feelings for my own country. Lots of good has happened, but our short history is full of terrible events as well. If we can only learn not to repeat it...
Great Reaction... like your Videos Greetings from Germany.
Thank you very much! Really appreciate your view and comment!
Welcome to Ramms World. They are a very powerful message to all of us
Congrats you sort of understood it!! I’m happy you got it!!
Great reaction! Can't wait for your next video! Rammstein are awesome
They are so good! I appreciate your comment!
The video depicts many periods throughout Germany's history....they want to give her their love, but they also want to condemn her
That's what I got from it! Thanks for the comment!
At first Rammstein got me with "Engel". There are so many amazing Songs. My special favorits ever: Spring (fan made video), Adios, Asche zu Asche, Zeig dich, Sonne.... and of course all the newer ones. So many options.... for every mood. A good diversion in bad times ... a good drive in better times. It can go intensive, profound, funny and crazy. You will see ... 😁🤘
Can't wait! Thank you!
I’ve watched every single reaction video to this song and enjoyed yours the most by far. Great video
Thank, you that means a lot!
I live in Scotland Rammstein tracks are regularly heard at biker (motorcycle} events over here, not live unfortunately, but saw them once in England absolutely blew me away with the stage effects
I bet! Thanks for the view and comment, I really appreciate your support!
Deutschland is a great song and video but it is very complex and may disturb Rammstein 'newbies'. Please try 'Zeit'. Its so beautiful. Thanks for your reaction.
I have that on my list to do! You are right the video was very powerful for sure! Thanks for the comment!
One of my favorite songs. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥
I love it too! Thanks for the view and comment.
There new music is theatrical. I love it. So much to dissect even in the visuals.
So true! Thanks for the comment!
You did very well figuring it out. without subtitles, its difficult but you had the words so it helped you realize the love/hate relationship illustrated here.
Thank you, it is not easy for this country guy but I am trying. I appreciate your view and comment.
Great reaction. Welcome to Rammstein. There is so much more. Rammstein is a band, formed 1994 in Berlin. As you have already seen, they have great videos and live performances. Here are some suggestions, which could be interesting. "Zeit" (Time) , "Adieu" (Goodbye in french), and for contrast "Dicke Titten" (Big boobs) :-) and live performances "Sonne" live from Moscow , "Rammlied" and "Ich tu dir weh" live from Madison Square Garden. Later some more :-)
Great to know! Thank you for the info and comment! I greatly appreciate it!
It's an artistic view of Germany's history through the years.
From Roman times,to WW2 and many secret messages throughout it.
The production,the lyrical content and the whole creative team behind it ,in combination with the bands frontman (Till usually writes the stories for them videoclips) is epic.
The official version is shorter,i hope you chose the extended.
Also,at the end of some songs Rammstein chooses to enter segments of piano versions of the same album..songs with a different view on each one..
In this particular one they play Sonne at the end.
Thank you
No, thank you for your view and comment! I so appreciate your support! Have a great day!
@@frontrowchaos4597 aw thank you..
Your honest reactions are greatly appreciated
Keep up the awesome work 👍❤️
You said, "oh wow!" when the shot of the wings went up... please react next to Engel, live at Madison Square Garden to see more epic live performance...and the wings, up close!
Great job reacting to one of the biggest bands in the world! Language is no barrier!
NOTE: *Never* cut out the credits to a video! The artists and crews worked hard for their art, and we should give them due respect. Plus, many credit reel outtros have special music composed just for that purpose.
I did not mean to do that. YT decided to glitch at that exact moment and I could not finish the video. All my reactions are raw and real first time views. No editing is dong on my reactions so if YT decides to mess up I can't fix it later. Thanks for the view and comment.
@@frontrowchaos4597 Oh gosh...sorry I sounded so bitchy! I just know that there's gonna be many more big, epic videos in your future discovery, and wanted to make sure you knew not to cut them or the fans would chew you up! Apologies for my tone!
@@amygoodson-catlady You were right and I thank you for your comment. You were not bitchy at all. I appreciate the info you gave me for my future reactions. Thank you for supporting my channel, I really appreciate it!
@@frontrowchaos4597 Ahh, don't mention it! I've been enjoying your reactions, and thank you for sharing your journey of new music discovery with us!
Nice reactions.!
Subbed❤
It is so easy to see that you just love good music.
All the best from Denmark
All the best to you Denmark! You are so right, I do love music. Thank you so much for your view, comment and SUB! I really appreciate your support!
Thats an excellent way of putting: listening to this here in the UK, he is "demanding your attention" is a great way to portray it. Like a warning given the content.
First of all, I have to thank you for your great reaction to this video by Rammstein, it's really great, not everyone understood it, many in Germany didn't understand the video and what the message was in the video.
I would be very interested in your reaction to the video Adieu by Rammstein
Added! I have it on my list to do. Thanks for the comment!
When a music video is still being analyzed how long after it came out you know it's a masterpiece.
Great reaction! Thank you. It's always good to hear musicians from different genres reacting on music that they are not at all familiar with. It blurs the borders between different types of music exposing one underlying thing - the art that makes us see, hear and feel what the other is trying to say, show and express.
Thank you so much for your comment! You are exactly right, there is so much great music out there that most will never hear unless they seek it. I appreciate your view and comment!
I would totally enjoy your reaction to Rammstein - Zeit (official video) So emotional and deep. Greetings from germany.
Greetings Germany! I have that on my list to do. Thank you.
It’s one of the most complicated and controversial videos they made. Literally every scene in this video is symbolic down the very tiniest of details. Generally you are correct that it’s their relationship with Germany. They love being German but at the same time hate the dark history.
