Man this gives me the chills. I love it when love is so blatantly honest. Rammstein is like a tough and scary looking individual who is actually very heartfelt and honorable
God I fucking love this song it goes so hard. Unrelated note, rammstein might be some of the best music video creators, every one they make is so poignant and well shot
@@mattschwarz7563 Yeah the message I got from the music video metaphorically seemed more about pple absorbing too much fear mongering media in general and further isolating themselves into greater paranoia and eventual self-harm.
The thing is, it literally translates to Black Man Swartzen= Black Mann=Man. But i get your meaning. And yes the video has the tone of fear mongering by the media/ internet.
Come on mates. I'm danish from the part of Denmark that was taken by Germany, so my original language is alsisk half danish half German....used a lot of my Youth in Flensborg Germany...and I'm telling you that there's absolutely nothing racist about this song in any way. In danish he is called "mørke manden", in English it would be "Boogeyman"...Has nothing to do with racism. It's fear/nightmares/Boogeyman. It's the colour of his soul, not his skin. It's also a popular game that all of you have played in school. One kid has to touch the other kid's while they are running away.
@Sathish Yadav, I’m finding it a bit pathetic that you watch a whole video where a psychopath strapped to a gurney, cheerleader hand out guns, computer screens shoot out pseudopods that grab people’s faces, and you’re concerned some phrase makes it racist. People shoot out televisions and sink into a hole and the message is somehow unclear? Curious, are you a White Savior or something?
If you want to translate, say "black dressed Man". That is a beeing, similar like Zuluman (this is why the strange coloured faces like demons or better fearghosts). Some british says to the name "schwarzerman" shadowman. No colour of skin or stuff like this. The topic is "the fear goes around" the zuluman goes around .
Fun fact. In some regions south germany switzerland etc the use the name Krabat, this is very very old spirites beeing there. 2 fun fact: this strange game from some childhoods speciali in southgermany , you can say: who have fear from zuluman?... The other says: no one!...the first again: and when hes come?..then panic and shouting: then we run!! And than they catch each other. Fun fact 3: ii n the rhein regions the krabat demon which is traditional black, its red, so its the red devil - its a long tradition there (so normaly nobody in german whould think when he hears "SchwarzerMann" thats a human beeing, its an spirital beeing - like its the horror inside yourself - every year they faces this horror inside yourself somewhere with more funy, somewhere more normal and some regions very rabiat, martialis and horror similar that celebration - you can visit if you in want. I think, every region have a name for this what is the meaning of "schwarzer Mann" in south germany etc.
@@seepferdchen5081 same on Als („Elsisch ist eine Mischung aus Dänisch und Deutsch, und der Rest Dänemarks versteht kein einziges Wort von dem, was wir sagen), but we also know about it.. I spend a lot of my childhood in Flensburg, but I never speak German anymore due to I moved up in Denmark, so my German might not be as good as it used to be.
Yes, but here the message has this double meaning of both the folkloric figure and the colored man himself. The song can be seen as a comment on the growing anti-immigration sentiment accompanied by the strengthening of Nazism in today Germany . The clip's colors of black, white and red make this clear.
it's very clearly about white people being afraid of non-white people. people seem to forget just how left-leaning rammstein is. Idk if they know and are coping or just have no listened to any of their other songs lol.
It could go both ways It could be about fear of foreign races Or it could be about leaders making up a fictional problem to turn the people against each other and forever be afraid It's really up to you
I just recently saw an old interview with flakka the keyboardist and said that he and the group don't make music as a service they just make music that they like and are glad if people like you but they don't really care one way or the other which is so real and so genuine and I fucking love it
In Medieval, it refers to the Devil himself who always wears Black. So the Schwarzen Mann is some form of demon. Because of the use of Angst (needless worry), Boogeyman would definitely work.
In Italian, we say the same, "uomo nero", der schwarze Mann, the black man, but it means boogeyman. It has got nothing to do with actual black people, literally, though that can be understood as a double entendre.
Do the liner notes spell it “Mann” or “Man?” If it’s the latter, then it means “one” as in a person (an example of it being used in a sentence would be “one need not be a chamber to be haunted”). As others have said, even if it is “Mann,” in this context it’s not referring to skin color just as calling someone “green” means that they’re a rookie/inexperienced, rather than literally meaning they are the color green. The idea that Rammstein or any other band would openly make a song about being afraid of any race of people is absurd on its face.
