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TBF English is an extremely common second language, so listening to English-language music as a German or French person doesn't have quite the same impact as an American listening to German- or French-language music.
Du hast..
I do listen to Rammstein despite being mostly only English speaking. I'm picking up more and more of the the lyrics in the songs and what they mean.
The song came out in '97. Either that is a really deep song, or you may need some help with your German...
I'm not listening to just Du Hast. Do you see where I said "songs" as in plural?
A couple of my favorite bands are Electric Callboy and Landmvrks who are from Germany and France respectively. They both sing in english (although Landmvrks does have a smattering of french here and there) and i can only assume that the higher likelyhood of commercial success in english markets factors in to why they dont sing in their native languages.
So a contributing factor may be not many native english bands would choose to produce music in another language but the opposite is true so the music pool of english is even more saturated.
That's definitely a thing, too. I can only imagine how bad it must be in smaller nations like Netherlands or Czechia, considering how much fewer native speakers they have compared to German or French.