Mein Land

November 14, 2011

My country is a song by German - New German Hardness band Rammstein from their retrospective 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 inspired by the album cover of Surfer Girl by the Beach Boys.

Publication and success

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

Reception

Christina Hoffmann wrote in The World: " Here is the new video, as already earlier songs such as America, quite clearly politically read as a critique of the cultural hegemony of the U.S., on a Californication the world. Against the Light and sunny place Rammstein 's gravity, Hard and Dark, just the German.

Anti-Americanism is not specifically right, alright. But why sing Rammstein at the end of " My Country " words like "Exiled - Forget "? This is hardly the Native American meant. There is in our country a subculture that sets out to such texts to their own conclusions. "

Paul Landers says the song was meant: " [ ... ] In any case, he has no passport and tries to come clean in any world. And no one makes him pure. He knocks on every country and no one says: "Come in," but all say: "This is my country." So the song is meant [ ... ]. "

Music Video

The music video was filmed on May 23, 2011 in Malibu at Sycamore Beach. Jonas Åkerlund directed. It shows the band in clothing from the 1960s, as they are a party on the beach. Descriptions in a font as they also used the Beach Boys will be displayed. At the end of the video, the action switches to the present time, the band occurs on the same beach, the musician faces painted in the style of Brandon Lee in The Crow have. The music video was released on November 11, 2011.