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[ivyfic]

I just got the Rammstein album Rosenrot--haven't had a chance to listen yet. The album has a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" warning label on the cover. Now, obviously it's explicit. It's Rammstein. But it's explicit in German. So that begs the question--do the US's obscenity laws apply to other languages as well, or just English?

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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I'd suspect the album labelling is a CYA measure.

Think of the use of incredibly vulgar Chinese in Firefly. Or even of the common usage of "bugger", "bloody" or "bint" among British characters on American TV. Obscenity only counts if grannies in Idaho would be upset by it.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

There's a song on it in Spanish--possibly that's what garnered the label. Far more Americans would recognize a Spanish obscenity than a German one. I mean, the album with the German lyrics "When someone tells me to fuck myself I don't have a problem," didn't get the label. But this one has "puta" as the chorus of one song, and even I know that one.

[aquila0212.livejournal.com]

It's actually labelled like that because of "Te Quiero Puta". Other Rammstein songs have German curses ("Ich will ficken"...etc.) and those are not labelled.