BASIC ASS REACTIONS | Rammstein - "Angst"
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2022
- After almost 2 years of you guys asking, I can finally do a reaction to Rammstein because there's finally something new I haven't seen/heard...
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I love the fact that when Till smashes the TV, everything stops being black and white and the colour comes back. That's a nice touch...
Insanely good touch in the visuals.
Man, thank you for pointing that out. I completely missed it.
That is amazing!
That's a great detail. The TV is the source of the black and white thinking that's feeding the fear.
so the media gives us many wrong idea's ... deeper meaning.. but why are they eating "negerzoenen" :)
Yeah, that also serves a metaphor. The people receive only black and white information from the media. Something is either right or wrong, good or evil, ... but once he smashes the TV all the nuance comes back.
I love it when Till's voice sometimes gets angry. He does it too seldom. A whole song with this singing would have a different energy.
That moment of this song reminds me of the chorus of "Puppe."
@@devenscience8894 yes, exactly. a whole song in that style would be great
Its not agry voice...hes scared😂
@@juliamichels9696 vorm schwarzen Mann
As good as the English captions might be I don't think they will ever do Rammstein justice. Till uses so much wordplay/subtext/double meanings, that there is always more than one way to interpret what a song is actually about. Even for native speakers.
That being said, I really like that song. I even Like that album more than the last one.
Also there really aren't many Bands around in Metal that could rival Rammstein when it comes to production IMO.
Well, these in particular aren't that bad at least, iirc.
The lyrics for Zick Zack translate perfectly to Dutch. So that's one of the few songs i understand entirely.
We will miss Rammstein so bad 😭
There are at least five layers of criticism. Media, Goverments, Social media, American fear, German fear.
My interpretation: The meaning of the "black man" should be translated as "the boogie man". The Evil who is using fear and the word tricks to manipulate his victim. Look, he is standing on rostrum platform, where are the microphones connected trough red cables to tv and computers. On that rostrum platform there is a symbol/mark - the wheel, the ship wheel, so it means that he has to be someone very important like a president, etc. As we saw he was in straitjacket before (which means that we deal with someone who act as kind of normal person but his hided plan, goals, intentions are insane as like people who are in mental hospital).
Those people on the beginning, who cutting their lawn/grass - their lifestyle - single family house, huge grass, white fences, meat on grill, their clothes, etc - it reminds me American life style. Also, the children - the cheerleaders are also the symbol of America. And what they usually do? They are happy when their team is winning, and they always perform their show to distract you from the things in background, they keep entertained you to take your focus from the truth.
America is the most powerful, most influential country on the world, then I think this is about how America government is manipulating everyone using words like wa.r, terr.orists, vi.ruses, etc, they're doing it trugh TVs and computers, to call the fear in you.
As we see, on the beginning people were open and nice to each other (in old days, long time ago, people trust each other, they didn't lock their houses, they didn't have security video cameras, guns, etc) And now the boogie man continue to do a brain wash to everyone who is watching tv, so brain washed people started to have paranoia "needs" - needs to build the walls to close alone inside their houses. They start to pay for it. They want to pay for security cameras, security fence, but he boogie man continue his tricks, he gives allow to have/buy a gun so people have need to buy one and finally the people are against them self - in paranoia they kill each other.
So the meaning of this song is the warning about media, tv, computer (articles in internet, games, movies, music) - that all of this are used to manipulate us. They give us easy entertained, to force us to put away on side our thinking. They want to sleep our rational logical thinking.
Play again this videoclip and keep in mind, what just I've said.
8:45 that part gets me every time.
At first,second and third time I cried watching and listening to that part. It combines the overwhelming emotional screaming of Angst (fear) with really satisfying visuals. These girls "dancing" is my favourite part of the video, it's intriguing, confusing, yet pleasant to see these sadistic smiles coming to you by little jumps and doing that hand move altogether.
A whole unique experience tbh
Tbh yeah, those are my two favourite moments in the video I think. The desperate scream, and the evil cheerleaders! But I feel like we don't talk enough about the band members cutting meat (?) with those mechanical movements!
The fact that the bass doesn't wait for the chorus, just thunders through, _really_ adds to the maniacal feel.
