Later, when Mariah Carey write ''Fantasy'', she asked to the members of ''Tom Tom Club'' to used the sample and all said yes. So she mets them and signed with thems to order theses two have begin 50% of copyrights each others (the first for Mariah, the other half for the Tom Tom Club). This song was sampled a lot since it's came out.
Great reaction homie! Tom Tom Club is the side project of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, the rhythm section of Talking Heads. Definitely a song that was sampled from everyone like Mariah Carey as you've mentioned, Grandmaster Flash and recently Latto.
Two highly regarded reggae musicians played on this track, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson on percussion and Tyrone Downie on synthesizers. Both musicians worked with producers Sly & Robbie, who are mentioned in this song. I was a little bitty girl when this song came out but my older siblings loved this song and I remember it got a lot of airplay back then.
Classic new wave, funky punk band. This was also post-disco (early-mid '80s disco was fading away and changing into different style music). Dance-rock. Funky bass lines. Tom Tom Club was Talking Heads side project band during the '80s and early '90. Very similar to Talking Heads, also check out a group called Nu Shooz, they were similar. Music like this was huge at dance clubs, parties, skating rinks, arcades, malls, etc. Lot of people danced to this , especially the funky bass guitar. Lot of rppers and R&B singers sampled this beat and new wave in general. Simple. Music like this and new wave punk was huge during the late '70s, '80s and early '90s. Artists were once kids themselves and heard it on the radio, from parents, parties, skating rinks, arcades, malls, and music videos, especially MTV. Many early rappers sampled music from different genres back then. Rock, funk, disco, blues, new wave, punk, metal, etc. They definitely sampled lots of new wave, very electronic music. The instrument you were hearing was keyboards, synthesizers. Very common in new wave music and other music from the late '70s, '80s and early '90s. Yes, Mariah Carey , ODB (RIP...from Wu Tang Clan) sampled this on huge 1995 hit "Fantasy". R&B, pop, rap song. Watch the video. Check out Tom Tom Club other videos like "Wordy Rappinghood" (its a new wave funky rap song lol), and "Pleasure of Love". This was an early 80s new wave punk song influences by the emergin hip hop music in late 70s. They referenced for no reason? James Brown. Smokey Robinson (Motown singer dope) and Kurtis Blow. A super old school rapper. To me it's just a graffitti song about New York. ALso. Thiis is a lowrider anthem. not bad for a artpunkfunk side project of talking heads. this came out at the brilliant time when hip hop/ dance/ funk/ house/ new wave/ electro/ synth pop were all kind of infiltrating each other- cross pollinating if you will. prince is kindve the circus ringleader of that movement in my opinion. but also- you will always hear this at a parking lot with some lowriders on the west coast. RIP James Brown, Godfather soul/funk.
this is proto hip hop, the people who made it were in the mix right there in the early years, thats why it was sampled so much... and thats why every old head knows this tune.
Gworl - I have loved this song since the day! I can appreciate the actual lyrics now, though. It seems, to me, she is so in love that she can overlook her man's flaws whatever they may be. She loves him so much that she equates that love with the most soulful of music - the kind of music that people drop their problems and just dance ("who needs to think when your feet just go!") I, too, love the Kurtis Blow and James Brown name drops. It's street culture that doesn't forget the history. I remember all us little 6th graders in 1981 thinking this song was IT. I remember so many kids from the neighborhood had a boombox and this song was absolutely playin'.
This used to go crazy when I was growing up as a teen. Skating ring boom boxes etc! The long version is ILL, I believe two of the members are in Talking Heads
I'm telling my age now, this one came out my first year in high school 1981. And yes, it had an immediate impact on hip hop. We used to scratch this on 2 turntables (vinyl that is) and rock the mic to it.
1982 I was 13 and this song was so different than anything that was on the radio at the time. They were on Soul Train and I didnt know they were a UK white band.
