First Time Hearing - Guns N Roses - One In A Million - Reaction!
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- Hey Everyone, Nick here back for another Song Reaction this time...Guns N Roses - One In A Million.
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First Time Hearing - Guns N Roses - One In A Million - Reaction!
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It’s a song about culture shock. It’s brilliant.
I like this song .
I don't take this song personally as an immigrant from El Salvador 🇸🇻 living in Queen's N.Y. USA 🇺🇸 . one in a million don't bother me one bit
When you can't say some words, it's definitely the sign of "democracy".
One of the greatest albums ever. So underrated for Guns N' Roses
Such a great song. Sad, they don't play this live anymore 😭😭😭😭😭
You make it sound like it was a regular in their setlist they played the song one time live and that was at the record store when they did all four of the acoustic songs And then they backed away from it Axel was back peddling his ass off he came up with all that all that shit was afterwards flash was just trying to help them get through the press by saying what he said does other interviews were slash told him not to put that song out there and he did it's a good song it just needs a lyric change it was from his perspective it could have been done without saying the n word and without being homophobic and shit which even I was homophobic at that time we've learned a lot since then
Slash is half black, and even he said that this song is misunderstood!
The song is not Axl's vision!
The song is about how a small town white boy sees the world when he finally gets to the big town! And about hypocrisy, and not pointing fingers!
Perfectly said, also to add on there are interviews with several artist of the time like NWA who when asked about this song and Axl have backed him and his meaning and understand that it wasnt meant in a racist or derogatory way. Just take a step back and listen to the whole song. That being said its somewhat understantable that it can be a little shocking to hear for some at first.
Thats BS. This song was written directly from Axls perspective. How he experiensed comming from Louisiana to LA. He has stated this in many interviews
@@crimsondeath7468 He has clearly said otherwise. Lol.
Lol then why say the n work just say blacks or something. N word is definitely a racist word. They just denied it bc they wanted to sell albums and do concerts and it’s bad for publicity
Slash said he did not like the song and Axl made the band do it
judge it with 1988 eyes.He was just writing what he saw.
While trying to be controversial. Controversy was GNR bread and butter.
One of the greatest songs ever written.
Ya it's a shame it got put in the garbage can they couldn't wright a song this good again if they tried. This is when the band wasn't famous and were hungry for it. After they reached the top they deflated like many do. It's also sad that people just listened to the first two verses and the not the third which is "radicals and racists don't point your finger at me, I'm a small town white boy trying to make ends meet".
I bet you couldn’t wright a song
This is my favorite guns n roses song its so well written and axls vocals are insane with Slash's great guitar deff one of the most underrated and misunderstood songs ever made but the true fans know what it is
Yup. Saw them at Giants Stadium when I was 15 ... People get stuck on the words, and fail to realize this is art and music in its most purist form. You don't have to agree, but it was a different time and he's telling you how he feels sometimes.
I really respect Axl for telling this story. Love this song (with an open mind ;) )
This is one of my favorite songs in this album…it is not a racist or bigoted song he does use strong words to convey how life was as a person who is just starting and has no idea if he will even make it…I love to falsetto style of the music that makes the song as much of not more than the lyrics
I love this song and I take the lyrics as a way of living. Thank you Axl.
This song doesn't need any approval. It's a classic.
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Fuckin right
It's One in a Trillion now (due to inflation)
I saw then at mk bowl, they did a full acoustic set with many of the lies lies lies songs, goddamn that was an amazing set
People under 40 years of age must realize PC language doesn't fix problems. Moreover, in most cases, it causes yet even more problems than it solves. Speaking bluntly and offensively is sometimes needed. And remember there isn't any constitutional right to protect you from being offended.
I'm 41, there is also no need to just be an asshole under the guide of being "brutally honest" just for the fuck of it, people who do that generally just like to be a dick.
You are missing the point. The song is about self-loathing.
@@tristramcoffin926 no it isn't.
True.
@@tristramcoffin926 If it is or not, doesn't matter.
Great song
sick of people going on about the lyrics its a great song end of discussion
Its a great song from another era and your reaction video was awesome for the simple fact that you didn't say one thing until after the entire song played. Perfect! You my friend just got my vote!
