The German synth-pop icon Nena tapped into a timeless sense of doomy teen melodrama with “99 Luftballoons.” Hell, Nena even predicted the China balloon invasion of 2023 — now that’s a New Wave prophet. Like Sade, Nena was the name of both the singer and the group, with “99 Luftb...
t know – although I doubt it was a lozenge. Nor do I suspect that Orson Welles or Howard Hughes were involved. There have been a variety of competing explanations of what happened – most centering around weather balloons and barrage balloons – but none of them makes complete sense. The ...