WAS THIS A MOVIE OR MUSIC VIDEO?! CRAZY! First Time Hearing Rammstein - Deutschland Reaction!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
- Welcome to our channel! In this video, we will be diving into the world of Rammstein and their captivating music video for "Deutschland." Join us as we experience this epic journey and share our genuine first-time reaction.
"Deutschland" by Rammstein is a German masterpiece that blurs the lines between a movie and a music video. As we watch this visually stunning production unfold, we can't help but be in awe of the incredible attention to detail and the historical references woven into the storyline.
Throughout the video, we witness Rammstein's ability to captivate their audience with their provocative and powerful music. The band's unique blend of industrial metal and explosive visuals truly sets them apart in the music industry.
Not only does "Deutschland" showcase Rammstein's talent, but it also acts as a homage to Germany's rich history. From the Roman Empire to World War II, the video provides a visual narrative of the country's past, creating a thought-provoking experience
Whether you're a long-time Rammstein fan or completely new to their music, this video is sure to leave you amazed and intrigued. Witness the fusion of music and cinema as we embark on this unforgettable journey through "Deutschland."
Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe to our channel for more reactions and content. Let us know your thoughts on this mind-blowing music video in the comments section below. Get ready to be swept away by Rammstein's "Deutschland"!
--------------------------------------
You can find the video of Rammstein - Deutschland (Official Video) on UA-cam here:
• Rammstein - Deutschlan...
--------------------------------------
You can find Rammstein - Deutschland on Spotify and Apple Music at the links below:
music.apple.com/au/album/deut...
open.spotify.com/track/2bPGTM...
--------------------------------------
For any reaction suggestions - drop them in the comments!
--------------------------------------
For donations to the channel or content requests:
www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...
#rammstein #rammsteindeutschland #rammsteinfans - Розваги
Hey all! Due to a copyright issue after uploading we had to cut the outro that features the alternative song & credits for the video!
It's just extremly deep, and hard to get at some points
if you fuck up like this time you have to be alone for a while.
Teutenberg forest hanging the first roman incursion
I'd argue this is one of the best music videos ever made.
"Sabaton - Christmas Truce" is up there as well.
Ja da hast du absolut recht, das video ist der absolute Wahnsinn
@@RexRegisPeter Christmas Truce is way too simple compared to Deutschland
@@RexRegisPeter I'm a sabaton fan but its not even close
There’s not much argument honestly. The story shown through an amazing video is just not comparable to anything else.
Hi, I'm from Germany.
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 socialst 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 😄
Überall wohin ich auch gehe sehe ich dich^^
Спасибо за подробный пересказ этой замечательной песни. Привет из России😊
respect for writing this and explaining to us, thanks!!
ich finde das auch ganz toll!
Perfectly written. I think this Song is so good for us Germans, because we hide our History out of shame because of WWII. We should just accept our past and live in peace in the future. Like the way Till sings "Meine Liebe kann ich dir nicht geben" lets me think people still are ashamed and dont want to love their country because we could be seen as "Nazis" again. Anyways nice summary mate.
It is a symbolic cannibal scene. The monks (church) feast on their victim (Germania/Germany), while the common people despair and starve. But Germania feels less "uncomfortable" than she should...
Right... many oversee that she even strokes one of those monks ... It's not about feasting her (devouring Germany) but feasting ON her ... like devouring the wealth and leaving nothing for the rest below.
No. It is about the holy roman empire and the 30 year war when "germania" was spilt in a hunfded kingdoms. The people below are not the common people, but the bigot things that happen under the table.
As a German, this song hits deep. Sometimes I need to cry while listen to this song... 🙏
It truly chops you up... Every nation should have an anthem like this.
Misplaced pride and nationalism makes more blind than love.
But at the end there is Die Sonne.
I’m from South Africa of German decent and I always cry when I listen to this song, this work of emotional art
This song is great working out! Deutschland!
I am also a South African of German decent many of us here
Same here!