Bad words aside, this is Axl Rose's best recorded vocal performance. Period.
100%
wich bad words?
This reaction just popped up on my suggestions, so I clicked on it immediately. This is a great song, and despite the language in it, tells a very important story. Axl was blasted for it when it was released, but only by people who didn't understand the context of it. It's good to see a younger person (today) to have the balls to give it a try, and judge it for themselves.
Back then we used to be able to talk like that and no one complained about it. This generation is stupid and weak. Say what you want its free speech.
Fuckin A right bro you hit it right on the head no apologies
Grow up this is the world WE live in .Let's all live together ❤
Songs tell stories ,its not necessarily the viewpoint of the artists. I always felt that the song was not the personal feeling of Axl or anyone in the band. I've felt it was told by a character or someone that was telling a story.
This is actually based on Axls real life experiences. When he first got to L.A. from Indiana, he bought some jewelry from a black guy on the street, which turned out to all be fake. He was once invited up to a guys room to drink and they all started wrestling. The guys turned out to be gay and wanted to, well, do more than wrestle and did not respond kindly when Axl rebuffed their advances. He was upset that when he went into a 7-11 and was treated like a criminal by someone who isn't from this country. Bottom line is he shouldn't have used this type of language, but, if he didn't, I dont think it would accurately express the anger he was feeling about the above experiences.
bs! You ever been to a bus station in a big city at night? There is only one word for those low life parasites. He nailed it
@@stevensmoley7983 Spot on until you said he shouldn't use this language. And you know it evidenced by your last line
@@airgunfun4248 Yeah, guess I could have worded that differently.
one of my favourite g&r songs despite the lyrics, if it didn’t have those controversial lyrics it would probably regarded as one of their best songs.
If the lyrics were different then the song wouldn't be the same, would it?
@@SaltyPirate71 you know exactly what i meant dweeb.
Love this Song! 🤟
And, the Vocals are great!
Epic brilliance
1988 or 1989 was the year lies was released I forget which. It's about Axl deciding if he wants to stay in Los Angeles. He hitch hiked up to L.A. and found out the grass wasn't greener on the other side of the septic tank. He just found more shit it's about system shock. Small town Indiana kid moves to the big city. Discovers he's not in Kansas anymore toto. The N bomb shouldn't be for anyone to say but people do. Don't cherry pick it's wrong or it's not there is no in-between. That's the beginnings of the song one in a million.
I Love the drums on this song 😁
I love this whole album!
This song is about all the BS being thrown at us and he is trying not to get sucked into it he just want to do his own thing and focus on that…I actually like this song…I get it
Perhaps GnRs best lyric, its social commentary at its finest
We need more artist with balls like this! Everyone so afraid to go against the grain and express themselves truly for fear that it won’t be accepted as the general consensus. This era of wokeness is just creating scared little wusses that act like robots and no freedom of speach rights.
When we were kids, there was the saying "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." It was good. I honestly wonder if this generation heard of it? They certainly don't act like it. It's honestly amazing how words trigger young people. It's not "enlightened" to be offended. That's why there's no passion or authenticity in art anymore.
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Yes my Pirate friends! And the most disgusting about them that they think knowing everything better than us old farts. But in the movies, they say “Nigger, and Fagott countless times. And if you or me would say it, maybe they would sue us. We live in the world of Hippocrates! And before TH-cam posted my comment, they asked me to posted it or delete? And one suggestion about this bands music ( CIVIL WAR ) you should listen to.
This song is hard but honest.
Remember free speech?
Free speech goes both ways. Axl has the right to use slurs and people have the right to express their dislike for it.
Certain artists and comedians push boundaries. It’s what they do. 💵
This is a mad great rock song 🎵 As well, that's one awesome reaction, late
This is the first video i didn't get TH-cam notification, lol. Great song.
It ties in with "Welcome To The Jungle". "Small town white boy" meets big city "multi-culturalism".... F@cking great song! Freedom of speech isn't free anymore!.... Slash aka Saul Hudson is coloured and he plays it! FFS!
