Sonne - Rammstein

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"Sonne" (German for "Sun") is a song by German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. It was released in February 2001, as the first single from their album Mutter. According to Till Lindemann, the song was originally written as an entrance song for the boxer Vitali Klitschko, whose surname was also the working title of the song. The female vocal comes from Spectrasonic's "symphony of voices" music library. The music video for the band's 2019 single "Deutschland" features a piano-based version of "Sonne" in the ending credits.
The video features the band as dwarves mining gold for Snow White. Apparently, this came about while all of the band members were watching the old Disney film Snow White, and had "Sonne" playing in the background, giving them the idea for the video. Also, as told by Paul Landers in the Making of Sonne, it came out of a video Oliver Riedel did mixing the "Sonne" song and parts of the Snow White film with his computer. The band supposedly went through nearly 40 different ideas for the video, such as the story of a boxer, before choosing the Snow White theme. One of the other ideas was a video about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (which would have matched the lyrics and the depressed-sounding vocalization). Lady Snow-White (German: "Schneewittchen") is played by the Russian soap actress Joulia Stepanova (Yulia Stepanova). There is also an extended version, which features extra scenes (i.e.: Snow White smoking a cigarette while looking at a gold ring).

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