Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World | Singer Bassist Musician Reacts

[@rmweidner7596]

This song and Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" share the same shuffle beat and a bit of the same bass riff, but this song was released in 1985, while Michael Jackson's song came out 2 years later.

[@jamiemacdonald436]

Beat me to it. 😀

[@ndangmawardi]

Very true. This genre were the same era of AhA, Alphaville

[@woodyheywood8792]

great catch!

[@shortaybrown]

Michael Jackson definitely borrowed a lot from other bands and beats….. he told Darryl Hall of Hall and Oats he stole the opening beat to Billy Jean from their song (I can’t go for that) ““”According to Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, Jackson told him he had taken the "Billie Jean" groove from their 1981 track "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)". Hall told him "Oh Michael, what do I care? You did it very differently."””

[@miles1886]

Used to think this as a kid! Radio would start playing and I was a huge Jackson fan so got excited then it turned out to be Tears for Fears so was a bit bummed. Now I hardly listen to Jackson and frequently listen to Tears for Fears.

[@j0k3rday]

i remember riding dirt bikes at windy point by palm springs CA, some guys were filming us we signed a release , 6 months later I'm siting in a flat on a snow covered Oxford universality campus watching tv, this video came on i was shocked to see myself , made me feel home sick .

[@AlexanderCalderon-kd6mh]

No way! Awesome!

[@wadsworthaaron]

I graduated high school in 1986~ Tears for Fears had 3 huge hits from their "Songs from the Big Chair" album. "Shout" was the biggest hit, but the whole album was solid. Good times!

[@bryanrhenderson6510]

The 80’s were AWESOME ! I joined the Army in ‘85… DONT be jealous of us for getting to live through the 80’s, I’d much rather be your age again. You still get to hear our music anytime you want.

[@KevinNielsen-z8j]

With you, travel back in time to 87 - 20 year old with a 57 year old brain.

[@miles1886]

@@bryanrhenderson6510 born 86 and joined in 06. Appreciate your service 🍻🍻

[@TimoDyer]

1985. Head Over Heals also great. The Album Songs From the Big Chair is epic. Older stuff.. 'change' and 'mad world' then also 'Pale Shelter'. This group is from Bristol Bath, which is west of England like me.

[@shortaybrown]

Bath is beautiful . I’m from New England USA and I’ve been to Bath and that area. Much prettier than much of the east coast of America.

[@TimoDyer]

@@shortaybrown England is always ready for your visit mate.

[@newfiemom8696]

Love them, they still write and record and even perform together. I still own this Album Vinyl I purchased at Tower Records back in the 80’s in So Cal

[@jeffstevens4262]

Another one of their massive hits here in the UK, was 'Shout'. Really worth a listen if you haven't heard it. 🙋‍♂

[@AlexLightGiver]

My favorite of their songs and video is Sewing the Seeds of Love. Soooooo masterfully written and put together. Genius level

[@Isleofskye]

@@AlexLightGiver My favourite is "Advice For The Young At Heart" and is in my Top 10 of all time and I bought my first records in London in 1960:)

[@AlexLightGiver]

@@Isleofskye excellent choice as well ✌️

[@Isleofskye]

@@AlexLightGiver Thanks Alex and listening to this lovely song while enjoying the accompanying video of a Latino wedding is a wonderful experience.:)

[@brettmarlar4154]

Roland and Curt aren't siblings, they're childhood friends, however. They were also blessed to have voices that blend so well together.

[@earudish]

The 80's were awesome Millie!!!

[@saraheart2804]

So awesome.

[@marcomaccari1429]

I saw Tears for Fears in concert in Milan in 2019.... beautiful

[@martinsv9183]

"Shout" is really good too.

[@youtmeme]

Great song but a downer b4 going out.

[@phasemalfunction5286]

other tracks to check out are:- Mad World, Pale Shelter, Shout, Woman in Chains, Change, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Advice for the Young at Heart, Mothers Talk.

[@jasonq111]

Millie, u are an old soul. I was a teenager in the 80’s and it was the greatest time ever.

[@mynameispaul0530]

"Shout", "Pale Shelter" and "Change" are 3 of my faves.

[@TrentRushton]

I love this song, another band from this time is Crowded House, they had a great song called Don't Dream its Over.

[@scottmccaig6185]

One of the best ever

[@coldwhite4240]

This is one of those iconic songs from my childhood that takes me right back to school summer holidays in the mid 80s. Tears For Fears are a great band, and still going strong today. Well worth digging deeper in to their other material, and checking out some of their more recent performances on YT. Tracks that I would recommend (some already mentioned by others) include: "Shout", "Head Over Heels", "Woman In Chains", "Mad World, "Pale Shelter" and some later, less well known ones like "Raoul And The Kings Of Spain" and "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)"

[@ZyggyZero]

Hi, Millie! A good song, glad you enjoyed. I know you do films, as well; this song features very prominently in “Real Genius” (a fun film) and I always associate this song with it. Keep exploring. We’ll keep watching.

