ROSENROT

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'''Rosenrot''' (German: "rose-red", listen) is the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein's fifth musical album. It was released on October 28, 2005 in Germany, December 6, 2005 in Canada, and March 28, 2006 in the U.S. A limited edition with a bonus DVD is also available. ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank>/id/525
The album includes six unreleased songs from ''Reise, Reise'' that had been omitted for artistic reasons, and five completely new ones. It was originally going to be titled ''Reise, Reise Volume Two'', but on August 18, 2005 the album was announced as ''Rosenrot''.
The cover art is nearly identical to the Japanese import of ''Reise, Reise''. The image is a slightly altered photograph of the icebreaker USS ''Atka'', taken on March 13, 1960 at McMurdo Station, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank>/id/520
While Rammstein did not actively promote this album, the band built anticipation through a variety of means. The first single from the album, "Benzin", premiered at the Berliner Wuhlheide and has been subsequently released. Rammstein's official website features one-minute samples from six of the album's songs, and had featured a prominent release-date countdown. A brief section of the chorus from "Rosenrot" plays in the background of an e-card containing photographs of the band and basic album information. [1]

Contents
Track listing
Song information
Benzin
Mann gegen Mann
Rosenrot
Spring
Wo bist du?
Stirb nicht vor mir
Zerstören
Hilf mir
Te quiero puta!
Feuer und Wasser
Ein Lied
Videos
Limited Bonus DVD Edition
External links

Track listing


# "Benzin" ("Petrol" or "Gasoline") – 3:46
# "Mann gegen Mann" ("Man against man") – 3:51
# "Rosenrot" ("Rose-red") – 3:55
# "Spring" ("Jump") – 5:25
# "Wo bist du?" ("Where are you?") – 3:56
# "Stirb nicht vor mir // Don't die before I do" (feat. Sharleen Spiteri) – 4:06
# "Zerstören" ("Destroy") – 5:29
# "Hilf mir" ("Help me") – 4:44
# "Te quiero puta!" (Sp. "I want you, whore!") – 3:56
# "Feuer und Wasser" ("Fire and water") – 5:13
# "Ein Lied" ("A song") – 3:44

Song information


Benzin

"Benzin" (Petrol ''or'' Gasoline) was the first song to be introduced from ''Rosenrot''. Rammstein first played "Benzin" live at Berlin's Wuhlheide Park in June 2005. Theatrical flames shot twenty meters into the air during the live performance. Later, the song was also played at several other concerts, one of them at Nîmes, which is included on the band's new live DVD "Völkerball. It is the only song to have been played live to date.
Benzin can be interpreted as a political reference to the high gas prices being experienced in many countries around the world (Ich brauche Geld für Gasolin/I need money for gasoline). "Gasolin" is not actually a German word, but an English word made German. There was, however, a German chain of gas stations called "Gasolin".
Also, bassist Ollie Riedel briefly discussed the song on Rosenrot with Kerrang!, a music magazine published in the United Kingdom, where he said "We have so much fire in our shows that we wondered if we could have some lyrics about petrol, because it's been responsible for our success outside of Germany. It's basically our ode to pyromania".
The Music video depicts the majority of the band as bored firefighters who receive a call and drive a gigantic firetruck, unwittingly destroying everything in their path to reach one survivor - Christian "Flake" Lorenz
Mann gegen Mann

"Mann gegen Mann" (Man against man) is a song about the benefits and woes of homosexuality; however all band members are heterosexual. The song is not simply about the subject of homosexuality but has many allusions to the sufferings a homosexual life may have. For example the line "Wo das süße Wasser stirbt, weil es sich im Salz verdirbt" ("Where the fresh water dies losing itself into salt") can be understood as a hint to the many tears a homosexual may shed because he is different. Part of the refrain may also be interpreted as referencing Christian views on the subject. The line "Meine Haut gehört dem Herrn" can be translated to "My skin belongs to the mister" as well as "My skin belongs to the Lord" (meaning God). In the second refrain it is followed by the lines "Doch friert mein Herz an manchen Tagen. Kalte Zungen die da schlagen - Schwuler!" ("Though my heart freezes on some days. Cold tongues that beat there - queer").
This song is the third single from ''Rosenrot''. Till repeatedly screams "Schwuler" (sung as "Schwulah", concatenating an "ah" suffix equivalent to a scream "Aaahh!" In English it would be something like saying "playa'" or "gangsta'", replacing the "er" with "ah") in the background, which is a derogatory German equivalent to the English word "queer" but is generally accepted as a neutral term for gay men for many years.
Rosenrot

