Kim Wilde - Kids In America (1981) • TopPop
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- Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith; 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer, author, DJ and television presenter. She first saw success in 1981 with her debut single "Kids in America", which reached number two in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist. In 1986, she had a UK number two hit with a reworked version of the Supremes' song "You Keep Me Hangin' On", which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK singles chart. Her other hits include "Chequered Love" (1981), "You Came" (1988) and "Never Trust a Stranger" (1988). In 2003, she collaborated with Nena on the song "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime", which topped the Dutch charts.
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Broadcast date: 1981-04-25
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March 2024 who's listening to this classic.
we are
Guilty. But not ashamed
@@marty2682 you should be !
:)
@@tusharghude15 👍
I'm 63 years old but when I hear this song I'm still one of the kids in America.
I'm sure you look like a kid
Words cannot properly describe or express just how strongly I miss those days. The 80s were incredible from the early to the middle to the end. What a magical decade it was!! ❤
yes, becuase it was my teenage years decade
Great years
Amen...I was only 7 when this came out, but still loved it. The entire decade was just incredibly fun and creative as far as entertainment goes...plus, no dumb phones ❤
Heck the 80's in general was peak many things. Peak America, peak Japan. Everything was booming. We haven't had a time like that since. It's just been multiple recessions and failed attempts to make Trickle Down Economics work and cutting the taxes on the rich. Both resulted in lower and middle class hurting even more, and all the free money they had for good times is now consolidated at the top.
Greed ruined everything.
Meh, every decade was like that when you were 16,
This song was absolutely HUGE in the summer of '81. All the radio played it. You couldn't escape it. All the kids were blasting this out of their cars. It was crazy.
This song and Shake it Up by The Cars were definitely huge summer of '81. It was the year New Wave broke in the U.S
A awesome day and song brings back memories.
I had this on a K TELs radioactive hits on cassette a long time ago
Yeah..I was working in radio ( Detroit ) the station had a format, which was ground breaking, called 'Urban Contemporary'..this tune was played, 24/7
I know!
I'm glad I grow up in the 80's I miss those days so badly!!!
The song is 40 years old, and it hasn't lost any of it's awesomeness !!!
It’s a classic it stands the test of time.👍😁😎
And they still use this song in movies and commercials and stuff! Classic!
Like most 80's music it doesn't seem to age or go out of style. The 1980's were truly God's decade.
I agree mucho 😗
I wholeheartedly agree 👍
Only the cool kids of the 80s are still listening to this in 2023.😊
if they are not in wheelchairs.
2024🥰
2003 And i'm here 😀
Absolut ich war 10 und sofort verliebt in das Lied ❤
Right here Boo
Kids in America was he ultimate 80s song and it was perfectly arranged. Kim really was lucky to have that massive talent in her family. The only way for her was up.
Yes! This and Invincible by Pat Benatar, which also did a good job of capturing the feeling of what it was like to be a teen in the 80s.
Aggree
На все 100% согласен
Pat Benator and her were de queens
@@badkitty4922😂
I’m a french girl so excuse me for my bad english. This song of Kim Wilde is masterfull. It’s a wonderful song. Thanks too much Kim Wilde !
Yes it's a beautlful song. Thanks Kim Wilde
@@pascalledu Thanks so much for your commentaire.
Your English is excellent, don't stress, I couldn't tell the difference.
If you don't mind me asking you a question ith the political correctness that seems to be everywhere I'd like to know how Serge Gainsbourg is viewed in his home country?
@@skeletorramone9137 Thanks you very much for your comment. Serge Gainsbourg died on March 1991. He was really french. Jane Birkin was his companion for 12 years. I wish you an excellent evening. I hope my english is correct.
Search “edge of seventeen” 😊
Will never be another decade quite like the 80’s
the kodak reel film was amazing; they used in all the movies and everything else. this is why all 80's movies have this great analog depth. super high metal content means less artifacts and better color exposure, and super dark blacks. when digital first started it was much worse then reel, it has gotten better but it will never have the organic fidelity of reel.
Yes I graduated in 1983 and did alot of partying in Manhattan and this was one of the songs I would listen to while tripping my brains out
Yessssssss trop belle Kim Wilde 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
そうだった。 それは1980年代の前半でした。 時間枠を考えると無垢な時間と言えます。 ああ、80年代。 モダンで洗練されていると思いました。 しかし、期間はもっと単純で、少し素朴で、少し幸せで、楽観的な本当の気持ちがその素朴さによって生まれました。
As a Metalhead I hated this song but now that I am older I can learn to respect it now. Metal is still my main choice for music
Kim Wilde, Sally Carr, Debbie Harry, Kate Bush....
