The Godzilla comment was double-edged as this song was “commissioned” for the 1998 Godzilla movie soundtrack. The label forced them to contribute so they RAGED
Loved watching you break this one down! One of my top 3 RATM songs. My capitalist, patriotic dad used to get so mad when he would hear me listening to this one especially. Two weeks ago, since things are being thrown into the light and impossible to avoid unless it's intentionally, he asked what the group I used to listen to was. My answer was , "Used to?, Still do." He listened on his own. I'm happy he's making the effort. Three days ago he told me he doesn't care for the style of music, but understands and actually agrees with most of the messages. Color me shocked but happy! Dad is waking up!
Hello Brother. My name is Silvio Lopes, screenwriter and film student from Brazil, a country that became a fascist because they elected a stupid president. It's great to know that young people are rediscovering RATM, my favorite band. I never went to watch reaction videos, because the content is usually ridiculous and not very instructive, almost a small analysis of teenagers to gain "likes" instead of creating and passing on some deep thought of the messages it contains in the songs. I am grateful for your videos, which despite being a musical analysis, relaxes and creates, at least in me, a thought that should be passed on to everyone. These guys are not prophets, they just see reality. I suggest reading the book "1984" by George Orwell, which was written in the late 1940s, where in the song "Testify" there is a short passage from the book "Who controls the past now controls the future / Who controls the present now controls the past ". And a tip, listen to songs by Brazilian rappers "Racionais MCs", songs like "Diário de um Detento", "Nego Drama", "Capítulo 4, Versículo 3", I think you will like it and Brazilians will access it. Thanks and "Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy".
@@MsVitorquadros Deixo isso para os outros brother, só achei impressionante ver jovens descobrindo Rage Against The Machine em 2020 rs estou estudando cinema, e estou fazendo meu primeiro curta-metragem no meio dessa pandemia para a faculdade irmão!!! E estou querendo uma Revolução no nosso país, se quiser dicas de estudos é só falar. Fica em casa e se cuida, o governo do bozo quer matar todo mundo.
First, bourgeois election means nothing. It's just a show that capitalist's making to inculcate others illusion of power over the system. Don't overestimate role of person in history, look thru that curtain. Second, fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary and most imperialist elements of finance capital. Chile under Pinochet was pure example of fascism. Third, if you want to better understand Zac try to read "Manifesto of the Communist Party" at least, because Zac did this "homework" decades ago. And for understanding nature of fascism I can recommend main report delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International , it's called "The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism". Stay true. Hasta la victoria siempre!
Rage capitalizing on the record companies capitalistic greed to push a movie that ended up bombing and using it to completely destroy the entire film and entertainment industry on the track is utter king shit. I’m sure they did something charitable with the royalties too
It's like Movie execs told the band "just make a song with Godzilla in the lyrics". And Zach said "Aight." Then they never listened to the result before throwing it on the soundtrack.
Most of people wasn't and still isn't ready for Rage's lyrics. lol. I'm just glad you apreciate it my guy... we don't find this kind of bars anywhere. Plus their instrumental is so authentic...
Also, the US federal government was surprised when they setup their first American embassy in Vietnam to find out that Coca Cola already beat them there by several years.
This is the best example of all RATM comments "explination of an odd Zach line, that has a really important msg. Also, this fucking song rocks for the following reason"
WHEW!! Zach dropped some heat in those bars today!!! I love how you broke this one down, because it was VERY heavy and deep. The one thing you missed I wanted to comment about was when Zach said "...Fourth reich cilture, Americana..." Well Hitler established the Third Reich during the Second World War, so Zach is saying the new war now that our leaders and corporations are waging on us is like a fourth reich...that is DEEP AND LIT AF!! Great reaction, my guy! Keep bringing the word to the streets!
