Nena - 99 Red Balloons (English)

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@peterflyingdutchman 4 жыл бұрын

Never heard this song in English, only the original version in German. I prefer the German version.

@GrumpyGrndad 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, this english version is sooooo bad :D

@sudsoverspill4484 4 жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyGrndad Sounds Weird in English

@lisagamingrobloxisamazinga8423 4 жыл бұрын

I like the Ingilish version

@westondickinson5309 2 жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyGrndad lol ok calm down it's not that bad Jesus. actin like it's milli vanilli up in here

@_MjG_ 3 ай бұрын

LOL! There's no difference other than the language used. The English version was released 1 year after the German version, sung by the same singer & same band. IMO the German version sounds weird.

@WebbanationX 4 жыл бұрын

German version does sound better but I always like this song even though I had no idea what it meant for such a long time

@KristinKali 4 жыл бұрын

WebbanationX 👊❤️Me tooo! Isn’t that hilarious? We like songs for the way they make us feel sometimes! And then it turns out ITS ABOUT DAM BALLOONS!! 99 freakin BALLOONS!! ☠️☠️

@greatriffishere 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, i agree and i actually only understand english!! German version is better!!

@vattmann1387 4 жыл бұрын

It has more power/ feeling in German. I like both versions tb :)

@donnerschwein 4 жыл бұрын

@@KristinKali actually the song is about the last phase of the cold war and dooming apocalypse. The song was written when NATO stationed US-Pershing II atomic rockets in West-Germany and West-Germans were afraid of a nuclear WW3. The text describes a fictional scenario where after 99 years of (cold/) war (ever since WW1) 99 red ballons are mistaken for enemy aircraft and the USSR and NATO nuke the shit out of each other and everybody dies (the German version is a bit more explicit, the English version implies it due to translation issues). So yeah ... leave it to the Germans to make the world happily dance full of joy to a song about annihilation of mankind. 😂

@jacquelynboudreau6851 2 жыл бұрын

Ik me too!

@estoy1001 4 жыл бұрын

The gist of the original song was that some kids had released balloons near a border of a Cold War country (presumably from West Germany into East at the time), and a faulty sensor system read them as incoming aircraft/missiles, scrambling said country into attack. When she says she's "standing pretty", she's the only one standing after the world had effectively ended. See Rush's Distant Early Warning for similar content.

@juliantojul685 4 жыл бұрын

I've just heard in german version..then i heard in english version,but i prefer german version although i don't know the meaning..just love it in german version..😁

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 4 жыл бұрын

Awwww. This is the English version. The German version has much more natural energy. My! That pretty boy on keyboards certainly is beautiful, isn't he? LOL! There's a good Punk version of this by the band "Goldfinger". Peace out.

@garykelly7422 4 жыл бұрын

Back when MTV actually played music videos lol

@CrayzMark 4 жыл бұрын

Love the English version of this song, but yeah it can't top the German version. Wonderful reaction Kali 💯💯❤

@jjladd2129 4 жыл бұрын

now all you need is Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy

@johnduval8891 4 жыл бұрын

Even as an old hard rocker for some reason I always dig this song when I hear it. Typical 80s MTV pop crap, but done very well. ☮️

@shawnlowery6246 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was typical. It was closer to the European "source" of electronic music and it shows.

@johnduval8891 4 жыл бұрын

Very typical, very 80s pop. Euro lol. ☮️

@strogaa 4 жыл бұрын

Nena was part of the so called "Neue Deutsche Welle" (New German Wave) in the very early 80s, when german pop & rock bands began to sing in german instead of english. Musically it is hard to make a definition of this scene. Some bands used to make modern synthie pop, but you could also find bands with some punk attitude. One band called "Spider Murphy Gang" even made good old fashioned Rock'n'Roll in the style of the 50s and sang in bavarian dialect. Nena was more on the "rock-side" of this scene, at least in the early days. As one of those few bands who were successful even outside of Germany, they were later trapped in a big sell out, which caused their split up in 1987.

@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988 3 жыл бұрын

The singer has such a sweet voice and so beautiful. Btw, she was and still is to me the most beautiful thing in the world

@827dusty 4 жыл бұрын

So 1980s sounding! Because it is from those 80s years...

@davidetienne9404 Жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 80's, I only ever heard this English version. I had no idea there was a German version. I prefer the English one.

