What was 99 red balloons about

Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Social studies Was 99 red balloons in the Eurovision contest? Social studies. Ben Davis February 5, Was 99 red balloons in the Eurovision contest? What year did 99 Red Balloons come out? What is the story behind 99 red balloons? Who did the song 99 Red Balloons? You and I in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one they were gone Back at base bugs in the software Flash the message "something's out there!

Add Your Thoughts 30 Comments. General Comment I don't know why we're comparing both versions here, but I happen to like the message of this song.

To me it's all about paranoia of the cold war. A simple thing like a pack of red balloons becomes a threat and the defenses going to extremes about it. In the end, she says that she had 99 dreams, but they were all destroyed because of the war, exept for 1. That dream involves "you". Even though war can destroy many things, it cannot destroy love.

There was an error. I agree a lot with this. Love is not destroyed, but because in the beginning it starts as "you and I" with the two people together and ends with just one, it sounds like the person she was talking about died, but the love was still there.

General Comment actually i believe its for people who know the version of this song that is english. They never performed it live, and she still won't perform it live on her solo tours. But that doesn't mean the English version is a bad song; it's just a different song that doesn't fit the band as well as the original one which they wrote, so of course it has meaning to them. Their main problem with it was that the English version comes across as a blatant protest song, and they're the wrong band for that.

And, while they may think it was a mistake to record it easy to say after the German version out-charted the English version in the US, Australia, and Canada , it still got millions of Brits to discover their band. General Comment "neurotic chick" is quite right - the song was re-recorded with the above lyrics after the German version was shown on British TV and became a surprise hit.

As "Rodman" correctly pointed out, it IS a bad translation as far as being a literal translation of the German lyric is concerned , but it's what British pop fans in the s heard, know and continue to interpret.

That deflated them. Well played. Skayda on August 03, General Comment U cant make a song that is a direct translation from a song in a different language. No Replies Log in to reply. In response to the incident, Bruce Springsteen wrote one of his first topical songs, "Roulette"; by the end of that same year, the Clash had released a double-sided single with nuclear-annihilation themes their own powerful "London Calling" backed with a cover of the reggae tune "Armagideon Time".

In late , a group of pop stars better known for introspection than news analysis -- the Doobie Brothers, James Taylor, Carly Simon and others -- organized the "No Nukes" benefit concerts in New York.

The years that followed, presided over by military-buildup fan and "evil empire" enemy Ronald Reagan, were a second golden era of Cold War-inspired pop. Topical songwriters, from folkies to rappers, turned their attention to other issues -- racism, the environment, police brutality, Amnesty International -- as nuclear incineration once more took a back seat.

But, as rock history has proven, it's only a matter of time before a new accident, or another threat of a live warhead, again prompts pop stars to revisit their and our worst fears. Atomic Rock: The Cold War hit parade. All Rights Reserved.