@@EmpressReacts They were/are American, Tina & Chris were from the band Talking Heads, and that band was formed by four classmates at art school in Rhode Island. This song is an all-time classic, but I hope that one of your Patrons requests some Talking Heads music!
The vocals are what really got my attention. I mean, the beat is smooth and the male vocal singing about James Brown added that extra blast of fun to make this song worth dancing to. And watching you feeling the beat Empress, definitely makes this video worth another 'like'.
"Who needs to think when your feet just go 'Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon'"! Those are shout outs to percussionist Hamilton Bohannon, credited for popularizing the "four-on-the-floor" beat during the 70's. "Genius of Love" was a top ten hit back in 1981. Musically, that was a fun time to be a teenager. "I'm gonna have some fun" -- explains all the goofy sounds. Tom Tom Club was a side group formed by Talking Head's bass player Tina Weymouth with her husband, Talking Head's drummer Chris Frantz. Hip-hop culture was not quite yet a thing when this song dropped. "Rapper's Delight" introduced the term "hip-hop" in 1979, but I didn't hear it widely used until the late eighties as part of an effort to broaden the appeal of what was typically called "rap" back then, because "rap" was getting a bad rap from the usual suspects.
This song reminds me of summer at the public swimming pool at the park in LA , hanging with my homegirls Tangier and Ann Marie, just graduated elementary and heading into junior high school. Great vibes
Thanks for another fun Thriller Pack pick reaction Empress!! This song is such a childhood favorite of mine. I remember thinking this song was a bit strange sounding to me back in the day but I was always drawn to the funky beat, fun melody and the way the vocals were sang... almost like a children's song to me. I never really paid attention to the lyrics as a kid but loved randomly singing the James Brown shoutout. Never realized all the other musical artists that are name dropped in this song which makes me appreciate it even more!
We jammed to this in the 80's. Another song form Tom Tom Club to check out is Wordy Rappinghood. Pure beats from the 80's. New Wave meets funk! Thanks for the reaction. Oh, hard to believe that James Brown has become underrated!!! That should never happen.
The unknown song everybody knows! Chis Frantz and Tina Weymouth knew very soon the impact of this song in hip-hop culture (in addition to name calling Kurtis Blow in the lyrics, a hip-hop pioneer) because Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five replayed it (with the Sugarhill Records in-house studio musicians, samplers weren't able to properly adapt) for "It's Nasty" in 1982.
Tom Tom Club (1982) Mariah Carey was only 13 years old. Mariah Carey did #1 hit Fantasy in (1995) and Latto brought in big Energy (2021). Nobody ever gets sick of this song, it’s a timeless throwback beat! 🌟
(0:43) ...I CAN'T do a "Trivia Time" on this tune, it's got TOO much trivia...just know, It's A VERYVERYVERY important track, bridging Hip Hop to Club Music in 1982, & influencing the sound of Madonna's 1st Album.....It was HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE... still IS.....
Tina may be the best female bass player since Carol Kaye of the Wrecking Crew. Chris Frantz can also pound the drums like a beast. As mentioned before they drove the FUNK of the Talking Heads. Great reax as usual. 10's across the board!
This song was the Tom-Tom Club's one and only r&b crossover hit. The song peaked at the #2 spot on the Billboard Soul chart and it peaked at the #31 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the early spring of 1982. Mostly every hip-hop artists over the years sampled this song. By the way Empress, the Tom-Tom Club was a short-lived spinoff group of the Talking Heads. The founding members of this group are the married couple of Tina Weymouth and her husband, Chris Frantz. This song is a definitely banger indeed!!!
I have suggested this one to you a while ago and I said you will recognize Mariah’s song right in the first seconds. She more than just sampled this song, it’s almost just her singing over the original.
Mariah asked the permission to the ''Tom Tom Clubs'' to sampled this song since the melody fit in this beat while she writing the song and she signed to in order to make 50% for her and the other for the ''Tom Tom Club''.
