Song reaction - Tool - The Pot

[@RayzorSOS]

Intelligent people reacting to intelligent music. Thank you for the leap of faith in creating this channel. You guys are refreshing and professional.

[@Zephyrbal]

The song is about hypocrisy. From the idiom "The Pot calling the kettle black" meaning "Accusing someone of something you are guilty of yourself"

[@nubbinthemonkey]

If english isn't your first language this one might be tough. Maynard is referencing a lot of common expressions: "To muddy the waters" "The pot calling the kettle black" "Don't throw stones in glass houses" "Tumbling down like a house of cards" "A kangaroo court" "To put your foot in your mouth"

[@seanritchie91]

Suggestion here! Intension and Right in Two are a better experience when listened to together than on their own.

[@cameronreyno7175]

TRUTH! You have to react to them back to back

[@timjasnic2002]

A man of culture

[@DylanSterling]

“Weeping shades of indigo trapped without a reason” in your lyrics should be “Weeping shades of indigo SHED without a reason.” ... as in, tears. As always a great reaction!

[@the_real_schopenhauer985]

Yeah, many of these unofficial Tool lyrics on youtube are downright horrible and should only be used with caution. And this is coming from someone for whom english is also a second language. This particular one for The Pot is even halfway okay.

[@DylanSterling]

@@the_real_schopenhauer985 The funniest one I’ve seen was a reaction someone did to Invincible. Instead of “Caligula would grin” it had the lyrics as “could make you love again.” 😂

[@diegofiorillo6412]

This is the best song I ever heard live.

[@Syncopated_]

This is my favorite reaction channel. Merry Chrismas and keep doing what you love.

[@initum1599]

Thank you and Merry Christmas

[@chrisa5631]

Right in two, can't wait for it.

[@n0tk0sher]

You got in the groove there. One of the few straight up Tool songs you can bop your head to.

[@thomasmiddlebrooks5169]

I love to hear her talk...so cool!

[@robertdysonn]

I think the title is a play on words with the marijuana. I think the true line in the song that signifies the title is where he says pissing on my black kettle. This is reference to the saying pot calling the kettle black.

[@logand9740]

I have the utmost respect for you two as English as a second language learners! Tool has a very extensive vocabulary and as a person who has only spoken English I still have to look up the meaning of their words. Respect to you for taking this challenge

[@kevinnick6802]

I really enjoy how you both appreciate TOOL. Watching you listen it is easy to see you get it! The best band ever!!

[@tidewell]

Song is about word play: - Hypocrisy: You are "The Pot" calling the kettle black - Agitator: You are stirring "The Pot" - Delusional: You are so high, you must have been smoking "The Pot"

[@pyregazer9210]

there is sooo much word play in this song

[@Andrew46_2]

One of the best bass lines of all time.

[@dominicjimenez6364]

Merry Christmas.

[@initum1599]

Merry Christmas

[@paulpalumbo2734]

The most common thing said after every TOOL song is “that’s it?” Meaning we want more!

[@PongGod]

Yes, even when the songs last well over 10 minutes LOL!

[@haywoodchablomi8037]

There's a very interesting story behind this song. The drummer, Danny Carey, had a friend get pulled over in Arizona. He was found to be in possession of a roach and was faced with one of the most anti-marijuana judges in the country. He got a 2 year sentence for the possession but a very short time later that judge was caught in a motel room with two hookers, crack (or meth?) and heroin. Kangaroo be stoned, he's guilty as the government.

[@baxterbozeman9072]

Thank you! Makes great sense.

[@cameronreyno7175]

The breakdown in the mid section of this song gets me going every damn time

[@thunderstruck5484]

Merry Christmas and thanks for reacting and analysis of this awesome tune!

[@thecoogs]

The don't throw stones near glass houses idiom played to the max. Love those opening vocals and groovy guitar work

[@PowderedToastMan420]

Initum Justin crushes this song. ✌

[@marcpernia8487]

There are a lot of very specific US/english colloquialisms in these lyrics; this may be a tough one to analyse without that geosocial context.

