For about two to three weeks in Germany....called 'Rammstein'. If you asked me the style of their music....it'd be ultra-heavy metal. On where they are positioned in Germany? I won't say they are a top twenty band (presently), but they certainly have a following of probably 200,000 fans across the country.....who are into heavy metal.
So, they have this frontman in the group....Til Lindemann. Til is 60 years old, and is the core element of the group.
Around three weeks ago....some Irish gal came up and said she'd been drugged at a band function....then the news media folks suggest that she was sexually abused by Til (might be true....might not be true).
There's generally a divided view in the public over this. The anti-Til people are mostly in some fit....he has to be arrested and do real jail-time. The pro-Til people are asking.....what heavy metal band doesn't do drugs, and this is the key element of any heavy metal party, and the women who hang around these guys....know it.
This Irish gal and the anti-Rammstein folks? They believe sooner or later....the band will be prevented from performing....that venues will cease to allow them. Yeah.....'cancel' is the term that probably fits here.
The problem though is that there are so many pro-drug folks in existing in Germany....that people are pretty cynical about this whole scandal and this type of thing has been going on for fifty years in Germany. German bands just aren't church people, or living quiet lives.
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Actually, she never said she was assaulted. Just that she believes she was drugged. But the media never lets the facts get in the way of a good story, do they?
To be honest, I've yet to see a name of the drug mentioned. I would assume some kind of knock-out drug.
But if you bring up all the heavy metal bands of Germany of the past 40 years...virtually all of them do some type of drug, and the after-event parties would involve a lot of booze/drugs.
Additionally, I wouldn't rank this anywhere in the top ten scandals of 2023 in Germany (so far). Hopefully, the public TV folks don't flip a whole public forum show on this one single topic.
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