NENA | 99 Red Balloons [1984] (Official HD Music Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 23 апр 2021
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    ▶︎ Lyrics English: www.nena.de/99-red-balloons
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    Release Date: February, 1984
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Комментарии • 12 тыс.

  • @coralissoto4002
    @coralissoto4002 2 года назад +4774

    My dad loved this song. He died unexpectedly earlier this year and it feels so weird that the things he liked and were part of him are still here and he isn't. I miss him so much.

    • @jesuslovesyou4862
      @jesuslovesyou4862 2 года назад +71

      I'm so sorry 🫂🫂🫂

    • @okjeffy6581
      @okjeffy6581 2 года назад +22

      Yeah I heard this a lot thinking it was from some tv show

    • @jade4468
      @jade4468 2 года назад +11

      @@myroseah1537 bro…

    • @maremare1655
      @maremare1655 2 года назад +33

      It's the circle of life.

    • @decjorden7112
      @decjorden7112 2 года назад +73

      Your dad lives on with you

  • @appleztooranges
    @appleztooranges 4 месяца назад +168

    **Whose watching this in 2024

    • @glennbotes8937
      @glennbotes8937 4 месяца назад +7

      I'm sure a lot of us will listen to this gem of a classic again in 2024. I'm here after listening to the original German version done a year prior to this one.

    • @razvan0zzz
      @razvan0zzz 4 месяца назад +3

      Especially who feels the Sovietic N target over their head

    • @lupitamartinez81
      @lupitamartinez81 3 месяца назад +2

      Me😝

    • @stanbai5263
      @stanbai5263 3 месяца назад +2

      Im listening in 1885 actually

    • @appleztooranges
      @appleztooranges 3 месяца назад +2

      @@stanbai5263 wish I can go back in time

  • @Lefty7788tinkatolli
    @Lefty7788tinkatolli 10 месяцев назад +71

    5 year old me: It's such a happy little song about letting red balloons go and watching them float up into the air!
    20 year old me: oh.

  • @beans_avi9382
    @beans_avi9382 10 дней назад +31

    who's here in 2024

    • @wendyeskelin8765
      @wendyeskelin8765 10 дней назад

      We're playing name that tune :)

    • @beans_avi9382
      @beans_avi9382 10 дней назад

      @@wendyeskelin8765 Sounds fun whats the URL of the site? Lol.

    • @rickgehring7507
      @rickgehring7507 10 дней назад

      I stop by every now and then, great song,

    • @AleksKieca
      @AleksKieca 10 дней назад +1

      Here. But I prefer the original German version

    • @alexciaramirez8453
      @alexciaramirez8453 10 дней назад

      15 hrs later I’m here

  • @budogden
    @budogden Год назад +127

    I feel like this song is about to get VERY popular all over again...

    • @lucyhill512
      @lucyhill512 Год назад +7

      Yep our band is FINALLY gonna do it ... been begging for years

    • @tjf589
      @tjf589 Год назад +7

      Billboard #1! Let's go!

    • @Scrimparmy
      @Scrimparmy Год назад +1

      I need to mosh to this

    • @Scrimparmy
      @Scrimparmy Год назад +1

      @@tjf589 rlly?? That’s wild haha

    • @AverageBishop-
      @AverageBishop- 11 месяцев назад

      Nope...

  • @GFHanks
    @GFHanks Год назад +531

    Nena's going to be getting their biggest royalty check in 30 years.

  • @giostisskylas
    @giostisskylas 4 дня назад +20

    Who would have thought that Nena's song about the Cold War would be so relevant in 2024 :/

    • @jamesbush7509
      @jamesbush7509 3 дня назад +2

      Looking towards a new cold war, revolutionary War, ww3. Something is going to happen. Another great depression on its way. History repeats itself.

  • @SidneyHurcombe
    @SidneyHurcombe 5 месяцев назад +21

    My dad loved this song, unfortunately he died at 99 earlier this year. God rest dad, up there with the red balloons.

  • @daleeichler3993
    @daleeichler3993 2 года назад +157

    I remember when this song was released because we were at the height of the Cold War.
    I recall thinking that because we and the Soviets were both wound so tight that the unimaginable could happen at any time due to one side misreading the other, either through a human or technical error.
    Now here we are 38 years later with the militarys of many nations staring at one another on the land, air and sea with the use of nuclear weapons being put on the table once again.
    We're older and again looking into the abyss.
    We all should have listened to this song a little closer. 😢

    • @rebeltough7
      @rebeltough7 Год назад

      Freaking mad Putin wants WW3

    • @8088I
      @8088I Год назад +4

      Unfortunately, as we find out today,
      in reality, it only takes '1' "Luftballon"
      - filling with merely "1" Sociopath's,
      Putin's, 'Mad' (EMPty) Ego.
      {i.e. In many respects, we've allowed
      ourselves to come up to a point (e.g.
      Event Horizon) too..o Crazy for fiction.}
      {Or: (e.g. an imaginary Singularity)
      - for the Mathematically inclined,
      being your kids.
      ~Que 🎶 "99 Luftballons" 🎶 Music Vid~

    • @8088I
      @8088I Год назад +3

      Ivan the Terrible's modern day
      equivalent
      is Vladimir the Treacherous -
      in league with
      our dRumpf the Treasonous.
      ---
      Ivan the Terrible's modern day
      equivalent
      is Vladimir the Treacherous
      { in league with
      our dRumpf the Treasonous }

    • @marko11kram
      @marko11kram Год назад +2

      I was in the Army, we fully expected hoards of tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap at VERY short notice

    • @tangomoggynoengi8518
      @tangomoggynoengi8518 Год назад +1

      Perhaps we should add Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood to the playlist as well...! 😉👍

  • @michaelblair5566
    @michaelblair5566 Год назад +98

    Suddenly this song is rocketing UP the Top 40 again!

