"Quit living on dreams - life is not what it seems" is not meant to express the desire to protect her. Quite the opposite. He is the psychopath who keeps her hidden, she shall quit having hope to escape, to be ever set free again or to be rescued. It's like "face the reality" - "Du bist hier bei mir, niemand wird dich finden" When he sings "they are coming for you but they won't find you" he is talking about the police, the feds, on their search & rescue mission. In verse 2 he blames her for drawing his attention on her. She was made up to pretty. He interpreted that as her desire for him, that she would need him. It's a very dark song about a psychopath and it still hasn't lost anything of its emotional impact. Falco was amazing.
@@EleanorQuestionMark Your interpretation of the song is also possible, that Jeanny drove him mad and even teases him in his mind while he already is in an asylum. IMHO the many possible interpretations contribute to the power of this song until today.
@@chrisk7736 He killed her, and now he is haunted by her and all that she could have been the mother, the socialite, the dancer, all the things she will never be because she is dead. He hears he laughter and see her dance, and goes crazy because he is tormented by the fact that he cant really ever have her or be loved by her. The announcer in German say that there has been an increase in missing persons and the latest is a 19 year old named jenny. Falco was Brilliant, ahead of his time. He graduated from the Vienna Music Conservatory as prodigy.... this song was so controversial at the time that is was banned from play on most radio stations in North America, and lots all over the world. It's unfortunate because Falco is true artists who works with emotions, and includes horror and tragedy. Now we have endless serial killer shows on Discovery, and crime podcasts up the Ying yang, but he did this in the early 80s way ahead of his time. Again, he was an artist, and he was not a killer or a deviant, well he did have a huge cocaine problem but which star did not have one in the 80s.... this song is amazing, and if you really read into everything he is saying, he is far from promoting the subject by instead warning how obsession and desire of some men who are not capable of love can lead to dangerous waters.... look at the birds on his piano, they are all stuffed and dead. Birds are supposed to fly, his character in the video does not understand that and only is concerned with their outer beauty same with jenny, he thinks he can keep them all for himself. There is no happy ending here, not in part 1 not in part 2, in all parts you see broken man rotting in a padded room or a prison cell. Falco is not promoting it, he is warning against our fascination with the superficial. I miss him so much, he died in a car accident in the Caribbean, word was he was high as kite. A Master Artist who rapped on the world stage long before anyone in North America did.
A song by Falco with a very sad background. Processing kidnapping, rape and murder in one song is certainly not the easiest thing, but Falco was a great one in his field and, in my opinion, did a great job on the subject. Falco has given the music scene a lot.😥👍🙌
Well, there is no indication of rape and murder in this song , in the video she well alive. This is the old interpretation which is very doubtful. Falco himself never liked that interpretation.
@@tomate3391 Don't forget, 80ies in Austria. Europe, generally being quite conservative at that time. There was no room to become more explicite. And there was no need either. Just imagine what would have happened if Falco confirmed "yes, you got that right". He wasn't stupid. There are better ways to destroy your own carreer than being honest.
@@MansardianSince at the end the man was in a mental hospital in isolation and Jeannie was around him dancing and laughing, I think the conclusion is that he imagined the whole event of him stalking and kidnapping her.
The F on his shoulder is a hommage to Fritz Lang's "M" from 1931. While there the child murderer was marked with a M for murder, here the F stands for Falco. A timeless masterpiece from a God of music. I miss you, Falco!
hi from germany..when i was young, falco was my favorit singer ! On February 6, 1998, just before his 41st birthday, Falco died in a car accident on the road between Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. As he was leaving the parking lot of a discotheque, a bus rammed his SUV; he died instantly.
Phenomenal! that your generation discovered these 80years' masterpieces..... LOVE, DEATH and MADNESS together in an unique METAPHORA about life's sense.....
@@tubekulose OK, Sarah moved to Germany, married a German but you think she had to get an austrian Passport??? 🥸 Maybe you should enlight us with your endless wisdom...
Falco did really well for a guy from Vienna, Austria to try and incorporate as much English into his songs as he did, especially when you consider that German is the first language in Austria and that he had no formal training. But the Austrians are very proud people with very high standards. I agree with you that Jeanny is a very sad song but the chorus in English is an easy one to listen to even if the content isn't.
4:14 "Die Polizei schließt die Möglichkeit nicht aus, dass es sich hier um ein Verbrechen handelt" - Translation: "The police are not ruling out the possibility that this is a crime"
In the song Falco takes on the role of a mentally ill man who is obsessed with a woman who previously rejected him. He kidnaps her and probably kills her. It was at a time when many women and girls disappeared without a trace in Austria and Germany. It sparked controversy at the time. He was definitely an extraordinary artist with an incomparable voice and vocal color. His songs still bring tears to my eyes today and I miss him very much. RIP Falco ❤
The song is made by Falco but important also by the brothers Bolland & Bolland (who also wrote Amadeus for Falco and You're in the Army now, for StatusQuo), amongst others.
This sing lead to some controversies, some radio station stopped playing the song. I never understood why. Some interpretation went way to far, inclining it is about rape and murder, as some comment already here suggesting. Falco himself did not like these interpretation. therefore he made Part 2 and 3 tp prove his point.