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
idk can you include all Germans for the holocaust, it was perpetrated by the SS division of the nazi party. that ironically held the most educated and affluent Germans. uh the volkisch movement existed before nazi Germany, they just championed it. which is the return of blood and soil as it was before Christianity and occupation by other cultures and nations. the whole white supremacy was known as bullshit but help unite a people crushed by war and in a state of poverty and depression. which worked great, in 2 decades Germany rose to a power that nearly conquered the world. i am wanting to say the Russians killed more Jews with their holocaust than the nazis. yes/no post script, I am American born and breed, but German Slavic ancestry.
Thank you for explaining it the way you did... I did learn all in HISTORY CLASS...✌
I think it's also worth mentioning the different emblems/markers in the concentration camp gallow scene:
- yellow star: jewish prisoners
- yellow/red star: jewish political prisoners
- pink triangle: homosexual prisoners
the 4th one is hard to identify
I have another theory for the red lasers, in my oppinion they are not a "red line of violence". We can see the "Astronauts" scanning the German statues and reliqs with their laser scanners, so it's obious that the laser beams in the scenes represent scanning aswell, like someone from the future (the "Astronauts") are looking into the past and scanning the events.
Once several lasers appear and start scanning from steeper angles, the scenes start to dismantle and fall apart. We get intro trouble if we allow oppinionated "scanns" of past events, they have to be looked at from a neutral point of view, or else the scenes will look distorted and get "destroyed".
The point about the Leonberger dogs can also be seen as a German dog breed (be it Leonberger or German Shepherd dogs) - along with statues and rubble - being the last remains, the legacy of Germany in the future.
lol must be nice, i learned more watching documentaries later in life. i never understood why they killed the Jews when they were Christians themselves. i had to learn about the volkisch movement then it made more sense, to me that is.@@debrapugh6799
"If we miss anything, I'm sorry. We apologize in advance"
Me: "Oh, they're Canadian"
"We're Canadian"
😂 😂
The scene with Till wearing woman's clothing is not comedic at at all! Rammstein there represent the R.A.F. - the Red Army Fraction, a far left non-parlamentary political wing in the 1970ies which caused a lot of terroristic nightmare here in Germany, and in fact their members were terrorists, nothing else! Their female leader was Ulrike Meinhof, which Till represents in the video.
Bader meinhoff
I don t think, his female clothes refers Ulrike Meinhof. In my opinion he shows Andreas Baader. Some Said, he loved wearing female clothes.
@@menschmeier2442 Never heard of this before. But anyways, Andreas Baader was nothing but a big Macho-Arschloch!
@@menschmeier2442 Doch, das soll tatsächlich Ulrike Meinhof sein
@@Sarah-rm4nm und das ist das schöne an ihren Videos. Der Interpretationsspielraum ist gigantisch groß.
Rammstein is not just a band, they are a group of artists who collaborate with many other artists to create such masterpieces! TIME, ADIEU, ZIG ZACK, BIG TITS, MY HEART BURNS (both versions) are masterpieces of video art.
Zeit, Adieu, Zick Zack, Dicke Titten, Mein Herz Brennt😉
You mean: Zeit, Adieu, Zick Zack, Dicke Titten, Mein Herz Brennt. Song names should never be translated.
Lindemann - Platz Eins? Rammstein - Auslander, Zeig Dich Live: Benzin, ich tu dir weh, rammlied
Rosenrot, Seemann, Ich will, Engel …
*Never* skip the outro credits sequence of a Rammstein video! It's literally just as much a part of the main song and often provides context or just catharsis. If you haven't done so, just watch and listen to the video again and let the outro play to the end and I think you'll agree it provides a needed counterweight to the energy of the song.
❤
Not every outtro of a Rammstein Song is brilliant.
Absolute Masterpiece 🔥Rammstein ❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Germany has a rich culture, what a lot people forget because the most assume Germany only with the Nazi time! But they are sooo much more. Whole Europe has such a rich culture and history ❤❤❤
Good pick up on the meaning behind the song Phil. The video helps convey the message. This song and video is a reflection on Germany's history of conflict. The song finds Till Lindemann speaking of his love/hate relationship with Germany as he considers his country's divisive history.
