Originally Posted by
mikeoneflying
Pentagon now saying second balloon over Latin America -- will we get to 99 Red Balloons -- 99 Red Balloons," a protest song. In the lyrics, a boy and girl innocently release a batch of balloons into the air; confused by these flying objects, international governments panic, triggering a nuclear holocaust.
NENA 1984 song.
The song will now probably chart again!
And it's now clear how prescient Nena was - while we all thought at the time that "red balloons" was a reference to their colour, she really meant their origin.
