I don’t really see why it should be a problem even today. None of the other reactor’s seem to have a problem with it, just that it’s scary or disturbing. It’s not like the song is advocating any of the things it describes. There are hit songs today that are far more disturbing.
I don't think people will make a big deal of this song or worry about what a reactor says about it because we've become almost immune to all the prophesies and dire warnings about the future from endless media and movies. So much more information and discoveries have come along since, and some of the concepts in this have become reality.
In the Year 2525 is considered one of the most famous “one hit wonders” in U.S. recording history, it topped Billboard's Top 40 chart for six weeks during the summer of 1969.
It's a very forward looking song, with a lot of scope to it. And the idea someone had to run bits of "Metropolis" in the background was GENIUS. I've seen the video several times and it goes so well with the eerie feeling of the song. It's a very basic scifi thing, to look ahead and wonder what will be.
Hey Ace, It was not a problem for us, we weren't bothered by things like this back in the day, we saw it as prophetic! It's been on my playlist for many many years!
It wasn't a problem. It made me think. In 1978 when Louise Brown (the first test tube baby) was born, I realized how much faster the things mentioned in this song were actually happening. Look around you, it's ALL coming!
The fact he can't say it shows how much truth is in this song. This is what the start of oppression looks like kids. Us old people have lived through it in the past. I hope future generations make better choices than where things seem to be going now.
I don't understand the big controversy. It's just about the possible path evolution of mankind and its dependence on technology. Really similar to Huxley's Brave New World.
We studied about most of the ideas in this song when we read Brave New World and Future Shock in high school. Ace’s reaction confuses me as to why anyone would have a problem with this song.
@@bengilbert7655 Back in 1969 people in the U.S. were free to say and think what they wanted. There was no censorship or fear back then like there is today.
It was number 1 for 5 weeks in the summer of 1969. It was number 1 the night that Walter Cronkite reported "live from the moon". Here in 2024 there is no rockets going to Mars, no Walter Cronkite, and no profound music like "In the Year 2525". My, how the U.S. has changed for the worse.
I'm truly baffled by your reaction. It is simply a song talking about humanity and a potential future if we allow ourselves to self-destruct or lose our freedom to technology. The most important lines have to do with humans destroying and using up all the resources and not caring for this planet we live on or giving back to allow for future generations to live.
One way to lose your Freedom of Speech Rights is to dictate to people what they can and can not talk about. I find nothing wrong with the song. Clue me in why your generation would find this offensive. Why do you take things so personally.
I’m not sure what he was afraid to say either, I don’t find the song offensive in any way. Another way to lose freedom of speech is to self-sensor, before anyone tells you to shut up. 🤷♀️
It wasn’t a problem back then but it was prophetic. We had a chance to save the beautiful earth but chose greed instead.This was years before test tube babies or even most transplants
I really don't understand the issues about discussing this song these days, but I'm along in years--this song came out when I was a teenager. This reaction, or, lack of reaction really confused me.
The song was a little unsettling, but very well received. Most of us were concerned of the direction Humanity was heading. And most everything mentioned already existed or was in the beginning of development. Many of us never paid much attention to the dates, likely just given for song continuity. We knew most would likely take place ( be finalized) within the next 50 years. If you start all the dates out with the first two numerals being replaced with 20 it's right there. 🚜🤠🐂
And it didn't take a thousand years to get to some of those places. My dad who passed away 10 years ago now and was born in 1931, used to say that the older you get the faster time flies, and he said that is true of the world in general, not just human beings. He believed that everything in the universe was moving at a speed that constantly accelerated.
We had this on our jukebox that was on a dancing floor by the river and everyone loved it, not to dance with but simply to listen too. Beautiful singing and music while wondering what was in store for us past 1970.
Question What age group is your largest audience? And why worry about what somebody thinks? Only thoughts that matters is your personal thoughts. It's called personal individuality. Do not let the architects of Destruction take that away, and make you part of the collective. That goal is almost complete and you will no longer have a voice or thought that is your own. If your generation doesn't start resisting and grow a pair you will have no future. That's what the song is actually trying say. Don't give up your Humanity to the machine. Learn your history the sensitive ones are the ones that walk to their own demise. And that's right around the corner. Considering your reaction here.... There was another popular song a couple years later considered one of the most disturbing songs ever. It charted 36 on Billboard The song is called DOA and it is by the band Blood Work It was played on the radio often. I only know one radio station that would play it today because of sensitivity. Man your generation is missing out because you allowed manipulation. Although I've noticed there is a Awakening. Hopefully you're part of it.
did you notice throughout the video they show references of AI especially at the end. This song had to strike a nerve back in 69 it went to no.1 way ahead at the time !
