Zager & Evans In the Year 2525 (REACTION) MAN, THE LYRICS , THEY PREDICTED THE FUTURE?

You guys this song is crazy and amazing at the same time
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[@robertakline9785]

these guys where visionaries. I have always loved this song.

[@rykehuss3435]

They compose this in '69. over 50 years later, theyre still spot on. And I have this incling that in the coming milleniums, they will be right about us as a species.

[@j20tower]

I remember this song from the 60’s. I’m 70 years old. This was a big hit believe it or not. It’s just a song that wants you to think about what can happen in the future. With advancements in technology making it so that man gets lazier and they stop using their bodies. Machines doing it for you. The thing that makes humans who they are is disappearing. Is the world going to come to an end. It’s a pretty heavy song. I love the music and the words. We had great music in the 60’s, I’m sorry to say much better than the garbage they play today, no offense. The music had meaning to it. That’s why the 60’s music is still played today. It stands the test of time. Play a song like Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers from 1965 and tell me what you think. Anyway, thx for playing the song.

[@jerrybell1766]

Oh man, I just turned 68 and the 60s and 70s music is awesome!

[@dsfddsgh]

Funny how they mention test tubes babies being hundreds of years in the future when in fact the first test tube baby was born less then a decade after this song. Technology moves even faster then we know.

[@petersutton2182]

Loved and understood the song when I first heard it when I was about 10 yrs old. Bloody awesome!

[@josephclegg3562]

Can you explain what would happen in each year?

[@hiawatha.g]

Yes, it's from 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War and the Chicago Riots. Zager and Evans are considered one of the greatest examples of a one-hit wonder--but what a hit. This was part of our soundtrack growing up. And yes, it is spooky, it's so on target. Note, the video is a recent edit, as is obvious from some of the imagery. 1968 was long before even MTV existed, let alone the internet. Wonderful suggestion from your listener, thank her or him, loved it.

[@Grandmama-xw9mo]

FINALLY, someone who actually listened to the lyrics!! I agree! Totally mind blowing! One of my all time favorite songs and I was born in the 50's!

[@m118lr]

The song’s ABSOLUTELY ICONIC..and a foretelling.

[@leannmiller7153]

Blast from the past! I bought this 45 rpm when it was released in 1968, and still have it. I was 15, and it’s stood the test of time.

[@gazinessex2]

This song was released in 1969, 9 years before the first test-tube baby was born in 1978.

[@ClassB-Overlanders]

It was fun seeing you react. I’m 47 and have had this song in my head since I was 5 or 6. My father informed me that it was predictive. Now imagine seeing the world thru that lends from the early 80’s. Every movie I watch ends up a deep dive into the hidden message, predictive programming or subtle technological and macro economic information release to the public.

[@theresareynolds3133]

This song came out in 1969, I was 11 years old, and it freaked me out back then even though it was a song. So many things in this song have actually come true, scary right?

[@carolnoble4344]

It was in 1969 the my husband and I first met. We both immediately loved this song. My husband died almost 4 years ago but this song brings his memory back.

[@sylviaannanavarro1721]

This song is crazy...how did they know this was going to happen..I love the song it's one of my favorites

[@CN-dl2cj]

I was about 8 when this song was a hit on the radio, and it gave me chills and a very melancholy feeling. It spooked me as a child, but I liked it. What's crazy is (almost) everything they predicted is already happening, or possible and coming. Machines doing everything for us, genetic test tube babies, pills for knowledge, taking everything from the Earth until She's destroyed. We won't last another 10k years.

[@timpwhit]

Yes, I remember this song. I was too young at the time to really understand the lyrics, just liked the "far out" idea of what life might be like in the distant future. Later, after developing a passion for science fiction through reading books by authors like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov, and seeing movies like 2001: A Space Oddity and A Clockwork Orange that I could truly appreciate it. Themes of overeliance on technology and humanity's penchant for self destruction do seem to foreshadow a lot of what's going on today.

[@russgiles3176]

This was one of my favourute songs fom the 6o's i'm now 71 years old i still play retro music i wasvfc out my gas rden started singing this song looked up my phone anf found the original then crossed to your reaction fry the lyrics have links to Aldus Huxley's Brave new World We were very environmentally aware and vey conscious of pollution.

[@elainedixon1954]

That song was true, remember when it first come out, they hit it on the head

[@bonnietomi6119]

this song is like the future trying to warn us ..

