On a Lighter Note...

Cookie: Pussy, parodied, badly:



Well, not so badly done, musically. The lyrics could have been much more amusing with a little thought.

I guess it had to be done.

PUSSY! (with cock cannon) NJ

Cock Cannon For Pussy

Just for our friend from the plane...

Ruminating on Pussy

With all the German clichés in Pussy why is there no mention of Lederhosen?

QotM

This is an article about Lady Gaga, for whom I have a quiet admiration, even if it does revolve around her masterful powers of propaganda and self-promotion rather than her albums. It has a rather a nice line about Åkerlund, who has now made a couple of videos for the funky diva:

...last year he shot a tedious hardcore porn video for the otherwise sublime German heavy metal band Rammstein...

I have no doubt that Kalder speaks for many Rammstein fans.

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Quote of the moment:

Jonas Akerlund (sic) directed the Gaga promo. He has form. At the saucy end of the scale, his videos for German metallers Rammstein make Telephone look like an episode of Andy Pandy.

- BBC on Lady Gaga's 'Telephone'

Russian Pussy Cover Coming

Eiskaltherz has very kindly come to my rescue after my Russian translation SOS, and as I suspected the article is about an upcoming cover of Pussy, adapted and produced in collaboration with Rammstein:

Rammstein make a song for "Радистка К@т"
[ that's the singer's name, could be translated as "radio operator Kat", i think. ]

Kat (K@t) has started working on her first album. One of the tracks will be a translated and adjusted version of a scandalous Rammstein hit "Pussy". Some of the Rammstein members helped with the song: Oliver Riedel and Christoph Schneider had already written the rhythm-section channels (tracks?) for that cover specifically. K@t will be singing in duet with the "master of extreme russian grotesque", Kirill Nemolyaev and very soon everyone (in Russia) will know what that song is about!"

The original Russian article is here. Thanks to Eiskaltherz for the translation.

It's worth mentioning that Eiskaltherz remarked not having heard of the Russians involved, despite being Russian, so it may be that this cover will lift K@T out of relative obscurity.

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France Doomed

Schneider has given an interview to a French magazine called MusiqueMag.Com. It's well worth checking out, and Schneider speaks English throughout. One real point of interest for me is the revelations that Till originally wrote Pussy entirely in English, and it was a piss-take of US Gansta Rap (hence the 'Dickah', methinks).

I'd really like to read the original lyrics. I'm not a huge fan of Lindemann's foreign language lyrics, as I think his sharp edge is all German, but it would be interesting, especially since it sounds like he fought to keep the English and lost. If he defended the original text I want to read it.

Thanks to Ventrue for the link.

Update 2010.02.15: This has now gone up on YouTube:

Thanks to Rammstein's sonne for the link.

Single Content

TG has dished, finally. Here's the track list:

Ich Tu Dir Weh
Pussy Remix – Scooter
Rammlied Remix – Devin Townsend
Ich Tu Dir Weh Remix – Small Boy
FUKKK Pussy - remix
There will also be the Ich Tu Dir Weh video and a digital booklet included in the package.

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Scooter FAIL

Warning: This YouTube video is not endorsed or in any way considered to have any value by LILT.

Okay, if you lasted the whole three minutes and something that farce took to play through you are probably now either feeling fairly appalled or are completely lacking in any sound judgment. That remix is what I generally refer to as a 'cluster-fuck', even in mixed company. Whoever entrusted these clowns with the Till track from Pussy needs a kick in the slats. That is not Pussy. It's a bunch of hackneyed, overused, and antique trance samples. The fact that they've overlaid some bastardised re-sampling of Pussy's vocal track over the top is irrelevant.

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IGN Behind the Scenes Video

There's a 'behind the scenes' video for Pussy up on IGN. It's 19 minutes long:

More Rammstein News & Previews

Thanks Extinction!

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Stunt Cocks

Metal Hammer has comment from RZK regarding the Pussy video. There's a small excerpt I have to include here:

Stunt cocks or your own?
Kruspe: “No comment.”

Don't worry, darling. We've all seen the video. We know.

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What Pussy Does For Me

I was thinking the video might be on-topic (sex tourism), but it just seemed to be a big poke in the ribs, a woopie cushion on the chair, and a squirty rubber buttonhole as the kicker. Don't get me wrong. I don't feel strongly about them, but I did like both the video and the song. I do have to append 'not as much as I'd hoped I would' though, because I guess I set the bar too high for this particular track. I feel much less than I think I should, given that this is the first Rammstein track out in a long time. I figured there'd be something sparking in me. I expected the song to inspire passion of some kind, if not the video, but I feel a mild amusement, and a quiet enjoyment. Where are the fireworks?

I smiled throughout though. It's very tongue-in-cheek, very wry, and rather cheesy, and they've pretty much now laid the smack down on those lame hip-hop/R'n'B videos, with all the hot chicks rubbing bare bits against fully clothed men, implying a lot, but not delivering. How d'you like them apples, bitches?

I'm just glad that every sign points to this track being unique on this album, because I really don't want my feelings about LIFAD to be tepid, flaccid, or gentle. I want it to burn me up.

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The Gauntlet Gets it UP

The Gauntlet has Pussy too. Go TG!

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Ladies

Don your crotchless knickers and peekaboo bras. It's almost Pussy-time!

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Come Get Some

There's an excellent thread on Herzeleid with places to order/buy the single and album. People are posting resellers located all over the planet, with their feedback regarding their personal dealings with the various stores, so if you're still wondering where you'll go check it out.

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The Gauntlet Comes...

Through again with the next Pussy promo' clip. They've got one with Paul as well, but that's not ready to go up, due to an issue with the source file. Hopefully it's not far away though!

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More from The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet has some band quotes regarding the new album here. There're also a couple more promo' videos here.

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Album Art & More Promo' Videos

The Gauntlet has posted confirmed cover art for the new album (also confirmed as LIFAD) here. There's also some more porn for Pussy. Of course, there will be more...

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Next?

I've been thinking about what to tackle next. I need to start a new song this week. I'd like to finish what I've got in progress now and start two more before the new album comes out; sooner if I decide to buy the Pussy single. Call me a freak for tidy numbers but I'd like to hit fourty LILTs before I start on the new stuff. Is that scary OCD, or just a cute quirk?

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