FAST CARS by TRACY CHAPMAN - REACTION & Commentary

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@AzarathMetreon 10 ай бұрын

The transition from “is it fast enough that we can fly away” to “is it fast enough that you can fly away” is so heartbreaking. 😢

@debrabeck9630 7 ай бұрын

Yes. That’s the real change. She goes from hope to acceptance, but she’s not willing anymore to take care of her partner. He’s becoming her dad, and that, at least, is something that has to end. This is a woman who gives and gives, yet she is trapped in this cycle of generational poverty.

@heavyhitter321 2 жыл бұрын

I think the part of the song that really gets me is that her dreams are so small, but even those are out of reach for so many people, even in a country that is supposed to be all about opportunity. This is the truth for so many.

@amandaellison9706 Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of girls just want a life with a guy and put up with all their shit instead of being clear on what they want

@TheOnespeedbiker Жыл бұрын

@@DavidPerez-we9cl Talk with any social worker about homelessness and they will tell you funding is not the main issue, it's important but the vast majority of homeless are dealing with mental health issues and/or drug abuse. After they stopped warehousing mental health patients, they discovered that the infrastructure they intended to replace institutional mental health care with was woefully inadequate as it depended on the patients to take their medication and seek assistance, something most simply refuse to do as a symptom of their inability to take care of themselves.

@BH-wh2vo Жыл бұрын

@@TheOnespeedbiker The issue is the cycle of generational trauma and poverty. The mental illness doesn't come from nowhere.

@TheOnespeedbiker Жыл бұрын

@@BH-wh2vo Actually often mentally illness does come from nowhere. Further life is impossibly difficult, but if you are fed the line that if you are often unhappy or feeling alienated or other conditions that are common to humanity, that you are unique or different in these feelings it can cascade into depression and self medication. It is now an established fact that social media is highly addictive and interrupts normal socialization among teens. The study of psychology did not emerge because life has become harder in modern times. Every generation actually has it easier than the generation before. The problem is we often forget why things are done in a conventional way, forgetting that convention is evolutionary and not realizing why things have been done for generations a certain way, and arbitrarily change societal norms often to our determent. Back in the 1960s we took care of the mentally ill that could not take care of themselves. Then it was decided it was unconstitutional to warehouse the mentally ill if they could be successfully treated with medication, so they were released to live on their own. The problem we face today is many mentally ill will not voluntarily take psych meds and suffer horribley because of it.

@theboyisnotright6312 10 ай бұрын

You hit that on the nose brother!😊

@craigpolito2617 Жыл бұрын

You're the first reaction to this song I've seen who actually got it! It builds up hope and then crushes it. It is a beautiful, haunting, and incredibly sad song. Other reactors ignore the last verse that generalizes it to how these situations usually work out. Escape is the exception; repetition is the norm. That has to be recognized before it can be changed. Good work!

@TheOnespeedbiker Жыл бұрын

The song is a rabbit hole of Tracy Chapman's genius song writing. Every verse adds to a more desperate life facing the narrator, at the end she knows she must leave her current life to stop the cycle of poverty and abuse because she is in a situation no different from when her mom had to leave or die. Whether purposeful or not (with a song writer as brilliant as Chapman it is certainly so), she continues to emphasize employment as a way out of her desperate circumstances, but she is seeming alone in seeing that any thing other than a desperate future is possible.

@cynthiawaddington1119 7 ай бұрын

You can hear it in the looping of the music trying to break the cycle of life but it’s hopelessly looping. 😢never noticed that until it was brought out. I’m in too deep to stop listening myself. Thanks Tracy we love it.

@danieldalley6686 6 ай бұрын

Your reaction redeo is far and away the best I've heard. You capture the true essence of this great piece. Great job

@davec4700 Жыл бұрын

"It's now or never." You nailed it; congrats on stumbling onto my favorite song. As a drummer, my bandmates taught me to play it acoustic. But, I can't even do that without water-works...

@TerryYelmene Жыл бұрын

Being in Harvard Square or down in Boston's Kenmore Square listening to her Busk in the early 80's... Tracy Chapman gave meaning to the streets she was from. IMHO, her art is authentic, beautiful, and better than most.

@joeg3741 Жыл бұрын

The refrain is what haunts me. She just wants to belong somewhere. She wants to matter. And she almost sees it in his car. But it does not work

@jasonremy1627 Жыл бұрын

This song is so real and heavy.

@t0dd000 Жыл бұрын

1988 was only 35 years ago. ;) This song is just ... something else. So tremendous. Great analysis. Chapman has left a big thumbprint on the music industry.

@jasonremy1627 Жыл бұрын

The entire self-titled "Tracy Chapman" album is fantastic. Every song from it is deep and soul crushing and beautiful. It'd be a great listen for one of your whole-album reactions. Bring a box of tissues though!

@partgee Жыл бұрын

This was a great reaction, with sensitivity and compassion, befitting for this classic song.

@DUANEYAISER Жыл бұрын

What really gets me about “Mama went off and left him” is that her mother left her too, but she’s deferred her will so profoundly she doesn’t perceive that.

@Lovelyone1 10 ай бұрын

I always thought that she decided to stay with her dad. She said that she thought someone had to stay and she decided that should be her. Now she realize why her mom left and wanted her to leave too.

