Zager and Evans- In The Year 2525 (REACTION)
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Zager and Evans- In The Year 2525 (REACTION)
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The future happened a lot more quickly than Zager and Evans predicted.
Yeah they talk about test tube babies in the year 6565 when in fact less then a decade later the first test tube baby was born.
It gives you chills how prophetic it is.
The years (specific numbers) were used for rhymes and sound, the message resides in the the res of the lyrics, and the passing of time that will lead to an eventual "final" outcome.
Now ,in 2021, we wonder will we make it to 2025. Song written in a Volkswagen after a long night of partying in 1969. Forever , the 1960s and 1970’s will always be best music ever . So glad I was there. I Lived and loved the 60s . Now, I’m living and loving the 60s (age wise now. ) 🎵 i
It sure did. I'm thinking now is the time to wipe it out and start over.
This song becomes more and more meaningful...scarily accurate in some respects.
Sitting in 2020 listening to a 1968 song about the year 2525 (and onward), set to images from a 1927 film about the future. I LOVE IT!
The matrix in action 😁
good grief ! 52 years ago !
That film is called Metropolis 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 German masterpiece
The 1920s were already futuristic. Like the 60s too.
@@rockinresurrection6542 I agree. This movie was amazing it was, scary, creepy, and beautiful. I think Fritz Lang directed it. I like some of his other movies.
This song is suggesting that we have chosen the wrong road.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run...
If u stop the video at 5:11 you can clearly see the name MOLOCH....so I would agree with your assessment.
Suggesting? A bit more than that I think.
We are on the wrong road towards the abyss, global warming, political tension in Europe, the Americas and Asian. We’re nearing the tipping point of our civilization, are we just going to sit back and watch the world collapse ?
@@jimstavrianoudakis7567 please explain what that means, thanks!
It is one of the scariest songs i ever heard. It expands the imagination and you can visualize the dark mirror world the song is painting.
“In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give . And he ain't put back nothing” it’s happening in 2020!! Awesome song!!
I think of the Amazon jungle every time. And how many whales are left?? The list goes on and on. We're certainly living in the end times.
The Sager and Evans song is intense and I remember when this came out in 1969. I thought that none of that would happen in my lifetime. Well I am 60 and some of that is happening now in the year 2021. I love that song. Has so much meaning. You figured the song out. Awesome. Thanks for the analysis.👌🌹
This song still downs me 50 years later.
This song always scared me. Even more today.
The song is still valid today but some things are already here.
@@reallymysterious4393 The trouble with "Science" is that it can't seem to make up its mind. Are we going into an ice age (1975 - science prediction) or a heating up period (2015-)? Oh, and, of course, POLITICS never enters into the consideration.....right?
@@reallymysterious4393 Yeah...for now. The ice age was predicted by "Science" back in the 1970's. Today, we all hear about "global warming"...for now. In 30 years..who knows? The U.S. is hardly a laughingstock...neither is Britain, Brazil, Poland, Italy, etc. who are all becoming more "Nationalist" and rejecting the "Globalist" garbage, which I believe you embrace. Sorry, but Marx is dead. Oh, BTW ....PROVE global warming is man-caused. You can't.
@@reallymysterious4393 Yeah..whatever. My point is..."science" is not constant; it changes quite regularly in its conclusions...and if you think it is not influenced by politics and money (Toe the line or have your funding cut) then you are naive beyond belief. As for Trump, he is one man. There are many million of persons who, like him, are rejecting your "Globalist Utopia". You are correct about one thing: You are going to witness some changes that will make you gasp...and it won't take 30 years.
