Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Guilty Pleasure #48)*DayOne Reacts*

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[@LoveOldMusic808]

Yes, the song is what you think it's about. See your face when you realized it was priceless. Back in the day, this song was the jam too dance to.

[@jezhood4947]

it was banned in the uk, which of course made it a huge no.1 hit for weeks, was awesome in the clubs "normal clubs" lol

[@EthanBSide]

These sweet summer children. Now they know what Frankie did in Hollywood... and open jaw shock lol yes hon, this a full blown %$&

[@davidosborne6328]

I said the same thing. Priceless. Haha

[@fidel2xl]

This reaction to this early 1980s music video was freaking HILARIOUS!!! The look on your face especially when the 'fat emperor' "made it rain", was priceless!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@davidosborne6328]

The best reaction of yours I've seen. The look on your face when you got it. Priceless.

[@beaubradley2171]

🤣 lmao 🤣 The look on your face, girl!!!! Priceless!!!😂

[@j4wn]

Your face, Lol! Two Tribes is a great one too and Pleasuredome!

[@JLALALALA]

Haha. As of today it’s not blocked. And your reaction is super hilarious. And it is about what you think it is. I mean listen to the lyrics. They tell you over and over again. Haha.

[@Marcus_1001]

After almost 40 years this is still one of the greatest dance songs EVER!!...and one of the filthiest. Based on your reaction, it's pretty easy to see why this video was banned and a new (highly sanitized) video was shot. There was NO WAY this was getting played on MTV in 1983. Even the song lyrics are blatantly graphic. The band tried to say the lyrics were not sexual and the song was about motivation, but they soon dropped that pretense and admitted the lyrics meant exactly what they say.

[@JLALALALA]

Haha. I mean it would be pretty hard to not admit that. When you want to come. Haha.

[@SigmaSeriesFan]

I love watching the reactions to this song. When you realize what the song was about you just froze. LOL. Everyones reaction is the same. Hilarious. awesome reaction.

[@pillmuncher67]

You had to hear it 1984 in a dimly lit dance club with laser lights over your head.

[@eriksturdevant8589]

Reaction is priceless! Best episode easily, lol!

[@donaldgilbreath4200]

Your face!!! LMAO. Yeah, it's that kinda party.

[@patpeacock8150]

This video was on tv in the eightys

[@yrankin1]

Despite this song being about wild gay underground (in the best way)- it was a massive hit and tons of kids wore the Frankie shirts to school.

[@Matt_M]

Banned in the UK but stayed at Number 1 for absolutely ages... Your reaction is priceless btw.

[@rickfiltz5211]

When this song came out everyone loved the beat and the music and didn't really either pay attention to the lyrics or didn't understand them. Certainly most people didn't see the video......BUT when they did understand what the lyrics were about and when they saw the video they had the same reaction as u did Angela!! BTW, congrats on going over 10k subscribers!!

[@homernoy]

Yup. I had no idea.

[@russellchrom]

Yeah a sickening Disgusting feeling in the pit of your stomach

[@vanessawhitneypro]

This song was a game changer for Queer Culture & for speaking up about not being ashamed about sex in general. THANK YOU FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD!

[@child_of_gaia1836]

The best penny drop reaction ever LMFAO.

[@AWalkOnDirt]

Yep the song is about you know. It was a club hit back in the day. Loved it.

[@bryanjohnson2466]

It's a politicians night out. 😂

[@Zen_17k]

Exactly! Yes, so relevant…….even today! They just don’t talk about it.

[@jpoptop]

There are several video versions of this song. The one you happen to see was the first version and was quickly banned in favor of cleaner versions. The one I remember watching back in the day was the 'laser beam' version.

[@vanessawhitneypro]

The LIVE Version is even better.

[@goonerbeau]

A UK #1 and that ban. "Relax" was consensual after-all. In its flesh 'n' leather sleeve, aching for punishment - as public and official as possible. It wanted to provoke, to delight, to suggest, to make us dance. It certainly did that.

