We loved this video because it is so clever and loved hearing Flake shine! Suesue is still perfecting the Til Hammer lol #rammstein #rammsteinreaction #tilllindemann #suesueandthewolfman
Rammstein grew up in Eastern Germany, where Western media was strictly prohibited. Nonetheless, many received Western radio stations in secret. That feeling is what this song represents.
I grew up in Eastern Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. I remember my family gathering at night to listen to Radio Free Europe and Voice of America on shortwaves, because it was our only connection with the real world. And also a criminal offense if caught.
Rammstein digs at the formerly GDR East Germany, where they grew up and Western Music was forbidden but could be reached through the Airwaves and people were listening though the government tried to bloc it constantly.
Except for certain regions in the extreme Northeast and Southeast, where "Western" airwaves were difficult to impossible to access. Those regions were jokingly called "valley of the clueless" by East Germans themselves.
@@norwaydude4798 actual communism definetly sucks. Though what many Americans call communism these days (read: democratic socialism) certainly does not.
If i see you i have a big smile on my face ! And when you react to Rammstein my smile is in my heard too cause i'm realy love Rammstein and all songs from them ! Love you both ! Greatings and love from germany ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Thank you for reacting to this! That song is fantastic, I love what happens with key changes by the end 😍 Kraftwerk vibes are so strong here - nostalgia hits so heavy! Have a wonderful day! ♥
When this song was released Rammstein had this song played on a large house facade, as a kind of puplic viewing, in Berlin. Several print media wrote about that. It was a great idea. Rammstein is unique !!
Good to hear. I'm sorry I thought you had all female household and didn't remember about you boys - sounds like you have great kids 👌 good mama and papa
Hoje como sempre foi: os ditadores têm um medo da rádio... Lembro-me da excelsa aliança religião-salazar (ambos com letra pequena, de propósito) durante a tremenda e negra ditadura em Portugal (1926-1974). O que eles tremiam com a rádio. padres e ditadores (com letra muito pequena, de propósito, mesmo a seguir ao ponto final!). Medo da verdade, da educação, da cultura, das ondas curtas, da vida! Nunca conseguiam dominar tudo: porque na rádio, há sempre uma voz que se levanta, há sempre uma voz amiga que luta. Obrigado pelo vídeo e obrigado, acima de tudo, pelos Rammstein.
I know you loved the synth on this track...but for me, Christophe Schneider's drumming comes thru so clear. That signature sound he gets from his custom DW Jazz Series kit! I too grew up with a radio on all the time. I had a record player too...lots of 45s! ***Flake...I promise I'll get to the post office soon...I'm sending you Flake's biography!
Maybe somebody allready wrote it, but the 'attention, attention. This is berlin königs wusterhausen...'-part at the beginning of the song was the first few words ever sent on radio in Germany at 1923.
@@SueSueandthewolfman Hallo from germany! If you love Kraftwerk,then you have to listen to the group "Yello" with Bostich live in Berlin 2016! And listen to the group "Underworld" with Born Slippy live in Berlin (Electronic Beats TV)! I now you will like it very much! Super Electronic Music! Greetings from germany! 👍👋❤️
@@SueSueandthewolfman Hallo from germany! And the group "Faithless" - God is a Dj ( live at Alexanda Place 2005)! +the song Insomnia live # last concert ever! Thank you!👍👋❤️
Just found you guys and I really like your reactions. I'm a major Rammstein fan and I fell in love ❤️ with this song the minute I heard it even my though my favorite song 🎵 by them is Sonne. Your fur babies are adorable
For them, better this Weiner Blut with English lyrics and explanation of the story behind the song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a82IBbhTWOg.html
About the for many Americans "controversial"… "Ahhhh… naked titties!"… breastfeeding scene: In German breastfeeding a baby is called "Ein Baby stillen"… meaning the baby gets silent ("still" in German, like in the famous christmas tune "Stille Nacht" - "Silent Night") after crying loud to be fed. Btw., I loved it, when you laughed about it ;) But "stillen" also has another meaning as e.g. in the German phrase: "Seine Neugier stillen", which translates into English as "satisfying your curiosity". So the radio on the breast of the woman to me is actually depicting the last meaning metaphorically and is not at all a shocking picture.