[@AdstarAPAD]

The part about no one looking at you have near come true already.. So many people walk about looking at only their phones and they can go near the whole day whithout ever looking at another person..

[@kimberlyhill7206]

That song is imprinted in my brain I was a young child my mother would listen to that song for 20-plus years I could hear the words but never knew the song I accidentally found the song on KZbin and my whole world started to make sense talk about being before their time it puts many questions in your brain but how true the words are we live in the 21st century now it really hasn't changed much all I can say is love your babies and teach them. Kindness don't judge help your neighbor and love yourself that's all we can do I thank you for giving this song a couple minutes in your life it is very moving

[@josephstanton4872]

Nearly forgot, the suited guy at the end was Carl Sagan who did a very famous TV series called COSMOS! He was the American version of our own James Burke who commentated on the Apollo Landing for the BBC!

[@jamessmith-rd3sf]

I loved your reaction.. And yes he was making spot on predictions from back in 60's ..

[@aramcartozian6084]

This song came out in 1969, one year before I was drafted and it was to be a message/warning of what was coming. It's now 2022 and if you are old enough to look back you will see what is happening now. You figure out what is next, I'll be gone.

[@latejana5438]

They were prophets. I love this song. Grew up hearing it

[@shelleymariejohnson503]

I don't know if anyone has heard this song without those chills. It is such a trip.

[@gertbamse1]

The pill is the social media, write what you think from the bottom of your heart and the chance of you slipping out of your group of friends is high.

[@1948treetop]

I remember this song when it first came out, I loved the rhythm and harmony of it, not taking too much notice of the lyrics. But boy oh boy, with today's modern technology perhaps the lyrics are not so far from the truth. The lyrics really give me the chills.

[@paulinesmith8803]

Matthew 24:22 & 25; "If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened...So I have told you ahead of time." (NIV Bible). And yes I heard this song back in the sixties.

[@bobstrauss9413]

Rick Evans actually wrote the song in 1964 i actually spoke to him. He did not intend to predict what would happen in a particular year but to say how mankind is progressing. Now in 2021 the song is even more true. Mankind is dehumanizing himself.

[@danieltheiben9469]

Wow!

[@m118lr]

…exactly.

[@debbers]

Today was my first time sitting in with you, thank you for allowing me to do that! I enjoyed the time I spent here so while I was here I subscribed and left a like for you! This came out in the 1967 and in 1978 the first test tube baby was successfully grown, it was sort of terrifying back then! The original video for this is even more terrifying! It is taken from the 1927 movie Metropolis, a masterpiece in its own right!

[@MitcyDupres]

I've watched a few of reactions to this song, and yours is the most thought out. I love this song, that upbeat, urgent tempo is juxtaposed to the deep, and somewhat dark, lyrics. That they prophesised remarkably well what was in store is a grave reminder of the future steering towards dystopia, rather than the utopia we were always promised.

[@theresareynolds3133]

People get fed through feeding tubes, test tube babies, prosthetic limbs, robots taking over, a lot of things happening today are in the song, hard to believe but it is. Like I said I was 11 years old when it came out and it freaked me out back then and that was extremely unusual for me, it was just a song.

[@stefanstock953]

Thanx alot for that reaction. I've listen to the song bout thousands times. Realy love it. I dont know why, but i never check the lyrics. My englisch is very bad and in the eighties we werent able to read the songtexts somewhere or somehow( no WWW, Google etc.). And yeah i was quite schocked like you. Finaly, great...just crazy...greetings from Germany..

[@757optim]

1969 was a hell of a year. I missed it, but but made it back for the roaring '70s. This song was just plain cool.

[@myrongator]

I was 10 when this song came out . Listened to it with my mother for the first time. We both stopped and cried.

[@curtisbolen2693]

Some people were a way ahead of the time that they were born in

[@carolewhite4427]

Yes it's from the 60s, I grew up listening to it and I'm 56 xx

[@mateogarcia3190]

Dude, I know this is from years ago but this song rung a bell with me too and I still can't shake the feelies it puts out.

[@lindyriesman6357]

I remember this song from 1968 and after all these years new generations are finding it. The Hugh difference from listening to it from 1968 there were no iPads so therefore there was no video to go along with it .The video really makes a difference

[@TheDawn5708]

this song makes you think automatically. I was 12 years old in 1969. Like they knew what was going to happen.

[@richardknight259]

i remember this song when it came out, it helped me get through my teenage years. it has always stirred my blood everytime i hear it.

