While my other amazing blog is rushing towards the 5000 views jubilee, I decided to start a new one. This time in English and definitely not because of my awesome English skills. My other blog in German is about German song lyrics which I (try to) analyze and interpret. The topic here will be similar to the other blog but here I am going to translate the German lyrics to English as good as I can.
"So why are you doing this? You fool of a Took, there are thousands of lyric pages, some of them already even have English translations of all our favorite Rammstein songs?"
Indeed my random-unfriendly-internet-stranger-example, there are already thousands of lyric translations. But I don't agree with some of the translations I have seen and it is not just about the translation, but also about giving background information. For example puns, which won't work after the translation or historical or political meanings, etc.. In my opinion there is often more to say than only translating some lines from one language into the other.
Another point is to review good German and Austrian movies. The idea behind the whole blog is to give interesting examples and insight into our pop-culture for everyone who is interested in it.
Beware: The goal of this blog is NOT to glorify our culture (if you are willing to use such controversial terms), just to offer background information for people who are actually interested in German language, German music and German movies.
Connecting different language areas will be one of my goals and duties after finishing my academic studies and due to my own experience pop-culture is a great way to dive into a foreign culture. (Did I mention, that I really feel uncomfortable when using this term?)
Another topic of my interests are stereotypes about (German) language. I already wrote a paper on that and I am also planning to stick to this topic, maybe for my bachelor papers, so I guess there will be also stuff around German stereotypes.
Two more things...
1. today is some kind of a holiday, because Eis, former Geist, one of the (in my opinion) greatest German bands released their new album "Wetterkreuz". It might be hard stuff for beginners (and I don't mean German beginners but metal, especially atmospheric black metal beginners) that is why I am not starting with one of their songs. But you can bet that there are going to be some Eis translations around here. Anyway, I thought it was a good, memorable day to start this new blog.
2. Look at the following picture. Same thing happened to me. The only difference... I wasn't angry but my heart stopped and flipped and started dancing and I was like "finally a student knowing Rammstein! This is amazing!". So this was another key moment leading to this blog. If you have song suggestions or wishes or whatever... feel free to comment.
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