Originally posted by kkina: Also one of my favorites. And I do prefer the original in German, though whoever did the translation on the English version did a terrific job.
I really don't like the English version, though it is actually pretty good. I just got used to the German version. I can actually sing along to much of the German version (though a real German-speaker might not be able to decipher my incoherent mutterings).
I recall a lot of talk back in the day of her hairy arm pits, as is the custom in Germany (used to be, at least). I was stationed in Germany from 1991-94, and I never got used to that.
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January 18, 2022, 07:51 AM
Sig209
just a catchy pop tune from the 80s about living in a world that included the daily possibility of nuclear annihilation
only something Gen X-ers / children of the 80s could appreciate !
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January 18, 2022, 12:24 PM
357fuzz
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Originally posted by Sig209: just a catchy pop tune from the 80s about living in a world that included the daily possibility of nuclear annihilation
only something Gen X-ers / children of the 80s could appreciate !
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Yep.
January 18, 2022, 12:52 PM
Batty67
I went to West Germany for 3 weeks as a quasi-exchange student in the summer of 1983...so that song got a lot of playing time.
I remember a women HS student in my advanced German class got extra-credit on her final exam by lip-synching the German version of the song (naturally) in front of the entire class. And she nailed it. I remember thinking, NO WAY, I'd ever do that in public!
January 18, 2022, 02:10 PM
Patriot
She was defiantly on my list...I was a teenager...MTV...raging hormones...she was yummy...
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