Queens of my early youth !
I like it when she says: 'I'm not leaving honey, not a chance'. The close-up shots of her face are beyond magic.
Way more constructive than today's "music" :)
Closer you see her face the more sexy and beautiful she is vs the opposite with today’s female strip tease singers.
She's riveting!
I don't care how hot my memories are, at this age now if any woman said: 'I'm not leaving honey, not a chance'. I would gnaw my arms and legs off and pray I bleed out before she gets her barbed fangs and talons and resuscitates my corpse, and pray my money has been spent and wasted on drugs, hookers, liquor and fishing.
Further more she ain't Debbie Harry!
God, I had a major crush on her, i was a teen the 1980's, best time ever to be a teen, in my mid 50's now. Time flies by.
Didn't we all...
Same! Ibwas 13 when this came out and will be 56 next month. Those days live forever in me.
What teenage boy didn't and blondie
Who didn't have a crush on her, and I bet many women had a crush on her ❤❤
Those hairs though, never been a fan
Masterpiece 80´s
The song that started it all.
"Life is cruel, life is never kind" - harsh words delivered without a smile, but with such beauty.
What's cool is my son is 17 and loves the 80s music...Yes he just come along all sudden...I'm 54
Good job.
You're a mummy
@@dbapto6994tu es dans le jugement.
Il y a des musiques intemporelles.
Il y a des bonnes et des mauvaises musiques ches les vieilles.
(La Mer Tino Rossi / vs bande son de L'année dernière à Marienbad ou Mistinguett Nuits de Paris)
Il y a des bonnes et des mauvaises musiques ches les récentes.
(Angèle Oui ou Non / vs Nakamura Djadja)
@@oliviermarron speak english
Video from 1981 has better quality than many 2017 youtube videos..
This is the normal VHS quality, many of actual youtube videos are copied and recompressed over and over again what causes this huge profusion of videos of poor quality
Not really. Toppop was a Dutch television program, They have a huge library of live performances. These videos are all remastered by the broadcaster, because they sell this videos. Read the full description of the video ;-)
Hahaa, true!
Gerardo Pinto I suspect the original was Betamax. It was the studio industry standard back then, in fact up till the early 90s. Way better quality than VHS. VHS surpassed Beta as a consumer format though and simply because of better and bigger promo than Sony by companies like Panasonic etc.
No, the original recordings from the seventies were on film. In the eighties it was Umatic type C and Betacam ;-)
1981: Inexhaustible Masterpiece
2023: Inexhaustible Masterpiece
Being a teenager in the 80's was so awesome. 🎸We grew up with the real MTV. Going to arcade Pac man, Donkey Kong, Tempest, so many great games. Awesome music! 📢 80's teenager forever
I have only just realised how sophisticated this song is. The meter of the lyrics is astonishing. The music is superb with a wonderful counter harmony.
The understated brilliance of Ricky Wilde.
Why 80’s music is so great?😍
My theory is that for the first time there was a real variety of styles of music over the decade, thus providing something for everyone combined with a massive growth in access to music via television and the ability to self record from the radio.
drugs lots of drugs
Talent.
@@wadenate9901 Class answer,and very probably true.
EVERYTHING sounded good after disco.
I consider this song to be the perfect kick-off for a great decade of awesome music we now remember as the 80s. Still love it.
Kim is not only a beautiful, but also a gifted singer with an amazing voice! She was also a small fashion/style icon of the 80s, but her powerful voice and her naturalness make her a very special woman to this day! Even if "Kids in America" was their prelude >it's only the later songs like "Cambodia" that show their true potential....😎😎👌👌👍👍
Did we just both watch the same video???
Kim is a Goddess
Little bit of punk and a lot of electronica and you get a timeless classic, God the 80's we're that good
not that good.
the BEST
I'll never forget the day I heard this on the radio for the first time at my best friend's house in Philadelphia. I fell in love with this song immediately and still love it almost 40 years later. Still very cool 😎
It truly were the Kids in America in 80s who loved this song!
i hear ya, i too fell in love with the song, Honey 🥰
I didn’t want the 80’s to end!!
Love this song. As soon as I heard it first time, i was hooked. We used to dance, go nuts to it and just have a great time. Driving to this song or just listening and enjoying it. What an incredible upbeat song and if you saw the movie "Reckless", the dance scene in the school halls, that was us pretty much every time we heard it. Amazing song and 80s music was and still is, the best.
I liked it too, but I'm biased bc my first name is Kimberly, so I wasn't Kim Wilde ya know? But she was cool to me. For sure, ya know.