The line "Spielberg the nightmare works" - Spielberg's film company is called "Dreamworks"... But yeah, it's all about distracting people from what's actually going on - Govt trying to get a bill through that'll make you poorer or weapons trade deals for example and they don't want it to be known and discussed publicly and have opposition to it? Here, have a summer blockbuster movie? Not working to distract them enough? Here, have a war... The lines about "American eyes" to me is a double meaning - a play on "Americanize" so Hollywood can't make a movie about anything really without at least dropping in at least one dashing American to be a bad boy hero 99% of the time - and also insists on portraying Americans as hero's who will always find a way to save the day and that this is true American history or that "this is how it happened, honest..." and there's nothing else you need to know - using films to teach a history they want people to think is actual history, and as a form of psychological warfare by using films and the entertainment industry for their needs to keep us distracted. And that line about "Godzilla pure motherfuckin filler" - the song is from the Godzilla OST, so not afraid to call shit out while using them (the film) as a vehicle to get their message out as much as possible while giving it a "fuck you" at the same time publicly ;)
What I love about your RATM reviews is that you really break down the lyrics. More than I've seen with other reactors. I can't wait until you do the same with Tool!
You’re the best reaction-video maker... you catch the most, you break down the most lines. You get it. You help me get some of the lines I’ve been missing for years. Keep it goin!
Amistad is a Spielberg movie about a slave ship called La Amistad where the captives on board wrested control of the ship from their captors. It was released by DreamWorks (hence “nightmare works”).
Most of the folks here are spot on with the lyrical content & meaning. There are a couple of things to add. The Amistad line is actually "Amistad was whip, the truth was feathered & tarred". Straight up saying that movie was whitewashed to water down the true experiences. The other about "Fourth Reich culture, Americana". The others are right about part of the meaning, the other half of that is the nod to how many actual Nazi party scientists, officers, & numerous others were brought back here to the states to "help America" recover from the war. There were many here before the war, they had parades here on US soil before WW2. The footage is sickening. I've got a lot of respect for you catching a lot of the meaning in these songs on your first time listening & seeing the lyrics. I was obsessed with these guys when they came out, I had already been listening to a lot of Bad Religion (a very political punk band) before them. I read every RATM interview in every magazine I could find. I ended up learning a lot about the state of the world at a pretty young age, I was in middle school when RATM debuted. Stay up man! ✊
And one more tip, watch the official clip of the song "Do The Evolution" by Pearl Jam. In addition to the lyrics the clip is precious, it has a powerful message like Rage Against The Machine.
"Bulls" are economic optimists (.i.e. Bull up , Bear down.) If an economic sector is bullish, it means that there is a general sentiment that sector will be earning more than usual.
They basically shit on the movie Godzilla, as you pointed out when he says it’s “all filler”. This song was on the movie soundtrack for a remake of Godzilla that came out in the 90’s.
7:45 It goes even deeper, it means that while the hospitals in front of capital private investment groups (in the US Healthcare is mostly privatized) still haven't extracted the maximum amount of money from their own people "not profit full" (yet)... the ones (private millionaires/billionaires and mega-corporations) playing with money at Financial Centers (Dow Jones for example but, despite specific to the US, happens all around the world) that works mostly like a casino, already have their pockets full of money, but somehow always "need"/want a little more.
I’m sure the Amistad lyrics are slightly wrong. I’ve always thought it was “Amistad was a whip the truth feathered and tarred” I’ve always thought it was a reference to the Amistad movie that came out not long before this track and how it didn’t accurately portray the events, likely sugaring over some events
Greetings from Cuba man! I love your RATM reactions. I love Rage Against The Machine and trust me when I say that when I hear 'em so do my neighbors ;)
My favorite Rage song. Best part about it is they somehow slipped it onto the Godzilla soundtrack. I'm...not sure it got vetted very heavily by the studio.
Sony was their record label and also the company responsible for the Godzilla movie, they had Rage under contract to provide a song for the film. The contract didn't say the song had to be favourable to the movie though, so Rage basically said 'sure we'll give you a song, but you may not like it'.
I always interpreted the VCR line as you trade your history for something that is worthless or obsolete. VCR's were on the way out when this way released if I recall correctly. Great stuff.
It's also a dig at the movie industry (Amistad was a Spielberg movie based on real events), and how they always seem to get it wrong, basically re-writing history since people would rather watch the movie in than read the book about something.
fyi The Coca Cola back in the veins of saigon reference and Rambo got a dope pair of Nikes on, has to do about Corporate America not caring about the war in Vietnam and its history. Rambo was a movie about a commando going back to Vietnam to rescue POW's from the war and the movie studio using that movie for product placement, namely Coca-Cola and Nikes. Selling product off of the emotional baggage of that war. Basically no shame for profit.