Hello there,
here´s a few more Rammstein Tracks you maybe like to See:
"Sonne" Original Video is worth looking. it´s from 1998 i think.
"Ohne Dich" Original Video
"Benzin" Live
"Du riechst so gut" Live
Greetings from a German (Eifel) Country Man.
Al ost everything from Rammstein is great! They are around since 1995
They are really good, will be doing more of them soon. Thanks for the comment!
Totally agree
@@frontrowchaos4597 try SONNE. MEIN HERZ BRENDT. RAMMSTEIN ‘ the song’. ENGEL..REISE REISE. I could go on and on…these will keep you busy.
Let me introduce you to another very addictive band of three sisters called *The Warning.* Their music has classic rock roots but mixed with newer genres. Some songs veer towards grunge, some to punk, some more metal, etc. Besides headlining their own tour this year, they toured with Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless, toured with Three Days Grace, opened for Guns 'n' Roses, opened for Foo Fighters, and toured Mexico with Muse. Try 'Disciple', 'Evolve', and 'Animosity' to start.
I'll Second this suggestion. They are amazing. Future legends for sure, so much charisma in every performance.
Great suggestion. It's time people learn about the future.
Great to know! Thank you for that info. I will add that to my list to do! Thanks for the comment!
If you love the singer Till Lindemann you should definetly check out his solo project. the song "ich hasse kinder" is amazing
Hi, I'm from Germany.
Rammstein is playing a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synthesizers and hard metal guitars.
A big part of the German history in one video. The black woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It isn't and wasn't a goddess or Joan of Arc.
The glass coffin: It is Little Snow White from the Grimm-fairytales....and from their own video "Sonne". Only with black skin and in space.
The piano song at the end is the song "Sonne", too.
The words "Germania Magna" at the beginning are a Roman name for the area of Germany, that wasn't conquered by the Roman Empire at that time.
Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were the Roman conquered areas (Roman provinces) of Germany.
The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) means:
Germany as a unified state is very young. A unified German nation is only existing from 1871 onwards. Before that year of unification Germany was made of countless, little mini-states and the people identified first and foremost as Prussians, Hessians, Saxons etc, etc, etc. and only in a second line of thought they had a lose sense of being somehow Germans, too, as a kind of unifying second identity.
So the area & the landscape where the Germans are living and the Germans themselves as a people...are thousands of years old. But only recently, in 1871, there was a unified Germany as one single state.
So Germany as a unified state is very young...and at the same time it is thousands of years old.
The battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike).
That battle is of ABSOLUTE importance for the German history.
The hanged bodies in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, who were gruesome sacrificed to the Germanic gods...and were partly nailed to the trees.
The Varus-(Teutoburg)-Battle was already in 9 AD. In 16 AD were the vengeance campaigns of commanding field general Germanicus under Emperor Tiberius Augustus. Therefore we see here the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they are watching their dead comrades hanging in the trees or getting their heads chopped off (for nailing them to the trees).
In reality the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army in the various ways they were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed at the trees. Slaves were liberated even decades after the battle.
After the scenes with the Romans we saw the Hindenburg Zeppelin disaster (the burning Zeppelin in the background).
The moustaches and clothing from the fight scene are from WWI and post WWI years. From the working class people in WWI and the roaring 20's. In the WWII years later on this kind of big bushy moustache was already out of fashion.
The falling banknotes in the prison are not about corruption. That scene is about the hyper-inflation of the 1920's, that took away the savings of the Germans and left them in deep poverty and desperation.
One had to pay a loaf of bread with a handcart full of nearly worthless banknotes back then and it hit the German people deep down inside and in their souls. Especially the poor ones and the simple workers.
The V2 rocket (first manmade object in space) as technical triumph of the German spirit...and at the same time the killing of the concentration camp prisoners in the bunker factories below the mountains during the production of that rocket.
This scene in the video could be a representation of a very specific concentration camp. It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein mountain.
A mixture between a big, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp.
The concentration camp inmates had several different markings for different kinds of convicts and their "crimes" sown to their chests, like it was in reality, too. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the star of David for Jews and two of them were marked with the double-triangles for Jehovas Whitnesses.
The book burnings of the Nazis and the burning of the witches of the church. In the same scene with the book burning there is EVEN MORE going on. The cooperation of the church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA-man.
The scene with the sign with the Hammer and a pair of compasses in a circle of wheat is the sign of the GDR (DDR). The socialist German state in the east that existed before the German reunification.
Therefore it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene at the concentration camp).
The scene with Rammstein wielding guns (the pumpgun) and taking Germania hostage was about leftwing terrorism of the 1970's. The terrorists were called the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion).
My interpretation of the red scanner-like beams: There are two different kinds of beams. The massive straight red light beam that goes up into the heavens AND there were those smaller, thinner "scanner" beams.
Aliens (or humans from the future) are scanning the whole German history. Like some real scientists are scanning and excarvating ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues, for example.
The massive red light beam is the red ribbon of time that ties together all the historical events.
PS: As for the dogs: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog-owner nation. The dog is a firm part of Germany.
PPS: They didn't eat the body of the woman and her inner organs, even if it really looked that way. They were eating the national dish of Germany, that was put on the body of the black woman: Sauerkraut, Kassler & sausages.
In my opinion it symbolizes the church eating itself fat on the goods and values and food of Germany during the simple people (farmers, simple workers etc) lived a long time in a kind of hell of poverty and serfdom (the red fetish area below the table with Germania on it).
