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Man if only there were some kind of popular song about people overreacting to balloons and interpreting them as military action in need of response. Maybe in german

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@shoofle@elekk.xyz what's it called? Kind of curious now since the way you write this makes me think it is very well known...

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@junho8 99 luftballoons. It's about a cloud of red balloons setting off early warning systems and causing a nuclear war

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@junho8 @shoofle 99 red balloons by NENA.

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Nena's 99 Luftballoons hit from 1983 speaks about a lot of balloons in German, but I don't understand a word of what she says so I'm not sure if it military action is involved:

https://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY

YouTubeNENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo]By NENA
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@angel it is about a cloud of released balloons triggering early warning systems and provoking a world-ending nuclear war. There's also an English version! 99 red balloons

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Great to know! Being the 80's, It would have been strange if a song wasn't about mutual annihilation via nuclear weaponry. Those were the days, we were on a verge to die as a puff of dust or by radiation posioning every single day.

I'm from Spain and knew about the song in German, didn't remember there was an English version.

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@angel of all the 80s throwbacks people are obsessed with these days, I wish we could leave that one behind. I'm tired of living in a collapsing world.

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@angel the English language version topped the charts in the UK! For weeks...

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@angel

The stories in the English-language and German-language versions are subtly different. A friend of mine who speaks both languages wrote a blog post comparing them long ago, but Livejournal's UI is far too awkward to find it now.

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Interesting! Would love to take a look at that blog post.

I didn't know that Livejournal still exists, by the way.

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@angel @only_ohm I have been getting notifications for all these posts, I don't need to be cc'ed

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@shoofle I love that song. Not the English version, though.

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@shoofle but that was a RED balloon

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@shoofle@elekk.xyz Ich habe 99 Probleme, aber rote Luftballons sind keines!

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@shoofle no, no, no. It will take at least a week to get it out of my brain.

How could you?

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@shoofle Well... Do you have some time for me? Then I'll sing a song for you. Of 99 (not red) balloons...

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