“Trade in your history for a VCR” there’s a saying that says: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. So, we trade in our history and what’s really going on for entertainment. While we’re distracted with entertainment, history is repeating itself.
It's also a dig at the previous line, as the Spielberg movie Amistad was criticized for white washing historical events. Basically, they're saying the movie industry is rewriting history by misrepresenting what really occurred, knowing that people would rather watch the movie about something that happened than read the history book about it.
Thanks for doing this review! I've always loved Rage, but it's really interesting to get a true Hip Hop perspective if Zack's lyrics. He really is one of the best ever. Good job as always!
It's so interesting that Zach was rapping about stuff like this, and what rap stars and pop stars nowadays do is sing about how much money and much stuff they own...
I think about this song whenever I see someone wearing a wakanda forever shirt or the like. Also alot of these comments talk about this song sneaking on to the Godzilla soundtrack. I've begun to think that Roland Emmerick was seeking out songs like this one.
George Carlin, you have to check it. You will be amazed, huw much of his speech you could analyze. I would love to see your reaction to it. You are amazing :)
I appreciate you're doing lyrics. Lyrics are essential with rage videos for sure. VCR is like blu-ray player. Or zip drive. lol. And yes sadly, the education deficiency is already apparent. Thankfully we have the internet now. You should look up some of the things he's talking about. He speaks a lot about the military industrial complex. The "thin line between entertainment and war" is basically pro military shows. GI joe, movies like rambo and commando. Navy seals movie, etc. They are all designed to build a hero image of the military.
Spielberg directed a movie called Amistad in 1997. It's about a slave ship in 1839. There are some really disturbing scenes about how the slaves are treated because they are literally people that were kidnapped from their homes while they slept. It's an eyeopener and I recommend people watch it.
I love your reactions! All true! 1993 i was rooting for you to react lol.... zach will spit at me cuz I’d be on front...your educational feedback gave me a different voice
I always heard the last line as "Just stare, or live the nightmare!" Meaning there are people who just sit on their ass and stare and do jack shit. And there are people who get the fuck out there every day and live the nightmare that is America.
I'm loving all your RATM videos and thanks for focusing on the lyrics in your reactions. As a treat once you get through the catalog, you would enjoy watching the live show from Woodstock 99: ruclips.net/video/F9S-JVKw0mE/видео.html Sidenote: they opened with no shelter
10:48 I mean i'm not even from the US and i dunno what they teach at US schools, but as an European i feel like even us (in most of Europe, often know more about the cultures that existed before we got to Africa, Asia and America, and what shitty things we did to the natives living there), than in US schools. And i find it really sad that often US Americans nowadays are still trying to deny or erase what should be teach and serve as an example of what not to repeat. A country that forgets it's failures and what it did wrong to itself and others around it, is often doomed to repeat those same actions in the future... and often they just involve death, destruction, separation exclusion. Learning about the good your country did is a good thing, but never forgetting what you did wrong in the past, is just as important! If it works for an individual life-experience, it should also work for entire countries.
"Coca Cola was in the veins back in Saigon"... the marketing of the american dream was already so heavy that even back during that war, Coca Cola was "in the veins" of Americana. "Rambo too"... Americana has started developing a fantasy of Americans being great warriors of personal freedom... et cetera et cetera
Great song. Been my favourite band since the first album. Love the coke in the veins of saigon and rambo reference. It could mean a couple things, coca cola/corporations have invade vietnam and/or the vietnam war was drug driven as rumoured?? But hey, heres a distraction check out rambo! Hes even got a dope pair of nikes on! The thin line between entertainment/propaganda and war...
The black community needs to unite and decide which companies deserve their dollars (an app?). If nothing has been learned from the pandemic let's at least see the fragility that a business has to sudden changes in income.