  • @scotts6698
    @scotts6698 5 дней назад +11

    People today don't understand the fears that many felt in the 80's. It is not as prevalent as it is today, close, but not quite.

    • @joes6527
      @joes6527 3 дня назад +2

      That's for sure. Red Dawn felt like it could really happen.

    • @jusepdavid6177
      @jusepdavid6177 3 дня назад +1

      Cold war

    • @dthomas9230
      @dthomas9230 День назад

      Moscow mules had not penetrated Congress yet.

    • @dthomas9230
      @dthomas9230 День назад

      Mules are a cross of horses and donkeys, so they are always half ass, but smarter than either parent and sterile.

  • @tjf589
    @tjf589 Год назад +96

    Let's make this song hit the Billboard Top 100!

    • @jasonmatthews7829
      @jasonmatthews7829 Год назад +3

      China is on it

    • @smokinhalf
      @smokinhalf Год назад +4

      It may if we keep finding objects

    • @tjf589
      @tjf589 Год назад +3

      @@WBG-du1cz let's make it number 1 again!

    • @scottwalker9766
      @scottwalker9766 Год назад

      99 of them to be exact.

    • @20thCY
      @20thCY 9 месяцев назад +1

      If we were able to, it would most likely be the German version

  • @sciencetroll6304
    @sciencetroll6304 Год назад +64

    I see I'm not the only one who thought now is the time to revisit this song.

  • @ronjon6512
    @ronjon6512 9 месяцев назад +23

    I have a feeling this song may be popular again real soon.

  • @aprilrouge3640
    @aprilrouge3640 2 месяца назад +39

    Who's here in April 2024.
    Super dooper song and lyrics ❤❤❤

    • @evanportman2514
      @evanportman2514 2 месяца назад

      Me

    • @martinoneal316
      @martinoneal316 Месяц назад

      When I was stationed in West Germany in 1974 this song was 10 years away..but the balloons meant the same thing...

  • @glloyd1987
    @glloyd1987 Год назад +55

    This song is very appropriate for the days we live in !

    • @mr_benn_escapes_lockdown1780
      @mr_benn_escapes_lockdown1780 Год назад

      although Nena's arm pits are more frightening than China's sabre rattling we've had since the shoot-down.

    • @sl4983
      @sl4983 Год назад +3

      It was appropriate in the 80's too.

    • @sl4983
      @sl4983 Год назад

      @@mr_benn_escapes_lockdown1780 Get over ittle guy.

  • @therealhotshot70
    @therealhotshot70 Год назад +26

    She warned us back in 84!

  • @russberg900
    @russberg900 10 дней назад +14

    More relevant today than ever!

  • @Deadmanundertaker100
    @Deadmanundertaker100 3 месяца назад +18

    My mum just died she was 62 and died unexpectedly we’ve chosen this song to be the last one played at the conclusion of her service because it represents her happy upbeat vibrant nature and she loved 1980’s music. This is one of her all time favourites. I’ll miss you mum I love you xx

    • @caroljoelucy
      @caroljoelucy 3 месяца назад +4

      Sorry for your loss. This was such a tune back then. I'm sure she'll be looking down smiling. 🙏

  • @carlhicksjr8401
    @carlhicksjr8401 2 года назад +133

    I was in Germany as a US Army soldier when this song came out. It was like our theme song!
    Naturally, the song was widely identified with the Greens Party [and we didn't appreciate their picketing at our gates] but you can hardly call not wanting to be nuked into oblivion while two superpowers duked it out in your front yard a character defect...

    • @marklamont8736
      @marklamont8736 2 года назад +3

      Excellent post! Fulda Gap '85.

    • @carlhicksjr8401
      @carlhicksjr8401 2 года назад +2

      @@marklamont8736 I was just earlier than you. 2/11th '82-'84

    • @arundhatichakraborty2073
      @arundhatichakraborty2073 2 года назад +2

      Were you for West Germany or East Germany?

    • @carlhicksjr8401
      @carlhicksjr8401 2 года назад +5

      @@arundhatichakraborty2073 I served in the US Army, so I was stationed in the BRD, or West Germany

    • @muffinman2889
      @muffinman2889 2 года назад +1

      @@arundhatichakraborty2073 scotchland

  • @fairland5
    @fairland5 2 года назад +490

    The whole world can sense this song becoming more relevant by the second.

    • @thedutchessofdragonshyre4630
      @thedutchessofdragonshyre4630 2 года назад +27

      Yes and us cold war kids have been singing this song in our heads for months now

    • @ct92404
      @ct92404 2 года назад +8

      @@thedutchessofdragonshyre4630 And "Russians" by Sting.
      "How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?" 😔

    • @johnsullivan5525
      @johnsullivan5525 2 года назад +3

      Well...Putin is doing everything he can to make it outright reality...every time he allows his soldiers to go apeshit on civillians...leaving bodies of 4year olds in the open air..to rot. And leaving hard evidence of "recruiting" women of 16 - 30years old...to "please" the senses of the soldiers. Pressure is RAPIDLY GROWING..to mobilize the USARMY 3RD ARMOR BRIGADE, backed by 200-400 Appache birds , and 100,000 infantrymen..Right on into Ukraine.

