 Lorenz stated that the song was created to show the band could write a harsh, evil, military-sounding song without being Nazis.The band also wrote the song "Amerika" as a critique of the worldwide cultural and political imperialism of the United States.In their book "Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture", Jill E. Twark and Axel Hildebrandt found that the song's text and most of its video's images point toward a critique of America's cultural imperialism, political propaganda, and self-assumed role as global police force.