But that eating scene could indeed have a double meaning. It could represent the 30 years war, that was fought for religious reasons and depopulated large areas of Germany. It forced the people to commit canibalism because nobody was there anymore to produce food. Except the fat, wealthy people of the church, of course. They were still able to eat enough. Only the simple people at the bottom (farmers etc) died from hunger and had to fight and die in that war.
The 30 years war was the biggest catastrophe in Germany until WWI happened.
PPPS: The short scene with the dogs and their gas masks = WWI, where in reality animals (messenger dogs & horses) AND soldiers were wearing gas masks, too.
PPPPS: The puppies at the end are Leonberger dogs. The Leonbergers nearly went extinct during WWI and WWII.
PPPPPS: The black woman in the prison was dressed in a Prussian uniform with a Prussian helmet.
Till sings the famous, often misinterpreted, line of the "Deutschlandlied" (Song of the Germans), that is not forbidden in Germany but simply isn't sung anymore in our modern national anthem.
Till sings in his version the line "Deutschland über allen" (Germany above everybody) What is a BIG change to the real line in the orginal Deutschlandlied-song. In the original Deutschlandlied song it is written as "Deutschland über alles" (Germany above everything).
The real, whole line of that old Deutschlandlied goes "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. Über alles in der Welt" (Germany, Germany above everything. Above everything in the world).
This line is often misinterpreted by many people as chauvinism and as a looking down upon all other countries on this planet. But that is wrong and not many people know about that in Germany and elsewhere.
The writer of that famous line didn't meant it in a chauvinistic way.
When that song was written, Germany was divided into umphteenth mini-states, what made Germany relative powerless and defenseless. Therefore the task of German unification was the goal above any other goal for all Germans (at least the writer of the song meant it that way).
So the main goal for all Germans had to be the united Germany. The goal of "(united) Germany above everything else".
That was, how that line was meant by the writer of the song.
The line isn't forbidden, like many people wrongly think. It's simply not sung anymore and not part of the official anthem of modern Germany anymore.
This has NOT its reason in the seemingly chauvinist meaning of "Deutschland über alles", like many people wrongly think. This whole stanza of the Deutschlandlied isn't sung anymore, because in other parts of the stanza are borders and landscapes mentioned, that aren't German borders and landscapes anymore.
We want to live in peace with the people and countries, who are now living in those former German lands and therefore we don't sing about those old borders and landscapes anymore.
It has nothing to do with the "Deutschland über alles" line in that stanza, like many people wrongly are thinking.
Finally:
The scenes I'm now talking about are pretty dark and low light. The WWII submarine in the submarine bunker during the astronauts are walking by with the glass coffin.
I think, the choice of the black woman as main actress was made, because:
a) it makes any accusations of racism and fascism against Rammstein useless
b) she represents one colour of the German flag and she is wearing the rest of the colours of our German flag as makeup and jewellery and clothes on her body: Black, Red and Gold
c) it provokes many people EVEN MORE 😄
Greetings
Mega
PS: UA-cam didn't allow me to integrate this information into the bigger text (above) for unknown reasons, therefore I'm posting it here:
The troops, who smashed the Jewish shops during the Kristallnacht (not shown in the video) were SA (Sturmabteilung) in brown uniform and not the later SS (Schutzstaffel) in the black uniform. The SA did all the dirty work at the beginning of the Nazi rise to power...until the "Night of the long knives", an inner-Nazi power struggle, happened. The head of the SA (Ernst Röhm) was killed and from then on the SA was turned more and more into the SS under Himmler.
The book burnings were part of the early Nazi years, too, and were done by the SA, too. One can see the SA burning the books and Till is watching it in a brown SA uniform.
Both, Kristallnacht and book burnings were different things and happened at different times. The book burnings happened over a longer timespan at different locations at different times during the Kristallnacht was one big "event" that happened at one single day.
Kristallnacht means "Crystal Night" and was called that way, because the smashed shop windows of the Jewish shops looked like thousands of crystals on the ground. But in the Rammstein video I've only seen the book burnings.
PPS:
The two beer drinking soldiers to the left side of the table, where Germania is lying on and where the priests are eating Sauerkraut & Sausages from her body, are not French soldiers and they aren't representing the French revolution. Those two beer drinking soldiers are Prussian soldiers and they are emphasizing the importance of Prussia for the German history.
As far as I could see: They were from the era of Friedrich der Große (The Old Fritz), who was of extraordinary importance for German history. Amongst many other achievements he was the one, who brought the potato to Prussia and Germany. That saved many Germans from hunger and the potato became one of the most beloved foods in Germany on that way.
Wow, thank you so much for your comment! I have never had a comment like yours and really appreciate all the information you gave me. I really appreciate your support!
@@frontrowchaos4597 I'm glad that you liked my reply! :)
@Travis: very nice. 🤩 Rammstein is pure art. But be careful you are falling into a general deep rabbit hole of European Metal Music. Nightwish, Rammstein - I hope you will continue your journey and discover all the other fantastic bands too. Epica, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Within Temptation, Ayreon to mention some melodic ones. 🤩🤩🤩
I am afraid I am now in the hole and will not be able to get out! I am so glad people like you have turned me onto a whole new genre of music! Thank you so much for your view and comment, I really appreciate it!
I got to see them live in Los Angeles... Wild night...
I was there too.....absolutely amazing show!
@@tshelton5111 Nice. They were one of my bands I wanted to see since high school.
@@roycecharlton4924 I had been waiting for my chance to see them for 25 years....either too late on getting tickets or couldn't travel at the time.... thankfully they added that 2nd date in Sept, otherwise I would have missed them again. If they tour the US again.... I will be there.
