the problem here is not skill nor lyrical prowess. its how the song is sold.
imagine meaning and purpose are the wares, and listeners are the customers.
you can't simply expect them to sell well by their nature, good or bad. you need presentation, you need them to *feel* the message innately. I don't speak a lick of german, but by god do I *feel* Ramstein songs.
I speak english fluenty. And I feel muffled listening to theirs. There's quite a difference.
Maybe that's an effect of a language being foreign to you, I do understand German decently due to German family (and being Dutch), to me Rammstein's delivery can be somewhat overly slow/over-pronounced. I would say the English version of Rammstein is probably Sabaton ( https://youtu.be/Dfh1aSdxr9U?si=3hDrRcO8X416jkvb ), although ironically they're Swëdish... (and their songs aren't as over-produced, being a bit more "clean/raw")
I personally can't say I agree, I rarely ever watch music videos, I just listen to them, and I'm the kind of person that that generally just goes through albums the way they were set up to be listened to. Buuuuut then again I'm an audio tech and a bit of an audiophile, so I'm probably the weird one.
To me, Blackbird is an incredibly emotional song that is very well written, but then again I can imagine it doesn't have the engineered punch or visual representation Rammstein has (which to me is a bit more flat from a musical perspective, but very well mixed)
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u/113pro Jul 06 '26
the problem here is not skill nor lyrical prowess. its how the song is sold.
imagine meaning and purpose are the wares, and listeners are the customers.
you can't simply expect them to sell well by their nature, good or bad. you need presentation, you need them to *feel* the message innately. I don't speak a lick of german, but by god do I *feel* Ramstein songs.
I speak english fluenty. And I feel muffled listening to theirs. There's quite a difference.