Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance REACTION!!

[@melissadambro8873]

The 'corpse" was a very much alive Kim Basinger!

[@ericwilkerson2598]

Yep. She said it was one of the hardest things she's done, to just be dead the whole time.

[@cra-craintenn6327]

When Tom Petty was deciding on who would play the corpse in the MV, he is quoted : "She's got to look really good, or why would he keep her around after she's dead? I thought, Kim Basinger would be good." Basinger said it was one of the coolest things she ever did!

[@pat9158]

This is one of my all time favorite Tom Petty songs, and I'd never seen this video before. What a huge distraction it was for me from the story of the song and how great the music is! I was just so freaked out and wondering wtf with the corpse that I had a hard time actually enjoying how incredible this song is musically. You should jam out to it with your eyes closed also, just to focus on the music and enjoy it that way also

[@kimberlinibambini1968]

Same! I’ll be 50 this year- always loved this song- gotta admit, the video is a bit strange- no disrespect to the great Tom Petty- love him! RIP Tom

[@terrisue4059]

We lost our "minds" eye on what the picture looked like in the songs we heard. That went out the window with videos. They take away your imagination.

[@briansprenger5578]

I agree in this instance the video is a huge distraction from the song. Don't know how she even felt about the music.

[@snoop-gk6uu]

Yeah, totally agree. Music is to be listened to with your ears unless live at a gig.

[@janbarriault4494]

oh yes!! love this tune,, with wine

[@GS-kx8wc]

Tom Petty was a hit factory. Its all he made. You should check out YOU GOT LUCKY.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

He had some clunkers

[@trikkerman1]

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN Every band does.

[@vodengc520]

I only saw him once in concert... it was on my birthday, and it was literally the last show he played before he died. I'm so glad I actually got to see him, his show was phenomenal.

[@GS-kx8wc]

@@vodengc520 I saw him once too. He was awesome in concert.

[@evamohlin1693]

That is a creepy song.

[@angelscribbles2525]

"Is she alive? What the fuuuuu?" 😆 That alone was the best reaction throughout. 😆

[@kimberlinibambini1968]

Yes, I snort laughed at that!🤣

[@MichaelBrown-bg9ui]

Same here

[@jeffcurtis5470]

Leave it to Tom Petty to make creepy cool. R.I.P

[@paulqueripel3493]

Nick Cave was good at that as well.

[@sherribrock2726]

I am so glad you have started reacting to Tom Petty. A very interesting video and song by him is “You Don’t Know How It Feels (To Be Me). Also, I really adore you!

[@thecoogs]

We lost him too early, what an American classic.

[@jamesallen5591]

Love Tom Petty. You Don't Know How it Feels would be a good one to react to.

[@danielbruns7055]

Songs and videos don't always tell the same story. Thanks for playing my request. I'm such a stinker!

[@labyfan1313]

You gotta check out "Don't Come Around Here No More". Alice in Wonderland theme in music video.

[@FoxyJane1348]

YESSS!

[@kayakuprising5914]

Yes!

[@sherrifrazier5722]

Here comes my girl is a good one

[@carla2837]

Love your reactions and you are so cute. I see how much of yourself you put into understanding the message. Tom is one of my favorites my whole life. He was a truly amazing person. BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW!! He did not love doing the videos but he did always want to give his fans something new to look at. He purposely DID not have the video represent his songs . it has always confused people who didn’t know that.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

When I saw you were reacting to THIS video, I never clicked so fast 🤣

[@jamesbutler174]

Me too this is a Classic!

[@anthonyhedberg6471]

She was born in a dead, podunk hick town where nothing ever happens, and when she grew up she couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. The natural progression is that she hit the big city, partied too much, it took her life and this guy who desired her (but never had her), watched helplessly as she went down. For him, gettin' high is the only thing that kills the pain of losing this girl that he always wanted, but never really had to begin with. Oh, and it's him who is stuck in the same old town, with the same old people, with his only perceived shot at possible happiness gone. It's a classic tale of life in middle America. Anyway, that's my own take on it, for whatever that's worth. Keep up the good work India...you've made KZbin interesting again. Peace!

