ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the artists, Rammstein, and their biography and image. To understand Rammstein it is important to realise that the band is a kind of super-group of the former GDR punk underground or what, in capitalist surroundings, would be called the independent scene. In the lyrics of 'Pussy' Rammstein, having an explicit GDR background, make use of an explicitly West German imagery dealing with the stranger in order to try to caricature the subject. Potentially the lyrics also deal with the population structure in rural parts of the former GDR from which well-educated young women migrate to economically prospering parts of Germany and Europe, while poorly educated young men stay. As already mentioned, the album Liebe ist fur alle da was released one month after the release of 'Pussy' as a lead single. The Slovenian band Laibach provided the role model for forming their public image.
