Rammstein - Deutschland (COUNTRY GUY REACTS)

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  • @michaelfinck7487
    @michaelfinck7487 Рік тому +140

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +39

      Wow, I sure appreciate your comment, the info is priceless! Thank you so much for that! I greatly appreciate your support!

    • @MnemonicHack
      @MnemonicHack Рік тому +2

      I'd have to say the Great Leap Forward was the worst, with the Holodomor coming in second and the Holocaust third.

    • @michaelfinck7487
      @michaelfinck7487 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @MnemonicHack
      @MnemonicHack Рік тому +7

      @@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.

    • @nadinefeiler9204
      @nadinefeiler9204 Рік тому +6

      @@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 😔

  • @roycecharlton4924
    @roycecharlton4924 Рік тому +53

    Kudos for watching the whole song. Most people turn it off during the outro music.

    • @mowhawk5924
      @mowhawk5924 Рік тому +2

      he should have let the video finish though, he cut it short

    • @roycecharlton4924
      @roycecharlton4924 Рік тому +1

      @@mowhawk5924 true but other reactors have turned it off away sooner.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +10

      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.

    • @mowhawk5924
      @mowhawk5924 Рік тому

      @@frontrowchaos4597 ok i forgive you then mate lol

    • @RealSundanceGarden
      @RealSundanceGarden Рік тому

      Never turn off during their outro! Yes, kudos.

  • @tioforu7203
    @tioforu7203 Рік тому +50

    This lyrics talks from my Soul as a German. Till really is a „Dichter und Denker“ ❤

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +3

      Interesting! Thanks for the view and comment!

    • @GeographRick
      @GeographRick Рік тому +7

      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...

  • @tshelton5111
    @tshelton5111 Рік тому +33

    The video depicts many periods throughout Germany's history....they want to give her their love, but they also want to condemn her

  • @amygoodson-catlady
    @amygoodson-catlady Рік тому +20

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +3

      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.

    • @amygoodson-catlady
      @amygoodson-catlady Рік тому +2

      @@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!

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +2

      @@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!

    • @amygoodson-catlady
      @amygoodson-catlady Рік тому +1

      @@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!

  • @robertmartyr9432
    @robertmartyr9432 Рік тому +12

    Great reaction! Can't wait for your next video! Rammstein are awesome

  • @5un5h1ne
    @5un5h1ne Рік тому +12

    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 ... 😁🤘

  • @roycecharlton4924
    @roycecharlton4924 Рік тому +15

    There new music is theatrical. I love it. So much to dissect even in the visuals.

  • @dimitrasotirakoglou2553
    @dimitrasotirakoglou2553 Рік тому +20

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +2

      No, thank you for your view and comment! I so appreciate your support! Have a great day!

    • @dimitrasotirakoglou2553
      @dimitrasotirakoglou2553 Рік тому

      ​@@frontrowchaos4597 aw thank you..
      Your honest reactions are greatly appreciated
      Keep up the awesome work 👍❤️

  • @kawythowy867
    @kawythowy867 Рік тому +2

    One of my favorite songs. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥

  • @ratzpa
    @ratzpa Рік тому +8

    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 :-)

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Great to know! Thank you for the info and comment! I greatly appreciate it!

  • @colleenswiggum1940
    @colleenswiggum1940 3 місяці тому

    When a music video is still being analyzed how long after it came out you know it's a masterpiece.

  • @PurpleCowboyTV
    @PurpleCowboyTV Рік тому +3

    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.

    • @PurpleCowboyTV
      @PurpleCowboyTV Рік тому

      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!

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for that info, I really appreciate it.

    • @lbergen001
      @lbergen001 Рік тому

      @@PurpleCowboyTV I wonder whether "So jung..." refers to 1948 or even later 1990. My personally thought was 1948 btw.

  • @JHaughey1
    @JHaughey1 Рік тому +1

    I’ve watched every single reaction video to this song and enjoyed yours the most by far. Great video

  • @ommadawn8434
    @ommadawn8434 Рік тому +24

    The Rammstein rabbit hole is very deep, and a lot of fun!

  • @DaShap
    @DaShap Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Thank you, it is not easy for this country guy but I am trying. I appreciate your view and comment.

  • @dj_maxxlove1970
    @dj_maxxlove1970 Рік тому +1

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Added! I have it on my list to do. Thanks for the comment!

