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Bah ha ha, Rammstein, so happy
Jun. 5th, 2006 08:48 pmPeople who don't speak German miss out on so much awesomeness from Rammstein.
My sister Victoria likes them "because they're so dark and death-metal, it's funny." Bah. She doesn't bother to translate everything.
I'll grant that many of the lyrics are truly dark and disturbing, but that's cause they're like German fairytales. Bad Things happen, Bad Things haunt the night.
But it's poetry, and creative and wonderful, SO much of the time. They reference the poems of Goethe, for heaven's sake! (Not Faust, but Der Erlenkonig and Heidenroslein.) The phrasing is beautiful, the stories well-written.
Heck, even Morgenstern - in the end there is NOTHING truly dark about that song. It seems like it with the repeated lines "You - you are ugly" and "Throw a warm light in her awful face - tell her she is not alone." It turns out to be an illusion... "And the star wishes to shine on the beloved mine. Warms the breast that shakes me, where life beats with the heart to see that she is wonderfully beautiful."
My sister Victoria likes them "because they're so dark and death-metal, it's funny." Bah. She doesn't bother to translate everything.
I'll grant that many of the lyrics are truly dark and disturbing, but that's cause they're like German fairytales. Bad Things happen, Bad Things haunt the night.
But it's poetry, and creative and wonderful, SO much of the time. They reference the poems of Goethe, for heaven's sake! (Not Faust, but Der Erlenkonig and Heidenroslein.) The phrasing is beautiful, the stories well-written.
Heck, even Morgenstern - in the end there is NOTHING truly dark about that song. It seems like it with the repeated lines "You - you are ugly" and "Throw a warm light in her awful face - tell her she is not alone." It turns out to be an illusion... "And the star wishes to shine on the beloved mine. Warms the breast that shakes me, where life beats with the heart to see that she is wonderfully beautiful."