@@reallymysterious4393 Do yourself a BIG favor. Don't bet against Trump being re-elected. The morons are the ones who are sheep, like you, who never question what they are fed by the powers that be, but rather believe whatever they are told by the "Experts". I guess it's really quite a mystery to you to understand CYCLICAL climate change...as has been occurring quite regularly over the centuries...even without human influence. As I pointed out previously, scientific "conclusions" are like the weather...they change quite often. Oh, getting back to November's election; Biden is SENILE, that is obvious. He will not win. As for close minded...yeah, because I don't buy the B.S. There is going to be devastation on a scale never seen before, but climate will have little to do with it. Since you're such a smart guy, I'll let you figure it out. Me? I am prepared.
@@reallymysterious4393 Same here. Good luck. You're going to need it.
Some of the things that they sing about way back then is happening now
You recon Carol!!!
I first heard this song when I was a little kid, not long after it was released. I remember it scared the hell out of me. I don't think we're gonna make it to 2525, much less 9595.
Larry....As they said back then, "We have met the enemy and they are us".
I can agree with you on this!
Such a great song! Shout out to whoever made this video, too. The clips are from the groundbreaking 1927 German silent film Metropolis, directed by the legendary Fritz Lang. It’s a futuristic film set in a time when there are essentially two classes, the overlords and the workers, who are mostly hidden underground. The son of one of the city leaders falls in love with a woman who is a leader among the workers. It’s incredible. Check it out if you haven’t already! Thanks for reacting to this!
Great song, with clips from one of the best film ever. And it stands up very well, and almost every sci-fi and many horror films, goes back to this film.
Nicole Holford Lockney , fantastic movie!
The transformation from the robot to the woman is uber awesone.
Dixie No, but Freddy Mercury was one of the artists who recorded music for the soundtrack of a new version of Metropolis that was produced in 1984. Pat Benatar, Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant, Loverboy & Billy Squier were among the others. Fans of the film mostly panned it at the time, but it has gained some appreciation since then as an 80s artifact. I really need to watch that version again to see what I think of it now. I saw it in the late 80s and had mixed feelings!
@@holyspacemonkey I think they did pay to use some scenes in the Radio Gaga video, with them superimposed in (in a flying car).
This song gives me goosebumps, futuristic.
Listen to Saviour Machine by David Bowie (1970) so prophetic, could be talking about this year!
Yes, this is a condemnation of mans Greed and dependence on Technology.
Sounds like this is coming true today.Thanks for your reaction.
This is a 60s song but I remember hearing this on the radio when I was a kid in the 80s. Kind of eerie. Because i was so bad at math I assumed i would be alive to see if they were right...haha
I was 7 when this came out. It was eerie, and literally frightening to me at that time. I remember asking for either a station change or turn off the radio.
Same here. They played it all the time on the radio. I loved the song even if I couldn't understand all of the words. I'm from Germany and my English wasn't as good by the time. I was born in 1972.
You are. They just got the dates wrong, that's all....
Actually you very well just may be. People just didn't pick up on the repetition of the year for sake of rhyme and rhythm. They actually mean the year 2025- 35- 45-55.... Etc. Which fit perfectly with the world economic forum's agenda, agenda 21, agenda 201. Also notice when they speak of "god" they put Babylon and Moloch. Then notice the trans-humanism reference brought to you by the one and only Lucifer (notice the upside down pentagram behind the robot ⛧then how the robot appears to turn to what looks like a human)
@@dave0915 Actually it's because we are much more in tune as children. And you picked up on the doomsday predictions just from the energy People just didn't pick up on the repetition of the year for sake of rhyme and rhythm. They actually mean the year 2025- 35- 45-55.... Etc. Which fit perfectly with the world economic forum's agenda, agenda 21, agenda 201. Also notice when they speak of "god" they put Babylon and Moloch. Then notice the trans-humanism reference brought to you by the one and only Lucifer (notice the upside down pentagram behind the robot ⛧then how the robot appears to turn to what looks like a human)
Yes it is isnt it amazing how in the 60s they wrote about what is really happening now 😮
Remember this one from my childhood.
This song was from when we used to practice hiding under our desks from Russian nuclear weapons in grade school, and sending our baby teeth to the government so they could measure radiation levels. Oh, and running through the DDT fog when the spray truck came down the street.
