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Fans vote “Sonne” in “Battle” as the best Rammstein song
Rammstein singer Till Lindemann. Fans have chosen the most popular Rammstein song. Photo: Axel Heimken / dpa
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Fans of the band Rammstein have decided: The song “Sonne” is the best song by the Berlin band. The song was originally designed for two world-famous boxers.
In a “battle” competition called “song against song”, Rammstein fans voted “sun” as the band’s most popular song.
The piece, which appeared on the album “Mutter” in 2001, won the final with 61 to 39 percent of the votes against “Du hast” from the 1997 album “Sehnsucht”. At the band’s live concerts, both songs are among the highlights of the celebrated shows, accompanied by a lot of fire, firecrackers and light effects.
In a co-system, the band had 32 songs from their seven studio albums compete against each other in the past few weeks. On the Instagram channel with almost two million followers, fans could decide on the upcoming duel.
On the way to the final, “Sonne” prevailed against songs like “Ich will” – recently used as an advertising anthem for the German Paralympics team – or “Engel”. With the cannibalism song “Mein Teil” or “Deutschland” from the latest, untitled album, “Du hast” also had a hard way into the final.
«Sun» intended for Klitschkos
“Sun” was actually intended by Rammstein for the entry of Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko into the boxing ring. Hence the count up to ten that has been incorporated into the song several times. In the video, the musicians confront the martial song with fairy tale material, in which an imperious Snow White takes a golden shot with the precious metal mined by Rammstein dwarfs.
In a survey by the US magazine “Metal Hammer” with around 20,000 participants, “Sonne” was also ahead last year. The song has already been covered by Heino: At the Wacken Festival 2013 there was a guest appearance by the pop singer and duo with Rammstein singer Till Lindemann during the performance of “Sonne”. In the text, “you have” initially plays with the phonetic ambiguity of “has” and “hates”. A hesitant sentence turns into a marriage proposal alongside the question of a vow of loyalty – answered by a hard and double “No”.
The band had to push the second part of their successful European tour twice due to corona. It should now continue on May 15 and 16 in Prague. The kick-off in Germany is planned for Leipzig, where the six musicians want to play on May 20th and 21st. Concerts are also planned in Berlin (June 4th / 5th), Stuttgart (June 10th / 11th), Hamburg (June 14th / 15th) and Düsseldorf (June 18th / 19th).
The band has scheduled a total of 31 concerts in Europe, after which a tour through Canada, the USA and Mexico is planned. For the first part, more than a million fans visited the 30 shows with sophisticated pyrotechnics and impressive light effects last year, ten of them in Germany. A good 80,000 people came to Moscow’s Central Dynamo Stadium alone.