@ryanking6112 5 ай бұрын

This song is a masterpiece

@lindelle__ 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of my all time favorite songs. ❤️

@brendadufaur37 5 ай бұрын

The sensitivity is gripping.

@miguelacosta5446 4 ай бұрын

at the end, she left like her mom did

@gablen23 2 жыл бұрын

I saw her live in Budapest in 1988, on the Human Rights Now tour, alongside Springsteen, Sting, Peter Gabriel and others, it was fantastic. That's when I started to get more seriously into music, I knew her first self-titled album, and Born in the U.S.A. by the Boss! I have loved her music ever since! ♥

@Mikeyw9119 Жыл бұрын

This song means more to me than most. Beyond the lyrics it makes me think of my father. He always had a difficult life, was physically disabled at an early age and his entire life was lonely and painful. To me somehow I knew even 10 years ago is how I would remember my father. Yesterday was the 3 month anniversary of his passing and it is difficult (to say the least) to listen to this song. He always wanted more and better for everyone in our family and he was my best friend. Circumstances made his life lonely and painful but I'll always remember him for who he was. He thought of himself as a burden and committed suicide on May 28th this year. I want everyone reading this to know that people care for you and want you there. Please stay here

@theboyisnotright6312 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!😊 sorry for your dad. Maybe it just too much for him.

@josephhampton9728 9 ай бұрын

I love how you interpret the song!

@sangun123 9 ай бұрын

imagine being 18 writing this song

@chrisester2910 Жыл бұрын

I see the last stanza as her declaration of independence, telling her man to either shape up or ship out because she realizes that she doesn't need him to live her life and that he is more of a drain than a help to her family, unless he grows up and gets useful.

@mtl6562 7 ай бұрын

The Fast car is a metaphor for escaping povverty early 80s were hard times for many.

@Gabrielnobre Жыл бұрын

Your reaction had me in tears. You were SO INTO the song, that's my favorite thing to reaction videos, makes me feel like the first time I listened to this song...I had the same epiphanies that you had....it was so good that the pausing didn't bother me (it usually does).

@RommerskirchenFrank 2 жыл бұрын

it is a very sad song... still love it... and don't forget the story behind this... it is a Black woman singing... being a underprivileged black person, trying to get out of your miserable circumstances... so, so sad

@VadulTharys Жыл бұрын

Race has nothing to do with it, it is about the cycle of poverty that traps generations of Blacks, Whites, Hispanics into it.

@Arturo.H.M 11 ай бұрын

For me "Fast car" has a great connection with "The river" by Bruce Springsteen. Both speak of responsibility in the situations that life presents, of the dreams of youth, of love and also the resignation of not achieving those dreams. For example: "So, I remember when we were driving, driving in your car Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped around my shoulder And I, I, I had a feeling that I belonged I, I, I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone" Vs. "But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on them banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take Now that memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse?"

@VanlifeRoy Жыл бұрын

Its so sad. Love Tracy Chapman💜 Show always sings from her heart🙏

@amyholman354 5 ай бұрын

Tracy was in her early 20’s when she wrote this song. It’s not autobiographical. She said she wrote it as an attempt to capture “the world as I saw it when I was growing up in Cleveland, Ohio.” She was raised by a single mom in a community of people who were struggling, working hard, hoping things would get better.

@ramontieso1208 Жыл бұрын

Love this song. The girl ended up having to make the same decision her mother had to make I the first verse

@cmzeman 5 ай бұрын

Bruna, to get some hope at the end of the song, read more carefully into the last verse.

@daniellaplume3840 Жыл бұрын

Hopeful... or desperation. Hopeful - what is the alternative.

@JustMnqobi Жыл бұрын

This was a great analysis i hope you keep on growing and keep uploading cause i am surely subscribing👍🏿❤️

@danieldalley6686 6 ай бұрын

You might consider doing the song "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian which came out just around the same era. To date I can't decide which is my favorite.

@davidanderson6055 Жыл бұрын

I lived for a long time in Everett, Washington, a city in the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. This story could be seen all around. At one point, you said she had maternal feelings for her boyfriend, trying to encourage him to do and be more. I have seen this many times, where girlfriends work and basically take care of guys that (unfortunately, were often used to their single moms taking care of them and transferred that to their girlfriends) did not have the same vision for life. The first hint is when she says, "you got a fast car--I have a plan to get us out of here"

@SunShine-qk4rb Жыл бұрын

My favourite song from her followed by Baby can I hold you Give me one reason Talkin about a revolution

@ultem2323 7 ай бұрын

Very few of the reaction channels actually listen & get the irony of the last few verses. To have the hopes dashed by a return to trashing responsibilities to your mate & kids is the real emotion of the song. Nice job you got it ! Isn't Tracey Chapman wonderful how she pulled our emotions apart in a simple little song. Listen & react to her & Eric Clapton "Gimme One Reason" It's great too!

@ccsbal Жыл бұрын

I think you missed it: “you’ve got a fast car. Fast enough so you can fly away. You have to make a decision: leave tonight, or live and die this way.” She’s telling him to change or leave.

@daniellaplume3840 Жыл бұрын

I'm hooked