Is this his slowest? BILLY IDOL - EYES WITHOUT A FACE Reaction

[@toth3]

Thank you for the reaction. "Eyes without a face" is meaning someone who only sees with their eyes the outer shell of a person. But never looks any deeper into a person. Never looks at their character, personality, or their heart. Meaning, they only look at good looks, nice clothes, wealth and possessions. They see nothing else.

[@fernandoikehara35]

You said it all... Es lo mas perfecto de la interpretación (soy de Peru)...Thks

[@jonnno2439]

I am glad that you have heard how beautifully Billy can sing. Another slow song that shoes Billys great voice is Sweet Sixteen.

[@ezJin]

Your reaction is so emotional. We need more Billy!

[@NefariousKoel]

"Readin' murder books, tryin to stay 'hip'". Not sure why that lyric always hit a string, but damn was that a wonderful self-reflective jolt out of nowhere. Didn't really notice it's implications until I was older.

[@frikster5542]

Empress great reaction as usual......Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face) is the title to a chillingly horrific yet classically poetic 1960 film from acclaimed French director Georges Franju. In it, a gifted plastic surgeon is involved in a near fatal auto accident which horribly disfigures the once beautiful face of his beloved daughter. Along with his assistant, he abducts young women so that he may surgically remove their facial features and graft their beauty onto that of his daughter's grotesque countenance........The song "Eyes Without a Face" uses similar imagery for effect. However, he tackles the concept of the modern romance and uses the same metaphors the movie used to show the absence of humanity and how cold and callous the modern world has grown to be. All that we (in the song's case "we" have the role of the narrator) have endured getting here has made us like the doctor. While the daughter has become eyes without a face (she wears a mask a la Halloween's Michael Myers and the only visible part of her face are her eyes), the doctor has become a face without eyes. He has blinded himself to the hideousness that he has involved himself, his family, and his poor victims in. .

[@salvatorediangelo453]

Best description I've seen yet about this song, well done Frikster! Let me ask you something about the woman at the end of the video in the tight dress. Obviously this is meant to be the woman he's singing about and the tight dress and smug look seem to be appropriate. I've always thought that her getting hit with what looks like a stream from a firehose is symbolic of all of the bad karma she has created for herself coming back all at once forcing her to finally deal with the consequences of her actions. thoughts??

[@pamagnolia]

Just went back to 1983. Was on the radio all the time but this is a first time seeing the video. Thanks Empress!!! 😊🌹🌹🌹

[@salvatorediangelo453]

Hi Pa, here in the US this song was on the charts and got lots of airplay during the Summer of 84, we definitely did not hear it during 83. Were you in the UK in 83? If so that would make sense, UK set the trends for the US back in the 80s.

[@bakercarl8518]

The eyes are the key to your soul. To not have eyes show a cold spirit.

[@argentokaos2629]

More Billy in the house! :) It's true: not everyone can sneer *that cool.* :D

[@nervusbreakdown]

I know im late with this vjdeo. This song cuts deep into the feels. Your reaction was spot on. You really paid attention to this.

[@kevincaulder9001]

Thank you for playing this video. I feel your reaction is heartfelt and believe you are in touch with something within yourself as well. He is twisting his mouth as partnof his singing style known as the whiplash smile. It is the title of one of his albums. It also is his tribute to Elvis, who used to curl his lip. But enough about that. For a little more fun you have to play his video for TO BE A LOVER. I promise it will have you swiveling and your hips bouncing in your chair. It will also bring a smile to your pretty face. You will also like the backup singers bringing their enthusiasm and 8o's hair and clothes to the mix. I'm here for your channel. Keep going !!!

[@salvatorediangelo453]

Fun fact, the heat from the those pyrotechnics at the end of the video fused his contacts to his eyes for a couple of days. Still a badass video so WORTH IT!

[@therealcobracommander8324]

Nice. Another great song by billy idol. 😍😍😍😍😍

[@justme2]

Billy Idol said in an interview once that 'eyes without a face' = camera.

[@happymethehappyone8300]

AN ABSOLUTE MUST HEAR SOUL CLASSIC,, BILLY STEWART "I DO LOVE YOU"...TRUST ME!!

[@bmille2121]

❤️. my favorite Billy Idol song

[@martinsv9183]

You can check out "Flesh for Fantasy" also.

[@tarascholfield5887]

the part of the video that gets faster when he walks down the stairs he is talking about this girl he used to love and what she did to him; she took a bus to vegas; grabbed some giglos etc. and what he went through; he was on a bus reading murder books trying to stay hip and she was out there and say your prayers like she wasn't thinking of him etc. it's a great song! i'm glad you like it. you should try flesh for fantasy on here or, cradle of love, to be a lover, can't break me down (newer song).

[@sarahrichardson4285]

Yeah…we all love what he does with his mouth😉

[@SweetThing]

His face movements, like his snarling of his lips, is his imitation of Elvis, his Idol. Check out Billy's "Sweet Sixteen", "Dancing with Myself" and "Hot in the City". New subbie. :-)

[@richardhargrave6082]

Another lovely reaction Empress you have such a beautiful expressive face!

[@dan_hitchman007]

Billy Idol would sometimes emulate Elvis Presley and his twisted smirk. I believe he is talking about a person that may have led him (or someone else) to a life of drugs and meaningless sex... the crazy lifestyle of a rock and roller that some succumbed to.

