If you're a native English speaker, you
probably have never heard of the German "hip-hop" band Die Fantastischen Vier
(in English: "The Fantastic Four"). Anything but gangsta, and seldom overly
serious, these nice boys from Stuttgart — seated below — have been making German-language music
for decades. They've remained a popular staple of the German music scene since their
first hit over here, 1992's Die Da?!
Since then, they've had a number of pop-hop hits, always German-language songs,
including (among our favorites): 1994's Tag am Meer
("Day at the Seaside"), 1999's MfG
(Greman abbreviation for "Mit freundlichen Grüßen", or "With
Best Regards"), and 2007's Ichisichisichisich
(grammatically incorrect in German as in English: "I is I is I is I") — all
groovy songs with groovy videos.
But speaking of particularly groovy videos,
here's the video to their single from 2010, Danke ("Thanks"). It's a
regular trash short film, redone as a blackly funny music video. Here, in Danke,
the dead Fantastischen Vier end up on the tables of a coroner who's one of
their biggest fans — and who takes advantage of the opportunity to fulfill his
dreams. The plotline is familiar, but in the films we've seen the coroner
(here: German actor Florian Lukas, found in movies as diverse as Der Eisbär [1998 /
trailer],
Planet der Kannibalen [2001 / scene],
Good Bye Lenin! [2003 / trailer],
Into the White [2012 / trailer]
and Grand Budapest Hotel [2014 / trailer])
usually gets infatuated with the body of a dead female. And, yes, there is the obligatory Psycho (1960 / trailer) reference, too...
An entertaining music video... and you
don't even really have to understand the lyrics to enjoy it for what it is: a perverse, short horror film.
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