[@GinaGeeILuvu]

Her eyes open at the end!! This video is full of symbolism!! You can interpret in many ways! You should react to Duran Duran”s early videos like Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf, Girls On Film, Save A Prayer, Wild Boys, The Chauffer, etc!

[@lowrider4266]

One of the most interesting reactions to Petty. Priceless. Next up please Here Comes My Girl.... You Got Lucky... great reaction. Thanks.

[@JoeSmith-ey2xp]

Petty rocks! How confident are you when you put a brand new song on your greatest hits album. This is that song.

[@sylviablurton6535]

Got to love ❤️ Tom Petty...RIP

[@jamesbutler174]

This is one of the best produced music videos of all time. Kim Basinger was at huge Hollywood actress at the time, ironically playing a dead woman was one of her best works! I love when the harmonica kicks in with the full moon and the house in shadow, classic creepy scenes like a mini movie.

[@EDMEMC]

I think this video is genius. Has nothing to do with the song that it's still amazing!

[@titusauriliuschariotmakert2490]

can never go wrong with a tom petty number. Keep it going. I'm listening

[@juggernautomnimedia1038]

I agree with the comments suggesting Don’t Come Around Here No More. My favorite Petty song.

[@thomasc707]

Tom Petty is great. nice reaction.

[@LaptopLarry330]

When this music video came out in 1993, Tom Petty stated that it would be the band's last "concept" music video that they would ever make. He said this because the band was getting tired of the grind and hard work that was involved in making "concept" music videos. In Tom Petty's later years, he and the band, The Heartbreakers, would make music videos of themselves playing their musical instruments in a recording studio or a rehearsal studio.

[@billdemudd6697]

Hitting the mary jane? Right on,funky lady!

[@brownie1341]

Tom Petty had some great tunes. "Won't Back Down" and "Refugee" are two of my favs. Good beats!

[@DwightParker]

Won't Back Down is the best.......

[@deaconblues7495]

The Waiting and Jammin' Me are two of his many great songs. You are doing a great job.

[@kickahaw]

Tom had a sense of humor love Tom big thumbs up

[@razorfett147]

The video really has nothin to do with the meaning of the song haha

[@martinzeppelin89]

Drugs lol

[@nelsonx5326]

razor Still don't know what the song is about.

[@rediron44]

@@nelsonx5326 according to the lead guitarist. Tom wrote this about himself, and how most relationships where one night stands on the road. Traveling, things like that. "I dig ya baby, but I gotta keep movin, on." And lines like, "I'm tired of this town again"..

[@nelsonx5326]

@@rediron44 Thank you very quickly. I love this song. I never thought what it was about. A song doesn't really have to be about something to be good. I love Bob Dylan and Tom Waits where imagery is thrown at me like fastballs. The video accompanying the music looks like it has nothing to do with anything. I wrote a song, tried to create imagery. Maybe you can tell me what it's about... God is on fire. Blood on a roof. A mantis enjoys the lizards day off. Life in the gutter. Love on a floor. The less we embrace the more we ignore. Intangible tangents. Rickets and rot. The things we possess are the things we have not. Long can seem short when compared to the breach. My heart for a being I never might reach. If I were a whaler my shit would be best. I could leave her forever lose her at last. Save up my silver for the next port. Send her a package empty of course. I have a melody I sing it to. I was communicating with a very attractive woman on line. I was kind of going crazy because I wished I could be with her. I kinda fell in love with her. Anyway, I told her I was going to write a song for her and this is what she got. Not the type of thing that would have her dive in my arms. But it's not my nature to write, I don't, romantic dribble. She was older like me, not the type that would be impressed with hearts and flowers anyway. But by abstract I think I wrote something with more endurance. Anyways, how do you like my song?

