This last week on the DANK Forum, user jschlie posted a video of ABBA performing Waterloo in German and it inspired me to dig up this video of the Beatles doing a song in German. The Beatles have done a few songs in German, but with “Sie liebt dich” aka “She Loves You” they made a music video to go along [...] Read more »
Like in the US, Lady Gaga is a huge hit in Germany. Just for fun, I dug up this YouTube clip of a guy doing some of Lady Gaga’s hits on an accordion. It has a nice polka sound too it which surprisingly doesn’t feel too out of place. Check it out…
While appearing as a guest on Wetten Dass, Jamie Foxx is asked to give yodeling a shot. See how he does by checking out this video…
Over on our Discussion Forum there were some posts with links to various YouTube Dackel videos, so I thought it would be great to feature one of them as a Video of the Week. This video is of André Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra performing with Karl Moik at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna in July 2006.
I thought I would save this video to post tonight, as it fits with President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Less than a week ago, this German musical premiered in Frankfurt, and it follows the historic US Presidential Election of 2008.
The German film, “The White Ribbon” or “Das weiße Band” took home the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film on Sunday. It is a story that focuses on the children in a village in northern Germany just before World War I. According to the films directory, Michael Haneke, the film is about “the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or [...] Read more »
Time for a new Video of the Week! We’ve been busy around here and haven’t been able to post for a while, but we should be getting more consistent again. This weeks video comes from a post on our forum submitted by voitlin. The song in the video is one that gets stuck in your head, and as voitlin put it… “it never [...] Read more »
My apologies on getting the Video of the Week out this late. This week Germany celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Deutsche Welle ran an interesting set of videos surrounding this event and I decided to pick out an interesting one to share on this blog. DW detailed the days [...] Read more »