[@razahasanovic3723]

It is all telling future of humanity. I have not heard this song before

[@gregwolfer8464]

Yes shocking indeed. Shocking as a15 yr old who loved this song in 1969. Zager Evans right on man. I'm 68 now.

[@jamesbush5675]

I have been living with song most of my life. Amazing how this song slowly becomes real.

[@diannecardenas9866]

A lot of the things in this song are happening now.

[@daisi4925]

You by far! Gave the best reaction and input ever!

[@lindyriesman6357]

I am from the sixties and remember when this song came out. It was strange to listen to but at that time there was not videos to go with it like there is today. Growing up in the sixties well all I can say is you had to be there.☮️

[@nunocosta9088]

It's a warning... It makes you pay attention to the way things are going.

[@Mark-wp1rv]

I’m 64 and remember this song when I was 8.

[@robertdoerr5999]

Listen to Simon and Garfunkel sounds of silence for telling of the coming technology. Recorded in 1964. Then listen to Disturbed cover. And what they are railing against.

[@jamesanderson4800]

I Remember it well, it traveled the airways in the summer of 1969 it was in the top 40's on the Billboard Charts

[@Phoenix85006]

It actually made it all the way to #1

[@reginawilliams6285]

They lyrics say it all

[@AlexNChannel]

Yep

[@joe6913111111]

On The same Vibe as this Song brother you Should Do Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction and do the same thing react to the lyrics

[@rickeyrod99]

From the bottom of a long class tube ...genetic engineering...they knew back then

[@micheleglander2672]

This song was written in 1969. I was 9 years old. I Remember when this same out. Some of this has already happened. Scary isn't it.

[@bennieknape4857]

Listen to it a few more times while you're doing stuff around the house but when you're by yourself where you can really absorb it with no outside distractions then you'll really get the full meaning the full feeling of this thing I can tell already it's freaked you out and I don't think you've got to full effect because you've just stopped and started to stop and start it you have to listen to it nonstop from start to Spanish with no distractions put the headphones on and get to a point where your mind is open to fucking the message. And if you can listen to this song if anybody can listen to this song and not be freaked out I don't know it freaked me out it's still freaks me out it's so on point how-do-you-do how does somebody from 1969 do that.

[@bennieknape4857]

I can see by the expression on your face is this song that's what I'm saying last year I heard it it seems like for the 1st time I truly heard what the song was saying it breaks you out it breaks me out go back and listen to it in its entirety without any interruptions and it'll really freak you out yeah the out yeah the the 75 and 75 Jen got out to be here by then or make it here by then yeah just a it's a reference to the 2nd coming and then I really like The part where it says man is crowded billionaires is so far away maybe it's only yesterday how how do these guys have this kind of insight that's crazy.

[@Quasar222]

In a way this song is a sad testament to what mankind has done and how we’ve progressed.

[@InTheYear-ic2hw]

The future is here and now.

[@michaelnoviello6302]

How do you think we felt hearing this 50 years ago....and seeing it all happen????

[@Amaberean]

For a similar theme you should react to “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire, also from the 60’s

[@michaelbalboa1015]

Welcome to the Jungle. We have fun & games of future 2025

[@josephstanton4872]

It's Zager, say Zayger, and Evans! Denny Zager and Rick Evans came up with an astonishing OHW which was WAY ahead of it's time! They used film of Metropolis which itself was ahead of it's time! It's believed Neil Armstrong s food supply was pill's? So much for tucking into a thick burger! A test tube baby has already happened here in UK!

[@mrmjb1960]

Some of this have come true!

[@mrmjb1960]

Today Denny Zager runs Zager Guitars while his partner Rick Evans passed away two years ago,sadly. This came out on their own Truth Label then Reissued with Overdubs on RCA a year later. A Followup single "Mr. Turnkey" flopped,and after three albums they seperated.

[@XENONPLASMA]

Picking your child from a long glass tube has already happened. The first 'test tube baby' is alive and well and she's 43

[@iluminaughty]

It all makes sense if you shrink the 10000 years to just 100

[@fredrickemp7242]

well just see how far we have come from the last 10.000 years

[@brucemiller3405]

This is a fantastic song. About the time it came out in the late 60's I was entering Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, NE, where Zager and Evans meant. Interestingly, barely a mention of them on the campus, which I visit a few times each year.