During the time the song was released a number of girls disappeared. Famosly Elisabeth Fritzl who was held captive by her father for 24 years. The censorship agencies drew a correlation with the crime and the song. Perhaps he was making a point how inept the police was finding the girl.
Hello, I'm from Germany and I'm very proud to say that I experienced the entire late 60s, the 70s and the 80s. The 90s were OK, but not as great as the previous decades. I was born in 1966 and have two siblings, who are a bit older than me. As teenagers, we slept in one room and I was the youngest. My older brother always had the habit of falling asleep with the radio on in the evenings and I had to turn it off so I could sleep. That's how I got to hear the radio shows that played the latest hits. The most popular radio show at the time was Sandock's Hit Parade. With his music show, he later became a kind of cult DJ. Back then, the artists' original records (vinyls) were still played on the radio. my first favorite bands were the village people (ymca) and elo (out of the blue LP). since i was 13-18 years old in the 80s, i heard all the music there was (on tv and radio). the 70s and 80s were essential for all artists who started their careers after that. these artists still shape music today. without these artists there would be no songs today. i would like to highlight "Falco". here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanny_(song) ) there is background information on his number 1 smash hit at the time, Jeanny. And here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco_(musician) ) is background information on Falco himself. I used to like listening to Falco, but since he died in a traffic accident on February 6, 1998, his songs always make me sad. But I think it's nice that young people like you still like and discover Falco today. The 70s, but especially the 80s, brought us a kind of spirit of optimism. But there were also negative things like fear of nuclear war, environmental pollution (accidents with oil tankers *Exon Valdez) and the Chernobyl accident (a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that exploded and brought radioactive radiation to Europe. A very well-known anti-war song at the time was by Udo Lindenberg and Pascal, an 11-year-old boy who asks the question "What are wars for?" in the music video. If you watch this music video, please use subtitles because it is sung in German. Even though this song is so old, the topic of the song is still relevant. Best wishes from Germany.... Frank
I am from Germany, and I am in an age to know Flaco I am also a student in the field of -media art and film-.... I have some core understanding of movie.psychology I can give you my interpretation of what I saw in that video first my understanding of this music video by falco than the hints that make me hint like that this song depicts a man with an twisted mind.... hes a serial killer focusing on youg beautiful girls, as they are often idolized by general man. he justifies his actions by telling himself the narrative "I protect these girls from a an evil world... so I escape them from this world"... he takes actions and alongway of his actions he kills the girls... (rape happened befor... or after... probably... cause thats how it goes with crimes circuling around ""forced romance + twisted minds"" .... this conclusion is up to the viewer and just guesed based on viewers understanding of the world) the fact that he was the one murdering ginie is simply ignored by the murder... its excluded of his conciousness... like someone pretending he didnt do it... even know the did it... twisted minds are able to surpress their own memories... in a way that it gets cut out of reality... simply gets ignored Why does ginie appear alive in some scenes beyound the flashbacks of the story? ginie is not alive in this scenes its an artistic interpretation of "ghost ginie" projected from the mind of the now inprisoned murder in the psychatric asylmn its surreal... and a way to potray the memories of the idioligizing of ginie as the twisted mind of the murder recalls her like in a lucid dream ginies picture is showed in various styles.... all reflecting what makes her so desierable for the murder - we have picturs of ginie showing her "sexyness" .... the cocktaildress... showing th but - we have picturs of ginie showing "bossy and provcate" ... the spread leg scene... playing with male fantasys of dominant woman - we have pictures of ginie just beeing a ver charming cheerfull girl in casual cloathing ... the desire for a just very charming sweet person additionally we have one szene in which ginie make this head.swingin.movement directly in front of the murderes face... ... I interpret as following... ginie is depicted like a a spirit possesing the mind of the murder.... dancing around and making fun of him.... the murders mind is captivated by the aluring ginie... ginie makes fun of the murder not the real ginie... but the projection of ginie in the mind of the murder this projection acts like its a real person depicting this projection as a real person in different interactions with the murder (as desriped befor) as a way of the movie director to incooperate the message (as described befor) in an artistic (movie.art) way this kind of -art- is called -movie.montage- I read a book about that by a guy called -EisenStein- or something.... yeah all of this is just my understanding... I guess it can give more understanding to this musik.video I felt the urge to bring my thoughts to paper.... cause I really feel the music.video went a bit far with its "underlining message" so that most people dont get it -very right- but... its understandable to -obscure- the message with various -movie.art.techniques- Imagine Falco would just made it super obvious that he wants to do a song about murdering and raping young beautiful woman additionally... I dont believe Falko wanted to promote this actions... ... what he wanted to promote is... avarance of this kind of krimes... by punching it into the faces of society but thats... ... just also just my assumption
That was the most controversial song in Germany and Austria when it came out. It was actualy banned at the beginning. The Video was banned as well. Great song. Falco was a true artist.