    • @richardescobar9406
      @richardescobar9406 2 года назад

      😢😢😢😢😢 Putin stop this war or 99 red balloons going to fly and super high octane jet fighters

    • @harryballsacky
      @harryballsacky 2 года назад

      NO IT CAN'T....YOUR A RED BALLOONITE

  • @yankees29
    @yankees29 4 месяца назад +16

    I was only 7 years old watching this video on MTV. So many great memories of the 80’s.

    • @daverichardson7994
      @daverichardson7994 4 месяца назад +1

      Nena is so eexy in this video

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 4 месяца назад +2

      @@daverichardson7994 yes she is. What an awesome era for music,tv and movies. I think the 80’s were the peak as far as entertainment is concerned.

    • @daverichardson7994
      @daverichardson7994 4 месяца назад +2

      @@yankees29 those leather pants on her!

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 4 месяца назад

      @@daverichardson7994 🤣 indeed

    • @nickseibert1263
      @nickseibert1263 4 месяца назад

      Those leather pants on her

  • @VegasTigger
    @VegasTigger 3 месяца назад +19

    Nena was the reason I took German in High School...just in case we ever met.

  • @michaeljarvis8133
    @michaeljarvis8133 Год назад +35

    "This is what we've waited for,this is it, boys, this is war." This line gets me every time.

    • @only5186
      @only5186 6 месяцев назад +1

      Every single time! Especially with her feminine sweet voice! Also the ' It's all over and I'm standing pretty in the dust that was a city!'

    • @only5186
      @only5186 4 месяца назад

      Also the way she says "sparks" is something special lol

  • @Priest_Of_Zebak
    @Priest_Of_Zebak Год назад +23

    R.I.P little China balloon, you had such a great short life up there in the sky!
    You seemed so happy.

  • @gorduk1000
    @gorduk1000 9 месяцев назад +16

    “ I think of you and let it go”… 🥲… I first heard this in 83 as a 14 year old now in my 50’s and life experiences behind me it holds such resonance

  • @haggis525
    @haggis525 2 месяца назад +9

    I was stationed in West Germany (Lahr) during the Cold War... I love Germany, I love this song! I was there.. in '89 when it all came down.

  • @jufrirayyan2584
    @jufrirayyan2584 4 месяца назад +13

    40 years ago this song was released and now echoes harder than ever before.

  • @lanapearce9968
    @lanapearce9968 2 года назад +291

    I remember being an 80's kid, terrified of nuclear war and this was the anti war anthem. I love this song in it's original German language and this translation so much. Just mindblowing how powerful this was to me as an 80's child. Much Love to Nena & band!

    • @caseykelso1
      @caseykelso1 2 года назад +6

      Yeah I was at 80 kids too but the world is so fucked up nowadays it's ridiculous. The only thing we had to worry about was if your rubber broke

    • @HDilk
      @HDilk 2 года назад +3

      @@caseykelso1 as a teenager i think i prefer the possibility of nuclear war

    • @caseykelso1
      @caseykelso1 2 года назад +6

      @@HDilk as a teenager you have to realize that if "they" destroy the world 🌎 .... there's no one left to control ,there's nobody to be enslaved as worker bees(so to speak) ,there's no money to be had ,and there's no materials to be made. After the so-called Elite emerge from their bunkers there will be nothing left. So everybody loses, therefore there will be no nuclear war ever. It's like the vaccine, everybody says the vaccine is bad, but why would the government kill off all of their subjects, they're giving it to the military who's going to defends their country ? 🤔, I used to be trained in grammar school to "duck and cover" , the alarm would go off and we would leave our classrooms and sit in the hallways with their heads between our knees sitting on the floor. And that was very bad for Children's mental health. And they're bitching about masks.... kids wearing masks in school. What about us kids in the 60s that had to hide under our desks for air raid drills. All's I can tell you is common sense and knowing right from wrong is all the Tools you need to stay in front of the curve. 🍸🎓 thanks for sharing your thoughts.

    • @WOranos
      @WOranos 2 года назад +4

      Funny how things have changed. Back then, we worried about being immolated in nuclear fire. Today, they worry about being called by the wrong pronoun. And despite that, we were still a happier bunch by far.

    • @grinnifer
      @grinnifer 2 года назад +1

      it's actually already going on. Information war, and the Truth is losing in the corporate media completely. Good thing many of us have known this was coming....the technocracy

  • @theastonvillaseal585
    @theastonvillaseal585 Год назад +35

    This hits harder than the shot on that Chinese balloon 🎈

  • @gabrielpowers766
    @gabrielpowers766 4 месяца назад +12

    Did we know we were in the golden age back then? I don't think we realized it. I think we thought it would never end.

    • @moxie_ST
      @moxie_ST 4 месяца назад +1

      Yeahh brother you and me to ;-( but what can we do, time will not stop for you or me .

    • @fowleheidi482
      @fowleheidi482 4 месяца назад

      Listen to Carly Simon "These are the Good Old Days! I think I thought so!
      What I didn't know was this song was about someting simple causing WW3.
      Look where we are now!

  • @sebaspepper
    @sebaspepper 2 месяца назад +14

    Am I really in love with a girl from the 80s who has the cutest voice singing in English? Yes, ABSOLUTELY

    • @nickseibert1263
      @nickseibert1263 2 месяца назад +1

      Look at Nena in thosr leather pants

    • @sebaspepper
      @sebaspepper 2 месяца назад +2

      @@nickseibert1263 she's stunning

  • @robblaettler4589
    @robblaettler4589 Год назад +20

    I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought of this during current events haha.