[@dncilu]

it reminds you of MJ's song because he was actually inspired by the rhythm of this song.

[@michaeleast9675]

Now you’ll have to listen to their song: THE SEEDS OF LOVE. Their video of this song is like a magical mystery tour similar to the Beatles. Very psychedelic!

[@JeffHopkins76]

great summer song!

[@DTruthIsReal]

I lived through the 80's. It was a fun time. You'd fit right in :-) BTW, this song was also featured in the 1985 movie "Real Genius".

[@thesoupdragon112]

An 80's anthom. I was 19 when this came out. What a summer

[@mrtveye6682]

Tears For Fears had some great song. Loved them even back in the 80s, when I used to be a teenage metalhead and wasn't into most of the pop/charts music.

[@mikemiller3069]

Michael Jackson was singing lead with the Jackson Five way back in the 60s so, of course, he came first. This song is quintessential 80s music with the synths and everything. It was a staple on MTV. And BTW, Millie, you look even prettier than usual.

[@prescottlange]

Doesn't matter that "Michael Jackson came first". Fact is, "The Way You Make Me Feel" came out 2 years AFTER this song.

[@antifax8434]

Gracias a Tears for Fears por su maravillosa música, la disfruté en los 80 y la sigo disfrutando ahora casi 40 años después. ❤❤❤🎸🎸🎸

[@AlexLightGiver]

Good choice. These guys are soo underrated as writers and musicians. You got to check out Sewing thre seeds of love. Its masterclass. ✌️

[@sammylane21]

A perfect song to listen to on a breezy lazy Sunday drive. It's just so relaxing, makes me yawn. 💗💗💗💗

[@Pawp6io6jx5i]

Huge success in the 80s and 90s, Tears For Fears. I saw them in São Paulo in the 90s. What a show Magnificent. to this day I remember them on stage.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Michael Jackson song Billie Jean has a similar vibe in relation to drums 🥁 Written by Chris Thomas, Alan Griffiths and Roland Orzabal. Produced by Chris Thomas. Sung by Curtis Smith. Griffiths was on synthesizer. 🎹 Orzabal thought of the Simple Minds song Water 💧 Front. Thomas put a drum 🥁 shuffle. He told Orzabal to play 2 chords on the guitar 🎸 for the entire verse. Orzabal was bored 💤 😴. This song was the last 1 recorded for the album. Yet, all the writers defend including it in the album. This became a Top 40 hit song 🎵. After its release, Jim Vallance asked Alan Frew what current song he liked. He answered Everybody Wants to Rule the World 🌎. The 2 and Sam Reid liked the drum 🥁 shuffle. Thus, the 3 wrote Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone. It was released the next year, 1986, and became a Top 40 hit song 🎵. 5 years later, Bryan Adams and Mutt Lange wrote Can't Stop This Thing We Started. Similar idea 💡 Suggested videos 📹: 1 Glsss Tiger 🐅 and Bryan Adams perform Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone. 2 Bryan Adams sings Can't Stop This Thing We Started 3 Glass Tiger performs Some Day. 4 Tears for Fears perform Shout. 📣

[@scottmcnutt7913]

Great album the second song on these album Working Hour is my favorite

[@jonathanmurphy3141]

Your Cat, exploring your room - rules the world, as Cats do. Michael Jackson started with his brothers in the 1970's. This song is from 1985, and this group is English. The filming is in California. One of my very favorite songs from the 80's (I am in my 50's years, now)

[@Isleofskye]

Cats have a lovely life with 3 people all assuming that own it as it roams from one house to another:)

[@xaviergough9359]

Curt's vocals are well appreciated but his bass playing is very underrated. His style is melodic bass playing.

[@Yvonlefebvre-i2i]

The 80th was the best time of my life. 🎸👏🏻👏🏻🫶👍👍

[@AlexLightGiver]

Class of 1984 here ✌️

[@655superblues]

70's and 80's what a time to be alive, you should listen to "woman in chains" another classic from them.

[@bbqujeh]

Michael Jackson in the late 60s early 70s performed with his brother's in the Jackson Five, on the Motown label.

[@calemcqueen]

Thanks for talking through it. Songs are Always made better when people talk through them.

[@stevetanner3019]

“Woman In Chains” and “Sowing The Seeds Of Love” by Tears for Fears are incredible. Watch the videos if at all possible.

