Laibach - Geburt Einer Nation / Queen - One Vision

The audio is by the band Laibach. The song is titled "Geburt einer nation" (birth of a nation) and is a cover of the Queen song One Vision. The cover is in German, and due to the fashion in which it is sang, has much more sinister connotations than the Queen one. The annotations are the lyrics in German. They are pretty much a literal translation of the English ones.

Laibach lyrics:
http://www.songlyrics.com/laibach/geburt-einer-nation-one-vision-lyrics/
Queen lyrics:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/q/queen/one+vision_20112556.html

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[MrAntipattern]

Wow. Very cool Video..... can you do that with Sympathy for the Devil by Rolling Stones, too?

[doutonight]

@MrAntipattern I dont think the stones ever released an official video for that song

[fineek]

Laibach display the characteristic attitude of the retro-avante garde towards culture and towards ideology. In a time of ultimate irony, they play with the only images of the absolute manifest in the world. Pro-Tip: they're trolls just like Zizek.

[doutonight]

@fineek "Pro-Tip: they're trolls just like Zizek." Goddamn Slovenians! :P

[055697]

ha ha. at last a queen video worth watching. nicely done doutonight. and the only thing similar about the videos is that both freddie mercury and milan fras have moustaches!

[doutonight]

lol, I didn't think of the moustache thing before! I like how it almost syncs up, too.

[Merzbowxnoise]

Laibach arent Nazis.

[vaguelyhumanoid]

@angelforfreedom

They aren't Nazis, they just use imagery based on the Nazi regime.

[bulliondotcomdotcom]

Laibach are the ultimate trolls. I'm so happy to see people still sucking it up in 2012.

It's nice to be able to identify the slow ones. We can use them to build the dams and dig the wells.

NSK4EVA.

[Godzilla52]

Hitler was probably dancing to this.

[zombi80]

Laibach always try to show that the west culture is totalitarian too.

[itheunknown]

Guess I was misunderstood. What I meant is: 1) Yeah, One Vision is totally fascistoid 2) Laibach is criticizing Queen's "One Vision" 3) Laibach is 100% anti-Nazis / Anti-Fascists

[RSFO]

@Soveraine It is true that they say that they are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter. (Hitler said he was an artist rather than a politician.) And that is their way to say that they are cryptofascists. They are terribly great at staying in their acting. But for some reason people like us who actually understand Laibach often can't escape commitment to translate for people like you that it means they are fascists who are not fascists. But aren't they just tricky, huh?

[RSFO]

@Merzbowxnoise They are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter.

[Jaeger7793]

@NamesAreJustWords Maybe, maybe not...he could always find a different way to get his master plan going. Maybe he could have used the sales to fund his master plan. It doesn't really matter, though.

[NamesAreJustWords]

@Jaeger7793 what i was saying is if they had just accepted him, many people might have been spared a lot of pain and sorrow for he probably would have spent his life drawing postcards. i've seen them on tv, and i think they weren't special at all, too ;)

[Jaeger7793]

@NamesAreJustWords I would actually agree with the academy. I've seen his paintings. They're nothing special.

[NamesAreJustWords]

@Soveraine

Hitler THOUGHT he was a painter, though some acadamy of arts in vienna rejected him due to lack of talent.

if only they hadn't. -.-