Just my opinion, Rammsteins videos, more current ones, are genuine works of art.
Man, so much subtext and double meanings in this one. Like it, love the album as a whole.
Impresionante el disco
@@josetomasfreire7261 0lllllllllllllll
Almost every song of them is loaded with subtext and double meanings.
Almost every song of them is loaded with subtext and double meanings.
I love the ambiguity of the lyrics here. "Schwarzer Mann" figuratively translated as "boogeyman" but literally also as "black man". Even though it clearly doesn't refer to skin color in the original German meaning it could very well be translated that way and refer to the "fear" of refugees etc.
Probably the deepest and best lyrics I've heard from Rammstein to date.
I can just speak from my personal experience, when thinking about the "schwarzen Mann" as a kid, my mental image was always an evil man clad all in black clothes, never a person of color.
I honestly believe it's not about skin color historically because back when this nursery rhyme was created (probably centuries ago) there were hardly any people of color in Germany and they certainly were perceived more as a curiosity than as a threat. It's just a perfect fit for the lyrics of this song and to leave people thinking about their fear of the "black man"....
Guess its due to the social background. We had a black kid in kindergarden and if we played the game "who is scared of the black man" it was always him. Ofc if you don't know any POC (which is not uncommon for german kids in rural areas), you can't make that link. And while I would agree, that it isn't meant to refer to a POC historically, the link to a black human is closer than to death in our current society.
Amen
Non-German here, I can kinda see what you and others mean regarding the childhood interpretations, and like @Patrick O said about social background and experiences too, I would add also that I think the era during which one grows up would also be an important factor?
As in what generation one falls into and the wider 'secondary' or 'proxy' socialisation via the media of the time and what media one consumes or is exposed to, and the subsequent social memes, norms and values an individual, a family, a school class, a community etc derive from the various media.
I think, from my own memories and personal experience (fwiw!), that children, especially younger children, the type who are likely to fear a "boogieman/bogeyman" (probably aged up to about 8 maybe?) tend to take things quite literally - and within the context of what primary and secondary socialisation each individual has experienced.
So for me, when and where I grew up, the term used was "Bogeyman". Incidentally, where and when I grew up a "bogey" also meant, well, I guess the dryish snot that kids might pick from their nose. And I guess what adults would get too if they pick their noses! (their own noses I mean, not adults picking children's noses, that would be really gross and weird!). I think that in USA they call it a "booger"? But am not sure of that.
But anyway because of this bogey connection, I always imagined that a "bogeyman" was a real man, but a bad man, of any age [that childhood me classed as a "man" not a "boy",] probably anywhere over 20!!! But if I had the misfortune to encounter the bogeyman, I 'knew' he picked his nose and then probably tried to wipe the bogeys on people!!!
Well, I totally forgot my point I was originally trying to make, but instead had a trip down memory lane! Thanks? Sorry? Idk?!!
it is not about the fear of refugees, well maybe in a 'fotress europe' way. It is more about that the refugees actualy have a reason to be afraid, while the western shit their penties being rich.
Small thing I haven't seen anyone point out, they use the term "backs are wet" multiple times in the song. If you combine "wet" and "back" you get a common derogatory slur used in the US towards immigrants who have illegally crossed the US-Mexico border.
They actually make totally clear, that they refer to the doubled meaning as "black man". Too many references to ignore it, like the black refugees or the sweets they eat at the end, which were known as "Negerkuss" (negro kiss) for decades. This is social critic like so many of Rammstein's songs. Well done.
i love how they emphasize that doubled meaning with the video being shot in black/white/grey with only red as a real colour...which has a strong nazi-feeling to me.
@@rapfpopapf Yesss! I immediately got Nazi vibes from the colours, which is probably very much on purpose. Plus the woman and child, possibly as refugees, and the sweets, as you said.
Xenophobia isn't just an idea. It's an instinct.
And every dynasty uses the same trick.
wait what was the candy renamed to?
