Mentioning a darkening Germany recently, I thought of two bands, Rammstein and HGich.T, both hilariously dark, just like Büchner, Kleist, Kafka and Kippenberger, etc. There is that awesome strain in their culture.
Thinking about doomsday music led me to several acts that are downright satanic, however, but unlike the German combos, they are heavily promoted by the music industry, as dominated by Jews.
We’ve had roughly a century of recorded music, but it began, innocently enough, with Edison recording himself reciting “Mary Has a Little Lamb” in 1878. Two years later, he enlisted two musicians to perform Arthur Sullivan’s “The Lost Chord.” How poetic a name for such an immortal event!
Widely deemed a genius while still kicking, Sullivan has evaporated into nothing. Still, he should be remembered for this statement to Edison, “For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiment—astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.”
This wonderful power has certainly subjected us to a bottomless cesspool of not just hideous but also satanic music, so we have a number like Bebe Rexha’s “Sacrifice,” a word that used to mean taming or even negating yourself for those you love, your nation, an ideal or God. Here it means “human sacrifice,” though you wouldn’t know it from the first verse, “I'ma need those eyes focusing on me / Middle of the night, I'm the only star you see / I'ma need those hands running over me' / Cause I ain't the type to let you go easy, so”
Sounds almost like a love song, though in the video, a shackled and bleeding man resembling Jesus is bitten by Rexha with retractable fangs. Christ also bled copiously, see? Four women of different races then drink blood ecstatically, with one gushing it from her mouth. The end is a party scene with blood raining from sprinklers. Six years earlier, torture has already been sexed up and glamorized in Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money.” Neither singer had much to do with her mise en scène, needless to say. They, too, were props.
Now, let's us consider Todrick Hall’s “It’s Rainin’ Fellas.” Though it’s wrong to objectify human beings, it’s fine when done by a sassy queer:
It’s raining dicks and ass ass
It’s a fire (work) and it ain’t even July
Muscles falling from the sky
If you wanna find a guy
The video is a cornucopia of masculine buttocks, quite naked.
Consider this joke: What do you call that fleshy part around the vagina? A woman!
Oh my God, that’s so sexist! You must be a Nazi!
Sorry, dude, let me try again: What do you call that region around a penis? A man!
Wow, you’re a genius!
Black men, too, are free to reduce women to asses, often huge and twerking, so check out, for example, “Taste” from the half Vietnamese Tyga. In the video, all those nearly faceless and near naked women are just one fleshy background. About all they do is twerk or open their mouths to receive sprayed whipped cream. It’s not quite kosher yet to show them swallowing semen. Having tried many half-night stands, hardcore porn and mainstream culture will soon be wedded, but in an open marriage, of course.
In music videos, black men own mansions, drive the fanciest cars and get barnloads of pussies. In real life, many live in desolate ghettos or on sidewalks, can barely afford bus or subway fares and, all too often, end up in jail from mugging, raping or murdering somebody. Locked up, they rape men or get cornholed.
It’s this obscene gap between American bullshit and reality that Rammstein explores and mocks. In its “Amerika,” you have Maasai, Zulus, Innuits, Vietnamese, Thais and Chinese, etc., all mesmerized by watching Americans on the moon, most tellingly, though these superhero Yanks are merely Rammstein singing, in spacesuits but without helmets, for they’re still on earth, just like Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and company. Watch the press conference of the oddly subdued Apollo 11 crew if you still believe in that fairy tale. It’s all bullshit, Rammstein drives home.
In its “Mein Land,” Ramstein goes to California to indulge in its myth of sun, sand, sea and pussy galore, though there are more homeless people pissing, shitting, going mad or even dying on its sidewalks than just about anywhere on earth. Before you balk at this assessment, walk for half an hour, don’t just drive, through San Francisco’s Tenderloin or Los Angeles’ Skid Row. At the end of “Mein Land,” the video turns dark and hellish, with fire, violent dancing and faces becoming demonic.
Though the lyrics to its “Angst” is about a black man, Der schwarze Mann, as bogeyman, the video clearly indicates it’s about the USA, so we have cookie-cutter men with lawnmowers in identical plots, then hideous-faced cheerleaders offering them gold ingot-like bricks so they can build walls around themselves, then they get guns and become so paranoid, they shoot at their TVs.
In its “Dicke Titten” [“Huge Titts”], Rammstein suggests, not all that convincingly, that there may be an antidote to this emasculated alienation. A nearly blind old German sings of his desire for a wife with huge tits, looks not important. Halfway, there's a cross-dressing man putting on makeup and padding his chest, but that's the only hint of contemporary Germany. Everything else is wholesomely retro. All the women aren’t just proud of their titties, but strong, they’re in control, with one laughingly flashing a priest at the end. There is much humor in this, and irony, too, which suggests even their authors consider this scenario far-fetched.