You saw the blind beggar in the video? It is a reference to the german Film M from 1931. Its german title was "M - Eine stadt sucht einen Mörder" (M - a city is looking for a murderer)
Falco is a cult Status, brilliant singer and artist, controverse in his Songs. 1985 the Radio Stations dont play "Jeanny" on Radio, based on the harsh lyrics that it is a terrible crime. Nevertheless, perhaps because of this, the song became a big number and is still very well known today. R.I.P Falco. You will be missed very much, privately a very anxious and shy person, on stage an eccentric
I think, even better is the 8 min Maxi version of the song (only music, no video). It opens the perspective for her hoplessness. It is as if you get to hear her pleading through the backround vocalists and the guitar inserted as leading instrument. .
Da wird es ja Zeit für mehr deutschsprachige Songs...😁 Für den Anfang etwas einfaches: Wolf Maahn - Deine Küsse (Live in Stommeln / 1993). Hat noch nicht so viel Text...😇 (It's time now to do some more german language songs. To start with an easier task, i would recommend Wolf Maahn - Deine Küsse. It has not a wall of lyrics 😇)
I really enjoy your reaction videos! 😊😊 Falco was an austrian Singer from the 80s and early 90s. Good song. But one question: do you speak German? I am from Germany, so I was really surprised you understood the lyrics 😮 greetings from Germany ❤
I like the music, the song and also the video. For me the video is a fiction and I don't understand the controversy if I compare it to movies that can be seen.
I don't know if i ever knew falco sang this one. The other 2bi know of him are vienna calling and rock me Amadeus. I heard he got ran over by a car and died, i don't know if it's true
Falco died in the Dominican Republic (where he lived at that time), when a truck hit his jeep. Falco has cosumed cocaine and alcohol that day and it was allegdly his fault. He was 40 years old then
Falco ❤ esiste anche una versione tutta in inglese ma non rende come questa per l epoca una vera provocazione perché questa e' ispirata ad un fatto realmente accaduto e fu boicottata .Grande Falco e stato è e sarà sempre il mio cantante preferito
You really missed out something. Find the lyrics and translate them. It’s about a murderer and rapist. He isn’t protecting her he want her for himself. Really a great but creepy song
Yes, even with my very limited German, and before seeing the video, it seemed a very negative song (in terms of the story, not the music or the vocals which grabbed my attention).
Hello, I am from Austria and understand every word in german. The words "rape" and "murder" are never spoken out as well as "kidnapping". But if you read between the lines, "missing people" from the news and "nobody will find you, you are with me" refers to kidnapping and if you think further it can also lead to murder and if you think of a man kidnapping a young pretty woman, also to rape, but that's interpretation and not directly sung in the song.
La música es espectacular el problema no radica en la música si no que en la manera de pensar y razonar y todo ser humano puede pensar y razonar hay radica el ser humano todos debemos razonar y pensar tenemos ése gran poder la música siempre será algo muy genial
@@p.f.5718 Ich wollte @forever1623 nur darauf aufmerksam machen, dass man "Mädchenmörder" zusammenschreibt. Vielleicht war mein Hinweis etwas zu kryptisch. 🙂
he is not gonna protect her , you withnesses the born of a psychopat , what hanibal lecter in the movie silence of the lambs was is falco in the music :)
@@boudewijnmeijer Falco has let everything open for interpretation.... There are so much opinions how it can be interpreted.... I believe he want to catch the people like this to priorise that important theme. In that times a lot of young girls and kids got kidnapped
greetings and love from Köln/Cologne, Germany...great reaction, my dear...you´re so intressting...just subcribe to your channel. Are you a singer aswell.? You have a very nice voice....anyway, your passion is quite incredible...loved it as you started to sing along quietly....and your speakin voice is so smooth, so calm, hope you know what i mean...i could listen to you for hours....have a peaceful day and stay safe, pretty woman 🌈
Jeanny, komm (Jeanny, come) Steh auf, bitte, du wirst ganz nass (Get up, please, you’re getting completely wet) Schon spät, komm (It’s already late, come) Wo ist dein Schuh? Du hast ihn verloren (Where is your shoe? You lost it) Als ich dir den Weg zeigen musste (When I had to show you the way) Wer hat verloren? Du dich? (Who lost? You?) Ich mich? Oder, oder wir uns? (Me? Or, or us?) Jeanny (Jeanny) Jeanny (Jeanny) Es ist kalt, wir müssen weg hier, komm (It’s cold, we need to get out of here, come) Dein Lippenstift ist verwischt (Your lipstick is smudged) Du hast ihn gekauft und ich habe es gesehen (You bought it and I saw it) Zu viel rot auf deinen Lippen, und du hast gesagt (Too much red on your lips, and you said) "Mach mich nicht an" (Don’t hit on me) Aber du warst durchschaut, Augen sagen mehr als Worte (But you were transparent, eyes say more than words) Du brauchst mich doch, hmh? (You need me, don’t you?) Alle wissen, dass wir zusammen sind ab heute (Everyone knows that we’re together from today) Jetzt hör' ich sie, sie kommen (Now I hear them, they are coming) Sie kommen dich zu holen (They’re coming to get you) Sie werden dich nicht finden (They won’t find you) Niemand wird dich finden, du bist bei mir (No one will find you, you’re with me) Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams (Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams) Jeanny (du bist bei mir) (Jeanny (you’re with me)) Jeanny, life is not what it seems (Jeanny, life is not what it seems) In den letzten Monaten ist die Zahl der vermissten Personen dramatisch angestiegen (In recent months, the number of missing persons has dramatically increased) Die jüngste Veröffentlichung der lokalen Polizeibehörde berichtet von einem weiteren tragischen Fall (The latest release from the local police department reports another tragic case) Es handelt sich um ein neunzehnjähriges Mädchen, das zuletzt vor vierzehn Tagen gesehen wurde (It concerns a nineteen-year-old girl who was last seen fourteen days ago) Die Polizei schließt die Möglichkeit nicht aus, dass es sich hier um ein Verbrechen handelt (The police do not rule out the possibility that this is a crime) Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams (Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams) Jeanny, life is not what it seems (Jeanny, life is not what it seems) Jeanny, there's someone (Jeanny) who needs you (Jeanny, there’s someone (Jeanny) who needs you)
The song earned a lot of misunderstanding criticism back in the days. It was made and released a while after a lot of children went missing in Austria. It was sung from the perspective of a psychopath who wanted to be with and protect a girl. The song leaves a bit of room for interpretation though. It used to be one of my favorite and most saddening songs I knew in my youth.
