I listened to a ridiculous amount of 80s country growing up. Kenny, Dolly, Eddie Rabbit, Alabama, Juice Newton, Crystal Gayle, etc. The list goes on and on.

You sold me on checking out the 2nd song! Reminds me thematically of Here You Come Again.

Great reaction! No need to feel upset for them, they sold half a billion albums (second only to Beatles but with only 8 sudio albums so fewer than Beatles, and maybe en par with Queen who also had more studio albums), made 3 musicals, and revolutionized now again with the new avatar /light-show technology in London. They have the goofy sense of humour (especially Bjorn) and have a very down to earth relaxed approach. This video was fun to watch. Nice to see Cher also who did some great covers and nailed it in the musical Mamma Mia.

I have the 4k Blu-ray concert. Is amazing!

If we got this, We wouldn't have gotten White & Nerdy

I always viewed the extended music videos as an album promotion and a thank you to the fans who may never get to see him live on stage, it was the next best thing; he preformed for all of us. The music videos taught us how to dance and how to be creative with our moves and how to move with the rhythm (tik tok craze without the cameras).

Can you recommend any other coffee table books about records?

Can you recommend any other coffee table books about records? Thank you.

I had no clue he remixed a few tracks.... how different is Bravery?

yes that is one of the best albums ever.. Hate or like Waters... this album is pretty special.

As a fan of both Abba and Rik Mayall, I don't know how this is the first time I've seen this. I was doing a university dissertation on them when this came out, so it's something I should have noticed! Abba were criminally under-rated for decades, often still are. Their songs are incredibly intricate. It takes a lot of skill to make something so complex sound so simple. Makes the Beatles writing look like kindergarten.

I love lady blue it was my favorite of his

You're going to love this I love Leon

I worked at a club in the 80s and early 90s. I was in a record pool so I have pretty much every released 12 inch domestic dance record made from about 86 to 92. I also have hundreds of imports and remix service records (some older). I have come to the point that I think I should sell them since I don't play them anymore, but we are talking anywhere from 1500 to 3000 records, and I know quite a few are really valuable. I have no idea how to go about selling them, and like you...many have been played multiple times, but they have been cared for meticulously. Any advice from anywhere would be appreciated

I honestly can't tell if Lauren liked the song or not. She seemed to be distracted by everything else going on in the video. 🤷🏻

Welcome back guys to the Abba-shere.

This was for the gays full stop. I love it so much

Best kmfdm album no debate

This is somewhat unrelated to your topic, but I was in a restaurant today where they had different size vinyl records on the wall. Two groups look like 45 but I could swear that one of them was actually narrower than 7 inches in diameter. Do you know if there were any smaller sized vinyl records ever created

Hello, so happy to see you with more ABBA videos These is a special video that ABBA made in Stockholm 2004 for the 30th anniversary of ABBA"s victory at the Eurovisión Song Contest in UK 1974 the part of songs that You listen in the video are the Four Top 10 of ABBA in U.S. Billboard; all these songs was four of their nine #1 in UK in order of appearence: Take a chance on me (#3 in 1978) Dancing Queen (#1 in 1977) Waterloo (#6 in 1974) The winner takes it all (#8 in 1981, and #1 in US Adult Contemporary): great part of the lyrics in these video are about all ABBA songs: Mamma Mía Watch Out I have a dream That's me Rock me I do I do I do I do I do Two of the price of one Money money money Soldiers Ring Ring Voulez Vous Thank you for the músic Hasta mañana and in the video You could see a cameo of all four ABBA members: Björn Ulvaeus Annie Frid Lyngstad Agnetha Fältskog Benny Andersson ABBA (from ABBA The Movie 1977) I wish you a greatest weekend and see you soon in another video my best regards from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 South America

That video was a wonderful GIFT for the fan all over the world...❤ Seeing the four members of 🅰️🅱️🅱️🅰️ again in the 90's was great. Also see Cher... a renowned ABBA fan. Take care, guys ✌️ Greetings ❤ from Chile 🇨🇱🤗👍

No one can even remotely understand the weight on MJ’s shoulders. He was not only the most famous and influential person to walk the face of the earth in the last 100 years but he relentlessly used his position to try and bring about peace and love back into the world. I laugh when people think stats of today are famous, but when you lived through MJ and saw with your own eyes that he could not even go anywhere ever without being stalked relentlessly by thousands of fans that would even shut down cities because he was rumored to be staying there, you haven’t seen fame. He was the icon of icons in a modern way and his music continues to live that legacy of timelessness

Great Reactions Everyone, Michael Jackson is The Best 💯

As a die hard Spandau fan for over 40 years, really interesting to hear your thoughts and comments about their music. In my opinion, True is a highly underrated album from the 80s decade. The album tracks ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Code of Love’ could easily have held their own as single releases. ‘I’ll Fly for You’ is another single that does not get the airplay these days it should in comparison to their biggest hits True and Gold.