@@dungeonsynthh Schaumkuss (cream kiss)
I love that face when the guitars come in. Its the face of a fan who instantly knows "ah its gonna be *this* type of song" and instantly that head goes bobbin.😂 And indeed that last "Angst" is raw and full of emotion that comes from deep within. Yes we have heard Till do something similar on Puppe for example but not as powerful as this one. I LOVE IT😁
Just seen Rammstein on their new tour yesterday... OMG their set for this year's tour is INSANE.
Two shows back to back in the last two days. Totally got my money's worth. Such a great stage show, an awesome set list, and just two overall insane evenings.
Oh man, I’m seeing them in Oslo in July for the first time, apart from songs from this album, what other songs did they have on their set? My bf really wants to hear Feuer Frei 😅 but I said he shouldn’t be too certain of that one
@@mrstinyful The current setlist is (spoilers ahead):
-Music for the Royal Fireworks
-Armee der Tristen
-Zick Zack
-Links 2-3-4
-Sehnsucht
-Zeig dich
-Mein Herz brennt
-Puppe
-Heirate mich
-Zeit
-Deutschland
-Radio
-Mein Teil
-Du hast
-Sonne
-Engel (with Duo Jatekok)
-Ausländer
-Du riechst so gut
-Pussy
-Rammstein
-Ich will
-Adieu
So unfortunately no Feuer Frei :(
@@agp11001 Ah, I figured it was a long shot. But thank u so much for replying! This looks awesome!!
@@mrstinyful Trust me, it is ;) Enjoy the show!
Man I just realized what the ending was about... fuck me. He destroyed the TV and color came back more and more. Instead of everything being black and white, it has become nuanced.
Yeah, awesome touch on the visuals.
Agreed, that last scream from Till was one of the most expressive I've heard from him, was kinda surprised when I first heard it tbh
That guitar riff is something else!
Crazy, that your love for Rammstein even led you to take German classes and try to learn the language.
You have my great respect for that!
Because German is not easy for most Americans and most of them only have the prejudice that we all sound like the people in old WWII videos.
So, keep on learning and good luck! Learning new things is always good.
Small thing I haven't seen anyone point out, they use the term "backs are wet" multiple times in the song. If you combine "wet" and "back" you get a common derogatory slur used in the US towards immigrants who have illegally crossed the US-Mexico border.
As someone from the US who barely speaks any German, I'm genuinely curious how many German speakers might recognize this?
@@Very_Nice_and_Polite_Person I'm pretty sure, outside of the US almost nobody... I didn't know that.
@@Badner83 Always fascinating to me how Rammstein manages to cram so much hidden meaning into everything. Thanks for your feedback and helping to bridge the language gap.
I’m American saying Germans are the best, screw what everyone else thinks.
That's interesting because I've never heard anything but good about the German language as an American 🤷
that's just a proper proper Rammstein beat that hits so hard your grandmother feels it
It's only now that I've noticed that you've never reacted to a Rammstein song before. I don't think I subscribed to any other reaction-channel that didn't mention at least one Rammstein song. 😁 It has to be the quality of your work! (of course it is) Bloody respect! 🖤
Finally had a chance to listen to this whole album, was not what I was expecting. It was so damn good. It's now on my morning wakeup playlist. So damn good. One of the best albums they have put out imho. I look forward to it reaction on this one.
Dude, you need to reply to Zeit in the Zeit album. That video is legendary and brought me to tears. Their most powerful music video to date.
One thing great about these guys is they never disappoint, and a must see live.
For me tha scream in "Angst" and the part leading to that, sound a bit like the chorus in Puppe. Both give me chills.
I've witnessed many videos of till get vocally loud but never to that extent & obviously a very powerful message of what he's expressing as it hits home definitely w/ alot of countries. 🎸⚡⚡⚡
Oh sweet, Tank's an old Rammstein fan like me (1997 as well)! It seems like they just keep getting better with age. Angst is a beautifully crafted song and video, nice and heavy with great symbolism.
Can not wait to see them in August. It's been ten years since I saw them but it feels like a lifetime.
This is the best reaction I‘ve ever seen, Tank. 😂 The way you took your basecap of…showed how you felt this moment. Love it.