@@vikinghallholidayinn-yg2nz :) :) :) It is difficult to be biased and feel any different about the song, but it is a pretty amazing song for sure.
as an 80s boy this was an anthem of my youth
Wow.... her eyes are just mesmerizing..... so beautifully hypnotizing! Amazing song, by the way.
Eyes nothing!! Those lips are so kissable
Come to bed eyes
gabstanace2 straight to your heart
what a simp, she just looks overly stoned
@@gordongekko3174 And? Beautiful people do exist, men or women, stoned or not.
ANOTHER TIMELESS CLASSIC! 80"S MUSIC RULES!! the dj
Her debut album defined the sound of the new wave! Always will be synonymous with kicking New Wave off across the world.
Wow.... her eyes are just mesmerizing..... so beautifully hypnotizing! Amazing song, by the way.
Will never be another decade quite like the 80’s
You know when songs get more and more applicable by the decade: artists were ahead of their time and sages of culture to come. What a banger in 2023.
Excuse me for my bad english but I’m a french girl. I love so much this wonderful song. Thanks very much Kim Wilde !
Your English is very good.
Your English is Good, and far better than my French! (I know about 10 words) Kim is fantastic
@@HappyBear376 Thanks you very much.
@@mattyfrommacc1554 Thanks you very much.
Bonjour Sylvie, votre anglais est excellent 👌
Gosh!!! I TOTALLY miss the 80’s!! I turned 13 in 1980!! Awesome time to be a teen in America!! 😁
I'm 53 and I'm still the kids in America!!
I loved Kim Wilde when I was 17-18, i had posters all over my wall, I was given a huge life size cardboard cut out from the record store of her from the first album, she had the best hair..she's beautiful !
I was 20 years old , loved her then
And now , Kim went of and had
A life outside music or Should
I say the Industry
She has gotten prettier as she got older.
Me too I think it was her pout ,,,
This was definitely the best time to be a teen or low 20's, I'd give anything to go back to the new wave era. This was good dance music.
That's what everyone says about their childhood, child. Why would you grow up when none from your world ever did?
Let ME go back to 1970 ! !
The energy of the 80s. Awsome! Later generations were tired, blasé, or outright depressive.
r/lewronggeneration
Kim Wilde , We Love You !! Truly one of the best 80 s classics.
beautiful woman of the 80's
2017 and we are the grandfathers in America..
And still badass!
Hahahaha
@@rowlffffff yes we're the grandparents of America now lol !!!!
@@rowlffffff yes for sure we are !!!
Or in northern england but i get your point. Ha
WOW.. great song and great memories. I remember the first time I heard this I was 15 on vacation in Germany. Came back to the US, saw the video on MTV and bought her album!! ❤️❤️
I love here music since the beginning, I'm dying with their songs,its like legendary...
Let's be honest - we all did love Kim (teenager boys during 80's)
Kim Wilde, is a true queen of rock, her unforgettable music, reminds me of my youth. I am a fan who loves you silently.
Born in Peru...❤️❤️❤️
Born in Peru
00:01 earth bellow us. Drifting, falling. Floating weightless. Calling, calling home
I graduated High school in 1980. So I was in high school in the 70’s and college in the early 80’s. How lucky I was!!!!
Great Song. Best time to be a Teenager in the 80's. 🎸👍My Generation is the 90's so growing up in the 80's was a Blur but still remember the Great Music. 😃
Never get tired of this song!
I have no words. Simply fantastic. All a classic.
Kim Wilde was so awesome.
1981.....great year.... Kim was popular....and so were Flock of Seagulls. Recently my youngest had a musical revelation. The 80s were the best decade for music.
Yes, yes indeed.
Fell in love the moment i saw her on tv
The beauty of my 80's decade
Hey Peter listening too I totally agree with you God bless you and your family
Same here
Amazing woman, amazing voice! Bravo! From Russia with love!!! 👍✌️👏😘
One of my fav 80s' childtime rock songs! Kim is Queen of rock❤! Greetings from San Diego, CA 🇺🇸! 😊
She is categorically AWESOME!!!
My love 46 year ago and still have the posters and records. Class woman. ✊🏼
Kim Wilde's debut 1981 (She is 21, like me in this 2021 Year). Great song. I first heard this song in GTA VC and radio. Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱
I'm here just because of Kim. She's oh so gorgeous ♥♥♥
I love this song, always have but rewatching it now… she definitely was on something. Her eyes give it away. Still a beautiful woman and an incredible voice artist.
Hmmm, maybe that explains why she doesn't move. I always wondered how she could nearly stand still during this song, when I expected her to jump around.
I think this was recorded in Holland, she maybe had a wee puff of cannabis, there's certainly a glazed look in her eyes.