Hey! You can't say "coloured" (and I'm not talking about the spelling). That's offensive on so many levels. Didn't you get the memo? It's either "person of color", "African-American" or "Negro".
Lars Dahl I beg to differ. One can say whatever one wants to say.
@@larsdahl6594 You can't say African-American, as Charlize Theron or Elon Musk might be offended, since they are NOT born in America, (nor the Brazil south side or the Canada north side of America) and might get sooo offended and stuff. Also, Africa is another continent all together. Also, rroma people are still being persecuted after more than 500 years in Romania and no one cares. Cause 3%, even if they have a party there, doesn't matter.
Slash is a Saul? That’s weird.
@@larsdahl6594 Black fellas in Australia are proud to call 'emselves Blackfullas! See? - even International PC is bulldung!
I think it is great that you reviewed this song. To answer your question of what it was about, It was about our walk to school. This was the time most rap artists were singing about murdering us. We had to sit on the bus with that, knowing that if we did get killed on our way to school, the teachers would feel sorry for the 5 or 10 "poor babies" that stabbed us.
The "faggots" referenced weren't your modern day "flamboyant characters". They were 40 year old, pieces of shit, that rolled up to the bus stop on 3rd graders saying "hey sexy, do want to look at some magazines." This was a very important song, about survival and someone recognizing that we existed.
wow, its really shocking. I'd never thougt that was 80's or 90's reality. now I'm happy I was born in Europe
@@user-el3kx1hb1r It was reality in Los Angeles.
Love this song
You talk about the 1980s as a "different era" like it was Jim Crow or something. Get real dude, you're not MLK, Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. I know you weren't even born when this song came out, but I am getting tired of clueless and woke Millennials and Zoomers virtue signalling about shit they don't understand. The song is a social commentary based on Axl's experience and the culture shock he had arriving in LA from Redneckville, USA. He chose those words because they were the best ones to convey his message; any euphemisms would be a cop-out (much like you when you say "the n-word" and "the f-word"; you are putting "nigger" and "faggot" in my head without having to foul your own mouth). Doesn't mean he's a racist or a homophobe. It's called art. As a musician you should understand this. Sometimes the best art is provocative. Deal with it. Yeah, I'm a Boomer, as is Axl, and simply by virtue of that we have a much wider perspective to draw from than you.
It warms my heart to watch millennials and zoomers react to this song. Watching their eyes bug out of their heads is somehow extremely satisfying. What is even better is watching them try to justify the fact that they even liked the song because the only words their brains actually registered were the words "niggers", " immigrants" and "faggots".
Well put man this op was spot on
Totally agree on this. And you know, this was during a time when rap music also contained lyrics about killing, which also included white people etc. I'm sick of these kind of videos as well.
Yep, I was 19 in 1988 when this album dropped. People were not as soft back then. Gangster rap was huge at the same time. NWA was rapping about killing people, slinging dope etc... You can't judge a song from the 80's with these modern woke standards.
Never noticed before that the Manic Street Preachers used this rift on the song Condemned to Rock n Roll.
I love this song. It's the way I feel
As someone old enough to remember when this came out, it was very controversial even back then. They got a lot of condemnation for this song and almost derailed them as a group.
It's a great song that was misunderstood when it was released.
Album came out in 1988 if I remember correctly.
I think 86
@@SamC379 you gm could be right but Appetite for destruction came out in 86. I’m pretty sure GNR Lies was 88
@@1221tesla
You're right
I was thinking appetite
Yes! First!
It' s always a pleasure to listen this song!!! What memories!!!! His perfect fantastic voice, the way he sing, the sound.... ....awesome! Can I suggest you their song Out ta get me in their live at Ritz in 1988? I don' t know if you react to this song.... Thank you....
It's just a song from a white guy's perspective, honest experiences with black people, seeing the country change with immigrants, gay people, and dealing with police. It was released before cancel culture.
This song will always be relevant because humans will always be humans.
He was just speaking his opinion. Yes the are controversial lyrics but you have then in Rap/HipHop more 1 minute of the song than this song had all together. Least he didn't talk about "smoking" somebody like all the hip hop and rappers do. My family is white. My 18 year old son has a friend that is black and that guy calls me "honky" and "white boy" all the time so I respond back with FU "N word"... then we fist bump LOL...We are joking. People take too many things literally.
