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Amerrrrrika, it's wunderbarrrrr

 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
15:59 / 02.09.04
video for Rammstein' new single.

lyrics in German and in English [scroll down in both]

could have been broadcast in Athens and outside the Republi-klan Party NY Con.
 
 
Wanderer
03:18 / 03.09.04
You really think so? It struck me as critical of america. showing various cultures flourishing juxtaposed with corporate artifacts. Ill have to get a translation to be sure, but I thought it sarcastic. America is mostly represented, both in the song and in the video by consumerist icons. The "sometimes war" toward the end is a statement IMHO on how we excuse and trivialize our conquests by citing our way of life. Finally, the "moon landing" turns out to be a fake in the end-even our achievements have become nothing more than empty commercial creations. that's how I saw it anyway
 
 
Wanderer
03:21 / 03.09.04
sorry, didn't see the english lyric link. I still thought it was a critique. "this is not a love song/ I don't speak my mother tongue"="cultures have been stripped for the sake of a fake corporate dream"
 
 
flufeemunk effluvia
04:17 / 03.09.04
Haha... That was great.
 
 
marwood
16:32 / 05.09.04
I don't like hearing Rammstein in English, it just feels odd to me.


And the first time I heard that I could have sworn they sung 'Coca-Cola, Wonderbra'..
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
20:03 / 05.09.04
halo: that's it, first it's "wunderbar", then "wonderbra", then "sometimes war".

wanderer: that's exaclty why I think it should have been broadcast in those events...
 
 
marwood
21:49 / 05.09.04
Thats good.
For a moment I thought I was getting a bit errm, preoccupied...

Either way, I like the song. Evily catchy.
 
 
Grey Area
14:08 / 06.09.04
The lyrics lose a lot in translation...the metre works in the German version, and there's a whole raft of dark innuendo that doesn't seem to make it into the English text. Which is par for the course, I guess.
 
 
Wanderer
18:59 / 06.09.04
ah. when you said "could have" I assumed you meant as pro american propaganda.
 
 
Wanderer
19:01 / 06.09.04
ah. when you said "could have" I figured you meant as pro american propaganda. that and the thread summary calls it "patriotic". I just assumed you thatought it was pro american
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
02:55 / 07.09.04
good old [maybe not that in my case] Barbelith sarcasm. ;-)
 
 
Char Aina
02:02 / 09.09.04
so how do the RAF come into it?