You’re the 1st reviewer I’ve seen who was able to grasp what was going on in the video in correlation with the music and lyrics. It’s all encompassing and you saw and felt it all as it was intended! It is a very painful message!
Many people erroneously believe rock music is just aggressive chaos, not realizing that the lyrics quite often address social problems. It reaches a select part of society who routinely learn of those problems through music, maybe even better than what they would get in a classroom.
@@jimmymac4559 Exactly! Those who are at the receiving end of massive manipulation by those at the top need an outlet that if isn't expressed frequently, bubbles to the top and is released suddenly with a magnitude of force ;)
And most pop music doesn’t come near as rock music. Most metal songs these days are known for themes as world problems, religion and personal relationships with life.
I agree, seeing the message from the artist, being able to see the message, feel it, no matter the style of music, being open minded to receive the message that is special.
I have never seen a video crush a person spirit so quick, I felt bad at the beginning with how happy she started out 😥 She made me cry and I have seen this vid all my life.
It's very crushing after the first time. This is a song with so much intricacies that she be a blubbering mess upon the fifth hearing. It's literally got 30layets to it , a phenomenal ballad
@@weslennon3425 metal is def not for everyone. Having ur emotions thrown in a blender and servers back to u is very rough. Its def brutal and not every soul or soul wavelength can handle/want to deal with it.
Land mine, has taken my sight Taken my speech Taken my hearing Taken my arms Taken my legs Taken my soul Left me with life in hell. Kind of says it all. Only someone with an amazing heart would react the way you did.
When Metallica came out it was in the generation whom most of their parents or uncles etc had served in Vietnam and were not treated well and no one really understood PTSD... they just called them shell shocked. So, it hit home for a lot of us, even though the song can apply to any war. It is about damage done.
My dad's older step brother was a Seal in the Vietnam. When he came back, my dad had to share a room with him for while. And there were nights where he'd wake up screaming.
My neighbor came home so damaged. He became a heavy drinker. The kids used to stay with my family when their dad would lose it. One night he drank so much he died. They woke up in the morning to find him slumped over the kitchen table dead. This song reminds me of those days. Tears my heart up.
The song is based on the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" (www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/) "Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories, unable to distinguish whether he is awake or dreaming. He remains frustrated by his situation, until one day when Joe discovers a unique way to communicate with his caregivers."
By Dalton Trumbo if you want to check it out. He was a brilliant author who refused to testify during the McCarthy hearings (witch-hunt for communists in the 1950s). His career was permanently damaged and he had to work under pseudonyms.
@@Sicnesses23 yeah people make that slight mistake all the time. That the song is an anti-war song. War is more of the setting of the song, not the meaning of it. Now Johnny Got His Gun may have been an anti-war novel and film, but as far as the song goes, the angle James took with those lyrics wasn’t directed towards the war, but instead directed at his condition. Also, I wouldn’t say the song is about death either though. When you strip the song down to the bare bone, the song is about being trapped. And James Hetfield himself is the one who said that.
Metallica gets into real deep subject matter that almost every other band is afraid to tackle. It's a work of art the way they represent what happens in war while paying honor to the novel and film "Johnny Got His Gun". One is considered a pivotal jam for Metallica, musically it kicks butt!
I need to commend you. I've watched dozens and dozens of reactions to this song. SO MANY get lost in the music, and don't really pay attention to the lyrics or video, and don't get the story in the music. You did, right away. You immediately recognized that this song is very deep, and listened intently. This is one of my most favorite songs.
Can't even tell you how much I appreciate your empathy. This song makes me cry every single time; I worked in nursing for a long time & this is exactly why so many in the medical community support the right to die on your own terms instead of being forced to stay alive in absolute agony. Are there things worse than death? Oh, for sure - absolutely yes. Thank you for this reaction.
Your reaction is exactly what this song hopes to evoke. It's supposed to be emotional, to make you feel, to make you acknowledge the true horrors and sacrifices of war. Thank you for playing this song and showing us your reaction. I know it was not easy. This song is beautiful yet painful.
The movie they were referencing was based off a book titled "Johnny Got His Gun" which is a heartbreaking movie and book. Both are commentaries on the true cost of war.
Yeah in the book it explains that he basically has no arms or legs or senses except touch because everything got blown off, except his brain is perfectly intact. He counts the days by feeling the sunlight on his skin and also feels mice running over him & nibbling at his wounds. It’s really intense...