  • @algislorian
    @algislorian Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      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!

  • @JeppeS782
    @JeppeS782 Рік тому +1

    Nice reactions.!
    Subbed❤
    It is so easy to see that you just love good music.
    All the best from Denmark

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      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!

  • @anderstofthansen7749
    @anderstofthansen7749 Рік тому +2

    If you love the singer Till Lindemann you should definetly check out his solo project. the song "ich hasse kinder" is amazing

  • @jockigarei8423
    @jockigarei8423 Рік тому +1

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Greetings Germany, I will add that to my list. Thank you for your view and comment.

  • @Tampahop
    @Tampahop Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Interesting. Thanks for the view and comment, I appreciate your view and comment.

  • @bobsuisse2
    @bobsuisse2 Рік тому +3

    @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. 🤩🤩🤩

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      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!

  • @deportedsouls3165
    @deportedsouls3165 Рік тому

    You will love the pianoversion of Mein Herz Brennt.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      I will add that to my list to do. Thanks for the comment.

  • @Biempje
    @Biempje Рік тому +1

    I like your reaction!

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Thank you so much! I appreciate your view and comment!

    • @Biempje
      @Biempje Рік тому

      @@frontrowchaos4597 ❤

  • @Kay_The_Coffee_Weirdo
    @Kay_The_Coffee_Weirdo Рік тому +8

    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".

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      I will add that to my list! I appreciate your comment, it means a lot to get the interpretation right!

  • @francescapatti2934
    @francescapatti2934 7 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @juxtapoxymoron
    @juxtapoxymoron Рік тому +1

    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 🤘

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      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!

    • @juxtapoxymoron
      @juxtapoxymoron Рік тому

      @@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 🤘

  • @danielwagner148
    @danielwagner148 Рік тому

    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).

  • @PurpleCowboyTV
    @PurpleCowboyTV Рік тому +1

    Also I greatly recommend Rammstein - Angst (Official Music Video)

  • @edteller5821
    @edteller5821 Рік тому

    Sonne from Rock im Park or Ich Will from the Hurricane Festival 2016.

  • @niklassrk
    @niklassrk Рік тому +2

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      I will be doing much more of them soon. Thank you so much for your view and comment.

  • @andykereztury1450
    @andykereztury1450 Рік тому +3

    Next, check out "Adieu" - awesome video ... just like a movie!

  • @ranahooke1907
    @ranahooke1907 Рік тому

    There’s a channel called Educatedmarine who does Rammstein videos with English subtitles. The live ones too. Just so you know :)

  • @roycecharlton4924
    @roycecharlton4924 Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @bobsuisse2
      @bobsuisse2 Рік тому +1

      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.)

    • @roycecharlton4924
      @roycecharlton4924 Рік тому

      @@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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      I am in Northern CA and I think that would be great! Thanks for the comment!

  • @sytax1
    @sytax1 Рік тому +1

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      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.

  • @annaricci4686
    @annaricci4686 Рік тому

    Rammstein 🔥🔝❤

  • @DevilDrivoer
    @DevilDrivoer Рік тому

    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

  • @madrooky1398
    @madrooky1398 Рік тому

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Best regards back! I really appreciate your view and comment. Thank you.

  • @xWildstyle89x
    @xWildstyle89x Рік тому +1

    Welcome to the Rammstein train :D

  • @BergenDev
    @BergenDev Рік тому +1

    Zeit is a good one too.

  • @roycecharlton4924
    @roycecharlton4924 Рік тому +5

    Please please please try Radio by Rammstein. A lot of UA-camrs don't don't it.

  • @HoboRoadrunner
    @HoboRoadrunner Рік тому +1

    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.

    • @HoboRoadrunner
      @HoboRoadrunner Рік тому +1

      And then the Stein in their name is pronounced the same way as you would say the name Frankenstein

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for that info. Appreciate your time.

    • @HoboRoadrunner
      @HoboRoadrunner Рік тому

      @@frontrowchaos4597 and thank you for the video

  • @tomtanner1377
    @tomtanner1377 6 місяців тому

    Well done🙏🎉

  • @ApeiroN2718
    @ApeiroN2718 Рік тому

    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.