you need me, everybdy knows that we are together now. Now i hear them - they are coming - they are comming to get you out of here - they won't find you - nobody will find you, you are with me --- JEANY quit .....
Was ist dein Problem ? Der Song beschreibt die Gefühle eines Triebtäters. Das ist nicht schön und soll nichts verschönigen. Es zeigt einfach nur die Gedanken eines Triebtäters. Krank und sehr real ! Ich finde den Song einfach genial, weil viele dieses Thema einfach totschweigen. Jeden Tag kann es weitere unschuldige treffen ! Du hast die Message einfach nicht verstanden !
He is an insane killer in this song, and you are right, he kidnapped her and killed her. When this song was released in Germany and Austria they were talking about, to forbid this song. I like the song, but not the lyrics of it, because they are very disturbing. Greetings from Germany
Well you are half right he wants to protect her from a bad world but he speacks as her Kidnaper. And in the newsflasch pard how aktualy wer resl news flasch they talkd abowd a new missing Teenage girl
You didn't understand the video, it's about a sex offender who stalked and murdered this young woman. Therefore, the song was controversial in Germany and was banned and thus the song was heard and spread.
If only you knew German. It is about a serial rapist and one of the most harrowing songs ever, which was banned in Austria and parts of Germany for quite a few years for glorifying rape. The song does the exacxt opposite. Beautifully horrible song and good reaction considering you don't know German. Btw, I'm Danish, just happen to be a polyglot who wants to polish his own halo 🙂
Vienna's Finest.
Greetings from Vienna, RIP Falco.
@@svenov3167 Hansi 🫶
"Aber du warst durchschaut, Augen sagen mehr als Worte" is what gets me every time.
The eyes of a madmen justify all rapes and crimes. Der Song war so umstritten weil er einfach so creepy und zweideutig ist.
"Quit living on dreams - life is not what it seems" is not meant to express the desire to protect her. Quite the opposite. He is the psychopath who keeps her hidden, she shall quit having hope to escape, to be ever set free again or to be rescued. It's like "face the reality" - "Du bist hier bei mir, niemand wird dich finden" When he sings "they are coming for you but they won't find you" he is talking about the police, the feds, on their search & rescue mission.
In verse 2 he blames her for drawing his attention on her. She was made up to pretty. He interpreted that as her desire for him, that she would need him.
It's a very dark song about a psychopath and it still hasn't lost anything of its emotional impact. Falco was amazing.
Omg and there I thought she did him bad to the point he's in that asylum at the end cause I dont understand German 😅
@@EleanorQuestionMark Your interpretation of the song is also possible, that Jeanny drove him mad and even teases him in his mind while he already is in an asylum. IMHO the many possible interpretations contribute to the power of this song until today.
@@chrisk7736 He killed her, and now he is haunted by her and all that she could have been the mother, the socialite, the dancer, all the things she will never be because she is dead. He hears he laughter and see her dance, and goes crazy because he is tormented by the fact that he cant really ever have her or be loved by her. The announcer in German say that there has been an increase in missing persons and the latest is a 19 year old named jenny. Falco was Brilliant, ahead of his time. He graduated from the Vienna Music Conservatory as prodigy.... this song was so controversial at the time that is was banned from play on most radio stations in North America, and lots all over the world. It's unfortunate because Falco is true artists who works with emotions, and includes horror and tragedy. Now we have endless serial killer shows on Discovery, and crime podcasts up the Ying yang, but he did this in the early 80s way ahead of his time. Again, he was an artist, and he was not a killer or a deviant, well he did have a huge cocaine problem but which star did not have one in the 80s.... this song is amazing, and if you really read into everything he is saying, he is far from promoting the subject by instead warning how obsession and desire of some men who are not capable of love can lead to dangerous waters.... look at the birds on his piano, they are all stuffed and dead. Birds are supposed to fly, his character in the video does not understand that and only is concerned with their outer beauty same with jenny, he thinks he can keep them all for himself. There is no happy ending here, not in part 1 not in part 2, in all parts you see broken man rotting in a padded room or a prison cell. Falco is not promoting it, he is warning against our fascination with the superficial. I miss him so much, he died in a car accident in the Caribbean, word was he was high as kite. A Master Artist who rapped on the world stage long before anyone in North America did.