It's amazing to find someone who felt exactly what I felt. I've been listening to them since Hertzeleid, taken my pauses off them, reunited with their music a couple of times, and I had NEVER, EVER heard the feeling in Till's voice like that "ANGST", as well as the desperation in the previous "Die Rücken nass, die Hände klamm". My reaction was pretty much the same as yours. And every time I get to that part, it gets me so hard I get goosebumps and I need to rewind it and feed from it again and again. Greetings from San Juan, Argentina. Fantastic reaction, btw.
To be far Till has screamed or yelled like that a few times before. At the end of Heirate Mich, Puppe and at the end of Stein Um Stein. He doesn't do it often but when he does it's really powerful. He has this type of yell that's unique in a way without out it sounding like the typical death yells that so many have done already before. It just stands out on it's own, guess it helps that Till already has a unique voice.
I was at their concert 2 days ago. The energy those guys bring upon you is just amazing. Like at the beginning of this video. You get chills at the moment the riffs start of.
Sry for bad english
Great job Tank- always appreciate your honesty. I am so excited to see them again in the US in the fall!
Looking forward to this! 🤘🤘🤘Hopefully it doesn't get taken down, as I've heard that happens alot with the videos vs the live shows.
Finally a Rammstein reaction From you can’t wait for it 🤘🤘🤘🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
I love that you waited until a new video to give your opinion, so many reaction channels are so fake about what have they heard for the first time, you keep it real and you give a honest opinion about what you think.
Great song by Rammstein and great reaction video.
Man coming back from two Rammstein shows back to back, you really need to do a reaction to one of their live shows from the Stadium Tour. Just insane, production wise.
Another great reaction Tank! My first watch of the new video was on your channel! Till’s scream though wow it actually gave me chills! I’ve watched this video almost 100 times and I just noticed the dog at the end of the video! There is Soo much going on in the video it’s crazy! The visuals were unbelievable!
Some things to add for this song which i found interesting:
The "schwarzer Mann" doublemeaning is really interesting here cause it means "boogeyman" on one hand and translated word by word it means "black man" --> Leading to an interpretation that depicts people with darker Skin/imigrants as the boogeyman. While the people who believe such things and spread their hate/fear are the real boogeyman which is beautifully displayed by till strapped in a straightjacket inducing the fear through the red cables.
Furthermore i like how the whole video was filmed as black and white only the fear that was spreading to the people through the wires was red. At the End, as the TV broke and the image of the people in the barbed wire circle didnt exist anymore on the Horizon of thoughts for the people on the sofa, the color came back.
From my point of view it supports a picture of the contrast in society or the superficiality and hypocrisy many people show towards imigrants. If they are far away they say "oh yeah i love a multicultural society look at me i am so woke." But if people then come as refugees or imigrants they are the first ones to pull out a gun at the border.
On top of that i liked the detail with the snack at the and. These things are waffels with marshmallow fluff and chocolat glaze. In germany years ago these things were often referred to as "Negerkuss" which means "Negro kiss" in English. By now it changed to "Schaumkuss" "Foamkiss" for obvious reasons. For me this scene as drastic as it sounds depicts the western states feeding on the "Negros" as a critique on our western behaviour towards african people and cultures, robbing them from their ressources.
One more thing which stood out to me was the "USA" References by adding the cheerleading girls aswell as the weapons and the Brick Walls they built in the beginning. Immediately i had to think about "Trumps Wall" at the Mexican Border and everything surrounding the BLM Protests. So its not specific about Germany but more The Western States in general. Mixing Germany as their personal Country of Heritage and experience plus the USA as the biggest and most influential example of Western Societys to depict these circumstances as a much more broad problem affection not only a specific State/Country.
All in all a great song. I just love how Rammstein songs while you listen to them the Songs are just bangers but get elevated to another level and enriched with room to think about / interpretation if you watch the respective videos to it.
its not really the boogeyman actually, the Schwarzermann is more like, dirty low class laborer like chimney cleaners, that had a bad reputation, which in the third reich actually got branded directly over to " schwarzer man " as in " black man " in sense of skin color. Its like a folk lore you can find it in alot child books also im born in 1985 in kindergarden there have been actuall games " Wer hat Angst vorm Schwarzen mann " " who fears the black man " you have one child who is the black man or multipl ones, you have all this kids on one side of a square and the black man on the safe opposit side and you had to cross the space while the black man or mans run at you and dodge them if you got touched you became a black man too in the next round. and it had a specific phrase to start the game " wer hat angst vorm schwarzen mann " Spoken by the black men, " NO BODY " the others yell out " And if he comes ? " the black man replies " then we will run " by the others and game starts.
