same here. Born in 1967. We got all the good stuff. Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Michael and all the 80's and 90's stuff 😉@@robynhurley5119
1999 came out in 1982. That's how forward thinking Prince was....("1999" is about partying as the end of the world is taking place....Nuclear war.) Genius personified. Played all the instruments on this song, wrote, and produced (as with most of his albums).
@@devonjones102 I mean, he wrote most of his BIG hits....there are not a lot of artists who wrote and produced 99.9 percent of their songs. It's not the norm.
@@devonjones102 He wrote Beat It, Billie Jean, Wanna Be Startin' Something, ect. Now if this is a debate on who was more musically gifted Prince or MJ...it's Prince. But MJ could flex his pen when he wanted to.
The song was written during a very cold part of the cold war when the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons pointed at one another to destroy the entire planet (that's not hyperbole - they really did) and there was a fear that we all could die in a moment's notice. That's really how people lived back then. This song said "F it" I'm gonna party like it's the last day ever. For a lot of people, this was their first exposure to Prince (in 1982). Little Red Corvette was the follow-up to this. Then he became a superstar when the movie Purple Rain came out in 1984.
'Lion in my pocket..' is directly from Prince, from this song. Anyone else saying it, they got it filtered down to them from this song. That's the iconic-ness of Prince and how big of a song this was. It's a sex thing, most stuff was with Prince in his early years.
I'm pretty sure it's not sexual. Given that he's singing about the end of the world, this is a Biblical reference. At the end of the song he says "you can't run from the revelation" obviously referring to the last book of the Bible Revelation which says how the world will end. The Lion in the book of Revelation hold the 7 seals and has the power to release them. This is always how I understood this lyric in the context of the song.
@@adamg1677sorry it’s definitely sexual. The lion in his pocket is his penis and it’s ready to go or roar. Think about it snd look at Prince’s face when he sings it.
This was way before anyone was talking about Y2K. It was just Prince and his creativity, probably like the cool numbers for the last year of the 20th century...1999. This was a huge hit & we all thought, 'How old will I be when we're partying to this song and the clock turns past midnight to 1999? We had 16 yrs to think about it, lol!
I remember wondering where I would be. I was Mattie with 2 children and just in case we had a Y2K meltdown I rented a restaurant sully stocked and had a huge party with family and friends. I would have never guessed that at the time the song 1999 came out.
The Lion is his pocket is his "Package". This was a BIG PARTY song when i was a Teen in the middle and late 80s. I was absolutely in Love with Prince, and i still listen to him. Check out "Delirious " from the same album, and also "Lets Pretend We"re Married".
I believe Lion in his pocket is a Biblical Reference to Lion of Judah, symbolism for Christ It’s like a bit of a double meaning because Prince obviously was known for risque lyrics but I do thinks it’s a Biblical reference. Prince has lots of Biblical messages in his music.. this being a song about the Apocalypse it makes a lot of sense to drop these types of messages into the song.
The first five albums were written by Prince, all instruments played by Prince, produced and recorded by Prince. You boys…. A lion in my pocket is his private ready to play. I told you he was our sex educator. Chuckle!
About the apprehension around the year 2000-- I'm sure there were some people with apprehension for superstitious reasons; but most people that were concerned, it was about the computers. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, programmers hadn't been thinking about the new millennium that was approaching and had set the internal clocks for 19xx. So, what was going to happen was the question around all the computers in use by then. The answer, of course, was nothing catastrophic.
New years eve 1998 this song was blasting all over the world, it was amazing thing is this is actually a doomsday song. If you listen to the lyrics hes talking about how it's the year 2000 and the world is ending in nuclear war, so the only thing to do is party like they have no worries.
1982, I was 10 and we had no idea about y2k yet...we barely had computers and most didn't have one or use one yet. Lion in my pocket is a condom brand. This was played at every party between 1999 and well...now...lol 2000 came and went and so did Prince but Gen X Grandma is still here! Subscribed :)
This song was made in the 80s...lol This song got EVERYONE UP AND DANCIN through 2000 from the 80s! Prince was the BOMB! He crossed genres and demographics...
Missed this reactiion. One of the best song! When it was written, 1999 seemed so far away. Here we are in 2024 and this song is not only still bad ass but relevant. Prince was prophetic. Wendy is the dark haired girl and went on to play an integral part in Prince & the Revolution. This was 1982. Damn is it that long!!!! Prince used innuendo sexually and religiously and intertwined both. "I got a Lion in my pocket and baby he is ready to roar" speaks to Judah as the lion, but also as a a reference that sexually he is a a lion. The song was written during the COLD WAR so it was written about nuclear armageddon. The song hints to religion and sex throughout. Prince often times intertwined the pleasure of sex with faith in God.
Interesting thing, this song was released in 1982 (way before folks were worried about Y2K) at the height of the Cold War when folks were worried about a WWIII situation with Russia and nuclear fall out. There were folks who had predicted the world would come to an end in 2000. Y2K reframed the meaning.