Great reaction and Happy MJ-Day to the both of you. 🌻❤💔❤‍🩹 I enjoyed listening to your reflections and agree on your interpretations. I think it's important to not leave out the obvious perspective of MJ having had to live as "a color" and the obvious rage of anti-black racism, all racism, the effed up stuff about being treated as a n***** while being told one isn't proud of one's herritage, roots, is not black enough, etc. This being filmed not even 6 months after the Rodney King beatings and MJ being anything but dismissive of the black tradition - not least musically - they were brought up within (but not limited to). This quote from MJ from a Chicago Tribune interview in 1992 on the anger expressed in the panther dance, I think is important too: “Anger and rage are the prelude to a shift in consciousness. Unless we feel rage at some of the inequities and injustices of our society, there is no hope for transformation.” It speaks to the song being both individual and a political/societal statement (which MJ felt the need to point out, after everyone going hobby-psychologist on the panther-section). BoW expresses many dualities, as you already spoke on; both expressing the joy of coming together and learning from/celebrating and respecfully mixing ones' cultures, the love of unity and oneness and the rage and frustration seeing the society limit us through racism - with very real and deadly results for poc - and putting your foot down, saying "NO, I'm not playing nice anymore" and allowing one to explode, is yet another example of such dualities. Both on societal level and individual. Also in a more humourus and childlike way expressed in the beginning with a suburban middle-class family being, let's say, unappreciative of their child (I still feel anger in the pit of my stommach when that MJ poster breaks - and the child, let's say, puts their foot down. I also LOVE how they got the lions to look up and with their eyes follow the dad falling down.

The premiere of this video was seen by 500 million people worldwide ! Even today with youtube they can't replicate those numbers (Adele's much hyped ''Hello'' didn't get even close to those numbers after 24 hours of being posted). Btw, there's a re edited version (made by MJ) of the second part of this short film, where they digitally added on the windows that he's breaking, words like ''Go home ni**a'' and ''KKK rules'', which can make more sense to some viewers. The panther clearly is a reference to the Black Panthers organisation of the 60's/70's.

This man was the definition of musical genius and his videos played out the vision of his song perfectly. I was introduced to his catalog as a young kid by my mom and I'm still a fan at 32 years old

Michael Jackson was amazing!

He lost me with all the crotch grabbing honestly it’s a little ridiculous and disturbing did not age well

Everything Micheal does is intentionally done. We all are human beings and we should respect our differences and still be able to be around each other and live among each other no matter the color of our skin without putting anyone down. This is the message I received from this video. RIP MJ.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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Michael Jackson is great every time. love this.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Leon was on everything in the 70s. His voice is perfect. The best "Song for you" is about 5 different performances. My favorite is Leon, Ray and Willie just before we lost Ray and Leon.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!! Billy knocked it out of the park..................

I love the picture of Michael Jackson on stage at the Super Bowl wearing the same shirt and it blows open as he has his arms held out and his shirt looks like angel wings as he was dancing

HIStory also includes the massively underrated Tabloid Junkie: a gem with MJ snarling those lyrics. Definitely another pro!

ADD ON THE LIST Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are (Live, 1972) ALBUM GOT TO BE THERE (1972)

Maybe one day I can love vinyl like you guys this looks Amazing

You guys are awesome. Truly enjoyed this reaction and the breakdown of it. Lauren you articulated this marvellously 😊❤

Thank you please react to Michael Jackson earth song live in Munich x

Michael Jackson is the greatest Entertainer of all time

The world stop what they we're doing. To turn MTV for the premier of Black and White . without the Internet. Stop this 🐂💩 that's she's Michael Jackson famous.

Russ and Lauren, this is imo the best reaction you both did in your channel and also the best analysis ive listened to , of this iconic song and short film , Lauren you got the exact point Michael was making here and the purpose he wrote this song and the purpose of this music video, thank you so much and not surprised you are a college educator , thank you Russ for understanding and pointing out how media treated Michael Jackson and the fact that Michael Jackson is incomparable to any other artist , he is on another level , thank you so much and I really enjoyed this reaction, I hope poeple who are watching this will have a better understanding of Michael Jackson the king of pop and his music.

I think history has some really good standouts songs like (Stranger in Moscow, Eath Song, Screem, They don't care about us You are not alone) are great standouts the rest are ok but Dangerous has more consistently good songs and is overall a better package. Dangerous is just awesome from start to finish, I can't think of songs I'd skip from the album

awesome

One of my favourite songs from the dangerous album. I loved the way different cultures were on display and honored, and i loved the following along with the heads morphing at the end.

I haven't seen another reaction channel break down this video and song like this before! Normally they just go "That was great but wtf was that ending" Great work!

No one says who is the new F. Mercury, or the next Elvis, etc, so for me the " new MJ" sounds exactly as it is: he can be replaced. Wow, i like Lauren's explanations a lot! This short is discussed in lots of academic works, from Armond White, Susan Fast, Elizabeth Amisu ( you can find them online), im writing this and you two are still discussing so i wanted to ask if she is in educational field, which you confirmed. MJ showed here that he knows who he is, he is not just a ,,pop star,, and his Panther coda is way more than some ,,vulgar,, moves ( funny thing is that he is psychoanalized based on these moves, which is so sad but in the same time hilarious), he shows his anger, rebellion against the status quo of things, the Royal Army Hotel is the symbol of the colonizers, its a lot and if you are ever intetested read the academics interpretations. I really enjoy your reactions, they are so genuine and detailed! Another big difference between MJ and any other is that an artist like MJ is catching your attention no matter what musical genre you prefer. I am not into pop music, i wasn't, but even back in the day Michael managed to make me stay in front of the tv or not to switch the radio station. And among my friends ( rock, punk, rock) their reaction was the same. This is his profoundness as an artist, to be universally accepted. And this is what separates him from all the others. I became a fan some couple of years ago, and i am glad for this. What i remember is the fact that i found his smile and face expression so calming, which is available now too. I gotta stop. Thank you so much! Enjoy your week-end!

Another awesome masterpiece short film by the GOAT 😎✌🏾🌌🩷🐐 🎩 MJJ

What an annoyingly, cringey, unfunny intro skit that was.