You are doing really well. You can only understand the text and the allusions in it if you grew up in East Germany like the band members. We were locked in by borders and couldn't travel to western countries. However, we could receive radio from western Germany and English and American music was extremely important to us. As for the nudity, it's not as disturbing in Europe as it is in America. We're much more relaxed about it.
I really enjoy your reaction videos - becaus you honestly listen to the song and watch the video with full attention - and you don't try to be perfect in scene. It's just a honest reaction without the "how do I look on camera attitude", which other reaction channels often have. As a German I love Rammstein (have been at their concert in Prague because all the German tickets were sold out this summer...) and I have dear American friends in New Jersey and they also love Rammstein. Keep on going - it's so entertaining watching your reaction and I'm reliving the feeling of the songs through you. Thumbs up 🙂
It reminds to to my youth in communism. I know what Til sings about. There was a station in the free city of West Berlin called Rundfunk in amerikanischen Sektor (abbr. RIAS engl. Broadcast in the American Sector). The greatest idea of the States Department to provides the sound of d freedom in the harkness.
to end your struggle with german greetings: just say "Moin". Every German will understand it and you don't have to bother wether it is morning, evening or night - it is timeless greeting for the whole day :D
Saying you don't know much about other members of the band. Guitarist Richard Kruspe has a sideline band calked Emigrate. check them out, i really like some of thei stuff. Till guest sings on a couple of songs too. They sing in English also. 😉
Most of Rammstein's music videos are full of symbolism and references to history, etc. The band members are from East (communist) Germany. Till is made up in the style of the Berlin interwar cabaret, the police chief is in the uniform of an interwar policeman (but the same uniform was also used during Nazism). East Germans could not travel to the world. Therefore, radio broadcasts "became for their ears their eyes". It's all about the desire for freedom. But instead of a straightforward depiction of the struggle for political freedom, an analogy (metaphor) is used with women's desire for freedom - emancipation. The 1960s were tumultuous - women demonstrating, burning their bras, etc. The naked woman on the barricade is a reference to the famous painting "Liberty Leading the People" by the French painter Eugène Delacroix. Rammstein also like to play with words (which can only be understood by someone who knows German well). For example, the German word "stillen" is translated as "to comfort, to silence, to satisfy", but also as "breastfeed" (see "Stille heimlich fernes Weh" - "I quietly silence distant pain"). That's why there's a nonsensical scene (for non-Germans) where a woman breastfeeds a small radio. The woman in the room also satisfies herself sexually with the radio.
David, this post is awesome! Thank you so much. I intend to go back and comment more, however it’s 3:30 AM or thereabouts here where I am. I should be sleeping :-) but I want to respond when I wake up. Thank you again I really appreciate it and I hope you’re a member of the pack!
As Mani says, I'd love to hear what you think of 'Weiner Blut'. this version has English lyrics and a full explanation of the real life story behind the song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a82IBbhTWOg.html
Hi! Till's makeup is from the cabarets of the Berlin of the roaring 20's. If you know the movie "Cabaret" then you know where his makeup is coming from (especially in the scene with the song "Welcome"). The roaring 20's had the reputation to be especially kinky and decadent with a lot of orgies, crossdressers and homosexual activities. Especially in Berlin. The rest is a mixture of Third Reich and GDR (DDR), because both dictatorships restricted the receiving of radio waves from foreign countries with foreign ideas and foreign music. If you were caught listening to foreign (enemy) radio stations in the Third Reich this could be your end. In the DDR you were thrown in prison and / or your life was ruined by the secret service (Stasi). In both states the radio was the life line of the people for listening to modern western music that was forbidden in both dictatorships. Despite of those threats the most people in the GDR watched west-TV and listened to west-radio. There was an area in the east, where no western TV and radio waves were getting to. That area was called "Tal der Ahnungslosen" (valley of the clueless) by the east Germans. The women protesting and going over the top with bare breasts and the women turning over the car were part of the women's rights movements. Then they had written on posters and their body in the 1960's & 1970's the slogan "My body belongs to me" (part of the pro abortion movement inside the womens rights movement of the 1960's and 70's). In the video they had written on posters and bodies "My Radio belongs to me". In the same women's rights direction goes the scene with the complaining man (about the food) and the woman throws him to the ground. But to be honest: I don't know, why they brought up that women's rights stuff in the context with their song about the radio. Maybe the radio helped spreading those political ideas back then, too. The music was in big parts a homage to the sound of the band "Kraftwerk" and their songs about radio waves and the radio itself (partly integrated into songs like "Autobahn"). My recommendation: The band "Kraftwerk" and their song "Autobahn". If possible, take one of the latest versions. If possible from one of their latest life events with the 3D animation of the German highway in the background. Greetings Mega 👋😇👋 PS: "fernes Weh" means literally translated "distant pain", right. But in this case it is an unusual, artistic version of the German word "Fernweh" (Wanderlust, travel nerves, travel bug, to have itchy feet). All those English expressions and words for Fernweh (even the imported German word Wanderlust) aren't catching the real meaning of "Fernweh". It isn't just the wish to travel somewhere. It's like a sweet (at the same time wistful) yearning and thinking about distant places.