@@tshelton5111 So that makes you my age or so... 41-43?
Hell if you think you could remember this, but if they ever come back to SoCal I want to go tailgating with my RV. Maybe I'll see you there.
@@roycecharlton4924 A little older..... I was 24 when Du Hast hit the scene in 97..... I have been hooked ever since. Hoping they do make at least one more round to the US.... if so, perhaps I will see you there. Until then....Adieu, Goodbye, Auf Wiedersehen
Believe me, UA-cam must react to the Song "Zeit" from rammstein. And you have to activate subtitles. I had tears in my eyes and goospumps, hearing the first time.
Greetings from germany
Jocki
Greetings Germany, I will add that to my list. Thank you for your view and comment.
Great reaction!!
Thank you so much for your view and comment!
I think your modest approach of an interpretation is about spot on. Sure there are many specific details and artistic examples you can delve in for hours, but i think in general you are just right on by what you said.
Best regards from Schwarzwald/Deutschland.
Best regards back! I really appreciate your view and comment. Thank you.
I love to watch rammstein reactions. Not inly because I love rammstein but also because as a German I love how people interpret their lyrics and videos
Great reaction. I would be happy if there is more to come.
I saw people already wrote some suggestions but i really have to suggest you checking out Puppe or Wiener Blut if you want some of their musically heavier songs
and if you want go see their lyrically soft or saddening side i suggest you check out Was ich Liebe, Diamant, Seemann and Donaukinder
I will be doing much more of them soon. Thank you so much for your view and comment.
check out "Adieu" from Rammstein, also a brilliant music video 1st class
Great reaction, I realy enjoyed it. The meaning of the video has already be explained by others and many others have suggested to listen to "Zeit" (in my opinion the best piece of art that rammstein produced). Just one little correction at 8:51: Swarovski is austrian, not german. ;-)
My bad, I was thinking of Leica which I own and are great binos! Thanks for the view and comment, I really appreciate it.
And nobdy Mention UNIVERSAL MUSIC111 Alltime music and movies
At one point in the song, he sings "uber allen." I think it was jab at the German national anthem that says "uber alles," part of the anthem that is now illegal to sing in Germany because the phrase is so closely associated with Germany in WWII and those guys we probably can't mention on UA-cam.
Interesting. Thanks for the view and comment, I appreciate your view and comment.
Next, check out "Adieu" - awesome video ... just like a movie!
Added, thanks for the info!
Born in Germany and it being one of my native languages. Here is my understanding of the hidden of symbolic meanings of the video with the interpretation of the lyrics.
The black lady's persona in the video is "Germania" and she represents Germany (the nation / the people) and in many scenes where she appears the colors black, red and gold (colors of the German flag) are dominant. The video as well as the lyrics are a critical review on Germany's history.
Main scenes of the video: The first scene with the roman soldiers refers to the battle of Teutoburg forest, the first time the German tribes untied under Arminius against the Romans and ambushed them on their march back to their winter camp + completely annihilated several legions - the Romans would never return and fortify at the Rhine - this could be seen as the birth of the German identity.
The red laser beams throughout the video I think are guiding thread (German expression "roter Faden"" translates to "red thread" and translates to guiding principle / guideline of a story)
When Germania (black lady) in golden armor (black red gold as main colors of the scene pushes the standard into the ground she raises all the dead medieval knights - a reference to the strength of the German people who recovered time after time throughout history from catastrophes (especially, but not only) in the middle ages (crusades, Hunnic invasion, plague, etc.) - the additional meaning I think is the fact that German people several times followed their countries call for War - even if they were already beaten up (e.g. after WWI going into WWII). The standard I guess refers to a relic which was part of the Imperial regalia of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation ("Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation" - the conglomerate of mostly German territories which was ruled by a emperor elected by the highest ranking nobles of the realm and persisted from the 10th century until 1806). This relic, the Lance of Longinus, is dated back to the 8th century and was said to contain in it's tip one of the nails that were used in the crucifixion of Jesus. It was supposed to make any army that carries it into battle invincible. It can still be seen today in a museum called "die Schatzkammer" (the treasure chamber) in Vienna, Austria.
Next scene (fistfight) is from the roaring twenties, the period between the two world wars where upper class society was decadent on the backs of ordinarv people + entertainment industry was born.
Next scene shows the Hindenburg disaster (famous German Airship which blew up in flames) during a time of growing industrialization 1930s.
Next Scene is from the communist elite in eastern Germany who was indulging in party and Champaign while ordinary people were poor and the main idea of communism should be equality of the people.
Then the scene in the middle ages - where the monks (representing the church) feast on Germania (the land) and suppress the common folk (underneath the table).
The scene in the prison again refers to the roaring twenties, as Germania is dressed in a Prussian uniform suppressing the German people. Additionally money is thrown away by everybody, a reference to the big inflation in Germany after WWI.
Then the rockets (Nazi German was working on the first warfare rockets called V1 and V2 (V standing for "Vergeltung" which translates to retaliation - fitting to the picture with the rockets, the lyrics are an alliteration on "über" a german pre-syllable/prefix meaning over. "Überheblich (overbearing /presumptuous), Überlegen (superior) Übernehmen (taking over), Übergeben (handing over), überraschen (surprise), Uberfallen (ambush), „Deutschland, Deutschland über allen" (Germany, Germany above everyONE). The line „Deutschland, Deutschland über alleN" (Germany above everyONE) is a reference to one of the verses of former national anthem of Germany which was in use from 1922 to 1945 and got excluded after WW2 for being too nationalistic.