I love how the bassline at the beginning is just one note yet is so iconic
Kim Wilde to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -> 40 years career with some of the greatest songs ever... Perfect artist...
Taylor Swift should inducted her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
One of the best songs from the 80s!!!
The synth runs at the end are gold.
those synths didn't come cheap either.
An awesome 80s song! It really defines the early part of that decade for me, and my teenage years. Kim Wilde is gorgeous, she has a kind of Kim Basinger/Kelly Le Brock-look and beauty.
Kim Wilde is a beautiful woman. She looks like a model. She looks relaxed in this video. She didn't do drugs. I love this song.
Да, была милой.. 300 лет тому назад.
She is very natural, no fakeness to her she was one of my dream girls back then for I was a few months younger .
thanks for letting us know she didn't do drugs..did she drive fast?
She is...although I always found her expression very distant and uncaring.
Distant and uncaring, not into drugs, Wilde and crazy, free spirit, anti-factious. Hmm 🤔let’s see… 300yrs-2022.. how many years ago was that. 🤫
Great song.💙💚💖
I do solo acoustic shows. This song is always a hit. Always a fun time. Such a perfect pop tune.
1981: Kim Wilde is stunning!
2022: Kim Wilde is stunning!
Pretty much. Lordy.
Whoa...childhood memories from the 80's! 🥰
Wow.... her eyes are just mesmerizing..... so beautifully hypnotizing! Amazing song, by the way.
Shes so cool and warm at the same time
What is good about these videos is that with their help you can plunge into the past of that era . Like in a time machine. And the 80s are a golden decade, especially of music
I bought this record when it came out in 81, I was 17. EVERYONE loved Kim! Still a great tune.
Love this Track. Pure Pleasure to hear. 40 Years ago and still great!
Okay, this song and video are just amazing. It conjures up a certain vibe of urgency rarely found in today's music anymore (although constantly striven for). Great energy.
great 80's record & fabulous attitude
J'ai eu beaucoup de mal à trouver sur TH-cam cette magnifique chanson étant donné que je ne me rappelais plus le nom de Kim Wilde. Cette chanson remonte dans ma mémoire à plus de 30 ans, je l’ai enfin trouvé en tapant "In America". Merci TH-cam de m’avoir permis de retrouver une chanson de mon adolescence ! Cette chanson est magistrale.
I love the build up to this song. I'm only 38 years old, and I didn't grow up in this era or generation. I wish I did, because it was by far the best generation. Just by the feel, of the music l. The attitude, style, the sound. Back before Internet. When music was everything.
Their performance is everything. Thing is, the imaging, recording, is the excellence, without which, this clip would never have happened!.
Long live the 80's ,been there done that.
A UK pop singer with a hit Kids In America - brilliant
Grew up to this music. Perfect decade
She's still beautiful as ever
One of my favorite 80's songs of all time and I am "WILDE"about "KIM"...👏👏👏
Looking at the band then and now, you'd think this song was new. Even to the clothes they have on. It looks fresh... That's what makes this song a classic. We don't have music like this now. Sad.
I remember watching this on American Pops, I think, I was 5 years old. Even then, I knew this song was an instant classic. This song hits the same way it did back then ❤
what a woman , what a tune.
I love her voice ✨ Awesome singer!
I was 17 when this song came out, at 59 it means even more to me now as it takes me back to the greatest times of my life, the decade of my glory years, the 80's.
she’s the bomb straight out of MTV the 80s rocked were the kids
I saw it in the 80s and when I see her eyes, I knew I never forgot her.
one of the greatest songs of the 80's, does this bring back memories
She kept her looks and her voice.
Ahhhh Ahhhhh Ahh Ah AH! Must hear MORE
The whole song is great but the synth is just amazing!
This song never gets old and never will.
This song was so ahead of its time
The thing is that, as someone who is 23, everything is effortless. She sounds sensational, if not better, with the live stuff, she’s transcended an entire generation of music and, finally, it takes an enormous effort to find a worldwide achievement where, even if you listen to the intro - no matter the language - you’re on for one of THE WORLD’S greatest hits. One of the most naturally gifted women in the arts industry, this is just one of the many fine examples of her timeless, top quality work,
absolutely! 80s and 90s were different.
Well said, well said.
Except it's not live. It's lip-synced.
Your full of shitttye
23? She was 21 when Kids In America came out, and also her dad was the same way he could sing pretty much anything effortless. Did covers of other songs and you’d think they were his originals
Shes so cool and warm at the same time
true !
This is me and my friend Pequod's favorite song.
Kim Wilde was so beautiful! This is an 80s treasure❤
I wasn’t born in the 80s , but somehow this song and and lot other songs from the 80s make me feel nostalgic for some unknown reason , can’t explain it .