[@Isleofskye]

I was wondering when you were,finally,going to notice what was happening in the video,literally,from the spitting right at the start :)

[@Isleofskye]

I was wondering when you were going to realize what was going on as this was one of the very first openly Gay Anthems and THe Group were Gay themselves and Yes you did see what you thought you saw about that Guy and also Frankie down below surrounded by, er, ley's say fluids :) I knew what was coming although I realized straight away from the very opening shots of the 2 Men going arm-in-arm and the leather-clad All Male Dancers..LOL

[@greendoor49]

An appropriate segue to "Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Relax) is by The Pointer Sisters "Slow Hand" (Enjoy :>D

[@darrin173]

Omg.. I love your reaction....🤣

[@jeremycole3008]

Frankie takes a ride on the hershey-highway

[@trendydelquendy]

A long, rugged road, and we're doing it *my* way

[@TallyDrake]

I'm stunned that you reacted to this video version. There's a PG video of this out there. The look on your face was everything!😂

[@Pugiron]

Nothing more calming than someone shouting "RELAX" at you

[@caigner]

To me the best of Franky goes to Hollywood is "The Power of Love".

[@seerofallthatisobvious1316]

I thought "Power of Love" was Huey Lewis and the News.

[@caigner]

@@seerofallthatisobvious1316 There are many songs with this title. Jennifer Rush also has one.

[@keymack2477]

Thank you for this reaction Ang!! I'm always pleased to see anyone react to FGTH!! Their song you must put on your list to get to one day, however, is the lovely "The Power Of Love". Quite the departure from this effort, let me tell you!!!! Keep up the amazing job growing your channel!!

[@pillmuncher67]

Trevor Horn of Buggles fame produced this album. It was awesome. He also produced The Lexicon of Love by ABC. That was awesome, too.

[@PjRjHj]

The ABC song Date Stamp preshadows this bassline.

[@allenstark4611]

Your reaction when you finally realized what was going on was priceless. Angela please Donna Summer's Love to Love you. Is made for Guilty pleasures month.You gotta due it! I gotta see your face when you hear it!

[@homernoy]

I love the fact you're honest about what you think about a song.

[@Isleofskye]

Undeniably and deservedly first to this rather "different" video DayOne :)

[@jonahhex9620]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a gay band and yes “laser beams” is all the different types of bodily fluids guys can shoot

[@drewbear1969]

This was club music, just one of several songs we'd be out there sweatin to, I'd never even seen the video for it until it showed up on reaction channels. I still remember moving from the small town where I grew up, to a much larger city where I found a whole new group of people who knew EXACTLY what this song was about 😄

[@bakercarl8518]

This was a jam Iam sorry I wasn't invited to this party. You gave me the best laugh that I had in years!!!

[@jerickson725]

I was cracking up seeing your expression change when you discovered the meaning!! Next Guilty Pleasure song should be my favorite from 1977 - "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Day. It's a fun catchy tune, but as a naive 13 year old girl, I had no idea what it was really about, until I heard it again many, many years later 😊. It's a fabulous one hit wonder!

[@dade-kz9bn]

best reaction ever, love it...

[@APaganPerspective]

Frankie says.....Relax

[@richardsingh5827]

Funny reaction 😂😂

[@spartacusforlife1508]

Seen a number of reactions to this video and it is always the same when American Black people view it. They start liking the beat but when they start realising what the video and the lyrics are about their faces drop. So so funny especially as the video is 40 yrs old. You should watch electric six's gay bar video😂😂😂

[@johnmccarthy568]

i couldnt wait to see your face when you watched the the video.me and mates used to sing along to this.we stopped once we watched the video

[@terrencelinnell4702]

Great reaction Angela

[@WalkerOne]

The look on your face was priceless.

[@chemguy8056]

Great reaction!!

[@collintan7858]

80's gay techno club dance music.

[@IshwaraYogaNET]

The penny drops 😂💕

[@quicktastic]

Oh hey.. you made it to 10k!!

[@tonyhogg9839]

I'm the same about this song. I liked it fairly ok at the time, but never have sought it out since. In highschool we knew it was banned in England (radio play), so we knew what the lyrics meant. I can specifically remember in HS Spanish class a girl commenting on the meaning of the title. That come wasn't meant to be spelled with an "o". 😲

[@michaelasay8587]

U liked it fairly well? This song is the bomb.

[@brandonchristopher2493]

The best club jam all time

[@patwheeler4940]

rem this being released it was banned on so many levels the BBC banned it straight away it was huge in the clubs.

[@AlfaGTA156]

This song was banned from certain radio stations across the U.K. at the time of release ( no pun intended )

[@sirjohnmara]

Yeah you got it! 1980's was more free...

[@starrynight1657]

People keep reacting to this video and just judge the song on that which is kind of silly. It's one of the biggest dance hits of its era and a worldwide smash hit.