Wow, I don't think we did that in the UK
That's nuts. And all the air raid drills they had in the 50s, and bomb shelters that they never needed.
Eww me and cousins ran thru ddt trucks too .why did our parents let us and wed come back home wet and oily
I remember doing that hide under your desk and whitewash your windows and we fell for it
Bring back the smoke trucks!
That was the best😜
Riding bikes in the fog of insecticide ...
I remember this song, always thought it sounded ominous and dark, still does, frightening how accurate some of it is, especially about the taking all the time and not giving back to earth 🌍
This song used to scare me back in the day because it seemed so far away!!
Has anybody recommended "One Tin Soldier" from the band Coven? Great one hit wonder
That’s another good one!
My mom and I used to sing this on road trips! ❤
Me.
I've heard this song quite a few times over the years, but never knew who sang it. Now I know.😁
It is so amazing to see somebody hearing a song this old for the first time in 2020...and WHAT a song to pick! The lyrics aren't just a standard pop song, but instead tell a freaky, dark science fiction story. Basically it's Twilight Zone/Black Mirror, with a groove to it.
(and I love it. :D)
This is a Vietnam War era song. I remember several songs of that time that were written out of the fear of what the world would become. You might want to listen to One Tin Soldier Rides Away or They Paved Paradise to Put up a Parking Lot. I think you would like them both. I believe the movie scenes are from a film called Metropolis. You might recognize the circular lights around the robot's head at the end as ones referenced in a Queen song but they superimposed Freddie's face instead of the woman's. I think it was The Show Must Go On but I'll have to check on that. Peace and health!
One Tin Soldier great song and the movie it was from Billy Jack it was instrimental in my teen age years, again both song and movie relavent 50 yrs' later, along wioth a little known movie called Bless the Beasts and the Children.
You have to remember that at the time of the song, the nuclear bomb was foremost in our minds. At school, you had drills of what to do if the bomb hit, the Cuban Missile Crisis had happened a few years before where the world was at Defcon 4. Nuclear Bombers were on 24/7 flights over the Arctic Circle. Therefore the line "In the Year 2525, if Man is still alive...."
Thank you for reacting to that tune Jayvee! It had a profound effect on me in the summer of 69. Heard it every day at our neighbourhood pool. Good choice for the prophetic 2020.
I remember hearing this song when I was a child in the 60's and thinking " the year 2000 will never be here so there won't be a 2525". Silly me!
Zager and Evans were ahead of their time. When I played this song for my son in law and broke everything down for him, he was freaked out, computers, robots, test tube babies, artificial limbs, they were all pretty much unheard of in the 60’s and early 70’s, except for like government offices they has giant computers.
When this song came out we couldn’t even imagine 2025! We haven’t made it there yet.
You wont make it thats 500 years from now lol.
Maryann ` Hurley No, we were so young, we couldn’t even think about 2025 not 2525! Both years seemed like science fiction back then.
It’s only four years away! Poor old Mother Earth we have really given her a hard time.
We’re in 2023, two years left.
This song sounds like it’s about 2020!
lots happend fast... considr the book FUTURE SHOCK publishd 1970.
scott johnson Hi, that sounds very interesting. I will likely check it out. Thanks 😊
missg
the book was written by toffler. it is a commentary on how huge and many social changes would happen. many have in 40+ yrs since i first red it.
chipisi'lacho
scott johnson thanks Scott, I’m familiar with an author named Toffler, don’t know if it’s the same person. I do appreciate the info & I will check it out. I don’t know if it’s just me but even this yr 2020 is so extraordinary. I’m in New Orleans & waiting for the fourth hurricane since July. We had two hurricanes almost 3 wks ago a day apart. A July hurricane is unusual & we’re only half way through the season. Also it’s totally different with covid 19 & people trying to evacuate. Many still never had power restored since the last one. The people who are displaced from the last storms that are in shelters now have to evacuate from there. Something strange is happening. I made my statement on this song as a joke but not totally a joke if that makes any sense. Stay safe my friend 🤗
u b careful. whenevr yall storm, we get rain in okla.
chipisi'lacho
Remember this song from my childhood. Liked the song then but the words are really powerful now.