The "Rosenrot" (Rose-red) track was a highly anticipated track by fans of Rammstein, as it was slated in February 2004 to be the first single from the band's fourth studio album, "Reise, Reise" (the song "Mein Teil" was released instead).
In the end, "Rosenrot" did not make the tracklist of "Reise, Reise", a move that the band's management claimed "left them speechless."
The lyrics are an amalgam adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem "Heidenröslein", and the story "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot" from the Brothers Grimm (Goethe's poem "Der Erlkönig" similarly inspired the "Reise, Reise" track, "Dalai Lama"). The song talks about a girl who sees a rose on the top of a mountain, she asks her boyfriend ("loved one" in the song) to go up after it and to bring it to her. He climbs the mountain and sees the landscape below, but he is not interested in it due to his love to the girl. Eventually a rock breaks under his boot and he falls, and dies.
In the video, the band, dressed as clergy members, arrive at a Romanian village (actually called Zarnesti) in the Carpathian Mountains. Till Lindemann's character becomes romantically involved with a younger girl there, and eventually murders her parents at her request. She then betrays him, and the villagers burn him at the stake. The girl in the video is portrayed by Khira Li Lindemann, under the stage name Catalina Lavric.
The casting director for this video was Sorin Tarau, Standard Casting.
Spring

"Spring" (Jump) is about a man who climbs high onto a bridge just to see the view. A crowd gathers, thinking that he wants to commit suicide and encourages the man to jump. The man tries to climb down but the crowd doesn't let him. In the end, with people screaming at him, he is kicked off the bridge by a member of the crowd (Till's "character" in the song), saving him, as they see it, from his shame (of being mentally unable to jump). The song has a very melodic, gentle and melancholy keyboard-based chorus, accompanied by Till's trademark voice.
Wo bist du?

"Wo bist du?" (Where are you?) is a song that was supposed to be on Reise, Reise but did not make the tracklisting. The song begins with a synth clarinet and then the rest of the instruments begin to play. The song is different because the keyboard is the instrument that is easiest to hear.
Stirb nicht vor mir

"Stirb nicht vor mir" is uniquely different compared to Rammstein's other songs. It is dominated by clean, arpeggiated guitars, with no distorted guitar to be found on the track. "Stirb nicht vor mir" is a duet, featuring Sharleen Spiteri from the British band Texas on vocals along with Till Lindemann. Till sings in German as usual, but Sharleen's lyrics are in English.
A strictly German version may be released sometime in the future. Christian "Flake" Lorenz expressed dissatisfaction with the current song in an online chat with fans: "I hope that we can release the German version. The English version is not good, IMO. I don't know how English speakers feel about it. For me it's just embarrassing. In the German version, Bobo sings it." [2]
When asked about up-coming music videos in a recent interview, Richard mentioned that the next video will be for ''Stirb nicht vor mir'', saying: "We will do one more for the duet with Sharleen.".[3]
However, since recent news as of May 21st, 2007 from the management point to Rammstein working on their sixth studio album, the idea of another single from Rosenrot at this time seems unlikely.
Zerstören

Zerstören (Destroy) is a song about a young boy who likes to destroy other peoples belongings which is meant as an analogy to the War on Iraq. Christian "Flake" Lorenz said about the subject in a German daily newspaper: "This is our country song about George W. Bush and it's meant downright serious. He behaves in the world like a child that wants to destroy everything. Thereby he only assaults other people's property!".
This song is played quite fast and with high energy. It opens with a woman singing Turkish folk song Huma Kusu and loud slightly echoing drumming, and increases in intensity until the "end" of the song. At this point it relaxes a little, and is a bit quiet, calm and soothing. The listener hears a sad story, or (arguably) the ending to the same story:
"He met a girl that was blind,
shared pain and like-minded.
Saw a star go from the sky
and wished that she could see.
She opened her eyes
and left him in the same night."
In the background a cute, child-like keyboard can be heard. It ends with some odd discordant notes.
Hilf mir

"Hilf mir" (Help me) is based on the story of "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug" from "Der Struwwelpeter" by Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894)[4]. The story is about a girl who lights a match and develops an unusual love of fire (see pyromania). When a flame accidentally touches her dress, she, along with her house, is burned to the ground. At the end she rises from the ashes to the sunshine.
Te quiero puta!