In this verse there was a line "Deutschland, Deutschland über alleS" (a subtle difference to the line in Rammstein's version translating to "Germany, Germany above everyTHING"). The actual verse with this line was already written in 1842, long before the formation of Germany as a Nation (which only happened in 1871) - therefore "Germany, Germany above everything" was relating to the importance of uniting the several German ministates, kingdoms and Duchies into one nation. After WWI this verse got taken into the national anthem of Germany as it spoke to the patriotism of the German people but later officially excluded from the anthem since it was deemed too nationalistic. Today this verse/line is generally frowned upon and would be associated with Neo-Nationalism. Using this line in the scene with the concentration camps including the subtle change from
"Germany above everyTHING" (which has already the nationalistic connotation) to "Germany above everyONE" which carries an even more nationalistic / racist meaning is a very clever double-reference to the doctrine of racial supremacy in the Third Reich.
The Concentration camp prisoners have svmbols sewn on their jackets for the groups the Nazis hunted and killed (yellow star for Jews, Pink triangle for Homosexuals, red symbol for political adversaries (communists). Germania is on the side of the Nazis and has an eyepatch (representing the blind eye that many Germans turned on the atrocities of the Nazi regime.
The Scene where Till is dressed as a woman refers to the left wing terrorist group called "Rote Armee Fraktion" - a terrorist association in the 1970s responsible for several political assassinations and murders as well as a famous kidnapping of German Diplomats in Stockholm.
Then there is the scene with the stake at which books are burned by the Nazis and people are burned by the church (inquisition). Later the monk (church) and the Nazi soldier hug (as the church did not go against the Nazis when they came to power and both organizations were responsible for a lot of intolerance and suffering in their times.
The scene where Germania is dressed in white with a Halo I think refers to the positive, the strength of the German people who recovered time after time from several catastrophic disasters in their history. Later she gives birth to puppies representing the German people. The puppies are from a rare breed of dogs (Leonbergers) who's population got almost extinct in both world wars (symbolized with the dogs wearing gas masks) but recovered after the wars. In these scenes the band members wear space suits - in mv view a reference to the (hopefully) better future of the German people.
In the verv last scene of the outro vou can once more see Germania with national colors (black, red gold) with black lipstick, red eyes and golden armor before a red/ black background holding an eagle, the heraldic symbol of Germany.
Finally, below the lyrics of the song as they perfectly convey the message of the problematic relationship many Germans have to their homeland, wanting to be proud of it but not being able to due to it's difficult history:
One further remark to one of the more important lines of the lyrics: The line in this song "So jung und doch so alt" (So young and yet so old) refers to the fact that the German people with their identify have been around for thousands of years, however the actual state of Germany as a nation was only founded very late (1871) thorough the unification of several mini states (Prussia, Hessia, Saxonia, Bavaria, etc.)
Here now the lyrics (copied from the internet):
[Verse 1]
You (You have, you have, you have, you have)
Have cried a lot (Cried, cried, cried, cried)
Separated in spirit (Separated, separated, separated, separated)
United in heart (United, united, united, united)
We (We are, we are, we are, we are)
Have been together for so long (You are, you are, you are, you are
Your breath's cold (So cold, so cold, so cold, so cold)
The heart in flames (So hot, so hot, so hot, so hot)
You (You can, you can, you can, you can)
1 (I know, I know, I know, I know)
We (We are, we are, we are, we are)
You (You stay, you stay, you stay, you stay)
[Chorus]
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - your breath's cold
So young, and yet so old Germany!
[Verse 2]
1 (You have, you have, you have, you have)
I never want to leave you (You cry, you cry, you cry, you cry)
One can love you (You love, you love, you love, you love) And want to hate you (You hate, you hate, you hate, you hate)
Presumptuous, superior
Take over, hand over
Surprise, invade
Germany, Germany above everyone
[Chorus]
Germany - my heart in flames
Want to love and damn you
Germany - your breath is cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and a blessing
German - mv love
I can't give you
Germany!
Germany!
X
[Bridge]
You
We
All of you
You (superior/overpowering, unnecessary)
1 (Übermenschen (translates to "superior humans" - a term the Nazis implicitly used for themselves as the calles other races "Untermenschen" - translating to "inferior humans"), wearv)
We (The higher you climb, the further you fall)
You (Germany, Germany above everyone
[Chorus]
Germany - your heart in flames
Want to love and damn vou
Germany - my breath's cold
So young, and yet so old
Germany - your love
Is a curse and blessing
Germany - my love
I can't give you
Germany!
Thank you for that info, I really appreciate it.
@@PurpleCowboyTV I wonder whether "So jung..." refers to 1948 or even later 1990. My personally thought was 1948 btw.
You're 100% correct about your assessment of this video/song.
This song is about the band's love/hate relationship for their home country Germany.
They want to be proud of their country, but some of the dark history that Germany has is unspeakable.
If you want to hear a softer sampling of Till's vocals, I suggest checking out their song "Zeit".
That video is also as good as if not better than this one. Zeit translates as "Time".
I will add that to my list! I appreciate your comment, it means a lot to get the interpretation right!
I like your reaction!
Thank you so much! I appreciate your view and comment!
@@frontrowchaos4597 ❤
A part of it is about that seventies looking guys. The RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). They look funny but were pure terror.
