From RAMMSTEIN (untitled album) · 2019 · Track 7
Was ich liebe
«What I Love»
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In context
From one of Lindemann's own poems to a 2008 demo, and from there to the song. The riff from that demo ended up on another album.
- Reworked poem
- Recycled ideas
- Love and loss
- Origin
- The seventh track on the 2019 untitled album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique (France) with Olsen Involtini producing. It existed earlier as a demo under the working title “Rassmus”, recorded in 2008 and leaked online in February 2012, with completely different music.
- The German key
- “Was ich liebe” — what I love — opens a list that the song completes without closing: the construction is left hanging, like the poem it comes from.
- What the band has said
- The band has not commented on the path from the demo to the song.
- Live
- Only in 2019, when it opened all 33 concerts that year.
Our reading
The riff from “Rassmus” ended up reused in “Pussy”, from the previous album: an example of how the catalogue recycles ideas from one decade to the next. The lyric largely draws on the poem of the same name that Lindemann published in “In stillen Nächten” (2013).
The archive's interpretation, not an official account.
From a poem to a demo, and from the demo to the song
The lyric largely reworks a poem of the same name, “Was ich liebe,” that Till Lindemann published in In stillen Nächten (2013). But the song has a longer history than the album: it existed earlier as a demo, under the working title “Rassmus,” recorded in 2008 and leaked online in February 2012, with a completely different musical arrangement and a slightly different lyric. That demo’s riff ended up reused in “Pussy,” from the previous album — one more example of how the band’s catalogue recycles ideas across a decade.
Context
Seventh track on the self-titled 2019 album, recorded in 2018 at Studio La Fabrique, France, produced by Olsen Involtini. Released 17 May 2019.
Live
It debuted on 24 May 2019 and was played 33 times through 23 August of that year.
Notes by Rammstein Colombia, for the purpose of analysis. The original lyrics belong to their authors and are not reproduced in this entry.