Time for another Audio Inkblot! If you missed the first, you can find it here. If this is your first time doing this, here's the lowdown. All you got to do is listen to this song, and then leave a comment talking about what the song makes you think of. Let's see how many different stories we can get! I'll give you my interpretation below the video so that I won't affect your viewpoint. And now I'll shut up so you can listen to the song.
This song is called "Engel" by the band Rammstein, a German heavy metal. I figured that the lyrics being in a foreign language should leave some room for different interpretations. Unless you know German, in which case you'll know that the signer "is no angel."
When I'm listening to this one, it always makes me think of an old gunslinger wandering into a dusty, nearly abandoned, wild-west style town (whistling like this always reminds me of westerns). The first verse feels like an opening narration, telling the audience what happened or what he's searching for (maybe a lost love). As he walks down the street, he's suddenly attacked by sexy vampires (the girls singing). They try to seduce him, but he denies them just before they get into a fight. After the fight, he's taken to the vampire's queen, who again tries to lure him to their side, and again he refuses. The solo is a high-action fight scene between the gunslinger and the queen, but in the end, the queen is mortally wounded (hence her heavy breathing), but she is still able to taunt the man one last time (maybe telling him that he'll never find his love or that he's a dead man walking). The gunslinger screams to the heavens, either to drown her out, or maybe he's just overreacting. He then struts out of the town, with the other vamps watching from the shadows, none daring to go near him. with the last whistle, I see him walking into the sunset, determined to finish his journey or die trying.
So what'd you think of this one? And should I keep doing these, or is this a dumb idea? Let me know below, and I'll look forward to hearing from you.
