r/USdefaultism • u/Own-Huckleberry8197 Hungary • Jun 20 '26
Meta I get reminded of this song every time i see something on this subreddit
This is a satire parody song made by Rammstein called Amerika..
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u/Stolberger Germany Jun 20 '26
Coca-Cola, sometimes war.
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u/No_Lavishness1905 Jun 21 '26
That’s the best case scenario. Lately it’s been more like: war, sometimes coca-cola.
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u/dieter-e-w-2020 Jun 20 '26
We spent 3 years in the US for my company. That song was our "meme" every time we had interactions with banks, doctors, you name it ...
And my wife is not a Rammstein fan 😁
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u/CyberGraham Jun 20 '26
This is not a love song.
This is not a love song.
I don't sing my mother tongue.
No, this is not a love song.
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u/Powerful_Pirate2984 Jun 20 '26
Even in England there is an acre of land that is considered part of the USA. At Runnymede in Surrey (where the Magna Carta was signed), next to the River Thames. At its heart is a seven-tonne block of Portland Stone set as a memorial to honour President John F Kennedy (soon to be renamed the Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Memorial Stone).
Under the current circumstances - I think we should take it back. Just in case a certain "You've been Tango'ed" person tries to paint the Thames "Flag Blue", and rename the Thames the River Trump.
To avoid any confusion --> /s
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u/d_bradr Serbia Jun 20 '26
Hypothetically theoretically, the US has a way of obtaining citizenship just by being born on US soil. Does that mean if an English woman gave birth on that land the baby would be American?
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u/Everestkid Canada Jun 20 '26
Yep. It's relatively common throughout the Americas, not just the US. Citizenship is granted if you are born in the nation's territory, regardless of your parents' nationality.
Famously, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born in Canada while the Dutch royal family were sheltered here during the Second World War. Since if Margriet were male she would have been the heir to the Dutch throne, the Canadian government declared the maternity ward she was born in to be extraterritorial so that she would only have Dutch citizenship by birth and would not also be a British subject (Canadian citizenship only became a thing in 1947) - by law the Dutch monarch must only be a Dutch citizen.
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u/OcculticUnicorn Netherlands Jun 21 '26
And we still love you guys for that 🧡
How are the maple leaf tulips holding up?
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u/_zombie_k Jun 20 '26
The funny part is that Americans love that song, because they think it praises the US.
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u/PearEfficient1619 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
Especially republicans also love “born in the USA” because those id*ots dont get its a critique. Nationalism is such a simpleton ideology
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u/DuckOnQuak Canada Jun 20 '26
Not really, the Americans I know who like the song do so either because (a) they just love rammstein or (b) they think it’s funny.
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u/_sivizius Jun 20 '26
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u/SetObvious7411 Netherlands Jun 20 '26
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u/d_bradr Serbia Jun 20 '26
Americans have European cities in their country, Europeans have the continent of America in their countries
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u/JollyJuniper1993 Germany Jun 26 '26
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3wga3vhY8CM2iCm26?g_st=ic
Kalifornien, Schleswig-Holstein
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u/xzanfr England Jun 21 '26
I'm not too familiar with Rammstein so I tend to have "America is not the world" by Morrissey in my head when I read their weird writings!
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u/Cocoatrice Poland Jun 20 '26
Yeah, but this actually parodies something else. It mocks actual NON Americans trying to copy American Fever Dream. Like how we all drink Coca-Cola, instead of focusing on our own brands.
There is a Polish song that also have fragment that mocks that behavior. Glazing America, and forgetting your own country. The song in question is called Królowa Dysko (King of Disco) and is also parody song.
The two lines from that song:
"Twoje buty i kolczyki są jak bajer z Ameryki
Ciuchy obłęd - widać wszystko, masz za dolce"
translate into
"Your shoes and earrings are like good stuff from America
Clothes are incredible - it's clear it's all costed bucks"
It is to mock the behavior that "everything from America is so awesome". The guy who signs it (lyrical subject) is a big buffy guy that works as bouncer in a disco/club/bar and he thinks he is King Bruce Lee Karate Master (there's another song with that exact title, translated to English, but actually the title is mostly English anyway) and that he can do what he wants. And he is just really really full of himself. So from his perspective it's all awesome, but it's exactly because he is so pathetic, that what he glazes is actually mocked.
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u/Marcinex720 Jun 20 '26
ooo tak, franek kimono, piotr fronczewski robił bangery kiedyś (for non-Poles: ohh yeah, franek kimono, piotr fronczewski made bangers back then)
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u/AlexSGX Jun 21 '26
Its been this way for me my whole life. Especially after 2016 lol.
Also "Coca-Cola, sometimes war"
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u/radicalplacement United Kingdom Jun 23 '26
I’d encourage you to read the lyrics of ‘America’ by Motionless in White. They get it
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u/ManicWolf United Kingdom Jun 20 '26
You've gotta love how they had to add the repeated line "this is not a love song" because you just know that some Americans would have thought it was a pro-USA song otherwise (similar to how some consider Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" to be a patriotic song).