# Horrible and bizarre German music videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065 "2011-02-11T21:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/41 "2011-02-14T09:41:38Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Can someone reliably translate the opening lines to this song? I’m having trouble with some of the words. > > They are: \*Die wunder dieser welt werden dir geschenkt > Gluck ist nicht kauflich sehnsucht bleibt unerreicht > Preisratsel > Winken nimmersatt > Kein mitleid fur die mehrheit > \* > > Something about the wonders of the world I give to you, happiness cannot be bought and is unattainable…I have no idea what the middle two lines mean. It’s not trivial, but I’ll try: _The wonders of the world are given to you Luck is not for sale, desire[sup]_[/sup] remains unattained Prize competitions Are enticing insatiable No sympathy for the majority \* [sup]\*[/sup] You know, “Sehnsucht” is on of _these_ German words you cannot translate verbatim into English. Another reading would be _longing_. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/42 "2011-02-14T09:50:29Z")
Missed the edit window: The fourth line should be: _Are enticing insatiab **ly** _ (the adverbial form of English adjectives sometimes is a stumbling block for German speakers, at least for me) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/43 "2011-02-14T12:35:43Z")
Danke, **Hund**. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/44 "2011-02-14T13:32:54Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > [This song](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7311989762753306865#) was really really really popular in Bulgaria when I was living there from 2006 to 2008. The video isn’t really inherently terrible, it’s just so…tacky. > > Plus the song sucks. > > BTW, I am informed that the title means “You Have The Greatest Ass in the World”. And yet some Americans still think Europeans are somehow more cultured and sophisticated than themselves. Ha! Ah, excellent! And here I’d had nothing for my husband for Valentine’s day. I just sent him the link, so I’m done with one more holiday for one more year. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/45 "2011-02-14T13:46:13Z")
And for an actual contribution to the thread: Die Ärtze, ‘Männer Sind Schweine’ The lyrics are hilarious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJ0Inxfmyk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJ0Inxfmyk) ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/46 "2011-02-15T00:44:37Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > … that this was made in some [Russian soundstage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4q_zIclUs0) somewhere to create some alternate reality. The announcer/host at the beginning of this video bears a striking resemblance to [Craig Ferguson](http://www.google.com/images?q=craig+ferguson&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=LTU&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsulo&source=lnms&tbs=isch:1&ei=pMtZTYTRGIH68AbJhaXeBg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=580). It’s weird, unsettling, and uncanny, just like Craig. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/47 "2011-02-15T11:37:17Z")
[Papaya](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XzLbGssArQ&feature=related) Has 11 million hits. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065/48 "2011-02-15T22:41:31Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Just so everyone knows… that song was originally recorded in English, then translated for the German “Disko” market. Even Hassellhoff knows you have to divide and conquer Germany. > > … Just like all of the “German Invasion” Pop of the eighties (Nena, Falco, Schilling) was originally recorded in German, then translated for the American Market. Na, I was wrong… Sweetest Ass was originally recorded in German, then translated into English, Spanish, French, Czech, Dutch, and Estonian. I was hoping Kyla would set me straight. Spank me a little. > [@devilsknew](#): > > … that this was made in some [Russian soundstage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4q_zIclUs0) somewhere to create some alternate reality. > The announcer/host at the beginning of this video bears a striking resemblance to [Craig Ferguson](http://www.google.com/images?q=craig+ferguson&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=LTU&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnsulo&source=lnms&tbs=isch:1&ei=pMtZTYTRGIH68AbJhaXeBg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=580). It’s weird, unsettling, and uncanny, just like Craig. > [@devilsknew](#): > > I remember [Hubert Kah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsm2_o-S1dU&feature=related). Not fondly… kinda the same way one might remember Thomas Dolby. And yet more strangely, the Host in this video with the Haarigehundpuppe looks like [Will Ferrell](http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Rj9&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=will+ferrell&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=580)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-and-bizarre-german-music-videos/571065.md?page=2)