[@sylviaelrod8862]

Yay....you get it!!!....we have to take a look at ourselves and what it is all about......it should give everyone chills.....🤔🥺🤬😿

[@bennieknape4857]

Not from the sixties from 1969 the last year of the sixties it's incredible that they had this kind of insight

[@lennonmccartney5222]

1969....!!!! I was in high school a great memory

[@symmetry08]

We have no meaningful conversations between older and younger generations anymore - so it is true that we do not look at each other in true sense - we see only hollow crust that weather away with time, which we don't appreciated real person within. Many of us peer at personal phone as if eyes are not needed and teeths that have smaller functions ever thus detoriating in its structure/natural-build.

[@jhoneygoddess]

The Progenitors of Now.

[@Joe-rn7td]

Also, the Kinks - Apeman!

[@madmettie]

i rember discovering that song in 1988 i freaked out, after hearing i didnt spoke a word for 1 day

[@bennieknape4857]

It's from 1969 that is a pivotal date it's not just from the sixties it's from 1969, Think about that while you're listening to the lyrics these guys in 1969 had an understanding of what was coming that the years how they progress through the years that's a progression is just a step-by-step by step-by-step when you when you start to listen to what they're talking about I used to I heard this song my entire childhood through my young adult years and never really heard it until last year when last year I heard it on a Sunday morning with Casey kayson going back to one hit wonders or whatever it was anyway the song just it blew me away I'd like I heard it for the very 1st time truly heard it for the very 1st time even though I had heard it all my life So remember 69 19 69 that is a pivotal year and the fact that these guys had this kind of insight I joked around with people and I say This guy is a they were time travelers that came from the future came back wrote this song I mean consists of the only song that I even knows that these guys wrote I've never heard any of the other songs and like I said I didn't really hear this song until 2020 when I 1st heard it for the 1st time in my mind OK.

[@tubedude54]

How you 'feel' about this song really depends in part as to who's 'cover' you watch/listen to! The version I like best is based on the movie 'Lucy' and really compliments the words of the song well!

[@ingomenssen56]

compress the song to 2025-2095.... the moment when reality kicks in, HARD

[@michaelbalboa1015]

Lyrics KEYS of 2525 of past is the Key of FUTURE.

[@suejackson1731]

l always loved this song and yes the lyrics do make you think that is the point of the song.

[@veronicaguidry6636]

We will never be able to say, we didn’t know, mind control, drug control, bodily function control, the dark side of technology.

[@joejohnston3591]

From the year we landed on the Moon........ And Woodstock!

[@richau9058]

new it love it thanks !

[@carolineullrich7323]

yes, from the 60's. best time

[@aoistone]

This song was written in 1964.

[@danieltheiben9469]

Wow!

[@Thegoodlife007]

I remember when this came out I took it as a cautionary pay attention . First time I heard it my dad and I were traveling to Titusville FA for Apollo launch. We were putting a man on the moon. Things were space age and starting to develop. We thought the 21st century was head d this way.

[@wisamabazly]

Great song ,very strong. The world will go into a global reset,,,very sad.

[@curtisbolen2693]

It means man is progressing in technology but making it so that people do not need to do anything

[@richau9058]

agree with yo its crazy thanks

[@mrmjb1960]

Flip of this was "Little Kids".Both were written by Rick Evans.

[@danielbisson8032]

the 60s were full of this music this was a one hit wonder

[@joecaruso9990]

I was just a kid when this song came out.... Scared the crap out of me...... So much is coming true..... Test tube babies, machines doing the brunt of the work, big pharma.... Wow.....

[@jimmyjohansson5672]

Don't throw trash in nature!

[@robertdoerr5999]

In 1969 nobody had even heard of cell phones or personal computers. Tablets were what we wrote on in school.

[@katiesabin5528]

Good song

[@cristinabumbac151]

As I said before this is a philosophical song which tells us that what we didn't learn in thousands of years we won't learn in the next 10 thousands years...we must admit that humans learned nothing from history!

[@samoyo7054]

nice song

[@albertkaramani6593]

yup from 1969. heard this at 11 years old. earth day was new. pollution was a very big issue. space travel promised hope but at the same time then as now, we have to figure out things or as this song suggest loose our humanity the older we get~ it was freaky then and freaky now. cool you young people see the same things we did for the 1st time~

[@gixxerboy555]

Strange..everybody is shocked nowaday's hearing the songs lyrics..I know this beautiful song allready since my childhood..50years ago..

[@stevensprunger3422]

Technology is a tool A tool can be used for Good Or Evil Human nature remains the same no matter what year it is