Nearly all of Rammstein's songs are in German. However, the band has recorded English versions of Engel "Angel" , Du hast "You have", which is most commonly confused with "You hate", since "hast" and "hasst" sound phonetically identical. In the English version of the song, the lyric is translated to "You hate" for stylization purposes.
There is also a cover of a song, Schtiel , Aria entirely in Russian. In addition, the songs Amerika , Stirb nicht vor mir Don't die before I do and Moskau "Moscow" contain not only German verses, but also English and Russian choruses, respectively; Te quiero puta!
Oliver Riedel commented that, "German language suits heavy metal music. French might be the language of love, but German is the language of anger". The lyrics of Rammstein and above all their talk by singer Till Lindemann are an essential element of music and shape the perception by fans and a wider public.
Wordplay is a fundamental component of Rammstein's lyrics. In many instances, the lyrics are phrased such that they can be interpreted in several ways. In the song, the traditional affirmative response, Ja "Yes" , is replaced by its negation Nein "No". The final repetition of this line further perverts the meaning of the original vows through a minor change in the wording Willst Du, bis zum Tod der Scheide Will you, until the Death of the vagina The song starts, in fact, with a play on words: Du Du hast Du hast mich This line is often mistaken for "You hate me", because in German, there is only a very subtle distinction hast is pronounced slightly softer than hasst between the pronunciation of Du hasst which means "you hate" and "Du hast" which means "you have".
The word game is later resolved as the line is completed; Du hast mich gefragt "You [have] asked me". Confusingly, the band did also make an English version of the song named "You hate" which was not translated directly from "Du hast". While many arguments about "Du Hast" are around, it is known that Rammstein used this wording to mislead and create humour in the song.
It was a play with the pronunciation of words, causing many non-native speakers of German to be confused. Rammstein has achieved particular fame not to mention notoriety for its hugely over-the-top stage show, using so many pyrotechnics that fans eventually coined the motto "Other bands play, Rammstein burns! After an accident in the Arena in Berlin where some burning decoration parts fell on the audience 27 September the band used professionals to handle the pyrotechnics; Lindemann himself is now a licensed pyrotechnician who spends entire songs engulfed head-to-toe in flames.
He has suffered multiple burns on his ears, hair and arms. The heat is so intense that on occasion, people have been carried out of Rammstein concerts suffering from heat exhaustion, and lighting gantries have been seen glowing red-hot from repeated fireball hits.
The variety of the pyrotechnics can be seen in a recent concert playlist, which includes such items as "Lycopodium Masks", "Glitterburst Truss", "Pyrostrobes", "Comets", "Flash Trays" and "Mortar Hits". The band's costumes are equally outlandish. During the Reise, Reise tour, they wore Lederhosen , corsets and vague military uniforms with steel helmets, while during the Mutter tour the group kept to the themes of the album artwork and descended onto the stage from a giant uterus while wearing diapers.
According to Kruspe, the on-stage wackiness is entirely deliberate Rammstein's motto according to Schneider is: "Do your own thing. And overdo it! The aim is to get people's attention and have fun at the same time: "You have to understand that 99 percent of the people don't understand the lyrics, so you have to come up with something to keep the drama in the show.
We have to do something. We like to have a show; we like to play with fire. We do have a sense of humor. We do laugh about it; we have fun We take the music and the lyrics seriously. It's a combination of humor, theater and our East German culture, you know? Their onstage antics have also led them to trouble. Kruspe as a side project, due to disagreement with Universal records label. It was recently announced that the German pop singer Nena, author of "99 Luftballons" "99 Air Balloons" , will be doing an album of covers named Cover Me in which it will feature a Rammstein cover of the song " Ein Lied ".
Till Lindemann appears as a guest singer on the Apocalyptica album Worlds Collide. Lindemann sings the German version, making his song the only German-language song on Worlds Collide. Rammstein singles traditionally also have a great quantity of remixes, particularly often from Clawfinger and Meshuggah.
The original Herzeleid album cover. The New York Times described Rammstein's music as a "powerful strain of brutally intense rock… bring[ing] gale-force music and spectacular theatrics together". The members have not been shy about courting controversy and have periodically attracted condemnation from morality campaigners.