A true masterpiece. My all time favorite. As to the cost, apparently it is around $6 million. Yeah.
Thanks for reviewing and reacting to it.
Y'all be safe.
Wow! Amazing they put so much into it!
The Woman rerepesand Germania. A Symbol of Germany. Great reaction 🤘😊
Thank you!! 😁
There is so much to miss in this video even if you are german. Not to mention if you are not. This is a masterpiece and maybe the best video of rammstein of all times.
I would recommend to watch the Video called "Deutschland by Rammstein: An Analysis" by the youtube channel "Three Arrows".
It is an english analysis of all the scenes and the musical context. All the little details and how it fits together. You will find this masterpiece of a music video even more interesting after you get the details. Would love to see a reaction on this one too maybe.
Greetings from Germany and keep on the good work
I am not from Germany I’m in the US but I get the references. It just goes by so fast I had to watch more times to really catch it all. The only thing I don’t really understand would be the red tanks of people in water beneath the table of human meat during the medieval scenes. I also understand the language enough to know the lyrics in German, so maybe it’s just that if someone is reading subtitles it distracts from the video images. This video is amazing.
@@AKayfabe watch the Analysis. Every little detail is fully discribed there. Like i said, its even hard to get everything for native german speakers and people living here and knowing the history. There is so much to be misinterpreted or just be overseen. So its really nice to have it. Its a great video, just check it out ;)
@@AKayfabe That would be the church taking from the poor
Abusing the poor but also maybe commenting on all the sexual scandals churches cover up as well.
Rammstein music videos are masterpieces!
The song during the credits was a piano version of their song "Sonne"...
It was a great choice to put on translated subtitles because the lyrics (especially in combination with the videos) are always very important to understand the story they want to tell. Next up, you should definitely watch the music videos of the songs "Zeit", "Angst" and "Adieu". "Sonne" is a little bit older, but also very good and creative.
More funny ones would be "Zick Zack", "Amerika" or "Dicke Titten".
The most EPIC music video ever made...
I believe the six members of Rammstein and their production team are the most creative group of people you will see and listen to. Also, take notice to how good of actors they are. They give back to their fans more than any other band on the planet. I heard this video cost over half a million dollars to produce. There stage takes 72 semi trucks to move to the next venue. It takes 62 hours to assemble with over 100 crew members and 150 volunteers. I could explain this video to you, however, it would take me well over a couple of hours of typing. They really can bring out every emotion in you in all that they do.
Das Video hat 6 Millionen $ gekostet.
Stimmt kenne Sänger sehr gut
Now you have to do Ich tu dir weh live at Madison Square Garden. You will have that riff in your head for weeks and actually see that Till has a real singing voice. The chorus is 🔥.
I concur
On tour the chorus of 'Ich Tu Dir Weh' was always playback because Till couldn't be sure of managing it live, apparently it took a *lot* of takes in the studio.
Now that you’ve done an Official music video, your ready for the next one. I recommend “Dicke Titten” music video by them for the next reaction. I guarantee you will like it. 😜
Yeah, that one is great. Might be more geared to male viewership, lol
@@metalmark1214 I am pretty sure that translation is female breast.
@@nealm6764 nearly correct. "big/huge t*ts" is the best fitting translation
one of the verses says
She dont need to be beautiful
She dont need to be smart
She dont need to be rich
No model with long legs
but big t*ts
Das Video zeigt Teile unserer Geschichte. Es ist sehr gut gemacht. Rammstein ist einer der besten Bands Deutschlands....
I've seen recommendations for 'Mein Herz brennt' ❤🔥(an older song where the video on the Rammstein channel does not have CC/subtitles like the newer songs, but there are subtitled versions), and 'do both versions' mentioned as well.
There's the normal version and the 'pinao version'. My recommendaion if you ever will react to the song(s) is: do the normal version first. In my opinion the piano version is even more impactful seeing it after the normal version.