[@nelsonx5326]

@@rediron44 I really was curious what you thought about the song I wrote. I think it's good and am kind of proud of it. Be well.

[@annaleabrown4588]

The meaning of the video: Annabel Lee BY EDGAR ALLAN POE It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee- With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me- Yes!-that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we- Of many far wiser than we- And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea- In her tomb by the sounding sea.

[@tbruck9947]

WOW! I would love Indi as to see Tom Petty Don't Come Around Here No More. One of the best videos of all time.

[@Saabinseptime]

RIP Tom. Very good choice India,, glad you like it. You should play "A face in the crowd" by Tom Petty, a sweet love song

[@MemoBar100]

What a great song!!!

[@pattibrooks1907]

Thank you India ! Do not know what to think of the song but loved the music

[@shirleykelly9971]

One of their best songs with such cool metaphors that you can get so many different meanings from I love Tom Petty

[@minnidrake8516]

This my favorite Tom petty song thanks for your honest reactions u rock

[@TheGorignak]

Never realized how much RHCP Dana California is so much like this song.

[@luisalonsoecheverria]

and Sweet Home Alabama.

[@bryanhale5254]

Did you notice who was Kim Basinger who played the dead girl?

[@annabellefritz3647]

Love Tom Petty!! Thank you India.. Mr. Tom Petty transitioned to the Spirit World the same day as the deadly Las Vegas shooting .. I feel maybe he gave himself up to be supportive of all the Souls.. 🕊🕊 #Godspeed and #RockOn #LoveYouIndia .. :) 🙏🏼♥️♥️🙏🏼

[@AzureThunder3]

That's a lovely way to look at it. You must be a very kind person to think of that. 💙

[@lowrider4266]

Hell yeah finally getting to this classic timeless song. Enjoy. From a Indiana girl. Lol.

[@andydanko7074]

This is my favorite Petty tune...although I love all of his work..glad you liked it✌

[@hibhibb5429]

Your reaction to this video and your facial expressions were Awesome!! You Rock!!

[@thudstamper7965]

Indiana, where John Mellencamp was born and raised. This song is largely a dis on Mellencamp, who was a rival of Tom. I'm from IN and love this song. Market Square is in Indianapolis. Good research, Tom.

[@beth-annmyers8348]

This video is bizarre.... you are so open minded and pleasant! Love your reactions! Creepy for reals, this video!

[@TheRealSweetcherryo]

Always reminds me of Bourbon Street only because it was playing early one morning, end of vacation...looked outside, the streets were empty, cool and wet out... the lyrics sort of fit

[@zep68cd]

The photography on this vudei is outstanding! Those last shots when he comes out tge house and the moon shinning is nothing but pure art.

[@trikkerman1]

Tom Petty's Hard Promises is in my top 5 all-time favorites.

[@xJamesLaughx]

This song really has no meaning but what you want it to be really. In an interview the guitarist of the Heartbreakers Mike Campbell said this when asked about the meaning of the songs lyrics and whether Petty intended it to be about drugs or not: "In the verse there is still the thing about an Indiana girl on an Indiana night, just when it gets to the chorus he had the presence of mind to give it a deeper meaning. My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song." Tom Petty is another one of those artists that I simply cannot think of a single bad song of his.

[@annaleabrown4588]

Well, here in Indiana we take this song pretty damn seriously! LOL The song is the song. The video is about Poe's Annabel Lee poem.

[@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames]

Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger was uncredited in this music video, and apparently was paid scale (about $3000) despite the fact that at the time she was commanding salaries in excess of a million dollars per movie. She said it was one of the easiest parts she ever played. She just sort of sat there with her eyes closed and everything happened around her. She had a ton of fun playing the body, and she said that if she knew that "playing dead" was so fun she'd have done it earlier in her career.

[@GinaGeeILuvu]

I love this video with Kim Bassinger! Morbidly delightful!!