People get indoctrinated easily by xenophobia. It's human nature.
Either as an individual or a nation, censor the demagogue, or be eaten by brainwashed morons.
I am German. We played "Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann" often in the Kindergarten and elementary school. But never the "schwarzer Mann" was mentioned as a man of darker skin. We all thought the "schwarzer Mann" is a kind of creepy man dressed in black clothes with a black cape and a hood or a black giant hat. The translation in this context "wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann" definitely refers to this kind man, in English known as the bogey man. The expression "schwarzer Mann" translated word by word means "black man" never had a racist connotation to me nor to my classmates.
Words for people of dark skin color have been "Mohr", "Neger" and they haven't been called "Schwarze" (meaning blacks). The meaning of blacks referring to people of dark skin influenced the German language back in the 90s.
We have also a card game in Germany that is called "Schwarzer Peter" (black Pete). It also had never a racist connotation either. Black was referring to coal and the looser of the game was given a black face by the others (or at least a short black line made with a piece of coal. It is a referring to those chimney boys from poorer working class families.
@@TheTweegle We played that game when I was little, a word-for-word translation in Slovenian, I was actually really surprised when I recognised the reference in this song because I'd never thought of the origin- in a cultural or locational sense
In the wise words of my father originally talking about a Ministry album, "Some of the best music comes out of bad politics" This will forever remain true
Tank! I love those Basic Ass Reactions with the "live" feel + chat! Keep it up
Typisch Rammstein. Dafür liebe ich sie, für diese Härte was sie uns immer wieder da bieten 🤟🤟
That scream at the end always gives me chills. I love that I get chills from music.I keep telling my wife Rammstein reminds me of Type-O-Negative.. I get chills from them too!!
Greetings from Germany.
I agree. The sound goes a bit back to the roots and in this song i think it is really nice, i like the orchestral background too (like Mein Herz brennt), but i remembered the old albums like Herzeleid or Sehnsucht, and i absolutely appreciate it, because this were the albums i grew up with.
Stay as you are, i like your videos, thumbs up!
Always digging your reaction 🤘🤘
One of the OG bands that got me into metal
Fantastic reaction Tank, keep em pumpin'!
Watched this when it dropped live - love these guys. Love the video and song - briliant!
Love to see a true Rammstein Fan in the reaction genre!
Explanation about "black man" and "boogeyman": the lyrics mean both because as a child everyone was scared of the boogeyman and nowadays a few people (especially in Germany since the refugee crisis) are scared of black men who come to their country.
It's like some Americans are scared of Mexicans who cross the border.
Rammstein uses the boogeyman phrases because they're not related to racism just to explain the racism in the minds of those people.
The computers & wires represent social media and how people are loosing theirselfes by moving deeper and deeper into the vortex of such mindsets and the reason for all of that are algorithms who show you even more of such fearful fake informations just to keep you in front of the screen and therefore as a customer of their services.
In the end those slaves of obsession become "believers" who shoot each other until everything breaks apart.
The German children´s game "Wer hat Angst vorm schwarzen Mann" has nothing to do with black people in its origin. There are two theories: it refers to the death itself (represented by a man in dark/black leather clothes) or to "Der schwarze Tod (Pest)" ["Black death" (pestilence)]. The sickness is transfered when getting in contact with a sick person. And this is exactly how the game works. It starts with one "black man" and everyone tries to escape him. But if a player is touched by the "black man" he has to switch sides and becomes a "black man" himself. So more and more "black men" chase the rest of the players.
The fact that it refers to people with black skin and thus is racism is a common misconception of the modern times.