Hi! This is a fantastic post :-)! Thank you so much. I want to read it further and comment but it’s almost 4 AM here in the states. I will go back and read it again and comment soon as I found everything you said very interesting and pertinent! Thank you so much for watching and I hope you are part of the Wolfpack!
It´s so catchy! One question - What´s that noise in the background? It´s in all of your videos. Is it possible that your cam is running with image stabilization? It needs to be turned off if you use it on a tripod (or it's mounted in some other way)
I’ll check when we get back We use a clip on video camera so it’s not that It could be my air conditioner in that room I’ll make sure it’s off then see if that’s the issue thanks Peter BTW miss your music
In addition to the ban on watching Western media in the GDR, he uses the style of the 1920s and the term world receiver to point out the ban on listening to foreign broadcasts under Hitler and what significance this had for the people.
western music was not entirely forbitten in east germany but was rarely played on the radio, unless the lyrics represented left-wing ideas. thanks for your reaction.
"Stille heimlich fernes Weh" is totally wrong translatet: not "Secret silence, distant pain", but "I satisfy my longing to travel/see the world" or something else.
Hello dear Wolfman & Suesue! It is evening here now (the Netherlands) while I am watching this, I’m fine! I hope that you are fine too! I might have missed it (I am not able to watch all your videos right away), but is your memory back again? I hope so! I am the same age as you! Radio and 3 tv channels, I recognize it! Do you remember trying to record your favorite song? You had to wait for hours for it to be broadcasted.. then pressing the 2 buttons for recording (cassettes/tape - you would hear the sound of it at the beginning of the song.. and then, halfway during the song, someone would enter your room, loudly asking something😂. Recording ruined, haha
Thank you Erika! Yes I remember those days very well :-) and the many cassette tapes I had with partial songs that I liked from the radio :-) I am starting to get my memory back but it’s moving very slow. I’m have trouble sleeping and right now it’s actually 4 AM where I am. As I think I told you I have been to the Netherlands outside of Amsterdam and in Amsterdam. I love it there. I used to work for a company in a small town in the Netherlands. Anyway thank you again and I’m so glad you’re part of the Wolfpack-Wolfman
@@SueSueandthewolfman Bless you too! I really hope you will recover well💕 I was born and raised in Amsterdam, now living in Rotterdam (more to the south). I’ve travelled quite a lot, but I have never been to the US 🙈.. it is on my bucket list! Glad to be part of the pact! Please take care!
@@ericavantilburg6252 Thank you Erica! I do hope you get to visit the States at some point. It’s an amazing place full of amazing people !! You’ll love it! Just a small piece of advice, depending on where you go remember that America is a huge place I would say pick one area you want to visit and stick with that. Either coast is nice! Depends on what you like
@@ericavantilburg6252 The company I worked for in the US is based in Zutphen in the Netherlands, I got to visit the home office for a week and loved it.
"stille heimlich fernes weh" - "Secret Silence, Distant Pain" The translation is not correct there. It only translate the single words, not the meaning of the sentence. "secretly satisfy the longing for distant places" Stillen (satisfy) can also mean breastfeed, because you satisfy the hunger of the baby. That is why the woman is breastfeeding her radio as a pun.
Rammstein grew up in the DDR. There it was forbidden to listen to certain songs. Just like in the Third Reich. That's why you see pictures from the Nazi time and pictures from the GDR time. One has read very carefully between the lines there. Many were huge music fans by listening to the radio of the West stations (Federal Republic of Germany).
What i see is a Putin lover troll, go home in the east and stay there. Sorry for Suesue and Wolfmen, i love your reactions to Rammstein. But we have to contradict to that.