This song was actually called one of the creepiest songs ever made a while back.
I can see why
Creepy that no one in a position to stop this happening has done so.
It's haunting
@@bluepenguingaming1690 Damn right. It chills me to the bone. Always did as a kid and has remained every bit as poignant as I have grown older with it!
Deep lyrics for sure.
I remember this one! I was 9 years old.
ive loved this song since i was 6 i am 57 now
“In the year one million and a half, human kind is enslaved by giraffe.”
This song created such a mood in me in the summer of '69. I was getting ready to start 1st grade, man landed on the moon and there were a lot of protests going on.
These images are from the masterpiece silent film Metropolis.
In the year 2020, ain't gonna be no money...
I was around six or seven years old when this was a hit, I distinctly remember even at that very young age how prophetic these lyrics were. And even at that very young age I remember feeling strangely scared when ever I heard this track on the Radio.
This song was a one-hit-wonder. AND WHAT A HIT IT WAS!!! I reached number 1 in 1969, and stayed that for a whopping 6 WEEKS!!!
Here's a one hit wonder from the 1970s: Lee Michaels "Do You Know What I Mean?" I think you'd like it.
Oh yes that’s a good one
Definitely a great song, I didn't even remember who sang it though until I read this comment.
When this song was out, I remember sitting on the stoop with my older brother and his friends. They were trying to figure out how old they'd be in the year 2000. It seems like yesterday. Time goes by in a flash! Enjoy every day, my friends!
We used to watch space 1999 in the 70's and think it was forever away now it's been and gone and seems as far away
Think about it, The Space Age reopened people's minds to possibilities in the future. We had just gone to the moon.
One of the favorite songs from my childhood. I still have the 45 of it.
Always rated this song but listened to the lyrics more closely today. Very wise beyond it's years, nice reaction .
This is my favorite song of all time...and I was 14 years old when this song was popular.😀😀
This was a powerful song during the time of the Vietnamese war. It changed the religious and spiritual views of a lot of people including myself. Great reaction.
I loved this song back when it came out and had not heard it in years. Thank you for sharing.
I was 13 when this came out. My friends and I thought it was cool.
I was obsessed with this song when I was a kid! Loved the warning contained within. I'm a cold war baby (the tail end), and remember doing nuke drills in elementary. I was terrified of that damn bomb.
The very definition of a one hit wonder. Nice scenes from the movie Metropolis as well.
It was way before it's time
Thank you for playing it's wild to think of where we are headed even back then. When this song came out I remember it being talked about by my parents and Granparents.
I just listened to this the other day wow
This song is amazing. I heard this song when I was a teenager back in the 70s and truthfully it kind of scared me. Thinking of so far ahead knowing some of the predictions are happening now. Amazing. No one really knows what the future holds but this song gives you to think......what can become. Scary thoughts.
I've been waiting for someone that I follow to react to this song. I remember as a kid listening to this and being amazed about the "ideas" that this song put out there. I thought, "Wow, could that even happen?" when as you said, Jay... some of the things they are talking about have already happened. Thanks for your reaction. I enjoyed hearing this song again. Take care and be well, Jay. Peace.
My wife has a custom guitar from Zager.
It is comparable to a top end Martin. I think it is even better.
He was my guitar teacher for a while. He rebuilt the neck/frets on my guitar, which I think is quite cool. He had a number of guitars on the walls.
Brilliant track. Remember this well!
Jamall sent me over but I’ve been watching your videos all along LOL
Right on, thank you, J! 👍😎
You're a doll!!!