Their stage act earned them a night in jail in June after a liquid-ejecting dildo was used in a concert in Worcester, Massachusetts. Back home in Germany, the band has faced repeated accusations of fascist sympathies because of the dark and sometimes militaristic imagery of their videos and concerts, including the use of excerpts from the film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl in the video for " Stripped ".
Until , Germany like Japan was swimming against global trends by hanging on to a relatively defiant CD market: in , the IFPI reported that physical sales made up Now that streaming is the biggest generator of recorded music income there, German managers do not want to be left gnawing on the greying bones of unreasonable legacy deals from the days before the digital boom.
The issue in this instance is not the royalty rates paid by streaming services and if they could be higher, but how much of that revenue the labels themselves are holding on to. Managers and lawyers for massive domestic acts including Rammstein, Die Toten Hosen and schlager star Helene Fischer want to meet the biggest labels in Berlin next month to thrash this out. During this tour, Rammstein got in trouble with the local police.
At their show on Halloween , the band members played almost naked and were dragged off stage one by one, which led to the concert ending after three songs. This was the band's last performance in After the festival appearances, Rammstein would have performed in Japan and Germany. All of these dates ended up getting cancelled because Schneider perforated his ear drum and was not allowed to fly or be exposed to loud music and explosions for well into the year.
Despite the aforementioned injury, Rammstein already resumed playing in early April. Their first show on 10 April was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was the band's first performance in the country, and their whole show was broadcasted on an Argentinian radio station. Parts of some songs were also broadcasted on TV. Their next show on 15 April marked the band's first performance in Brazil. At their next Brazillian show, on 17 April , the audience acted very displeased with the band.
They booed them, showed their middle fingers and threw junk onto the stage. Their headline show on 21 April marked the band's first performance in Mexico. At an unknown date, a press conference took place at a record store, with a signing session for fans afterwards. When the band arrived, a big riot was going on with armored police keeping people at bay.
The band managed to get into the store, where the local police chief urged them to go to the roof and speak to the fans in order to calm them down. If they did not comply, they would get arrested. Till spoke jumbled Spanish into a megaphone from the store's roof, and the fan riot eventually calmed down. In June, the band returned to the USA for another headline tour.
Their fully English song Stripped debuted during this time. The band also ran into trouble with the police on multiple occassions. They had to stay in jail for five hours, after which their bail got paid. The incident did have repercussions for the both of them, as they had to return to Worcester's court throughout the tour, and later, every time they entered the US again.
From September the band rented Haus Weimar in Heiligendamm. The house had absolutely no interior so the band had to install a kitchen and toilets, buy beds and cupboards. During the time all songs, which were written here, ended up on the album. The band stayed here until December and went to Berlin afterwards, where they kept on working a little bit on the songs. The band was also searching for a recording studio. Olli explained the requirements: "It is supposed to be abroad.
The drums should be able to be recorded there so we can play together and change things. And it should be beautiful. On 16 April , the band played a concert exclusive to members of their official fanclub.
All the songs performed were early versions of songs that were to be released on the following album s. The band recorded all songs here in six weeks. During the recordings, Richard became such a control-freak, that the band nearly split up. Schneider stated: "We reached the limit when it became impossible to mention the name "Richard" without adding an "idiot" or "asshole"! But as soon as it came to music, Richard was the last person we wanted to listen to. He needed a good lesson!
The band got help from Ronald Prent, who also mixed both previous albums: Herzeleid and Sehnsucht. The label invited journalists to the studio to listen to six different songs, one of them being Sonne , then still known as Klitschko. Rammstein's Europe tour had a spectacular downbeat in the city of Gelsenkirchen. What is it like to experience a Rammstein concert for the first time? DW music editor Rick Fulker describes his baptism of fire.
The German shock rockers might seem stylistically light years away from classical music — but only at first glance. Take a closer look, and listen, and you'll hear intrinsic similarities, says DW's Rick Fulker. A music video for Rammstein's new song "Deutschland" shows band members dressed as concentration camp prisoners.
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