@@glamourisbest I wonder if Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Sean Combs/Puffy/Diddy/Swag/Brother Love had the same business integrity as Mariah. I've seen him perform with Sting and Jimmy Page so they were obviously OK with him sampling their classics but did they actually get 💰💰💰?
At the time it came out (1981), I thought it was such a strange sounding song. But I loved it anyway! 😄 And yes, James Brown should get more recognition!
FROM THE PIONEER ERA OF REAL MUSIC 1980s THE TOM TOM CLUB GENIUS OF LOVE THIS GROUP WAS DISCOVERED BY THE GOD FATHER OF SOUL JAMES BROWN AFTER THIS SONG THEN CAME GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS 5 GENIUS OF LOVE RAP 1980s WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC
All the amazing call outs to the soul artists of the 50s, 60, 70s... mixed with a song about 'my boyfriend " ... KILLER! (PS next time you listen listen for all the artists' names. BLACK LIVES MATTER)
Come on all you younger generation we didn't not use any nasty words in our songs to make people get up and dance and have fun dancing the night away the good old days music was much better than then today music 🎶 ✨ 👌 😌 💕 💖 🎶 ✨ 👌 😌
Ok, first. It's so cute that you're samples in hip hop came from white "new Wave". I'm blowing smoke. It goes both ways. Just like sexual attraction. #2 Hell yeah, "Tom Tom Club" knew what they were doing with this and hip -hop. It's purposeful. Blondie just came out with "Rapture " a collaboration with Fab 5 Freddie. Parent band "Talking Heads" and many others were instrumental in experimental music going back to the early 60's. In Greenwich Village and clubs like CBGB, Max's K.C., the "Factory ", etc.This was convolution. more intentional but unintentionally. They are combining genre.
Want to add. Tina Weymouth is arguably the best female bassist ever!!! With such a beautiful voice. Chris Frantz is the drummer and her husband. I Encourage you to to watch "Talking Heads: "Stop Making Sence". It's a concert movie. But it's the best ever.
Later, when Mariah Carey write ''Fantasy'', she asked to the members of ''Tom Tom Club'' to used the sample and all said yes. So she mets them and signed with thems to order theses two have begin 50% of copyrights each others (the first for Mariah, the other half for the Tom Tom Club). This song was sampled a lot since it's came out.
Great reaction homie! Tom Tom Club is the side project of Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, the rhythm section of Talking Heads. Definitely a song that was sampled from everyone like Mariah Carey as you've mentioned, Grandmaster Flash and recently Latto.
Two highly regarded reggae musicians played on this track, Uziah "Sticky" Thompson on percussion and Tyrone Downie on synthesizers. Both musicians worked with producers Sly & Robbie, who are mentioned in this song. I was a little bitty girl when this song came out but my older siblings loved this song and I remember it got a lot of airplay back then.
Classic new wave, funky punk band. This was also post-disco (early-mid '80s disco was fading away and changing into different style music). Dance-rock. Funky bass lines. Tom Tom Club was Talking Heads side project band during the '80s and early '90. Very similar to Talking Heads, also check out a group called Nu Shooz, they were similar. Music like this was huge at dance clubs, parties, skating rinks, arcades, malls, etc. Lot of people danced to this , especially the funky bass guitar.
Lot of rppers and R&B singers sampled this beat and new wave in general. Simple. Music like this and new wave punk was huge during the late '70s, '80s and early '90s. Artists were once kids themselves and heard it on the radio, from parents, parties, skating rinks, arcades, malls, and music videos, especially MTV. Many early rappers sampled music from different genres back then. Rock, funk, disco, blues, new wave, punk, metal, etc. They definitely sampled lots of new wave, very electronic music. The instrument you were hearing was keyboards, synthesizers. Very common in new wave music and other music from the late '70s, '80s and early '90s.