[@randywatson8347]

I was 6 years old when I saw that music video. I remembered lmost every part.

[@paulluna8099]

The 80s were different for everyone, I was born in 1982 and yeah, the era was great for me while for someone else who it may not have been so.

[@Isleofskye]

I still love music but my personal tape compilations finished by 1989 when I was 35 and after 2,500 singles bought,I haven't bought a record for almost 35 years:)

[@shlomiB.R.]

One of the most beautiful songs with their amazing lyrics and music, my phone ringing, is this song. Listen to: Assaf Avidan in a box ll - your anchor Or (Suggested by Ren👇) Asaf Avidan - In A Box III - Rock of Lazarus you won't regret!!

[@chefDean1964]

A must hear... "Freakers at the Freakers Ball" by Dr Hook... I believe you or anyone else who enjoy the 70s vibe will truly enjoy it or anything else they've written. I would like to know your thoughts... I like your reactions to the music that has shaped SO MANY generations of music...and people...

[@johnthompson5670]

There is a Native American rock band (that you may or may not know) who have a pretty famous song: Come and Get Your Love. If you don't know it should check it out. There aren't too many indigenous American rock bands. Redbone - Come And Get Your Love (Live on The Midnight Special)

[@scottdouglasmusic]

Millie... "little dance" belonged to a 1950's soul vocal group called The Four Tops! Check them out! ❤

[@scottdouglasmusic]

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[@EnervatedSociety]

Classic, love it.

[@niles8102]

This song inspired Michael so he used the bassline for THEY WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL

[@UberDurable]

Gotta love the 80s! 🤘🤘

[@phil-nt4yz]

early teen year favorite. thank.

[@alexfletcher5192]

This is after Thriller but it's also an American No.1. Which was a high point for the group and actually part of what became the 2nd British Invasion (if you count the likes of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones as the first). It was never on the same scale, but some great music came out of it. The band actually started out much more avant-garde than this, but pop success gradually beckoned.

[@lukabaljkas9003]

Hi there... new to the channel, really loving it... here's a suggestion, how about trying something really weird and giving Talking Heads "Life during wartime" live, a whirl... should be a fun one to watch you try and make sense out of heh

[@brianm2238]

80s was awesome

[@ChrisLegner-qp1yh]

A lot of the 80's era stuff hasn't aged so well. Not the case here. It's a timeless classic. Fun reaction and smart commentary.

[@martinsv9183]

Like what?

[@thrusta100]

Wrong! Still better than most of today’s! Is why radio stations play 80s all day on a Friday! #bangers

[@atvar69]

If you like bass I recommend you react to some Duran Duran songs, especially in the first albums (Planet Earth, Careless Memories, Rio, Save a Prayer, Hungry Like the Wolf, New Religion, Union Of The Snake, Notorious, Like Undone..) and I also recommend you do it in some live versions, where bass, drums and guitar are amplified.. for example, Union of The Snake live from as the light go down seems to have been written to be performed live ..

[@petearundel166]

Oh look, a Healey 3000S! ;-)

[@quicktastic]

Quintessential 80's.

[@thejoshman3843]

another cool thing was that artists could make controversial album covers. In the 70s album art was a creative free-for-all but it toned down a little in the 80s thanks to the suits and the PMRC. Now you cant do controversial it wont pass a google ad filter.

[@CarlosjavierDespo-su1hc]

Reacction great.Ronald orzabal of 🇦🇷.disc 1985🇬🇧

[@christopherrobertson8098]

Welcome to the Brit lol era millie. Tears for fears are curt Smith lead singer and Roland orzabal guitar keyboards vocals. Former in Bath in Somerset England in 1981Curt left the group in 1990 after an acrimonious split Roland retained the benefits and continued with new front men continuing to release new albums, then in 2000 after a business meeting between Roland and curt the pair mended their friendship and finally began writing touring and performing live for the first time in 11 years and have continued to this day

[@MARCOSIDJUNE]

🔥🔥 1980s 🔥🔥

[@gfakruddinahmad8316]

Heyii Millie ! you SHOULD WATCH "Together in Electric Dreams" by Phillip Oakey & Georgio Morroder.

[@stephenpaxman6180]

yes the 80s was awesome

[@norwegianblue2017]

LOL, they actually don't look anything like one another IRL. Roland Orzabal has French/Argentinian roots. Curt Smith looks very English, grew up in Bath.

[@simonpoole2333]

These guys are from England and had a few massive hits in the 80s. Michael Jackson's career spanned the 70s and the 80s.

