Reaction to Rammstein - Angst

[@wolfgangengel4835]

You're one of the very few non germans, getting that "black man" is used as a metaphor here, to make a statement about racism and refugees. Great reaction. 👍🏻

[@chrism2964]

I dont think its a coincidence that Tills hair is thin and light coloured here. It looks like a combination of Trump and Johnson.

[@scientistanalyzes]

True, the thought crossed my mind while editing the video.

[@tosa2522]

Fear of what? The fear of cheerleaders, of course.😅 Or is it the fear of people cheering on leaders?

[@scientistanalyzes]

In this video, both! :-D

[@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl]

@@scientistanalyzes with Rammstein it's always both

[@andersgranstrom7128]

Yeah, great reaction!! Thank you! This, "Deutschland" and the new "Zeit" are really just masterpieces! More, please!? 🙂

[@soundocean3765]

Great reaction! "Schreien FEUER in die Gassen" really has the double meaning just like you explained in the caps. :) In my interpretation, this is a critique on the intense anti-refugee propaganda far-right groups and parties not only in America, but especially also here in Germany keep spreading especially since 2015. And ofc the impact the media has in all this. It became a huge issue (again), sadly.... And is in fact mostly racism based, for it's been MUCH more of a topic with all the people coming from Southern Europe and Africa than it seems to be now with people from Ukraine... The racism theme shows up clearly metaphorically at the end as well, where those "cliché white people" are eating chocolate marshmallows, that were called "N****kuss" (n*****kiss) in German up to the early 2000s before the name got changed to e.g. "Schokokuss" (chocolate kiss) for understandable policital correctness reasons. The mowing and barbecuing guys are a perfect simple depiction of every "good, real German" cliché ever. "You have to fit in the traditional lifestyle and style, you gotta stick to even the stupidest rules (how big is your hedge supposed to be grown? respecting the neighbourhood in every stupid detail like the most properly mowed meadow), while following the right's point of views, especially said fear of (POC) strangers"... Barbecue in that case also is a huge cliché, usually combined with Bratwurst and Beer ;) It's a sad fact that even here in Germany, more and more people have grown and are growing to become far-right extremists, who are indeed (despite our gun laws being MUCH more strict) secretly arming themselves to "protect our children against those black people who are also stealing OUR jobs" etc.... :( Part of the issue is also caused by of public media (TV news, newspapers etc. are too often reporting about refugees etc in ways that are not as objective as they should be and help raising those irrational fears (irrational might be the critique part in Till's strait jacket) in people that lead them towards the right), which is how I also interpret the end of the video. As soon as you turn off all the disturbing input of media that only focus on everything "bad", you get to see the "real life" again and might change your extremist mind that got blinded by all the fear overall media raised in your head. The way the refugees are watching them as well might be meant as another view on "fear". While those white people are "fearing" them, they end up fearing the white's hate by seeing them. The choice of an old TV fits in with the overall depiction of the conservative aspects of those right-wing clichés and might also imply that these men are partly "living in the past" with their fears. It's incredibly dangerous and disturbing what happens over here these days and how much it keeps escalating. Especially triggering worries seeing it happen shortly before the next 30's if you know what I mean... Thus, I think Rammstein chose the very good time to come up with a work like that and I'm grateful for it. (Of course that's just a brief interpretation, there sure is more to it, but I don't have that much time right now as I soon have to leave for work. And obviously it can also apply to other countries with similar issues.)

[@marcruizmr588]

Los extremos son siempre malos , aquí en España entran ilegales a cientos de Marruecos y otros . No se trata de juzgar a nadie , se puede entrar legalmente y vivir en otros países. España está hundida con todas esas ideas progres que pagan de nuestros impuestos y está gente además de ilegal , se les da unas pagas que más quisiera para mí que vivo al día. De nuevo digo que los extremos tanto de derechas como de izquierdas no son buenos , un saludo desde España .

[@scientistanalyzes]

Wow, I did not know you had that "German way of life", so to speak, so similar to the American style! Bratwurst on the grill is not bad, heh. I do miss the Leberkäse franks I used to eat in München too. :-) Thanks for the confirmation on the "Feuer in die Gassen" expression.

[@tigerlily8447]

Great reaction, you're very quick and astute in your observations. Thanks dude!

[@Peter_Cetera]

Excellent analysis! Greetings from Germany!