Yes, Mariah Carey , ODB (RIP...from Wu Tang Clan) sampled this on huge 1995 hit "Fantasy". R&B, pop, rap song. Watch the video.
Check out Tom Tom Club other videos like "Wordy Rappinghood" (its a new wave funky rap song lol), and "Pleasure of Love".
This was an early 80s new wave punk song influences by the emergin hip hop music in late 70s. They referenced for no reason? James Brown. Smokey Robinson (Motown singer dope) and Kurtis Blow. A super old school rapper. To me it's just a graffitti song about New York.
ALso. Thiis is a lowrider anthem. not bad for a artpunkfunk side project of talking heads. this came out at the brilliant time when hip hop/ dance/ funk/ house/ new wave/ electro/ synth pop were all kind of infiltrating each other- cross pollinating if you will. prince is kindve the circus ringleader of that movement in my opinion. but also- you will always hear this at a parking lot with some lowriders on the west coast.
RIP James Brown, Godfather soul/funk.
this is proto hip hop, the people who made it were in the mix right there in the early years, thats why it was sampled so much... and thats why every old head knows this tune.
Gworl - I have loved this song since the day! I can appreciate the actual lyrics now, though. It seems, to me, she is so in love that she can overlook her man's flaws whatever they may be. She loves him so much that she equates that love with the most soulful of music - the kind of music that people drop their problems and just dance ("who needs to think when your feet just go!")
I, too, love the Kurtis Blow and James Brown name drops. It's street culture that doesn't forget the history.
I remember all us little 6th graders in 1981 thinking this song was IT. I remember so many kids from the neighborhood had a boombox and this song was absolutely playin'.
This used to go crazy when I was growing up as a teen. Skating ring boom boxes etc! The long version is ILL, I believe two of the members are in Talking Heads
I'm telling my age now, this one came out my first year in high school 1981. And yes, it had an immediate impact on hip hop. We used to scratch this on 2 turntables (vinyl that is) and rock the mic to it.
Lots of great shout outs in this song…James Brown, Bob Marley, Kurtis Blow…so many more.
Smokey Robinson 🙌🏼🙌🏼
1982 I was 13 and this song was so different than anything that was on the radio at the time. They were on Soul Train and I didnt know they were a UK white band.
Oh wow from the 🇬🇧 😎
@@EmpressReacts They were/are American, Tina & Chris were from the band Talking Heads, and that band was formed by four classmates at art school in Rhode Island. This song is an all-time classic, but I hope that one of your Patrons requests some Talking Heads music!
The vocals are what really got my attention. I mean, the beat is smooth and the male vocal singing about James Brown added that extra blast of fun to make this song worth dancing to.
And watching you feeling the beat Empress, definitely makes this video worth another 'like'.
James brown was mentioned because of the line what ya gonna do when ya get out of jail
I usually dont care for reactors renditions of songs they are reacting to but I really did like yours. That was really good.
Thanks! Hope u sub
@@EmpressReacts Oh, I did. You are welcome.
Dope reaction, this song was way ahead of the curve 1982ish..40 years old...sounds so fresh.
Everybody sampled this song! 🔥💯❤️ From Mariah to Ice Cube, Snoop, Too Short, Busta, Shaggy, E-40, and Ziggy Marley.
"Who needs to think when your feet just go 'Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon'"! Those are shout outs to percussionist Hamilton Bohannon, credited for popularizing the "four-on-the-floor" beat during the 70's. "Genius of Love" was a top ten hit back in 1981. Musically, that was a fun time to be a teenager. "I'm gonna have some fun" -- explains all the goofy sounds. Tom Tom Club was a side group formed by Talking Head's bass player Tina Weymouth with her husband, Talking Head's drummer Chris Frantz. Hip-hop culture was not quite yet a thing when this song dropped. "Rapper's Delight" introduced the term "hip-hop" in 1979, but I didn't hear it widely used until the late eighties as part of an effort to broaden the appeal of what was typically called "rap" back then, because "rap" was getting a bad rap from the usual suspects.