We grew up doing nuclear attack-air raid drills in school, preparing for WWIII. We loved this song. I think it was #1 for about six weeks when it came out.
When I first heard this in 1969, I wasn't even a teenager quite yet, but somehow, being a math and physics nerd (well, ALL sciences), and especially a sci-fi freak, ever since I first learned to read, this song has resonated with me deeply, and has been has stuck in my brain for over a half century now. ☺️
All of the video that is embedded into this song if from the movie Metropolis made in 1927 in Germany. It was originally black and white and was a silent movie, so the script is done in subtitles. Even back in 1927 it was known where humanity was going. Forty-two years latter lyrics but to song reinforced the ideal and then in 2015 the prophetic song and movie were merged together. It started nearly 100 years ago.
I 've always loved this song. It came out in the 60's and it was considered very futuristic- prophetic even - at that time and wasn't controversial at all. It's so sad that you are afraid to speak your mind due to fear of backlash. It's just really sad. My heart went out to you watching you struggle with what to say.
My folks had this on 45 when I was a kid. Being a sci-fi nut I loved it. I still do! I’m not sure why there would be a problem; every other movie and book these days is a post-apocalyptic dystopian story. The irony is that most of this song has already come to pass. You’ll love ELO’s “Here Is The News,” and “Your’s Truly, 2095.”
Song was released in '69. Star Trek, Easy Rider, fantastic bands, Vietnam, military draft, campus protests, political upheaval plus moon landing. Not much was off limits!
The year this song was released was the golden age of speculative science-fiction. If you read Philip K. Dick or Harlan Ellison you'll be able to immerse yourself into this type of imagery.
When this first came out, I considered this a protest song. As it talks about a dystopian society. And the video clips from the silent film, "Metropolis" is just icing on the cake. That movie fits this song. As the song appeared to me and some others I knew at the time. to talk about technology controlled by the establishment so that the establishment could control you. What some of us feared back then was the loss of freedom in the future. And this song fed into those fears.
In 1969 there were a lot to worry about, and people did! The same problems has got even more severe, with a few added - but today people don't seem to care! A relevant song - still!
I don't think there was controversy, was there? I mean, I was only ten or so at the time, but even as young people we were aware of books like 'Brave New World' and '1984', and 'Planet of the Apes' was out. The Cuban missile crisis wasn't that long before. We all knew about what might happen in the future. I don't understand what it is that makes you worried, makes you think it will be blocked. This is a stone cold classic. I really don't understand why you say it'd be a problem coming out today . . . unless it's because it would show up much of today's music as shallow stuff. Take the lyrics and compare to anything being released today. Me, I was always more of an optimist about the future, more Arthur C Clarke than George Orwell. As the Doctor says to Rose in 'The End of the World': "You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive." (Doctor Who, Series 1, Episode 2.) If you can't say what you think about this now, that's a terrible thing.
I think this needs to be placed in the context of the times, 1969. Everything was centered on the race to the moon. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey had come out the year before. The Apollo moon missions were finally going to land on the moon. The country was turning to the future. But, what was that future going to be?
The pictures the video creator used are even much older. They're from the German dystopian silent film "Metropolis" from 1927 (!). I've seen it on TH-cam a few weeks ago and I was shocked how much it resembles today's society. It contains mad scientists, a two class society and even something like a transhuman/AI evil being created by scientists. I hope they won't delete it. And I'm glad that I've finally watched the film.
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It is a bit dark but most don't see it has some hopeful notes. The fact they reference future millennia gives you a feel that humankind may still be here. It gives thoughts to how much machines may be a part of our future (causing debilitating atrophy of human bodies) as well as no need for family connections to continue our species. The damage to the Earth by humans has also taken censure. I remember when this song was released and it did cause a lot of thinking and debate. It provokes thought.
Nope not a problem at allllll. Us Baby Boomers who were teens in the 70s didn't use seat belts, bike helmets AND we smoked cigarettes. We were way more tolerant and tuff than this super sensitive and super soft generation today. AND....we had fun and were mostly happy.