[@sk8mysterion]

Awesome reaction man, you are the first one I've watched who recognized the football chant haha, nice one. I'm always impressed when someone speaks German :). I feel blessed to understand them, i hope you check out more ✌️

[@alanfoster6589]

Meine Deutsch ist brokenen, aber ist gut genug fur Rammstein ;).

[@scientistanalyzes]

As someone said in another comment, there are lots of Brazilians who speak German, quite a few even "natively" (although they are getting less common nowadays) in the small towns in the South. A friend of mine from the university is one of those people who learned German before learning Portuguese. I am not, I started learning German just for fun at age 15 (since regular school already taught some English). It's a bit rusty now, but enough to understand Rammstein reasonably well, especially with Lindemann's great diction. For the rest, I have my Langenscheidts. :-)

[@jurgenkreitz4059]

Hey. I come from Germany and I will say, your reaction ist wonderful.

[@scientistanalyzes]

Danke sehr, Jürgen!

[@sonicrolfo]

Nice, agrarbiologist and musician as well ;-) Thanks for your reactions! First, I actually thought I detected a slight scandinavian, finnish accent. I might be wrong. 🙃

[@peekaboosue]

First time here and really enjoyed your reaction to Rammstein and I am subscribing and hope to see more Rammstein reactions

[@MrBobo131313]

i saw them a week ago at Lyon, France: Over the top!!

[@peekaboosue]

Ich liebe Rammstein 😍❤️

[@CavHDeu]

Nice analysis. I love that David Lynch feeling in the credits ❤️‍🔥 I think it's also a critique on german Angst. Pegida used the island chant too on their demonstrations and when they shoot you can see the black white red colors of the third reich.

[@spring_in_paris]

Hi. nice reaction. This is one of my favorite songs from the new album. Super energetic. In my opinion, the video is not specifically about events in the USA.(Quite typical,that people in America think it's always about them 🙄). The cheerleaders, for example, are more of a stylistic device to symbolize fans of agitators. There's a saying here if you want to express something extreme: 'You don't want American conditions here' .As you said, the video is about racism and xenophobia. We have more than enough of that here in Europe, too. The song is a comment on the fueled fears of the media poisoning us as a society. In the last scene of the video, the band eats chocolate kisses. Germans understand this spicy side swipe immediately. Chocolate kisses had other names a few years ago. They were called "Negro kisses" or "Moor head". Unfortunately, people actually got upset about the name change. And some idiots think it's cool to still call the candy that. The chosen colors in the video (Black, white and red) might be a reference to the flag of dark times back here.

[@nikolah.8472]

i like to intervent, that Rammstein did intentional german AND american symbols in this song. Cheerleaders are insanly rare in germany also the cheerleaders gave them american weapons, not german. I think we germans have allready some kind of extreme society that radicalize on many terms now, driven to the right and hate. The US have allready a cultural war on what is right and splitted in extremes, they only spit on the other sides and cant communicate. Both sides say they drive the country in the ground and both do it themself by deviding eachother more and more. The refugee parts and the chocolate kisses are clear a sign for german racism against everything they fear, sitting in their homes watch the missery of the world, fat and lazy, but fear the "dark" that want to take their stuff away. The refugees on their phones see the warm homes and the peace and dream from a better life, but living in close circle(refugee camps on the outside borders) that they cant go on.

[@spring_in_paris]

@@nikolah.8472 schönre Ergänzung. 🤘

[@scientistanalyzes]

Ich bin kein Amerikaner. Well, I am Südamerikaner, does that count? :-) But yeah, you are right that many places suffer from the same disease nowadays... I read another comment that mentions that the lawns and barbecue are such a "German way of life" thing as well, and that some people are arming themselves in secret more and more (although it is not as easy as in the US)... I had no clue about those things that overlap between German and American societies. The sweet, as I mentioned to someone, is similar looking to one we have in Brazil, which also has a racist name (still!), but instead of kiss it is tit... It is also called Nhá Benta, a less bad name.

[@nikolah.8472]

@@scientistanalyzes Well i would say germany is a BBQ nation, if the weather is good the grill is on. I think in the video they play on our history of "Biedermeier Era"it was a time in our culture under the Emperor, germans dont interest in politics and dont care for the outside(kind of compensating their lack of influence in what goes on in the country). Building only everything around their house, garden and conservative lifestyle. We have problems in the east of germany because conservative right wingers create villiages only with other nazis, making closed communities and violently deleting everyone that isnt like them out of it(they wanted to install police themself). The politicans are worried about that because you see here that every crisis is automatically captured by this numbnuts in the second it happened. At first they blamed everything on the refugees with great success(Afd 15-20% in some parts of germany)but they had not enough, next was the image of losing to islam, next was the fear of losing money because our HArtz4 robbing the "middle class", then came Covid and from day one all politicans are branded as Nazis/Hitler/SS/Gestapo fully out of propotion that the majority in germany was for a lockdown(decreased over the years, but people have to admit it was the will of the germans), now they blame every oil price/every food price and everything else on them. They need Crisis/fear and Hate to mobilize the masses for their ideas.

