Brit Reacts to Wir Sind Helden - Nur Ein Wort

It might be one of the lowest budget videos I've seen but what a creative video! What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments section below.

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[frchri]

Wir sind Helden were huge in the early 2000s. They made german lyrics popular again if you ask me. Lots of word-plays and clever song-writing.

[feieralarm]

I really miss the German pop-rock wave of the mid 2000s. Not just Wir Sind Helden, but also Juli and Silbermond. Wild to think that some of their songs are already over 20 years old.

[mojbeka]

This band is a gem. They were the „heroes“ of my youth and had a huge impact on many German bands coming after them. Judith’s lyrics are so poetic.

[winterlinde]

Judith Holofernes (the singer/ songwriter) is a poet! Please watch it again when you have brushed up your German 😊

[stephanfischer]

I proposed to that song. got just one word back. happily married for 8 years

[Skiad-OpsGash]

I just had to translate it for all the non-german speaking viewers because the lyrics are playful and to my mind subtle and intense a the same time.
(I used DeepL for a first draft and went from there.)

[Verse 1]
I can see that you're thinking
I think that you're feeling something
I feel that you want something, but I don't hear you, I...
I borrowed a dictionary
Shouted A to Z into your ear
I'm piling up a thousand jumbled words that tug at your sleeve

[Pre-chorus]
And wherever you want to go, I'll be hanging on your legs
If you happened to have fallen on a mouth*, why not on mine?
[*a proverb that means: being someone that doesn't talk much]

[Refrain]
Oh,
please just give me one
Oh,
please just give me one
Oh,
please just give me one
Please, please just give me one
Oh,
please just give me one
Oh,
please just give me one
Oh,
please just give me one
Please, please give me just one word

[Verse 2]
It's crazy how beautiful you are being silent
How you bow your pretty head
And give the whole noisy world and me the cold shoulder
Your silence is your tent
You place it in the middle of the world
Tighten the strings and marvel silently when a girl falls over them at night

[Pre-chorus]
At your feet I'll talk my head off
I wanna make big waves in your deep waters*
[a play on another proverb: "Stille Wasser sind tief", still waters are deep; which means: People who don't talk much, are characters with depth]

[Refrain, see above]

[Instrumental]

[Bridge]
The endorphins bubble in my blood
When thoughts race behind your quiet rabbit eyes

[Refrain with changes]
Oh,
please give me just one
Oh,
please just give me one
Oh,
please just give me one
Please, please just give me one (I can see that you're thinking)
Oh, please just give me one (I think that you're feeling something)
Oh, please just give me one (I feel that you want something)
Oh, please, just give me one (But I can't hear you)
Please, please just give me one (I only hear me, I won't stop, I, oh)
Oh, please just give me one
Oh, please just give me one (Oh, please just give me one)
Oh, please just give me one (Oh, please, oh, please)
Please, please just give me one (I see you're thinking)
Oh, please just give me one (I think that you feel)
Oh, please just give me one (I feel that you want)
Oh, please, just give me one (But I can't hear you)
Please, please just give me one (I only hear me, I won't stop, I, oh)
Oh, please give me just one (Please give me just one word)
Oh, please give me just one
Oh, please give me just one
Please, please give me just one word

[prototype]

Shooting a video like this is a real nightmare. Concept and planning can take a very long time and there were certainly a lot of people involved in the project. There was definitely a storyboard and a set timing, meaning you have several people behind the camera handing out the right stacks of signs at exactly the right time and all the movements are rehearsed in advance like a dance choreography.
The director or one or more choreographers will call out the right movements at the right time and if just one movement goes wrong the whole video has to be shot again from the beginning.
On top of that, it was planned in advance that some parts would be filmed backwards, as you can see in many places when the signs for the text were in the frame forwards and backwards at the same time, which is a feat and requires tremendous imagination.
I suspect the rehearsals for the shoot and the shoot itself took several days.

[dennyszeidler]

It‘s the first time I saw the official music video to this song. I really like it. There is so much going on. They timed their acting to so singing, obviously. But the twist is, that they timed it with the rewinding part as well. For example the woman shows her shoulder for absolutely no reason. They continue the song and rewind the video and the woman shows her shoulder again, but this time it’s matching the song „kalte Schulter zeigen“. This is a saying we use to express „ignoring someone“, btw. So the cards, the acting and all most of the time don‘t make any sense, until they rewind the video. The planning must have been an nightmare. 🙈

[muiggmuigg]

Wow, what a great video. From an editors perspective, this is a really complicated video when it comes to timing and planning and making it look so easy. Trust me, this video is highly complex and for sure needed a lot of pre-thinking! Cudos to everybody who was involved into it.

[RealGrover]

I believe you underestimate the effort that must have gone into this music video. This band was known for their talent to make very elaborate lyrics come across effortless, deep meanings packed into simple words where when listened to everybody could think „yeah, I could have said that exactly like this, but somehow never thought of it“. In this case coupled with a video that does the same. Looks fun and easy, but is pretty well planned and probably took a lot of thought.

[rickyratte]

This band has some outstanding lyrics. They make the best out of german language. Its so smart. Like adding one more word changes all meaning

[GeeShocker]

Wir sind Helden are on a hiatus since 2012. The concept of the video is a remake of a old Bob Dylan video.

[Julia-eubk]

Es ist ein Kunstwerk, dass man das so gefilmt hat. Und ich denke, dass das viel mehr Arbeit war, als man meint.

[zamanda]

Wir sind Helden was a pretty popular band in the 2000s/ early 2010s. The Song is from 2005 & I absolutely loved it & actually still do. It reminds me of summerbreaks back when we all were still in school & festivals with friends. 😊

[onnasenshi]

The video is intended as a reminiscence of "Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues", which also works with the self-made signs in this video. This song is about lovesickness, where a person is waiting for love to return.

[kix]

Ah Wir sind Helden... I got to love them when their song "Gekommen um zu bleiben" came out in the early 2000 (so yes you were correct with your guess about their clothes) and bought their album "Von hier an blind" (which included this song). It was the first album I could listen to non stop as a whole. It had so many different styles of music which I also loved. But their lyrics were what stood out for me as well. "Ich werde mein Leben lang üben, dich so zu lieben wie ich dich lieben will, wenn du gehst" - the title itself is already so beautiful: "For the rest of my life I will try to learn to love you the way I want to love you when you leave" (a very loose translation by me) and the lyrics of "Echolot" is still to this day one of the most beautiful I know.
I think this video was a poor choice for a foreigner to react because it's hard for a non German speaker to understand it. In my opinion "Soundso" or "Wenn es passiert" would have been better.

[TobiasKrasinger]

One of the best band when it comes to lyrics and story telling. Also amazing live band. One of my favorite bands at their time. Really sad they quit.

FM4 Unplugged is a must see.

[katjawege]

Saddest and best song by Wir sind Helden is (at least in my opinion) " Bring mich nach Hause" (Bring me home), so sad and beautiful. They had a lot of popular songs over here such as Denkmal, Gekommen um zu bleiben, ... Unfortunately they haven't released any new songs for years. But their songs still are in people's heads 😊

[MarioWagner]

This video clearly didn't cost only 200 Euros. This thing is a piece of art.

[Attirbful]

It is great because they had to plan very diligently. The gestures, the forwards and backwards flashing signs are always exactly on point with the lyrics. Bob Dylan used the flashcards in a very old video. This is much more thought through though…