Dude, you keep pausing the song, saying random words that don't mean anything. Compose your thoughts and make a statement, for crying out loud! So, you said nothing. I was a lad when this song first came out and it was crystal clear what it was saying. I can't *imagine* what you _think_ it says because you didn't put together a single sentence of reaction. I think you have no clue what you listened to.
THis was a 1 hit wonder. Top of the charts and it is predicting the future. I was released in the 60's. Pick you kid from a long black tube is already a thing. This is a wake up song. I think it is already too late for this iteration of humans. Oh and by the way, screw feelings. People are soft today and that will be the death of this nation. So long USA, so long any chance for peace. The machines (A.I.) already here. So long ya'all
The video (German film, Metropolis) is not connected to the song. I think the imagery unfairly makes it weird. To us old'ns that only heard it on the radio the song is much bigger and more prophetic than the "parts bin" imagery. If you listen to it as audio only, the predictions are kinda spooky and prescient.
Another similar past, present and future Fan made video is one to Black Sabbath's -- War Pigs. This Fan made video merging the song with the below German short reminds me of this Fan made video Ace just viewed. War Pigs is a anti-war song and more with hopefully no prophecy yet to repeat. th-cam.com/video/LQUXuQ6Zd9w/w-d-xo.html Though uncredited, the video used in the song is from a 2009 German short also on TH-cam called - Motherland | Kurzfilm (2009).
The images are just clips from the old 1920's movie "Metropolis," and have no direct connection with the song, although the song & movie were both about roughly the same thing. Not sure what you think you hear in the lyrics, but it's about mankind being slowly replaced by it's own technology, nothing all that controversial or shocking about it even today.
Must be awful to live in fear of the Big Tech gods!! He spoke as if someone was eavesdropping and would punish him if he continued his thought on the song.
I was a sophomore in high school when this song came out. I thought it was great then and still love it, musically and for the message. Think about just where we are now as a human race, where we were a thousand years ago and where we might be a thousand years from now? That's the purpose of the song, to promote thoughts. The 60s was not a time where people were obsessed about themselves, about every little thing that happened in their life, about what people thought about them on tiktok. People were genuinely concerned about the problems we dealt with day today, about ending racism about women's rights, about the Cold War. We had bigger fish to fry back then. As much as I love the internet and social media, I hate what it's turned the younger generations into in some ways. Is an INFLUENCER really contributing much positivity in the king run, or is it really about their popularity? IMO, That's all the song writer was doing, trying to make people think about how humans affect each other & the world we live in and On.. The artist's interpretation is just that.. his thoughts . I have always been a fan and a student of science fiction. I've read as many books as I can find going back to the very earliest science fiction books such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I found them too be absolute commentaries on how society has progressed over the centuries and often scarily close to predicting the future. This song is no different.. Isn't it true that you can pick your child from a test tube today? I happen to agree with the religious sentiments too but some people could just take them as allegory. In the end, the moral of the story is the human race is going to be exactly what you me and everyone else on this planet right this second makes of it. What are we passing on to our children and our grandchildren and those who will follow us?
There are no things "not to talk about". If they are things (issues) then we talk about it, fix it and move on. This song (and the later video) describes much of the ethical issues regarding our technologies.
It wasn't a problem because obviously the song content was out there, it wasn't something no one had not heard before. but it did make you stop & think a bit.
Most of the lyrics refer to science fiction tropes and plot elements; at least, that's how I've always viewed the song. The dates for each "prediction" are irrelevant, as many are already coming true -- our reliance on machines to do our work, test tube babies, etc. Rather, the overall intent, in my opinion, is to illustrate mankind's indifference to our overall outlook on life ... and the price we'll eventually have to pay for our selfishness and greed.
A favorite of mine as a kid in the '70s. Chilling. Prophetic. Disturbing. Brilliant.
There was little controversy over this song when it was released and played regularly on Top 40 radio. Fewer eggshells and snowflakes back then.
In the U.S. on the Billboard music charts this song was so popular that it went to number 1 and stayed there for 5 consecutive weeks.
If this song came out today...People would be terrified...we weren't squishy back then.
No, this song wasn't a problem when it came out. We weren't as sensitive as this generation is now. Thank god!😮
Agreed
Couldn’t have said it better myself!!!
Yep. We weren't pansies then. People need to get over themselves.
