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Nena | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Muzikvideo]
YouTube ^ | 1983 | Nena

Posted on 02/04/2023 9:40:39 AM PST by ConservativeInPA

Here’s an appropriate tune for all the nuclear news whether it be Russia or China spying on US nuclear facilities. By the way, 99 Luftballons is an anti-nuke protest song.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: balloon; china
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1 posted on 02/04/2023 9:40:39 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

In the year 2525, there will be no luftballoons.


2 posted on 02/04/2023 9:42:15 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Very timely.


3 posted on 02/04/2023 9:43:39 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: ConservativeInPA

She was beautiful with a magical voice, so we didn’t care what the song was really about.


4 posted on 02/04/2023 9:48:19 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: ConservativeInPA

The Fifth Dimension has something to say about this balloon incident too.

Up, up, and away…

https://youtu.be/UKkNlwpajNk


5 posted on 02/04/2023 9:54:07 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: G Larry
She was beautiful with a magical voice, so we didn’t care what the song was really about.

And who has said she honestly had no idea that women outside of continental Europe shaved their armpits and wished someone had told her.

6 posted on 02/04/2023 9:54:14 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: ConservativeInPA

1987 = denk an dich und lass es fliegen

2023 = 想著你讓它飛


7 posted on 02/04/2023 9:56:33 AM PST by skeeter
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To: ConservativeInPA
The translated German lyrics and the English lyrics are very different.


8 posted on 02/04/2023 9:59:09 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: ConservativeInPA

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=99+Luftballons+zimbabwe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:88c1e258,vid:ORBBap-m0tY


9 posted on 02/04/2023 10:03:11 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ConservativeInPA
I actually prefer the English version aka 99 Dead Baboons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKULG58SCuk

10 posted on 02/04/2023 10:10:57 AM PST by fso301
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To: Yo-Yo
They needed a translation AND a rhyme scheme.

(It's a song, not a legal brief.)

11 posted on 02/04/2023 10:12:19 AM PST by Captain Walker (Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.-Pascal)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Wonder how a Rammstein cover of it would sound.


12 posted on 02/04/2023 10:14:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Captain Walker
They needed a translation AND a rhyme scheme.

(It's a song, not a legal brief.)

Yeah, I know. Direct English translation of the original German lyrics didn't rhyme.

I just thought the differences between the two were interesting.

13 posted on 02/04/2023 10:15:23 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: G Larry

At the time I remarked about getting a peace lesson from the children of the perpetrators of the Holocaust.


14 posted on 02/04/2023 10:15:41 AM PST by DarrellZero
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To: Honorary Serb

Heh! I’m surprised that has lasted that long.


15 posted on 02/04/2023 10:15:43 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL in the original German version, I only understood “Captain Kirk”


16 posted on 02/04/2023 10:16:14 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Yo-Yo

Not just the lyrics, the german version has the singer’s voice strong and confident, the English version is deliberately breathy and timid. Also, the video is much different (kind of laughably so, but there were clear decisions made to up the number of explosions and prominent hip wiggling).


17 posted on 02/04/2023 10:16:15 AM PST by jz638
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To: Leaning Right

Rush’s “Condom Update” song.


18 posted on 02/04/2023 10:17:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jz638

Yes, I always prefer the original language versions.


19 posted on 02/04/2023 10:18:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fso301

wierd al yankovich shoudl have done that song-


20 posted on 02/04/2023 10:34:13 AM PST by Bob434
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