    • @boycottjews
      @boycottjews Год назад

      One Chad White balloon floats by. ... Instead of just grabbing it the antiWhites use a million dollar missile

  • @tomg7071
    @tomg7071 Год назад +20

    Nothing like predicting the future forty years ago.

  • @TheRaiderman1
    @TheRaiderman1 7 месяцев назад +14

    Back when music was good.

  • @51501
    @51501 2 месяца назад +11

    Heard this on the radio today and i had to get home and play it LOUD. Hahaha. I was 13 or 14 when this charted in the UK and i liked it then and still do today.
    Good song. In many ways this song is still relevant today.

  • @HappyTrekkers
    @HappyTrekkers Год назад +66

    OMG I thought of this song as soon as the Chinese balloon started hitting the news. This situation is exactly what she is talking about. Plus it gives me a chance to watch Nena again.. SIGH.. I was 14 in 1984 and she took up a lot of my teenage dreams.

    • @drewping2002
      @drewping2002 Год назад +10

      I wonder if the pilots who downed the balloon thought they were Captain Kirk...

    • @HappyTrekkers
      @HappyTrekkers Год назад +1

      @@drewping2002 lol.

    • @mysticaloha
      @mysticaloha Год назад

      Same here... :)

  • @thomassimon6490
    @thomassimon6490 20 дней назад +13

    Current situation brought me to listen to this again.

  • @mariliaandaluz5238
    @mariliaandaluz5238 2 месяца назад +13

    Happy 64th Birthday Nena!

    • @martinoneal316
      @martinoneal316 2 месяца назад +1

      I had no idea Nina was such a seasoned treasure..thank you for your awareness...man we are all getting old ..beats not getting old...

  • @sukottora
    @sukottora 2 года назад +35

    Hey, Gen-Xers here we are again...
    I'm no wilting flower, but I must admit I burst into tears when I played this today, the first time in many years. My reaction really took me by surprise.

    • @PsiChoCybia
      @PsiChoCybia 2 года назад +6

      Not alone!

    • @Gopipriya660
      @Gopipriya660 2 года назад +4

      I feel it too

    • @j.ishirofinney1517
      @j.ishirofinney1517 2 года назад +3

      All my life the Boomers told us WWIII was the only future we had to look forward to. Seems like they're doing their best to deliver on that promise. Putin, Biden, Boris Johnson, Steinmeier...they're all still living in 1974.

    • @waltersobchak7275
      @waltersobchak7275 2 года назад +1

      @@j.ishirofinney1517 people actually think Biden is doing a good job if we get nuked because of him I’m gonna be like a road warrior you know Mad Max will be scrounging off the land and will find every liberal that I can find not this politician I mean every day person I’m gonna purge them from the earth like big stakes like Vlad the Impaler gonna be fun no it won’t be actually but that’s what I’m gonna do

    • @ct92404
      @ct92404 2 года назад +1

      @@waltersobchak7275 I HIGHLY doubt you're even a Gen Xer. You sound more like a Millennial trying to be "edgy."

  • @Vajrnakha
    @Vajrnakha Год назад +22

    Thank you Mr Burry

  • @woreoutdrummer1861
    @woreoutdrummer1861 3 месяца назад +15

    House parties, weed, beer, women...and MuchMusic on in the living room. Playing the shit out of this...and ZZ Top, Def Leppard, Men Without Hats, Dire Sraits, a-ha, Van Halen. The list goes on and on. I want to go back.

    • @mydiscovery-te2xx
      @mydiscovery-te2xx 3 месяца назад

      Me too

    • @nickseibert1263
      @nickseibert1263 2 месяца назад +1

      Eric Carmen also had some good songs , I heard he passed away

    • @deliveryguyrx
      @deliveryguyrx 2 месяца назад +1

      The '70s was my prime time, but I dated a girl 8 years younger than me in 1983. I would TOTALLY like to go back to those times!! (Hi, Dyanna!!)

  • @teambammotorsport7249
    @teambammotorsport7249 3 месяца назад +9

    40 years on this song still holds up as one of the greatest from 80's if not all time brings back so many good memories

  • @lawk7826
    @lawk7826 Год назад +31

    98 balloons to go. Start the countdown.

  • @flufflepuffle6229
    @flufflepuffle6229 Год назад +20

    99 Red balloons, floating in the US sky

    • @GreyPon3
      @GreyPon3 Год назад +1

      😆😅🤣😂🤣😅😆

  • @manuelcervantes5866
    @manuelcervantes5866 2 месяца назад +11

    Takes me back to elementary school in california when life was simple

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 Месяц назад

      Yeah really simple especially if you were German and half your country was under the tyranny of communism. Good old days of Germany, a full generation removed from the holocaust.

  • @mjolnir3580
    @mjolnir3580 5 месяцев назад +10

    Crazy to see there's still a lot of people comment and listen to this song

  • @HermitagePrepper
    @HermitagePrepper Год назад +34

    This song is prophetic

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 Год назад +124

    It's 2023 and we literally live in a Nena song from 40 years ago... What a time to be alive.