You guys should check out “ Forever in my Life” and ‘If I was Your Girlfriend” both are from his 1987 album Sign O The Times album. That entire album is 🔥
1999 is so good the whole album is funky...Lisa colman abd Jil jones are the 2 girls singing...Prince is my favorite musician ...I have been listening since 1978 ... and got everything he released .... I love him.... listen to Motherless Child it is live and later
This is the short version. Check the album complete version, with instrumental part in second part (as very often with Prince, if you cut the song before the second part, you'd miss the best of the song, where the musical crazyness occurs).
Not really although many people took it that way Prince filled his music with lots of Biblical messages. The lion in his pocket is a Biblical reference to Judah the Lion or Christ The song is an anti war song about the the of the world. Basically he is saying while bombs are falling and the war mongers war mongering he will NOT be afraid because he has a secret weapon in his pocket, and that is Christ. So he will have fun in the face of the impending apocalypse
I was in HS when this song was released.... 1999 seemed so far away then, and now it seems so long ago. Some people thought the world was going to end, and the hype was intense. You bet 1999 was played that new year's eve at every party around the world. 😅
The 1999/ Triple Threat tour (1982) was amazing! 2 support acts, Vanity 6 and The Time, who's music Prince wrote as well, opened up for him. Technically, Prince wrote 2 albums + his double album 1999 for this '82 tour.
This was the first Prince song that I ever heard back in the early 80's. And whilst I liked a song or two from his earlier albums, my favorite Prince albums where I liked most of the songs were PURPLE RAIN and AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY. And I could be wrong, but, the two ladies in the video were Lisa and Wendy.
That was Lisa and Wendy, guys. From The Revolution. You've reviewed 3 Prince songs now, you need to read up on some of his history. He is a fucking LEGEND. The very first video of his you reacted to was from the movie Purple Rain, a stone-cold classic. WATCH IT!
Great reaction guys! Prince is the GOAT. You should definitely check out Let's Go Crazy next. It was one of his many number 1 hits. Great song and performance. It also highlights his guitar skills. The ladies are Jill Jones who is blonde (also one of his many girlfriends) and Lisa Coleman. Having a lion in your pocket just means his penis wants to party. Here's the link for Let's Go Crazy th-cam.com/video/aXJhDltzYVQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XCEu5ScVPAaoEEes
Prince is my favorite individual artist. Been a fan since the 1980s. I'm now a wedding minister and cannot say the first part of "Let's Go Crazy" because I'll start singing it instead of performing a wedding ceremony. Y'all should check that one out if you haven't already. Prince is a DEEP rabbit hole. Let your subs know if you want suggestions for more Prince. I could give you a month's worth.
I'm digging you both! Thank you for giving credit. Where is credit is due. Check out, (Baby Imma Star, and I Would Die for You.) Together! Let's go Crazy, 3/4's of it was the movie, Purple Rain! Anything you can assume on Prince. You will be correct. He's done them all, as well as for many other artists. Ex: Stevie Nicks, Sinade O'Connor, The Bangles, Chaka Kahn, to name a few.
This is from 1982. The band lineup is Dez Dickerson on guitar (yes, he left the band after this album and tour but was in the movie Purple Rain as a solo act), Lisa Coleman and Dr Fink on keys, Brown Mark on bass, Bobby Z on drums, and Jill Jones on backing vocals. Lisa, Mark, Bobby, and Matt Fink (along with the addition of Wendy Melvoin on guitar) became The Revolution on the next album, Purple Rain. They remained Prince’s band for several years. I’m going to keep recommending live performances so you can really get a sense of Prince’s brilliance. The live performances of Purple Rain from the Syracuse show or 1985 American Music Awards, Thieves in the Temple/It from Glam Slam, Baby I’m a Star/Push from the Special Olympics, Forever in My Life/It from Sign O the Times and soooo many more are all great. Here’s the link to that Forever in My Life performance in case you’d like to check it out. It’s from 1987 so you’d get to see what he was doing then since you guessed 1999 might be from that time period. th-cam.com/video/X2DPhTYN2jM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pWPg_0bGVRvJZdNd
We thought there would be a base on the moon by 1999 and we'd be in space. 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968 (only 14 years before 1982). 14 years ago was 2010 🤣🤣
The blonde is Jill Jones and the other girl is Lisa Coleman. Jones is an actress/musician these days and Coleman writes songs for film and television these days along with another singer from Prince's backing singers called Wendy Melvoin.