CLASSIC that all the hip hop heads rocked and still rock.
This song reminds me of summer at the public swimming pool at the park in LA , hanging with my homegirls Tangier and Ann Marie, just graduated elementary and heading into junior high school. Great vibes
roller skating memories here! along with roll bounce!
Such a classic song! The album version has an extra verse in the middle that’s wild!
Oh cool
I love when young people discover these gems
Thanks for another fun Thriller Pack pick reaction Empress!! This song is such a childhood favorite of mine. I remember thinking this song was a bit strange sounding to me back in the day but I was always drawn to the funky beat, fun melody and the way the vocals were sang... almost like a children's song to me. I never really paid attention to the lyrics as a kid but loved randomly singing the James Brown shoutout. Never realized all the other musical artists that are name dropped in this song which makes me appreciate it even more!
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I’ve been waiting for this reaction, I knew you would love this song!
Great Patreon pick. Super fun. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it or seen the video, but I definitely recognize the sample 🙌🏻🔟🔟🔟
We jammed to this in the 80's. Another song form Tom Tom Club to check out is Wordy Rappinghood. Pure beats from the 80's. New Wave meets funk! Thanks for the reaction. Oh, hard to believe that James Brown has become underrated!!! That should never happen.
Chris Frantz played drums on These Are The Breaks by Kurtis Blow too.
Do Pleasure Of Love - it's fabulous
The unknown song everybody knows!
Chis Frantz and Tina Weymouth knew very soon the impact of this song in hip-hop culture (in addition to name calling Kurtis Blow in the lyrics, a hip-hop pioneer) because Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five replayed it (with the Sugarhill Records in-house studio musicians, samplers weren't able to properly adapt) for "It's Nasty" in 1982.
Tom Tom Club (1982) Mariah Carey was only 13 years old. Mariah Carey did #1 hit Fantasy in (1995) and Latto brought in big Energy (2021). Nobody ever gets sick of this song, it’s a timeless throwback beat! 🌟
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I got this 12 inch!! Still the jam of all jams
Half of the Talking Heads, so much greatness out of one band. 😁❤️
You should also checkout song/ video by World’s Famous Supreme called “Hey D.J. which Mariah samples with “Honey”
(0:43) ...I CAN'T do a "Trivia Time" on this tune, it's got TOO much trivia...just know, It's A VERYVERYVERY important track, bridging Hip Hop to Club Music in 1982, & influencing the sound of Madonna's 1st Album.....It was HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE... still IS.....
I was wondering when someone was going to request this reaction…I should have known that it would be Roy G….yet another JAM….
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Ha! Thanks Melissa! 😊
Tina may be the best female bass player since Carol Kaye of the Wrecking Crew. Chris Frantz can also pound the drums like a beast. As mentioned before they drove the FUNK of the Talking Heads. Great reax as usual. 10's across the board!
Tina is great... Kim Clarke, Ida Nielsen, Fumi or Alissia Benveniste (to name a few) are also great in their own right.
Came out in 1981. Such a classic! So catchy. I like that the video was animated. One of the most popular sampled songs in history. FIRE Bop.
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This song was the Tom-Tom Club's one and only r&b crossover hit. The song peaked at the #2 spot on the Billboard Soul chart and it peaked at the #31 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the early spring of 1982. Mostly every hip-hop artists over the years sampled this song. By the way Empress, the Tom-Tom Club was a short-lived spinoff group of the Talking Heads. The founding members of this group are the married couple of Tina Weymouth and her husband, Chris Frantz. This song is a definitely banger indeed!!!
interesting.! ever heard of them either😂
Tom Tom Club "Suboceana" is seriously cool song too.
I have suggested this one to you a while ago and I said you will recognize Mariah’s song right in the first seconds. She more than just sampled this song, it’s almost just her singing over the original.