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@chrisk7736 no this harmless interpretation is not possible. In this case she would not be missing for 2 weeks
A song by Falco with a very sad background. Processing kidnapping, rape and murder in one song is certainly not the easiest thing, but Falco was a great one in his field and, in my opinion, did a great job on the subject. Falco has given the music scene a lot.😥👍🙌
Well, there is no indication of rape and murder in this song , in the video she well alive. This is the old interpretation which is very doubtful.
Falco himself never liked that interpretation.
and remember! this song was so sucessful that a few montch later there came part 2...
@@tomate3391 Don't forget, 80ies in Austria. Europe, generally being quite conservative at that time. There was no room to become more explicite. And there was no need either. Just imagine what would have happened if Falco confirmed "yes, you got that right". He wasn't stupid. There are better ways to destroy your own carreer than being honest.
@@MansardianSince at the end the man was in a mental hospital in isolation and Jeannie was around him dancing and laughing, I think the conclusion is that he imagined the whole event of him stalking and kidnapping her.
Just listen to Jeanny Part 2 ..it will explain this song.
The F on his shoulder is a hommage to Fritz Lang's "M" from 1931. While there the child murderer was marked with a M for murder, here the F stands for Falco.
A timeless masterpiece from a God of music. I miss you, Falco!
hi from germany..when i was young, falco was my favorit singer ! On February 6, 1998, just before his 41st birthday, Falco died in a car accident on the road between Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. As he was leaving the parking lot of a discotheque, a bus rammed his SUV; he died instantly.
Phenomenal! that your generation discovered these 80years' masterpieces.....
LOVE, DEATH and MADNESS together in an unique METAPHORA about life's sense.....
I can feel his raw emotion in his lyrics
There is a second part to this, a song called coming home.
Falko war einer der besten Künstler aller Zeiten. Es ist so schade, dass er nicht mehr unter uns ist. RIP
and thats the truth...a sublime artist with vision beyond us all
Ok now getting the German passport shouldn't be a problem anymore! Well done wife for getting the lyrics, proud of you! 😘
Awww, thank you husband 😘
@@christiandengler6689
👍 4 sure
You mean the Austrian passport.
@@tubekulose OK, Sarah moved to Germany, married a German but you think she had to get an austrian Passport??? 🥸
Maybe you should enlight us with your endless wisdom...
@@andreasknebel7453 Was er gemeint hat, war, dass es nach einem Reaktionsvideo auf Falco (Österreicher?!) eine etwas seltsame Schlussfolgerung war.
Falco did really well for a guy from Vienna, Austria to try and incorporate as much English into his songs as he did, especially when you consider that German is the first language in Austria and that he had no formal training.
But the Austrians are very proud people with very high standards.
I agree with you that Jeanny is a very sad song but the chorus in English is an easy one to listen to even if the content isn't.
Jeanny was banned from the radio due to the scandalous speech , falco had to do a second song titled “
Coming home “ for “ repair “ the scandal
I like that you weren't judgmental, I feel like some people who react to this song find the video weird 😅 but it's just art 😊💞
It is not really weird if you understand it.
4:14 "Die Polizei schließt die Möglichkeit nicht aus, dass es sich hier um ein Verbrechen handelt" - Translation: "The police are not ruling out the possibility that this is a crime"
In the song Falco takes on the role of a mentally ill man who is obsessed with a woman who previously rejected him. He kidnaps her and probably kills her. It was at a time when many women and girls disappeared without a trace in Austria and Germany. It sparked controversy at the time. He was definitely an extraordinary artist with an incomparable voice and vocal color. His songs still bring tears to my eyes today and I miss him very much. RIP Falco ❤
The song is made by Falco but important also by the brothers Bolland & Bolland (who also wrote Amadeus for Falco and You're in the Army now, for StatusQuo), amongst others.
Das waren noch Songs die einfach unter die Haut gehen... Großes Werk...
This sing lead to some controversies, some radio station stopped playing the song. I never understood why. Some interpretation went way to far, inclining it is about rape and murder, as some comment already here suggesting. Falco himself did not like these interpretation. therefore he made Part 2 and 3 tp prove his point.
During the time the song was released a number of girls disappeared. Famosly Elisabeth Fritzl who was held captive by her father for 24 years.
The censorship agencies drew a correlation with the crime and the song. Perhaps he was making a point how inept the police was finding the girl.
Hello,
I'm from Germany and I'm very proud to say that I experienced the entire late 60s, the 70s and the 80s. The 90s were OK, but not as great as the previous decades. I was born in 1966 and have two siblings, who are a bit older than me. As teenagers, we slept in one room and I was the youngest. My older brother always had the habit of falling asleep with the radio on in the evenings and I had to turn it off so I could sleep.