    • @user-xr5gu1rq6f
      @user-xr5gu1rq6f Год назад

      🙏🙏❤❤

    • @maiks.2618
      @maiks.2618 Год назад +2

      Yup as i say, its time to renew it sadly

    • @KarakTo
      @KarakTo Год назад

      They lived the original version in the forties

    • @raverbaby551
      @raverbaby551 11 месяцев назад +1

      Bet we don't get the the good music tho 😢

    • @gmcg923
      @gmcg923 10 месяцев назад +2

      I've been saying the US has been living in a Dead Kennedys album since 2016.

  • @carlosstagliano7678
    @carlosstagliano7678 Месяц назад +12

    Great Cold War song. She nailed it.

  • @Paula-uh4pn
    @Paula-uh4pn Месяц назад +11

    I miss the 80s so much

    • @ValiZidaru
      @ValiZidaru Месяц назад +2

      Depends on the side of the Wall

    • @christianhohenstein1422
      @christianhohenstein1422 Месяц назад

      @@ValiZidaru Considering the topic of the song, it doesn't really matter wich side of the wall you were on. And the fact, that she published it in 1983, maybe the most dangerous year in the whole cold war. I was six back than. For me it was just a fun song playing in the radio. When I finally understood, what it was all about, I started shivering and crying. Didn't really match my self-image as a cool teenage boy back than.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 Месяц назад

      @@christianhohenstein1422 Lol it mattered, 80s in the east was awful.

    • @christianhohenstein1422
      @christianhohenstein1422 Месяц назад

      @@dixonhill1108 No doubt, but if the bombs would have fallen it wouldn't have mattered, would it?

  • @WaybackRewind
    @WaybackRewind Год назад +43

    current events brought me here in 2023

    • @chrisorlando6162
      @chrisorlando6162 Год назад +4

      and very fitting that this video originally came out in 1984.

    • @akidotaco
      @akidotaco Год назад +4

      Same. Great song. Very poignant right now

  • @GFHanks
    @GFHanks Год назад +27

    Can anyone else remember when this was a cutesy cool 80's song, and not a prophecy ?

    • @donnydarko6042
      @donnydarko6042 Год назад +3

      POP

    • @nancyjustnancy
      @nancyjustnancy Год назад +5

      It was always a prophecy...

    • @-HighTide
      @-HighTide Год назад +2

      It was never cutesy, an actual oral history!

    • @sl4983
      @sl4983 Год назад

      Yes in the 80s

    • @alansimmonds9030
      @alansimmonds9030 Год назад +2

      It's always been identified as establishment code, being released in Orwell's 1984 & all.

  • @lolzlolz102
    @lolzlolz102 7 месяцев назад +12

    The keyboard player is the most German German I have ever seen.

  • @lexion2772
    @lexion2772 7 месяцев назад +13

    This is it Boys, this is war. So prophetic.

  • @Alexxxxander
    @Alexxxxander Год назад +23

    This song is in fashion and in any weather. Greetings from Russia.

  • @mistylucas1502
    @mistylucas1502 Год назад +16

    And here we are all for the same reason, because when life doesn't make sense, music is therapy. The irony of this song and current events cannot be lost..

  • @regulardadhere8832
    @regulardadhere8832 9 месяцев назад +21

    Who’s here because they like the song?

    • @flamegotgame2667
      @flamegotgame2667 9 месяцев назад

      GTFO what are you here for umm buddy. THIS SONG IS AMZING. Go tickle your pickle somewhere else.

  • @veiga1000
    @veiga1000 8 месяцев назад +9

    The tension of this era is captured well in this song

    • @jafr99999
      @jafr99999 8 месяцев назад +1

      We were literally eyeball to eyeball with our fingers on the button during these days. Graduated High School in 1980...we figured we would all be drafted in a moments notice and sent to Europe. Kind of a miracle that it didn't happen.

  • @Miles-To-Go
    @Miles-To-Go Год назад +20

    From this day forward, this shall be the F-22 pilot walk-up song.

    • @icantcomeupwithnames469
      @icantcomeupwithnames469 Год назад

      Do you think the pilots are the good guys in this song?

    • @Miles-To-Go
      @Miles-To-Go Год назад +1

      @@icantcomeupwithnames469 I think WOPR got it right when it said "What a strange game. The only way to win is not to play." I also think sarcasm is the best humor.

  • @jasonmilner8609
    @jasonmilner8609 Год назад +21

    Viewed 7.1 million times 6 million of those views in last week.

  • @jeanc819
    @jeanc819 3 месяца назад +8

    Hard to believe that it's been 40 years since this song was released. That said, this song has aged much better than me.

  • @-VIGILANTALWAYS
    @-VIGILANTALWAYS Месяц назад +8

    In 2024 this SONG is SOOOO VERY RELEVANT TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD... SAD

  • @docjoe86
    @docjoe86 Год назад +22

    Nearly 40 years later in Montana…one white balloon goes by.

    • @skovner
      @skovner Год назад +2

      The balloon from Red China - a RED balloon - where are the other 98?
      Ninety-nine red balloons
      Floating o'er the US they spy
      Now go to the last verse of the English original...

    • @RANS87IROCZ
      @RANS87IROCZ Год назад +2

      China only need 1 lone white balloon to get the position too drop the boom

    • @TheZachary86
      @TheZachary86 Год назад +2

      @@RANS87IROCZ only needed 1 white balloon to freak out an entire nation

    • @norman6492
      @norman6492 Год назад +1

      It was over Kansas City this morning

  • @nero5896
    @nero5896 Год назад +17

    Who would have ever thought this song would become prophetic?

