Rammstein - Stripped
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jhameiaIS SO HOT.
It totally turns me on. On so many levels.
Of course, I enjoy the ancient Olympic aspect at the beginning, with members of Rammstein and actors dressed right down to the bare basics, just like in ancient Greece, and the lyrics are:
Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let hours pass
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day
Let me see you stripped
Not only stripped in their lyrics, but also in the music video, and unlike most videos where stripping down is equated to something highly sexualised, the director of this video treated it where the nude body is a work of art - in several shots you can see the finely defined muscles of the athletes, throwing the discus or spear, and it's a slow, beautiful camera motion capturing the movement of the body.
The nude body also hearkens to the lyrics again: "come back to the land".
The second part of the song is a bit more abstract in its visual artistry, but still a lovely focus on the human body, juxtaposed against the bright sky.
Metropolis
Has nothing on this
You breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everything's ours
For a few hours
Then the music and video shifts into something less pagan, something more modern - the video shifts from ancient Greece to a modern day Olympics games, footage from past games with the American and Japanese flags super-imposed in the background. At 2.10 there is the dancers in synchronition, all uniform, all moving together.
Let me see you stripped (x2)
Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me
Footage from diving competition is also used, but in a subversive way. I'm not talking about "doing it backwards" although there is definitely that component - but at the same time, although the whole "out of the water" thing is so overdone, it's beautiful used in here where it's not so much "the opposite", it lingers on the moments where the divers are suspended in the air. The shots are twisted so you can't really see what direction they're going towards.
Suspension, I think, it's a huge post-modern metaphor. My generation, especially, hangs on a cusp where we're denying everything our elders held on to, but at the same time, we don't have any true resolutions of our own.
It totally turns me on. On so many levels.
Of course, I enjoy the ancient Olympic aspect at the beginning, with members of Rammstein and actors dressed right down to the bare basics, just like in ancient Greece, and the lyrics are:
Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let hours pass
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day
Let me see you stripped
Not only stripped in their lyrics, but also in the music video, and unlike most videos where stripping down is equated to something highly sexualised, the director of this video treated it where the nude body is a work of art - in several shots you can see the finely defined muscles of the athletes, throwing the discus or spear, and it's a slow, beautiful camera motion capturing the movement of the body.
The nude body also hearkens to the lyrics again: "come back to the land".
The second part of the song is a bit more abstract in its visual artistry, but still a lovely focus on the human body, juxtaposed against the bright sky.
Metropolis
Has nothing on this
You breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everything's ours
For a few hours
Then the music and video shifts into something less pagan, something more modern - the video shifts from ancient Greece to a modern day Olympics games, footage from past games with the American and Japanese flags super-imposed in the background. At 2.10 there is the dancers in synchronition, all uniform, all moving together.
Let me see you stripped (x2)
Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me
Footage from diving competition is also used, but in a subversive way. I'm not talking about "doing it backwards" although there is definitely that component - but at the same time, although the whole "out of the water" thing is so overdone, it's beautiful used in here where it's not so much "the opposite", it lingers on the moments where the divers are suspended in the air. The shots are twisted so you can't really see what direction they're going towards.
Suspension, I think, it's a huge post-modern metaphor. My generation, especially, hangs on a cusp where we're denying everything our elders held on to, but at the same time, we don't have any true resolutions of our own.
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Date: 2007-08-13 05:51 am (UTC)Their video for "Sonne" is probably my favorite of all time for its interesting portrayals of a Domme/sub version of Snow White. HOT!
The video for "Du Riechst So Gut" is fantastic as well--check it out!
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Date: 2007-08-13 11:27 am (UTC)I'll have to check out that vid you recommended. Rosenrot and Mein Tail are cool too!
I love it when a band puts as much power into their music vids as they do into their music!
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Date: 2007-08-13 03:56 pm (UTC)And I'm pretty sure that the Rammstein video uses footage of Olympia, the documentay by Leni Reifenstal. who happened to be a friend of Hitlers but that doesn't mean she wasn't a great female director.
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Date: 2007-08-13 04:33 pm (UTC)The brilliance of a video isn't what's being used, it's how it's being used, and seeing as I can understand the lyrics (harhar) I can better analyze the music vid as a whole. I love Rammstein's other stuff as well, but I can't give it as much thought since I don't understand the lyrics.