Rammstein: Du Hast (1997 Music Video) User Reviews

Faithfull for the rest of your life

[mariarammstein · 10/10 · 21 September 2019]

The video has a Tarantino vibe to it (Reservoir Dogs), and is a mini movie in its own right. A story, a plot, a twist, just like the song. The German language so beautifully played. Most Rammstein videos are absolute masterpieces.

To have or not to have

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 10 April 2019]

These minimally under 4 minutes we have here are the music video for the Grammy-nominated song "Du Hast" by German band Rammstein. The translation of the title would be "You Have" and that says nothing really. It is actually early on a little play on words as hearing "Du Has(s)t Mich" could also be understood as "You Hate Me" here in Germany. But as we find out later on, this is not what it is meant to be eventually. The literal translation would be "You have asked me and I have said no". With additional lyrics, there's really not a lot in here, you could say that this is Rammstein's elaboration on the idea of marriage or the idea of proposing to somebody. Well, it seems they are not in favor. Not at all. Also this song would have felt pretty weird by probably any other band/singer, but with their as always fairly unusual approach to music, Rammstein are getting away with it thanks too the metal component and also the bizarre music video. It's almost strange to see Rammstein getting mainstream because their music is the exact opposite. There's nobody like them and if that is a good or bad thing, it is up to you to decide. Then again, this one here is from 1997, so soon closer to being 25 years old than to 20 years. Overall, I am not a big fan of the band, even if they have some songs I do like quite a bit and that can also be found on my mp3-player. This is not one of them. I give it a thumbs-down and the music video did not do too much for me either. Surprised me a bit because the director here was Philipp Stölzl early in his career and he has made quite a few prestigious movies, not just here in Germany, and one or 2 of them I quite liked. Anyway, back to this one here, my suggestion is you skip the listen, but if you still want to go for it, you can also skip the music video as it adds almost nothing.