Flake is a pacifist...this video is so powerful!! During WW1 the two sides had a ceasefire and had a soccer game...next day back to killing each other for what?? Great reaction!! I really liked the "Charlie Brown" piano playing..Flake has another video coming out i believe November 15th?? Thanks again
It took me a second to realize he was singing in English. The weird thing is from what people who knew John said about him. I have a feeling he would approve and love this, even more so since we don't fully get it. lol
You kinda forgot that he is a member of Rammstein in the end huh? It was meant to go dark . They all are really great artist each en every member, together or in their solo work. Never forget that! You need to see similar song by Till, Alle tage ist kein Sontag. It is another song commonly used in WWII. They used that phrase on postcards (premade generic military postcards which solders ware allowed to use.) Love your reaction videos. nice content!
Bloody hell Flake,that was a punch between the eyes of ever there was one and a voice positively dripping in sarcasm and justifiably so. Incredibly powerful.
Hi Rick, Never expected this Yeah, an eye opener.....I was expecting you'd do the FRANZ Rythm, version. Maybe you'd come around to it ? Just the same, still good to watch.Thank you for sharing..
I am watching/reading these three signs about "ability - motivation - attitude" on multiple of your videos and after thinking over and over again about it, I come to the conclusion, that motivation determines why you do something, rather than what you do. I needed to bring that out somehow...
What Flake has to say about the creation of the album. "Christmas is hell. It starts with the gingerbread that melts away on the shelves at Netto in late summer, the civil war-like conditions on Sundays when the shops are open, the terrible music and the cloying movies and ends with the mendacious talk about love and peace. And then you still need presents. While the children are being showered with plastic garbage from China, it's incredibly difficult for the adults, i.e. my wife, to find something suitable. “We're not getting each other anything this year!” Haha, that sounds good, but I never want to see those disappointed faces on Christmas Eve again. By chance, I recorded some piano pieces for a movie at the end of last year and still had some time. So I recorded a Christmas song and quickly sang it myself. It was supposed to be a present for my wife, and I'm most happy with the children's home-made curiosities. Illuminated spectacle holders or something. Unfortunately, I don't have the patience. Why should you actually give presents for birthdays and Christmas? Don't you like your loved ones just as much on the other days? And I can't really put a song like that on the gift table in a festive way. In any case, I played the song to my wife that very evening, telling her that it was a Christmas present. I think she was pleased, at any rate as a young modern woman she immediately put the song on the Internet and soon the first comments came flooding in. One user, or whatever it's called, said that if there was an album of it, he would buy it. That was enough to spur me on and I sat down at the piano again to record the songs I knew. Luckily, I still had the songbook from the Christmas carol sing at Union, a Berlin soccer club. The lyrics were in there. When I listened to the result, I was a bit disappointed myself, my voice didn't sound that appealing in the long run. So I asked some of my colleagues and friends if they would sing a song for me. Of course, no one had been waiting for this question and so most of them didn't have time. Others, understandably, wanted nothing to do with Christmas. I actually think the songs are terrible too. But what's the saying? Don't complain, do better! And then I found a few guests who enjoyed taking part: Joey Kelly, Doro Pesch, Stumpen from Knorkator, Tausend Tonnen Obst, Andrea Hüber-Rhone, Micha from In Extremo, Jenny Rosemeyer, Käptn Peng, Icke & Er and Farin Urlaub. I need that now too, but maybe more people will come, then we'll do a second part. Christmas always comes around, there's nothing you can do. Thank you and best regards Flake"
During the summer tour, I saw a picture of Flake posing next to a Free Palestine banner. That should be the biggest tell of why he made this song and video. He's always struck me as a sensitive and empathetic guy, so it's no wonder why it comes through in his artistic choices.
Flake isn’t a singer but he is an extreme talent and he made a depressing Christmas album for a reason. It might be the only Christmas album I will ever like, because I hate Christmas music.
Flake not going to win any singing awards but he nails it for emotional impact, love it and the production is epic ..cheers Rick
Cheers 🍻
I love Flake for his personality and sarcasm.. perfect❤❤😊
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Flake is a pacifist...this video is so powerful!! During WW1 the two sides had a ceasefire and had a soccer game...next day back to killing each other for what?? Great reaction!! I really liked the "Charlie Brown" piano playing..Flake has another video coming out i believe November 15th?? Thanks again
Thanks for watching
Newest one dropped today!
