Radio (Rammstein song)

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radio
Rammstein
publication April 26, 2019
length 4:37
Genre (s) New German Hardness
Author (s) Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul Landers , Till Lindemann , Christian Lorenz , Oliver Riedel , Christoph Schneider
Producer (s) Olsen Involtini , Rammstein
Label Universal
album Rammstein

Radio is a song by the German band Rammstein that was released on April 26, 2019 as the second single from the album Rammstein . The song was written by the band and produced by them with Olsen Involtini .

Music and lyrics

Among other things, the song pays homage to the band Kraftwerk , especially to their song Radioactivity . The Rolling Stone called it a pop song . In terms of the text - for example with the line “This is how I hear what I can't see / quiet, secret distant pain” - it is about times when listening to “hostile” radio stations was forbidden. That affects the Third Reich as well as the band's past in the GDR .

Music video

The music video, shot in black and white, shows the band dressed in the style of the 1930s in a broadcasting house. The band broadcasts their song via Volksempfänger . Soldiers storm the hall, the song leads them to a choreographed dance. In between, the band can be seen - “in robot-like Kraftwerk manner as a digital projection surface that intervenes in the story, but is not tangible to the touch.” The director was Joern Heitmann .

reception

The single reached high chart positions, number four in Germany and Hungary , number 13 in Austria and number 17 in Switzerland . The Rolling Stone wrote: "The song is oblique satire which holds a mirror or the radio society. And also a settlement with dictatorships like the GDR. "

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 4th (7 weeks) 7th
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 13 (3 weeks) 3
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 17th (5 weeks) 5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://swisscharts.com/song/Rammstein/Radio-1864909
  2. ↑ a b c d https://www.rollingstone.de/radio-rammstein-lyrics-ddr-1697043/
  3. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
Rammstein
Studio albums

Herzeleid (1995) • Sehnsucht (1997) • Mother (2001) • Reise, Reise (2004) • Rosenrot (2005) • Love is for everyone (2009) • Rammstein (2019)

Live albums

Live from Berlin (1999) • Völkerball (2006) • Rammstein: Paris (2017)

Compilation albums

Original single collection (1998) • Made in Germany 1995–2011 (2011) • Rammstein - XXI piano (2015) • Rarities (1994–2012) (2015)

Video albums

Live from Berlin (1999) • Lichtspielhaus (2003) • Völkerball (2006) • Videos 1995–2012 (2012) • In America (2015) • Rammstein: Paris (2017)

Singles
NoDISPLAY
Heartache
You smell so good (1995) • Sailor (1996) • You smell so good '98 (1998) • Ashes to ashes (Promo, 1999)
nostalgia
Engel (1997) • You Got (1997)
mother
Sun (2001) • Links 2 3 4 (2001) • I want (2001) • Mother (2002) • Fire free! (2002) • My Heart Burns (2012)
Journey, journey
My Part (2004) • America (2004) • Without You (2004) • No Desire (2005)
Rose red
Petrol (2005) • Rosenrot (2005) • Man against Man (2006)
Love is there for everyone
Pussy (2009) • I hurt you (2010) • Haifisch (2010)
Made in Germany 1995–2011
My Country (2011)
Rammstein
Germany (2019) • Radio (2019) • Foreigners (2019)
More singles
The model ( Kraftwerk -Cover, 1997) • Stripped ( Depeche-Mode -Cover, 1998) • Waidmanns Heil / Liebe is there for everyone (vinyl for Record Store Day , 2011)
More songs
Rammstein (1995)
Tours

Sehnsucht Tour (1997–2001) • Mother Tour (2001–02) • Ahoi Tour (2004–05) • Love is for Everyone Tour (2009–11) • Made in Germany Tour (2011–13) • Rammstein Tour (2016 ) • Rammstein Tour (2017) • Europe Stadium Tour (2019-20)