[@raffaojeda]

the anthem of the 80s

[@richtensail]

big hit, big album, in 85?, thoguht provoking lyrics n a cool sound, v sound of v 80s 4 me, try mad world, shout, head ovr heals, sowing v seeds of love......frm uk

[@sonicscott9119]

Please do a reaction to "Shout", Tears for Fears have some amazing tunes under their belts.

[@markanderson4338]

Best bands from this era: Tears for Fears; Level 42 (iconic Bassist Mark King); Wang Chung.

[@RAD-82ndABN]

You should listen to the Band Creed? My favorite Creed song is “One” , or “My own prison?” Basicly all the songs on their albums is pretty awesome!

[@daz97]

The 80s imo was the last decade of oure public positivity The 90s was a lot of... Wjo you looking at bro? And as we know... Today is endless cultural negativity etc The 80s rocked

[@joeltwinx3805]

Iconic representation of the 80s

[@justitia257]

I Like

[@joealvarez8733]

Check out the cover of this song by Care Bears On Fire...its like a punk rock version 🤘👽🤘

[@thejoshman3843]

one thing about 80s vs now thats different is that, if you liked a song on the radio, & the band didnt release a formal single, you had to buy the whole album or cassette, which cost 10 - 15 dollars. if you wanted the led zeppelin collection you had to invest hundreds of dollars. Today if you want to hear a song just google it. Its sad that google made selling music non viable hopefully in the future young people will embrace physical media again. Deepfakes & corporations erasing content could cause an analog renaissance.

[@TrentRushton]

You should check out an artist named Steven Lynch, an album called Lion, he has a great voice and it is a great comedy music album, but be warned some of the lyrics I would say are R rated.

[@lucianopintolopes]

James T. Kirk

[@Isleofskye]

Tiberius. I found that out,only last night in a TV quiz:)

[@commosection]

Songs in the late 70's and 80's seemed designed to ding to even if you didnt know what they hell the song was about lol.Today you dont see/hear songs like that anymore

[@jerryjoe88]

Millie, listen to "Fear Of Music" album from Talking Heads - 1979

[@adisetiyanto8067]

NIce reaction .. Pls check out : "Money For Nothing" by DIRE STRAITS // "Beth" by KISS // "Baba O'Riley" by THE WHO // "Limelight" by RUSH // "Long Train Running" by THE DOOBIE BROTHERS

[@timtubemusic]

Please react to HEAD OVER HEALS really great song and video

[@norkannen]

We are still cool, just older 😈😎🇧🇻

[@yasinyasin7640]

Of course it's good i am born 1980

[@kellymarklong]

Millie, my friend, you’re yelling into the mic unintentionally.

[@Ranadicus]

The 80's were so cool and you should be jealous

[@johnthompson5670]

Please let me add another suggestion to your music discovery tour. I don't see any Jimi Hendrix reactions ; if you are interested, great place top start is: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Official Audio) (243 million views)

[@MrYoup11]

Michael Jackson came first, he was singing in the Jackson 5 in the 70's with his elder brothers.

[@Scottish_TV_Gold]

Michael Jackson came first but his hit 'The Way You Make Me Feel' which has a similar beat came out in 1987 - 2 years after this.

[@RockDJ93]

Please reacts to Gallow - in the belly on the shark. You will like the sound of the bass greetings 

[@buixrule]

The 80s were awesome. Unfortunately, in retrospect, I understand this more now than I did then. This song WAS the 80's.

[@stonebringer1]

🎸🎸🎸🎸1/2

[@russellkeeling4387]

When's the last time you saw a phone booth?

[@danbennett2099]

Try “Woman in Chains”

[@minetteh1001]

can you look at dana fuchs helter skelter cover

[@cobbler88]

They had a few more hit songs, only maybe one of which is worth actually recommending. The rest seemed just kind of like run-of-the-mill pop for the time and aren't interesting enough to tell a younger person they're a must-listen in 2024.

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

Hello there hello hey hello hey hi there

[@Dreyno]

They played this on Colbert the night Russia invaded Ukraine. Seemed appropriate and very sad.

[@tinagomez524]

They are brothers

[@marcusalmeida1254]

Give a try to David Lee Roth - Yankee Rose

[@hapipcoy8010]

mantap❤

[@cobbler88]

The thing for me is that this is basically half of a song that's padded out. It's not really musically entertaining once we reach the point where - in the video - the guy start dancing. The rest is kind of fill and revisit. But I love the first half.

[@newfiemom8696]

They were ahead of themselves politically

[@mitchellbeston1033]

The 80s? The only good thing about the 80s was that it was a lot more free than today's PC society.

[@sliceofheaven3026]

They look like twins?