Pussy: It's About Fucking

Here are more ruminations about the Metal Hammer interview (71.17 MB), plus my thoughts about the preview from the other day:

There are some elements of Rammstein's music that are essential. Whatever else they weave in there has to be humour, darkness, violence, sex, pain, truth, irreverance, profanity, scale, and a little more humour, just to be sure.

The track-list so far includes 'Pussy'. It's no huge revelation that this song is (to drop in an RZK quote) "about fucking". The profound and deeply felt lines "You've got a pussy/I've got a dick/So what's the problem?/Let's do it quick!" are a clue as to the direction they've taken with this song. Odds are there's a bit of harsh truth, a smidge of irreverence, and a crumb of profanity in there, as well as the humour. There may even be pain and violence. It wouldn't be the first time. Is Pussy the new Küss Mich (Fellfrosch) or another Rein Raus?

Rammlied is another one. This one is titled as it means to go on, I understand. It's a Rammstein song, about Rammstein, and in true Rammstein style. Epic? It has to be, or it's not a Rammlied at all, is it? It would just mean they've lied.

See what I did there?

Speaking of epic, what was that remark the interviewer made about Rammstein trying to 'tone down the epic'? Will they try and move away from being German, male, and musicians too? She reckoned Richard had made that remark, but if he did he must have been a long time between cigarettes or something, because that just doesn't make any sense. Epic is the only size they fit into, so to do anything small-scale has to be a cute little byline, such as Ein Lied, not a compositional policy. You couldn't get Lindemann into Flake's shorts, so why would you try? (ouch)

Waidmanns Heil is another title, and this song is apparently a march. The title is a traditional huntsman's greeting, I understand, and there are horns involved. It would seem that the lyrics are full of sexual innuendo too. Well, that'd be a turn-up for the books; Rammstein tackling the erotic. Say it isn't so.

It sounds like Ich Tu Dir Weh is going to be a Till Lindemann special. I expect lots of tongue, sneering, and gesticulation to accompany this one live. S&M, B&D, T&F...

That last is Till and Flake, in case you're wondering. I wonder what new torture they'll devise for him this time around. He's such a hero. Some of that shit has got to hurt.

B******? No fucking idea. Sorry. I'm just going to assume it's epic for now. Yes, epic. You know, the hallmark of a Rammstein song.

Haifisch, shark...a harp? What? No cello?!

Mehr sounds like it's going to be EPIC. Note the caps. That's epic, only more so. This one has me impatient again, because it sounds like a doozie.

Wiener Blut, which is, I am informed, both a waltz and an operetta by Strauss, as well as a Falco album, is about Fritzl. Confused? Don't be. Like Mein Teil the Fritzl story is ideal Rammfodder. Richard pointed out that Rammstein is the one band qualified to mark the incident in their work, so they're obliged to do so. Rammstein aren't the sort of lads to shirk their duty!

I do like that Falco reference though. Whether or not Rammstein had that in mind it's a lovely oddity. Falco, a seriously shiny flash-in-the-pan from the 80s (at least in the English-speaking market) was incredibly funky, camp man, who took us all by storm with 'Rock Me Amadeus', then simply vanished. You couldn't find a more irrelevant tangent for a song about Fritzl.

I'll tell you what though, the whole 19th century Viennese ball-room scene would make a wicked video. Wrong period, but otherwise reminiscent of DRSG98.

I really enjoyed the interview with RZK. He seems like a very sweet chap, who could talk the arse off a donkey, but in the most entertaining and charming way. I'd like to get him alone for a coffee one day. I bet it'd be a very good way to wile away an afternoon, if not a whole day. He's also very easy on the eyes.

P.S. No comment re. LIFAD.

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