„Mann“ and „man“ have the same pronunciation!. but in this case , it’s „Mann“. And yeah , it’s not about skin color, it’s about “boogeyman” , I made this mistake when translating
While I agree with that boogeyman is probably a more fitting translation for the lyrics, I also find it very clever to read both meanings, given the amount of fearmongering and demonisation of media towards black people and nonwhite people in general, which would also perfectly fit into the song's themes.
yea they did purposefully cast a Black woman and child in the video behind barbed wire. I dont think they were unaware of the potential of that meaning being read into it by the global audience. They have shown anti-racist sentiment before such as casting a Black woman as Germania, essentially saying Black Germans are just as German as any other German.
13% of blacks are responsible for 52% of murders in the US. The media rarely mentions race when the perpetrator is black and victim is white but definitely mentions race when a degen like George Floyd is choked. But yeah, sure "fear mongering"
I like the play in the video 'the mother and the child, are there prisinors or are they denfended, the boys with the wall, are they defended or are they prisioners...
Nope. It's Blackman. You're just insecure about making the connection and would rather it be that way. This song is about irony. And this is a manifestation of it. Schwarze-mann Black Man. 👻 quick... change the word to.... yes... boogeymann, there we go... irrational fears hidden 🤡
@@user-fh9vh6hr7w it's obvious you're clueless but no respectful german man would be scared of a blackman. And this has been handed down thru 100rds of generations about the boogeyman and has absolutely nothing to do with anyone that is black. And it's obvious you don't know german and one german word can have multiple means and it depends on what it's used in its contents. But you wouldn't know because your not german.
I am having a serious problem with the continual mistranslation of “angst” into “fear”. Angst is more relate to anxiety or concern. I translate it as “worry”. Angst is needless worry about nothing.
People saying that they should change the word "black man", like a couple of millionairs give a damn what you think lmao, they don't care that you think everything associated with the word black automatically equals a african dude
It means something similar to boogeyman not black man bad translation but saying it means black man gives it a cruel twist somebody's probably going around calling some black dude the boogeyman in German because of this
LOL "The Black Man" LOL It's "The Boogeyman", albeit though, the boogeyman could be a reference to what ever you are afraid of though. This is not about racism people.
I grew up in the 80s ...... we used to eat dirt as kids & were allowed to play down the beach till dark with a 0.00001 % chance of getting abducted & ass raped.... I love this song more than anything I've ever heard for a very long time.
Yes, but in the 80’s, you didn’t have a constant stream of information of all the horrifying and terrifying shit the world spews out coming out of a device in your pocket. I always hear people say, “in the 70’s, we could play on our own with no parents and we would leave our doors unlocked blah blah blah”. And it’s just like, yeah, why do you think the 70s was the decade of the serial killer? Were people really safe back in those decades, or was it just the illusion of safety that is now being broken due to smartphones and the internet?
I'm not even black.... but I've been listening to rammstein since I was about 13 years old...I'm 22 right now...and I'm even learning German...but this as a afrikaaaner...(a form of Dutch witch is similar to german) gives me a feeling to say f*ck rammstein and Germany.......I hate this racial undertones....and we already suffered apartheid in South Africa so...basically to me it doesn't matter how you interpret black man.....calling black men boogy men is just as racist and I f*cken hate this Auf Deutch fick euch...warum?ich habe keine guten antworte...ich bin nicht gut mit meinem Deutch...aber gut mit meinem augen...und in meinem lebe sehe ich viele angst vor Das weiße man...warum? Hitler...krieg...racism...und ganze viele....ich habe keine worte für eure lied nicht....aber ich glaubt ein tag sollen Das Schwarze Mann Auf kommen und Das welt sollen nur gucken...Weil da sind viele leute war sie wollt hilfen....fick euch und eure muttere munchi ist voll Schwartze sperm in der nähe future
they denounce the opposite of what you say, they speak against the people like Trump who exist because they make other people fear imaginary threats, like a Boogeyman, or refugees like the far-right parties in Europe. In Germany, they had people having this kind of fear-generating discourses against refugees after the crisis of 2015, and that's what Rammstein denounces here with that double meaning of "Swartzen Mann"... they're far from being racists!
The song is about being white, having it made, and yet being so full of irrational fear of black people that you destroy their lives by making them your boogeyman. There are a lot of people trying to play this off, trying to remove the racial part which just reinforces the song's message.
