My country (song)

my country
Rammstein
publication	November 14, 2011
length	3:53
Genre (s)	New German Hardness
Author (s)	Rammstein
album	Made in Germany 1995–2011

My country is a song by German New German Hardness - band Rammstein from their best-of album Made in Germany 1995-2011 . It was released as the first single from the album on November 14, 2011. The cover of the single is based on the album cover of Surfer Girl by the Beach Boys .

Publication and Success

The single was released as a 4-track digipak and 7 " vinyl . The song reached number 5 on the German single charts.

reception

Rammstein continues his style development with the music video for Mein Land . The typical Rammstein body cult lives on paired with political texts, so that Rammstein himself also recognizes the provocative potential of the text:

“The text has provocative potential, we are aware of that. We discussed this text for a long time [...] There were always discussions about whether it could be misunderstood because it allows so many interpretations. "

- Christoph Schneider, Rammstein drummer

Band member Paul Landers said:

“I see it that way, very abstractly, that's a person who doesn't have a passport [...] and he ends up somewhere on earth [...] and he tries to get into our world and nobody lets him in. He knocks on every country and nobody says: "Come on in" but everyone says: "This is my country". This is how the song is meant. [...] "

- Paul Landers, rhythm guitarist

According to lead guitarist Richard Kruspe, the first draft of the lyrics for Mein Land was created after singer Lindemann surfed on an American beach and - for reasons that were not explained in detail - got into trouble with local " top dogs ".

Christina Hoffmann wrote in ' Die Welt ':
“The new video, like earlier songs such as America , is quite clearly politically readable as a criticism of the cultural hegemony of the USA, of a caliberation of the world. Rammstein contrasts the light and the sunny with the heavy, the hard and the gloomy, the German. "

That the band also exposes itself to suspicion of the trivial and right-wing populist with this text is shown later in the review by Christina Hoffmann. There it says:
"[...] Anti-Americanism is not specifically right-wing, that's clear. But why do Rammstein sing words like" displaced - forgotten "at the end of" Mein Land "? our country is a subculture that makes its own rhyme with such texts. "

Music video

The music video was shot on May 23, 2011 on Sycamore Beach in Malibu between the band's two concert dates in Las Vegas and Mexico City . The US-based Swede Jonas Åkerlund directed. He shows the band in clothing from the 1960s celebrating a happy party with numerous women on the beach. Descriptions in a font like the one used by the Beach Boys are faded in, and the deliberately exaggerated, cheerful attitude of the band members and extras is based on the forms of representation common in films at the time. At the end of the video, the plot changes to the now; the band performs on the same, now nightly, beach. The previously harmless and only slightly frivolous party in daylight turns into excess, with the musicians - their faces are now painted in the style of Brandon Lee in The Crow - play on instruments that are sometimes burning and singer Till Lindemann spits small jets of flames thanks to computer technology.

The music video was released on November 11, 2011.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	5 (7 weeks)	7th
Austria (Ö3)	9 (4 weeks)	4th
Switzerland (IFPI)	21st (2 weeks)	2

Cover

In 2011 an English-language cover of the German country band The BossHoss appeared on the album Liberty of Action under the title My Country .

Web links

• Rammstein - Mein Land (Official Video)
• Rammstein - Mein Land (Official Making Of)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publication according to Allmusic
2. ↑ http://www.rammstein.de/en/news/single-veroffnahmung-mein-land/
3. ↑ http://www.officialcharts.de/song.asp?artist=Rammstein&title=Mein+Land&cat=s&country=de
4. ↑ youtube.com: Rammstein - Mein Land (Official Making Of) , original sound at 15:37, accessed on February 13, 2016 at 7.15 p.m.
5. ↑ youtube.com: Rammstein - Mein Land (Official Making Of) , original sound at 5:48 p.m., accessed on February 13, 2016 at 7:15 p.m.
6. ↑ Universal Music Domestic Division: DVD Rammstein Videos 1995-2012 , making-of for Mein Land , DVD 3, original sound from 16:45 min.
7. ↑ Christina Hoffmann: Comment: This is my country. In: welt.de . November 15, 2011, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Rammstein Unleash New Video For 'Mein Land' . Rock sound . November 11, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
9. ↑ Mein Land (Rammstein) in the German charts
10. ↑ austriancharts.at
11. ↑ hitparade.ch