He make it -82……the outher guys singing is Dez Dickingson. The girl with dark hear Lisa Coleman and Jill Johns. Lisa and Wendy who plaid the outher guitar was together for some years. And Dez have give many interview altso Wendy have…….you most Groove much, much deeper if you whant to learn somthing about The Royal badness 😂 eks…..he have dance Classic ballett for 2-3 years. You must see his movie Purple Rain, it was very much from his reall life there, it is sad, romantic, much, much music of c. I think its very interesting. Can see it every day, as I sometimes do ❤ and altso the movie Under the Cherry moon…..thats a black and whithe- movie, funny but end very sad. And its so many interview with him on YT, have you heard him speaking…….if not you come to bee so supriced 😮 he was not gay……he hade many women…. could be at the same time 😅……and he was only 1,57 cm tall. And yes I was born in -99 I was actully 36 then 😂❤😊 his full name is Prince Rogers Nelson born June 7 1958 died 21 april 2016, 57 years old 😢😢😢
You were close fellas, but the song, 1999, also the album title, dropped October 27, 1982 and was the followup to 1981’s Controversy album. But the album that shot Prince into the stratosphere, Purple Rain, wouldn’t arrive until June 25, 1984. I graduated high school in 1986 and grew up through all of it and the 80s really was the best decade to be a teenager and college kid. The girls in the video are Lisa Coleman (brunette) who would remain with Prince when he expanded to Prince and The Revolution when Purple Rain dropped, and the blonde is Jill Jones who worked with several artists as a backing vocalist for several artists in the 80s.
If you have not listened to the 12 inch version of this....please do so. This song really takes off then......IMO - a lot of his BEST lie in the extended versions of his music, and not the commercial release. And, we are not going to even start with his un-released music. And then there is his musical vault.....which is the stuff of LEGEND. Prince is not just a world, he is an entire galaxy. Twice.
Lion was a brand of condoms. Gayle Chapman, the keyboardist who toured and played with Prince for his second album Prince in 1979 said Prince wanted all the people in the band to have characters they portrayed on stage - a stage persona (like Beyonce has Sasha Fierce) - and he was always going to be the personification of sex. That was his stage character, that drove his lyrics, coupled with the need to always want to "push buttons" and shock people and see how far he could go and how much he could get away with.
This was a month ago so I'm sure you already know or have already guessed, "a line in my pocket & baby I'm ready to roar" refers to COCAINE. COCAINE was HUGE in the 80's. LOL !
Lmaoo 😂😂😂....I was 12 yrs old when this song came out & I knew what the street phrase meant as a Lion in your pocket & it's ready to roar 😂😂😂..btw it meant a guy's wood blowing a volcano...lol 😂😂😂
There was definitely a run on Batteries, flashlights, toilet paper and canned food leading up to Jan 1, 2000. I think most people bought some of these things just in case. Most people I knew didn’t really think that the whole internet was going to collapse, but there was a lot of talk about the possibility in the media- the normal fear mongering.
I'm just remembering how far in the future 1999 seemed when this song came out. I have always wondered if the changing vocals in this song were inspired by Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People."
There was no internet in 1982. No one was worried about or had even heard of Y2K. Just about every decade in the 20th Century was futurelistically looking forward to the year 2000 and what the 21st Century...THE FUTURE...would be like. The 1980s was especially enthusiastic looking forward to the year 2000. New Wave was also about envisioning the future. Prince, as always, did it with glam and style.
Hi Samuel and Lucas on Twins Reacts My name is Lisa I'm New on your Channel. I'm really Love Prince Music and Prince is a movie star too Not only Purple Rain is a song it's a popular movie in the 80s I think that's what makes him more famous. Please React Kiss By: Prince.
This is an anti war song. The meaning is if the war mongers are going to war monger and kill us all we are going to party like it’s 1999. This was in the Cold War and growing up we fully expected a nuclear war with Russia. When I was a kid growing up teachers even told us we would likely be a target because we had a nuclear plant and army base near us. No one would survive. We just lived with this unknown fear. Lots of anti war song were created from the era. Prince often had anti war, anti government, apocalypse and biblical themes in his songs. Lion in my pocket is a Biblical reference to Judah the Lion, or Christ. A lion in his pocket and he is ready to roar means You have your war, I have a secret weapon in Christ, he is in my pocket and ready to roar. I will not be afraid, I will dance and party because Christ wins
That was a great question by one of the twins regarding 2000. Yes it was a big deal all on the news that Y2K was going to all the computers. We're going to shut down and it was a big deal at that time and then when they saw nothing happened they said never mind😂 But 1999 the song by Prince. This was way before purple rain and all the others that you've heard before so it's the early stuff. If I remember right this had to be 1982...👍 Thank you for playing Prince songs. I like to see the reaction. You really need to see the movie purple rain and he had another movie that was called under the Cherry Moon. Those were really two good movies. He had another one called alphabet. I didn't see that one. It was called alphabet Street in 88 And come on. Don't tell me you don't know what lion in my pocket means. That's the first time I've ever heard. Any guy say that they didn't know what that meant😂😅
I love all jundras of music when disco died here came prince and hall and Oates and funk from 1981 came all jundras of music hard rock was always there but came rap pop,country all kinds of music from the uk
Some people went a little crazy and stocked their houses with water and stuff. It's kind of like the pandemic was. My family was okay. We figured other parts of the world were going to hit 2000 before we did. So at least we would know hours in advance if the grid was going to shut down.