So in my opinion this song exactly describes this effect of "reinterpretation" of something that exists for generations. The "fear of the black man" is something that children learn for many, many generations - wihout necessarily getting the propper explanation what the black man exactly symbolizes. So with the memory of the "black death" fading and another topic being much more present (black people, refugees, and all the bad stereotypes surrounding them) it can be used to stigmatize a group of people.
In modern times demagogues use the "common knowledge" to change the context and meaning of concepts, sayings or connotation of words. This is a well known principle of demagogues and propaganda. Unfortunately I cannot remember from the top of my head how it is called ...
This song resonates with me with the recent prevalence of internet white supremacists picking up a gun from the supermarket and shooting up a church.
they have always been so damn amazing from every standpoint but this new album seems to really be a story they are telling and feels like they are coming from the heart not only with lyrics but the ideas for the videos are so damn amazing.
Tank misspeaking and giving the year as still 2020 is a mood. 🤣 I haven't heard this track yet, though I've seen the videos for the other singles, so I'm experiencing this for the first time too as a long time Rammstein listener!
I love the multiple meanings that can be taken from the lyrics not just on this song but the whole album in general. once again my fellow germans have knocked it out of the park!!!!!🤘
i agree withe you here it is sooo much back to the older days of Rammstein love it!
I was born in 1961 and from the age of 6 my parents said every evening, if you are not good the black man will get you this night
omg I've waited way too long for this one! hype!
Best live band i ever seen, will see them live again in Prague this coming sunday!
So, it is essentially an oooooold school scary nursery rhyme to get kids to behave (that then also got used by kids as a way to play tag). "Listen to your dad or the black man will get you" "Behave or the black man will grab you". Nowadays many politically-correct people will say "No, it's more like the bogeyman" but that's not true - the origin of the warnings/threats are old school great-grandmother era tales /threats/ scare tactics and are racist in a way that's shocking by today's standard but perfectly normal back then.
Rammstein takes this old fairy tale / kids game (which they do with many of their songs TBH) and give it a modern, relevant spin. It's used to reflect on fear of immigrants, fear of foreigners. All this fear is fed into us by politicians, media, lobbyists, and so it turns even the most trusting, neighborly people into paranoiacs that will buy anything that is pushed onto them to "protect" themselves from threats that don't actually exist.
Another point in the old-school casual racism explanation: At the end of the video, they are sitting watching TV, eating chocolate-covered marshmallow treats. Up until very recently, these treats were called "N3gr0kisses" (you know what I mean) and are a popular treat with German kids. It just highlights the hypocrisy of people's fears while at the same time highlighting how deeply ingrained racism can be in everyday items and language.
I live in Belgium where we have those same treats but our name for it in Dutch was different. Replace the kisses with breasts and you got it.
Rammstein has such an awesome way of taking real stuff like this and making it into amazing songs with fantastic messages.
How recently was the name of those sweets changed in Germany? We have those same things in Finland. And when I was growing up in the 80s and early to mid 90s, they were still called n----kisses. I don't remember exactly when they changed the name to chocolate kisses, but I can't say it was recently. It must have been in the late 90s or early 00s. Definitely not after mid 00s. The artwork on the packaging was probably more racist than the name itself too.
@@506thLittleberry was sometime in the early 2000s
@@ZeAngryGerman I remember that as a kid when I visited germany, the name changed but people kept calling it that. To this day people will refer to them as n----tits over here. Not on the packaging but nobody will know what you're talking about if you use another name for them.
Thank you so much for this comment!
I've been learning German in school and I knew of the nursery rhyme they use here but when people started to say they are singing about the bogeyman I was actually surprised because I always thought exactly what you say here - it never occurred to me that 'schwarzer man' was not 'black man'. So when people told me, I looked it up and my dictionary says that the German word for bogeyman is 'Buhmann' or 'Butzemann' which confused me even more. When I searched for a translation of the nursery ryhme, however, it told me 'bogeyman'. It seems to me now that bogeyman and black man is or has been used synonymously in the German language which dictionaries obscure to hide racist ideas embedded in the language [which every country has. The discussion about the chocolate kisses shows that very well - looking at old advertisements and the production + brand history for these treats I cannot for the life of me understand how so many white people, even today, think that the name change is ridiculous.]