@shawnlowery6246 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this reaction. Very entertaining and so much different than what a lot of people are doing now. I am still waiting for the song that will make you jump out of your seat and start dancing :-)

@glasgowjohn7831 4 жыл бұрын

what most replies dont realise is, it was written after a bunch of balloons set off a radar that almost caused a nuclear war

@KristinKali 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa! I did not know that 😱

@JuanTaughtMe 4 жыл бұрын

I fell in love with this song first hearing it in a movie. Like you said, its different and I appreciate the love we both share for this beautiful song.

@aliciaencaderada1361 4 жыл бұрын

This girl was wow for me. Kinda like the girl with brown hair from Bangles who sung Walks Like an Egyptian. For me it was Walks Like I'm Limpin.

@christomashofski9160 4 жыл бұрын

The Bangles singer was Susanna Hoffs...very beautiful woman. ..... There is a new performance of 99 Red Balloons done on live stage (I wanna say around 2010-ish) with singer Nena in her fifties. She does not look like she has aged a day since this original video...still a pleasure to watch fluidly move about the stage with the flexible limberness of a teenager! Another beautiful woman!

@christomashofski9160 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, it was 2016! Here it is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7aoo9F70Zuqd40.html

@hscruggs1 4 жыл бұрын

I love this song 😂

@KristinKali 4 жыл бұрын

hscruggs1 👊❤️Me too!

@kevinstrade2752 Жыл бұрын

As a child of the cold war, we lived this song. The world was always 30 minutes away from total destruction 24/7. The perfect expression of that era.

@dirklorenz7976 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting your video. This song was "a must listen to" for German 80s teenagers.

@KristinKali 4 жыл бұрын

👊❤️😂😂🗣I love love love THIS SONG! It’s just so fun! KZfaq is taking the fun outta discovering great music.. glad I did this before more rules get imposed on us 😕

@brianhoward9217 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, the 80s . . . unique! Thank you Kristin (and Nena!) :-)

@orlock20 4 жыл бұрын

That's why military radars have filters on them so that bug swarms, flocks of birds, toy balloons, dust storms and toy drones don't show up on military radars even though they normally would.

@crimsonwizard2560 Жыл бұрын

99 Luft Ballons means 99 air balloons. To convert it to English, it became 99 Red Balloons. Great song in either language.

@TheRoidanton 2 жыл бұрын

"I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein. 99 Luftballons was created against the background of the last phase of the Cold War in Germany in the 1980s.[1] The stationing of nuclear Pershing II missiles in Germany began in 1983 as a result of the NATO double-track decision of 1979. This nuclear armament led to fears that the danger of nuclear war was increasing and was therefore met with massive resistance from parts of the population. These formed in the peace movement of the 1980s. The idea for the lyrics came to band guitarist Carlo Karges in 1982 at a Rolling Stones concert in West Berlin, when he watched a large number of colorful balloons being released into the sky. Karges wondered what would happen if the balloons drifted across the border into East Berlin and triggered a paranoid reaction there.

@josephscally6270 4 жыл бұрын

So delightful. I hope your sinus infection is getting better.

@KristinKali 4 жыл бұрын

Joseph Scally 👊❤️Me too! Thank-you so very muchJoseph!

@amorodioamor4388 4 жыл бұрын

Nena made me feel like a balloon. I felt like I was gonna pop.

@jjladd2129 4 жыл бұрын

first year MTV jams yeah

@jacknewman9256 2 жыл бұрын

As a second grader in the 70s I remember having war drills where we had to duck and cover under our desks. As little kids we worried about world annihilation. Ok boomer.

@SaltyPirate71 2 жыл бұрын

This brings back a flood of memories. I really do hate the 21st century!

@rbilleaud 2 жыл бұрын

It's important to understand the context of this song. In the 1980s, tensions between the Soviet Union and the West were at their highest point since the 1950s. Nuclear war seemed just around the corner and of course Germany, being the dividing line between East and West would have been on the front lines. Don't forget, Germany was still recovering from the utter devastation of the country during WWII, just 40-some years previous, and they definitely were not eager for an even more dangerous conflict. With everything on a hair trigger it wasn't hard to imagined something as simple as launching some toy balloons could spark an all out nuclear holocaust.

@KristinKali 2 жыл бұрын

Thank-you for explaining this 😳🙏 It’s definitely something that the possibility of nuclear war could be interpreted into such a lighthearted song.. I picked this song bc it’s a haunting quality but definitely 80’s. Thanks to you now I know some history behind it

@jericoba Жыл бұрын

I like both language versions. Awesome song!

