Hello to one and all, I’m here to show you the music
video that I just can’t get off my head these days.
I just love the well-made satires, the ones that make
you think about something not falling in the obvious, ridiculous and easy ways
that you can see in many famous and not so famous humorists, musicians and
filmmakers trying to send a message in ways that are absolutely not creative
nor fun, just an obscene rage shout to the world.
The song we’re talking is Amerika, made by Rammstein,
a pretty famous and controversial band from Germany. This song came out on 2004
and this might not see too important but a little analysis will make you change
your mind.
The messages on the clip see pretty obvious at first,
but the criticism is directed to another way that most people think. Let me
explain myself: First, the flagrant message is the damage that USA has made and
is making to the world cultures, for instance in the video we can see the Buddhist
kids eating McDonald-like hamburgers, an Asian young man imitating a 50’s young
badass guy and a Middle East man with sneakers taking them off before his
ceremonial pray. All this matching with a clear lyric saying “We’re living in America,
Coca Cola; sometimes war”.
So, is there a hidden message? Of course there is!, as
I said before the year 2004 is pretty important, the USA president George Bush
was spreading a hate message around the world about “freedom and war”, and,
many many people were aware of this. So the song and video itself is a
criticism to the US-American point of view that Bush was showing to the world: the
American lifestyle is the best, is the only one that is correct and EVERYONE in
the world should live our culture and share our values.
The topics on this video don’t touch the globalization
factor that might explain a big part of the phenomena that are shown in the
video, but the creative works have to omit parts to focus on another, because
these kind of videos and stuff show us things that we have to take care of,
things that we have to be aware of, creating consciousness and not showing us an
absolute truth that we must follow.
Take care,
have a nice day and thank you for reading.
- Yair
I think it's a great song and with a very interested message. Today we can see how USA influenced a big part of the world, specially with their commercial merchandise. It really looks like we all live in America because, in a way or another, we try to have the same things that americans have, act like americans, eat american's food, etc. It's a really excellent song and video.
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