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Huh, I didn't realize they localized these. The Japanese texts say things like "Fukushima radiation, today and forever, stop it now".
> I didn't realize they localized these. Which is why this is my favorite version of the song. They kind of evolved it with the Hiroshima accident.
Still programming, still find Kraftwerk inspiring. Thank you Florien and Rest in Peace. Your music changed my life.
I attended a live Kraftwerk show about 17 years ago, what amazed me was the depth of the lyrics in German vs the simplified English lyrics. Kraftwerk is more political than the simplistic English lyrics would portray. It was then that I had new found appreciation for their craft. Praxis.
Interesting. Can you give an example? I've never bothered to translate the German lyrics.
I attended a live Kraftwerk show about 17 years ago, what amazed me was the depth of the lyrics in German vs the simplified English lyrics. Kraftwerk is more political than the simplistic English lyrics would portray. It was then that I had new found appreciation for their craft. Praxis.
Interesting. Can you give an example? I've never bothered to translate the German lyrics.
Sie ist ein Model und sie sieht gut aus Ich nähm sie heut gerne mit zu mir nach Haus Sie wirkt so kühl, an sie kommt niemand ran Doch vor der Kamera da zeigt sie was sie kann
Sie trinkt in Nachtclubs immer Sekt (Korrekt!) Und hat hier alle Männer abgecheckt Im Scheinwerferlicht ihr junges Lächeln strahlt Sie sieht gut aus und Schönheit wird bezahlt
Sie stellt sich zur Schau für das Konsumprodukt Und wird von Millionen Augen angeguckt Ihr neues Titelbild ist einfach fabelhaft Ich muß sie wieder seh'n, ich weiß sie hat's geschafft
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She's a model and she's looking good I'd like to take her home that's understood She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time It only takes a camera to change her mind
She's going out tonight but drinking just champagne And she has been checking nearly all the men She's playing her game and you can hear them say She is looking good, for beauty we will pay
She's posing for consumer products now and then For every camera she gives the best she can I saw her on the cover of a magazine Now, she's a big success, I want to meet her again
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The deeper layer of the lyrics is almost completely absent in the English version.
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Interesting. Can you give an example? I've never bothered to translate the German lyrics.
I'm guessing that, in the process of translating lyrics to another language, word choices are made based on a preference for keeping the original rhyming scheme and rhythm. Alternatively, it could just be a bias resulting from the listener's experience with each language.
English is much more compact, so there is quite a bit of filler words to match the music.
They made electronic music across multiple synths before MIDI! Must have been fun.
They predicted "computer world" in 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7WrCqsTC0 "Crime, Travel, Communication, Entertainment"
My family were lucky enough to have a BBC model B, a home computer developed for the show and the eventual proving ground for the ARM processor.
Kraftwerk and the Beeb were bound up in my head as a child.
For me Kraftwerk sound like the white hot future rushing into our world (...and also playing Chuckie Egg and Elite with my Dad!).
I was going to see them live for the first time in Minneapolis before everything was cancelled. Very sad. But his legacy lives on.
I'm in the same boat. I tried buying tickets for European shows last year but didn't succeed. And now the show is coming to USA town, I get 4th row tickets and bam... Disappointment all around.
Electronic or not, very inspiring compositions as well. My favorite "acoustic" cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_VKWStK98