Rosenrot (song)
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| Single by Rammstein | ||
| from the album Rosenrot | ||
| Released | December 16, 2005 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | Teldex Studio, Berlin, 2005 | |
| Genre | Tanz-Metall | |
| Length | 3:54 | |
| Label | Motor (Part of UMG) | |
| Producer(s) | Jacob Hellner and Rammstein | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Rammstein singles chronology | ||
| "Benzin" (2005) |
"Rosenrot" (2005) |
"Mann gegen Mann" (2006) |
"Rosenrot1" (German for Rose-red) is a song and single by the German band Rammstein on the Rosenrot album.
The "Rosenrot" track was highly anticipated by fans of Rammstein, as it was first slated in February 2004 to be the first single from the band's fourth studio album, Reise, Reise (the song "Mein Teil" took that honour instead). In the end, "Rosenrot" didn't even make the tracklist of Reise, Reise, a move that the band's management claimed "left them speechless."
The lyrics are supposedly an amalgam adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem "Heidenröslein" (whose poem "Erlkönig" similarly inspired the Reise, Reise track, "Dalai Lama"), and the story "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot," from the Brothers Grimm.
The single was released in Germany on December 16, 2005.
1 "Rosenrot" is german for "rose-red" but interpreted from the play of words that it is used in from the song "rosenrot" can be interpreted to "RosesRed"
This song is inspired by and to some extent based upon the poem "Heidenröslein" by Goethe and the story "Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot" from the Brothers Grimm.
[edit] Video
The video shows the band as monks that go to a feast in a small village. The main story of the video shows the band's vocalist Till Lindemann falling in love with one of the girls in the village. At her request, he enters her house and murders her parents. As he leaves the house, he smiles to the girl and she smiles back briefly, before crying out, at which the villagers rush Till from the darkness and beat him. They tie him up and burn him on a stake; Till's fellow monks and his lover participate in the execution by throwing burning brands onto the woodpile.
The plot mirrors the song's lyrics: in both the video and the song, a man is asked to commit a self-destructive yet pointless act by his lover, and dies in the attempt while she is unharmed. In the video the man commits murder and is executed; in the song he attempts to retrieve a rose from a mountain, and falls to his death.
Throughout the video footage is shown of the band flagellating themselves with whips. The priests, Till in particular, are seen to be in emotional torment as the people of the village they visit are unfussed with emotional or physical pleasure; the townsfolk are often seen drinking and dancing. The stricter priests feel love, lust, and gluttony, and they are seen whipping themselves with knotted ropes as penance. The irony of this is that once one of the priests has come to terms with his love and feels no guilt, he is killed for the murders he committed. Similar irony is seen in the video for "Ich Will", where a bank robbery is rewarded by media attention; hypocritical justice is a common theme in Rammstein's videos.
[edit] Tracklisting
- Rosenrot (Single Version)
- Rosenrot (The Tweaker Remix by Chris Vrenna)
- Rosenrot (Northern Lite Remix by Northern Lite)
- Rosenrot (3AM At Cosy Remix by Jagz Kooner)
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| Rammstein |
| Till Lindemann | Christian "Flake" Lorenz | Christoph "Doom" Schneider | Richard Z. Kruspe | Oliver Riedel | Paul H. Landers |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Demos - 1994 | Herzeleid | Sehnsucht | Mutter | Reise, Reise | Rosenrot |
| Singles: Du riechst so gut | Seemann | Engel | Du hast | Das Modell | Du riechst so gut '98 | Stripped | Single Collection | Asche zu Asche | Sonne | Links 2 3 4 | Ich will | Mutter | Feuer frei! | Schtiel | Mein Teil | Amerika | Ohne dich | Keine Lust | Benzin | Rosenrot | Mann gegen Mann |
| VHS and DVDs: Live aus Berlin | Lichtspielhaus | Völkerball |