La Amistad was a spanish ship ,,,,,in 1839 Mende tribesmen who was abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba
lol some people don't get it it sounds dumb to people who get it but there really are people who don't even know.. i keep it in mind while reacting i have kids 11 years and under ho dont even know what a DVD/ Blu-ray player is seems not that long ago to me we were using it, but they been solely stream era life. i showed my daughter a blu ray player i said what is this she said a computer
He calls Americana fourth reich culture, he’s saying that American is the successor to Nazi germany (the third reich). The song is about how American culture justifies aggressive American action, for example when he’s taking about coca-cola being in Saigon and Rambo wearing Nike’s he’s talking about how American companies profited of the slaughter of Vietnamese freedom fighters.
The Godzilla comment was double-edged as this song was “commissioned” for the 1998 Godzilla movie soundtrack. The label forced them to contribute so they RAGED
The production didnt read the words or didnt care because its still officially on the soundtrack.
I had no idea it was commissioned. Amazing reply by RATM.
You want a song for your movie? Ok. That was balls. Love this band.
Yup, they threw a big middle finger to get their message to a wider mainstream audience.
Yes! What other band on a soundtrack ever made a song that basically said fuck this movie? lol
Loved watching you break this one down! One of my top 3 RATM songs. My capitalist, patriotic dad used to get so mad when he would hear me listening to this one especially. Two weeks ago, since things are being thrown into the light and impossible to avoid unless it's intentionally, he asked what the group I used to listen to was. My answer was , "Used to?, Still do." He listened on his own. I'm happy he's making the effort. Three days ago he told me he doesn't care for the style of music, but understands and actually agrees with most of the messages. Color me shocked but happy! Dad is waking up!
Hello Brother. My name is Silvio Lopes, screenwriter and film student from Brazil, a country that became a fascist because they elected a stupid president.
It's great to know that young people are rediscovering RATM, my favorite band. I never went to watch reaction videos, because the content is usually ridiculous and not very instructive, almost a small analysis of teenagers to gain "likes" instead of creating and passing on some deep thought of the messages it contains in the songs.
I am grateful for your videos, which despite being a musical analysis, relaxes and creates, at least in me, a thought that should be passed on to everyone. These guys are not prophets, they just see reality. I suggest reading the book "1984" by George Orwell, which was written in the late 1940s, where in the song "Testify" there is a short passage from the book "Who controls the past now controls the future / Who controls the present now controls the past ".
And a tip, listen to songs by Brazilian rappers "Racionais MCs", songs like "Diário de um Detento", "Nego Drama", "Capítulo 4, Versículo 3", I think you will like it and Brazilians will access it.
Thanks and "Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy".
faz teus react irmao
@@MsVitorquadros Deixo isso para os outros brother, só achei impressionante ver jovens descobrindo Rage Against The Machine em 2020 rs estou estudando cinema, e estou fazendo meu primeiro curta-metragem no meio dessa pandemia para a faculdade irmão!!! E estou querendo uma Revolução no nosso país, se quiser dicas de estudos é só falar. Fica em casa e se cuida, o governo do bozo quer matar todo mundo.
First, bourgeois election means nothing. It's just a show that capitalist's making to inculcate others illusion of power over the system. Don't overestimate role of person in history, look thru that curtain.
Second, fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary and most imperialist elements of finance capital. Chile under Pinochet was pure example of fascism.
Third, if you want to better understand Zac try to read "Manifesto of the Communist Party" at least, because Zac did this "homework" decades ago. And for understanding nature of fascism I can recommend main report delivered at the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International , it's called "The Fascist Offensive and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle of the Working Class against Fascism".
Stay true.
Hasta la victoria siempre!
Rage capitalizing on the record companies capitalistic greed to push a movie that ended up bombing and using it to completely destroy the entire film and entertainment industry on the track is utter king shit. I’m sure they did something charitable with the royalties too
I always took the "American Eyes" meaning as also "Americanize", they want to make that the norm for the world too.
Me too
Yup.
In concert he would point to his eyes & then his temple.
It was meant to read "American Eyes, Americanize".
View the world through American Lies.
I always kinda drew a parallel between this bar.. and Tupac’s “Real eyes, realize, real lies,” quote.. but that’s just me..