Finally someone who recognizes the pain of this story and not just the musicianship of Metallica. I would imagine James and Lars would appreciate that.
That certainly is an emotional rollercoaster.. Metallica wrote that song after being inspired by the book "Johnny got his gun" written by Dalton Trumbo.
@@davidmastro5406 Thanks David for the clarification. Wow, how did I EVER mix that up. Well, This is what happens in America when you pay for an education at a credible school! LMAO! Peace bro..
There is a difference between "yeah I know what the song is about", and "I actually feel the song" and seeing the tears that accompany the song's meaning and depression that just "hits you". Thank you for uploading what you did and how you felt. Heard the song first in early 90s, saw the video and it has an impact on me. First saw the song live in '03, and 10 times later in 2019, I can promise you, seeing this live brings the exact emotions you felt watching this video. There's many parts to the live version. Hearing. Seeing. Feeling. Feeling the sounds, feeling the heat of the pyro, and the strobe lights is something you simply cannot describe.
Finally, someone who understands the gravity of the message behind this song. In a lot of other reactions of the song people are like "lol what's going on" and don't seem to understand what they're watching even though the song pretty much beats you over the head with it.
Now you finally understand what the Soldier's went through just so you and everyone in the USA have the freedoms that we have to this day. Please share this video on all platforms.
War is a necessary evil - Lao Tzu He also says at the end for the one who sent them to cry the most at the end. The true victorys is one fought without bloodshed - Sun Tzu War is when logic is thrown out and we revert to our past so that through traumatic events can cause one to keel over...it is hell but at times what keeps a Country. Humans are complicated.
I was 13 when this was released, it showed me a darker side to "being a hero" that I hadn't really considered. Watch the film Platoon if you haven't already.
I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with reaction videos.... but this was the best honest reaction I have seen to a video and especially to ONE. To see you face go from that BIG smile to gradually shock and horror an sadness.
The reason metallica has been my default music my whole life is that no matter how low i get and how useless life seems, metallica has a collection of songs that will surgically open your heart and put a note inside that says "yes, life is terrible, horrible, difficult, lonely. But here is a piece of music to remind you that you are not alone, and have these instrumental harmonies to reconnect you to the beauty of it all and encourage you to look up in the blue sky that we all share and love"
Song based on the 1939 novel, "Johnny got his gun" a very deep philosophical book and song, That tried to deal with some deep issues. When does it become Ok for someone to want to die, how much should they have to deal with before it is ok to not want to live anymore. Subjects we are still dealing with to this day. When Quality of life and "right to die" laws come into play.
Thank you for reacting, it seemed rough. It's a rough song, meant to highlight the horror of war. Most people don't get it, it's nice to see someone who does.
Great reaction! Powerful song. I'm 48 years old now, this came up when I was in high school. I still get chills from it You would absolutely like Fade to Black
veteran from el salvador we listen metallica every day before combat saludos hermanos green berets the most professional soldier in the world ! love you guys !
wow, you're the first reactor I've ever seen for this that seems to truly understand the horror of the story and what they're trying to convey. the incredible part if they wrote a popular song that covers such a topic
She legit looks like she about to cry I madly respect that because this is a true story and it just shows how it's possible to have an experience worst than death, The movie is called Johnny got his gun Basically the stories about a man who went to war and a bomb shell landed next to him in which he lost his arms legs hearing speech pretty much everything but touch and natural senses, they basically kept him alive for years and his death wasnt really let out but the nurse who cared for him for years noticed he kept hitting his head up and down and it was Morse code for help me SOS and kill me over and over , he also tried to hold his breath to death but he was basically forced to live inside himself, there's alot more in the movie but that's basically the story of the song
seeing metallica play this song live with the screens everywhere was the most eerie and cool thing ever. arenawent silent. all was playing wasthe screens showing hands reaching, shit was trippy.
This is my favorite rock song of all time so I’ve watched a lot of reactions to it seeing other people’s reactions and this is by far the best one thank you for listening to the story and giving it your all on this video
Dont say sorry. This is the appropriate reaction. You understood the message. Only good music will make you feel this way. Its hard. But you will never forget. Much love and thank you.
The song and video had their exact intended effect. In this video you're exactly where I was when I first saw this. Great reaction, thanks for posting.