''"Te quiero puta!"'' ("I want you, whore!") is notable for being Rammstein's first and currently only song in Spanish. It is the only song in which Rammstein has predominantly used a trumpet, though Benzin and Rosenrot both use a trumpet, and one can be scarcely heard during Klavier's bridge. The song itself is a combination of the band's usual loud heavy-metal attack and mariachi music. Till Lindemann's love for Hispanic culture was the main inspiration for the song's style, because as he claims, ''"In South America it is more open surfaces. And the music with the warm-blooded rhythms one can dance to. And the women..."'' ("Closeup", September 2005). He wrote the lyrics to the song together with his girlfriend, who speaks fluent Spanish. The Spanish vocals are sung by Carmen Zapata.
Feuer und Wasser

Like the lyrics of many Rammstein songs, the words of "Feuer und Wasser" are intentionally double-edged and ambiguous. The song describes a naked woman swimming. The narrator, a voyeur, watches the naked woman, and his desire grows. The lyrics have strong sexual undertones, and he talks openly about her breasts and the way her naked legs kick like scissors. The "Feuer" likely describes his sexual desire, which "sparks" when he follows her from behind. But the sparks can't catch; the water separates him from her and douses the fire, keeping him from consuming her. In the end the narrator's passion grows so strong that he grabs her with his wet hands while she swims, but she is cold, and is not consumed with fire for him. As the narrator remarks that fire and water don't work together, it appears that water/fire combination has led him to at least imagine rape, if not really commit it. Ultimately, the song ends with him burning in water. The narrator's passion is surrounded by a cooling force which is diametrically opposed to what his loins burn for.
Another interpretation is that this is a song about love. This song tells of a man who is madly in love with a woman that has no interest in him (Sie schwimmt vorbei bemerkt mich nicht, Ich bin ihr Schatten sie steht im Licht|She swims past and doesn't notice me, I am her shadow, she stands in her light).
Ein Lied

"Ein Lied" (A song) is one of Rammstein's few slow songs, such as Nebel. It features acoustic guitars, bass, ethereal synthesizer sounds somewhere in between strings and choir (Also heard in ''Mann gegen Mann''), and a theremin-like keyboard lead doubled by another synthesized string part. Till's lyrics are partly spoken and partly sung in low breathy tones. He sings "Spielen wir für euch" ("We play for you"); it is a song for the fans of the band.
The song is by far Rammstein's softest song; it has no percussion, and is sort of quiet and dreamy. The end of the song is met without much spectacle, as the keyboards die away.

Videos


Screenshot of Benzin video.

On August 18, 2005, it was announced that "Benzin" would be the first video for Rosenrot. The "Benzin" video premiered on German MTV on Friday, September 16, 2005. In the video, all of the members of Rammstein except Flake play the role of reckless firemen driving a massive fire truck destroying things along the way. Flake does not appear until the end of the video as a man about to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of a tall building. The other band members open a life net for him but it ends up ripping. The video was shot in Berlin over three days in August 2005. It was directed by Uwe Flade.
The second video from the album, "Rosenrot", premiered on November 30, 2005 on MTV Germany. ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank>/id/564 A streaming version of the video has been made available on Rammstein's official site.
The third video, "Mann gegen Mann", was released on February 1 2006. It shows the band (genuinely) naked and utilizing their respective instruments to cover themselves, with the exception of Till, who is wearing a latex diaper, and sports an inverted mohawk haircut. The video switches between the band playing, and teeming masses of naked male bodybuilders. Towards the end, Till transforms into the demon that is portrayed on the cover.
When asked about up-coming music videos in a recent interview, it was mentioned that the next video will be for ''Stirb nicht vor mir''.[5] The current status of the video's production is unknown, and it seems unlikely that it will be made since work for the ''next'' studio album is under way.

Limited Bonus DVD Edition


The limited edition included the normal CD plus a DVD with three live performances:
# Reise, Reise (Arenes de Nimes, Nimes / France July 2005)
# Mein Teil (Club Citta, Kanagawa / Japan June 2005)
# Sonne (Brixton Academy, London / UK February 2005)
Performances were later featured on the DVD Völkerball.

External links



Official Rosenrot information page (English)

Official Rosenrot information page (German)

Official Rosenrot information page with Benzin video clip (English)

The making of "Benzin" (video)

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