  • @stampcollector74
    @stampcollector74 Рік тому

    I've lived in Jena for 15 years - nice you mentioned Zeiss. ♥

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Thank you! They are unbelievable optics for sure!

    • @stampcollector74
      @stampcollector74 Рік тому

      @@frontrowchaos4597 First they produced lenses now they do also mirrors that are unbelievable. --> ua-cam.com/video/AHfQLjtLJdY/v-deo.html (fyi)

  • @Metalphysicalpodcast
    @Metalphysicalpodcast Рік тому

    Watch "Engel' live in Paris.

  • @EessaTube
    @EessaTube Рік тому

    I'd say you're spot on with your analysis.

  • @nathalieeamiramistydiva2016
    @nathalieeamiramistydiva2016 Рік тому +1

    If you ever do Adieu, watch it all to the end as well.

  • @iluvpsb
    @iluvpsb Рік тому

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Wow, that would be cool to see! Thank you for the view and comment, I really appreciate it!

  • @billypph.d4434
    @billypph.d4434 6 місяців тому

    it's basically the history of Germany

  • @robertwalzl3677
    @robertwalzl3677 Рік тому

    👍

  • @nordwestbeiwest1899
    @nordwestbeiwest1899 9 місяців тому +1

    Watch Rammstein "Dicke Titten"

  • @Tulemasin
    @Tulemasin Рік тому

    I recommend to watch an explanation for this video on youtube and you'll get a quick history lesson of Germany.

  • @oliverbrandenburg7921
    @oliverbrandenburg7921 Рік тому

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Thank you so much! I absolutely love Germany and hope it continues to prosper for the better. I really appreciate your time!

  • @OkkulterO
    @OkkulterO Рік тому

    NEVER SKIPT THE OUTRO of Rammstein Vids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @brettmarlar4154
    @brettmarlar4154 Рік тому

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      So true, every nation has blood on their hands at some point they wish they could forget. Thank you for your view and comment.

  • @eli34536
    @eli34536 Рік тому

    just because you got it wrong: Swarovski optic is not a german brand. Its from Austria located in a town in the alps.

  • @odunhops7727
    @odunhops7727 Рік тому

    haha - watch "Zeit" and "Adieu"!!!!

  • @ROBOTRIX_eu
    @ROBOTRIX_eu Рік тому

  • @karl-heinzjanen1546
    @karl-heinzjanen1546 Рік тому

    Watch the Next Video from Rammstein- Zeit-a masterpiece

  • @davidvincentvega
    @davidvincentvega Рік тому

    “Adieu” Video and as a shocker for you as a country guy “Mann gegen Mann” video - enjoy 👍

  • @billbrill-lb9xz
    @billbrill-lb9xz Рік тому

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      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.

    • @billbrill-lb9xz
      @billbrill-lb9xz Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @geraldherrmann787
    @geraldherrmann787 Рік тому +1

    pleeeeeeeeeeeease watch "DickeTitten" (official video) and be sure to put in the english subs. It´s hilarious. 🙂

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      I have that on my list to do. Thank you so much for your view and comment!

  • @johnnypatino9112
    @johnnypatino9112 Рік тому +1

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      I will add those to my list. Thank you for your support, I really appreciate it!

  • @edstein5642
    @edstein5642 Рік тому

    The red lasers represent a connective thread through history. The black woman is Germania, a mythic representation of Germany, & all her costumes represent eras. The Hindenburg explodes behind the band… witches burn at stakes, the Weimar Republic(1920-30)is represented by the fighters, the communist East German era, Germania is feasted upon by monks; the exploitation by the medieval church… the brutality of Germany’s penitentiary system & the incredible inflation they suffered; the money raining down. The band about to be executed in a concentration camp that manufactured V-2 rockets(in background), the patches on their shirts indicating their “crimes”; gay, Jew, socialist Jew, etc. Germania wears an eyepatch over right eye representing willfull blindness to the horrors perpetrated by far-right nationalists-Nazis. The 1970s attired terrorists are the Red Front; Leftist revolutionaries that bombed, kidnapped & assassinated from the 70s thru the 80s. Teutonic knights & mythic representations come & go… there’s so much going on; the video must literally be studied & a knowledge of German history is essential to grasp what’s being represented. It’s mind boggling.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Great to know. Thank you for your comment, I really appreciate the info.