We won’t hold being Canadian against you🤣🤣🤣 excellent reaction as always later guys.❤️😎🇺🇸
Another great song and video from them is Zeit, another masterpiece
Great ❤
Please react ,,Zeit ,,from Rammstein
Remember that this song talks about dark moments of our history.
I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter.
Stupid oversimplified:
Rejects Roman annexation - Germanic Tribes defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them
Creates an empire that wasn't really an empire but also was an empire and somehow lived for over 1000 years - very special and unique
The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals.
defeats the French, unites into a new empire
Get a colonial empire
Fights 80% of the world alone and almost won..
Is treated badly
Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world and only lost because of own mistakes..
Gets divided again
Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again.
Also a few German inventions:
- Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854)
- The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859)
- The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866)
- The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925)
- Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany - 1938)
- The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969)
- Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864)
- Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873)
- The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887)
- The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879)
- Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902)
- Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903)
- the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg)
- The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz)
- Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928)
- Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929)
- The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929)
- First rocket (in general, Hans von Ohain)
- The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936)
- The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886)
- First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941)
- First 3D film (during the Third Reich)
- Fanta (Yes THAT Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era)
- The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869)
- NASA (actually the US buyed thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves)
- The first letterpress Mashine (Which was probably the best invention of all time because now they could start printing books, Johannes Gutenberg - 1440)
- Motorcycle (Gottlieb Daimler 1885)
- Birth control pill (Schering AG 1961)
- the trigger of the gold rush (Johann August Sutter was a Swiss but actually German since he was born in Germany, but Swiss and German are one blood anyway, Who triggered the gold rush in America. Not an inventor but cool fact - 1848)
Well, as you saw, the Germans changed the world with their inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German art of thinking.. And Craftsmanship.
Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it was known
The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. There was a big difference between Nazi, German and Wehrmacht soldier. There is no such thing as black and white.. People always wonder how could the Germans follow the Austrian Painter.. Well most Germans followed Hitler because of the crisis. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who promises you to fix it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed the crisis and gave the Germans hope again.. Or better: They gave the German people a scapegoat to blame. And remember that antisemitism was normal in Europe for hundreds of years. Many people didn't liked the jews because they were often these rich trading people. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy.
It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all Germans were evil Nazis. Most soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head.. Then the normal soldier knew that even more. Many Germans were manipulated by the ultimate propaganda of the Nazis and could do nothing about it. They thought to the last second that they were winning because of the propaganda. You can imagine the Nazis like a natural dark Parasite Rising from the suffering of the Germans. And the 'Problem' is that Germans are People who have a very special work and perfectionism mentality. That's not a weak enemy.. Look what the german army achieved in ww2.. Because of their unbreakable pride. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power.
We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German. Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA.. Because we are the most important point in Europe. And people are manipulated and have no prospects.. If you're proud of your history.. You will be called a Nazi.
What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same.
I would be in favor of not only teaching the Americans that Germany is the bad guy and that they really deal with it.
Most of the settlers who came to America at that time were German. Over 40 million. That's why you have so many German names. That's why the Americans love German culture and are surrounded by it, but don't want to admit it. Every "American" fairy tale was recorded and reinvented by the Brothers Grimm, they were German..
Thanks for listening 🎉
Vielen Dank für den ausführlichen Text. Hätte ich die technische Möglichkeit das ausdrucken zu lassen würde ich es sofort machen. Ich schreibe ihnen von einem mobilen Telefon.
The British would dispute many of those invention claims e.g. telephones, computers, jet engines, thermos flasks, etc.
The reality is it's not always clear cut with multiple people making contributions and making breakthroughs based on earlier work by others.
@@speleokeir Ja ich weiß. Der Erfinder des Telefons hat den Namen Bell.
Sehr gut dargelegt. Leider ist ein gewisser Nationalstolz, so wie er in allen anderen Ländern vorhanden ist, den deutschen von dem links-Grünen Mainstream ausgetrieben worden.
Beautiful comment, really interesting! As an Italian I have Nothing but respect and admiration for Germany (even though we are all “occupied” by the USA)! 🇮🇹💞🇩🇪
The piano part at the end is of another Rammstein song called Sonne, the music video is an amazing take on Snow White. it has some of their humour in that video as well.