Man this gives me the chills. I love it when love is so blatantly honest. Rammstein is like a tough and scary looking individual who is actually very heartfelt and honorable
Same I was not expecting that
Man...I hope I get a chance to see these guys live someday.
Worth every dollar
Saw them in Chicago last year. Absolutely perfect show
Same:(
Best day ever!
God I fucking love this song it goes so hard. Unrelated note, rammstein might be some of the best music video creators, every one they make is so poignant and well shot
not "Black Man", Boogeyman, there's two meanings to that, and i know it's "Boogeyman" due to the subject matter with kids involved.
You’re right , thank you.
Another meaning for Boogeyman is Schreckgespenst
@@mattschwarz7563 ahh i see, good to know.
@@mattschwarz7563 Yeah the message I got from the music video metaphorically seemed more about pple absorbing too much fear mongering media in general and further isolating themselves into greater paranoia and eventual self-harm.
Thanks for the real lyrics tho its intresting 🖤
The thing is, it literally translates to Black Man Swartzen= Black Mann=Man. But i get your meaning. And yes the video has the tone of fear mongering by the media/ internet.
Come on mates. I'm danish from the part of Denmark that was taken by Germany, so my original language is alsisk half danish half German....used a lot of my Youth in Flensborg Germany...and I'm telling you that there's absolutely nothing racist about this song in any way.
In danish he is called "mørke manden", in English it would be "Boogeyman"...Has nothing to do with racism. It's fear/nightmares/Boogeyman. It's the colour of his soul, not his skin.
It's also a popular game that all of you have played in school. One kid has to touch the other kid's while they are running away.
Your absolutely right
@@staggdegraaff1531 thanks mate
Thanks for the clarification.
I am able to enjoy it now. :)
@Sathish Yadav, I’m finding it a bit pathetic that you watch a whole video where a psychopath strapped to a gurney, cheerleader hand out guns, computer screens shoot out pseudopods that grab people’s faces, and you’re concerned some phrase makes it racist. People shoot out televisions and sink into a hole and the message is somehow unclear? Curious, are you a White Savior or something?
If you want to translate, say "black dressed Man". That is a beeing, similar like Zuluman (this is why the strange coloured faces like demons or better fearghosts). Some british says to the name "schwarzerman" shadowman. No colour of skin or stuff like this. The topic is "the fear goes around" the zuluman goes around .
Fun fact. In some regions south germany switzerland etc the use the name Krabat, this is very very old spirites beeing there. 2 fun fact: this strange game from some childhoods speciali in southgermany , you can say: who have fear from zuluman?... The other says: no one!...the first again: and when hes come?..then panic and shouting: then we run!! And than they catch each other. Fun fact 3: ii n the rhein regions the krabat demon which is traditional black, its red, so its the red devil - its a long tradition there (so normaly nobody in german whould think when he hears "SchwarzerMann" thats a human beeing, its an spirital beeing - like its the horror inside yourself - every year they faces this horror inside yourself somewhere with more funy, somewhere more normal and some regions very rabiat, martialis and horror similar that celebration - you can visit if you in want. I think, every region have a name for this what is the meaning of "schwarzer Mann" in south germany etc.
@@seepferdchen5081 same on Als („Elsisch ist eine Mischung aus Dänisch und Deutsch, und der Rest Dänemarks versteht kein einziges Wort von dem, was wir sagen), but we also know about it..
I spend a lot of my childhood in Flensburg, but I never speak German anymore due to I moved up in Denmark, so my German might not be as good as it used to be.
no black man means boogie man but its to well translate........but yeah it hasnt to do with the color ^^
Yes, but here the message has this double meaning of both the folkloric figure and the colored man himself. The song can be seen as a comment on the growing anti-immigration sentiment accompanied by the strengthening of Nazism in today Germany . The clip's colors of black, white and red make this clear.
Tills voice is just a masterpiece ❤ i love Rammstein
So the song is about being afraid of basically nothing, a charscter made up jist to control them.
it's very clearly about white people being afraid of non-white people. people seem to forget just how left-leaning rammstein is. Idk if they know and are coping or just have no listened to any of their other songs lol.
It could go both ways
It could be about fear of foreign races
Or it could be about leaders making up a fictional problem to turn the people against each other and forever be afraid
It's really up to you
@@celtic7029 both can be true at the same time, you know.