  • @dontravolta8021
    @dontravolta8021 Рік тому

    Great Reaction👍🏻Please Check out. „ Engel“ live in Madison Square Garden.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      I will add that to my list as well. Thank you for your time.

  • @emiliajojo5703
    @emiliajojo5703 Рік тому

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Danke für deinen Kommentar, ich bin froh, dass ich es einigermaßen richtig gemacht habe. Ich schätze Ihre Zeit.

  • @christianbuchberger1582
    @christianbuchberger1582 Рік тому

    Swarovski is Austrian brand!!

  • @rubberduck3421
    @rubberduck3421 Рік тому

    In the whole video much was exaggerated and symbolized. Except for the part with the Jewish prisoners. That was the reality and nothing was exaggerated. This is also something where the band showed a lot of respect for what had happened.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      It was a very heavy too digest video for sure. I appreciate your view and comment.

  • @DerEineDude
    @DerEineDude Рік тому

    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...

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      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.

  • @n0wi153
    @n0wi153 Рік тому

    R A M M S T E I N

  • @dawatcherz
    @dawatcherz Рік тому

    all band member grew up n eastern germany, behind the iron wall.
    to hear western music they had to listen to the radio in secret, and they made a song about that on their latest album, called Radio.
    i would love to hear your take on it, this video has subtitles.
    ua-cam.com/video/m6UNdY0xadQ/v-deo.html

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Noted, will do that soon. Thanks for the view and comment.

  • @peter_meyer
    @peter_meyer Рік тому

    You mentioned you're an accustic guy. What about checking a german marching band - playing techno.
    Try: Meute
    recommended songs: Slip or Acamar

  • @Nanda-1305
    @Nanda-1305 Рік тому

    👍😍

  • @lemmi13__beast
    @lemmi13__beast Рік тому

    We Germans are still being told that we're all just Nazis and stupid and stuff like that. And we still have to fight the old prejudices and we're tired of fighting them like I am. An I’m really sad 😢 about that.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      That is ridiculous! All nations have done some stupid stuff, so don't listen to that crap. Thanks for the view and comment.

  • @MnemonicHack
    @MnemonicHack Рік тому

    Germany has changed the course of history so much, for good and bad.
    I may have been born in America, but I'm proud of my German blood, right along with my Mexican blood.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Me too I have German blood to and I am also proud of that. Every nation has blood on their hands at some point. Thank you for your view and comment!

  • @igofastr6
    @igofastr6 Рік тому

    Maybe check out Falling In Reverse Watch the World Burn. Its blowing up UA-cam

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      I just added that to my list to do. Thanks for the view and comment, I really appreciate it.

  • @MnemonicHack
    @MnemonicHack Рік тому

    If you'd like to hear other German artists, I suggest Megaherz.

  • @peekaboosue
    @peekaboosue Рік тому

    Please react to more Rammstein
    Here are some suggestions for you and they all have English subtitles 😀
    Asche Zu Asche
    ua-cam.com/video/-vdFzNLdMSE/v-deo.html
    Reise Reise
    ua-cam.com/video/8mIwXDh7kQY/v-deo.html
    Los
    ua-cam.com/video/8Tpiqd2ptxA/v-deo.html
    Rein Raus
    ua-cam.com/video/S_h3miFfEdc/v-deo.html
    Morgenstern
    ua-cam.com/video/k-qIFW23cq8/v-deo.html
    Stein um Stein
    ua-cam.com/video/YnVgUMVrJms/v-deo.html
    Dankeschön 😊

  • @stefanmorgenstern7132
    @stefanmorgenstern7132 Рік тому

    Cutting off the credits is a sin.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      Sorry, I will try to include them in the future! YT decided to glitch on me at that exact point so I could not finish the video! Thanks for the comment!

  • @hermanubis7046
    @hermanubis7046 Рік тому

    Here is a video that explains all the historical details:
    ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Thank you so much for that! I will check that out. I appreciate your view and comment!

  • @swunt10
    @swunt10 Рік тому

    He fucked up the outro with his interruption. The video just froze..

