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Am I the only one with “99 Luftballoons” in my head?

Mountain_Skies 4y ago
Nena probably got an extra $5 in royalties this month from the large number of people who immediately thought of that song.
- DonHopkins 4y ago
  And Nina Hagen probably also got an extra $5000 royalties this month from the even larger number of people who immediately confused her with Nena. (Well deserved royalties, to compensate her for all the confusion!) https://auntie-anti.livejournal.com/576.html https://auntie-anti.livejournal.com/576.html >y'all look the same to me. >99 red balloons. Nina vs Nena: the continuing saga. >Nina Hagen= Nina Hagen. >Gabriele Susanne Kerner= Nena (nickname band name). >Yes, they are both german women who's music career heights were in the 80's, and their first "names" are very similar, but that does not make them the same person. >Nina Hagen= "The Mother of Punk". >Nena= some sweaty chick in a band that had one fluffy hit single, and yes, please know that i'm talking about "99 red balloons". psst...the german version is better. >Recently-ish photos of Nina Hagen were posted in a decent and somewhat elitist (in a good way) lj makeup community. She's a good example of outrageous makeup, and "known", or so I thought, for her style...as much as for her voice and music, since hers is not like anyone else's. I was terribly terribly terribly dead wrong. With the many-o-many comments that were being made, each stating a similar; "omfg i LOVE Nina Hagen and i loooove her song 99 red balloons!!! it's my most favourite retro song i love the 80's!" There was no correction in sight amongst the gathering list of commenters declaring their love and 'hoping for cool points' knowledge of Nina. >This is Nina Hagen... [...follow links for outrageous photos...] doesn't even scratch the surface of all the looks, but i'd be here all year posting photos to almost accomplish that. she's deliciously fucked. >And now pay close attention. This is Nena, the singer of "99 red/luftballoons"... um...yeah... And i even got a photo of them together. not the same person! https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/stabbings/ninanena.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/stabbings/ninanena.j... >The bigger difference is in their singing voices actually. >Nena= nice, normal, regular chick singing voice. >Nina Hagen= is a vocal genius. studied opera and incorporates that in her insane variety of deranged sweetness, down to an extreme that makes all death metal bands sound like a choir of girl scouts with mints thins in their nickers. https://www.last.fm/music/Nina+Hagen/_/99+Red+Balloons https://www.last.fm/music/Nina+Hagen/_/99+Red+Balloons https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/87616/ https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/87616/ https://twitter.com/optiblu2013/status/1466506526831611906 https://twitter.com/optiblu2013/status/1466506526831611906 https://songsear.ch/song/Nina-Hagen/99-Luft-Balloon/1481506 https://songsear.ch/song/Nina-Hagen/99-Luft-Balloon/1481506 https://teenage.cz/texty/nina-hagen/-/99-red-balloons-99-luftballons https://teenage.cz/texty/nina-hagen/-/99-red-balloons-99-luf... Herman Brood, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich - Crocodile (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIjlxl-DLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIjlxl-DLI Nina Hagen New York New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc The closest she ever came to covering 99 Red Baboons was Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo: NINA HAGEN - Auf´m Bahnhof Zoo "Live" 1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc 99 Red Baboons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-z_JV6wSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-z_JV6wSE http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/nana0.shtml http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/nana0.shtml
qbrass 4y ago
It was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook!
INGSOCIALITE 4y ago
99个红色气球
ineedasername 4y ago
Ah, who knew that a 1983 pop song was actually a prescient geopolitical analysis of the state of affairs between China & the West 4 decade in the future! Ahead of her time.
- a3w 4y ago
  Were any american U2 spy planes ever shot down? How is a novel weather balloon different from a spy balloon, before you shoot it down? Is shooting at unmanned aircraft legal in international law? Is sending balloons over other states illegal? Media in germany as usual did nothing to explain anything about the actual facts of what anything means. They just copy and paste the official DPA news and let people without a clue write comments about that, but no actual expert is ever shown in 8 o'clock news for any crisis that takes less than a week.