I can understand your/his reaction. The song gave me a hard time when I was 13, but it helped me form my opinion, and I'm grateful to Axl for that. The song gives a voice to a small town boy without making you sympathize with his opinion. Should it be re-released? No, because as Axl himself said, it can be too easily misunderstood. Should it have been heard? Absolutely. The song forces you to take a stand, and that's what art is for.
Say whatever you like this is the land of the free. You see what happens when you sensor logic ...absolute insanity
The end of this song sounds very much like The Rolling Stones from the early 70s.
the music is great, And Axl indeed provocoded, but it was a different time. it's kinda hard to explain... As far as I know, Axl had a bad time comming to L.A. and he wrote a song about it. btw srry if my english is wrong, I'm from Belgium.
Millennials just need to realize he’s being racist who cares, blacks are racist toward whites, Asian are racist toward whites. It’s all bullshit plus yea was a different time
@@joejoey1983 Yeah people are racist, doesn’t make it ok
Axl wrote this song about when he was walking thru a bus station
Axl wasn't afraid.
This song, not unlike Highway to Hell, is a song misunderstood. Highway was about the road trip early AC/DC had to physically drive in order to get to a particular gig. The road was long, hot, dry and desolate with nothing alive to see. Nothing evil or “Satanic”.
This song is about, literally, a small town white boy going to the big city and trying to make ends meet. Police & N’s - gold chains & clamped in front of my back. If you’ve ever walked through Times Square now you’ll be overloaded with random black guys trying to sell you their “Mix Tapes”. Notice how with some their demeanor will instantly change from “Hi White Boy!! You love Rap, here’s mine it’s $20 bucks” to “Racist ass white boy!” if you tell them you’re not interested. Back then you’d of been swarmed by random black guys trying to sell you “gold” jewelry for cheap. It’s the behavior only it’s in a different time with a different object for sale.💁♂️
This song is nothing more than a documentary about a “small town white boy”. Every word chosen was specific and needed because it was and is in many places very factual. Slash is half black and he didn’t have an issue with playing it at the time. Today’s generation, your generation, has been trained to hunt out the wrongs of the world and try to instantly right them. Times, ways and people change.
exactly dude, nutella generation.....
At least Axl had some talent.
Fuckin great music 🎶
Anyone who reacts to one in a million and isn't a snowflake gets a sub.
The problem is using the word approve, in the creative arts
About wanting to be left alone while walking down the street, without people bothering you, and while you are working to survive. That part is pretty basic, easily understood, if one doesn't get wrapped up in the disapproved of words and stereotyping view(s).
its as honest as it gets, that tune defines Hard rock and yet they did it with an acoustic and a very low volume background guitar....its genius. Its the most raw honest song I had ever heard when it came out.....nothing like it since. Axle truly was a Hard Rock rebel in those days.
Everything is so watered down and drowning in PC culture today....no real passion, or rE honesty maybe since Eminem.
It was all true 😂🤣
It gets a bad rap, but it's probably one of their most powerful songs
There is literally nothing wrong with racism, get over it. This song is fucking great as well and the bigotry makes it even better.
*EXACTLY, IT'S THE BEST SONG THE BAND EVER WROTE!*
Over reading it. Need to look up Axls background. From Indiana to La was a culture shock to him. If it was so hated Slash being black woulda refused it
Best song on the album. Who cares
High school, sniff!
3:04 *holy music stops*
If u understand the meaning it’s a good song if u don’t your SOL
He was shitting on stereotypes
It wasn't that different of a time period in 1988. This song was controversial back then.
Essentially the song was originally written as a dark comedy loosely based on Axl’s feelings the way Tombstone is based on Wyatt Erp. Axl was mad at a couple black guys who robbed his friend and he wanted to give the song heat by using that word. He was also sexually assaulted by several gay guys and so he added heat to the music by using that word. I’m not totally sure why he went after immigrants but my theory is that there were a ton of immigrants in the town he grew up in and he was conditioned to dislike them. He also went after religion and the media because he always felt held back by them, but everyone and their mother can figure that out.