  • @VonLigenstein
    @VonLigenstein Рік тому

    WRF Were you doing? Nope now you have to watch it all over again... and again... and... just because you missed out from playing around ... I assue you were changing subtitles to english.... ehivh still means you missed part of the video...
    I woud recommend Zeit! next... then anyything else... But you should be alll set and prepared now ( I thought I was watching ovie trailer first time I watch Deutschland vid too ) If you watch du reich so gut there are two offical vids... The fist will leave you scratching your head ( 1995)m The later one will make way more sense ( 1998)... Google Prime orchestra du reich so gut or orchestra rammstein... Hmmmm I have yet to hear a Country SInger's version / covvvver... I guesthis is your big shot for the title... I cant even imagine Rammstein in County music format... ;) lol

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Thanks for the comment. Rammstein's video was really heavy for me for sure. I would love if you could let me know what bands in Europe do country music. Is there such a thing? I appreciate your help.

    • @VonLigenstein
      @VonLigenstein Рік тому

      @@frontrowchaos4597 Im from Canada...eh... so Im not sure of any Country Bands in Europe... closest thing I can think of would be the Pogues,,, but they are more folk than anything... welll they are their own style... lol...

  • @utedachner3741
    @utedachner3741 Рік тому

    Ja die deutsche Geschichte wird in ihrer Vielfalt leider nur gekürzt und dann überwiegend negativ dargestellt. Aber es sind nun mal die herausragenden Ereignisse, ja leider nicht zu ändern. Es stellt sich für mich die Frage, welche Band hat je so einen Song über sein Land komponiert.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Ja die deutsche Geschichte wird in ihrer Vielfalt leider nur gekürzt und dann überwiegend negativ dargestellt. Aber es sind nun mal die herausragenden Ereignisse, ja leider nicht zu ändern. Es stellt sich für mich die Frage, welche Band hat je so einen Song über sein Land komponiert.

  • @uwegiebelhauser9785
    @uwegiebelhauser9785 Рік тому

    Information für euch, DDR getrennt BRD

  • @zombeast23
    @zombeast23 3 місяці тому

    🤬
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  • @zombeast23
    @zombeast23 3 місяці тому

    😡
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  • @wolfengrim
    @wolfengrim Рік тому

    If you are interested in German music... Xavier Naidoo is one of the best we've got. Xavier Naidoo is an artist from Mannheim and has been around for 20 years + 🙂

  • @rmamon2554
    @rmamon2554 Рік тому

    Only one thing that makes an Austrian red in the face about your comments: Swarovski is not German you mentioned it yourself, Germany has Zeiss. But we are no county of Germany we are an independent Nation.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Good to know, sorry for that. One thing that is true is you make excellent optics! Thanks for the comment.

  • @dietmarcrede9264
    @dietmarcrede9264 Рік тому +17

    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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +1

      I have that on my list to do! You are right the video was very powerful for sure! Thanks for the comment!

  • @mrj0hnwick795
    @mrj0hnwick795 5 днів тому +1

    And nobdy Mention UNIVERSAL MUSIC111 Alltime music and movies

  • @minehoffbiker1
    @minehoffbiker1 Рік тому +5

    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

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      I bet! Thanks for the view and comment, I really appreciate your support!

  • @HakleberryFinn
    @HakleberryFinn 5 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @TimberWolf762
    @TimberWolf762 Рік тому +9

    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.

    • @spaceknave
      @spaceknave Рік тому +2

      I'll Second this suggestion. They are amazing. Future legends for sure, so much charisma in every performance.

    • @TheUnderdogDe
      @TheUnderdogDe Рік тому +2

      Great suggestion. It's time people learn about the future.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +3

      Great to know! Thank you for that info. I will add that to my list to do! Thanks for the comment!

  • @thimostratege8501
    @thimostratege8501 Рік тому +1

    check out "Adieu" from Rammstein, also a brilliant music video 1st class

  • @badabumbadabang1737
    @badabumbadabang1737 Рік тому +1

    Great Reaction... like your Videos Greetings from Germany.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому

      Thank you very much! Really appreciate your view and comment!

  • @fjoergyn
    @fjoergyn Рік тому +1

    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.
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  • @megatwingo
    @megatwingo Рік тому +3

    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

    • @megatwingo
      @megatwingo Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @frontrowchaos4597
      @frontrowchaos4597  Рік тому +2

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    • @megatwingo
      @megatwingo Рік тому +1

      @@frontrowchaos4597 I'm glad that you liked my reply! :)

  • @Ed513513
    @Ed513513 Рік тому +1

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