[@jbird4478]

We had the same issue with that word for chocolate kisses in the Netherlands. The company that made them released a statement saying that the name change was not to be politically correct, but was for marketing reasons. Now they could make different variants, one with sprinkles called "party kiss", a pink one called "sweet kiss", etc. I don't know if they really meant that, but at least it shut people up who complained about the name change.

[@karlknapp2798]

In my eyes, this is one of the best analyses of the song. Thank you very much for this. As a German, I am familiar with the phrase "fear of the black man". I also heard it a long time ago as a child. I always imagined a creature with a long black robe whose face was unrecognisable. A kind of a daemon. But here in the video another black man is meant, namely migrants from Africa who come to Europe/Germany. These people are shown sitting behind barbed wire and scratching in the sand. Who is afraid of these people we see there? They don't actually look very dangerous, do they? But the normal bourgeois is not interested in all that, he isolates and arms himself because their only information comes from the TV. Alle haben Angst. Xenophobia.

[@Nanda-1305]

👍😍

[@stephenmiller195]

Great reaction thanks 🙏

[@llothar68]

So far no reactor got that the color effect is from from "Pleasentville" movie with Tobey Maguire.

[@Ausbrecher2001]

Very good reaction and analyse. There is one thing that can be missed easialy when you are not from germany.... the colors of the clip are "Black, White and Red", the colors of the "Reichsflagge". This flag is almost illegal in germany, because it somehow belongs to the years 1945 and before... you know.... And in the End, Till destroys the TV and it seems, the colors come back.... but actualy, the only color that was added is "Brown"... the color of the nazis and the very far right wing. This happend after they went cracy, too... and felt in a deep hole, loosing them self after watching all the social media and stuff

[@zombeast23]

Awesome Angst Rammstein Horray

[@flavio_spqr]

Na mouche! Análise perfeita, na minha opinião. Cumprimentos desde Portugal!

[@scientistanalyzes]

Muito obrigado!

[@ranahooke1907]

Please react to acapella science - Evo-Devo It’s nerdy as heck. But hilarious.

[@n0wi153]

Ur german is pretty good

[@nikomangelmann6054]

fyi there a some native german speaking brasilians. most from the city of blumenau that was founded by germans and the german influences are still high there.

[@scientistanalyzes]

Thanks! It's a bit rusty compared to a couple decades ago, but I make do and can understand pretty well, specially with Lindemann's diction. As Niko said, there are lots of Brazilians who speak German, quite a few even "natively" (although they are getting less common nowadays) in the small towns in the South. A friend of mine from the university is one of those people who learned German before learning Portuguese. I am not, I started learning German just for fun at age 15 (since regular school already taught some English). :-)

[@krudilahetzmannreturns8292]

@@scientistanalyzes Your listening comprehension is superb, especially since Till usually uses such colorful language. You were basically able to translate every single word... I know a bunch of germans who couldnt tell you what "klamm" means for example. Your education really shines through here. :)

[@zombeast23]

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[@peekaboosue]

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[@rudolfbart]

I remeber the package of the negerkuss was one black kissed the other gentle on the cheek of a other and I would have never though of it as resist was just a normel sweet but as soon one screams its bad then well.What if they soon call hamburgers bad and because of hamburger citizens its soon call flat meat with bread? And what avout the bad names given to whites I was once invited to a thai party the restaurant was payed for a privat party where normaly people from a other culture came and they didnt know I can understand english they gave the thais realy bad names ohh and from now on I dont want to be called a kraut it hurted so much ohh dear

[@jacqueline23788]

this poor woman but who put theses stuation ??? guess who ?

[@zombeast23]

Till Lindemann Till Lindemann

[@Thecoin78]

What part don´t you understand who or what the Bogeyman is since 2020, what was the entire world been afraid of, and the propaganda that was spilled by the news every single day!

[@Zoza15]

Russians interpret this as how Russian propaganda works..

[@zombeast23]

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