Bottom line: it was never intended to be racist, and you can actually see in the newspaper article that is the album cover an apology in advance for anyone the song offended or hurt, but it was intended to pack some heat and come off as raw as possible.
Having a couple black and gay friends, I can’t listen to without feeling guilty or enjoying it because of the modern weight the words carry, but for the time I can appreciate it. And the guitar is absolute FIRE. Izzy and Slash nailed the vibe.
Signed,
Top 0.001% listener of Guns N’ Roses
Honestly if he was sexually assaulted I can understand the anger he must have felt even if it was totally not right to attack and hate on everyone in a song like this as he probably was just taken advantage off by peoplewho saw that he was unexperienced and didn't know about city life. Okay that said I think he's just trying to explain how he felt in the beginning when he was robbed and assaulted and not attack or hate on anyone even if it probably feels that way to people hearing this song, which they have every right to feel as getting hated for your race and sexuality is horrifying, of course he has every right to feel hate and anger towards the person/people who assaulted him but not okay to hate on groups of people for that, though I'm sure he understood this.
The immigrants as is mini Iran is about going into a store and being treated by the immigrant shop owner like you don't belong there in you town country
The lyrics are just reflecting a man that wants to be left alone. And doesn't understand what is happening around him. I see nothing wrong in that.
There are no bad words
When he said negro he doesn't mention one race. He means people he had to deal with moving to la
Like the song 'American Woman', another protest song about the iconic Statue of Liberty; the quintessential embodiment of America.
Seems like this and "Los Angeles" by X are about the same thing. They both use language that didn't age well, but I was around when both of those songs were fresh. "One in a Million" was the object of strong objection, and "Los Angeles" wasn't. "She had to leave Los Angeles
All her toys wore out in black and her boys had too
She started to hate every n****r and Jew
Every Mexican that gave her a lotta shit
Every homosexual and the idle rich"
The difference at the time was narrative voice and context, as well as audience dynamics. Narrative voice has a large impact on the lyrics. "One in a Million" uses First Person, which suggests sympathy for the viewpoint. For context we have the Album "Los Angeles" which provides a banquet of lyrics about messed up, dysfunctional people and their hang-ups. Also the lyric "she started to hate" implies a more ambiguous context for the subject's motives. Maybe she was not leaving Los Angeles because of the "n****r(s) and Jew(s)" but because she was uncomfortable with becoming more hateful.
Further cementing the context argument is the fact that audience dynamics are VERY important to lyrical context in this case. The Audience for punk rock is already primed for ironic lyric use, a generally socially progressive culture, and the placement of lyrics that are deliberately featured for shock value. It is part of the culture of punk rock to display ugliness in order to make a social commentary. Metal, particularly the "Top 40" type of metal that was common back then appealed you young suburban males, had no audience driven political motive, and very often had audiences who might be rather sympathetic to the viewpoints expressed in the lyrics.
Aside from that, on a personal level, because I am Iranian and have family living in "Irangeles," I think it is interesting that I never noticed after listening to this song a lot (The music and emotive quality of the vocals are quite excellent) that it contained the lyrics "like start some mini-Iran." The lyric doesn't roll off the tongue in a smooth, lyrical way and I just couldn't tell what he was saying. And Frankly, the derogatory words were expressed so boldly that I didn't even notice that there were lyrics in this song that I had missed until watching a few videos about this song.
That's right, I listened to Guns and Roses quite a lot for a couple of years and had no idea "One in a Million" had lyrics directly in conflict with my own ethnicity. I didn't know it said anything about Iran until THIS VERY DAY (7/13/2021)!
Axl is basically doing the same stuff that young Eminem later did. You know, all that provocative stuff, attacking different groups of people and stuff.
It's actually kinda impossible to be offended by this song, when everybody, I mean, everybody is "attacked" in this song. It's from a perspective of a small town white boy from the early 80's going to the big city for the first time, and not being able to comprehend what is happening, and how rotten society has become. But as I said, nobody is spared in this song ... He uses the N word and the F word, yes, but he doesn't spares radicals, institutions like the police and fanatical religions either, or even the television. It's a punch right to your face about hypocrisy.