Flake is the best...
It took me a second to realize he was singing in English. The weird thing is from what people who knew John said about him. I have a feeling he would approve and love this, even more so since we don't fully get it. lol
You kinda forgot that he is a member of Rammstein in the end huh? It was meant to go dark . They all are really great artist each en every member, together or in their solo work. Never forget that!
You need to see similar song by Till, Alle tage ist kein Sontag. It is another song commonly used in WWII. They used that phrase on postcards (premade generic military postcards which solders ware allowed to use.)
Love your reaction videos. nice content!
Thanks
Bloody hell Flake,that was a punch between the eyes of ever there was one and a voice positively dripping in sarcasm and justifiably so. Incredibly powerful.
Powerful
To much war in the world We have to think it over.😥❤🙏
Hi Rick, Never expected this Yeah, an eye opener.....I was expecting you'd do the FRANZ Rythm, version. Maybe you'd come around to it ? Just the same, still good to watch.Thank you for sharing..
I'll do that one too
As far as I know, the first single by Flake, the keyboard player from Rammstein.
Figured that
I am watching/reading these three signs about "ability - motivation - attitude" on multiple of your videos and after thinking over and over again about it, I come to the conclusion, that motivation determines why you do something, rather than what you do. I needed to bring that out somehow...
It's there for everyone's interpretation. Hopefully it has a positive effect. 🙏🙌
Flake ❤
What Flake has to say about the creation of the album.
"Christmas is hell. It starts with the gingerbread that melts away on the shelves at Netto in late summer, the civil war-like conditions on Sundays when the shops are open, the terrible music and the cloying movies and ends with the mendacious talk about love and peace. And then you still need presents.
While the children are being showered with plastic garbage from China, it's incredibly difficult for the adults, i.e. my wife, to find something suitable. “We're not getting each other anything this year!” Haha, that sounds good, but I never want to see those disappointed faces on Christmas Eve again. By chance, I recorded some piano pieces for a movie at the end of last year and still had some time. So I recorded a Christmas song and quickly sang it myself. It was supposed to be a present for my wife, and I'm most happy with the children's home-made curiosities. Illuminated spectacle holders or something. Unfortunately, I don't have the patience. Why should you actually give presents for birthdays and Christmas? Don't you like your loved ones just as much on the other days? And I can't really put a song like that on the gift table in a festive way.
In any case, I played the song to my wife that very evening, telling her that it was a Christmas present. I think she was pleased, at any rate as a young modern woman she immediately put the song on the Internet and soon the first comments came flooding in. One user, or whatever it's called, said that if there was an album of it, he would buy it. That was enough to spur me on and I sat down at the piano again to record the songs I knew. Luckily, I still had the songbook from the Christmas carol sing at Union, a Berlin soccer club. The lyrics were in there.
When I listened to the result, I was a bit disappointed myself, my voice didn't sound that appealing in the long run. So I asked some of my colleagues and friends if they would sing a song for me. Of course, no one had been waiting for this question and so most of them didn't have time. Others, understandably, wanted nothing to do with Christmas. I actually think the songs are terrible too. But what's the saying? Don't complain, do better!
And then I found a few guests who enjoyed taking part: Joey Kelly, Doro Pesch, Stumpen from Knorkator, Tausend Tonnen Obst, Andrea Hüber-Rhone, Micha from In Extremo, Jenny Rosemeyer, Käptn Peng, Icke & Er and Farin Urlaub. I need that now too, but maybe more people will come, then we'll do a second part. Christmas always comes around, there's nothing you can do.
Thank you and best regards Flake"
Thanks 😊
During the summer tour, I saw a picture of Flake posing next to a Free Palestine banner. That should be the biggest tell of why he made this song and video. He's always struck me as a sensitive and empathetic guy, so it's no wonder why it comes through in his artistic choices.
Flake isn’t a singer but he is an extreme talent and he made a depressing Christmas album for a reason. It might be the only Christmas album I will ever like, because I hate Christmas music.