--- title: Video: 99 Red Balloons Played on Red Balloons description: Here is 99 Red Balloons played on actual red balloons in video by Andrew Huang. canonical: https://time.com/3318423/99-red-balloons-played-on-red-balloons/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-10T14:55:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:06.363Z og:title: Video: 99 Red Balloons Played on Red Balloons og:description: "Thought about using 99 balloons but it worked with 4 so mehhh." og:url: https://time.com/3318423/99-red-balloons-played-on-red-balloons/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt450846c2999db120/6986a2a0adae44d8e4544df4/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-36-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 99 Red Balloons og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Video: 99 Red Balloons Played on Red Balloons twitter:description: "Thought about using 99 balloons but it worked with 4 so mehhh." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt450846c2999db120/6986a2a0adae44d8e4544df4/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-36-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # '99 Red Balloons' Played on Actual Red Balloons Is the Most Meta Cover You'll Ever See by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Sep 10, 2014 2:55 PM UTC  YouTube by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Sep 10, 2014 2:55 PM UTC Flannel hoodie wearing musical genius Andrew Huang has realized the dream we never knew we had: He has recorded a version of German hit “99 Red Balloons” using actual red balloons. “Thought about using 99 balloons but it worked with 4 so mehhh,” he wrote on his [YouTube page.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZND9dApFKU) Fair enough. **WATCH:** [Ducks Reenact the DuckTales Theme Song](http://time.com/3310903/ducktales-theme-song-with-real-ducks/) **WATCH:** [Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor Perform “All About That Bass on Classroom Instruments](http://time.com/3273928/jimmy-fallon-meghan-trainor-the-roots-perform-all-about-that-bass/) **WATCH:** [_Breaking Bad_ Theme Song Played on Items You Would Find in a Meth Lab](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/08/13/watch-breaking-bad-theme-song-played-with-items-youd-find-in-a-meth-lab/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3318423/99-red-balloons-played-on-red-balloons/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3318423/99-red-balloons-played-on-red-balloons/"},"headline":"'99 Red Balloons' Played on Actual Red Balloons Is the Most Meta Cover You'll Ever See","datePublished":"2014-09-10T14:55:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:06.363Z","description":"\"Thought about using 99 balloons but it worked with 4 so mehhh.\"","url":"https://time.com/3318423/99-red-balloons-played-on-red-balloons/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt450846c2999db120/6986a2a0adae44d8e4544df4/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-36-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt450846c2999db120/6986a2a0adae44d8e4544df4/screen-shot-2014-09-10-at-10-36-50-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"99 Red Balloons","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3318423/99-red-balloons-played-on-red-balloons/","name":"'99 Red Balloons' Played on Actual Red Balloons Is the Most Meta Cover You'll Ever See"}}]}] ```