I don’t really see why it should be a problem even today. None of the other reactor’s seem to have a problem with it, just that it’s scary or disturbing. It’s not like the song is advocating any of the things it describes. There are hit songs today that are far more disturbing.
100% accurate 🎯
You see already they have your mouth closed to what you want to say! I'm 70 and at young age ,fun song, at 70 Alot of truth in song
No problems to express your thoughts back in the day
I don't think people will make a big deal of this song or worry about what a reactor says about it because we've become almost immune to all the prophesies and dire warnings about the future from endless media and movies. So much more information and discoveries have come along since, and some of the concepts in this have become reality.
In the Year 2525 is considered one of the most famous “one hit wonders” in U.S. recording history, it topped Billboard's Top 40 chart for six weeks during the summer of 1969.
It's not weird..It's what our future looks like..Song came out in 69. Look at how many things happened already...True song
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Who knew back then that the world would be close to this craziness 😮
It's a very forward looking song, with a lot of scope to it. And the idea someone had to run bits of "Metropolis" in the background was GENIUS. I've seen the video several times and it goes so well with the eerie feeling of the song.
It's a very basic scifi thing, to look ahead and wonder what will be.
Don’t be afraid to speak. That only leads to being afraid to think.
Hey Ace, It was not a problem for us, we weren't bothered by things like this back in the day, we saw it as prophetic! It's been on my playlist for many many years!
It wasn't a problem. It made me think. In 1978 when Louise Brown (the first test tube baby) was born, I realized how much faster the things mentioned in this song were actually happening. Look around you, it's ALL coming!
The fact he can't say it shows how much truth is in this song. This is what the start of oppression looks like kids.
Us old people have lived through it in the past. I hope future generations make better choices than where things seem to be going now.
Excellent comment.
I don't understand the big controversy. It's just about the possible path evolution of mankind and its dependence on technology. Really similar to Huxley's Brave New World.
We studied about most of the ideas in this song when we read Brave New World and Future Shock in high school. Ace’s reaction confuses me as to why anyone would have a problem with this song.
@@bengilbert7655 Back in 1969 people in the U.S. were free to say and think what they wanted. There was no censorship or fear back then like there is today.
I honestly don't know what is so worrisome about this song.
It is a warning to heed.
This song has never been a problem because it’s freaking reality! Dang, stop with the sensitivity blah blah blah
I believe this was the number 1 song of Oct or Nov 1969.
I was 9 when this came out!!!!!!! Loved it!
It was number 1 for 5 weeks in the summer of 1969. It was number 1 the night that Walter Cronkite reported "live from the moon". Here in 2024 there is no rockets going to Mars, no Walter Cronkite, and no profound music like "In the Year 2525". My, how the U.S. has changed for the worse.
The song came out in 1965, the black and white film, 1927. The movie was Metropolis.
I'm truly baffled by your reaction. It is simply a song talking about humanity and a potential future if we allow ourselves to self-destruct or lose our freedom to technology. The most important lines have to do with humans destroying and using up all the resources and not caring for this planet we live on or giving back to allow for future generations to live.
Dude you could say this is a very interesting song and leave it at that you're okay relax❤❤❤❤
One way to lose your Freedom of Speech Rights is to dictate to people what they can and can not talk about. I find nothing wrong with the song. Clue me in why your generation would find this offensive. Why do you take things so personally.
I’m not sure what he was afraid to say either, I don’t find the song offensive in any way. Another way to lose freedom of speech is to self-sensor, before anyone tells you to shut up. 🤷♀️
We all loved this song when it came out. We weren't weak and scared and offended by everything.
I don’t see the controversy.
It wasn’t a problem back then but it was prophetic. We had a chance to save the beautiful earth but chose greed instead.This was years before test tube babies or even most transplants
I really don't understand the issues about discussing this song these days, but I'm along in years--this song came out when I was a teenager. This reaction, or, lack of reaction really confused me.
The song was a little unsettling, but very well received. Most of us were concerned of the direction Humanity was heading.
And most everything mentioned already existed or was in the beginning of development. Many of us never paid much attention to the dates, likely just given for song continuity.
We knew most would likely take place ( be finalized) within the next 50 years.
If you start all the dates out with the first two numerals being replaced with 20 it's right there.
🚜🤠🐂
If it makes you consider the possible path that humanity is heading, then it's a good thing.