It's like Movie execs told the band "just make a song with Godzilla in the lyrics". And Zach said "Aight." Then they never listened to the result before throwing it on the soundtrack.
Lol seems accurate
I think that's pretty much how it went down. I believe they were contractually obligated to a soundtrack song.
Most of people wasn't and still isn't ready for Rage's lyrics. lol. I'm just glad you apreciate it my guy... we don't find this kind of bars anywhere. Plus their instrumental is so authentic...
Coke put a hit on labor leaders trying to organize in 3rd world countries. The base is killer in this song.
Also, the US federal government was surprised when they setup their first American embassy in Vietnam to find out that Coca Cola already beat them there by several years.
This is the best example of all RATM comments "explination of an odd Zach line, that has a really important msg. Also, this fucking song rocks for the following reason"
As good as RATM is, the deserve EVEN MORE credit than they already get! So F*****G good!
And relevant.........still.
They been screaming for decades trying to save our lives and people just keep saying "great music"
WHEW!! Zach dropped some heat in those bars today!!! I love how you broke this one down, because it was VERY heavy and deep. The one thing you missed I wanted to comment about was when Zach said "...Fourth reich cilture, Americana..." Well Hitler established the Third Reich during the Second World War, so Zach is saying the new war now that our leaders and corporations are waging on us is like a fourth reich...that is DEEP AND LIT AF!! Great reaction, my guy! Keep bringing the word to the streets!
It’s a double......
Yes! I been thinking about that line. Like thatq👍
Movie Execs : "Let's see if Rage Against The Machine can make a song for the Godzilla soundtrack"
RATM fans : 🤣😂😅😆
The line "Spielberg the nightmare works" - Spielberg's film company is called "Dreamworks"...
But yeah, it's all about distracting people from what's actually going on - Govt trying to get a bill through that'll make you poorer or weapons trade deals for example and they don't want it to be known and discussed publicly and have opposition to it? Here, have a summer blockbuster movie? Not working to distract them enough? Here, have a war...
The lines about "American eyes" to me is a double meaning - a play on "Americanize" so Hollywood can't make a movie about anything really without at least dropping in at least one dashing American to be a bad boy hero 99% of the time - and also insists on portraying Americans as hero's who will always find a way to save the day and that this is true American history or that "this is how it happened, honest..." and there's nothing else you need to know - using films to teach a history they want people to think is actual history, and as a form of psychological warfare by using films and the entertainment industry for their needs to keep us distracted.
And that line about "Godzilla pure motherfuckin filler" - the song is from the Godzilla OST, so not afraid to call shit out while using them (the film) as a vehicle to get their message out as much as possible while giving it a "fuck you" at the same time publicly ;)
Also Spielberg directed "Amistad", so definitely a dig on a Hollywood take of that part of history.
thanks, i didnt catch this good one
Agree with all this
What I love about your RATM reviews is that you really break down the lyrics. More than I've seen with other reactors. I can't wait until you do the same with Tool!
You’re the best reaction-video maker... you catch the most, you break down the most lines. You get it. You help me get some of the lines I’ve been missing for years. Keep it goin!
I appreciate that
Bro you might have the best Rage reactions on youtube! I get floored when I see people hearing and understanding Zach's bars of insight!!!!!
No doubt
As a lifelong Rage fan, thank you for absolutely nailing the lyrical experience. Subscribed. Keep it coming, brother.
Much appreciated! CHECK OUT THE other 20 reacts i have for ratm
IAMHE2K20 I’m already halfway through all of them lol. Looking forward to more!
@@ARASNshane I just recorded 2 new ones today to drop this week
Amistad is a Spielberg movie about a slave ship called La Amistad where the captives on board wrested control of the ship from their captors. It was released by DreamWorks (hence “nightmare works”).
These MIGHT be the strongest bars ever made!!! 💯
Most of the folks here are spot on with the lyrical content & meaning.
There are a couple of things to add.
The Amistad line is actually "Amistad was whip, the truth was feathered & tarred".
Straight up saying that movie was whitewashed to water down the true experiences.
The other about "Fourth Reich culture, Americana".
