Nena

[hobbitomm]

It's odd. I've just been watching VH1 (not a lot happening at work, as you might have gathered!), and the '1 hit wonders' section included Nena's 99 luftballoon. In German. For an american hit. That surprised me, for a couple of reasons, really. Firstly, someone singing in german had a hit in the States, and secondly, that they released the german version over there in the first place. Because I recall that over here it was released in English (as per usual, the group could sing quite competently in English, thank you very much ;). Perhaps the lyrics were too downbeat for the US? Dunno. Just a bit odd.

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[silme.livejournal.com]

Nah, they just had the typical American teenage boy reaction to body hair on legs and underarms.

But on the other hand, since the porn magazines have that certain other part shaved, maybe they did expect that to be cleanshaven also! ;)