"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

5 ай бұрын

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 😅

@chrisk7736

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Saturnin-sm7od

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@Saturnin-sm7od

Ай бұрын

@@chrisk7736 test

@llothar68

15 күн бұрын

@chrisk7736 no this harmless interpretation is not possible. In this case she would not be missing for 2 weeks

Vienna's Finest. Greetings from Vienna, RIP Falco.

"Aber du warst durchschaut, Augen sagen mehr als Worte" is what gets me every time.

@llothar68

10 күн бұрын

The eyes of a madmen justify all rapes and crimes. Der Song war so umstritten weil er einfach so creepy und zweideutig ist.

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.😥👍🙌

@tomate3391

Жыл бұрын

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.

@gemini-tq1jv

Жыл бұрын

and remember! this song was so sucessful that a few montch later there came part 2...

@Mansardian

11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@DutchmanAmsterdam

10 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@casinodragon1

9 ай бұрын

Just listen to Jeanny Part 2 ..it will explain this song.

Phenomenal! that your generation discovered these 80years' masterpieces..... LOVE, DEATH and MADNESS together in an unique METAPHORA about life's sense.....

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.

I can feel his raw emotion in his lyrics

There is a second part to this, a song called coming home.

Ok now getting the German passport shouldn't be a problem anymore! Well done wife for getting the lyrics, proud of you! 😘

@SarahDengler

Жыл бұрын

Awww, thank you husband 😘

@bhall4996

Жыл бұрын

@@christiandengler6689 👍 4 sure

@tubekulose

Жыл бұрын

You mean the Austrian passport.

@andreasknebel7453

11 ай бұрын

@@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...

@Mansardian

11 ай бұрын

@@andreasknebel7453 Was er gemeint hat, war, dass es nach einem Reaktionsvideo auf Falco (Österreicher?!) eine etwas seltsame Schlussfolgerung war.

Falko war einer der besten Künstler aller Zeiten. Es ist so schade, dass er nicht mehr unter uns ist. RIP

@michaelaldan4354

3 ай бұрын

and thats the truth...a sublime artist with vision beyond us all

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

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"

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 😊💞

@kuessebrama

Жыл бұрын

It is not really weird if you understand it.

He was the best, and still he is ❤

First time hearing this. Awesome song. 😊

❤Falco.. genius RIP.

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.

@linatacke7393

2 ай бұрын

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.

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

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

Falco... A Legend!!!! :D

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

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. .

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)

@marcelbork92

10 ай бұрын

Nicht "looking for", sondern hunting.

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.

@gonzo2495

Жыл бұрын

It was a controversy back then. It came out in 85.

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

@jeffreybaker4399

Жыл бұрын

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).

@Polyamorist1980

10 ай бұрын

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.

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 😇)

@bhall4996

Жыл бұрын

We want beautiful Nena... 99 red ones

Love this song, also coming home

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 ❤

@christiandengler6689

6 ай бұрын

she does, yes!

The video was banned for some weeks, but the singlle made the way to no.1. Short after the vige was shown.

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.

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 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

@andreasknebel7453

Жыл бұрын

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

There is an english version by Falco..same lyrics

He did 2 more parts

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

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 🌈

@SarahDengler

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that 🙏 🙂

@stefanstock953

Жыл бұрын

@@SarahDengler thanks for your feedback

Ja, Falco war sehr speziell, dieser Song wurde Eingestellt, weil er über einen Mädchen Mörder singt.

@tubekulose

Жыл бұрын

Er singt "Mörder" über einEN Mädchen? 🤨

@p.f.5718

11 ай бұрын

@@tubekulose?

@tubekulose

11 ай бұрын

​@@p.f.5718 Ich wollte @forever1623 nur darauf aufmerksam machen, dass man "Mädchenmörder" zusammenschreibt. Vielleicht war mein Hinweis etwas zu kryptisch. 🙂

Einer der besten Künstler ❤

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 :)

@Mansardian

11 ай бұрын

Quite accurate.

@einfacherik5354

4 күн бұрын

@@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

Очень эмоциональный трек и яркая реакция на него. Неожиданно.

A psychophatic Stalker who murdered his "Love" in the end. You are right, that is what happend, here.

Someone translate the part where Falco sounds angry, right after the tracking dogs

@MatKut

3 ай бұрын

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 .....

What if Falco simply wanted to warn young women with his song? At least it makes sense to me.

If you would translate the " News Flash" it would blow your mind 🤯

Austria 🇦🇹🌄🏔️🏞️⛰️

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

1985 ,,,,,!!!!

The lyrics are very very dark.

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

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 !

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.

Jeanny got murdered by a serial killer. This is what this song is all about.

falco N 1 rip

Dieses Lied wurde damals in Deutschland verboten! Man kann dir ansehen warum !

you speak german?

@christiandengler6689

Ай бұрын

Obviously

You understand german language?

@christiandengler6689

Ай бұрын

Obviously

A masterpiece from someone who killed himself way to young.

@maszkalman3676

6 ай бұрын

Yeah like Epstein...

No is not😂

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 🙂

@christiandengler6689

6 ай бұрын

she speaks German very well actually!

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

sadly he never got to make part 2..

@JeannyKay

11 ай бұрын

there is a part 2 and even a part 3