1982 and that’s Lisa, Wendy and Jill. Lol, Lion in my Pocket… as a teenager I thought it was a double entendres. His Christian upbringing is interwoven into many of his lyrics. Take it for what you will.
“Lion in my pocket” Lion was an old condom brand….he did the same thing on Little Red Corvette “Cause you had a pocket full of horses Trojan and some of them used”
If I had to guess what😮 the reference "Lion in my pocket" means to the context of the song specifically, it could mean they are ready to go crazy and let loose and have a fun time. I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like to me.
did you do rock and roll hall of fame yet? while my guitar gently weeps. its killer and watch close to his guitar work. can't wait to see your reactions. oh and Prince over MJ enyday everyday.
The album came out in December 1982. The Song was released as a single in 1983. From left to right Jill Jones & Lisa Coleman. Lion in my pocket is condom. Not sure if the brand name.
I was eight when this song came out in '82 and 1999 seemed so far away when Prince sang it. Now, it's 25 years later, and what I wouldn't do to go back.
Another awesome Song by Prince!!💜💜 Great job guys! 👍 So about, the coming of the year 2000. I was 32 when 2000 came, I had graduated with a BS in Computer Science. But backing up before that. The biggest fear to be honest, was that the entire world, computer systems, would just stop working because most software was built to handle dates with only a two digit year. Once the year 2000 hit, that wasn’t going to work anymore, ALL of those programs, in the word mind you, needed to handle a 4 digit year to work properly handling an appropriate date. Just think about it can sound like quite an overwhelming situation! So many things in the world are run by computer programs, even back then. But companies were already aware and working on the issue, to be prepared. It was blown a little bit out of proportion. It all worked out in the end. ☺️
Prince is the REAL GOAT of the pop music
GOAT yes, but...pop, funk, r&b, rock, jazz, and even a little early hip hop. NOT just pop; he was NOT Michael Jackson. :)
@@dancedout60right. The real goat of MODERN MUSIC
Prince released this song in 1982.
THANK YOU!!! I knew it was early 80s...cuz I can see myself in a Holloween costume with friends from a specific place of work!
I was 32 in 1999
same here. Born in 1967. We got all the good stuff. Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Michael and all the 80's and 90's stuff 😉@@robynhurley5119
So ahead of his time
think about it guys..... lion in your pocket.... is that a lion in your pocket or are you just happy to see me??.lol
They're wholesome boys ! Raised right.
A lion in your pocket and baby he's ready to roar 😏
We thought kids would all be on hoverboards in 2000 like in Back To The Future 2.
This song was out long before 1999. I'm loving these reactions. I lived through al this, the best of times.
Same here!
1999 came out in 1982. That's how forward thinking Prince was....("1999" is about partying as the end of the world is taking place....Nuclear war.) Genius personified. Played all the instruments on this song, wrote, and produced (as with most of his albums).
Ngl it fucked me up back in the day when I learned Michael Jackson ain’t write over half his shit 😂
@@devonjones102 I mean, he wrote most of his BIG hits....there are not a lot of artists who wrote and produced 99.9 percent of their songs. It's not the norm.
@@keithmurphy5356 man he ain’t write thriller 😭😭. But yeah I do hear what you saying prince is 1 of 1
@@devonjones102 He wrote Beat It, Billie Jean, Wanna Be Startin' Something, ect. Now if this is a debate on who was more musically gifted Prince or MJ...it's Prince. But MJ could flex his pen when he wanted to.
When this came out we had no idea of what was going to be going on at the end of 1999.
REST IN PEACE PRINCE 🕊 💘.
I graduated HS in 1981, this was our anthem! "Lion in my pocket", what else you gonna do if a bomb's gonna drop any day, let that 'Lion roar'!!!
The song was written during a very cold part of the cold war when the US and the Soviet Union had enough nuclear weapons pointed at one another to destroy the entire planet (that's not hyperbole - they really did) and there was a fear that we all could die in a moment's notice. That's really how people lived back then. This song said "F it" I'm gonna party like it's the last day ever. For a lot of people, this was their first exposure to Prince (in 1982). Little Red Corvette was the follow-up to this. Then he became a superstar when the movie Purple Rain came out in 1984.
In the black community Prince was already a Superstar when this album came out.
The ladies in the video are Lisa Coleman(keys)and Jill Jones(backing vocals)
Jill Jones has a solo album produced around this era
Man was a total legend!!!!!!! Best guitarist
Oh my, you two are innocents!🤣🤣🤣🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
1982 MTV incredible times
Oh. yes!~ My oldest was born in 82 and MTV was such a big thing in our house!
