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Jadyn Cree performs “99 Red Balloons” by Nena, The Voice 2025 Season 27 Playoffs. Startattle.com – The Voice.
Jadyn Cree The Voice Playoffs
Contestant: Jadyn Cree
Age: 23
Hometown: Lincoln, Nebraska
Coach: Michael Bublé
Song: “99 Red Balloons” by Nena
Result: Advanced
Jadyn Cree The Voice Playoffs “99 Red Balloons”
Jadyn Cree The Voice 2025 “99 Red Balloons” Nena, Season 27 Playoffs.
Jadyn Cree 99 Red Balloons The Voice Playoffs
“99 Luftballons” (German: Neunundneunzig Luftballons, “99 balloons”) is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled “99 Red Balloons” (German: Neunundneunzig Rote Luftballons), with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan. The English version is not a direct translation of the German original and contains lyrics with a somewhat different meaning. In the US, the English-language version did not chart, while the German-language recording became Nena’s only US hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The English version retains the spirit of the original narrative, but many of the lyrics are translated poetically rather than being directly translated: red helium balloons are casually released by the civilian singer (narrator) with her unnamed friend into the sky and are mistakenly registered by a faulty early warning system as enemy contacts, resulting in panic and eventually nuclear war, with the end of the song near-identical to the end of the original German version.
From the outset, Nena (the lead singer) and other members of the band expressed disapproval of the English version of the song, “99 Red Balloons”. In March 1984, the band’s keyboardist and song co-writer Uwe Fahrenkrog Petersen said, “We made a mistake there. I think the song loses something in translation and even sounds silly.” In another interview that month, the band, including Nena herself, were quoted as being “not completely satisfied” with the English version, since it was “too blatant” for a group not wishing to be seen as a protest band.
Two re-recordings of the original German version of the song have been released by Nena the singer: a modern ballad version, which was included on Nena feat. Nena (2002), and a 2009 retro version, which originally aired as an animated video on the European Arte channel (as part of a special called “Summer of the ’80s”) and included some portions in French (specifically, the second part of the first verse and the entire final verse). Nena later formally released this rendition on her 2010 Best of Nena compilation, but the French text was omitted and replaced with the original German lyrics.
Live recordings of the song are included on all seven of Nena’s live albums, dating from 1995 to 2018.
Show: The Voice
Season: The Voice 2025 (Season 27)
Host: Carson Daly
Coaches: John Legend, Michael Bublé, Adam Levine, Kelsea Ballerini
The twenty-seventh season of the American reality television series The Voice premiered on February 3, 2025 on NBC. The season is hosted by Carson Daly who has hosted every season of the show. The coaching panel consists of Michael Bublé, who returns for his second consecutive season; John Legend, who returns for his tenth season after a one-season hiatus; Adam Levine, who returns for his seventeenth season after last coaching during the sixteenth season; and Kelsea Ballerini, who joins the panel as a new coach.
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