Imagine being internally terrified of the mundane world around you and outwardly certain you're a big bad wolf. Such is a conservative.
Or playing fortunate son, a song about rich sons not having to go to war.
Or born in the USA. And we're not gonna take it as well.
Neonazis love Sabaton, despite Sabaton doing multiple press releases that say "fuck you Nazi scum aren't welcome". Same with Rammstein, people hear things about Germany and assume you're on the side of the genocidal fascists.
A fool once told me that Sabaton is a Nazi band because of their song "The Final Solution"
Ever since it started
On Kristallnacht '38
When liberty died
And truth was denied
They said only Nazis call it Kristallnacht, because it sounds too poetic
They said only Nazis call it Kristallnacht, because it sounds too poetic
In Germany this is true. Most people call it Reichsprogromnacht because Reichskristallnacht is a term coined by the Nazis and it really sounds kinda poetic.
But I wouldn't blame non native speakers for not knowing all the nuances and I don't know how old the song is and the context makes everything clear.
The song is also a poem. It's not a high energy exciting song like Sabaton's usual fare, it's just a poem with drums and guitar. You can hear every single word clearly. Is it considered appropriate to use such poetic language in poems?
Maybe poetic is the wrong word. Kristal means cristal (if not obvious) which is a shiny and very positive conotated word. The message is that destroying all the synagogues with all the violence included is a good thing because it makes Germany look better.
So would you consider this webpage in bad taste?
https://www.sabaton.net/historical-facts/kristallnacht-the-night-of-broken-glass/
I never used the framing "bad tast". I explained why the term isn't used in Germany anymore and why it's ok that Sabatan used it. What even is your problem?
It's a fallacy called cherry picking, picking something specific and ignoring context. One could easily cherry pick parts of other Sabaton songs as "defense" for nazis (Ghost Division) or even the soviets (Attero Dominatus)
Now that I think about it, the history book I had during my high school called it Crystal Night, I guess because it sounds more memorable than "Pogrom Night"
That’s called appropriating it to your side. Yankee Doodle was an insult to the Americans.