The younger generation is WAY to easily offended.
I loved this song when it came out. Also interesting how much they sing about that has come true.
And it didn't take a thousand years to get to some of those places. My dad who passed away 10 years ago now and was born in 1931, used to say that the older you get the faster time flies, and he said that is true of the world in general, not just human beings. He believed that everything in the universe was moving at a speed that constantly accelerated.
@@KarenCatMom2 I'm 64. No truer statement about. "The older You get, The faster time flies" !!!!!!! It's mind boggling to go thru that!
Pay attention to what has been happening the past 15 years or so in our society and then you can see how songs like this are very relevant now.
This song is a one hit wonder but hit the top of the pop chart😮😊 Not bad for 1969!
We had this on our jukebox that was on a dancing floor by the river and everyone loved it, not to dance with but simply to listen too. Beautiful singing and music while wondering what was in store for us past 1970.
Question
What age group is your largest audience?
And why worry about what somebody thinks?
Only thoughts that matters is your personal thoughts. It's called personal individuality. Do not let the architects of Destruction take that away, and make you part of the collective. That goal is almost complete and you will no longer have a voice or thought that is your own. If your generation doesn't start resisting and grow a pair you will have no future. That's what the song is actually trying say.
Don't give up your Humanity to the machine.
Learn your history the sensitive ones are the ones that walk to their own demise.
And that's right around the corner.
Considering your reaction here....
There was another popular song a couple years later considered one of the most disturbing songs ever. It charted 36 on Billboard
The song is called DOA and it is by the band Blood Work
It was played on the radio often.
I only know one radio station that would play it today because of sensitivity.
Man your generation is missing out because you allowed manipulation. Although I've noticed there is a Awakening. Hopefully you're part of it.
I was 12 first time I heard it, and now I see it in the world.
did you notice throughout the video they show references of AI especially at the end. This song had to strike a nerve back in 69 it went to no.1 way ahead at the time !
No, I think he’s a little slow.
The video clip you referenced is even more ahead of its time. It's from Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece "Metropolis."
Thought provoking about how man will change the world
We grew up doing nuclear attack-air raid drills in school, preparing for WWIII. We loved this song. I think it was #1 for about six weeks when it came out.
It's an indictment of humanity and where we are headed as a species.
Not long after this song came out the movie "Colossus,The Forbin Project" was released..fits this song.
1969 Visionary song like the very famous science fiction film "METROPOLIS" by Fritz Lang (1920s), from which the images are taken.
The footage is from the 1927 film "Metropolis"
You beat me to it!
What today is, is what they are talking about.
When I first heard this in 1969, I wasn't even a teenager quite yet, but somehow, being a math and physics nerd (well, ALL sciences), and especially a sci-fi freak, ever since I first learned to read, this song has resonated with me deeply, and has been has stuck in my brain for over a half century now. ☺️
All of the video that is embedded into this song if from the movie Metropolis made in 1927 in Germany. It was originally black and white and was a silent movie, so the script is done in subtitles. Even back in 1927 it was known where humanity was going. Forty-two years latter lyrics but to song reinforced the ideal and then in 2015 the prophetic song and movie were merged together. It started nearly 100 years ago.
The people who would think this song is a problem are the ones taking the the 3535 pill that gives them everything they think, do and say.
This video matched well with the music making it more Creepy ! Knowing at the end they make a witch under the pentagram of the witch !
This song was a big hit in the 60s.
I 've always loved this song. It came out in the 60's and it was considered very futuristic- prophetic even - at that time and wasn't controversial at all. It's so sad that you are afraid to speak your mind due to fear of backlash. It's just really sad. My heart went out to you watching you struggle with what to say.
My folks had this on 45 when I was a kid. Being a sci-fi nut I loved it. I still do!
I’m not sure why there would be a problem; every other movie and book these days is a post-apocalyptic dystopian story. The irony is that most of this song has already come to pass.
You’ll love ELO’s “Here Is The News,” and “Your’s Truly, 2095.”
Song was released in '69. Star Trek, Easy Rider, fantastic bands, Vietnam, military draft, campus protests, political upheaval plus moon landing. Not much was off limits!
There is a message in this song. Things predicted in 1969 has and is happening. Amazing and love this song
The year this song was released was the golden age of speculative science-fiction. If you read Philip K. Dick or Harlan Ellison you'll be able to immerse yourself into this type of imagery.