Writing this, I’m constantly looking at the clock, for Nancy Pelosi will soon land in Taipei. Will another war break out tonight? Someone must blink.
I’ll close, then, with a nod towards HGich.T's "Dave Meier." Most hilariously, it features an old, wrinkly dude in a blonde wig who thinks he’s Dave Mustaine, lead singer for Megadeth. Half humoring him is a young dirty blonde, Steffi, though no way can she force herself to kiss grandpa. She ends up masturbating his fretboard.
That’s Uncle Sam, a disgusting has-been full of laughable illusions.
What a pleasant surprise - to find that you enjoy Rammstein. And not for the fabulous pyrotechnics, which you didn't bother to mention, but for the deep irony with which they lace so many of their songs such as Du Hast. I have several German friends and, rather sadly to me, they're not so keen on the group. Rather than taking pleasure in the poetry and sarcasm they (perhaps because of the Teutonic nature) view them more literally - seeing them as neo Nazis (whatever that might be) with their iconography and industrial sound.
Following Nancy Pelosi (along with over 300,000 others on Flight Radar24) after her plane left KL has been thought provoking. Why has there been such a big deal made of a trip that is ostensibly unnecessary and which, apparently, left Pelosi and the US with egg on its face for supposedly backing down in the face of Chinese assertiveness?
The initial track showed the plane making a beeline for the USA before it turned sharply north and headed for Manila. However it now appears to be flying past Manila en route to what might be Taipei. I'm trying to determine why this Taiwan exercise/ fake out is happening and think there's a good chance Pelosi will try to land there, despite Chinese warnings not to.
If she succeeds in visiting Taiwan then this little wrinkled old lady will have faced down the mighty dragon, which will lead to endless kudos from the media which, in turn will be hugely helpful to her and the Democrats in the mid terms. More importantly China will have been shown up to be a blow hard.
On the other hand if she tries to enter Taiwanese air space and (albeit highly unlikely) gets shot down by the Chinese, team USA still wins. Adam Schiff is already being touted to take over from Pelosi as speaker at the mid terms and whilst going down in a blaze of glory might not be an old woman's idea of the ideal death there may have been some deal by which her family gets to keep the ill-gotten gains of her insider trading after she dies. Most importantly the USA will have valuable insight into just how far China is prepared to go to safeguard its sovereignty over Taiwan.
Rammstein's video and song "Amerika" is great. But I'm not so familiar with their other work. They do have a video in which a black woman represents pagan Germany fighting against the Romans, and I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean...
Anyway, most young people in Germany today listen to awful German rap, and it's not created by Blacks (or Arabs), but by Germans themselves. As for "Sacrifice"... There's lots of satanism and sex and vulgarity in music videos and pop music, and of course it's all planned. Ariana Grande is another one, with lyrics and videos trying to turn pre-teens into sluts. One could write a whole book about the decadence and growing vulgarity in current popular music. Italy and France, which even until the late 1970s produced very nice popular music, now are able to create only awful, vulgar, degenerate music, with no identity, but similar to the American hip-hop auto-tunes.
Thanks Linh No this is not a love song. Putin has a point about the corruption of the west. I opened this letter and read it right after finishing https://www.newbraveworld.org/edward-bernays-propaganda/ an article about Bernays and the massive propaganda effort that brought Amerika into the First World War. When you have had you minds so massively played with over one hundred years ago who would be surprised that your children's children are so, so corrupted and willingly corrupt the world. Good for Rammstein. I am so surprised that a writer who I started following during your letters from South Africa/Namibia (and I thought was a young Vietnamese American backpacker) turns out to be another leaf in the wind from my generation with so many of the same concerns. Bravo.
Couldn't watch the satanic videos but the Rammstein video Amerika was fantastic! Such a sick country. I read this am that Pelosi made 100 million on a stock deal Nvidia Corporation, which has its largest manufacturing plant in Taiwan.
Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" is worth watching. There's a lengthy, profanity laden prelude with two black men sitting in a sports car trying to woo some shorties, only to be literally pushed out of the way by a ten block long limousine. Apparently, window licking is French slang for covetous, consumerist behavior -a variation of the American "window shopping". https://youtu.be/UBS4Gi1y_nc
It adjusts my mood and reminds me that old fashioned normalcy still exists. I actually play the game, starting in my late 40's. It's very much like golf except it is usually free. Most of these guys can toss a disc for the length of a football field and a half. An intermediate player throws over 200 ft. Notice the arms and legs of the players and audience. See any green skulls, dragons or daggers?
amazing insight as usual from Linh. Rammstein has a song about a cannibalism incident, the lyrics repeat “mein tein” or my body. they were decades ahead of the covid nonsense and governments making orders on your flesh.