'Lion in my pocket..' is directly from Prince, from this song. Anyone else saying it, they got it filtered down to them from this song. That's the iconic-ness of Prince and how big of a song this was. It's a sex thing, most stuff was with Prince in his early years.
I'm pretty sure it's not sexual. Given that he's singing about the end of the world, this is a Biblical reference. At the end of the song he says "you can't run from the revelation" obviously referring to the last book of the Bible Revelation which says how the world will end. The Lion in the book of Revelation hold the 7 seals and has the power to release them. This is always how I understood this lyric in the context of the song.
@@adamg1677sorry it’s definitely sexual. The lion in his pocket is his penis and it’s ready to go or roar. Think about it snd look at Prince’s face when he sings it.
This was way before anyone was talking about Y2K. It was just Prince and his creativity, probably like the cool numbers for the last year of the 20th century...1999. This was a huge hit & we all thought, 'How old will I be when we're partying to this song and the clock turns past midnight to 1999? We had 16 yrs to think about it, lol!
I remember wondering where I would be. I was Mattie with 2 children and just in case we had a Y2K meltdown I rented a restaurant sully stocked and had a huge party with family and friends. I would have never guessed that at the time the song 1999 came out.
The Lion is his pocket is his "Package". This was a BIG PARTY song when i was a Teen in the middle and late 80s. I was absolutely in Love with Prince, and i still listen to him.
Check out "Delirious " from the same album, and also "Lets Pretend We"re Married".
Some think it means "a line" as in cocaine
@@sueprator9314 Wouldn't make sense with the "roar" part....
I believe Lion in his pocket is a Biblical Reference to Lion of Judah, symbolism for Christ
It’s like a bit of a double meaning because Prince obviously was known for risque lyrics but I do thinks it’s a Biblical reference. Prince has lots of Biblical messages in his music.. this being a song about the Apocalypse it makes a lot of sense to drop these types of messages into the song.
The first five albums were written by Prince, all instruments played by Prince, produced and recorded by Prince. You boys…. A lion in my pocket is his private ready to play. I told you he was our sex educator. Chuckle!
About the apprehension around the year 2000-- I'm sure there were some people with apprehension for superstitious reasons; but most people that were concerned, it was about the computers. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, programmers hadn't been thinking about the new millennium that was approaching and had set the internal clocks for 19xx. So, what was going to happen was the question around all the computers in use by then. The answer, of course, was nothing catastrophic.
New years eve 1998 this song was blasting all over the world, it was amazing
thing is this is actually a doomsday song. If you listen to the lyrics hes talking about how it's the year 2000 and the world is ending in nuclear war, so the only thing to do is party like they have no worries.
Exactly. Song came out in 1982, and in 1999 the world jammed to this song for NYE.
Great times! ❤❤❤
Prince was a genius and putvon the best concerts ever
1982, I was 10 and we had no idea about y2k yet...we barely had computers and most didn't have one or use one yet. Lion in my pocket is a condom brand. This was played at every party between 1999 and well...now...lol 2000 came and went and so did Prince but Gen X Grandma is still here! Subscribed :)
This song was made in the 80s...lol This song got EVERYONE UP AND DANCIN through 2000 from the 80s! Prince was the BOMB! He crossed genres and demographics...
Missed this reactiion. One of the best song! When it was written, 1999 seemed so far away. Here we are in 2024 and this song is not only still bad ass but relevant. Prince was prophetic. Wendy is the dark haired girl and went on to play an integral part in Prince & the Revolution. This was 1982. Damn is it that long!!!! Prince used innuendo sexually and religiously and intertwined both.
"I got a Lion in my pocket and baby he is ready to roar" speaks to Judah as the lion, but also as a a reference that sexually he is a a lion. The song was written during the COLD WAR so it was written about nuclear armageddon. The song hints to religion and sex throughout. Prince often times intertwined the pleasure of sex with faith in God.
Interesting thing, this song was released in 1982 (way before folks were worried about Y2K) at the height of the Cold War when folks were worried about a WWIII situation with Russia and nuclear fall out. There were folks who had predicted the world would come to an end in 2000. Y2K reframed the meaning.
A true Prince fan not only knows that that’s not the end of the song, but can air guitar that riff at the end.
You guys should check out “ Forever in my Life” and ‘If I was Your Girlfriend” both are from his 1987 album Sign O The Times album. That entire album is 🔥
That album is genius! Although my personal favourite album of his is Parade, I have to say Sign o the Times is a masterpiece.
1999 is so good the whole album is funky...Lisa colman abd Jil jones are the 2 girls singing...Prince is my favorite musician ...I have been listening since 1978 ... and got everything he released .... I love him.... listen to Motherless Child it is live and later
Quincy Jones heard this and told Michael Jackson "we need something like this to start off your next album."