Many of the scenes come from the 1927 film "Metropolis"
I don’t understand what the big deal is?
When this first came out, I considered this a protest song. As it talks about a dystopian society. And the video clips from the silent film, "Metropolis" is just icing on the cake. That movie fits this song. As the song appeared to me and some others I knew at the time. to talk about technology controlled by the establishment so that the establishment could control you. What some of us feared back then was the loss of freedom in the future. And this song fed into those fears.
Still have the 45 I rushed out to buy.
Of course they had no idea some of this was going to happen sooner.
It’s way before it’s time bro… very deep
In 1969 there were a lot to worry about, and people did! The same problems has got even more severe, with a few added - but today people don't seem to care! A relevant song - still!
The song was released in 1968❤
This song reached no1 in the USA and the UK. No one had an issue with much back then. Way before people started getting offended with hurty words.
Next song to check out. Eva destruction. By. Barry MCguire
The visuals on this is from the movie "Metropolis" from the 1930s
Dig this. The video was taken from a German silent film made in 1927.
I don't think there was controversy, was there? I mean, I was only ten or so at the time, but even as young people we were aware of books like 'Brave New World' and '1984', and 'Planet of the Apes' was out. The Cuban missile crisis wasn't that long before. We all knew about what might happen in the future.
I don't understand what it is that makes you worried, makes you think it will be blocked. This is a stone cold classic. I really don't understand why you say it'd be a problem coming out today . . . unless it's because it would show up much of today's music as shallow stuff. Take the lyrics and compare to anything being released today.
Me, I was always more of an optimist about the future, more Arthur C Clarke than George Orwell.
As the Doctor says to Rose in 'The End of the World':
"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible, that maybe you survive." (Doctor Who, Series 1, Episode 2.)
If you can't say what you think about this now, that's a terrible thing.
I think this needs to be placed in the context of the times, 1969. Everything was centered on the race to the moon. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey had come out the year before. The Apollo moon missions were finally going to land on the moon. The country was turning to the future. But, what was that future going to be?
The pictures the video creator used are even much older. They're from the German dystopian silent film "Metropolis" from 1927 (!). I've seen it on TH-cam a few weeks ago and I was shocked how much it resembles today's society. It contains mad scientists, a two class society and even something like a transhuman/AI evil being created by scientists.
I hope they won't delete it. And I'm glad that I've finally watched the film.
Scary
Prediction was correct. You are muzzled 🤐
Hello Ace The Heart ! I like the way You react and coment You real anjoy the music and the letter, be like that, is just a coment don't make me wrog: You don't have to sorry when You do like that is interesting that why I like your great channel.Thank You Very Much!!❤ 🙂 👏👍
It is a bit dark but most don't see it has some hopeful notes. The fact they reference future millennia gives you a feel that humankind may still be here. It gives thoughts to how much machines may be a part of our future (causing debilitating atrophy of human bodies) as well as no need for family connections to continue our species. The damage to the Earth by humans has also taken censure. I remember when this song was released and it did cause a lot of thinking and debate. It provokes thought.
The Song has nothing to do with
Fritz Langs Metropolis.
In 1969 there was no Terminator 2 to show how our future will be.
Oh wow I hope you're going to like this one thank you thank you thank you for doing this one❤❤❤❤❤❤
Watch the film Metropolis,german film, silent from the 1920's. Very prophetic one hundred years ago.
Nope not a problem at allllll. Us Baby Boomers who were teens in the 70s didn't use seat belts, bike helmets AND we smoked cigarettes. We were way more tolerant and tuff than this super sensitive and super soft generation today. AND....we had fun and were mostly happy.
Dude, you keep pausing the song, saying random words that don't mean anything. Compose your thoughts and make a statement, for crying out loud! So, you said nothing. I was a lad when this song first came out and it was crystal clear what it was saying. I can't *imagine* what you _think_ it says because you didn't put together a single sentence of reaction. I think you have no clue what you listened to.
It's a pretty deep song.
in the year 2025 should be the title now
Yes we know why - Maybe Zager and Evans saw what was coming in 2024 and saw what we were on the road to.