You are the first one who really gets the hopeless, frantic nature of this song that I've seen. You have an empathetic soul, and you saw right through the long hair and badass guitars, and understood the frantic struggle against the darkness. This poor boy was maimed, and destroyed by this war, and it cost him everything. I love this reaction.
FINALLY someone who understands right away, who can grasp how unbelievably brutal this song and it's message is. It's a heartbreaking and horrific masterpiece. Thank you for posting this. I'm a 45 year old man and this song messes me up a bit too.
Dalton Trumbo wrote the book Jonny got his gun which was made into the movie shown. Metallica realized that the themes of the song and book parallel. This was Metallica's first video (4th full studio album). I remember a group of us in high school recording the premiere. We sat there shocked and then after a minute or two rewound it(ok that dates it to the late 80s) to watch a half dozen times that night. Highly recommend Rooster from Alice in Chains if you haven't reviewed. Some similar themes of cost of war on soldiers.
Wow I’m very impressed at how much of the meaning of the song you were able to pick up. When people react to this song for the first time, the reactions are generally positive, but they usually don’t catch what the song’s meaning is and end up learning what it’s meaning is by what people post in the comments. You caught on to waaaaay more of song’s meaning on your first listen than most other reactors do. To give a ballpark estimate, I’d say most reactors who react to this song come out understanding like between 10%-30% of the song’s meaning. I’d say you understood like a solid 80% of it’s meaning. So yes his face was destroyed, which also destroyed his senses. You were right about that. His arms and legs were blown off as well so he’s just a torso and a head. So he’s immobile and unable to communicate. So to fill in the blanks with the few things you didn’t catch; the doctors think he is brain dead and in a vegetative state, they don’t realize he’s fully conscious and self aware. So since they think he’s brain dead, and he doesn’t have anyway to communicate with them, there’s nothing he can do but think. Being alone with just his own thoughts makes him start to lose sanity and it becomes hard for him to distinguish whether whatever is going through his head at any given moment is him being asleep and dreaming or him being a wake and thinking about/remembering things from his life. Theres one aspect of the story that people who haven’t watched the movie don’t know because the song and music video don’t touch on it, but the doctors are intentionally keeping him alive and hooked up to machines so they can run tests on him and stuff of that nature. Since they think he’s brain dead and incapable of thought and feeling, he wouldn’t be aware they were even doing anything to him. So that’s the whole reason he’s in the situation he’s in. He’s being forced to be alive.
My brother turned me onto metal at an early age. When this dropped, I was 13. The anticipation of Metallica dropping their first clip was unbelievable for me and my friends. The movie it uses clips from, Johnny got his gun, was sought after heavily.
Metal has a bad rep with people in regards of satan and just screaming. Now you understand that its not just about BS. To be honest, didnt have to say a word. Your tears said enough. I was 8 years old when this album came out and it scared me and filled me with dread and sadness for a few hours afterwards. I almost didnt want to see it again. Thank you for giving Metal a chance. Metal can move you in ways other forms of music cannot. One is about absolute darkness, dispair and utter doom Your response was the best Ive seen.
I will tell you right now, this is my favorite reaction to One video on TH-cam. Most people have no idea what’s going on when they see it. You felt it, you truly felt all of it.
No. It is based on a movie called "Johnny Got His Gun" , based on a book on the same name. "I have no mouth and I must scream" is a different story, about a super computer built for war, that enslave the remnants of humanity for building him.
Whoa!! I love your heartfelt reactions! You make me appreciate bands that I really don’t quite like. This song gave me a lot of anxiety, but you pulled me through! Lol! I remember when it came out, but I was not a heavy metal person. I completely get the horror and beauty, the horrors of war and love of Country and family...duty and honor. I think I’m ready for some some light-hearted Monkees... or that black leather suit.. Lol!! 😝 💞😁 Great job!!!
I see how you think it was beautiful. It was a very empathetic song that puts you into someone else's position that you wouldn't otherwise imagine and challenges your perceptions about war as well as assisted suicide and the right to die. It could make you change your mind, even, if you are the kind of person who thinks of war as noble and glamorous and ending life support as something immoral.
For the longest time Metallica refused to do a music video because they were almost all filled with prancing naked women and drugs and other nonsense. Then they made this, and at least for me, this is easily one of the best short films ever made.