That's how I got to hear the radio shows that played the latest hits. The most popular radio show at the time was Sandock's Hit Parade. With his music show, he later became a kind of cult DJ. Back then, the artists' original records (vinyls) were still played on the radio.
my first favorite bands were the village people (ymca) and elo (out of the blue LP). since i was 13-18 years old in the 80s, i heard all the music there was (on tv and radio). the 70s and 80s were essential for all artists who started their careers after that. these artists still shape music today. without these artists there would be no songs today.
i would like to highlight "Falco".
here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanny_(song) ) there is background information on his number 1 smash hit at the time, Jeanny.
And here (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco_(musician) ) is background information on Falco himself.
I used to like listening to Falco, but since he died in a traffic accident on February 6, 1998, his songs always make me sad.
But I think it's nice that young people like you still like and discover Falco today.
The 70s, but especially the 80s, brought us a kind of spirit of optimism. But there were also negative things like fear of nuclear war, environmental pollution (accidents with oil tankers *Exon Valdez) and the Chernobyl accident (a nuclear power plant in Ukraine that exploded and brought radioactive radiation to Europe.
A very well-known anti-war song at the time was by Udo Lindenberg and Pascal, an 11-year-old boy who asks the question "What are wars for?" in the music video. If you watch this music video, please use subtitles because it is sung in German.
Even though this song is so old, the topic of the song is still relevant.
Best wishes from Germany.... Frank
I am from Germany, and I am in an age to know Flaco
I am also a student in the field of -media art and film-.... I have some core understanding of movie.psychology
I can give you my interpretation of what I saw in that video
first my understanding of this music video by falco
than the hints that make me hint like that
this song depicts a man with an twisted mind.... hes a serial killer focusing on youg beautiful girls, as they are often idolized by general man.
he justifies his actions by telling himself the narrative "I protect these girls from a an evil world... so I escape them from this world"...
he takes actions and alongway of his actions he kills the girls... (rape happened befor... or after... probably... cause thats how it goes with crimes circuling around ""forced romance + twisted minds"" .... this conclusion is up to the viewer and just guesed based on viewers understanding of the world)
the fact that he was the one murdering ginie is simply ignored by the murder... its excluded of his conciousness... like someone pretending he didnt do it... even know the did it... twisted minds are able to surpress their own memories... in a way that it gets cut out of reality... simply gets ignored
Why does ginie appear alive in some scenes beyound the flashbacks of the story?
ginie is not alive in this scenes
its an artistic interpretation of "ghost ginie" projected from the mind of the now inprisoned murder in the psychatric asylmn
its surreal... and a way to potray the memories of the idioligizing of ginie as the twisted mind of the murder recalls her
like in a lucid dream
ginies picture is showed in various styles.... all reflecting what makes her so desierable for the murder
- we have picturs of ginie showing her "sexyness" .... the cocktaildress... showing th but
- we have picturs of ginie showing "bossy and provcate" ... the spread leg scene... playing with male fantasys of dominant woman
- we have pictures of ginie just beeing a ver charming cheerfull girl in casual cloathing ... the desire for a just very charming sweet person
additionally we have one szene in which ginie make this head.swingin.movement directly in front of the murderes face...
... I interpret as following...
ginie is depicted like a a spirit possesing the mind of the murder.... dancing around and making fun of him....
the murders mind is captivated by the aluring ginie... ginie makes fun of the murder
not the real ginie... but the projection of ginie in the mind of the murder
this projection acts like its a real person
depicting this projection as a real person in different interactions with the murder (as desriped befor) as a way of the movie director
to incooperate the message (as described befor) in an artistic (movie.art) way
this kind of -art- is called -movie.montage-
I read a book about that by a guy called -EisenStein- or something....
yeah
all of this is just my understanding... I guess it can give more understanding to this musik.video
I felt the urge to bring my thoughts to paper.... cause I really feel the music.video went a bit far with its "underlining message"
so that most people dont get it -very right-
but...
its understandable to -obscure- the message with various -movie.art.techniques-
Imagine Falco would just made it super obvious that he wants to do a song about murdering and raping young beautiful woman
additionally...
I dont believe Falko wanted to promote this actions...
... what he wanted to promote is... avarance of this kind of krimes... by punching it into the faces of society
but thats...
... just also just my assumption
That was the most controversial song in Germany and Austria when it came out. It was actualy banned at the beginning. The Video was banned as well. Great song. Falco was a true artist.
First time hearing this. Awesome song. 😊
Falco... A Legend!!!! :D
❤Falco.. genius RIP.
You saw the blind beggar in the video? It is a reference to the german Film M from 1931. Its german title was "M - Eine stadt sucht einen Mörder" (M - a city is looking for a murderer)
Nicht "looking for", sondern hunting.
