Amerika (single)

"Amerika"
Single by Rammstein
from the album Reise, Reise
Released	September 6, 2004
Format	7" CD DVD
Recorded	Nectar Studios-Mexico City El Cortijo Studio-Málaga, 2003
Length	3:46
Label	Motor (Part of UMG)
Songwriter(s)	Richard Z. Kruspe, Paul Landers, Till Lindemann, Christian Lorenz, Oliver Riedel, Christoph Schneider
Producer(s)	Jacob Hellner and Rammstein
Rammstein singles chronology
"Mein Teil" (2004) "Amerika" (2004) "Ohne dich" (2004)
"Mein Teil" (2004) "Amerika" (2004) "Ohne dich" (2004) Audio sample The intro to "Amerika". file help

"Amerika" is a song performed by German band Rammstein. It was released in September 2004 as the second single from their album Reise, Reise.

The song deals with the worldwide influence of the culture of the United States of America. The two verses are sung in German with a chorus in Denglisch: We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar, We're all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika and We're all living in Amerika, Coca-Cola, sometimes war. The band views it as a satirical commentary on Americanization, and the lyrics refer to such things considered American as Coca-Cola, Santa Claus, and Mickey Mouse. Uncharacteristically for Rammstein, the song incorporates an interlude in which the lyrics explicitly state the band's intentions: This is not a love song, This is not a love song, I don't sing my mother tongue, No this is not a love song.

The video shows the band in Apollo-era space suits on the Moon, with shots of other cultures acting like stereotypical Americans and some using American-owned products such as cigarettes, with the assertion that American culture is everywhere. The high-tech Apollo scenes are intercut with African, and Australian Aborigine tribal footage as a stark cultural contrast. The end of the video shows that the band have actually been in a fake Moon set in a studio, complete with film crew, an allusion to Apollo moon landing hoax accusations. Till Lindemann, Rammstein's lead singer, wears a space suit with the name "Armstrong" on it, a reference to Neil Armstrong. The video ends with a band photograph left behind on the moon's surface while the recording of Jack Swigert's quote "Houston, we've had a problem here" is being played. In something of an inside joke, the video concludes with a close up of band member Richard Z. Kruspe, who winks at the camera as he was, at the time, actually "living in America."