The emotion in your face the whole time. That’s what Metallica does better than anyone else. They grab hold of you. Thanks for this. They won a Grammy Award for this song and it wasn’t even close.
my wife got me this video on VHS back in 1988 or 89.... the more i watch it the more apt i am to cry before it's over... if it doesn't affect you some way, you just ain't human.... this and Motorhead's 1916.... I'm a proud Navy veteran of 2 wars... and war sucks
Love how you listen to the lyrics 💕 a lot of the reactors just zone out, and don’t listen to the stories. As a 100% disabled Army veteran this video hit hard. Thanks
I've experienced, and witnessed this. 2 tours in Iraq. I 've seen Brothers that have, I've held Brothers that have died in my arms... I've held babies.... This, is the reality of many of us. I've now lost more Brothers from suicide, than combat. This is my everyday reality.
You’re the 1st reviewer I’ve seen who was able to grasp what was going on in the video in correlation with the music and lyrics. It’s all encompassing and you saw and felt it all as it was intended! It is a very painful message!
yeah i was pleasantly surprised to see someone actually get the correlation!
Johnny's got his gun.
YES! Finally someone was both emotionally impacted and actually understood the concept. Great reaction.
exactly
Right from the beginning.
Many people erroneously believe rock music is just aggressive chaos, not realizing that the lyrics quite often address social problems. It reaches a select part of society who routinely learn of those problems through music, maybe even better than what they would get in a classroom.
FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO AGREES
Hell yes..
But then that aggressive chaos at times is what’s needed 🤘😝🤘
@@jimmymac4559 Exactly! Those who are at the receiving end of massive manipulation by those at the top need an outlet that if isn't expressed frequently, bubbles to the top and is released suddenly with a magnitude of force ;)
And most pop music doesn’t come near as rock music. Most metal songs these days are known for themes as world problems, religion and personal relationships with life.
Youre seem to be a very empathetic person. Makes your reactions very genuine. Great reaction
I agree, seeing the message from the artist, being able to see the message, feel it, no matter the style of music, being open minded to receive the message that is special.
I have never seen a video crush a person spirit so quick, I felt bad at the beginning with how happy she started out 😥 She made me cry and I have seen this vid all my life.
It's very crushing after the first time. This is a song with so much intricacies that she be a blubbering mess upon the fifth hearing. It's literally got 30layets to it , a phenomenal ballad
Not everyone likes Metal...
@@weslennon3425 metal is def not for everyone. Having ur emotions thrown in a blender and servers back to u is very rough. Its def brutal and not every soul or soul wavelength can handle/want to deal with it.
Land mine, has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell.
Kind of says it all.
Only someone with an amazing heart would react the way you did.
@@angrybastard7364 Rich people likes money so much, they have to send poor people to die for them.
@@leonardomendieta8160 that's not what every war is about. Some are just from horrible people causing pain and destruction for no reason.
Says it all, bust most people don't listen. Even when they are saying the words of a song they don't hear them
@@TFOCyborg because money and power are involved
@@thedon5367 not always money. But definitely power
When Metallica came out it was in the generation whom most of their parents or uncles etc had served in Vietnam and were not treated well and no one really understood PTSD... they just called them shell shocked. So, it hit home for a lot of us, even though the song can apply to any war. It is about damage done.
shell shocked was the ww1 term for it. it meant that the artillery shells going off shocked them
My dad's older step brother was a Seal in the Vietnam. When he came back, my dad had to share a room with him for while. And there were nights where he'd wake up screaming.
Forever caged between forgiveness and the damage done.
My neighbor came home so damaged. He became a heavy drinker. The kids used to stay with my family when their dad would lose it. One night he drank so much he died. They woke up in the morning to find him slumped over the kitchen table dead. This song reminds me of those days. Tears my heart up.
This ☝🏻 watched my dad get up and “patrol” the house learned at an early age to just be quite and let him do it was 30 years before his hell ended 😭
Fun fact: at the beginning of the outro guitar solo, Lars plays the morse code for "help" on the drums.
Wow, thanks for that fact! Never heard it before - Thanks 🤘
Wow!!!!!! I NEVER KNEW THAT!!!! THATS AMAZING!!!
Probably just Lars playing off-time again.
@@aeskeets It was that pesky second arm throwing him off.
I had heard that before and totally forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder 👍
The song is based on the movie "Johnny Got His Gun" (www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/)
"Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories, unable to distinguish whether he is awake or dreaming. He remains frustrated by his situation, until one day when Joe discovers a unique way to communicate with his caregivers."
