Sun (Rammstein song)

Sun
Rammstein
publication	February 12, 2001
length	4:32
Genre (s)	New German Hardness
Author (s)	Rammstein
Label	Motor Music
album	mother
Cover version
2013	Heino

Sun is a song of the German New German Hardness - band Rammstein . The song was written by Rammstein and produced by Jacob Hellner together with the band. It is the first single from their mother album and was released on February 12, 2001. The song reached number 2 in the German, number 5 in the Austrian and number 18 in the Swiss charts.

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Till Lindemann said the song was originally written as a "fighter song" for the Klitschko brothers. "Klitschko" was also the working title of the song. The song text paraphrases hitting the opponent and counting the referee to the knockout point :

The sun shines out of my hands

Can burn, blind you

when she breaks her fists

lies hot on your face

lays painfully on the chest

the balance becomes a loss

makes you go down hard

And the world counts aloud to ten

Music video

After the song was not used as background music for a boxing match - according to Paul Landers , Vitali Klitschko had rejected it as too harsh - the music video depicts a recontextualization of the text, which Rammstein often finds, by projecting the verses onto a different narrative context: The music video shows the band members as dwarfs who have to dig gold in a mine for a giant Snow White . Snow White is portrayed as tyrannical and addicted to drugs - she sniffs the gold that the dwarves win, pushes them around and in one scene spanks the bare bottom of the guitarist Paul Landers. Nevertheless, they worship them because of their beauty and their erotic charms. She dies, but not from a poisoned apple, but from an overdose of gold that she injected herself while the dwarfs are at work. You find her in the tub, bleeding from her nose, with a syringe next to her. The dwarfs carry her in a glass coffin to a snow-covered mountain peak, place it under an almost bare apple tree and mourn.

As the dwarfs turn to go, one last apple comes loose from the branch, falls on the coffin and smashes the glass. As a result, Snow White wakes up again, becomes angry and surprises the dwarfs who turn to her. The video ends with the dwarves continuing to work in the mine to supply their “sun” with gold.

The video was shot from January 13-15, 2001 in the Babelsberg film studio near Potsdam . The director was Joern Heitmann , who was working with the band for the first time. He later also wrote the Rammstein videos for Ich will , Mutter , Amerika , Ohne dich , Keine Lust and Haifisch .

Snow White was played by Russian soap actress Joulia Stepanova.

In 2017, keyboardist Christian Flake Lorenz reported in his book Today is the World's Birthday that the shooting took place immediately before the band left for a festival tour in New Zealand and Australia. Since the end of the shoot was delayed, the band had no time to carefully remove their make-up before departure. To make them appear credible as miners, the musicians were so sooty and dirty with make-up that cleaning would have taken hours that were no longer available.

“The stewardesses on the plane were a bit surprised about us, they had probably never had such dirty passengers on board. The headrests turned really black because our hair should look like mining too. But they were indulgent when they found out the reason, so the stewardesses. We changed trains in Los Angeles and flew on with an American company to which we could not explain our dirt so plausibly. (...) And then we arrived still dirty in Brisbane at around 45 degrees. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz

Other videos by the band, such as Rosenrot, also have a similar fairytale theme.

Cover versions

Heino together with Rammstein at Wacken Open Air 2013

The cover version of Heino on the album Mit freundlichen Grüßen (2013) also became famous . It also came into the German charts and reached number 91. Another cover version from 2011 comes from the German metalcore band Caliban . It was released on their EP Coverfield and as a single. Another cover version in the style of sirtaki music was released by The Drachmen .

A piano version of the piece recorded by Clemens Pötzsch runs during the credits of the Rammstein music video Germany published in March 2019 . This version was also used as the outro during the Europe Stadium Tour 2019 .

Track list of the single

1. "Sun" - 4:32
2. “Adiós” - 3:48
3. "Sun" ( Clawfinger KO Remix) - 4:11
4. "Sun" (Clawfinger TKO Remix) - 5:52
5. "Sun" (instrumental) - 4:31

• Also released as a 2-track CD with “Sonne” and “Adiós”.

Chart placements

Chart placements Charts Top ranking Weeks Chart placements  Germany (GfK) 2 (12 weeks) 12  Austria (Ö3) 5 (14 weeks) 14th  Switzerland (IFPI) 18th (11 weeks) 11

Annual charts Charts (2001) placement Annual charts (2001)  Germany (GfK) 41  Austria (Ö3) 50

Awards for music sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI)	gold	250,000
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	15,000
All in all	2 × gold	265,000

Main article: Rammstein / Awards for Music Sales

Trivia

The female voice in the song is a keyboard sample from the Symphony of Voices music library by Spectrasonics .

The riff was already included in the demo version of the song Play with Me .

The song can also be heard in the trailer and in the opening credits of the film Red Siren .

Web links

• Rammstein - Sun (Official Video)
• Rammstein - Sonne (Official Making Of)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rammstein - Sun - hitparade.ch. Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Press: Maternity Leave (herzeleid.com). September 2000, accessed April 20, 2020 . 
3. ^ Rammstein: Till. Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions: Videos (herzeleid.com). Retrieved April 20, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Flake: Today is the world's birthday , pp. 274/275, S. Fischer Verlag, 1st edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397263-4 .
6. ↑ Caliban Coverfield
7. ↑ Heino covert - who cares? , District newspaper Syke , January 29, 2013
8. ↑ Sonne (Rammstein) in the German charts
9. ↑ austriancharts.at
10. ↑ hitparade.ch
11. ↑ German annual charts 2001
12. ↑ Austrian annual charts 2001
13. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions: Mother (herzeleid.com). Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
14. ↑ whosampled.com