[@davideldridge9021]

Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you guys for continuing on this journey.

[@blackdynamite2129]

10,000 Days is one of my favourites. It feels more like a progression from Undertow rather than Lateralus. Undertow to Aenima to Lateralus. A clear progression. 10,000 days feels more Undertow to 10,000 days with only hints of thr other albums. It feels more angry where the other two albums are more transcendent, this one is more reflective. Youthful anger of Undertow to the aged anger and hurt in 10,000 Days.

[@hayjacob666]

Good perspective of this album! Spiral out!

[@blackdynamite2129]

@@hayjacob666 Spiral out, keep going! :)

[@dallasfreeman9833]

A brilliant point I saw someone mention about this song is how it’s very possibly directed at Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page made mention of Tool ripping off Led Zeppelin’s MO in the use of sacred symbolism (like Zep IV). So in this song we have a lashing out at Page’s hypocrisy as it is commonly believed that Zeppelin ripped off (“cozened” meaning stolen) the blues (“weeping shades of cozened indigo”) of Muddy Waters. “Lemon juice,” an otherwise oddly placed lyric, is mentioned in more than one Zeppelin song. If you follow this train of thought it’s evident who the kettle is and who The Pot is - a scathing indictment of Page, and an admission by Tool that there is truly nothing new under the sun, only variations on a theme. I personally find that to be a brilliant observation and it’s hard for me to think this song meant anything else to Maynard when he wrote the lyrics. Still, they are written in such a way that you can interpret the song a thousand different ways, as with everything in Tool’s archive, and I think that’s the intention.

[@TheYaddayadda]

*hits like 999 times, still only counts as one, regrettably*

[@darinzaruba3996]

I think I’m in love. ❤️

[@LanceThompsonKssooner]

You've probably heard it on the radio. It was one of their most commercial hits. The song is vaguely about a lawsuit they went through (Not the one over the artwork. That was later. I'm sure someone will try to correct me.) It was their old record label in the 90s.

[@xavierhenriques1116]

Thank you, Ms. Merry Christmas to you and yours

[@initum1599]

Merry Christmas

[@psychonaut1829]

Its always good to have lyrics for TOOL handy, they are worth reading and Maynard is harder than sh*t to understand sometimes.

[@MrKrushgutz]

She sounds like a wise psychologist 🤣

[@joshuasmith6950]

Right like I expected her to tell me I'm secretly in love with my dead mother or some shit. 😂

[@davelighthall9435]

Unreal

[@justinfontenot8001]

"Weeping shades of indigo"... I interpret that to say black is the absence of color. Put the color black on an oil canvas, when it bleeds, it's indigo, not black... Pretty clever.

[@initum1599]

I have to say I still have troubles fully embracing that thought (him). Any chance you could elaborate on what's the meaning of black being absence of color here? I guess English not being my first language makes it difficult for me to understand, but that sentence definitely caught my interest for some reason. Thanks.

[@stephenlackey5852]

Love your channel

[@maxp9773]

Watching a hot chick react to Tool... one of lifes great pleasures

[@talitaburlamaqui8993]

Who am I to say how one should do anything, right? I love you guys channel, I live Tool and all things MjK, my 3 cents as someone who drank DMTea before listening to them, Lipan Conjuring is really important because it's like the start of the sort of ritual, needed to invoke the good spirits and guides for you to have a good trip, the tribal primal chantings gave me goosebumps 1st time I've heard, then Lost Keys is like when you fight the trip, you try to stay grounded, (you have to let go) you think you're dying and you feel so afraid you want to go to the hospital (ego death, maybe?), (hence the guy not talking to the doctors, yep, been there..) then you have ma baby Rosetta Stoned that's like a sum up of the psychedelic experience, since the person in the song mixed substances in order to have something young people now call 'god flip', the real 'visions and creatures and aliens and all' type of trip (hahaha been there 😆), the peak of the trip in my opinion is when he screams desperately and calls 'Bob' for help.. anyway, then you have the come down with Intension. I could be discussing Tool songs for ever. Love, love you guys 🖤🎄🥰