@Earthtime3978 4 жыл бұрын

She’s the Madonna of Deutschland

@Victthequick 11 ай бұрын

recomend checking out the professor of rock, and his video about the song. brings lots of info to how it became so popular

@TheNitelite10 4 жыл бұрын

If you have a modest appreciation for screaming guitar riffs and if you have not heard the metal rendition to this song, might I be the first to suggest Goldfinger's version.

@Jack-ig7cb 2 жыл бұрын

If people don't know what the actual songs about she's talking about bombing in this time of the song when it was made bombing was a big thing everybody was being threatened by getting bombed so that's something about

@FREE-vw5lh 4 жыл бұрын

Eliminaron el video de 99 red ballons vuelvanlo a subir

@kevincinnamontoast3669 2 жыл бұрын

Brings back the cold war vibes that underscored our lives back then.

@M-ly9pf 7 ай бұрын

You Are so sweet best wishes from germany ❤

@dorojessy6932 4 жыл бұрын

Nena has catchy songs. Just a Dream (Nur Geträumt), It's all in the Game (Haus der drei Sonnen), Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime (Irgendwie, Irgendwo, Irgendwann) by Nena & Kim Wilde...Thanks for the review!!!

@anthonymoore1705 4 жыл бұрын

hi kristin, you still look good even when your sick, check out ALL TOGETHER NOW by a band called THE FARM its about world war one.

@AnikaJarlsdottr 2 жыл бұрын

such a happy and bouncy tune for a song about the end of the world in nuclear fire... I know am gonna be an odd one out for preferring the english version but its the one I grew up listening to on the tape player in my mums car :'P

@suzettebakelaar 4 жыл бұрын

For me it will always be the german version... well done neighbours xxx Suzette 🇳🇱

@mrod7692 4 жыл бұрын

Get well soon.

@TheRoidanton 2 жыл бұрын

Nena is not Her Real Name, its a Spanish Term of endearment meaning little girl / chick. Her Family picked that up in a Spain Holiday and ever called her that. the german original has some diferences. Its not specifiat what color the Ballons are (but hey theres is definetly no deeper reason for them to be RED in the merican version...) or where/who launched them, because that would and has not mattered (yes there where inccidenced and accidenced) and in the first lines the little girls ask you/the world/the Leaders/the fingers on buttons "do you, maybe, have time for me? Then i would sing a song to you! Do you think about me (yes directly translated its Maybe you're thinking of me right now) right now? THEN i would like to sing a song to you" and yes if you are imagining a 4 year old, dragging her teddy behind her, saying "Daddy? Mommy? im scared!" then your ready to listen to her

@Antonio-pr1fj 4 жыл бұрын

Im latino and i always remenber and prefer original version.

@lesdoll402 4 жыл бұрын

oh god! german version.

@827dusty 4 жыл бұрын

Nena isht a German girl. Real title is ( "99 luft air Balloons") Nena isht wunderbar!

@oldschoolcarl9247 4 жыл бұрын

LoL the 80s

@timothyhoughton7556 4 жыл бұрын

Listen to the 7 seconds version

@richardrodriguez2120 4 жыл бұрын

Good song but prefer the German version better

@Ender4212 4 жыл бұрын

Never did care for the english version of this song.

@jamessparks3876 4 жыл бұрын

i know i prefer the german version too

@tracyhall3509 4 жыл бұрын

Could you do a reaction to bobcagen by the tragically hip please

@winnywin 4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to 'like' this - but it has 99 likes. Perfect - shame on the 100th like!

@waltersmith463 Жыл бұрын

Europe hated the US and the deterrent we provided against the USSR.

@lisagamingrobloxisamazinga8423 4 жыл бұрын

I like the ingilish version l dont uderstand why people like german music so much becosue l just cant keep sanity while listening to soemthing l dont even understand

@sudsoverspill4484 4 жыл бұрын

Die deutsche Version ist viel besser

@thomaslundgrenmogensen7174 4 жыл бұрын

It's German case closed

@DGamesChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Vh1 classic? Link for download?

@jamesgoodwin4543 Жыл бұрын

I only listen to the German version. To me it's has better flow

@jwazy1095 4 жыл бұрын

like English only because cause it's what I know , German is good also, but don't know German . Other wise I would not have known some goofy kids started WW-3 , with a bag of Red Balloons .