The three figures ar from Norse mythology and called Norns (fated female beings). Their names are Urd (fate), Verdandi (the becoming) and Skuld (guilt; that which is to be). Their names are considered Nordic equivalents of common medieval conceptions of time in the form of personifications of the past (Urd), present (Verdandi) and future (Skuld).
please never skip the credits of a rammstein video. normally i give a thumps down if someone doing that, but you was almost throught and you reaction was one of the better ones because i could see that rammstein is truly impressing you. welcome to the rabbithole of rammsteim and enjoy your journey .
greetings
Welcome. YT decided to glitch at that point and I could not finish it. Since all my reactions are not edited and are one take reactions it is what it is. They are alway raw and real and sometimes technology just does not cooperate. Thanks for the view and comment.
So I don't know where you live but in Southern California at Universal Studio's we have Halloween Horror Nights. They have had other bands represented in a horror house, but I think Rammstein would be awesome. Plus Universal Music owns them, yet it never happened yet.
Rammstein is not about horror, their songs are telling mostly storys of the edge of our society, they are real life (and yes sometimes horrifying) They provoce us, but there is also a lot of beauty. I don't see them in a horror house 🙂. For me Rammstein is pure art. Unbelievable live and with some fantastic videos (Adieu, Zeit, Mein Herz brennt etc.)
@@bobsuisse2 I know they are not horror. However neither is Alice Cooper (x2), Black Sabbath or The Weekend, but the made horror mazes out of their music.
I am in Northern CA and I think that would be great! Thanks for the comment!
Also I greatly recommend Rammstein - Angst (Official Music Video)
I've lived in Jena for 15 years - nice you mentioned Zeiss. ♥
Thank you! They are unbelievable optics for sure!
@@frontrowchaos4597 First they produced lenses now they do also mirrors that are unbelievable. --> ua-cam.com/video/AHfQLjtLJdY/v-deo.html (fyi)
You might get get a lot of comments on this from me... This is on my workout rotation and quite a few of their songs.
It is really good to workout to! Thanks for the comment!
Right out of the box they are showing the historical battle for Teutoburg. Fighting the Romans. If you look up into the trees you can see where the Germans hung the Roman soldiers t hey killed.
You will love the pianoversion of Mein Herz Brennt.
I will add that to my list to do. Thanks for the comment.
Nice Review. You have to check Zeit,Adieu,Zick Zack, Dicke Titten, Mein Herz brennt, Ich will, Angst, Radio, Sonne or Keine Lust. Also great videos. Best regards from Germany. Keep going on
Thank you so much! I will add those to my list as well.
Definitely react to Engel live at Madison Square Garden
On my list.
I'd say you're spot on with your analysis.
Thank you for that! I appreciate your time!
If you ever get the chance either on video or just personal, I do recommend listening to Sonne by Rammstein 🙌🏼
Totally agree. One of my favs.
@@kawythowy867 those female vocals live in my head rent free 🥰
I will add that to my list to do. Thank you.
I can only speak from a Western German point of view, and please bear in mind that all Rammstein members were raised in the GDR, but I was raised and educated in school to carry the weight and guilt of the terrors that happened during WW II (boths my parents were born in 1945).
In 1986, I visited the states at age 16 the first time on my own and had to earn some pocket money by babysitting. On my second job, I stepped into a living room to meet a 5 year old who greeted me with the words "My parents told me you're German?" to which I complied and I heard: "Oh, so you killed my grandparents." And I just felt guilt. Feeling proud to be German was never an option for me and the whole concept of having pride because you were born in a specific part of the world never made sense to me. And to me, Rammstein feels pretty much the same.
Cheers from Germany 🤘
Welcome Germany! I am sorry to hear about your experience with the states. I know things were done that were wrong, but you did not do anything like that. I so appreciate your view and comment! Have a great day!
@@frontrowchaos4597 don't worry, I have had many excellent experiences in the USA and with Americans to make up for it. I was just trying to elaborate on the dichotomy of patriotic feelings that was planted in the German boomers. Wishing us many more positive and connecting experiences, with the help of Rammstein and other German and European bands 🤘
Their song about the USA could also be interesting for you ... ua-cam.com/video/Rr8ljRgcJNM/v-deo.html . There is also a video with English subtitles, but the picture quality is not that good ... ua-cam.com/video/mndU2380diE/v-deo.html
Great to know! Thanks for the links and comment, I really appreciate it!
Sonne from Rock im Park or Ich Will from the Hurricane Festival 2016.
I will add that to my list! Thank you!
ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
The thing about Rammstein videos is you watch one and think it's the best video you've ever seen...then they release another one that's even better.
You should check out Adieu very soon.
I will, thanks for the view and comment.
Went to see them twice last year
I live in Colorado and flew out to see them in Chicago and San Antonio. Denver was easier when they played in 2012.lol
Figured I am not getting any younger and neither are they.I am 67 and went by myself and it was just fantastic.
Wow, that would be cool to see! Thank you for the view and comment, I really appreciate it!
I feel like the ONE thing Ive never heard ANYONE point out when watching this video is that in the scene where Germania gives birth to the dogs (fucking WILD sentence)
You can see an ox and a donkey in the background, so it represents the nativity scene.
Like Germany was supposed to bring forth something beautiful, but instead its 7 dogs.
Or maybe its meant to represent how we make it out to be beautiful but really its not.
Idk theres analysis to be had but its like 11 at night so
Rammstein 🔥🔝❤
Rammstein . So to actually pronounce the name , roll the R and hit the AMM with a hard AHH sound or like when we say ROM files for computers when you come up to the M part of their name . I love that your getting into it tho.
And then the Stein in their name is pronounced the same way as you would say the name Frankenstein
Thanks for that info. Appreciate your time.
@@frontrowchaos4597 and thank you for the video
There’s a channel called Educatedmarine who does Rammstein videos with English subtitles. The live ones too. Just so you know :)
Thanks for that. I will check that out.