    • @nuclearcatbaby1131
      @nuclearcatbaby1131 Год назад +1

      Not only that - the balloons are distracting from that chemical mess burning in the background

    • @357MagnumBob
      @357MagnumBob Год назад

      The Almighty was mocking the Biden-meister's so-called administration long before it came to be.

  • @michaelramsey82
    @michaelramsey82 8 месяцев назад +9

    Only in the '80s could such a jaunty, groovy song be written about a nuclear apocalypse.

  • @originalmetalhead73
    @originalmetalhead73 Месяц назад +7

    99th day of the year is April 8th, eclipse day. So this is the best song for that day

    • @jacklyn6253
      @jacklyn6253 Месяц назад +1

      I would say that is an uncanny coincidence if that is what I actually thought but nonetheless there was an uncanny planetary alignment going on today. One that is virtually unseen on any typical day and all the more extraordinary when at the same time some devil comet was out there heading our ways. I personally picture a schoolyard bully approaching the little guy (earth) and all the kids on the playground stepping out and facing the bully as if to say; 'want a piece of me?'

  • @Wolfspiderxl
    @Wolfspiderxl 2 года назад +24

    The threat of total annihilation hangs over all of our heads like some huge damoclean sword

    • @rexcaradog6687
      @rexcaradog6687 2 года назад +1

      Don't you know that I don't have a gun. Hahaha hahaha
      Bring down the government's of the world.

    • @mridlon1634
      @mridlon1634 2 года назад +1

      That’s what John F. Kennedy said.

    • @ct92404
      @ct92404 2 года назад

      Yup. It's deja vu all over again :/

  • @S3MMY345
    @S3MMY345 Год назад +19

    This is it boys this is what we've waited for.

    • @ReptilianLepton
      @ReptilianLepton Год назад +2

      Gen Z and at least half of Millennials want nothing more than to die in a war, so...

    • @MadDogW1
      @MadDogW1 Год назад +1

      @@ReptilianLepton gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything. You don't have to comply or give up just bc big brother says so. You can be a wolf or you can be a sheep...your choice.

  • @frankscalzo7048
    @frankscalzo7048 3 месяца назад +14

    Now we've got Chinese Spy Balloons!

    • @jimb9063
      @jimb9063 3 месяца назад

      99 balloons = nearly 20 aces apparently.

    • @73firebird11
      @73firebird11 3 месяца назад +1

      Well we have a traitor president and corrupt government and sadly a woke military that let's men dress up in women's uniforms

  • @craigsully9661
    @craigsully9661 4 месяца назад +12

    Crazy 40 yrs later this song couldn't be more truer and if you don't know meaning of the song look it up its scary

  • @smokinhalf
    @smokinhalf Год назад +20

    If nena is getting royalties she is racking up

  • @skippy3029
    @skippy3029 3 года назад +271

    My High School Girlfriend and I loved this song. During the summer between our Jr and Senior year she died in a car accident. We were going to be married and have children together. It has been 30 years and I have not forgotten her for even a day. Her parents are really old now. I check in on them from time to time. Her Father is still shattered. He cries every time I stop by.

    • @TopSecretVid
      @TopSecretVid 3 года назад +11

      dang..crazy..so sad.

    • @milotorres6894
      @milotorres6894 3 года назад +13

      Truly devastating and sad bro hurts my heart to hear this loss of love ,😢💪✌️💙🙏😔 my deepest condolences to all hurt by this tragedy ,keep the good times together in heart always Godspeed healing especially pops a angel doesn't want him to feel heartbreak of loss.,🙏😔💙💪

    • @petercollum1423
      @petercollum1423 3 года назад +12

      Well done you. And long may the visits continue in these horrible times. Greeting from Ireland

    • @dr.yolo3343
      @dr.yolo3343 3 года назад +7

      bro, listen to the german version, it's 200000000 times better in german

    • @skippy3029
      @skippy3029 3 года назад +18

      @@milotorres6894 I married a beautiful girl that we were both very good friends with. I have experienced incredible love and good times with my Jenny. We had 6 beautiful children together. All but one is grown up and thriving in the world. Our 14 year old is still at home doing great. She's sassy, but great.

  • @thegreenmanofnorwich
    @thegreenmanofnorwich 4 месяца назад +13

    It's odd for an apocalyptic song to be so incredibly catchy.

    • @glendoggett9670
      @glendoggett9670 4 месяца назад +2

      Almost like its the end of the world.
      As we know it.

    • @WanderingYankee
      @WanderingYankee 4 месяца назад +3

      And I feel fine :)

  • @heronpage3883
    @heronpage3883 Год назад +35

    Would be funny if this song re-entered the charts because of all the UFOs lately!

    • @raynekraven
      @raynekraven Год назад +2

      LOLL

    • @danielcamacho1913
      @danielcamacho1913 Год назад +4

      It's in a meme now.
      "German woman claims she tried to warn the USA about Chinese balloons 40 years ago" 😄

    • @princessbabibear4794
      @princessbabibear4794 Год назад

      THE PRESIDENT IS ON THE PHONE WHILE 99 RED BALLOONS GO BY WELL... 97 LEFT TO GO.

    • @harbyarby1347
      @harbyarby1347 Год назад +1

      That’s why I’m here! Lol! 99 red balloons floating in the summer sky…

    • @Lupi33z
      @Lupi33z Год назад

      you mean all the balloons

  • @ZeroFoxtrotGolf
    @ZeroFoxtrotGolf Месяц назад +7

    Your father was clearly a man of taste. A great song, and despite its upbeat tempo, one of meaning for us children of the Cold War. Holds a special today, as people seem to forget just how close we came to a terminal, no win, situation.

