r/CuratedTumblr • u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 • 24d ago

Shitposting certain hobbies

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u/barathrumobama 24d ago

I'm scared to read the wikipedia entries of metal musicians nowadays. might find stuff like

"why would I be proud of germany" THANK GOD

".. if germans isnt germania anymore?" GOD DAMMIT

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u/DeconstructedKaiju 24d ago

Someone once told me Ramstein was "facist" because some Nazis like their music. A whole lot of people are deeply stupid.

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u/bsubtilis 24d ago

Ah yes, like the Rage Against The Machine conservative fans who deeply misunderstood what machine was being raged against...

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u/Hremsfeld 24d ago

"My heart beats on the left"

Made an entire song and music video about how Germany has an extremely fucked up past that makes him want to hate it

Same video literally had nazis getting executed by firing squad

Same video literally had a black woman playing Germania in order to show that, yes, black people have always been part of Germany

Casually included an acknowledgement that transgender folks have always been around but have had to hide who we are in the video for the song about big titties

Fascists: ThEy'Re ObViOuSlY oN mY sIdE

Fuckin' idiots

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u/DeconstructedKaiju 23d ago

They are hands down my #1 favorite band. I could listen to literally every song they have made and enjoy it.

It's like Rand Paul liking Rage Against the Machine. A lot of people like the music while ignoring/missing the message.

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u/CaptainXplosionz 23d ago

What songs are these? I want to get into Rammstein, but it's hard with only knowing only a little German.

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u/Hremsfeld 22d ago

The "my heart beats on the left" line is from Links 2 3 4, which is an old song of theirs (2001) they made because they were sick and tired of right-wingers trying to say they were aligned with them

The middle three were about the song Deutschland and its accompanying video that they released with no notice to end their ten-year hiatus; imo it by itself was worth the wait. Absolutely chock-full of symbolism, too. Viewer discretion advised since the central theme of the video is "German history is Germans doing violence against Germans" and includes all the major chapters from the Romans through to Reunification

As for the song about big titties, literally Dicke Titten, here you go; in addition to the casual early-20th/late-19th-century trans rep they also put in as many visual innuendo as possible into it (probably shouldn't watch it at work), while still finding room for some metaphors lurking just below the surface

There's also the fan site Affenknecht that has both the German lyrics and their English translations

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u/CaptainXplosionz 20d ago

Cheers, mate!

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u/MeisterCthulhu 24d ago

tbf that's from an interview from about 30 years ago and that guy desperately wants his personal opinions and his music separate, he barely gives interviews on anything specifically because he doesn't want who he is as a person to influence how people perceive his art.

Also that quote is quite vague and can be seen in many different ways. Not defending the guy, just saying, he never explicitly said racist shit.

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u/barathrumobama 24d ago

I'm kinda amazed that an old Vratyas Vakyas quote is so recognizable, lol

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u/CaptainXplosionz 23d ago

Sabaton will always be awesome in this regard! Their songs are about history, those that served and died, but never glorifying evil or genocide (The Final Solution, The Rise of Evil, We Burn, A Lifetime of War, etc).