If you truely enjoyed this and want to know more, I would strongly suggest an analysis by the youtuber "three arrows". This video basically presents the core aspects of german identity and history of the last 2000 years in a mere 9 minutes.
Will do. Thanks for the info. Have a great day.
Well done🙏🎉
I'm a big Tom Macdonald fan and a big fan of Rammstein but you wanna some real guitar check out the man the myth the legend Stevie Ray Vaughan. God rest his soul. Even the late and great BB King once said Stevie was the best guitarist he's ever seen
I agree, I will check that out! Thank you for the comment!
Your analysis of what Rammstein wants to say is completely correct . The problem with the video images is that even as a German you have to be very interested in history in order to understand it, which makes it all the more difficult for non-Germans . the boxing refers, for example, to the berlin boxing clubs of the wild 20s, they were gangster clubs. or wildly made up with sunglasses and MP refers to the left terrorist group RAF in the 70s (RAF = Red Army Faction)
Thanks for the info. It was a very heavy video and one you would have to watch several times to really understand it completely.
an early musicvideo you would enjoy: du riechst so gut
Ich werde das zu meiner To-Do-Liste hinzufügen. Danke für den Kommentar.
Zeit is a good one too.
On my list to do! Thanks for the comment!
Please please please try Radio by Rammstein. A lot of UA-camrs don't don't it.
Thanks, I will add that to my list!
@@frontrowchaos4597 Thank you.
Welcome to the Rammstein train :D
Thank you!
Rammstein is great! I suggest checking out Gojira Pray Live from Red Rocks.
I will add that to my list. Thanks for the comment.
I recommend to watch an explanation for this video on youtube and you'll get a quick history lesson of Germany.
Will do, thanks for the view and comment.
thanks for your video,
you were already on the right path.
Each ray of light reflects an era and its impact on history. As at the beginning, 1 laser beam = one epoch until the Romans arrived. There the timeline splits. Middle Ages, US colonization, world wars, Hindenburg in flames, etc.
The fact that Rammstein chose a person of color to personalize "Deutschland's" in the video naturally led to a controversy. And with full intention.
The fact that the combative, fearless, personified Germania is currently being pushed by the band in the wheelchair reflects the current state of Germany...
But what fascinated me the most is the fact that Rammstein, in the certainty of producing such a video, will not find any advocates in Germany, you can't make any money with it and have produced such a monumental video at your own expense!
It cost millions and shows that the cost hasn't stopped Rammstein from interpreting your take on the Ger story.
Thank you so much! I absolutely love Germany and hope it continues to prosper for the better. I really appreciate your time!
Rammstein Feuer frei live in Moskau 2006
The video you need to do next
You will love it!!!!
Thank you, I will add that to my list.
it's basically the history of Germany
The video opens in AD 16, on the ‘barbarian’ side of the lines, the border of the Roman Empire. Roman soldiers creep through the woods in the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The Romans were ambushed by an alliance of Germanic Tribes, led by a chieftain called Arminius (the original Hermann the German). Three legionary standards were captured, a loss symbolic and moral, as well as physical, and decades were spent trying to recover them. Rome never again attempted to take the lands east of the River Rhine, known as Germania.
‘Germania’ refers not just to a place, somewhere partly defined by where it isn’t (Rome) as well as where it is, but also to a national figurehead, traditionally representing the German people. Germania is a strong woman, usually armour-clad and battle-ready. Various symbols appear with her, among them a breastplate with an eagle, a black, red, and gold flag, and a crown. Look out for these in the video - they come up again and again - and the colours of the contemporary flag are there in every scene.
We get our first glimpse of Germania here (played by Ruby Commey), who stands holding Till Lindemann’s severed head. Next, astronauts appear carrying a metal and glass box shaped like a coffin. In the background we see a U-boat - a German submarine, used in World Wars I and II. Then we move to a scene set at a boxing match which takes us to Weimar Germany (1918-1933), a period known for its political instability but also greater cultural liberalism. Here, Germania appears in the cabaret costume of a flapper girl, and the boxers fight with knuckle-dusters as a crowd cheers them on.
We see the former East Germany, complete with busts of Marx and Lenin, the national emblem of East Germany, and a lookalike of the long-serving, insular, and repressive GDR leader Erich Honecker. There’s another astronaut, or rather a cosmonaut: Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space, who flew with the USSR’s space program (and who’s also a character in the 2003 film, Good Bye Lenin!). Medieval monks feast grotesquely on the supine Germania, tearing sauerkraut and sausage from Ruby Commey’s body, prison inmates are beaten by guards dressed in police and military uniforms from different historical periods.
The most obviously shocking scene references the Holocaust and the Nazi period. Four members of the band, in the striped uniforms of camp inmates, wait at the gallows, about to be hanged. They wear the cloth emblems used to identify their ‘crimes’: a pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, a yellow star for Jewish prisoners, a red and yellow star for Jewish political prisoners.
This sequence, teased in an earlier promo video, has already caused controversy. Have Rammstein the right to do this? Do they trivialise the suffering of Holocaust victims? How can they justify using Holocaust imagery to promote their new video? These are important questions that are part of a much bigger debate about the ethics of using the Holocaust in art and media.
Other scenes include the band walking away from a flaming airship, referring to the 1937 Hindenburg Disaster, in which 36 people died. Rats scuttle across the floor when the monks first appear, suggesting the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend with origins in the 13th century.
Germania walks towards the camera in a leather jacket, gold jewellery and a string of bullets across her chest, resembling the chariot drawn by four horses (the ‘Quadriga’) on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The band members’ heads are shown as white marble busts, taking us to the 19th century Walhalla memorial in Bavaria, built as German Hall of Fame, its sculpted heads of German worthies on display to this day.