    • @dixonhill1108
      @dixonhill1108 Месяц назад

      Yeah my generation can't relate, Russia using Nukes seems unrealistic at this point. I mean Putin is threatening to do so daily, but we all know he's not as hard as those USSR guys.

  • @jackjarvisesq4876
    @jackjarvisesq4876 2 года назад +24

    GIAKOUMAKIS
    COMES FROM GREECE
    AND WHEN HE PLAYS HE SCORES WITH EASE
    HE LEADS THE LINE HE PLAYS UP TOP
    OUR NUMBER 7 GIFT FROM GOD

  • @davidjsauder9569
    @davidjsauder9569 Год назад +21

    Sunday, February 5, 2023 - loved this song and now it is so relavant

    • @deadpanbarry5442
      @deadpanbarry5442 Год назад +5

      😅 I've been singing it for the last two days since that Chinese balloon was spotted in American airspace..... How fitting really. 😉😏

  • @Keepingupwiththecarper
    @Keepingupwiththecarper 7 месяцев назад +10

    Loved this song when it came out. Reminds me of the time as a child of the 80’s. The Cold War and threat of nuclear war which seems real.

  • @West_Wolf_Esq
    @West_Wolf_Esq 2 месяца назад +8

    More relevant at this moment in time than ever

    • @PervertGenius
      @PervertGenius 2 месяца назад

      I need some context to understand that comment

    • @West_Wolf_Esq
      @West_Wolf_Esq 2 месяца назад +1

      @@PervertGenius Do you understand fully the message behind the song 99 Red Ballons? If so it's more relevant than ever right now because NATO/US/The "Collective West" & the Russian Federation are on the edge of a cliff where one mistake, one misinterpretation of the others intentions or actions one misidentification of a radar intercept (the proverbial red ballon) and everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
      Cross your fingers, your toes and anything else you got that Russians complete there investigation into to Moscow terror attack and find no indication at all that any western government or intelligence agency had any knowledge or involvement and Ukraine acted completely independently.

  • @RiverHolySitesGoBRRRRRRR
    @RiverHolySitesGoBRRRRRRR Год назад +21

    Suddenly relevant again.

    • @alfdom51
      @alfdom51 Год назад

      I started thinking about this song last year.

  • @francinearcieri8439
    @francinearcieri8439 2 года назад +38

    This song hits differently in these times

    • @jeffreykeffer4352
      @jeffreykeffer4352 2 года назад +5

      I don't know it hits the same for me as when it came out .... but then again we haven't been this close to nuclear war since then.

    • @chrisnorcross4652
      @chrisnorcross4652 2 года назад +5

      @@jeffreykeffer4352 Same. I was 13 when this came out, the Cold War was on and the threat of nuclear war was ever present. I'd hoped that was behind us but here we are again it seems.

    • @Jdo4031
      @Jdo4031 2 года назад +3

      @@chrisnorcross4652 I just wish I had my amazing nuke resistent school desk to hide under, that training has got to come into play somtime.

  • @johncooner8957
    @johncooner8957 6 месяцев назад +6

    I was stationed in Germany in 84 loved this song. If I could go back in time I would have never left Germany, it just felt like home and I miss it sooo much.

  • @venturefanatic9262
    @venturefanatic9262 6 месяцев назад +8

    Oh the music of my childhood. My neighbors had MTV and I was over there religiously.

    • @nickseibert1263
      @nickseibert1263 6 месяцев назад

      Those leather pants on Nena dam ! 😮

  • @IntelligentEating
    @IntelligentEating Год назад +18

    Michael Burry brought me here, a timeless classic both poetic and prophetic

    • @DrRadelj
      @DrRadelj Год назад +2

      The same here lol

  • @mc98smusicmoviereviews93
    @mc98smusicmoviereviews93 Год назад +34

    Todd In The Shadows!

    • @livelongandtroll9108
      @livelongandtroll9108 Год назад +2

      Dude, that episode was just released 34 minutes ago and there are already "Todd sent me here" people!

    • @LoverBoy-im7xv
      @LoverBoy-im7xv Год назад +2

      What's a Todd Shadow?

    • @livelongandtroll9108
      @livelongandtroll9108 Год назад +2

      @@LoverBoy-im7xv He is either a RUclipsr who reviews music or our new faceless shadowy overlord, you decide.

  • @jayharr6250
    @jayharr6250 4 месяца назад +7

    1 of the best all time songs ever..seriously girls like this and pat benatar and Cyndi Lauper paved the way for EVERY female singer thanks for a great and amazing song ❤❤❤

    • @SeanCrowley-ks1mu
      @SeanCrowley-ks1mu 3 месяца назад +1

      Try Patty Smythe and Deborah Harry from the 70's. They're the original ones who paves the way for people like Cyndi Lauper etc.

    • @jayharr6250
      @jayharr6250 3 месяца назад +1

      @@SeanCrowley-ks1mu Sure ofc they did their part too. I'm talking 80s &more modern. If you want the TRUE originals try The Andrew Sisters,Patsy Cline& Billy Holliday, Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day & June Carter for starters. But throw in Janis Joplin & Karen Carpenter, Linda Ronstadt + the 2 girls from ABBA & Mama Cass of the Mama s&The Papas While your at it. You can connect a LONG list of dots to all the wonderful female singers who helped pave the road for today's female singers.

  • @abrahamnutrition
    @abrahamnutrition 18 дней назад +6

    We all went crazy over this song when it came out and didn't even know what it was about.