[@StormyPeak]

I remember when this music video debuted and how so many people thought it was too morbid for MTV. I actually think it kind of hurt the song's sales a bit...there were a thousand other ways to put that song to music that would have been less disturbing. But, on the other side of that coin...the video is remembered for breaking boundaries back then....it was so very dark, when a lot of videos were more mainstream and didn't make people uneasy watching them.

[@jujunew6003]

I think what you said is true. And dont apologize for your facial expressions lol that's half the reason I'm subbed to you lol

[@paulreese8706]

Tom Petty classics. The Waiting. Even the Losers. Rebels. 3 of his best.

[@andrusmotto1257]

You Don't Know How It Feels is another classic❤🙏

[@shelby_smithkc21]

Tom Petty was one of the best! Never heard a bad song from him. His album “Full Moon Fever” is one that I own that you will never see me skip over one single song on that whole album. Just listen and enjoy the entire thing the whole way through. 🙌💯

[@ryankc3631]

"Here Comes My Girl" is my favorite but there are so many. Some bands from the 80's still tour only with their music from the 80's. Tom Petty kept making new hits. Mike Campbell, lead guitar, provided the band's distinctive sound. Mike played with others, too, like Don Henley on "Boys of Summer".

[@echopryme]

They played this in CLUBS!!! This was a UNIVERSAL banger!!!

[@GS-kx8wc]

Thats Kim Basinger in the video btw

[@nelsonx5326]

I didn't know that. I didn't watch MTV, never saw this video before. She's a classic beauty. In 'L.A. Confidential' they did her hair and make up and was the perfect 1940's/50's super starlet. She looks a little plain without make up, but that's good, with make up she can be made to have so many different looks.

[@williampowell4422]

Yeah the actress that played Viki Vale in 1989 Batman,that is I where I recognize it from.

[@tonymatrisin4328]

Wayne's World 2

[@wanderingmichigan2492]

Hard to pick a favorite Petty song. But this one is near the top of the list. Was the first one I learned all the lyrics to.

[@douglasmilks812]

i love you..a face in the crowd...

[@kirkr.5566]

This is probably my favorite song of theirs. R.I.P. Tom...you are missed but never forgotten!!🖤👍🤘💜 (Edit) The corpse is played by Kim Bassinger in case you were wondering.

[@ANGeLEk1_89]

Ive known this song my whole life and never seen the video. This video is not what i had pictured in my head! Lol

[@jencreamer3486]

"You Don't Know How it Feels" and "Time to Move On" are two of my favorite Petty songs

[@BoondockRoberts]

Don't come around here no more is the Tom petty song i think you'd like the most. At least the video, trust me

[@valkyrie757]

I second that!

[@sharonironman4547]

I 3rd that

[@purplebeard1526]

No love for the Running Down a Dream?

[@heathcliff8624]

I 4th that

[@MrJonno85]

@@purplebeard1526 That's ok as well.

[@standupp2885]

Running Down a Dream is excellent and the video is trippy.

[@jcomstock89]

I remember seeing this video as a kid in the mid 90's....it really creeped me out! Great song though!

[@greenpumpkin6650]

His best video. Into the great . Its like a short movie

[@canadaeast8358]

Hahaha I love your reactions your awesome 😎

[@Kalparkr]

dope

[@jujunew6003]

I grew up with this song and I never saw the video till now. That's KIM BASINGER!!🥰

[@royalway12]

Thanks for sharing. This Petty video is why I don't like watching music videos. Totally different from what I have always painted in my mind when listening to this song.

[@GratefulZen]

I’m not ready for a world without Tom Petty!

[@SC-jh9qp]

I like your analysis.

[@anfieldarcher8545]

Love your channel plus you have beautiful eyes

[@RussellStClair-cy1vu]

Tom Petty the King of Cool

[@verwulf]

You should check out Tom Petty's You Got Lucky. It first came out in 1982. It caused a controversy when I came out because it was the first music video that had absolutely nothing to do with the lyrics but it was WAY TOO COOL. Looked like a Mad Max movie.