Please play dear god by XTC 1986
Visage cover of this is far superior, in my opinion of course 🙂
THis was a 1 hit wonder. Top of the charts and it is predicting the future. I was released in the 60's. Pick you kid from a long black tube is already a thing. This is a wake up song. I think it is already too late for this iteration of humans. Oh and by the way, screw feelings. People are soft today and that will be the death of this nation. So long USA, so long any chance for peace. The machines (A.I.) already here. So long ya'all
This is very informative. There are a lot of references to what is going on now. Love your reaction!
I remember this song. I liked the music but I never paid attention to the meaning of the words. I was 18 at the time, 73 now.
We were free thinkers back in the day,1984 crossed with soylent green maybe?
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The video (German film, Metropolis) is not connected to the song. I think the imagery unfairly makes it weird. To us old'ns that only heard it on the radio the song is much bigger and more prophetic than the "parts bin" imagery. If you listen to it as audio only, the predictions are kinda spooky and prescient.
We took words and music for what it was…entertainment
Another similar past, present and future Fan made video is one to Black Sabbath's -- War Pigs. This Fan made video merging the song with the below German short reminds me of this Fan made video Ace just viewed. War Pigs is a anti-war song and more with hopefully no prophecy yet to repeat.
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Though uncredited, the video used in the song is from a 2009 German short also on TH-cam called - Motherland | Kurzfilm (2009).
I had a reply, but I deleted it, because I realized I misunderstood your post. My apologies if you saw my original reply.
The images are just clips from the old 1920's movie "Metropolis," and have no direct connection with the song, although the song & movie were both about roughly the same thing. Not sure what you think you hear in the lyrics, but it's about mankind being slowly replaced by it's own technology, nothing all that controversial or shocking about it even today.
Star Trek was out spacethe final frontier! Everything was open!
Check out Timothy by The Buoys. That tune became a bit controversial! 👀
Nope, not a problem back then. We thought it was fascinating. The future, wow!!Don't get why you are weirded out by it! Makes total sense to me.
Must be awful to live in fear of the Big Tech gods!! He spoke as if someone was eavesdropping and would punish him if he continued his thought on the song.
@@suecook1326 Agreed. I can't imagine what he was thinking that would have been scary to say.
The lyrics part I like the most is: "some machine's doin' that for you!" < that's the timeline we are actually are living in!
I was a sophomore in high school when this song came out. I thought it was great then and still love it, musically and for the message.
Think about just where we are now as a human race, where we were a thousand years ago and where we might be a thousand years from now?
That's the purpose of the song, to promote thoughts. The 60s was not a time where people were obsessed about themselves, about every little thing that happened in their life, about what people thought about them on tiktok. People were genuinely concerned about the problems we dealt with day today, about ending racism about women's rights, about the Cold War. We had bigger fish to fry back then. As much as I love the internet and social media, I hate what it's turned the younger generations into in some ways. Is an INFLUENCER really contributing much positivity in the king run, or is it really about their popularity?
IMO, That's all the song writer was doing, trying to make people think about how humans affect each other & the world we live in and On..
The artist's interpretation is just that.. his thoughts . I have always been a fan and a student of science fiction. I've read as many books as I can find going back to the very earliest science fiction books such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I found them too be absolute commentaries on how society has progressed over the centuries and often scarily close to predicting the future.
This song is no different.. Isn't it true that you can pick your child from a test tube today?
I happen to agree with the religious sentiments too but some people could just take them as allegory.
In the end, the moral of the story is the human race is going to be exactly what you me and everyone else on this planet right this second makes of it. What are we passing on to our children and our grandchildren and those who will follow us?
A mind blower, sadly some of the prediction years are off. Folk Rock movement.
THAT TALL BUILDING YOU SEE ACTUALLY REPRESENTS BABYLON ANCIENT TIMES , JUST SAYING
There are no things "not to talk about". If they are things (issues) then we talk about it, fix it and move on. This song (and the later video) describes much of the ethical issues regarding our technologies.
It points to a scary future. Perhaps we were born at a good time after all.
It wasn't a problem because obviously the song content was out there, it wasn't something no one had not heard before. but it did make you stop & think a bit.
Most of the lyrics refer to science fiction tropes and plot elements; at least, that's how I've always viewed the song.
The dates for each "prediction" are irrelevant, as many are already coming true -- our reliance on machines to do our work, test tube babies, etc. Rather, the overall intent, in my opinion, is to illustrate mankind's indifference to our overall outlook on life ... and the price we'll eventually have to pay for our selfishness and greed.