[@BoothTheGrey]

Yeah - Frankie Goes to Hollywood were a bit disturbing - being very provocative was part or their business model ;) Back in the early 80s music still had the possibility to provoke - something today nobody cant even imagine ;) Question is if you want more 80s synth stuff - you already listened to Kim Wilde. Great female pop singer of the 80s. If you want more - check out the early Depeche Mode if you dont know them. My suggestion there would be "People are People", "Everything counts" and "Stripped". But... as already suggested under another videos of yours - I would try a non-english song: Matia Bazar - Ti sento An italian band with a great female singer. This is a real great synthi pop song - in my opinion one of the best of the 80s. But there are so many great songs from that time peroid. One early harder rock + synthi song: "killing joke - love like blood" Enough. Came to your channel just this evening although watch reaction channels for more than 1,5 years now (yeeaaaah - I am crazy :-D ) - keep up your approach. It is a pleasure watching you - very hones and emotional.

[@le7669]

I was always confused about the tshirts that said Frankie Say Relax & i would be like he said relax don't do it

[@carriec9719]

EVERYONE got on the dance floor when this came on in the clubs that year. 1984, the year I graduated high school ☺️

[@joelscottarnold3262]

This version was SO NOT on MTV!!! I’m always amazed at how shocking the images in this video still are in 2021. I mean- you have all kinds of Caligula references. This song was THE PROVERBIAL JAM back in the 80’s. I still love it!!!

[@Scary__fun]

Yes, this was even banned on BBC, the British channel. It was meant to shock and is a distraction to one of the best dance jams of the 80's. Imagine it loud in a dance club with the thumping beat and thunder claps. Seems the reactor doesn't like heavy electronic beats.

[@joegreen9987]

I think that this song and music is still very popular in the gay"s club's I know because I go there and they play this song relax when you want to come ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@mikedignum1868]

Two Tribes was my favourite as it had doubles of the US & Russian leaders in a mud pit fight.

[@liverush24]

This was a massive hit.

[@kevinmoss6428]

I think you would like "The Power Of Love" by Frankie

[@murksy100]

I am very sure of that. I hope you are lucky that it will be responded to. With me, unfortunately, they never respond to my wishes. I have tried so many times, but at some point I gave up on this. Good luck ;-)

[@Frankincensedjb123]

I'm surprised by how many people don't get what this song is about right off the bat. It's right in the lyric that are repeated a hundred times. This is a favorite song of a Christian friend of mine. I've never had the heart to tell her what it's about. lol

[@starrynight1657]

Because nobody gives a shit, they love the music. Simple.

[@asburymark]

lol your expression. Priceless

[@RoninNZ]

There was a much more conventional (tamer) video for this song as well with the group in a darkened warehouse with laser beams projecting from behind them....

[@mikephillips8810]

Ha ha brilliant reaction!

[@trentrock3210]

The video is hilarious.

[@markhinton1641]

Yep it's exactly about what your thinking. When it first came out(no pun intended) in the UK in early 80s it was banned by most TV & radio.

[@indymaiden9426]

Your reaction.....EXACTLY! Feel the same

[@maverick2242]

I just loved the sound, frankly maybe was too naive and young to realise what this song was about, esp since they released songs like the Power of Love, and Two Tribes go to War, maybe again misunderstood the intention of the songs, but for me I have always listened to music without judgement or trying to understand meaning, the sounds the unique sounds of the voices is what appeals to me in a song esp first time hearing it, ai never try to over analyse them re a message or intention if there is one, that said, I did wake up to what this song was about and hearing it again now with your reaction it amazes me how clear it is, yet at the time, it was just a new group with a new sound that sounded cool, none of my group had any idea at the time.

[@2opler]

Your face, 4:09 What has Frankie done to you?😆😆

[@stevetanner3019]

It’s about exactly what you think it’s about. I was a teen when this was out and I’m still shocked it got radio airplay simply because of the topic

[@nathan.brazil780]

If they are blocking the videos on copyright all you have to do is either have a overlay on the video to partially block it or set the opacity of the video down to like 50%

[@djjerome]

To say this song had heavy gay overtones 🏳‍🌈would be an understatement! Very risque for 1984!

[@richardhintonracing]

Try this Angela This was number 1 in the UK charts in 1958 "Hoots Mon " by Lord Rockinghams Eleven a big horn section and 11 in the band .

[@ashman-ox2qg]

Good on ya, crack up reaction

[@robertwilson4335]

Yes it is.