Arguably one of the best music videos ever. The production values are off the scale. It's like a movie with so much going on and so many messages and hidden meanings. Rammstein videos are on a completely whole other level compared to other bands. They have so many videos that are basically just mini movies of sorts. Just the amount of people mentioned in the end that were involved in making this video is mind boggling.
The treatment of Germany's history in this video is more than excellent. We Germans don't have to hide, every country has its terrible sides, but also its beautiful sides. But it's important to look at all sides, Rammstein showed this brilliantly, with the love for his country and yet the dislike for their past actions. Very good video
One thing you have to realize about Rammstein is that every music video they make is actually a movie
Thanks for the great music you just made my weekend hope you two have a great weekend yourselves remember your the cream of the crop when it comes to music and your reactions 👍
Thanks Eddie! You're the 🐐
Great pick with this song. You need to keep in mind that with Rammstein you never know what is coming your way, and that most songs ( if not all of them) have dual meaning.
I agree mostly. But ONLY dual meaning? 😉☺️
@@RustyDust101 You are right. I've been listening to them since 2005, and still don't understand most of their songs. To be honest, I don't care for the lyrics as long as the music makes me feel good vibes.
Great reaction to an epic song. If you ever get the chance to see them live, do it. I saw them last year in San Antonio. Flew down from near seattle to see that show. Keep up the great reactions........the price for them to make this video......6 million
RAMMSTEIN is a deep rabbit hole but well worth the trip!! Ive been to over 200 concerts since 1979.. No one,not the Stones or even Pink Floyd come close to them live
1979 ist nicht möglich. Rammstein hat sich 1994 gefunden. Musikalische Erfahrungen machten die Bandmitglieder in den 80ern. 1979 waren einige von ihnen noch Kinder... Vielleicht möchtest du das Datum korrigieren. 😊
@@weitweg6234Ich denke, Du hast ihn missverstanden. Er meint seine Konzerterfahrungen insgesamt, nicht nur Rammstein-Konzerte.
@@cumuluscloud3854👍
I would argue the Pink Floyd comparison! 😉I think Rammstein was heavily inspired by Pink Floyd shows. It was PF many years ago who already had effects flying over the crowd on zip lines, used flames, firework and massive light shows + Having huge theatric stage shows like the Wall concert in Berlin.
All Rammstein music videos deserve an Oscar or video prize....
One of my Favourite bands, awesome music and visuals, on the money with this one ..... More more, more, great post
Great reaction!! This song is a masterpiece,,
I'm polish, but damn, i love this band!
Hi my friends, i'm from germany and i love Rammstein ! Your reaction are realy great ! Greatings and love from germany ♥️♥️🥰♥️♥️🥰♥️♥️
Rock on!
Love this, love Rammstein!! But I wanna cred you two - you are great and you give me a feelgood vibe, every time - thank you! 😍😍
Thank YOU!
Zeit and Angt are nice videos with English subtitle.
This is one of the best videos from Rammstein and at the same time one of the most difficult content to fully understand. The song is about Germany (Deutschland) and the band's feelings about their home country which has a rather violent history (not only in WW2). It is a kaleidoscope of scenes from 2000 years of German history (some more symbolic, others painfully accurate) and additionally some scenes that might happen in the future when archaeologists are searching for artefacts of German history.
The woman is Germania, played by the German actress Ruby Commey. Germania is not a literal person, but was a personification of Germany for centuries. All other main roles are played by the six members of Rammstein.
The scene when the monks seem to eat Germania references to the Thirty Year's War (1618-1648), which started as a religious war. As a result of that war - masses of people starved or died by plagues. And the church took what little they had left to live on.
If you are interested in more details about some of the historical events referenced in Rammstein's video, you may take a look at this content-wise analysis: ua-cam.com/video/sc-euVL8xQs/v-deo.html
Even for me as a German guy there were some details that I was not aware of.