Maybe you want to try out "Darling Nikki"...😂😂😂😂
You will like The Beautiful ones too. Plz checkout these two songs ie. Darling nikki and the beautiful ones.
This is the short version. Check the album complete version, with instrumental part in second part (as very often with Prince, if you cut the song before the second part, you'd miss the best of the song, where the musical crazyness occurs).
Mommy, why does everybody have a bomb?
I don't know if you've heard about him playing at the halftime show at the super bowl quite a few years ago but it's an amazing performance
Boys! “ a lion in my pocket and he is ready to roar. “ Party time!
Not really although many people took it that way
Prince filled his music with lots of Biblical messages. The lion in his pocket is a Biblical reference to Judah the Lion or Christ
The song is an anti war song about the the of the world. Basically he is saying while bombs are falling and the war mongers war mongering he will NOT be afraid because he has a secret weapon in his pocket, and that is Christ. So he will have fun in the face of the impending apocalypse
Created in 1982, the song charted in '83
We listened to this for many years before December 31, 1999. Then we partied our asses off when it was 1999 #GenX
1982 kids
lol Man, it's so cute that these 2 are so innocent. I was 12 when this came out and knew exactly what it meant.
the whole Y2K scare! what a hoot! & since the world was going to end in 2K, you gotta party like it's 1999!
I was in HS when this song was released.... 1999 seemed so far away then, and now it seems so long ago. Some people thought the world was going to end, and the hype was intense. You bet 1999 was played that new year's eve at every party around the world. 😅
The 1999/ Triple Threat tour (1982) was amazing! 2 support acts, Vanity 6 and The Time, who's music Prince wrote as well, opened up for him. Technically, Prince wrote 2 albums + his double album 1999 for this '82 tour.
TH-cam search Prince singing the songs he wrote for these artists. Him singing Glamorous Life, Jungle Love and others.
This was the first Prince song that I ever heard back in the early 80's. And whilst I liked a song or two from his earlier albums, my favorite Prince albums where I liked most of the songs were PURPLE RAIN and AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY. And I could be wrong, but, the two ladies in the video were Lisa and Wendy.
That was Lisa and Wendy, guys. From The Revolution. You've reviewed 3 Prince songs now, you need to read up on some of his history. He is a fucking LEGEND. The very first video of his you reacted to was from the movie Purple Rain, a stone-cold classic. WATCH IT!
Wendy joined after this. That’s Jill
Jones
Great reaction guys! Prince is the GOAT. You should definitely check out Let's Go Crazy next. It was one of his many number 1 hits. Great song and performance. It also highlights his guitar skills.
The ladies are Jill Jones who is blonde (also one of his many girlfriends) and Lisa Coleman.
Having a lion in your pocket just means his penis wants to party. Here's the link for Let's Go Crazy
th-cam.com/video/aXJhDltzYVQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XCEu5ScVPAaoEEes
Prince is my favorite individual artist. Been a fan since the 1980s. I'm now a wedding minister and cannot say the first part of "Let's Go Crazy" because I'll start singing it instead of performing a wedding ceremony. Y'all should check that one out if you haven't already. Prince is a DEEP rabbit hole. Let your subs know if you want suggestions for more Prince. I could give you a month's worth.
This came out in 1983 with the 1999 album, a year before he blew up with Purple Rain
This has nothing to do with Y2K, lol.
This was not referring to Y2K. It was based on the premise like it would be the biggest party of all time with NYE changing the year and the century.
1982 was when this album dropped
I'm digging you both! Thank you for giving credit. Where is credit is due. Check out, (Baby Imma Star, and I Would Die for You.) Together! Let's go Crazy, 3/4's of it was the movie, Purple Rain!
Anything you can assume on Prince. You will be correct. He's done them all, as well as for many other artists. Ex: Stevie Nicks, Sinade O'Connor, The Bangles, Chaka Kahn, to name a few.
React to Darling nikki plz. It's great
This is from 1982. The band lineup is Dez Dickerson on guitar (yes, he left the band after this album and tour but was in the movie Purple Rain as a solo act), Lisa Coleman and Dr Fink on keys, Brown Mark on bass, Bobby Z on drums, and Jill Jones on backing vocals. Lisa, Mark, Bobby, and Matt Fink (along with the addition of Wendy Melvoin on guitar) became The Revolution on the next album, Purple Rain. They remained Prince’s band for several years. I’m going to keep recommending live performances so you can really get a sense of Prince’s brilliance. The live performances of Purple Rain from the Syracuse show or 1985 American Music Awards, Thieves in the Temple/It from Glam Slam, Baby I’m a Star/Push from the Special Olympics, Forever in My Life/It from Sign O the Times and soooo many more are all great. Here’s the link to that Forever in My Life performance in case you’d like to check it out. It’s from 1987 so you’d get to see what he was doing then since you guessed 1999 might be from that time period. th-cam.com/video/X2DPhTYN2jM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pWPg_0bGVRvJZdNd
We thought there would be a base on the moon by 1999 and we'd be in space. 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968 (only 14 years before 1982). 14 years ago was 2010 🤣🤣
Have you already done LET'S GET CRAZY!!!!!? Another great one...