U look like Steve Wozniak.
Inventor of Apple PC. B-)
🤣😂🤣😂 I love watching kids react to shit like this.....Keep in mind, that's a hard R you're hearing there.....better go change your socks.
It was a different time young feller... no one approved of some of the lyrics back then, but people wernt sensitive to it like today.
Approved I agree. Great song. Its about axl coming to LA and the shock he had. Like this shit hole LA is today guess he was right
First off, i know plenty of white people who use the word and it's not racist. They grew up in an area where it was used for everyone. No matter what race. Second, Ice Cube actually approved of the song at the time. Guns n Roses actually hung out with members of NWA quite a bit. Only the last portion of the song was from Axl's perspective. The other portions were from the perspective of a hateful person. He was just saying that the oppressed needed to be treated better and he doesn't believe the hateful rhetoric that people were saying back then.
Just pretend it's a rap song, makes it alright 🤣
You came from a place that had a population in the thousands now your just one in a million. Being someone who moved to a major US city from a not so small town but tiny compared to where I moved to. Yeah it's very accurate what you think you knew. You had no idea what you didn't know.
I know exactly what Axl meant by the immigrants coming to the country and doing as they please as that is EXACTLY the case in the town where I live as it's overrun them. The UK is the place to be for all the Eastern European, Middle Eastern & African immigrants as they get everything handed to them on a plate.
Just like how white Brits took over countries, right? Quit your crying.
Its from a third person viewpoint. The songs message aint racist or homophobic.
one of my favorites that fucking acoustic solo is great? Yeah different time of course that word was always taboo but not like now. Also, there was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for some people used it like saying white trash
"It's been such a long time since I knew right from wrong" Axl is still (alt)right in 2021
You should check out rocket queen. It's their best song of their early material imo. Fantastic Uber talented band. Fantastic Uber Douchebag singer. Still love them though
click on the lyrics if you want to know what it means genius.com/Guns-n-roses-one-in-a-million-lyrics
It's controversial because it's from a young white mans point of view.
It's my favourite GnR song even if I do not relate to the lyrics as far as the racism goes.
What it does do is make me understand the perspective of someone who was programmed in isolation(an all white rural community) from childhood to fear and hate "others" as they go through life carrying what they understand is a curse.
It's not a proud racism song, to me it more says "I know I'm the problem, but I am what I am".
For everything wrong with it, at least it is a moment of honesty, or even vulnerability.
It's not like the lunatic racism that we here about on the news everyday, the kind that thinks it's right and actually believes it has the moral high ground.
The thing I don't understand is why Slash went along with it.
He said he tried to talk him out of it , but that he didn't sensor Axel. They were some feelings Axel was working through. Besides in those days Axel pretty much did as he liked. Slash said once he didn't regret doing the job, but what they went through because of the song!
@@loudadovia7363 Thanks for that input.
I like this song, but I listen to
it as a social commentary on some young white dudes and how they perceive that the populations he sings negatively about are trying to control them…including the religious.
Great song but they knew what they were doing because slash told him not to put that out there what you're reading and what you're hearing is what they meant at the time is what axl meant he backed out of that shit I was alive then and the guns n' roses fan since 1987 and what the lyrics are is what they are there's no like side thing he made all that up afterwards he was told not to put that song out there and he put it out there anyway it's a great song I like it the slash didn't want him to put this song out there for some reason I guess cuz he's half-black probably and he knew what the song was about culture shock that you say he's talking about but he could have just said that without saying the n word in the homophobic remarks when he's an Elton John fan and Freddie Mercury fanthat's when Axl learned thats any kind of press ain't good press that's why he made the comments about Bruce Dickinson and motley Crue it was to get them in the magazines get them in the papers well this one he backed right the fuck out of he didn't back this song up at all he was back peddling his ass off when he was saying all this shit about what the song is about the moment it came out the song ain't even on gnr lies
anymore of course the computer makes it to where you can find it no matter what so I said it's a good tune but it is what it is
Provocative..