[@ssttuuhhll]

The only person who could make a smile sneer! You should’ve done Hot in the City before Eyes… Great reaction, as usual. Tech issues plague us all 😯

[@dazalenko4250]

‘Sweet sixteen’ is his slowest one, and was a big hit , it’s a heartbreak one you’ll love it. ‘Forgot to be a lover’ also a hit you’d love guaranteed

[@henrikl1394]

He still looks like that, but older. Same color of the hair , same hairstyle.

[@robstearns7080]

I LOVE YOU EMPERESS

[@Gloomshadow100]

eyes without a face was a old French horror movie.. but the song is about being away from some girl and you know she's cheating on you... you're cheating on her anyway..ahhaha

[@matt.coburn]

I forgot how good this song is

[@charlesyates4230]

4.30 pure bliss....

[@Jalopeurix]

And other is "Sweet Sixteen" by Billy Idol.

[@juancarlosvenegaslagos7475]

Fantastico

[@pctlc]

Great reaction Empress! it's a very popular song and once again that's the first time I've seen the video!! :)

[@kimberlinibambini1988]

Hi! I’d like to highly suggest and request his hit song “Sweet Sixteen” my favorite of his! 💜👍✌️

[@Seikan3408]

I just love love love your reactions!! ❤

[@USTRASEVEN]

maybe one of the songs i heard the most in my life

[@giodorazio7884]

Quanto sei bella!!!!

[@davidgraham4403]

Awesome songs. You must watch, IL Divo - Everytime I Look at You. Beautiful beautiful song! Really enjoy your reviews!

[@juliannatemple-roberts4012]

PLEASE PLEASE watch ROCK THE CRADLE. It's a song and video he did after a bit of a break & it's just honestly a really FUN one. As always, love your videos!

[@calmit23]

It was his depiction of a horror movie Les yeux sans visage Eyes Without A face..His best IMO

[@murksy100]

"Sweet Sixteen" is another slow song

[@paulpalmtree9295]

EMPRESS JOY-JEAN. Please listen and give us your reaction to, John Miles ‘MUSIC’, released in 1976. Sadly John Miles passed away only yesterday, 5th December 2021. The original audio version from 1976 is fabulous. Also there is a live, music of the proms 2001 recording....Many thanks.

[@MrWadada1]

His first band was Generation X If you want to see a young Billy, I would suggest "Kiss Me Deadly"

[@sec.1154]

Billy era lindo

[@jamesemery3639]

Please react to Rush, Xanadu live 1981.you will be shocked that a three man band can make such a sound.....yes , still waiting for this one.

[@jeremywebb9284]

Try Flesh for Fantasy - Billy Idol

[@andrewcessford4464]

Hi Empress I would love for you to react to John Farnham the greatest ever seen you to come out of Australia and that’s saying a lot

[@CLRoess]

To answer your question why he’s holding his mouth that way, that’s his signature “Whiplash Smile.” Also the title of his me of his albums. I’m guessing. I don’t know that for sure. I’ve always thought it was that! 🤷‍♂️

[@CLRoess]

“One of his albums” autocorrect ⬆️ above

[@johnthompson6374]

Those that only see superficial "things and stuff" are actually blind. Keep going with the Billy Idol reactions, you got a few more to go. Peace/JT

[@thoru4367]

Please react to Suede - Breakdown

[@Billythekiddnz]

You are beautiful.

[@sandros5199]

🤟🏻🤟🏻🎸🤟🏻🤟🏻

[@wgdavis5353]

Hi Ms. Empress, I have a singer and a couple of songs for U; Ms. LeAnn Rimes, "Blue" which she sang at 13 and won a Grammy at 14.. And "How Do I Live (without You)" .. Do the Official videos if U can.. ♠W.G.

[@joegilligan4895]

Scary song. 84..

[@davidfrankaaa]

Bitter Taste is slowest new video from new ep

[@RDGOTTS]

god your beautiful!

[@EMPRESSJOYJEAN]

Wow, thank you!

[@jimmymac4559]

This song is about a love interest of Billy’s that he lost due to her heroine addiction.

[@salvatorediangelo453]

I think it's been covered, the meaning is twofold. First, on a surface level it's an homage to a French horror movie from the 1960s. A doctor who has a beautiful daughter frets as she is mangled in a car wreck. He takes it upon himself to murder women with beautiful "parts" of the face and he surgically tries to restore his daughter with said parts. On a deeper level Billy is lashing out at unfaithful lover who has jerked him around while teasing him and how she is about to get what she has coming. 5:08 That is meant to be the lying unfaithful girlfriend. Notice her cocky, overconfident demeanor at first but then she is hit with what I think is meant to be a stream of bad karma that knocks her over and knocks her right off of her high horse.

[@davidfrankaaa]

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[@bowtangey6830]

Butt-slapping music!

[@MrShoman100]

IMO not his slowest. If you prefer this kind of performance from Billy Idol, some of his songs from his VH1 Storyteller's performance might be the ticket. This one in particular Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen (Live In New York 2001).

[@BR-UK-UE]

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[@aceman4403]

The song is about a plastic surgeon whose daughter was involved in a bad traffic accident. As a result her face was badly disfigured.Heart broken and angered, the surgeon then decides to take a murderous revenge on the other driver who killed his daughter, then graft his/her face to reconstruct his daughters face.

[@marrkhicks]

Ignore the stupid video and listen to the music

[@marcotroiani7]

Hi,this is the best rock Song anytime 😀

[@kurterickson9781]

Song is about heroin addiction.