Nena's "99 Luftballons" is explicitly talking about a set of national behavior that I was raised to believe we'd all left behind. Apparently we haven't? So, you know, that's coool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5...
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Just musically, I prefer @unwoman.com's cover. And, like… maybe a full-on music video (simply re-perfroming the original on screen) could get views these days, but a lot of that feels bad…? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRwF...
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If you don't speak/read/hear German, but do some of those things with English, see also: lyricstranslate.com/en/99-Luftba...
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If you're still hazy on the political relevance of all of that, prior to 1989 (and, I'd argue, again today, geographically closer to me), this is pretty even-handed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luft...
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