One of the best books I have ever read.
By Dalton Trumbo if you want to check it out. He was a brilliant author who refused to testify during the McCarthy hearings (witch-hunt for communists in the 1950s). His career was permanently damaged and he had to work under pseudonyms.
@@laurenhuntsinger9170 Depressing.
In the real history is a canadian soldier who lost their arms, legs and face on the great war.
My son has told of this movie, showed me some clips. I just haven't the guts to watch it.
One is 1 of the most potent anti-war songs you will ever hear.
I don't think one has anything to do with being pro or anti war. It's a song about death
Black Sabbath - War pigs. Just to mention one more:)
@@Sicnesses23 yeah people make that slight mistake all the time. That the song is an anti-war song. War is more of the setting of the song, not the meaning of it. Now Johnny Got His Gun may have been an anti-war novel and film, but as far as the song goes, the angle James took with those lyrics wasn’t directed towards the war, but instead directed at his condition. Also, I wouldn’t say the song is about death either though. When you strip the song down to the bare bone, the song is about being trapped. And James Hetfield himself is the one who said that.
It’s just one of the hardest songs ever made.
anti war? it's funny to heard north americans talking about wars, give me a break
Its a beautiful but yet painful experience. Very intense video.
One of the few reactors I’ve seen who actually “get” this song. You’ve earned a subscription from me.
Metallica gets into real deep subject matter that almost every other band is afraid to tackle.
It's a work of art the way they represent what happens in war while paying honor to the novel and film "Johnny Got His Gun".
One is considered a pivotal jam for Metallica, musically it kicks butt!
RATM
James said this song just about if a person at depression in life. It cant do anything just like death body but still life.
@@lovelyavenue2638 no he didn't. you're thinking of Fade to Black or something.
KoRn, RATM, A7x, 5fdp, many more
I need to commend you. I've watched dozens and dozens of reactions to this song. SO MANY get lost in the music, and don't really pay attention to the lyrics or video, and don't get the story in the music. You did, right away. You immediately recognized that this song is very deep, and listened intently. This is one of my most favorite songs.
Not only heavy sonically, but heavy emotionally.
Can't even tell you how much I appreciate your empathy. This song makes me cry every single time; I worked in nursing for a long time & this is exactly why so many in the medical community support the right to die on your own terms instead of being forced to stay alive in absolute agony. Are there things worse than death? Oh, for sure - absolutely yes. Thank you for this reaction.
Your reaction is exactly what this song hopes to evoke. It's supposed to be emotional, to make you feel, to make you acknowledge the true horrors and sacrifices of war. Thank you for playing this song and showing us your reaction. I know it was not easy. This song is beautiful yet painful.
The movie they were referencing was based off a book titled "Johnny Got His Gun" which is a heartbreaking movie and book. Both are commentaries on the true cost of war.
They think he's brain dead, an unfealing, unthinking shell. The horror of it is that his mind is the only thing that still works, he's trapped...
Yeah in the book it explains that he basically has no arms or legs or senses except touch because everything got blown off, except his brain is perfectly intact. He counts the days by feeling the sunlight on his skin and also feels mice running over him & nibbling at his wounds. It’s really intense...
In himself
@@Diablo89 so his mouth got blown off to
Finally someone who recognizes the pain of this story and not just the musicianship of Metallica. I would imagine James and Lars would appreciate that.
Locked in a coma. Aware, but isolated.
"Body my holding cell"
He’s not in a coma at any point in the story.
“If I had arms I could kill myself. If I had legs I could run away.”
Those quotes haunt me.
There is a vast difference between hearing and comprehending. Someone comprehended. Never forget.
ONE of the best songs ever written!
It’s a good song but it always leaves me feeling disturbed..unsettled
As a teen I would always turn over when this video came on MTV/VHS1, it's hard to watch as an adult.
for the last 30.years
Good music hits your ears.
Great music hits your soul.
Which shows just how great a song it is.
I can listen to the song fine, but not watch the video.
Awesome reaction...
"Fade to Black" ❤
101st airborne division desert storm veteran here. This song is a masterpiece.
He's trapped in his own body.
No sight no hearing no speak
Only his own thoughts
That certainly is an emotional rollercoaster.. Metallica wrote that song after being inspired by the book "Johnny got his gun" written by Dalton Trumbo.
