You'll NEVER date a rockstar after hearing Carpenters - "Superstar" | Reaction

[@TheGreatGig73]

I am amazed after all these years the respect The Carpenters are getting from young listeners.

[@Big_Tex]

I was born about the time they got started, so the Carpenters have always been in the cultural background. But I’d forgotten how many great songs they had. I’ve lately been catching on to these reactions and Holy Smokes it’s just one masterpiece after another after another.

[@losova7543]

I swear to God man, I feel like I'm levitating whenever I hear her sing and I always get choked up.

[@alexarmendariz7763]

Pure gold The Carpenter there will never be a brother and sister like them again rest in peace Karen Carpenter

[@TomGreen-gi3tl]

Karen will always be timeless and incredible.

[@JamesJohnson-vy6ji]

I and my now passed wife susan went to two concerts of the carpenters in florida a day apart in Orlando then in st petersburg. And there was a moment in the concert when a member of the band made a mistake and he was a moment of hunor and the audience lovet it. Then the next night in st petersburg the mistake happened again and the audience agin loved it. But having seen the mistake happening again I and susan loved the effect the showman sake of the groupe was so professional the little joke drew the audance in and made the program a collaborative event between the carpenters and the audance this would have been in in 1975-6

[@MarieC-q6e]

I love their Christmas portrait album.

[@bruschmidt9943]

Hey man, thank you for reaction to Superstar. Karen displayed First-Take unmatched Talent at its very best. I just wanted to note the phenomenal Hi-fi sound of your playback equipment we're hearing. Best ever from a reactor. You Rock!!!

[@Russ-gy7tx]

A Lullaby Voice, Well said!

[@joelliebler5690]

A sultry yet sad piece!

[@jbs256]

I’m continuing to enjoy your journey down the rabbit hole. It’s all glorious just you develop faves. No bad songs at all. I think I recommended some earlier and I’ll stand by that. Keep going! Joe

[@TheRokjok]

Just found your channel. So cool that you let the whole song play through. So as the story of how this song came about, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett with Bobby Whitlock ran into Leon Russell and Rita Coolidge. Rita had been telling Leon about a dream she had about a girl falling in love with a singer she heard on the radio. With that idea Leon and Delaney wrote the tune. The working title of the song was "groupie". Delaney gave his wife Bonnie credit for half of the writing credit. Later Delaney will receive credit.

[@daleb1279]

Bonnie also later appeared on the original Roseanne series playing the other waitress at Rodbell's lunch counter also named Bonnie, with David Crosby appearing as her husband Duke.

[@chab1rd155]

Karens voice is perfection. Luther Vandross did a cover of this song but this version is my favorite!❤❤❤

[@tomschmitz-dj1fg]

Vandross was a huge fan of Karen carpenter's voice and did his version as a homage to her and her brother. While many have sung this song, the actual writers of this song, have always stated the Carpenter's version was the greatest interpretation, even Vandross himself has stated so...

[@achimwollmershauser8328]

Good that you had the lyrics on the screen at the beginning. I always understood "this weekend" instead of "this way again" 😂

[@IAMCAVE]

To me it’s about a young girl, who is lonely, sitting in her room and falling in love with the singer on the radio.

[@lindadesanto6593]

Thanks for this reaction! Back in the day, we never really knew what the people in the bands looked like. We just imagined when we heard the song on the radio. No MTV. We had to stay up to watch the Midnight Special at 12:00 on Friday or Saturday, I forget what night it came on. Anyway, I fell in love with Bob Seger ❤

[@sukie584]

The original version of this is called Groupie ( Superstar) and was done by Delaney & Bonnie ( written by Leon Russell & Bonnie Bramlett) The studio version of the original is great. Very soulful & very clearly sung by an experienced, worldly woman. Carpenters version changed a lyric & has a more innocent, melancholic feel.

[@FavoriteMovieDate]

There are many beautiful songs on Carpenters albums that weren’t huge hits. I have only heard a couple that I could live without and even those were good in comparison to everyone else.

[@DrnkTheWildAir]

I was nearly 10 years old when this came out and I wanted to be Karen when I grew up!! ❤

[@michaelasay8587]

Dmk, my sister had the voice of Karen, died at 38, hospitals fault...didnt have the self confidence to do anything with it. Can't wait to see them both in heaven.Any time now!!

[@DrnkTheWildAir]

@@michaelasay8587 I’m so sorry to hear that. Angels 😇 await.

[@FrankUli]

your appreciation for beautiful music brings me to recommend the song Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone, the lyrics will blow your socks off.

[@davidfischer1138]

My thoughts exactly.

[@sandratroyer2886]

You definitely need to listen to The Carpenter’s song “You’re The One I Love”. It’s beyond beautiful 1❤

[@llschnitz]

A super-fan is lying to herself telling herself that her guitar hero, who she slept with, loves her and is coming back to see her again. He isn't. Her heart is slowly breaking. That's the story behind the lyric.

[@lindajiron2557]

You are correct.

[@rayberry4261]

This is a Leon Russell song. She did 2 other Leon Russell songs; Masquerade and Song For You.

[@rayberry4261]

This song by Leon is about a groupie. It was originally called groupie.

[@durwardsaar6000]

Canadian so I grew up listening to Karen sing. Her death was so tragic and unnecessary. Never a fan of the Carpenters but I loved her voice.

[@charlesstraight5499]

If you want to find out the message behind the song Superstar, you will have to check with The Beatles since The Beatles wrote the song, it would be them who determined the meaning behind the song. Actually, the carpenters did a cover of that song. Yes, the carpenters put their own touch to it, but the song was written by The Beatles. So if you really want to know the answer to that question, you'll have to check on. The Beatles version of superstar to see what their meaning behind that song was. Richard carpenter was just trying to keep making new hit songs and he didn't really care where the songs came from. Yes, he created quite a few of them. But a lot of them were cubers that other artists had written like. We only just Begun that was a jingle written by Paul Williams or a bank Marshall. He sold on TV, got permission to cover it and created their own version of it, which turned out to be. As you know, a big smash hit. this isn't just a carpenter's thing. All artists do this, some music is written for them. Some was written by another artist. And they get permission to cover it. That's basically all music in a nutshell.

[@johnmaher106]

Nobody from the Beatles had anything to do with the composition of this song

[@ChristineHansen-e7h]

They didn't write this song

[@rayberry4261]

Please believe me this is about a groupie.