Nena REACTION 99 Luftballoons German Version

**AUDIO ISSUE** the music track was somehow doubled but we kept the original video to ensure the integrity of the reaction.

Join Russ and his son Zakk as they watch the music video for the German version of the Nena classic "99 Luftballoons"

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[wolsch]

Nena is a part of my memories as a young person. Now she's already 65. Back then, I especially liked her songs: "Wunder geschehen" (Wonders happen) and "Leuchtturm" (Lighthouse). She is a woman with a mind of her own! She made this clear during the COVID crisis, among other things, when she dared to contradict governments and the conformist media. For this, she was heavily criticized in the media, and attempts were made to silence her.

[katieharms]

This is the first time I have watched this video. I loved the transition towards the end where the explosion fades into the tree as she’s walking through the forest. Definitely what I was expecting from an 80’s video. Solid reaction video!

[jdmay]

My entire German vocab is from this song. The beautiful Nena will live long in the memory of young men from that era.

[gregdonato]

the German Version came out first than the English came out in 1984 the video was shot at a Dutch army base and the used real gas bombs

[blueblood]

You might find this interesting, as Nicole from Germany won the Eurovision Song Contest deservedly in 1982 and when sang the song again as the winner she started in German as she did in the contest, but then switches to English, to then French, to then Dutch, back to English and then back to German.

No-one had done this before and since and it is still a beautiful song


Remember both the German and English version of this song by Nena, the 12” single had both versions. Kraftwork released the song The Model/Das Model.

Peter Gabriel released his first four or five albums in both English and German as well

[HorrorMetalMaestroRedrusty]

Actually had the album before it became a hit back then, as I speak German and so had a lot of German bands I was already into like Accept, Nena and Warlock/Doro Peach. I thought it was pretty cool when 99 Luft took off here in the states. However i did not like the English version, it just doesn't flow right to me and when I heard it I had been singing the original for a year..lol. So I certainly dismissed it quickly. I don't think I've even heard the English version since it came out and I heard it a couple times and never listened to it again.

[dirtydogsanddiesel]

Im an English speaker and always preferred the German version, Just like Chiquitita by Abba is better when they sang it in Spanish.

[arnodobler]

the german version was a anti war song, the english not

[blueblood]

You mentioned Falco. Rock Me Amadeus, but do you prefer Falco’s Der Kommissar in German or the After the Fire version in English?

[Bekka_Noyb]

Prefer the German version, but actually like both

[AdamMPick]

I did not even know an English version existed for the longest time.

Nena sold 25 million album records, in her solo work, which this is not. "Nena" the band sold over 4 milliion album records, before she went solo.

Today I learned Nena is an open "Querdenker" fan, while looking up how many records she sold. She doubled down in every interview since. We should have expected something was off, when she stated she was still a follower of a Sex-Guru who tried to start a civil war in the U.S.

Querdenker: German movement which united people who do not believe Covid was that bad or that it even existed. Mostly people who are too crazy for the neo-nazies.