Check out “Controversy” by Prince
The blonde is Jill Jones and the other girl is Lisa Coleman. Jones is an actress/musician these days and Coleman writes songs for film and television these days along with another singer from Prince's backing singers called Wendy Melvoin.
He make it -82……the outher guys singing is Dez Dickingson. The girl with dark hear Lisa Coleman and Jill Johns. Lisa and Wendy who plaid the outher guitar was together for some years. And Dez have give many interview altso Wendy have…….you most Groove much, much deeper if you whant to learn somthing about The Royal badness 😂 eks…..he have dance Classic ballett for 2-3 years. You must see his movie Purple Rain, it was very much from his reall life there, it is sad, romantic, much, much music of c. I think its very interesting. Can see it every day, as I sometimes do ❤ and altso the movie Under the Cherry moon…..thats a black and whithe- movie, funny but end very sad. And its so many interview with him on YT, have you heard him speaking…….if not you come to bee so supriced 😮 he was not gay……he hade many women…. could be at the same time 😅……and he was only 1,57 cm tall. And yes I was born in -99 I was actully 36 then 😂❤😊 his full name is Prince Rogers Nelson born June 7 1958 died 21 april 2016, 57 years old 😢😢😢
He’s talking about what’s in his pants! Get it! Lol!
Samual & Lucas, Prince Rogers Nelson. "Motherless Child" Live performance is jaw dropping. 🎤
You were close fellas, but the song, 1999, also the album title, dropped October 27, 1982 and was the followup to 1981’s Controversy album. But the album that shot Prince into the stratosphere, Purple Rain, wouldn’t arrive until June 25, 1984. I graduated high school in 1986 and grew up through all of it and the 80s really was the best decade to be a teenager and college kid. The girls in the video are Lisa Coleman (brunette) who would remain with Prince when he expanded to Prince and The Revolution when Purple Rain dropped, and the blonde is Jill Jones who worked with several artists as a backing vocalist for several artists in the 80s.
Even in the 80’s we never fathomed the year 2000…this is an 80’s song but can you imagine the number one ☝️ song the year 1999!!!
If you have not listened to the 12 inch version of this....please do so. This song really takes off then......IMO - a lot of his BEST lie in the extended versions of his music, and not the commercial release. And, we are not going to even start with his un-released music. And then there is his musical vault.....which is the stuff of LEGEND. Prince is not just a world, he is an entire galaxy. Twice.
Lion was a brand of condoms. Gayle Chapman, the keyboardist who toured and played with Prince for his second album Prince in 1979 said Prince wanted all the people in the band to have characters they portrayed on stage - a stage persona (like Beyonce has Sasha Fierce) - and he was always going to be the personification of sex. That was his stage character, that drove his lyrics, coupled with the need to always want to "push buttons" and shock people and see how far he could go and how much he could get away with.
This was a month ago so I'm sure you already know or have already guessed, "a line in my pocket & baby I'm ready to roar" refers to COCAINE. COCAINE was HUGE in the 80's. LOL !
Actually (believe it or not) the opening lyrics was referring to 9\11... think about it.
Lmaoo 😂😂😂....I was 12 yrs old when this song came out & I knew what the street phrase meant as a Lion in your pocket & it's ready to roar 😂😂😂..btw it meant a guy's wood blowing a volcano...lol 😂😂😂
There was definitely a run on Batteries, flashlights, toilet paper and canned food leading up to Jan 1, 2000. I think most people bought some of these things just in case. Most people I knew didn’t really think that the whole internet was going to collapse, but there was a lot of talk about the possibility in the media- the normal fear mongering.
I'm just remembering how far in the future 1999 seemed when this song came out.
I have always wondered if the changing vocals in this song were inspired by Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People."
Not referring to Y2K because that wasn't a thing yet. Released in 1982.
Young grasshoppers, please pick me to be your guide. I will show you the way of the purple Yoda! He was a musical genuis. way ahead of his time. 8:20
There was no internet in 1982.
No one was worried about or had even heard of Y2K. Just about every decade in the 20th Century was futurelistically looking forward to the year 2000 and what the 21st Century...THE FUTURE...would be like. The 1980s was especially enthusiastic looking forward to the year 2000. New Wave was also about envisioning the future.
Prince, as always, did it with glam and style.
Prince watched a documentary about Y2K and that’s how he got the idea for this song.
Hi Samuel and Lucas on Twins Reacts My name is Lisa I'm New on your Channel. I'm really Love Prince Music and Prince is a movie star too Not only Purple Rain is a song it's a popular movie in the 80s I think that's what makes him more famous. Please React
Kiss By: Prince.
