I listened to this song for the first time on 1983, when I was 7 years old, on my uncle's house. I loved this record because Hey! It was made by robots! I used to breakdance listening to this and other songs without ever knowing the merit behind its composition nor its historical value, but I really dug it each time the record player played it.
Years later, on 1994, I found an old cassette which contained this song, and I payed attention to it on a more introspective time of my life, and feeling its outdated flavor get right into my veins. The anchronistic sound of those keyboards, mixed with a robotic voice made the perfect emulation of artificial flesh... and so the beating of an artificial heart, waiting for a reason to beat.
As unexpected clairvoyants, Kraftwerk predicted many phenomena of our technonlogical society and this one is no exception: hordes of internet users now use their computers to find love in the form of another person, for whatever reason they have. The point is that what sounded ironic on the first half of the eighties, today is part of our world.
That's, for me, the magic of this song: it gets to be heartbreakingly sweet using cold and mechanical sounds, and it acts like a glass ball taken directly from the past.
And it's incredible how organic this song can be...
I listened to this song for the first time on 1983, when I was 7 years old, on my uncle's house. I loved this record because Hey! It was made by robots! I used to breakdance listening to this and other songs without ever knowing the merit behind its composition nor its historical value, but I really dug it each time the record player played it.
Years later, on 1994, I found an old cassette which contained this song, and I payed attention to it on a more introspective time of my life, and feeling its outdated flavor get right into my veins. The anchronistic sound of those keyboards, mixed with a robotic voice made the perfect emulation of artificial flesh... and so the beating of an artificial heart, waiting for a reason to beat.
As unexpected clairvoyants, Kraftwerk predicted many phenomena of our technonlogical society and this one is no exception: hordes of internet users now use their computers to find love in the form of another person, for whatever reason they have. The point is that what sounded ironic on the first half of the eighties, today is part of our world.
That's, for me, the magic of this song: it gets to be heartbreakingly sweet using cold and mechanical sounds, and it acts like a glass ball taken directly from the past.
And it's incredible how organic this song can be...