[ SECRET POST #3826 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3826 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[thewakokid]

I never knew how dark 99 red ballons was untill quite recently.

I always thought it was stupid old timer brainless pop. Was kinda shocked that is was actually really fucking grim shit hiding as brainless pop.

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[mrs_don_draper]

It is!?!?

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[fishnchips]

It's basically about how people are so paranoid they think the balloons are UFOs which leads to them getting shot at which leads to neighbouring countries thinking they're attacked and this, together with the greed and hunger for power by politicians, leads to a huge 99 years long war which ends in complete annihalation. (In the original German version, that is. I think the English lyrics are a bit different.)

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[(Anonymous)]

The English lyrics are a bit different, but if you consider them in the context of the time the translation was done, they're actually pretty clear - it's just that modern listeners are listening to them far divorced from the context of the Red Scare and general Cold War terror of nuclear war.

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[(Anonymous)]

To add onto the above, here's a side-by-side of the German, translated German, and English lyrics (I also love that Captain Kirk lyric): http://www.inthe80s.com/redger3.shtml

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Oh, +1 this.

One of my favorite songs of all time.

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[thewakokid]

Yup, the lyrics are about someone letting 99 red balloon go, one country or another pickinnthem up on radar, not knowing what they are, concluding it's an attack by another country, and the the ensuing nuclear exchange that destroys everything.

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[mrs_don_draper]

Holy shit

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[thewakokid]

Yup.

Pretty grim shit when you listen to the lyrics. I always thought it was just catchy pop.

Re: The song "Afternoon Delight" is about afternoon snacks!

[(Anonymous)]

The scariest part is how easily that could actually happen:

https://livableworld.org/the-close-calls-how-false-alarms-triggered-fears-of-nuclear-war/

Sleep well, everyone!