This is an anti war song. The meaning is if the war mongers are going to war monger and kill us all we are going to party like it’s 1999.
This was in the Cold War and growing up we fully expected a nuclear war with Russia. When I was a kid growing up teachers even told us we would likely be a target because we had a nuclear plant and army base near us. No one would survive. We just lived with this unknown fear.
Lots of anti war song were created from the era. Prince often had anti war, anti government, apocalypse and biblical themes in his songs.
Lion in my pocket is a Biblical reference to Judah the Lion, or Christ.
A lion in his pocket and he is ready to roar means
You have your war, I have a secret weapon in Christ, he is in my pocket and ready to roar. I will not be afraid, I will dance and party because Christ wins
That was a great question by one of the twins regarding 2000. Yes it was a big deal all on the news that Y2K was going to all the computers. We're going to shut down and it was a big deal at that time and then when they saw nothing happened they said never mind😂
But 1999 the song by Prince. This was way before purple rain and all the others that you've heard before so it's the early stuff. If I remember right this had to be 1982...👍 Thank you for playing Prince songs. I like to see the reaction. You really need to see the movie purple rain and he had another movie that was called under the Cherry Moon. Those were really two good movies. He had another one called alphabet. I didn't see that one. It was called alphabet Street in 88
And come on. Don't tell me you don't know what lion in my pocket means. That's the first time I've ever heard. Any guy say that they didn't know what that meant😂😅
I love all jundras of music when disco died here came prince and hall and Oates and funk from 1981 came all jundras of music hard rock was always there but came rap pop,country all kinds of music from the uk
I’m so old I remember this song being a staple on bus trips to high school football games… somebody always had this song playing on a jambox.
I was born because I went to the 1999 concert
Good Lord the man just could not stop screaming about the end of the world😂😂
Yet another thing Gen X survived LOL
Some people went a little crazy and stocked their houses with water and stuff. It's kind of like the pandemic was. My family was okay. We figured other parts of the world were going to hit 2000 before we did. So at least we would know hours in advance if the grid was going to shut down.
💜PRINCE💜
1982 and that’s Lisa, Wendy and Jill.
Lol, Lion in my Pocket… as a teenager I thought it was a double entendres. His Christian upbringing is interwoven into many of his lyrics. Take it for what you will.
Wendy wasn’t in the band yet, she replaced Dez.
“Lion in my pocket” Lion was an old condom brand….he did the same thing on Little Red Corvette “Cause you had a pocket full of horses Trojan and some of them used”
I'm sure yall did Purple Rain but check out When Doves Cry, and Little Red Corvette
If I had to guess what😮 the reference "Lion in my pocket" means to the context of the song specifically, it could mean they are ready to go crazy and let loose and have a fun time. I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like to me.
1971 or 1972 first album was controversy
1982’ never will forget my senior year in high school! Great reaction!
did you do rock and roll hall of fame yet? while my guitar gently weeps. its killer and watch close to his guitar work. can't wait to see your reactions. oh and Prince over MJ enyday everyday.
I got a lion in my pocket and baby hes ready to go.
These two: what does he mean by that?.
Me: these guys are stupid, beta males.
The album came out in December 1982. The Song was released as a single in 1983. From left to right Jill Jones & Lisa Coleman. Lion in my pocket is condom. Not sure if the brand name.
I was eight when this song came out in '82 and 1999 seemed so far away when Prince sang it. Now, it's 25 years later, and what I wouldn't do to go back.
Yeah, the Y2K bug had not been discovered when this song hit the airwaves.
Fellas check out the "America" filmed live in Paris video. That performance is CRAZZZZZY FIRE!
Correction first album was called For You 1978 and 2nd album came out in 1979
My favorite song is one called SEVEN...:)
Another awesome Song by Prince!!💜💜 Great job guys! 👍
So about, the coming of the year 2000. I was 32 when 2000 came, I had graduated with a BS in Computer Science. But backing up before that. The biggest fear to be honest, was that the entire world, computer systems, would just stop working because most software was built to handle dates with only a two digit year. Once the year 2000 hit, that wasn’t going to work anymore, ALL of those programs, in the word mind you, needed to handle a 4 digit year to work properly handling an appropriate date. Just think about it can sound like quite an overwhelming situation!
So many things in the world are run by computer programs, even back then. But companies were already aware and working on the issue, to be prepared. It was blown a little bit out of proportion. It all worked out in the end. ☺️
No early 80's this was before Purple Rain that came in 1984.
Lisa and Wendy.
Lion in my pocket it’s a sexual reference to something 🙄 come on now
Check out the song/video America. Not only does he play guitar he does a drum solo at the end.
you guys either need to delve into this or get out. you are simply not ready.
The other girls are Wendy and Lisa part of the revolution his band at that time! Lion in my pocket... where is your pocket located near on a MALE??