This band offers amazing artistc content! Musically, lyrically and visually! Provocative and raw. I love them!
Hey Tank, just wanted to let you know I do really enjoy your BAR videos a lot. A nice change of pace from your regular awesome content. Best wishes from Vienna, Austria!
love the basic ass reactions! you can upload more of them and clip it from the stream
They are so amazing... They are just having 3 concerts in Prague and although I live quite far away from the concert area, I honestly could hear the entire concert... Was sitting w a beer on my balcony and was just wishing I was there instead... :) but damn, they are loud as F :)
I love how Tank stops headbanging and wyling to the song cause the video/music catches him so much and often 😂😂❤️
Greetings from Germany 🤘
Great reaction bro!
Best regards from Germany 🤘🏻
Dude that scream at the end gives me goosebumps every time
and another masterpiece from Rammstein!
The lyrics are always as smart and sick as the music, i feel blessed to understand them 🙂✌️. Also, so far, i haven't seen a reaction, where someone recognized the sampling of the islandic football chant...😁✌️
You know a song is good whenever he takes his cap off. Love u Tank 🖤
i'm glad that you got to do a BAR of Rammstein's "Angst", fave track of the album and i'd dare put it on my top 20 fave Rammstein songs, that's how much i love it.
"Wer hat Angst vorm Schwarzen Mann?" is a game played by bigger groups of children, usually in schoolyards and the like, all over Germany since the middle ages. One child plays the 'black man' and stands opposite all the other children with some space between them. The child askes : "Who is afraid of the black man?" The others collectively answer "nobody". The child asks: "And what do you do when he comes?" and the others answer "we run!" Then everyone runs towards the 'black man' while the black man runs towards the others and tries to 'catch' them. Every child that is touched becomes part of the 'black man's' side and now has to catch others as well. The goal is to escape the growing number of catchers and make it to the other side of the field.
Scholars aren't quite sure about the origin of this play but the most widely accepted thesis is that the 'black man' represented death and the play itself resulted from and acted as a warning of the Black Death. Every child/person that is being touched by the Black Death becomes infectious and can in turn infect others.
The term "Schwarzer Mann" can be found in many literary sources and often refers to Death or the Devil. In other words it's a personification of everything that makes us afraid.
The way Rammstein use the term here is quite effective in my opinion.
Politicians, media and capitalism have been working together to extinguish people's fear within (a community) while directing it to something outside (we have to do this and that to keep you safe, you have to buy this and that to be safe from what is OUT there.)
Just think about building walls and fences to keep other people outside - why don't people argue about their other use of keeping people INSIDE?
I have no idea whatsoever if this was the intention behind the video, but what I see when I see the band members, all separated behind their walls, shooting at the televisions is them reclaiming their fears.
It pretty much says: Stop being afraid of what other people tell you to fear (especially people you don't know and who have an agenda in doing so) and start being afraid of how easily you are manipulated.
All of this can be easily translated onto the two major issues that concern society today. While the video puts a bigger focus on the topic of refugees, I think the use of 'Schwarzer Mann' is almost certainly used as a double metaphor that plays with the original meaning and modern understanding of the term "black" as a description of people (and no, "black" has not always been the term to describe people of African ancestry. To name one other example: In the renaissance it was used for people with dark hair and had a religious connotation - the blackness of the soul mirrored in a person's appearance)
Human nature needs to be actively fought and denied.
See: Weinstein et al.
I am late, but regarding walls:
Whenever Rammstein uses walls in their lyrics or videos you can be sure that they are certainly aware of their double use of keeping people in and out, or more generally - separated.
All the guys grew up in East Berlin, during the GDR, it's especially clear in the text to Radio.
At the end where Til smashes the TV with the mower, it goes from straight black and white to a bit more colour with every strike. It's more noticeable with the red. I think that's the metaphor for everything on TV these days is so black and white and by removing it from your life, then everything around you appears how it should be.
This music video had a surreal meaning for me; being in and out of hospitals and struggling with trying not to build walls and staying anger. The absorption of media is also there.
Rammstein means a lot to me! Very great band, and literally eye opening if you relate to ANY of their songs. Helped me inflect, at least.
