Elvis and TH: Good export of culture or monsters and machines?

Rock music from its beginnings symbolized rebellion and distinct from society in general. Just think of Elvis the Pelvis. And even in those days, fans of music are not limited to American shores. The music, in fact, could be one of the largest cultural exports that has the land. In fact, according to EPGold.com, Elvis was surprised to learn that he had almost as many fans in western Germany and USA. Big deal, right? Maybe, unless you consider that the learned that while on military service in the country. It's hard to protect your job when there are fans queuing at the corner to see the door open and close your areyouputting supposedly.

The point, these cultural expotaciones land in foreign shores sometimes more strongly than any ambassador could expect well-trained to do - unless it is in Shirley Temple Black. This is a fact. But the fact is puzzling to some as an article in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten Online today. It seems that some in Germany are a bit descocertados by the kind of ambassadors of the most famous of German music - Rammstein, Kraftwerk, the Scorpions and Tokio Hotel "are for Germany.

Machines or monsters and poets and thinkers?

The fear is understandable. Stuttgarter Nachrichten As noted, there are still some in America who believe that Adolf Hitler is still in power. is still in power. The fact that Rammstein has been known to use images of the Third Reich did not help, according to the article "The band also played with blatant sexual references that border on the pornographic - a trick that took them to be criticized recently by an agency of government in Germany. (Do not worry, if you're an adult with ID, you can still buy the offending material if you decide to do so) Really, the band symbolizes the rebellion in her womb, and as recently noted Der Spiegel Online, surprisingly alone now irritated by the powers that be.

It seems that the band is not very fond of what they say - things of the past - as if you have an equal opportunity to offend. If you are offended, because they do it 100%?

That's the problem, according to the Stuttgarter Nachrichten. People have the mistaken impression of Germany based on their exports - at least in rock exports. These bands give the impression that German is the tendency to lean toward the monster machines and judging by the type of music that landed in the German American coasts.

Case in point? Tokio Hotel. With the new album from the band called humanity, how people can think about anything but Germany is not only a land of monsters and machines in place of poets and thinkers?

Hearts beat the same rhythm.

Good point, except that it reaches the heart of it. The music fans that are as individual as the members of this band. After all, there is a more heterogeneous group of people who are within the limits of Tokio Hotel. With the exception of the twins, Bill and Tom Kaulitz, if each of the four members were strangers and walk through the streets, would not be easy to assume based on the look of them, once they had become a band, like than the others and would work very well together to achieve global success. No Bill, Tom, Gustav and Georg do not look alike, but their little hearts beat the same rhythm rockers, to coin a bad joke.

The fans are the same. They are much more profound than that often given credit for, as shown by the movement of the fans of Tokio Hotel, which is spearheading fundraising activities for AIDS. The impetus was the band's association with Designers Against AIDS, but these activities made them yourself.

What does this mean? Probably going back to something of rebellion. The best movements in art have always provoked thought and often critical - think of Cubism. Many people no doubt thought that Picasso was crazy. But often only in retrospect one can see the hidden, positive influence of these artists. They make you see things differently. Play some things differently as is the case with music. But looking at things differently, when people learn like everybody is equal.

Humans, too.

A point to which the article refers indirectly Stuttgart. These bands - like Elvis before them - are also popular in their own countries. The Germans like the music for different reasons than Americans?

Probably not. Is identity, the universal that is given. Take the album Humanoid Automatic music of Tokio Hotel. For some people love is automatic, but not in a good way. You can turn on and off like a machine. That is not a German message. It is a human message.

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