Music video analysis

• This video begins in the dark in near silence. This fits to the song that also begins nearly silent.
• Then, the music kicks in, heavy and loud. So the video follows suit.
• It goes to a man using heavy threshing machinery.
• There are many quick cuts whilst the instruments are playing.
• Whilst the singer is singing then the cut rate slows as does the action on screen.
• The men in the video are of working class and this relates to the average listener of industrial music.
• Dark and dirty video, showing the hovel of their dwellings, this is a huge contrast to the next location.
• The woman enters and is deified by her dominance, the mens reaction to her etc.
• The video then has cuts back to the men working in the mine, and this shows us that they are working for her.
• The shots back to the mine also shows the bipolar lifestyle they live, seemingly due to her.
• The song itself is a love song, though as what happens with many Rammstein video's, the song is similar but

not exactly the same topic.

• As with all Rammstein videos that require actors (all except Links 2 3 4 and Moskau) the band themselves

play the roles.

• The narrative is a key feature in all Rammstein videos.
• As with the narrative in a lot of songs of a similar genre, like metal or heavy metal, the video is about an

injustice of sorts.

• At the "funeral" all the characters show unhappiness, even though she was the evil character.
• One person then looks up in joy, relief that they are know free. This is followed by an instrumental.
• Whilst she is dead the lyrics say "she is the brightest star of them all". This relates to the start of the video,

that though she mistreated them, she was the best thing that they knew

• The chorus then changes to "Nie kommt die sonne - never comes the sun" rather than "hier kommt die sonne -

here comes the sun". This lyric change in the video means that she has now gone, and whatever hope they had

before, has gone forever. However exclusively for the video, the chorus then changes back, this is when she comes

to, and is not dead, as previously predicted. In the normal version of the song, it remains as "nie kommt die sonne"

though the change is made specifically for the video. Also the intro from the normal version is added at the end of

this version, and it ends with the word "aus - end" that is usually at the start of the song after a count from 1-9. This

count is a german march, though the march goes from 1-10, at 10 it ends, though Sonne never reaches 10, this

symbolizes that his torment never ends.

By Curtis S Jones