Heard this song by accident and recorded only the second half when I was 10 back in 79' ... searched for it for 20yrs and thanks to you tubers I found it again . 😃
One of the top 10 in my list.
Wow - when this song came out it was so futuristic and far off and now it's almost upon us !
It’s actually quite a good song. I remember this on top of the pops. A lot of fun.
This is in my top ten favourite songs of my life. The surreal thing is that I was a young woman when it was a hit, and now I am old I see so many of things they sang about are coming to pass. As with the book 1984, it was meant to be fiction, but instead it has become an instruction manual. Incidentally, the footage in the video is from the silent film Metropolis made in 1927. It was a dystopian view of how the maker Fritz Lang and writer Thea von Harbou thought the world would be in 2027. One could argue that Mr Lang was not far wrong! The film is available to view for free on TH-cam. It is a classic everyone should see who has an interest in film history. The film was a century ahead of its time.
The crazy thing is, while "In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" came out in 1968 and was properly deemed "futuristic" and "visionary" for its day, Rick Evans actually wrote it several years earlier in the early '60s. It was recorded in Odessa, Texas, in one take, in a studio residing in a cow pasture.
Very,very deep!!
This song always makes me smile, I guess because it takes me back to my childhood when it first came out. It was such a unique tune that really made you think about the idea of the future in a way that nothing else really did.
The grass roots, live for today. They have a few other greats. But this is their most well known. My favorite is sooner or later
Man.... haven't heard this one in forever. Great memories.
Love this song and it's profound lyrics.....very special!!!
Oh wow! The video they have in the background is the silent movie, Metropolis!!!! Very good match up to this song!
I recall this song right after I left Vietnam. 1969.. Everything was crazy. Hippies spitting on soldiers, protest, the democratic convention riots in Chicago, serial killers, Martin Luther King assassination. Both Kennedy brothers shot. American soldiers killed by the thousands etc...Now your right that song will never, get old.
I remember listening to my dad play this song in his car in the 70's.
I was a little guy but the lyrics completely freaked me out.
As I listen to it again today, it doesn't freak me out any less than it did when I was just a boy.
I hear this song and am instantly transported back to my basement bedroom playing this 45 over and over and over again as loud as possible without Mom yelling the stairs at me.
Wow....we're already well past AD-9595...wonder what that means for our future..?😥
So glad to see someone reacting to this great timeless song. Back in the day offbeat songs can make top 40. Not today
Never never heard this song before... But its. "Food for Thought"... 🤔
Great song!!! Glad you reacted to this one
Hey JayveeTV Jamel_AKA_Jamal showed you some love today! You've go a great channel and really enjoy your videos!🎸
Thank you
yes...this song has amazing words about all of us...
I was obsessed by this song as a lad
Paid to be a kid when this came out ! To see the world as it is today!
Zager and Evans were the epitome of the term "one-hit wonder". As of 2020, they are the only artists ever to have a chart-topping #1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic and never have another chart single in Billboard or in the UK for the rest of their career.
oh dang Jovaughn, another great one today!! Thank you!
So glad you're back!
I love this song. This song was published when I was in the 10th grade. I’m 66 now. At my school we were Sophomores. We talked about this song in English Class. Almost everybody had the same reaction. We all really liked the Song. When it was my turn to share my views of the Song I stood up walk to the head of the class, and all I said was, “ I just Love this Song!” My lyric commentary was usually just 1,2 or 3 word commentaries, but on that day I continued. I love this Song because it gives me the perspective on what our future may be. It’s not definitively saying that this is our future. This song is paving the way for you as a person to literally do your own thinking, about your own future, based on the lyrics of this Song! This Sing has opened Up My Mind to the endless Possibilities of how our Future May Be. Everybody Stood Up in Class that day. The didn’t clap or say anything, they all just Stood Up and watched me walk back to my seat in class. When I sat down the whole class sat down together. And the discussion about the song continued til the end of class! When we walked out of class the teacher called my name. She gestured me to come back into class. She said, “Just for minute” I need to talk to you!” So I really didn’t want to talk to her that was the third day that I was call back into my English Class. So, not positively, but half heartedly, I walked back in. 3 of my friends waited for me. My teacher was so Happy. I said, “ Did I do something wrong?” She said, NO! I’m so Proud of you. Today your grade for the class is A+. I said A+. Is that a grade? I never saw a A+ before? Just A. B, C, or D. Today is A+! Keep up the good work. She said go to you next class. The Year 2525 was my favorite Song. My classmates and I we discussed this song in detail. Everyone call this song the Song Of Many Possibilities...Aloha
Song
Thank you for sharing your story...amazing..!!