@@snowballeffect7812 true
It's a metaphor...but yes. Agreed.
Rammstein is great. Let artists be themselves. Not everyone agrees with all words however. Still an amazing group.
I just recently saw an old interview with flakka the keyboardist and said that he and the group don't make music as a service they just make music that they like and are glad if people like you but they don't really care one way or the other which is so real and so genuine and I fucking love it
What a voice , wow !!!
Thank you so much for this!!!
I love Rammstein
In German black man is boogie man. Dark man
In Medieval, it refers to the Devil himself who always wears Black. So the Schwarzen Mann is some form of demon. Because of the use of Angst (needless worry), Boogeyman would definitely work.
I seen the video of angst. It so beautiful and thought provoking.
Very!
In Italian, we say the same, "uomo nero", der schwarze Mann, the black man, but it means boogeyman. It has got nothing to do with actual black people, literally, though that can be understood as a double entendre.
Rammstein
Angst
Awesome
Ugh
Thank you for this👍🤘
Boogeyman
But this is true to an unnerving degree. Rapture anyone??
Rapture? So where is this truth you speak of? Lets keep truth and fairytales separate.
@@Trainwheel_Time That remark was made on the Christians who prep for the coming of Christ. Scared of society.
Do the liner notes spell it “Mann” or “Man?” If it’s the latter, then it means “one” as in a person (an example of it being used in a sentence would be “one need not be a chamber to be haunted”).
As others have said, even if it is “Mann,” in this context it’s not referring to skin color just as calling someone “green” means that they’re a rookie/inexperienced, rather than literally meaning they are the color green.
The idea that Rammstein or any other band would openly make a song about being afraid of any race of people is absurd on its face.
„Mann“ and „man“ have the same pronunciation!. but in this case , it’s „Mann“.
And yeah , it’s not about skin color, it’s about “boogeyman” , I made this mistake when translating
@@mattschwarz7563 I wish you would correct it in the video because you have the woke crowd on here trying to capitalizes it as a racist matter.
“Furcht” is the actual day word for “Fear”.
While I agree with that boogeyman is probably a more fitting translation for the lyrics, I also find it very clever to read both meanings, given the amount of fearmongering and demonisation of media towards black people and nonwhite people in general, which would also perfectly fit into the song's themes.
Yes!!
Exactly, it is a double entendre
yea they did purposefully cast a Black woman and child in the video behind barbed wire. I dont think they were unaware of the potential of that meaning being read into it by the global audience. They have shown anti-racist sentiment before such as casting a Black woman as Germania, essentially saying Black Germans are just as German as any other German.
13% of blacks are responsible for 52% of murders in the US.
The media rarely mentions race when the perpetrator is black and victim is white but definitely mentions race when a degen like George Floyd is choked.
But yeah, sure "fear mongering"
You clearly have no understanding of "mainstream media" because in reality they do the exact opposite of what you claim.
A RAMMSTEIN CONCERT, with the saarland native I have 2 children with... and
Mate this is so true fucking love these guys fuck the media
I like the part when he's in the stray jacket rocking his head!!!?😆🤘
I like the fact that at the end of the full clip you can see they didn't let Till loose with a lawnmower that still had blades lol.
Seriously. Im a southern American. The ONLY concert I've ever attended was
I like the play in the video 'the mother and the child, are there prisinors or are they denfended, the boys with the wall, are they defended or are they prisioners...
Ok
All of the above
We’re all prisoners
Fear is a prison
That guitar grunge is basically Du riechst so gut!! Killer either way, just a cool notice
Wait I'll have to listen to du riechst so gut again to see
Ramm 4
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Ramm 4
Ramm
"This is America"
Eyes
i just know this video is going to haunt me at nightO-O
lá na vdd
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If you read the lyrics you can decifer he means boogeyman not blackman.
Nope. It's Blackman. You're just insecure about making the connection and would rather it be that way.
This song is about irony. And this is a manifestation of it.
Schwarze-mann
Black Man. 👻 quick... change the word to.... yes... boogeymann, there we go... irrational fears hidden 🤡
@@user-fh9vh6hr7w it's obvious you're clueless but no respectful german man would be scared of a blackman. And this has been handed down thru 100rds of generations about the boogeyman and has absolutely nothing to do with anyone that is black. And it's obvious you don't know german and one german word can have multiple means and it depends on what it's used in its contents. But you wouldn't know because your not german.