Nena probably got an extra $5 in royalties this month from the large number of people who immediately thought of that song.

DonHopkins 4y ago
And Nina Hagen probably also got an extra $5000 royalties this month from the even larger number of people who immediately confused her with Nena. (Well deserved royalties, to compensate her for all the confusion!) https://auntie-anti.livejournal.com/576.html https://auntie-anti.livejournal.com/576.html >y'all look the same to me. >99 red balloons. Nina vs Nena: the continuing saga. >Nina Hagen= Nina Hagen. >Gabriele Susanne Kerner= Nena (nickname band name). >Yes, they are both german women who's music career heights were in the 80's, and their first "names" are very similar, but that does not make them the same person. >Nina Hagen= "The Mother of Punk". >Nena= some sweaty chick in a band that had one fluffy hit single, and yes, please know that i'm talking about "99 red balloons". psst...the german version is better. >Recently-ish photos of Nina Hagen were posted in a decent and somewhat elitist (in a good way) lj makeup community. She's a good example of outrageous makeup, and "known", or so I thought, for her style...as much as for her voice and music, since hers is not like anyone else's. I was terribly terribly terribly dead wrong. With the many-o-many comments that were being made, each stating a similar; "omfg i LOVE Nina Hagen and i loooove her song 99 red balloons!!! it's my most favourite retro song i love the 80's!" There was no correction in sight amongst the gathering list of commenters declaring their love and 'hoping for cool points' knowledge of Nina. >This is Nina Hagen... [...follow links for outrageous photos...] doesn't even scratch the surface of all the looks, but i'd be here all year posting photos to almost accomplish that. she's deliciously fucked. >And now pay close attention. This is Nena, the singer of "99 red/luftballoons"... um...yeah... And i even got a photo of them together. not the same person! https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/stabbings/ninanena.jpg https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/stabbings/ninanena.j... >The bigger difference is in their singing voices actually. >Nena= nice, normal, regular chick singing voice. >Nina Hagen= is a vocal genius. studied opera and incorporates that in her insane variety of deranged sweetness, down to an extreme that makes all death metal bands sound like a choir of girl scouts with mints thins in their nickers. https://www.last.fm/music/Nina+Hagen/_/99+Red+Balloons https://www.last.fm/music/Nina+Hagen/_/99+Red+Balloons https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/87616/ https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/87616/ https://twitter.com/optiblu2013/status/1466506526831611906 https://twitter.com/optiblu2013/status/1466506526831611906 https://songsear.ch/song/Nina-Hagen/99-Luft-Balloon/1481506 https://songsear.ch/song/Nina-Hagen/99-Luft-Balloon/1481506 https://teenage.cz/texty/nina-hagen/-/99-red-balloons-99-luftballons https://teenage.cz/texty/nina-hagen/-/99-red-balloons-99-luf... Herman Brood, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich - Crocodile (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIjlxl-DLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFIjlxl-DLI Nina Hagen New York New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc The closest she ever came to covering 99 Red Baboons was Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo: NINA HAGEN - Auf´m Bahnhof Zoo "Live" 1978 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiscau0zJKc 99 Red Baboons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-z_JV6wSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-z_JV6wSE http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/nana0.shtml http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/nana0.shtml

qbrass 4y ago

It was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook!

INGSOCIALITE 4y ago

99个红色气球

ineedasername 4y ago

Ah, who knew that a 1983 pop song was actually a prescient geopolitical analysis of the state of affairs between China & the West 4 decade in the future! Ahead of her time.

a3w 4y ago
Were any american U2 spy planes ever shot down? How is a novel weather balloon different from a spy balloon, before you shoot it down? Is shooting at unmanned aircraft legal in international law? Is sending balloons over other states illegal? Media in germany as usual did nothing to explain anything about the actual facts of what anything means. They just copy and paste the official DPA news and let people without a clue write comments about that, but no actual expert is ever shown in 8 o'clock news for any crisis that takes less than a week.