From RAMMSTEIN (untitled album) · 2019 · Track 5
Sex
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In context
Five live performances and out. The reason had nothing to do with the song and everything to do with the length of the setlist.
- Desire
- Reworked poem
- Short stint in the setlist
- Origin
- From the 2019 untitled album. The lyric reuses material from two poems by Till Lindemann published in “In stillen Nächten” (2013): “Warmer Tag” and “Elegie für Marie Antoinette”. Part of that material had already appeared on an unreleased demo titled “Gib mir Augen”.
- The German key
- The title is the international word, neither translated nor Germanised — one of the few in the catalogue that needs no explanation for an English-speaking listener.
- What the band has said
- Paul Landers explained at a fan meet-up that it left the setlist simply because of the setlist's length, not because of anything to do with the song.
- Live
- It debuted on 24 May 2019, a week after the album came out. Its last documented performance was on 1 June of the same year: five performances in total.
Our reading
It is another piece of the same method: a text that already existed on paper enters the catalogue reworked, as with “Weit weg”, “Hallomann” and “Was ich liebe”.
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
Five shows and out
It debuted live on 24 May 2019, barely a week after the album came out, and its last documented performance was on 1 June that same year — only five shows during the Stadium Tour. Paul Landers explained at a fan meet-and-greet that the reason was simply setlist length, not anything about the song itself.
The lyric draws on material from two poems by Till Lindemann published in In stillen Nächten (2013): “Warmer Tag” and “Elegie für Marie Antoinette.” Part of that material had already appeared in an unreleased demo titled “Gib mir Augen.”
Context
Fifth track on the self-titled 2019 album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 17 May 2019. It was never a single.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.