Hi Linh
What a pleasant surprise - to find that you enjoy Rammstein. And not for the fabulous pyrotechnics, which you didn't bother to mention, but for the deep irony with which they lace so many of their songs such as Du Hast. I have several German friends and, rather sadly to me, they're not so keen on the group. Rather than taking pleasure in the poetry and sarcasm they (perhaps because of the Teutonic nature) view them more literally - seeing them as neo Nazis (whatever that might be) with their iconography and industrial sound.
Following Nancy Pelosi (along with over 300,000 others on Flight Radar24) after her plane left KL has been thought provoking. Why has there been such a big deal made of a trip that is ostensibly unnecessary and which, apparently, left Pelosi and the US with egg on its face for supposedly backing down in the face of Chinese assertiveness?
The initial track showed the plane making a beeline for the USA before it turned sharply north and headed for Manila. However it now appears to be flying past Manila en route to what might be Taipei. I'm trying to determine why this Taiwan exercise/ fake out is happening and think there's a good chance Pelosi will try to land there, despite Chinese warnings not to.
If she succeeds in visiting Taiwan then this little wrinkled old lady will have faced down the mighty dragon, which will lead to endless kudos from the media which, in turn will be hugely helpful to her and the Democrats in the mid terms. More importantly China will have been shown up to be a blow hard.
On the other hand if she tries to enter Taiwanese air space and (albeit highly unlikely) gets shot down by the Chinese, team USA still wins. Adam Schiff is already being touted to take over from Pelosi as speaker at the mid terms and whilst going down in a blaze of glory might not be an old woman's idea of the ideal death there may have been some deal by which her family gets to keep the ill-gotten gains of her insider trading after she dies. Most importantly the USA will have valuable insight into just how far China is prepared to go to safeguard its sovereignty over Taiwan.
It's going to be an interesting few hours.
Rammstein's video and song "Amerika" is great. But I'm not so familiar with their other work. They do have a video in which a black woman represents pagan Germany fighting against the Romans, and I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean...
Anyway, most young people in Germany today listen to awful German rap, and it's not created by Blacks (or Arabs), but by Germans themselves. As for "Sacrifice"... There's lots of satanism and sex and vulgarity in music videos and pop music, and of course it's all planned. Ariana Grande is another one, with lyrics and videos trying to turn pre-teens into sluts. One could write a whole book about the decadence and growing vulgarity in current popular music. Italy and France, which even until the late 1970s produced very nice popular music, now are able to create only awful, vulgar, degenerate music, with no identity, but similar to the American hip-hop auto-tunes.
Thanks Linh No this is not a love song. Putin has a point about the corruption of the west. I opened this letter and read it right after finishing https://www.newbraveworld.org/edward-bernays-propaganda/ an article about Bernays and the massive propaganda effort that brought Amerika into the First World War. When you have had you minds so massively played with over one hundred years ago who would be surprised that your children's children are so, so corrupted and willingly corrupt the world. Good for Rammstein. I am so surprised that a writer who I started following during your letters from South Africa/Namibia (and I thought was a young Vietnamese American backpacker) turns out to be another leaf in the wind from my generation with so many of the same concerns. Bravo.
Couldn't watch the satanic videos but the Rammstein video Amerika was fantastic! Such a sick country. I read this am that Pelosi made 100 million on a stock deal Nvidia Corporation, which has its largest manufacturing plant in Taiwan.
A lot of heartfelt music has come out of America's cities, fields, backwoods and barrooms.
Crazy and stoned among the cornfields listening to the Stooges or Van Halen it can all melt away sometimes.
"...o.k. War across the U.S.A. It was another year for me and you. Another year with nothing to do."
-1969, some dudes from Ann Arbor
If you want a very detailed look at why the moonwalk was a fraud I suggest Wag the Moondoggie:
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" is worth watching. There's a lengthy, profanity laden prelude with two black men sitting in a sports car trying to woo some shorties, only to be literally pushed out of the way by a ten block long limousine. Apparently, window licking is French slang for covetous, consumerist behavior -a variation of the American "window shopping". https://youtu.be/UBS4Gi1y_nc
As an antidote to researching this Vigilant Citizen type stuff, I watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOhO7FfVQlE
It adjusts my mood and reminds me that old fashioned normalcy still exists. I actually play the game, starting in my late 40's. It's very much like golf except it is usually free. Most of these guys can toss a disc for the length of a football field and a half. An intermediate player throws over 200 ft. Notice the arms and legs of the players and audience. See any green skulls, dragons or daggers?
amazing insight as usual from Linh. Rammstein has a song about a cannibalism incident, the lyrics repeat “mein tein” or my body. they were decades ahead of the covid nonsense and governments making orders on your flesh.