Nice reaction Tank, as always. Greetings from Germany :)
Nice reaction, cant wait to see them on Saturday in Leipzig
Perfect diplay of power
So cool to get your take since you've been following them since the 90s.
I think the last time Till power screamed was in Weiner Blut
"Puppe" from their self titled. Sounds like Till is about to hyperventilate at some points.
@@sammitchell3657 good point. That's a good one too. I guess I feel like his most powerful scream was with wiener blut
A band you know is not going to let you down with a new video/album 🤘 love it,that riff with the gun shot sound behind is just so nice,Ramm, Bloodywood and the new upcoming slipknot it's a good year for music.
Brilliant song and video.
Angst is in my top 5 favourite Rammstein songs !
Es ist einfach ein geniales Video und ein geiler Song
First time I heard this song I was driving and right when I heard the real Viking chant I knew immediately my drive to Macdonald’s was going to be intense.
Hahahahahahaha
Met my wife when she was 15 and I was 25. Three years later we got married. Three children and 10 years later still going strong.
the new Album of Rammstein is the best of all time
I knew it, I saw the thumbnail than I thought I know that guy from some other videos but which one was it, now I remember, it was from the Electric (Eskimo) Callboy Reactions
Nice video man
Classic Rammstein. Exactly how I remember them sounding way back.
Wow, how did this not get pulled? Their songs are super secure
I subscribed because of this reaction!! Don't let your knowledge of the band and songs prevent you from doing other reactions to introduce others to RAMMSTEIN...this album is legitimately one of if not their best...Thanks for the great reaction
they go hard
The world owes me a Rammstein concert, I can't believe it's their last album, Logan's song set my soul on fire
No one said it is their last album
They said before its their last album and they even explained this one was made because they got bored at corona so its safe to assume its the last album, lets hope not but it can very well be the last one ever :(
@@justabunny999 They literally never said by words that this is their last album or the previous one. You think they would release an album because they got bored? Seriously? This band only releases when they feel like it they took a break for a decade!
Rammstein fan since 95. An Aussie soldier posted to Germany. I’m now 60. My grandkids love them to.
ok we all know if you throw your cap away the song is damn good god i love your reaction when you start head banging cause i know you like this song please more of this🤘🤘🤘🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
The best bend ever,next level music
I'm not a metal fan but Rammstein always fascinated me. It's truly remarkable they are able to remain their ambiguous and layered selves, and maintain relevance in such literal-minded and superficial times
I just want to throw in that Rammstein is ndh or neue Deutsche Härte which is not really metal it's 90% hard rock and 10% metal
The breakdown gave me chills
I hope we will see some more Rammstein reactions in the future!!! :))
Great reaction
Angst is honestly in my top 5 Rammstein songs, it's so damnes good
The whole album is great, as expected.
Dude love Rammstein!! This chorus is so fucking dark!!! I love it
If you listen to "Puppe", Till uses, let's call it, the same technique of singing/screaming during the refrain
Bro i have same words . hardcore fan here and Zeit is legendary in my opinion
Thank you for doing normal reactions without faking the whole thing. Especially to my fav band of all time.
at last u made this,
As hilarious as "funny Till" ("Mein Land", "Zick Zack", "Dicke Titten", his theatrics in the live version of "Puppe") and as touching as "melancholic Till" (Ohne dich, Schwarz, Seemann, etc.) can be, "angry Till" can be menacingly cool and i kinda wish he'd done that more often throughout their career. The way he screams "Alle haben Angst" in this song is giving me goosebumps, man. You can *feel* the fury in this moment.
Fun fact: Bryan Adams himself shot the photo for the album cover in Berlin.
In the meantime, I've already watched a few videos from this, your series - and got stuck on them.
You pull me along with your naturalness, friendly demeanor and childlike curiosity and fun with new music and videos - I like that very much. Keep it up
i have all their Cd's and saw them in concert!!! I LOVE THEIR MUSIC!!!! I've had that CD for years!! They do song in english and spanish!! Their keyboardist " Flake " was going to be a doctor!!
One of the best songs ever written ever. This shit fucked me up inside for a minute.