    • @RavenMobile
      @RavenMobile 17 дней назад

      I still don't know what it's about, lol.
      From the lyrics, it sounds like aliens are attacking Earth.

    • @LucidRealityAI
      @LucidRealityAI 16 дней назад +1

      It’s about balloons being confused for nukes and accidentally starting a nuclear war

    • @jasonrarick4649
      @jasonrarick4649 11 дней назад

      she's German

  • @connorr.1763
    @connorr.1763 Год назад +28

    99 Chinese balloons floating in the Winter sky…

    • @violet.senderhauf2187
      @violet.senderhauf2187 Год назад +1

      red for communism.

    • @h.f6364
      @h.f6364 Год назад +1

      @@violet.senderhauf2187 do you also pay someone to chew food for you?

    • @violet.senderhauf2187
      @violet.senderhauf2187 Год назад

      @@h.f6364 Red Commie! I'm libertarian not a rich capital extremist like you described.

  • @smugbasterd
    @smugbasterd 2 года назад +32

    Just as potent and perfect today as it was in 84, it's like a time warp and suddenly this song fits perfect with the time. As a Gen-Xer this is a scary flash back in real time. I would really like to see this released. I think it would chart all over again.

  • @royrunyon1286
    @royrunyon1286 5 месяцев назад +11

    I flew with the US Navy during the 1980s identifying, clarifying, classifying...

  • @MikeGladden
    @MikeGladden 3 месяца назад +5

    Takes me right back to 1983-84, I was playing drums and singing some with my brother's street fairs band "silver wings ✈️ test flight" and carrying a big crush on NENA, watching this video on MTV.

    • @nickseibert1263
      @nickseibert1263 3 месяца назад +1

      I always loved her and her leather pants

  • @Kazzy954
    @Kazzy954 2 года назад +42

    This song coming back but not in the way I want 💀

    • @gemini.sun.99
      @gemini.sun.99 2 года назад +2

      😢

    • @kissingthegoat
      @kissingthegoat 2 года назад +5

      This song gives me chills right now:(

    • @mrsuns10
      @mrsuns10 2 года назад +1

      They should be playing this on loudspeakers in Moscow

    • @paperclips4113
      @paperclips4113 2 года назад

      They would not care.
      They do not control poopin'.

  • @chrisklus7316
    @chrisklus7316 3 года назад +126

    The song like a time warp. Hearing it now in 2021 take me back decades I feel like I’m 17 again. The music is fresh everything is beautiful. 99 balloons are still floating by, Except I am no longer the beginning of my life but I’m nearing the end of it.

    • @ThomasLips
      @ThomasLips 3 года назад +1

      I hear you...

    • @mleonard4628
      @mleonard4628 3 года назад +2

      99 red condoms sounds better

    • @jamiegagnon6390
      @jamiegagnon6390 3 года назад +5

      @@mleonard4628 Get your diaper changed, infant.

    • @davidlowe-donaghey969
      @davidlowe-donaghey969 3 года назад +3

      Enjoy everything and never think about time be timeless be yourself be young be old be everything in between

    • @xisburnttoast5372
      @xisburnttoast5372 2 года назад +1

      indeed...only GenX had bands that revealed the fears of the Cold War....and make it sound pop and happy

  • @Gtriping_nah455
    @Gtriping_nah455 9 дней назад +12

    The people who knows what behind this song😢😢

  • @tina6277
    @tina6277 9 месяцев назад +9

    Good music never gets old. I love both the English and German versions.

  • @GregoryDeese
    @GregoryDeese 3 года назад +207

    I served in the US Army Europe (USAEUR), 1986-89, FIre Direction Control for 8 inch howitzers. Nuclear. In April, 86 we were on alert with active weapons, someone played 99 Luft Balloons over the clear admin radio channel, the German version. We sat at our fire control computers as the song came over our headsets, hopefully the East Germans and Soviets would intercept the transmission and get the hint, that we shouldn't be too reflexive and want a war. We received stand down orders two hours later and we went back to base from our LOD positions. Stowed our gear and vehicles, they trucked the nukes back to the bunker. No nuclear war today. Got silly drunk that night, replayed the song in a happy mode. The song had a real effect.

    • @wcatholic1
      @wcatholic1 3 года назад +4

      16S Stingers 83-86.

    • @shevetlevi2821
      @shevetlevi2821 3 года назад +7

      You lived this song. Had to be a defining moment in your life.

    • @bobthebuilder3772
      @bobthebuilder3772 3 года назад +1

      Ronald Reagan didn't blink !

    • @getawaydriver5363
      @getawaydriver5363 3 года назад +1

      Nukes are fake.

    • @NibsNiven
      @NibsNiven 3 года назад +1

      @@gp. It's sad that the USA is filled with people like you who parrot lies without thinking.

  • @gordiebernard4640
    @gordiebernard4640 Год назад +20

    It was 100 Balloons until a few week ago.....

  • @thedeadzone9236
    @thedeadzone9236 Месяц назад +7

    Can't believe this song is 40 years old, I remember hearing the remix that came out in the late 90s on the radio and thought it was awesome, several years later I found out about the original song...

    • @sharkreaper42069
      @sharkreaper42069 Месяц назад

      I grew up with this and the german verison 99 luftballons. very talented people.

  • @IamDefinetlyaBagel
    @IamDefinetlyaBagel 4 месяца назад +8

    This was my favourite song when I was younger..
    I didn't know this song was about war