[@talitaburlamaqui8993]

I even think that they puting the pot first, is like when you prepare for something, by relaxing smoking some weed, in order to get in the mindset to receive the wisdom from your trip guides before an DMTea ritual or just to keep your cool because you're scared as fuck 😆. Of course it's not only that and I loved when she said it's like: "I can't stand more hypocrise, give me some GANJA, PLEASE!" Lots of love all the way from the Amazon, Brazil! Merry xtmas! 🎄🖤🥰

[@fan-i-am]

I like to think this track is Tools version of I Am The Walrus by the Beatles. Doesn't make much sense, (lyrically) isn't really meant to and most likely composed while they were high!

[@trentwebb521]

Her good song for a Christmas thing

[@TheYaddayadda]

Song ends suddenly. "Awww... what a nice song" buahaha

[@50NewEyes]

Thank you I now understand rob the cradle means

[@m.6246]

NICE

[@stephenpopp1598]

I always thought high as is "high and mighty " not so much drug related.

[@bwestacado9643]

"You must have been high" means "you must have been out of your mind"

[@Vince-pm2ui]

Hi. Story behind this song is that a friend of the band got arrested with a bunch of marijuana and was convicted very heavily by a judge who wanted to make an exemple out of him. Only later on the said judge felt himself for being a big heroin user. The fucking hypocrite of the song :-)

[@kpnoah321]

Production note. Don't look at the second camera. Let the viewer continue the illusion.

[@50NewEyes]

That bass though....

[@m.6246]

VERY VERY GOOD 👍👍👍

[@taylordutto9962]

Do Know your Enemy by Rage against the Machine feat Maynard ♥

[@jonthomson8392]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@AmarokThe7th]

I really appreciate your reactions. What will happen to this channel if the whole Tool discography is finished?

[@initum1599]

There's so many different bands to discover :) not to mention A Perfect Circle and Puscifer ;)

[@JoeSmith-if8ky]

It’s 100% about Jimmy Page.

[@gearspider]

I personally would not liken this to Schism. It seems more like the "Ticks and Leeches" of the 10,000 Days album in my opinion. It seems like a song that is argumentative to the specific point, irrespective of the over-arching theme of the album. I almost feel like there's one of these songs on every Tool release. A single song that rails against something specific, while the rest of the album really explores. I look at the following songs as doing this.. Jerk-Off, Intolerance, Hooker With a Penis, Ticks and Leeches, The Pot. At least up until this album. I'm not saying that more or less songs do this, I think Sweat, Cold and Ugly, Aenima, and other songs rail against specific things too, but just to give an example from each album up to 10,000 Days.

[@SeanD313]

If you decide to do "Rosetta Stoned" again, please don't skip "Lipan Conjuring" and "Lost Keys," as they aren't just interludes. To me, they are all part of a whole (similar to how "Disposition," "Reflection" and "Triad" are all part of a whole). Lipan and Lost keys are the first two acts of a story, and Rosetta Stoned is the finale.

[@initum1599]

Thank you for the tip

[@50NewEyes]

You practically raised the dead refers to you yelled and screamed so much about it you were loud enough to raise the dead from their graves..

[@kevindobson6568]

Can you please react to Garbage song called Why do you love me Please

[@frankydominguez6581]

Except for the Tools last album Tool does not put out lyrics.

[@derfo2072]

I liked "Welcome on our channel" better...

[@initum1599]

I liked it as well but I'm trying to improve my grammar/pronunciation, She :)

[@joecasey6876]

Jimmy Page.

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

Izvinite, vy Russkaja?

[@initum1599]

No, not Russians