The others are right about part of the meaning, the other half of that is the nod to how many actual Nazi party scientists, officers, & numerous others were brought back here to the states to "help America" recover from the war. There were many here before the war, they had parades here on US soil before WW2. The footage is sickening.
I've got a lot of respect for you catching a lot of the meaning in these songs on your first time listening & seeing the lyrics.
I was obsessed with these guys when they came out, I had already been listening to a lot of Bad Religion (a very political punk band) before them.
I read every RATM interview in every magazine I could find. I ended up learning a lot about the state of the world at a pretty young age, I was in middle school when RATM debuted. Stay up man! ✊
And one more tip, watch the official clip of the song "Do The Evolution" by Pearl Jam. In addition to the lyrics the clip is precious, it has a powerful message like Rage Against The Machine.
Thanks for posting this, everything he was talking about then, can be related to today, it’s time to stand up, it’s up to all of us to unite together
This song was on the Godzilla 1998 soundtrack.
That was a surprisingly solid soundtrack album and a bit eclectic.
They wrote a song about the hypocrisy of Hollywood... For a major studio movie soundtrack... Rage are fucking legends in another level.
It's surprising that someone didn't spot the diss.
"Bulls" are economic optimists (.i.e. Bull up , Bear down.) If an economic sector is bullish, it means that there is a general sentiment that sector will be earning more than usual.
Still the best reactor for Rage!
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9:50 Regarding the Godzilla bar, this song was featured on the soundtrack for the 90's movie, "Godzilla".
Bro, thank you for your reactions. Been watcing RATM reactions all night - these bars go over all these other RUclipsrs' heads.
I appreciate that!
They basically shit on the movie Godzilla, as you pointed out when he says it’s “all filler”. This song was on the movie soundtrack for a remake of Godzilla that came out in the 90’s.
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7:45 It goes even deeper, it means that while the hospitals in front of capital private investment groups (in the US Healthcare is mostly privatized) still haven't extracted the maximum amount of money from their own people "not profit full" (yet)... the ones (private millionaires/billionaires and mega-corporations) playing with money at Financial Centers (Dow Jones for example but, despite specific to the US, happens all around the world) that works mostly like a casino, already have their pockets full of money, but somehow always "need"/want a little more.
Super great reaction man, I had fun watching, nice work!
Can't believe there's no comments haha. Great reaction man, thank you! Love your perspectives, keep speaking truth brother. No matter what. Peace : )
I’m sure the Amistad lyrics are slightly wrong. I’ve always thought it was “Amistad was a whip the truth feathered and tarred”
I’ve always thought it was a reference to the Amistad movie that came out not long before this track and how it didn’t accurately portray the events, likely sugaring over some events
Yes.
The lyric is "Amistad was a whip, the truth was feathered & tarred".
Greetings from Cuba man! I love your RATM reactions. I love Rage Against The Machine and trust me when I say that when I hear 'em so do my neighbors ;)
Thanks buddy
Spielberg's movie production company is called Dreamworks so that line is a flip on that.
You gotta remember... be kind, rewind 🤣
Another bar bussin reaction 😁🙌🔥🔥🔥💯
Really enjoying how you're breaking this down. Great video!
My favorite Rage song. Best part about it is they somehow slipped it onto the Godzilla soundtrack. I'm...not sure it got vetted very heavily by the studio.
All radio stations shunned from Rage after 9/11. Too "anti American".... The truth hurts.
Sony was their record label and also the company responsible for the Godzilla movie, they had Rage under contract to provide a song for the film. The contract didn't say the song had to be favourable to the movie though, so Rage basically said 'sure we'll give you a song, but you may not like it'.
I always interpreted the VCR line as you trade your history for something that is worthless or obsolete. VCR's were on the way out when this way released if I recall correctly.
Great stuff.
It's also a dig at the movie industry (Amistad was a Spielberg movie based on real events), and how they always seem to get it wrong, basically re-writing history since people would rather watch the movie in than read the book about something.
fyi The Coca Cola back in the veins of saigon reference and Rambo got a dope pair of Nikes on, has to do about Corporate America not caring about the war in Vietnam and its history. Rambo was a movie about a commando going back to Vietnam to rescue POW's from the war and the movie studio using that movie for product placement, namely Coca-Cola and Nikes. Selling product off of the emotional baggage of that war. Basically no shame for profit.
zack: “thin line between entertainment and war”
me: *stares at the avengers movies*
Zack was a General building his Army.