[@MrHws5mp]

Teachers and parents in the UK were horrified by this when it came out and one DJ managed to get it banned from BBC Radio 1, so, of course, all of us teenage kids immediately embraced it, sang it around school, and made endless amateur 'remixes' of it (on cassette tapes...), even if we didn't identify with (or even really understood properly) the subculture it was representing. Does it piss off adults? Yes? Must be good then...😈😈😈

[@MrHws5mp]

@@SimSim-zf9if A group of parents tried to get our school to ban pupils from playing it or singing it, and they had support from some teachers. I know I got shouted at for singing it while walking down the corridor at least twice.

[@MrHws5mp]

@@SimSim-zf9if Mate, I was there: you wern't. On what basis are you arguing with me?

[@MrHws5mp]

@@SimSim-zf9if What's your point? Do you somehow know more about what went on at my school than I do (and if so, how?) or are you suggesting that the BBC didn't ban Relax (which is a matter of public record)?

[@gribouillefripouille]

... BIG CLASSIC / BIG RESPECT / MOVIE SOUNDTRACK / BODY DOUBLE (1984) / OLD SCHOOL REPRESENT / FUCK NEW SKOOL..

[@anway1953]

To get around blocking other reactors are putting transparent overlays over the videos. Awesome reaction!

[@tomski120]

Blimey it's a tad hot in here lol 😆

[@thelegend302]

I've got a song for you to hear. It's by Michelle Gayle and the song is called "Lookin Up" West End Club Mix. It's over 6 minutes long.

[@liquidationkingla5706]

Oh My Goodness.... I never knew this is what the song was about... LOL Did she say, "It wasn't hittin it for me?" LOL

[@michaelasay8587]

Dance woman!

[@House-of-Lords.]

The video is about gay people (,queers) ok ? is that difficult to say ?

[@xanajak]

FGTH owned the world for a hot minute with Relax as well as Two Tribes. Lot of controversy with the original video for this song. Great song for the ages.

[@nathan.brazil780]

There was like 5 versions of that video... They were getting banned because of the content so they just revised it until it passed the censors

[@DayOneReacts]

So I happened to come across craziest one. LOL

[@cricketexplained8526]

@@DayOneReacts this is the original video.

[@meheuck]

@@DayOneReacts It breaks down like this. The first one, which you saw, was directed by Bernard Rose (who made the original CANDYMAN), came out in 1983, and was banned by both the BBC and MTV. So there was a second video by Godley & Creme (formerly in the band 10cc) which was just a standard in-studio performance clip, which was allowed on MTV, but the song didn't chart in America and it pretty much vanished. Then, in the summer of 1984, director Brian de Palma used it in a pivotal sequence in his erotic thriller BODY DOUBLE, and at the same time shot extra footage so that a music video could be made both to resolicit the single in America and promote the film. It really just sorta restages imagery from the first banned video, but now in a more heterosexual setting with the movie's stars, though there is still a significant gay tone, such as all the other women in the video being either drag queens or trans. This video was also ultimately banned on MTV, but the movie did enough business that clubs and radio started playing the song. Finally, the last video was released in 1985 when the song became a hit, and their album WELCOME TO THE PLEASUREDOME was being promoted. It was a live concert clip directed by David Mallet, where they were very strategically surrounded by screaming girls during the performance, to try making the band more palatable to mainstream audiences. (For the record, only the lead singer Holly Johnson and backup singer Paul Rutherford were gay)

[@longhornfrenzy]

Your face is priceless..lol

[@keepingitlowlow9506]

Relax...no.10👏👏💯💯

[@geneaikenii1092]

No. Do not worry. It's gay stuff in a wild gay bar. So they won't block it..

[@Zen_17k]

Cool

[@motodork]

This is the song we couldn’t listen to if our parents were in the room

[@nikkikat1325]

Yep…it’s exactly what you thought

[@joepangia4413]

😜 a picture is worth a thousand words.. lol

[@earthpup]

I can see you liked it.

[@dougoneill7266]

As with a lot of things, context is everything. danced to to in a packed nightclub really loud it made sense. The sound of this song is typical of the Trevor Horn production company ZTT. Trevor along with his wife Jill Sinclair and New Musical Express editor Paul Morley. invested in what was the then one of the worlds most cutting edge musical devices. the Fairlight Emulator. it cost an enormous amount of money and was at the forefront of the digital age in music. For yourself or the channel. doesn't matter either way. Lay down in a dark room with your headphones and listen to the Frankie song 'Welcome to the Pleasure dome.' see what you think of that.

[@liverush24]

The Blue Oyster Bar.

[@johningram5186]

You probably would have liked the alternative video to this song. Trevor horn produced this synth masterpiece

[@davidhapka5410]

The Village People said, "wow that's gay!" 🤔😳😂