Falco is a cult Status, brilliant singer and artist, controverse in his Songs. 1985 the Radio Stations dont play "Jeanny" on Radio, based on the harsh lyrics that it is a terrible crime. Nevertheless, perhaps because of this, the song became a big number and is still very well known today. R.I.P Falco. You will be missed very much, privately a very anxious and shy person, on stage an eccentric
I think, even better is the 8 min Maxi version of the song (only music, no video).
It opens the perspective for her hoplessness. It is as if you get to hear her pleading through the backround vocalists and the guitar inserted as leading instrument. .
He was the best, and still he is
❤
Da wird es ja Zeit für mehr deutschsprachige Songs...😁
Für den Anfang etwas einfaches: Wolf Maahn - Deine Küsse (Live in Stommeln / 1993). Hat noch nicht so viel Text...😇
(It's time now to do some more german language songs. To start with an easier task, i would recommend Wolf Maahn - Deine Küsse. It has not a wall of lyrics 😇)
We want beautiful Nena... 99 red ones
I really enjoy your reaction videos! 😊😊 Falco was an austrian Singer from the 80s and early 90s. Good song. But one question: do you speak German? I am from Germany, so I was really surprised you understood the lyrics 😮 greetings from Germany ❤
she does, yes!
I like the music, the song and also the video. For me the video is a fiction and I don't understand the controversy if I compare it to movies that can be seen.
It was a controversy back then. It came out in 85.
The video was banned for some weeks, but the singlle made the way to no.1. Short after the vige was shown.
I don't know if i ever knew falco sang this one. The other 2bi know of him are vienna calling and rock me Amadeus. I heard he got ran over by a car and died, i don't know if it's true
Falco died in the Dominican Republic (where he lived at that time), when a truck hit his jeep. Falco has cosumed cocaine and alcohol that day and it was allegdly his fault. He was 40 years old then
Falco ❤ esiste anche una versione tutta in inglese ma non rende come questa per l epoca una vera provocazione perché questa e' ispirata ad un fatto realmente accaduto e fu boicottata .Grande Falco e stato è e sarà sempre il mio cantante preferito
Absolute LEGEND.. RIP Falco!
There is a second part of this song: Coming home (jeanny part 2)
Augen sagen mehr als worte ... Wundervoll
Love this song, also coming home
You really missed out something. Find the lyrics and translate them. It’s about a murderer and rapist. He isn’t protecting her he want her for himself. Really a great but creepy song
Yes, even with my very limited German, and before seeing the video, it seemed a very negative song (in terms of the story, not the music or the vocals which grabbed my attention).
Hello, I am from Austria and understand every word in german. The words "rape" and "murder" are never spoken out as well as "kidnapping". But if you read between the lines, "missing people" from the news and "nobody will find you, you are with me" refers to kidnapping and if you think further it can also lead to murder and if you think of a man kidnapping a young pretty woman, also to rape, but that's interpretation and not directly sung in the song.
FALCO, GRANDE ENTRE GRANDESSSSS
La música es espectacular el problema no radica en la música si no que en la manera de pensar y razonar y todo ser humano puede pensar y razonar hay radica el ser humano todos debemos razonar y pensar tenemos ése gran poder la música siempre será algo muy genial
He did 2 more parts
I recommend extended album version
Ja, Falco war sehr speziell, dieser Song wurde Eingestellt, weil er über einen Mädchen Mörder singt.
Er singt "Mörder" über einEN Mädchen? 🤨
@@tubekulose?
@@p.f.5718 Ich wollte @forever1623 nur darauf aufmerksam machen, dass man "Mädchenmörder" zusammenschreibt.
Vielleicht war mein Hinweis etwas zu kryptisch. 🙂
he is not gonna protect her , you withnesses the born of a psychopat , what hanibal lecter in the movie silence of the lambs was is falco in the music :)
Quite accurate.
@@boudewijnmeijer Falco has let everything open for interpretation.... There are so much opinions how it can be interpreted.... I believe he want to catch the people like this to priorise that important theme. In that times a lot of young girls and kids got kidnapped
Falco ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Очень эмоциональный трек и яркая реакция на него. Неожиданно.
greetings and love from Köln/Cologne, Germany...great reaction, my dear...you´re so intressting...just subcribe to your channel. Are you a singer aswell.? You have a very nice voice....anyway, your passion is quite incredible...loved it as you started to sing along quietly....and your speakin voice is so smooth, so calm, hope you know what i mean...i could listen to you for hours....have a peaceful day and stay safe, pretty woman 🌈
I appreciate that 🙏 🙂
@@SarahDengler thanks for your feedback
Jeanny, komm
(Jeanny, come)
Steh auf, bitte, du wirst ganz nass
(Get up, please, you’re getting completely wet)
Schon spät, komm
(It’s already late, come)
Wo ist dein Schuh? Du hast ihn verloren
(Where is your shoe? You lost it)
Als ich dir den Weg zeigen musste
(When I had to show you the way)
Wer hat verloren? Du dich?
(Who lost? You?)
Ich mich? Oder, oder wir uns?
(Me? Or, or us?)