I heard this back in the day! I was 13 years old back then.
Good song 🎶🌟🎶🌟Fresh
Jovaughn, I really like your ideas for the days of the week! Love Wednesdays so I can hear these one-hitters. This was a big hit.
DUDE! The video playing with this song is a movie called METROPOLIS!...It's AMAZING! The story is great, the style of the movie is sooo creative and unique and artistic...METROPOLIS was a silent movie made in in the 1920's about the huge difference between the rich elite living in a growing city during The Industrial Revolution and the lower class workers who built the cities and the way in which they each view the world around them...It illustrates how the working class feel pretty much like slaves and machines to the counless hours building a city while the rich live high on the Hog with not really a care in the world...How the rich don't even realize how much blood, Sweat and tears it takes to physically work in such a harsh time as The Industrial Revolution and the striking difference between their two, seperate worlds...A really great story that still rings true today...
In the 1980'S Geiogiao Merouder (I think it was) made a remake that only added some (really effective) sound effects and didn't touch the style or art of the film. They took the movie (including the extra parts that had to be edited out for a proper runtime of a movie) and added songs from famous artist of the time...QUEEN, PAT BENETAR (to name a few)...It's an amazing remake that does justice to the original...
but since you love music, you will love the 1980'S revamping of METROPOLIS!...The original is awesome as well!...METROPOLIS is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time...BOTH versions of METROPOLIS are amazing, have a great story and a unique art style. METROPOLIS is really something else as you can see from this video. 😎😎😎...
This isn't the official music video of course, but it's a great fan edit cause the song and the video go well together...Personal opinion, I like the fan edits of this song with future themes and pictures...but cause of the meaning of the movie, it's a good fit with the song as well...
This song is everything though! 😎😎😎...I've watched allot of lyric videos of this song with futuristic themes and I can't get enough of anything about the future...
even though I know this song is deep and about how if we destroy the earth, what is our future really?...How will we have a future if we don't take care of the hear and now? Great message!
The b&w video from the silent era really elevates this song. Nice!
My favorite OHW song! This is the greatest OHW group of all time. Because there song was #1 in both the US and the UK. And then they never had another song make it into the top 100.
Thanks JV. I'm super happy!!
First heard this song as a child. I loved it back than and still works today.
I was 19 and laughed at this although I really liked it.Little did I know ! Best wishes from Scotland.
From the artist I have seen you react to I want to give you a request, Neil Diamond has a beautiful voice, the song Holly Holy would give you an idea of Diamond, you will want to hear more!! Thank you!!!!
I love Song sung Blue .
Niel Diamond, what's not to like?
So many great songs. Do you know what I mean is just one of many on my playlist. Live from years ago is best. Hot August Night.
People of all ages go to his concerts. Grandparents, parents, teens. It saddens me that he has Alzheimers. What a talent.
Two songs with a similar message are Supernature by Cerrone and Eight day by Hazel O Connor.
As a bonus both songs are good tunes.
Good choice for one hit Wednesday.I remember when this song came out.Easy to dance to .Did not give much thought to the lyrics.
As time passes ,and with the technology existing today , the song makes sense.
Good start to One Hit Wonder Wednesday.