Also the lyrics are explained a bit and the assumed reason for Rammstein to come out with this video. And there is an explanation why the video caused some harsh reactions BEFORE it was fully published.
Es mi grupo favorito.Wunderbares Lied.
The live version is wild. I highly recommend you go see them in concert if you get the chance. It is probably one of the best concerts I have been to.
Look out for "Angst". Another great video with a great message! An the piano version of "Mein Herz brennt"
I love the balls this channel has, y’all are definitely one of my favorites. Keep it up
We will!
I remember the moment this video had world premiere in 2019 as it was yesterday. After 10 years of waiting Rammstein released a new album and a music video to "Deutschland". Hearing the first riffs a had goosebumps from my little thoe to my scalp. For me itt's the greatest music video ever made, and one of my all time favorite Rammstein song. Love it.
Das Video ist tiefgründige Kunst
Compliment to both of you. Without understanding the lyrics you got the right feeling what the artists adress. Great reaction. Like it. As a German most others lack about the musicial point of view of Rammstein songs. Spot on.
This video shows "Germania" played by Ruby Commey, a great actress from Berlin. ^^
Anyways, as a German I have to say, that this is a masterpiece. It includes so many important parts of history that many people don't even know. ^^
Also the phrase at the end: "Who rises far will fall as far as well. Germany, Germany over all."
One would have to be quite ignorant to complain about a lack of knowledge of another country’s history. So don’t worry about it. Also, this video is PACKED with visual references, that easily can get over one’s head, especially the first time watching this. So I can totally relate. I’ve seen videos by artist of other countries, I had to watch again to get what’s going on at points. And this video is like a masterclass in historical references. This is layers over layers. You did good! 😊👍
Ich als Deutscher sehe jedesmal etwas neues wenn ich mir das Video anschaue und ich bin der Meinung das man es nur als Deutscher richtig verstehen und fühlen kann. Die schwarze Frau ist Deutschland.
It cost 6 million US dollars to make and was the second most expensive video ever made right behind Scream,by Janet Jackson
Thank you from Germany for your great Analyse. At the Point. Thank you also for your clear english that i can understand also as a not native english tounge.
Great from Germany and a Happy new year.
I would highly recommend the Three Arrows breakdown and explanation of every part of the video. It is about 30 minutes but is pure information that really awakens your knowledge of what the video is showing.
Moin.Die Geschichte Deutschland's kritisch zusammengefasst.
Und ...ein verdammt geiles Lied.
Damn I love your channel! greetings from Germany ❤
Thank you 👊
Another really epic Video and Song is „Zeit“. In case you‘ll watch it I would recommend to have subtitles on.
I never thought they were anything else than Canadian because they're to polite and articulate to be anything but! 😂😂😂 I hope they will react to their Zeit video too!
😂 🙏
'Adieu' is a good song and a fantastic video
I highly recommend it for the next reaction if you like to watch more Rammstein.
And their live videos: 'Ich Tu Dir Weh' (MSG) and 'Wiener Blut' (live, Wacken) and 'Sonne' live.
Thank you for your reaction 🙂
Masterpiece ever. Great
Good reaction! There is more in Europe that will blow your mind if it is music that will hit you...
Oh their videos are crazy. Love this one! lol So insane.
Hello, I'm from Germany.
Rammstein plays a classic "Industrial Metal" style. A 50-50 mix of synths and carbide guitars.
A large part of German history in one video. The Black Woman as Germania. Germania is the personification of the German nation. It is not and was not a goddess or Joan of Arc.
The glass coffin: It's the little Snow White from the Grimm fairy tales.... and from her own video "Sun". Only with black skin and in space.
The piano song at the end is also the song "Sun".
The line in this song "So young and yet so old" means:
Germany as a unified state is still very young. A united German people did not exist until 1871.
Before this year of reunification, Germany consisted of countless small small states and people identified themselves primarily as Prussians, Hesse, Saxony etc. etc. etc. Also Germans as a kind of unifying second identity.
The area and the landscape in which the Germans live, and the Germans themselves as a people... are thousands of years old. But it was only recently, in 1871, that there was a united Germany as a single state.