'Johnny Got His Gun' was written by Dalton Trumbo, not Truman Capote.
@@davidmastro5406 Thanks David for the clarification. Wow, how did I EVER mix that up. Well, This is what happens in America when you pay for an education at a credible school! LMAO! Peace bro..
He was blacklisted for his anti war messages in his books and movies.
Until I saw this reaction, I’ve never realized how crazy sad this video was I just concentrated on the sound of the song.
There is a difference between "yeah I know what the song is about", and "I actually feel the song" and seeing the tears that accompany the song's meaning and depression that just "hits you". Thank you for uploading what you did and how you felt.
Heard the song first in early 90s, saw the video and it has an impact on me.
First saw the song live in '03, and 10 times later in 2019, I can promise you, seeing this live brings the exact emotions you felt watching this video.
There's many parts to the live version.
Hearing.
Seeing.
Feeling.
Feeling the sounds, feeling the heat of the pyro, and the strobe lights is something you simply cannot describe.
War isn't hell. War is war, and hell is hell. War is worse.
Well done for enduring the emotional roller coaster ride, love and support from the UK
As I watched your reaction, I just wanted to give you a hug.
I've heard this song 1000 times and you made it more emotional for me than ever. God bless.
Finally someone gets the message. It's profound and your reaction connected to the message. Thank you for being open to the message. Cheers
Finally, someone who understands the gravity of the message behind this song. In a lot of other reactions of the song people are like "lol what's going on" and don't seem to understand what they're watching even though the song pretty much beats you over the head with it.
Saw Metallica live back in 2005 and their performance of "One" was perfect. One of the best lives shows I have ever been to.
They are the best live concert I've ever been to. Love them.
Now you finally understand what the Soldier's went through just so you and everyone in the USA have the freedoms that we have to this day. Please share this video on all platforms.
War is a necessary evil - Lao Tzu
He also says at the end for the one who sent them to cry the most at the end.
The true victorys is one fought without bloodshed - Sun Tzu
War is when logic is thrown out and we revert to our past so that through traumatic events can cause one to keel over...it is hell but at times what keeps a Country. Humans are complicated.
Great and realistic reaction.... you got it.... 😊
I was 13 when this was released, it showed me a darker side to "being a hero" that I hadn't really considered. Watch the film Platoon if you haven't already.
I know vets who just bawl when this comes on. Its touching to see others empathize
I have a LOVE/HATE relationship with reaction videos.... but this was the best honest reaction I have seen to a video and especially to ONE. To see you face go from that BIG smile to gradually shock and horror an sadness.
Veteran of OEF 14-15. Thank you for your beautiful heart and reaction. May God please bless you and your efforts. US Army active duty
Very touching. Most people would have missed all that!
It’s a hard one. Great reaction
LMAO! I love how at the end when she's feeling bad, a message appears saying, "Life is full of challenges."
The reason metallica has been my default music my whole life is that no matter how low i get and how useless life seems, metallica has a collection of songs that will surgically open your heart and put a note inside that says "yes, life is terrible, horrible, difficult, lonely. But here is a piece of music to remind you that you are not alone, and have these instrumental harmonies to reconnect you to the beauty of it all and encourage you to look up in the blue sky that we all share and love"
Song based on the 1939 novel, "Johnny got his gun" a very deep philosophical book and song, That tried to deal with some deep issues. When does it become Ok for someone to want to die, how much should they have to deal with before it is ok to not want to live anymore. Subjects we are still dealing with to this day. When Quality of life and "right to die" laws come into play.
Thank you for reacting, it seemed rough. It's a rough song, meant to highlight the horror of war. Most people don't get it, it's nice to see someone who does.
GOD IS IN THE METAL AND WILL OPEN YOUR EYES BIG TIME.KEEP ON THE JOURNEY.......................
I’ve heard all these songs before a thousand times. I’m watching because you are lovely.
Great reaction! Powerful song. I'm 48 years old now, this came up when I was in high school. I still get chills from it You would absolutely like Fade to Black
veteran from el salvador we listen metallica every day before combat saludos hermanos green berets the most professional soldier in the world ! love you guys !
Que tal hermano latino!!
I have watched this Metallica video tons of times, this is the first time my heart broke when I saw the pain in you.