[@pennycousineau946]

I love that you got the "Mary Jane" is pot. Leaving addiction. Painful!

[@greengun8340]

Finally! One of you reactors have done Tom Petty=)

[@diamondsmithny]

I’ve seen this video about 1 million times my take on it was that she died too soon and he just wanted one last dance with her sounds creepy creepy to me but the song is freaking awesome I saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Rochester war memorial about 1990 it was a really good show.

[@rickdietrich3059]

My favourite Tom Petty song but damn dude what crazy ass video , maybe that’s the point I guess!

[@asherdeangelo3268]

Tom petty is a legend...this song came out in 91 so it's old now...the dead woman on this video is kim Basinger... a famous actress from the 80s and 90s...this video was weird but tom had his ways on reality....rip

[@johnlittle8975]

I think the song is about saying goodbye to your old life and starting a new one.

[@Jerrongamereview]

He's handling corpses that never got claimed by family/friends, giving them a last good night and burial by sea instead of being cremated and added to the pile

[@kevincaulder9001]

This is the perfect song/video for Halloween to give people the creeps. If you really want chills listen to AC/DC sing Night Prowler on the album, Highway to Hell. But listen in private and don't interrupt for full affect. Your skin will crawl.

[@ericaferguson7169]

Her reaction to this video is just absolutely hilarious. Lmao

[@joelliebler5690]

Real good song, great story. Big hit album for Mr. Petty and his Heartbreakers! If you like story telling tr6 some Dan Fogelberg, Leader of The Band, Power of Gold,As the Raven Flies!

[@labyfan1313]

One of my favourite Tom Petty songs. The music video is great but it's really distracting from the song in this case, especially if you've never heard the song before, it's harder to appreciate the music with this other very dramatic story playing out. I remember Tom Petty always dodged flat out answering what this song was about when asked. Always saying people should draw whatever meaning they want from it. It could be about a relationship or it could be about drugs. Though at their concerts whenever they play this song they always show a video with smoke from a joint on the screens. But I like to think of it as being about both things.

[@apriljohnson1514]

A Woman in Love or Insider by them from the Hard Promises album would be a great reaction. Plus Yur so Bad is a great video too.

[@wadstur8429]

I watched this just to see your reaction to when he started dancing with a corpse. creepy cool isn't he? just nuts.

[@sundevil3640]

I believe Tom Petty once worked in a mortuary....

[@jasonw8283]

This was when Tom was the shit. Undeniable!

[@bobdelp2023]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU GOT TO DO THIS ONE! :) RIGHT ON, IT'S ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC VIDEOS THAT MTV HAD! THAT'S KIM BASINGER ( ALEC BALDWIN'S EX ) JUST A GR888 MUSIC VIDEO FOR SURE

[@axisapex]

This song is about a marijuna plant spedding its seed around it grew up tall and grew up right.

[@dagnelpaula1]

Love the song! Not crazy about the video. The two don't appear to have anything in common. But Kim Basinger did a great job as 'the corpse.' (The video, though, distracts completely, in my opinion, from the song.) But I loved your reaction, and it's good to know that you, too, thought the scenario of the video was major creepy. Whoever came up with the idea for the video was obviously smokin' Mary Jane. Great reaction.

[@user-pd9oi5hi1d]

LOL I forgot how crazy the 90's was

[@suthrndaysi]

The video definitely changes the meaning of the song once you see it

[@MrJonno85]

I've never seen this before - how did he get away with this? 😂😂

[@joedevlin6311]

Pretty sure the song is about weed. Check out "break down"

[@suedyment511]

Tom Petty - " You Got Lucky Babe " 😎

[@Russ-gy7tx]

“Here Comes My Girl” Tom Petty

[@NefariousKoel]

This song was obviously about getting away from addiction. Of various sorts, even.

[@musicmyfavs1907]

The song was about Mary Jane the drug...the video was about one last dance with a girl named mary jane...