Germany as a united so is very young ... and at the same time thousands of years old.
The battle in the Teutoburg Forest against the Romans (and Rammstein as Roman soldiers and Germans alike).
This struggle is of absolute importance for German history.
The hanged corpses in the trees were the beaten Roman soldiers, cruelly sacrificed to the Germanic gods... and some of them were nailed to the trees.
The Battle of Varus (Teutoburg) took place as early as 9 AD. In 16 AD, the vengeance campaigns of the Emperor Germanicus took place. Therefore, here we see the arrival of the Roman troops of Germanicus and they observe how their dead comrades hang in the trees or have their heads cut off (to nail them to the trees).
In reality, the Romans under Germanicus found only the bones of the Varus army, which were slaughtered, sacrificed and displayed on the trees in various ways. Slaves were freed for 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 battle scene date back to the years of the First and First World Wars. From the workers of the working class in the First World War and the roaring 20s. In World War II, years later, this large bushy mustache had already gone out of fashion.
The falling banknotes in prison are not about corruption. This scene is about the hyperinflation of the 1920s, which took away Germans' savings, leaving them in deep poverty and despair.
At that time, you had to pay for a loaf of bread with a handcart full of almost worthless banknotes, and it hit the Germans deep in their souls. Especially the poor and simple workers.
The V2 rocket (the first man-made object in space) as a 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 this rocket.
This scene in the video could be a depiction of a very specific concentration camp.
It was "Mittelbau-Dora" below the Kohnstein.
A mixture of a large, huge bunker factory for V1 and V2 rockets and a concentration camp.
The concentration camp prisoners were sown on their chests with various markings for different types of prisoners and their "crimes", as was the case in reality. A pink triangle for homosexuals, the Star of David for Jews, and two of them were marked with the double triangles for Jehovah's Witnesses.
The book burnings of the Nazis and the witch burnings of the church. In the same scene with the book burning, MORE happens. The collaboration of the Church with the Nazis, when the priest with the cross embraces the Nazi SA man.
The scene with the sign with hammer and compass in the wheat circle is the sign of the GDR (GDR). The most social German state in the East, which existed before German reunification.
Therefore, it was Karl Marx in the background in the scene with the tank (not the scene in the concentration camp).
The scene in which Rammstein wields weapons (the pump gun) and takes Germania hostage is about left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. The terrorists were called the RAF (Red Army Faction).
My interpretation of the red scanner-like rays: There are two different types of rays. The massive straight red beam of light rising into the sky AND there were these smaller, thinner "scanner" rays.
Aliens (or humans from the future) are scouring the entire history of Germany. Just as some real scientists, for example, scan and excavate ancient Mexican or Egyptian statues.
The massive red beam of light is the red ribbon of time that holds all historical events together.
PS: As far as dogs are concerned: Germans are fanatical dog lovers. We are a dog owner nation.
Greetings from Germany!
Most insightfull reaction to this song/video by a non-german speaker I've seen yet.
Rammstein + NewWorldTrailer (theGame) = This :D
No other band I know of has so many high production value yet controversial videos.
In fact, one of their infamous videos featured several scenes of 'hard core' pornography, that went along with the songs subject matter. In true Rammstein form, the lyrics, although graphic, were a bit tongue-in-cheek and quite humorous.
The part with him in woman’s clothing is referring to the Baader-Meinhof Group. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
It was a terrorist left wing group centered around Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof (an unmarried couple) back in the 1970's. Both had very distinctive hair and clothing styles (of the 70's) which were alluded to in this section with Till dressed as a woman representing Ulrike Meinhof. The German RAF killed multiple people who they considered corrupt politicians or industrialists/capitalists in very spectacular ways to garner as much notice as possible. They pretty much took the thoughts of German politicians and the general public hostage. No day passed for well over a year where there were no reports of one kind or another about the Baader-Meinhof-Gang.
That's why Germania was shown as a hostage of the band with the cops in a shout-out with them.
