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Originally Posted by Oomph!
Maybe in 5 years you will look back at this post of yours and realize how foolish you were.
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Lozzles! What a wit!
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This isn't the 1940's anymore buddy. Germany has long since regained thier identity and ability to not associate with America. Like most modern Europians I'm sure they mostly actually resent us.
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Oh, now you pretend to understand the issue I was talking about, of which you know full well that you knew absolutely nothing. Dude, you're completely transparent.
The German identity issue continued for way beyond the 40s and the remnants of it still exist. Use your brain for heaven's sake: if the whole culture was rebuilt upon the culture of America, which it was, then the resulting new German culture would have its roots totally in America. Anyway, this wasn't the point: the point was that Germans are among the best (non-English speaking) countries at speaking English, are incredibly familiar with American culture, and therefore are familiar with American idioms and language use. And therefore, there's nothing remarkable or even surprising about a German band having good command of English metaphor etc.
Actually, to take matters further, not only Germans but the Dutch, Swedes, Danish and Norwegians also tend to have incredibly good command of the English language and of idiomatic/metaphorical usage. But you wouldn't know that either, because your knowledge of Europe (and everything else apparently) is pretty appalling.