Nena feat. Nena
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| Studio album by Nena | ||||
| Released | 28 October 2002 (Red) 3 March 2003 (Blue) |
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| Genre | Pop rock, pop | |||
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56:23 (1CD or 2LP Red) 57:30 (1CD Blue) 89:07 (2CD Blue) |
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| Language | German, English | |||
| Label | Warner | |||
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The 2003 edition has a blue tinted cover
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| Nena feat. Nena Live | ||||
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Cover of a DVD-Audio release
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| Live album by Nena | ||||
| Released | 24 March 2003 (DVD video) 26 May 2003 (DVD-Audio) |
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| Recorded | 11 October 2002 | |||
| Venue | Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt | |||
| Studio | Galaxy Studios | |||
| Language | German, English | |||
| Label | Warner Music Vision | |||
| Producer | Philipp Palm | |||
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Nena feat. Nena, also known as 20 Jahre – Das Jubiläums-Album (20 Years – The Anniversary Album) is a studio album of German pop singer Nena. It contains new versions of her hits, some of them are duets with other singers, including Kim Wilde, Joachim Witt and Udo Lindenberg. The album was first released in 2002 with a red cover and reissued with a blue cover in 2003. Both releases exist in either standard or limited edition, the latter being supplemented with a bonus CD of live tracks. The songs on the bonus CD are also reworked, suggesting that Nena may have planned to update more of her back-catalogue, although there have been no further releases in this vein.
Throughout her solo career, Nena had experimented with various styles, culminating in the 2001 technopop Chokmah album which immediately preceded Nena feat. Nena. These had not matched the commercial success of the Nena band albums. Perhaps less imaginatively, Nena therefore chose to mark the 20th anniversary of the band's debut by recording the Nena feat. Nena album which, as its title implies, comprises updated versions of tracks from Nena's back catalogue with no new material.
12 of the 14 songs on the initial "red cover" version of the album were originally written and released in the 1980s and, with the other two coming from the 2001 Chokmah, Nena's four solo albums in the 1990s are completely unrepresented. The modifications for Nena feat Nena range from applying different tunes (e.g. the versions of "99 Luftballons" and "Nur geträumt") to those with different arrangements, often performed jointly with guest vocalists (such as "Wunder gescheh'n" and "Jetzt bist du weg"). The lyrics are also significantly reworked in some songs, for example "Leuchtturm" and most obviously the English sections for Kim Wilde's parts in "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime".
While Nena remained active and popular after the demise of the band in 1987, releasing several albums for adults and children, she was unable to recapture the chart success she enjoyed in the early 1980s. Nena feat. Nena changed that. It was wildly successful in her native Germany, peaking at No. 2 to become her first top-ten album there since Feuer und Flamme in 1985. It also reached No. 1 in Austria and No. 5 in Switzerland, and remained in the charts for over a year in all three countries. Nena feat. Nena has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums by a German artist in the new millennium. It reestablished Nena as a national icon and international star.
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