Then I thought you guys rocked.. yet this is a rich punk version of a bunch
Gassen means “alleys.” Streets would be “Straßen.”
Du hast recht , mein Fehler!
I am having a serious problem with the continual mistranslation of “angst” into “fear”. Angst is more relate to anxiety or concern. I translate it as “worry”.
Angst is needless worry about nothing.
Yeah, but in German language Angst just means fear
Those nogs will get you
Wondabar... While angst is being moody and slightly irritated in English, it mean "fear" in German...
People saying that they should change the word "black man", like a couple of millionairs give a damn what you think lmao, they don't care that you think everything associated with the word black automatically equals a african dude
If owie would educate themselves. Black man in German is bogey man dark. Nothing to do with skin color
One
Btw this from a fricken huge ass fan 😪
It means something similar to boogeyman not black man bad translation but saying it means black man gives it a cruel twist somebody's probably going around calling some black dude the boogeyman in German because of this
LOL "The Black Man" LOL It's "The Boogeyman", albeit though, the boogeyman could be a reference to what ever you are afraid of though. This is not about racism people.
South Africa
Cheerleader children's friends... then the black man comes after to clean up his mess or make mesier
f my country would have a powerful Band like this :)
Watchers
creio que a melhor tradução para "schwarzen Mann" seria "bicho papão", já que diz respeito a um personagem folclórico criado para assustar crianças
Sim, já estou ciente!
I grew up in the 80s ...... we used to eat dirt as kids & were allowed to play down the beach till dark with a 0.00001 % chance of getting abducted & ass raped.... I love this song more than anything I've ever heard for a very long time.
Times are changing mate
Well things have completely changed.
Danimal yes true 😅
Yes, but in the 80’s, you didn’t have a constant stream of information of all the horrifying and terrifying shit the world spews out coming out of a device in your pocket. I always hear people say, “in the 70’s, we could play on our own with no parents and we would leave our doors unlocked blah blah blah”. And it’s just like, yeah, why do you think the 70s was the decade of the serial killer? Were people really safe back in those decades, or was it just the illusion of safety that is now being broken due to smartphones and the internet?
Angst
Awesome
Horray
Ugh
Gassen = alleys
I fear black men 😭
It's boogie man smh
Stranger things dupee
Brilliant.
I guess America is their cash cow
Refugee Crises
put them in furher style g@$ chamb3r$
I'm not even black.... but I've been listening to rammstein since I was about 13 years old...I'm 22 right now...and I'm even learning German...but this as a afrikaaaner...(a form of Dutch witch is similar to german) gives me a feeling to say f*ck rammstein and Germany.......I hate this racial undertones....and we already suffered apartheid in South Africa so...basically to me it doesn't matter how you interpret black man.....calling black men boogy men is just as racist and I f*cken hate this
Auf Deutch fick euch...warum?ich habe keine guten antworte...ich bin nicht gut mit meinem Deutch...aber gut mit meinem augen...und in meinem lebe sehe ich viele angst vor Das weiße man...warum? Hitler...krieg...racism...und ganze viele....ich habe keine worte für eure lied nicht....aber ich glaubt ein tag sollen Das Schwarze Mann Auf kommen und Das welt sollen nur gucken...Weil da sind viele leute war sie wollt hilfen....fick euch und eure muttere munchi ist voll Schwartze sperm in der nähe future
they denounce the opposite of what you say, they speak against the people like Trump who exist because they make other people fear imaginary threats, like a Boogeyman, or refugees like the far-right parties in Europe. In Germany, they had people having this kind of fear-generating discourses against refugees after the crisis of 2015, and that's what Rammstein denounces here with that double meaning of "Swartzen Mann"... they're far from being racists!
Dude
Take your meds and go to bed
This is a criticism of people who are racist fear-mongers and xenophobic. Rammstein is extremely left-leaning.
Sounds like someone missed the irony in the lyrics.
@@celtic7029 E
The song is about being white, having it made, and yet being so full of irrational fear of black people that you destroy their lives by making them your boogeyman. There are a lot of people trying to play this off, trying to remove the racial part which just reinforces the song's message.
Eh, it's most likely just a metaphor.
LOL nope it's not about racism at all??
The guy that did this video has said it's the boogeyman and he translated it wrong so get off your woke pedestal
The guy that did this video has said it's the boogeyman and he translated it wrong so get off your woke pedestal
No it’s not about black people