The best part... they made this song for the Godzilla soundtrack.
That there is some punk rock shit. Period.
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“Trade in your history for a VCR” there’s a saying that says: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. So, we trade in our history and what’s really going on for entertainment. While we’re distracted with entertainment, history is repeating itself.
It's also a dig at the previous line, as the Spielberg movie Amistad was criticized for white washing historical events. Basically, they're saying the movie industry is rewriting history by misrepresenting what really occurred, knowing that people would rather watch the movie about something that happened than read the history book about it.
The ironic thing is that this song appeared on the Godzilla soundtrack. I wonder if the executives even played the song prior 🤣🤣🤣
Wow! I never actually listened to the lyrics in HS in the late 90s, amazingly good
Quality brother, another great reaction
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Thanks for doing this review! I've always loved Rage, but it's really interesting to get a true Hip Hop perspective if Zack's lyrics. He really is one of the best ever. Good job as always!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Can always tell this shit makes you think. I'm all for it
“There be no shelter here” , truer words have not be spoken, once they get what they want.
It's so interesting that Zach was rapping about stuff like this, and what rap stars and pop stars nowadays do is sing about how much money and much stuff they own...
Run the jewels is speaking straight truth on RTJ4
And it’s now passed in to u, u now have to wake up ur generation keep raging and explaining, your reactions keep the spirit alive. Much ❤️
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I think about this song whenever I see someone wearing a wakanda forever shirt or the like.
Also alot of these comments talk about this song sneaking on to the Godzilla soundtrack. I've begun to think that Roland Emmerick was seeking out songs like this one.
Can u explain deeper the wakanda forever shirts?
And i also agree, seems hard that a song sneaks onto a sound track. They listen and pick songs
Another great breakdown
Asked to write a somg for the godzilla soundtrack. Like RATM fashion, they dissed the industry and got away with it! My top 5 Rage song
Check out settle for nothing off their first album
2020 NO SHELTER NOW FRONTLINE IS EVERYWHERE
If you know or not, you still live the nightmare.
Greetings from 3 years later!
Without a face my brother!
This song came out before the movie Amistad. There be no shelter here! Rage!
Amistad came out in '97, this song came out in '98.
10:20, zach finally overloaded his brain
LOL
George Carlin, you have to check it. You will be amazed, huw much of his speech you could analyze. I would love to see your reaction to it. You are amazing :)
I appreciate you're doing lyrics. Lyrics are essential with rage videos for sure. VCR is like blu-ray player. Or zip drive. lol. And yes sadly, the education deficiency is already apparent. Thankfully we have the internet now. You should look up some of the things he's talking about. He speaks a lot about the military industrial complex. The "thin line between entertainment and war" is basically pro military shows. GI joe, movies like rambo and commando. Navy seals movie, etc. They are all designed to build a hero image of the military.
Yeah... that's the reaction when you really listen to Rage!
Spielberg directed a movie called Amistad in 1997. It's about a slave ship in 1839. There are some really disturbing scenes about how the slaves are treated because they are literally people that were kidnapped from their homes while they slept. It's an eyeopener and I recommend people watch it.
The line's about how the Amistad movie is weaker than reality, like how a whip is weaker than being feathered and tarred
@@emPtysp4ce Movies will also be weaker than reality. For sure. I'm giving some context to that particular bar.
I love your reactions! All true! 1993 i was rooting for you to react lol.... zach will spit at me cuz I’d be on front...your educational feedback gave me a different voice
Nah man. The TRUTH is the feather
best Rage song, by far
like most of Rage’s music, STILL fucking relevant 30 fucking years later. Just keep staring
I always heard the last line as "Just stare, or live the nightmare!" Meaning there are people who just sit on their ass and stare and do jack shit. And there are people who get the fuck out there every day and live the nightmare that is America.
