Young and Full of Fluff

For an icebreaker at work, we were asked to choose a 20-30 second clip of music that would be our "walk up to bat" music, and then we are going to play these clips and guess whose they are. (For context, my team is about a dozen people, and as we are located all over the country, we do ice breakers of some sort every other week or so, to make sure we're forming social bonds.)

I spent much of the weekend agonizing over this. Most of the music I listen does not fit any kind of genre that would be appropriate for that. I eventually landed on "Mein Herz Brennt" by Rammstein. 1) Because it is awesome. 2) Because when I was in high school, we actually did roll down our windows and blast Rammstein while arriving as returning champions to a Quizbowl tournament. No one was in the parking lot to hear, but still. (Also, it was from Herzeleid because Mutter was released when I was in college but, whatever, Mein Herz Brennt is an excellent song.)

This then led to me trying to find a work appropriate youtube link (let's just say the official music video is...not). Which led to me discovering that after a decade drought, Rammstein has released two new albums. One of them, Zeit, is a "surprise pandemic album."

Like a lot of artists, lockdown forced them to stop their almost continuous touring. (As an aside, the band has had the same six people for its entire thirty year history. In interviews, they say it's because they respect each others' needs for time away. Which sounds so simple, but looking to the history of acrimonously broken up popular bands, clearly is not.) Per some interviews I found, lockdown led to them having an unexpected bout of creativity and writing a bunch of new songs.

And the new song that autoplays on their youtube channel? Is "Dicke Titten." Which means, roughly, "Big Titties."

The song is catchy as hell. I'm not linking it because, though I love Rammstein, there are always things I don't want to imply I'm cosigning. But. It's almost quaint in its objectification? The video is a lot of big breasted women in dirndls milking cows.

And I just kind of love the idea of these almost sixty-year-old grandfathers in lockdown going, you know what would make me happy? Performing with my band again. And singing about big titties. Till Lindemann, are you doing okay?