In the prison, hundreds of banknotes fall from above, suggesting the devastating hyperinflation Germany suffered in the 1920s. Nazis burn books, intercut with religious fanatics burning witches. We recognise members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof group), a militant organisation active in the 1970s in West Germany. And in a blink-or-you-miss-it exchange, we are reminded of the much-criticised relationship between the churches and the state during the Third Reich.
Each scene captures in a moment the icons of an era, and the video cuts between them more and more frenetically as it goes on. Events bleed into each other, linked by the presence of the band members and the red laser beam that appears throughout the video, a ‘roter Faden’ (red thread or central theme), connecting each event.
Germany engages with its history in a very particular way. Try to imagine the video about Britain, with Britannia played by Ruby Commey. What would the equivalent events be? Quite a few of the tableaux might be similar - Romans, Crusaders, monks, 18th-century soldiers, collarless shirts and bareknuckle boxing - but would it have the same impact?
There’s no affection, and perhaps not much hope: its pessimistic tone seems to be quite an off-brand message for post-1989 Germany, which wants to acknowledge its past critically, while also looking to its future as a state at the heart of Europe. And actually, while we get a lot of medieval and twentieth-century history, the video’s tour through the past seems to stop in the late 1980s, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification of East and West Germany. Instead, we jump into the future, where the space-suited band take Germania into the unknown, travelling in that coffin-shaped glass box.
There’s an echo of the video for Sonne, where Snow White is trapped in a glass coffin. In fact, a piano version of Sonne plays over the end credits of Deutschland. This is a useful link for understanding something of what Rammstein is doing here. In Sonne, where the band’s characters free themselves of Snow White (naturally, they’ve been her sex-slaves), only to realise that they have made a mistake and long for her return, the overwhelming feeling of Deutschland seems to be that when it comes to Germania (or Germany): you can’t love her, and you can’t live without her.
Copied from GERMANIA (youtube acc) All belongs to him because its can explain all moments in the Video
ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
Thanks so much for that info. Really appreciate it!
I WISH everybody would have had your interpretation of this song and the recognizing the great achievements that comes and came from Germany
Unfortunately we do not allow much patriotism
Ffot example, as soon as you have a German flag hanging in your window, you are called a right-wing extremist or a Nazi nowadays.
everything that is German is virtually no longer desired and the German flag has been replaced by the rainbow flag.
Official buildings mostly only show the European flag and nowadays the Ukrainian flag and sometimes the rainbow flag.
The German flag is the least shown, if ever.
If you ever do Adieu, watch it all to the end as well.
The pride and the shame of germany in this video,please more rammstein
Videoclips
Mein herz brennt
Sonne
Ohne dich
Ich will
Du riechst so gut 98
Adieu
Live:
Engel
Feuer frei
Benzin etc
I will add those to my list. Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it!
Meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben, still is best translated with my love I cannot give you ; not that I won't , but that I can't.and:you're totally right with your assumption.
Danke für deinen Kommentar, ich bin froh, dass ich es einigermaßen richtig gemacht habe. Ich schätze Ihre Zeit.
This song, to me, is equally a celebration of Germany and it history, as well as an indictment of the very same history. As much as they want to love their country, they cannot due to the atrocities carried out in its name. It's also an indictment on the idea of nationalism in general. To love a country one must accept the bad things in its past as well as the good. You can't just whitewash away the parts of history that you don't like. No one knows this as much as Germany.
So true, every nation has blood on their hands at some point they wish they could forget. Thank you for your view and comment.
Watch "Engel' live in Paris.
I will do that! Thanks for the view and comment!
Sheeeesh... so much symbolism...but to refer to what u were saying: I think that the germans will forever be guilty for their past and that should be the case for everybody! Forever, as the spaceship passing the red laser at the end might symbolize... Amen.
I agree the generation that the actual Germans who took part in that will be guilty but not the country as a whole. I don't believe it is right to blame people who actually had nothing to do with it. Thanks for the comment.
@@frontrowchaos4597 Hi again. I dont think this is about blaming people anymore, but to stay alert as a better society in order to watch carefully what happens in our fragile democracy... so hopefully we can learn from history.
NEVER SKIPT THE OUTRO of Rammstein Vids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next time I will not do that! Thanks for the comment.
This song is about the feelings to germany from the german people. I thinkk it is to complicated to tell it one comment, but you surely know about ww2 and those incredible crimes that happened along with it... I personally, as a german, think, that they want to express theyre love of the germany today but can not get over the past...
It is a very and intense song for sure. I know that things were done in the past that were really wrong, but that's the past and we just need to look forward. Thank you so much for your view and comment.
“Adieu” Video and as a shocker for you as a country guy “Mann gegen Mann” video - enjoy 👍
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Here is a video that explains all the historical details:
ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for that! I will check that out. I appreciate your view and comment!
Watch Engel live in Madison Square Garden
I will add that to my list to do. Thank you.
just because you got it wrong: Swarovski optic is not a german brand. Its from Austria located in a town in the alps.
Thank you for that.
Thanks for the view!
Watch Rammstein "Dicke Titten"
Great reaction. Since you're the country guy, would you also check out some niche music like filk, and gothic country?
Sure, sounds good to me! I will add that to my list to do. Thanks for the comment!
@@frontrowchaos4597 thanks, in this case I would like to suggest either Stray Dog Man from Bill Sutton for Filk or When you're dead from Voltaire for gothic country.
I'll drop a sub, and see where this is going.