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Originally Posted by Carnyx
To their fans, the crowd of middle class youths who have enough pocket money to be sold merchandising.
The use of uniforms as in folk cold wave movement, the use of a borderline and choking fascist imagery... all that is done on purpose, not only for free provocation or for artistic views. It is an industry, let's not forget that.
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Hmmm... What is it that you think I've forgotten?
If it is an industry, then it has a sizable market. If there's a market then there'sa pre-existing public interest. I was simply stating that Rammstein's use of "fascist" imagery is fetish-based, and a rather unsophisticated one at that. A little too animated and ill-conceived for my tastes. If one wants to call it provocation, it provokes as much as any lamestream act who uses pyrotechnics and theatrical sexual innuendo to attract pubescent boys. If one wants to call whatever they're selling "artistic" than that's their right. But their stage act is more provocation than anything because an artistic statement of fascism (which probably isn't their FULL intention) would probably be more reserved and subtle if it wasn't simply trying to use a taboo, or any taboo, as a marketing tool to get attention.