RAMMSTEIN IS PART OF DA Human history und the Evolution of us.for real
I enjoyed your reaction!
Would love to see you reacting to "Angst" from Rammstein :)
Keep it up!
Definitely one of the best music videos ever made.
It's surprising that many people are shocked by the video, but German history is explained in just a few minutes...it was rough and brutal...
Music video is amazing, but really, the song in it self, it is incredible.. The conflict in ones heart.. Love for ones country, and yet understanding that there is a dark side to their history.
Wow ese video
These 60 year old members of Rammstein are 10000% cooler than anyone in their 20-30's!
Masterpiece
A real masterpiece...
You have to watch „Zeit“. You will cry…. another masterpiece from Rammstein.
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.
PPPS: The name Rammstein comes from the German town Ramstein (with one "m"). There is an US-airbase and there happened a big, tragic airshow disaster, when two jets collided and fell into the audience.
Therefore all the flames and the burning coat during the song Rammstein and all the fire in their shows in general. But that rather tasteless name and the negative press echo were too much even for Rammstein. So they changed their name later in Rammstein, what indeed means "battering stone".
They delivered a half assed explanation for it decades ago. I've forgotten, what they said. A fact is, that they called themselves after that town and that airshow disaster. Probably for provocation purposes.
Their old song "Rammstein" even tells in other words the story of that disaster and it tells about a fine day with a warm shining sun...and burning people.
Neue Deutsche Härte was always a pretty unsatisfying new name for the music they made mainly: Industrial or Industrial Metal/Rock.
You’ve been writing this story for 3 years under all the reaction videos, stop flooding already😂😂😂
I still reckon this is one of the greatest album intro songs of all time.
Sorry for my first comment but you nail absolutely the meaning of the video
please react Zeit by Rammstein
The actress is Germany herself,probably already mentioned.
Yepp. But Germania is a figure that was basically created during the Romantic Era, but quasi predated as representing Germany's spirit as a whole for all of history, no matter how illogical that was. The Romantic Era didn't give much hold to reason or fact but to emotions and poetry.
Rammstein gave her their own spin.
In the Romantic Era she was seen not as a goddess, or demi-goddess, or such. But as a mythological 'force' that rarely if ever judges, but just exists and takes on the aspects of the "German people" as a whole as applicable for an era or period of history. She just "existed" or simply 'was'.
Obviously the Nazis welcomed a quasi-mythological creature representing the whole of Germany and its spirit, so they grabbed the idea and ran wild with it.
As an American history buff, I try to read as much European history as I can. There's no end to the depth of the cultures and various areas. I'm new to Rammstein and glad to have found them. They bring a side to metal I never knew existed.
My Love cannot reach you! WOW!
Wow, humanity in one video... that was incredibly well done, if a little disturbing... thank you to those for explaining what was going on here... we need to evolve...
Funfact for you... the black girl stands for germany itself. It's a masterpiece! The part with the birth of puppy's, the pupps stands for the german people. Faithfull people.
One huge aspect that most people don't consider is that Rammstein are essentially the most successful German cabaret act in the traditional sense.
They combine eccentricity, chaos, sexual ambiguity, bawdry tongue-in-cheek as well as everything on show, cultural conversations and embracing dualism in imagery which stimulates controversy, conversation and cultural growth when done right, as all good art should.
Guys! Your voices are like ASMR :)
The best thing about Rammstein is that they do exactly what they want and they never answer to anybody.
Every single video of theirs has comments disabled. They are an autonomous artistic collective, and bless them for it.
welcome in the rammstein rabbithole.
rammstein forever❤
The black lady is representative of Germany herself within the video as she is part of basically every scene
History repeats itself
Germany is not just 3rd Reich.
Would an American group dare to take such a lucid look at its country's history ? ...with such good music !
Definitely need to do Green Grass and hide tides the studio version to get blown away by some hot guitar playing
"Since the Middle Ages, with reference to the Germania magna of antiquity, she has been considered the national personification of Germany in the sense of the area of distribution of the German languages."
Der Titel Deutschland von Rammstein ist einfach Mega geil