There you go now you're starting to finally get to the lyrics and dive deep into the meetings .
Darkness by rage is a must!
Another quality video
Glad you think so!
I'm loving all your RATM videos and thanks for focusing on the lyrics in your reactions. As a treat once you get through the catalog, you would enjoy watching the live show from Woodstock 99: ruclips.net/video/F9S-JVKw0mE/видео.html
Sidenote: they opened with no shelter
8:23, the moment the bars laid into your soul.......
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Had to watch this one again! lol
10:48 I mean i'm not even from the US and i dunno what they teach at US schools, but as an European i feel like even us (in most of Europe, often know more about the cultures that existed before we got to Africa, Asia and America, and what shitty things we did to the natives living there), than in US schools. And i find it really sad that often US Americans nowadays are still trying to deny or erase what should be teach and serve as an example of what not to repeat. A country that forgets it's failures and what it did wrong to itself and others around it, is often doomed to repeat those same actions in the future... and often they just involve death, destruction, separation exclusion. Learning about the good your country did is a good thing, but never forgetting what you did wrong in the past, is just as important! If it works for an individual life-experience, it should also work for entire countries.
This was on the Godzilla Soundtrack
Damn, I just notice some of the reaction videos of RATM doesn't know what RATM was really trying to say.
My brother you have to listen to darkness of greed. You will love the message
"Coca Cola was in the veins back in Saigon"... the marketing of the american dream was already so heavy that even back during that war, Coca Cola was "in the veins" of Americana. "Rambo too"... Americana has started developing a fantasy of Americans being great warriors of personal freedom... et cetera et cetera
Oh, and bro, enjoy never being able to see a shopping mall or television commercial in the same way ever again.
Please do Ghost of Tom Joad next. 🔥🔥🔥
Amazing cover
No shelter to me is about how we are all trapped by society.
If your confused about the "thin line between entertainment and war". Research the phrase "bread and circus"
Your hat is awesome. 🤘
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 lets go sickkkk reaction
Great song. Been my favourite band since the first album. Love the coke in the veins of saigon and rambo reference. It could mean a couple things, coca cola/corporations have invade vietnam and/or the vietnam war was drug driven as rumoured?? But hey, heres a distraction check out rambo! Hes even got a dope pair of nikes on! The thin line between entertainment/propaganda and war...
Coca Cola (causing health problems)...Rambo killing "bad guys".... we got dope pair of nikes on (child labor)... Zach is relentless
It’s also talking about the Herion we took from Vietnam.
Steven King is the horror novel(movie) specialist.
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I love RATM reactions.
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The black community needs to unite and decide which companies deserve their dollars (an app?). If nothing has been learned from the pandemic let's at least see the fragility that a business has to sudden changes in income.
La Amistad was a spanish ship ,,,,,in 1839 Mende tribesmen who was abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba
ASHES IN THE FALL
haha.. when i listened I was like.. shiiit im gonna have to explain VCR to people ahhaha .. yeah man, the kids don't know.
lol some people don't get it it sounds dumb to people who get it but there really are people who don't even know.. i keep it in mind while reacting i have kids 11 years and under ho dont even know what a DVD/ Blu-ray player is seems not that long ago to me we were using it, but they been solely stream era life. i showed my daughter a blu ray player i said what is this she said a computer
I think it’s:
Americanize
Americanize
View the world through American eyes
Nike comment is talking about Nike being produced in Vietnam (child labor)
if i could have anything i wanted for some reason, i would want to have a conversation with Zach De La Rocha.
He calls Americana fourth reich culture, he’s saying that American is the successor to Nazi germany (the third reich). The song is about how American culture justifies aggressive American action, for example when he’s taking about coca-cola being in Saigon and Rambo wearing Nike’s he’s talking about how American companies profited of the slaughter of Vietnamese freedom fighters.
Love the video. Was hoping you’d comment on the “fourth reich culture” line. That’s pretty huge!!!
What about it?
@@RedTopReactions he’s basically comparing us to the Germans during WWII because at that time they were known as the third reich
New millenium homes!!
And this Was 1996 barley any social media
Amistad was a slave ship. "Amistad" means friendship