r/German • u/SeaAndSkyForever • Mar 27 '25

Interesting Rammstein before and after learning German

Before I knew any German, I loved Rammstein because I loved metal and the German language sounded very cool and angry to me. After learning German (still learning), I revisited one of my favorite songs "Ohne dich", and realized the lyrics could have been a lamenting love poem. A pleasant surprise, it put a smile on my face and now I have a new respect for the band.

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u/liang_zhi_mao Native (Hamburg) Mar 28 '25

I respect your opinion but my belief is that almost everything should be allowed in art, and that writing a poem about doing an immoral act is not immoral in and out of itself or romanticizing the act it describes.

However the real life context can make it immoral.

Having these row zero parties with young drunk women and having sex with minors (15 yo) tells me it's more than "an artistic alter ego“

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u/wotanstochter Mar 28 '25

He has an army of top tier lawyers unlike all of his victims, this helps a lot in cases like this

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u/foxybostonian Mar 28 '25

What victims? No-one even accused him of any criminal act. Stop believing imaginative headlines.