Mariah asked the permission to the ''Tom Tom Clubs'' to sampled this song since the melody fit in this beat while she writing the song and she signed to in order to make 50% for her and the other for the ''Tom Tom Club''.
@@WCD199317 That’s true. They even said Fantasy put their kids through college.
@@glamourisbest I wonder if Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Sean Combs/Puffy/Diddy/Swag/Brother Love had the same business integrity as Mariah. I've seen him perform with Sting and Jimmy Page so they were obviously OK with him sampling their classics but did they actually get 💰💰💰?
43 year old song as of my comment year; catchy and FUNKY AS EVER!
I loved the doggy! 😂❤
BIG CLASSIC / LEGENDARY / BIG RESPECT / OLD SCHOOL REPRESENT / 80'S 90'S FLAVA / F*CK NEW SKOOL
* ALSO SAMPLED BY GANGSTA RAP GROUP / TRE+6 - LIFE IS CRAZY (1995)
Tina Weymouth laying down that iconic bass line.
Shoutout to Tina‼️🔥
This is BUMPIN!! 😃
Tina Weymouth, always a very tasteful bassist, ego in check. Never flashy, just great space and note placement.
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"Sampled." That used to be called Theft. It's a Cover when you don't change the name and you credit the original artist in the credits.
Love this reaction!
Thanks hope u sub!
At the time it came out (1981), I thought it was such a strange sounding song. But I loved it anyway! 😄
And yes, James Brown should get more recognition!
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When you get a Chance check out “The Man With The Four Way Hips” , “Wordy Rappinghood” and the Remake Of “Love to Love You Baby”
Classic song lots of people used this
A very great song 🎵
He'll Yeah! House Party!!!!
Both Mariah Carey and Madonna have made songs inspired by this Tom Tom Club hit.
Madonna? Really? I don't think I've heard the song yet
@@EmpressReacts
Not yet.
It is far ahead in your Madonna journey.
#KeepOnPushingLikeNobody
They be missing the part we like to sing when we toot cocain😂
😂😂😂um yeah I don’t think I caught that
FROM THE PIONEER ERA OF REAL MUSIC 1980s THE TOM TOM CLUB GENIUS OF LOVE THIS GROUP WAS DISCOVERED BY THE GOD FATHER OF SOUL JAMES BROWN AFTER THIS SONG THEN CAME GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS 5 GENIUS OF LOVE RAP 1980s WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC
All the amazing call outs to the soul artists of the 50s, 60, 70s... mixed with a song about 'my boyfriend " ... KILLER! (PS next time you listen listen for all the artists' names. BLACK LIVES MATTER)
Come on all you younger generation we didn't not use any nasty words in our songs to make people get up and dance and have fun dancing the night away the good old days music was much better than then today music 🎶 ✨ 👌 😌 💕 💖 🎶 ✨ 👌 😌
Ok, first. It's so cute that you're samples in hip hop came from white "new Wave". I'm blowing smoke. It goes both ways. Just like sexual attraction. #2 Hell yeah, "Tom Tom Club" knew what they were doing with this and hip -hop. It's purposeful. Blondie just came out with "Rapture " a collaboration with Fab 5 Freddie. Parent band "Talking Heads" and many others were instrumental in experimental music going back to the early 60's. In Greenwich Village and clubs like CBGB, Max's K.C., the "Factory ", etc.This was convolution. more intentional but unintentionally. They are combining genre.
Want to add. Tina Weymouth is arguably the best female bassist ever!!! With such a beautiful voice. Chris Frantz is the drummer and her husband. I Encourage you to to watch "Talking Heads: "Stop Making Sence". It's a concert movie. But it's the best ever.
Tina is BASS FIRE goddess
React to their song Suboceana please.
This was done over 40 years ago... Hip Hop Culture wasn't invented yet..
Talking Heads live version is way more fire
Do you like white dudes?
Lady you are pretty.