945
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Could someone please explain the joke?

I don’t know the reference or German.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

German band Rammstein has a famous song named "Du Hast" which starts off the chorus with "du ... du hast ... du hast mich etc. etc.". Du hast is German for "you have".

[-] ccdfa@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago

And if you're just listening to the song, the lyrics sound like "you... you hate... you hate me... you asked me...", etc. It's a play on words and you're not really supposed to understand if it's hast (have, part of a past tense phrase) or hasst (hate) until the whole sentence is out

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Rammstein is fan of this sort of "new verse = old verse + something that contradicts the meaning of the old verse" wordplay. It does the same in "Wo bist du", like:

  • "Ich liebe dich" - I love you
  • "Ich liebe dich nicht" - I don't love you
  • "Ich liebe dich nicht mehr" - I don't love you any more
  • "Ich liebe dich nicht mehr oder weniger als du" - I don't love you more or less than you
  • "Als du mich geliebt hast" - than you loved me [...]

with every verse forging a meaning that is destroyed in the next by the addition of (a) new word(s).

[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I don’t listen to industrial metal so I was never going to get this one.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

I'm not really into industrial metal either, but Rammstein is on a plane all by themselves in terms of overall entertainment value.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

They are the European Metallica, and that rocks.

[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That plane never landed near me, I've never heard of the song or them till reading these comments in this post lol

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Spliffman1@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'd never seen that either 😊

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Well they certainly had to cancel some planes this year anyway!

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And is a homonym of "du haßt" creating the German double entendre of "you have me/you hate me"

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

You have asked me and I've said nothing

[-] troutsushi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago
[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"... and I said nothing"

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 1 year ago

Almost. "Du" does mean "you" but "hasst" means "hate". Not "have".

So basically the guy shouted "you" and the Germans shouted back "you hate".

[-] GargleBlaster@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Almost. The song is called "Du hast" not "Du hasst". The double meaning of hast (have) and hasst (hate) is still the main wordplay in the song though

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Du hast recht.

[-] JohnObvious@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's referencing the song Du Hast by Rammstein https://youtu.be/W3q8Od5qJio?si=KN3Cayzv1uKoXa2w

this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
945 points (96.3% liked)

Comic Strips

12144 readers
2094 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS