My son was about 11 when this came out. First time I heard this song, it blew me away. Found out it was inspired by a high school shooting at Santana High in California. The band was on the way to the studio to record the album Satellite, when they got caught in traffic due to the shooting. When they got to the studio, they wrote and recorded the song for the album. So much of the song is still relevant today. Thanks for this one, great track, great reaction.
Even more so, with social media being a thing. This came out when social media didn't exist. I said it once and always will. Social media is the devil.
Saw them in concert at an all ages event. They saved this song for the last song of their set and invited all the kids in attendance there up on to stage with them to do the background vocals for this song.
"Told the world how he felt, With the sound of a gat" really hits hard. I've had 2 friends commit suicide via a gun and it still hurts 15 years later. The rest of us had no idea they were feeling this way and truly wish they would have reached out. RIP Chris and Tommy
This song always gets me emotionally, always chokes me up. One of the most powerful rock/rap anthems. Timeless and will sadly probably always be relatable and relevant.
This song was in Blue Crush the 00’s surfing movie, that’s where I came across it the first time. I didn’t properly listen to the lyrics from that movie as I was too busy taking in the surfing.
I remember this song and always was drawn to it, the lyrics the beat, great song, it's an intensely deep song and it was a top hit back then.. It also reminds me of a song by Harry Chapin "The sniper", that no one on youtube that I know of has ever reacted to it, probably because it is a very heavy rather depressing son, where he sings about this man who has had a very hard life, how his mother treated him, calling him ugly and "leave me alone' and she just didn't care...and as he grew up all of ihs hurt and pain built up into him going on the roof of a high building randomly shooting people, with each shot the lyrics say "that's for how you treated me mother, this is for another person who hurt me..and so on and so on. I remember watching Chapin perform it live on a PBS show long ago and he talked about how he wrote the lyrics trying to maybe explain how "mass shooters get to the point of no return and why"...it was very controversial then and I guess it is now, but it is a heartbreaking song and should be " heard" more than it is to maybe "wake people up to how some kids are treated so horribly by their parents and families or needed attention and or never got the help they needed and reached the point "of no return"....The group "Smile empty soul" also has a similar thought with their song "Silhouettes"..they were very popular during the early 2000 era also..
Where I'm from we never really had access to this type of music but we had mtv. A lot of pop shit was pumped out at the time but this song came on and it fucked me up as I never knew that there was a band singing about ppl like me. I wasn't cool, I wasn't part of any group, broken family, hopelessness. Then this song just hit me so so hard. It was like I felt truly seen at 17 yrs old for the very first time.
That’s true because when I was in the hospital after one of my suicide attempts, a girl I went to school with was in there with me and she seemed like a a popular preppy girl but she was in for an eating disorder,just like a couple of the jocks that gave hate turned out to be gay and it was internal hate that they were projecting onto me since I didn’t hide my sexuality
P.O.D. really great band from the 90's and underrated. They have many songs you should react to. Alive, Boom, Satellite, Southtown, Goodbye for Now, School of Hard Knocks.
"Instead of taking the test I took two to the chest" oooof, that's hits harder today more than ever. The first major school shooting was Columbine in '99, I was in 11th grade. After that sh*t started popping off all over the country. Sad to say today it's just a normal day in America to hear about school shootings. We never learn.
I knew so many girls like the one the song. Sadly, I see more of them now than ever before. The problems highlighted in the song have only gotten worse 25 years later.
I loved music like this growing up because I was always a weird outcast and came out as bisexual in the 6th grade in 97 and even before that I was being picked on because I dressed goth and painted my nails and was bullied a lot usually by popular kids and jocks and when I fought back defending myself I would be the one punished by the school administration because I was viewed as the trouble maker and they were “the good kids”, Korn,Linkin Park and other bands sang about this too because they were outcasts too that got picked on and had rough lives like I did so the music resonated with me
Saw POD at a festival in Dallas right after Covid. The “youth” had turned into 40-60 years old and still standing and singing at the top of our lungs. It was not pop in any way. Totally rock! ☮️❤️😎🎼
@VintagedMillennial Well the first album of theirs I bought lol I got told once it was their first album and never researched just took for granted it was true
This song is actually a sub-genre of Nu Metal called Rapcore. Songs like Faith No More's Epic or We Care A Lot , Crazytown's Butterfly, Saliva's Click Click Boom, Drowning Pool's Bodies, Beastie Boys' Sabotage or Corrosion of Conformity's Clean My Wounds are good examples of Rapcore.
Welp your misinformed!! epic and we care alot from faith no more came out in the 90's well before nu metal or this rap core thing you speak of as did c.o.c or corrosion of conformity which had no metalcore what so ever and beastie boys are legends way before you were ever born, just like the other two i spoke of and don't belong in a category with crazy town or salive
This is a very powerful song. The part where the youth join in and sing gives me chills. Yet, the song remains unfinished. Problems were stated, but no solution given, no hope offered. "Will it ever make sense? Somebody's got to know. There's got to be more to life than this." As a Christian band, POD knows the answer to these questions, Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is our only hope. He alone gives life purpose and meaning. Sadly, POD did not offer Him to their listeners as the answer in this song. We need one more verse to make the song complete.
Yea guys let's baby our children. Sometimes a parent might not have the time to sit down and slowly explain the world to their kid and may reply Because I said so. This is usually said when the kid already knows the answer. Mom, can I go to the mall, No, Why not, cause I said so. Does this conversation really need a 5 minute explanation on why the parent doesn't want the kid to go? The answer is No, learn to deal with disappointment, kid. That's being treated like an adult.
My son was about 11 when this came out. First time I heard this song, it blew me away. Found out it was inspired by a high school shooting at Santana High in California. The band was on the way to the studio to record the album Satellite, when they got caught in traffic due to the shooting. When they got to the studio, they wrote and recorded the song for the album. So much of the song is still relevant today. Thanks for this one, great track, great reaction.
P.O.D. "Fundamental Elements of Southtown". Give it a listen
This song is still so relevant today
Even more so, with social media being a thing. This came out when social media didn't exist. I said it once and always will. Social media is the devil.
It’s honestly probably even more relevant than ever
Approximately 25 years later song still gives me chills
There’s no songs ever made gives me chills not even this song
Saw them in concert at an all ages event. They saved this song for the last song of their set and invited all the kids in attendance there up on to stage with them to do the background vocals for this song.
"Told the world how he felt, With the sound of a gat" really hits hard. I've had 2 friends commit suicide via a gun and it still hurts 15 years later. The rest of us had no idea they were feeling this way and truly wish they would have reached out. RIP Chris and Tommy
Love this song.. Its 20 some odd years old.. But still relevant today ❤😊
The pictures in the background were of missing/exploited youth. It was their way of trying to help them get found.
*POD (Alive)*
This song always gets me emotionally, always chokes me up. One of the most powerful rock/rap anthems. Timeless and will sadly probably always be relatable and relevant.
Especially when the kids start singing. I gotta turn the song off man.
This was playing almost every week in Sunday school youth group.
Released on 9/11
The album.
Ah. The start of the RapCore era. Listen to Alive next.
Thank you Sam and Phill for the good song and review 😀👍🏻
Love this song so much. :)
Heavy lyrics, real bars, intense & serious vibe. I love this song and it’s in my Top 10 tracks.
I love this song so much. It’s just so good but very heartbreaking and thought provoking
This song was in Blue Crush the 00’s surfing movie, that’s where I came across it the first time. I didn’t properly listen to the lyrics from that movie as I was too busy taking in the surfing.
I remember this song and always was drawn to it, the lyrics the beat, great song, it's an intensely deep song and it was a top hit back then.. It also reminds me of a song by Harry Chapin "The sniper", that no one on youtube that I know of has ever reacted to it, probably because it is a very heavy rather depressing son, where he sings about this man who has had a very hard life, how his mother treated him, calling him ugly and "leave me alone' and she just didn't care...and as he grew up all of ihs hurt and pain built up into him going on the roof of a high building randomly shooting people, with each shot the lyrics say "that's for how you treated me mother, this is for another person who hurt me..and so on and so on. I remember watching Chapin perform it live on a PBS show long ago and he talked about how he wrote the lyrics trying to maybe explain how "mass shooters get to the point of no return and why"...it was very controversial then and I guess it is now, but it is a heartbreaking song and should be " heard" more than it is to maybe "wake people up to how some kids are treated so horribly by their parents and families or needed attention and or never got the help they needed and reached the point "of no return"....The group "Smile empty soul" also has a similar thought with their song "Silhouettes"..they were very popular during the early 2000 era also..
this song will forever go hard and never cease to provoke
Loved your reaction❣️
you guys get it! i like that!
This song hits hard and gets to me everytime. But it’s a great song and I love POD
My son's and I have been fans of POD since 2000. Tatiana of Jinjer is married to their new drummer
Where I'm from we never really had access to this type of music but we had mtv. A lot of pop shit was pumped out at the time but this song came on and it fucked me up as I never knew that there was a band singing about ppl like me. I wasn't cool, I wasn't part of any group, broken family, hopelessness. Then this song just hit me so so hard. It was like I felt truly seen at 17 yrs old for the very first time.
2 other good POD songs that should check out is Alive & Boom.
SOD "March Of The S.O.D. - Sargent "D" & The S.O.D." 🤘
Diamonds and dust - extended version 😉
Sam 😍😍
That’s true because when I was in the hospital after one of my suicide attempts, a girl I went to school with was in there with me and she seemed like a a popular preppy girl but she was in for an eating disorder,just like a couple of the jocks that gave hate turned out to be gay and it was internal hate that they were projecting onto me since I didn’t hide my sexuality
Southtown, Satellite, are fantastic songs as well. They have a plethora of great music.
P.O.D. really great band from the 90's and underrated. They have many songs you should react to. Alive, Boom, Satellite, Southtown, Goodbye for Now, School of Hard Knocks.
"Instead of taking the test I took two to the chest" oooof, that's hits harder today more than ever. The first major school shooting was Columbine in '99, I was in 11th grade. After that sh*t started popping off all over the country. Sad to say today it's just a normal day in America to hear about school shootings. We never learn.
They're awesome are they good songs from them southtown here comes the boom thanks you are great
Southtown goes so hard it’s a shame nobody ever reacts to that one
I knew so many girls like the one the song. Sadly, I see more of them now than ever before. The problems highlighted in the song have only gotten worse 25 years later.
We all incur a debt for life.
A debt Payable On Death.
The Christian influence.
The album actually released on 9/11/01. I still remember getting it that day 😢
Alive off the same album, Satellite as well as the song Satellite should be reacted to!
I loved music like this growing up because I was always a weird outcast and came out as bisexual in the 6th grade in 97 and even before that I was being picked on because I dressed goth and painted my nails and was bullied a lot usually by popular kids and jocks and when I fought back defending myself I would be the one punished by the school administration because I was viewed as the trouble maker and they were “the good kids”, Korn,Linkin Park and other bands sang about this too because they were outcasts too that got picked on and had rough lives like I did so the music resonated with me
Saw POD at a festival in Dallas right after Covid. The “youth” had turned into 40-60 years old and still standing and singing at the top of our lungs. It was not pop in any way. Totally rock!
☮️❤️😎🎼
Adults need to be held responsible, children only know what they're taught.
Gotta go with “Boom” next
So Powerful song about brutal school shootings in The U.S. special Columbine from April 20th 1999...
Song unfortunately is still so relevant. Part of the reason why my kids were all homeschooled.
Do Alive next
Song is still sadly very relevant today. I believe all the pictures behind the band where the students that have been part of gun violence.
P.O.D are so underrated today. Not enough people remember their first album was an inspiration to 9/11 victims.
first secular album maybe? they had 2 albums in the 90s on a christian label, iirc.
@VintagedMillennial
Well the first album of theirs I bought lol
I got told once it was their first album and never researched just took for granted it was true
@VintagedMillennial there were three albums they put out in the 90s.
The sad part is that we as a society have not learned anything and things are status quoe today. 15:05 P.O.D. is payment on death.
As didsturbing as it is yall should do a "immortal technuiqe dance with the devil" reaction
How could you have subscribed to MTV and not know P.O.D?
u guys should check out yer blues by the Beatles, it’s off of the white album. A little of their harder stuff
Check out 10 Years - Wasteland
Nas is the man!
Awesome reaction/ can you please react to the avett Brothers/ headfull of doubt/ road full of promise.
Anthem that was made for 2001 but it's still relevant today. "THIS HITS THE SPEAKER AS HARD AS THE MESSAGE!" What does that mean?
This song is actually a sub-genre of Nu Metal called Rapcore. Songs like Faith No More's Epic or We Care A Lot , Crazytown's Butterfly, Saliva's Click Click Boom, Drowning Pool's Bodies, Beastie Boys' Sabotage or Corrosion of Conformity's Clean My Wounds are good examples of Rapcore.
Welp your misinformed!! epic and we care alot from faith no more came out in the 90's well before nu metal or this rap core thing you speak of as did c.o.c or corrosion of conformity which had no metalcore what so ever and beastie boys are legends way before you were ever born, just like the other two i spoke of and don't belong in a category with crazy town or salive
This is a very powerful song. The part where the youth join in and sing gives me chills. Yet, the song remains unfinished. Problems were stated, but no solution given, no hope offered. "Will it ever make sense? Somebody's got to know. There's got to be more to life than this." As a Christian band, POD knows the answer to these questions, Jesus Christ. He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is our only hope. He alone gives life purpose and meaning. Sadly, POD did not offer Him to their listeners as the answer in this song. We need one more verse to make the song complete.
You should react to the song and video for Hollywood undead - young! Kinda the same style song
Every one of thr school pictures you see is a child who was murdered (let’s call it what it is) in a school shooting.
Influence 😂. They are a Christian band. Literally People of deliverance 😂
Mental health funding hasn't really improved, unfortunately.
Yea guys let's baby our children. Sometimes a parent might not have the time to sit down and slowly explain the world to their kid and may reply Because I said so. This is usually said when the kid already knows the answer. Mom, can I go to the mall, No, Why not, cause I said so. Does this conversation really need a 5 minute explanation on why the parent doesn't want the kid to go? The answer is No, learn to deal with disappointment, kid. That's being treated like an adult.
C'mon, could this be any less unique?
meh
this song rocks but the lyrics are pandering BS