Many don't have compassion. You do. Don't ever lose it!!!
wow, you're the first reactor I've ever seen for this that seems to truly understand the horror of the story and what they're trying to convey. the incredible part if they wrote a popular song that covers such a topic
She legit looks like she about to cry I madly respect that because this is a true story and it just shows how it's possible to have an experience worst than death, The movie is called Johnny got his gun
Basically the stories about a man who went to war and a bomb shell landed next to him in which he lost his arms legs hearing speech pretty much everything but touch and natural senses, they basically kept him alive for years and his death wasnt really let out but the nurse who cared for him for years noticed he kept hitting his head up and down and it was Morse code for help me SOS and kill me over and over , he also tried to hold his breath to death but he was basically forced to live inside himself, there's alot more in the movie but that's basically the story of the song
If this song hurts to watch, then be sure not to watch “Fade to Black”.
seeing metallica play this song live with the screens everywhere was the most eerie and cool thing ever. arenawent silent. all was playing wasthe screens showing hands reaching, shit was trippy.
I have to say, you picked up on the story really fast. Imagine all the soldiers comeing back from the middle east... From all countries.
This is my favorite rock song of all time so I’ve watched a lot of reactions to it seeing other people’s reactions and this is by far the best one thank you for listening to the story and giving it your all on this video
Dont say sorry. This is the appropriate reaction. You understood the message. Only good music will make you feel this way. Its hard. But you will never forget. Much love and thank you.
I have heard this song so any times. Why only now am i crying?
The song and video had their exact intended effect. In this video you're exactly where I was when I first saw this. Great reaction, thanks for posting.
I love how you have the exact right reaction to every song.
Metallica bought the rights of the movie just to make this video.
I have the movie on DVD. It actually has the music video for One in the special features 😏
You are the first one who really gets the hopeless, frantic nature of this song that I've seen. You have an empathetic soul, and you saw right through the long hair and badass guitars, and understood the frantic struggle against the darkness. This poor boy was maimed, and destroyed by this war, and it cost him everything. I love this reaction.
The movie "Johnny Got His Gun", in my opinion, is one of the hardest movies ever for someone to watch.
FINALLY someone who understands right away, who can grasp how unbelievably brutal this song and it's message is. It's a heartbreaking and horrific masterpiece. Thank you for posting this. I'm a 45 year old man and this song messes me up a bit too.
One of my favorite songs, definitely shows the real face of war.
Dalton Trumbo wrote the book Jonny got his gun which was made into the movie shown. Metallica realized that the themes of the song and book parallel. This was Metallica's first video (4th full studio album). I remember a group of us in high school recording the premiere. We sat there shocked and then after a minute or two rewound it(ok that dates it to the late 80s) to watch a half dozen times that night.
Highly recommend Rooster from Alice in Chains if you haven't reviewed. Some similar themes of cost of war on soldiers.
For my comrades lost in Iraq...
RIP
My husband served 13 months in Iraq.
Sorry,brother.Another needless war,another thousand lives thrown away.
Thank you very much for your service and your buddies sacrifices
@@rkoopa_bro ❤️
Wow I’m very impressed at how much of the meaning of the song you were able to pick up. When people react to this song for the first time, the reactions are generally positive, but they usually don’t catch what the song’s meaning is and end up learning what it’s meaning is by what people post in the comments. You caught on to waaaaay more of song’s meaning on your first listen than most other reactors do. To give a ballpark estimate, I’d say most reactors who react to this song come out understanding like between 10%-30% of the song’s meaning. I’d say you understood like a solid 80% of it’s meaning. So yes his face was destroyed, which also destroyed his senses. You were right about that. His arms and legs were blown off as well so he’s just a torso and a head. So he’s immobile and unable to communicate.
So to fill in the blanks with the few things you didn’t catch; the doctors think he is brain dead and in a vegetative state, they don’t realize he’s fully conscious and self aware. So since they think he’s brain dead, and he doesn’t have anyway to communicate with them, there’s nothing he can do but think. Being alone with just his own thoughts makes him start to lose sanity and it becomes hard for him to distinguish whether whatever is going through his head at any given moment is him being asleep and dreaming or him being a wake and thinking about/remembering things from his life. Theres one aspect of the story that people who haven’t watched the movie don’t know because the song and music video don’t touch on it, but the doctors are intentionally keeping him alive and hooked up to machines so they can run tests on him and stuff of that nature. Since they think he’s brain dead and incapable of thought and feeling, he wouldn’t be aware they were even doing anything to him. So that’s the whole reason he’s in the situation he’s in. He’s being forced to be alive.
Art doesn't just express pretty things.
She was soo happy the first 30 seconds lol
Lol "life is full of challenges" ad at the end of the video.
My brother turned me onto metal at an early age. When this dropped, I was 13. The anticipation of Metallica dropping their first clip was unbelievable for me and my friends.
The movie it uses clips from, Johnny got his gun, was sought after heavily.
Metal has a bad rep with people in regards of satan and just screaming. Now you understand that its not just about BS. To be honest, didnt have to say a word. Your tears said enough. I was 8 years old when this album came out and it scared me and filled me with dread and sadness for a few hours afterwards. I almost didnt want to see it again. Thank you for giving Metal a chance. Metal can move you in ways other forms of music cannot. One is about absolute darkness, dispair and utter doom Your response was the best Ive seen.
I will tell you right now, this is my favorite reaction to One video on TH-cam. Most people have no idea what’s going on when they see it. You felt it, you truly felt all of it.
For Veterans day coming up you should react to Johnny Cash - Drive on.
Yes God bless our republic especially now 😦
Or Veterans Day by Johnny Cash.
It's based on an old movie set during WWI called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".
No. It is based on a movie called "Johnny Got His Gun" , based on a book on the same name.
"I have no mouth and I must scream" is a different story, about a super computer built for war, that enslave the remnants of humanity for building him.
Whoa!! I love your heartfelt reactions! You make me appreciate bands that I really don’t quite like. This song gave me a lot of anxiety, but you pulled me through! Lol! I remember when it came out, but I was not a heavy metal person. I completely get the horror and beauty, the horrors of war and love of Country and family...duty and honor. I think I’m ready for some some light-hearted Monkees... or that black leather suit.. Lol!! 😝 💞😁 Great job!!!
Most intense reaction ever. It’s emotional yet beautiful.
Could you please react to five finger death punch wrong side of heaven, it is something our veteran go through every day
I think that song is their best one. The video is beyond heartbreaking 🙏🏻
*One starts playing*
Her smile and optimism:
Gone
I see how you think it was beautiful. It was a very empathetic song that puts you into someone else's position that you wouldn't otherwise imagine and challenges your perceptions about war as well as assisted suicide and the right to die. It could make you change your mind, even, if you are the kind of person who thinks of war as noble and glamorous and ending life support as something immoral.
There are so few kind souls left, I pray that you keep your empathy in this cruel world.
You should have watched some cute animal videos after that.
@@Miristzuheiss Vanilla Ice, the person, or the food?
This was great ! Love the reaction .such a kind soul
you are listening to Metallica - One, ACTUALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME?????????????????????????
RIP NEW GENERATION and their crappy MUSIC
For the longest time Metallica refused to do a music video because they were almost all filled with prancing naked women and drugs and other nonsense. Then they made this, and at least for me, this is easily one of the best short films ever made.
The emotion in your face the whole time. That’s what Metallica does better than anyone else. They grab hold of you. Thanks for this. They won a Grammy Award for this song and it wasn’t even close.
omg! that was the best reaction i ever seen! Thank you and Greetings from Brazil!
my wife got me this video on VHS back in 1988 or 89.... the more i watch it the more apt i am to cry before it's over... if it doesn't affect you some way, you just ain't human.... this and Motorhead's 1916.... I'm a proud Navy veteran of 2 wars... and war sucks
wow just wow! what a great reaction ,you actually watched this and understood what its about ....fantastic reaction ,, subscribed !
Love how you listen to the lyrics 💕 a lot of the reactors just zone out, and don’t listen to the stories. As a 100% disabled Army veteran this video hit hard. Thanks
I've experienced, and witnessed this. 2 tours in Iraq.
I 've seen Brothers that have, I've held Brothers that have died in my arms...
I've held babies....
This, is the reality of many of us.
I've now lost more Brothers from suicide, than combat.
This is my everyday reality.
Wow you really got it. Most people don't. Finally someone I don't have to explain it all to. The song was based on a book called "Johnny Got His Gun."
Only person to react to the video properly. Most people just comment on the instruments and the playing. Nice to see
Should be in the top 100 songs of all time. So powerful. Musical genius!
Thank you for sharing your heart with the world. I was in high school when this song came out. It has moved me since the first time I heard / saw it.