Jeanny
(Jeanny)
Jeanny
(Jeanny)
Es ist kalt, wir müssen weg hier, komm
(It’s cold, we need to get out of here, come)
Dein Lippenstift ist verwischt
(Your lipstick is smudged)
Du hast ihn gekauft und ich habe es gesehen
(You bought it and I saw it)
Zu viel rot auf deinen Lippen, und du hast gesagt
(Too much red on your lips, and you said)
"Mach mich nicht an"
(Don’t hit on me)
Aber du warst durchschaut, Augen sagen mehr als Worte
(But you were transparent, eyes say more than words)
Du brauchst mich doch, hmh?
(You need me, don’t you?)
Alle wissen, dass wir zusammen sind ab heute
(Everyone knows that we’re together from today)
Jetzt hör' ich sie, sie kommen
(Now I hear them, they are coming)
Sie kommen dich zu holen
(They’re coming to get you)
Sie werden dich nicht finden
(They won’t find you)
Niemand wird dich finden, du bist bei mir
(No one will find you, you’re with me)
Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams
(Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams)
Jeanny (du bist bei mir)
(Jeanny (you’re with me))
Jeanny, life is not what it seems
(Jeanny, life is not what it seems)
In den letzten Monaten ist die Zahl der vermissten Personen dramatisch angestiegen
(In recent months, the number of missing persons has dramatically increased)
Die jüngste Veröffentlichung der lokalen Polizeibehörde berichtet von einem weiteren tragischen Fall
(The latest release from the local police department reports another tragic case)
Es handelt sich um ein neunzehnjähriges Mädchen, das zuletzt vor vierzehn Tagen gesehen wurde
(It concerns a nineteen-year-old girl who was last seen fourteen days ago)
Die Polizei schließt die Möglichkeit nicht aus, dass es sich hier um ein Verbrechen handelt
(The police do not rule out the possibility that this is a crime)
Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams
(Jeanny, quit livin' on dreams)
Jeanny, life is not what it seems
(Jeanny, life is not what it seems)
Jeanny, there's someone (Jeanny) who needs you
(Jeanny, there’s someone (Jeanny) who needs you)
The song earned a lot of misunderstanding criticism back in the days. It was made and released a while after a lot of children went missing in Austria.
It was sung from the perspective of a psychopath who wanted to be with and protect a girl. The song leaves a bit of room for interpretation though.
It used to be one of my favorite and most saddening songs I knew in my youth.
Einer der besten Künstler ❤
What if Falco simply wanted to warn young women with his song? At least it makes sense to me.
A psychophatic Stalker who murdered his "Love" in the end.
You are right, that is what happend, here.
If you would translate the " News Flash" it would blow your mind 🤯
Tearjerker.
Someone translate the part where Falco sounds angry, right after the tracking dogs
you need me, everybdy knows that we are together now. Now i hear them - they are coming - they are comming to get you out of here - they won't find you - nobody will find you, you are with me --- JEANY quit .....
Was ist dein Problem ? Der Song beschreibt die Gefühle eines Triebtäters. Das ist nicht schön und soll nichts verschönigen. Es zeigt einfach nur die Gedanken eines Triebtäters. Krank und sehr real ! Ich finde den Song einfach genial, weil viele dieses Thema einfach totschweigen. Jeden Tag kann es weitere unschuldige treffen ! Du hast die Message einfach nicht verstanden !
He is an insane killer in this song, and you are right, he kidnapped her and killed her. When this song was released in Germany and Austria they were talking about, to forbid this song. I like the song, but not the lyrics of it, because they are very disturbing. Greetings from Germany
Well you are half right he wants to protect her from a bad world but he speacks as her Kidnaper. And in the newsflasch pard how aktualy wer resl news flasch they talkd abowd a new missing Teenage girl
It was called a scandal in German speaking languages. Because it tells a story about a stalker who raped and killed a girl.
Austria 🇦🇹🌄🏔️🏞️⛰️
The lyrics are very very dark.
1985 ,,,,,!!!!
you speak german?
Obviously
@@christiandengler6689 thanks for the heads up...
Dieses Lied wurde damals in Deutschland verboten! Man kann dir ansehen warum !
You didn't understand the video, it's about a sex offender who stalked and murdered this young woman.
Therefore, the song was controversial in Germany and was banned and thus the song was heard and spread.
falco N 1 rip
Jeanny got murdered by a serial killer. This is what this song is all about.
You understand german language?
Obviously
A masterpiece from someone who killed himself way to young.
Yeah like Epstein...
If only you knew German. It is about a serial rapist and one of the most harrowing songs ever, which was banned in Austria and parts of Germany for quite a few years for glorifying rape. The song does the exacxt opposite. Beautifully horrible song and good reaction considering you don't know German. Btw, I'm Danish, just happen to be a polyglot who wants to polish his own halo 🙂
she speaks German very well actually!
No is not😂
talking real bullshit about really fine art.
like anoter one said:
*Viennas finest*
meno male che parlo tedesco alla perfezione così le canzoni di Falco le apprezzo ancora di più
R.I.P Falco ....Johann "Hans" Hölzel 19 February 1957 - 6 February 1998), better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian singer and musician
sadly he never got to make part 2..
there is a part 2 and even a part 3
There is an english version by Falco..same lyrics