Its a fight between Ronald Reagan (President of USA) and Chernenko (Leader of the Soviet Union) in 1984 when this song came out. Its an anti-war song. But its 2023 and it does not look like things have changed much. Great song from a great band.
I was 10 when this song came out (which means I'm pushing 50 now). It was the height of the cold war. This song was an absolute monster hit in the UK - 9 weeks at No.1, the longest reigning No.1 of the whole mighty 80s. This video was too hot to handle at the time, and was banned as it depicts the leaders of the 2 superpowers (lookalikes of President Reagan and Chairman Chernenko of the USSR) duking it out in a sandpit instead of sending their soldiers to fight for them. It's basically about WWIII. It amazes me that this is not more well-remembered...
If you were old enough in the 80's, the symbolism in this video is hard to miss. It was the time of the cold war. The presidents of USA and Sovjetunion fighting. "When two tribes go to war A point is all that you can score (meaning: you can't win the war)".
When two tribes go to war...and fighting in the ring are most likely Soviet Union and Usa. Have to remember that when this song came out cold war was still a very real thing.
@@klm23.98 at the moment, yes. but you cannot say he didn't try to prevent this, as opposed to the us that has been pushing for a confrontational relationship since their darling jeltsin was replaced and the looting of the former soviet union was ended..
"When two tribes go to war A point is all that you can score".. talking about the cold war, in the seventies/eighties... something we're getting close to once more it seems. The two protagonists are the then Presidents of the USA, Reagan, and the USSR, Chernnko
@@dawatcherz Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko[a] (24 September 1911 - 10 March 1985)[2] was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He briefly led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death on 10 March 1985. The power plant you guys are thinking of was Chernobyl
@@dawatcherz I stand corrected, thank you. Now I remember. Got my “Cher”s mixed up. I think he was only in office for about a year though and died and Gorbachev took over.
@@Paladin70 Chernenko was Soviet leader from April 84 to March 85, during which time this song/video was released. Gorbachev then took over as leader. The Soviet Union had four different leaders during the Reagan era. The 'nuke plant' was Chernobyl.
There are 6 remixes of this song and were Annihilation, Carnage, We Don't Want To Die, Hibakusha, Cowboys & Indians and For The Victims of Ravishment. The song is about the Cold War, the 2 fighting in the ring are supposed to be Ronald Reagan USA and Konstantin Chernenko USSR. It focuses on the futility of MAD Mutually Assured Destruction and the underlying fear we all lived through. Some of the sampled voices are from the UKs Protect and Survive booklet and PSAs for if the Cold War suddenly got Hot. Voice of actor Patrick Allen "Mine Is The Last Voice You Will Ever Hear " at the end of the Carnage remix is so haunting. I'm afraid many people born after 1991 don't understand what the Cold War was and the living with the very good chance of Nuclear War and the aftermath.
this was back in the day of the Cold War between Russia and the USA, there’s also a bit of a social commentary on tabloid press and how Sex and Violence is entertainment
The wailing sound at the start is the nuclear air raid siren that was supposed to go off four minutes before a nuclear attack, it was also the same siren that they used in the UK in WWII. A sound of oncoming dread and terror.
If you react to Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood, the lyrics , well let's say, they're self explanatory , to the point where it was banned from playing on the radio, it was 1983 mind . 😁
just make sure you watch the correct music video, as in the one that was banned to playtime after 11pm or, in some places, never to be played on tv at all.
You're both kind of right. Relax was banned as a song, but Two Tribes was banned as a video. The controversy made them one of the bestselling acts of the decade in the Uk, ahaha!
@@BardOfAndromeda wikipedia for Relax: 'The first official music video for "Relax", directed by Bernard Rose and set in an S&M themed gay nightclub, featuring the bandmembers accosted by buff leathermen, a glamorous drag queen, and an obese admirer dressed up as a Roman emperor, played by actor John Dair, was allegedly banned by MTV and the BBC, prompting the recording of a second video, directed by Godley and Creme[26] in early 1984, featuring the group performing with the help of laser beams. However, after the second video was made the song was banned completely by the BBC, meaning that neither video was ever broadcast on any BBC music programmes. A live performance video of the song was directed by David Mallet, making the rounds at MTV. Another MTV video of the studio version includes footage from the Brian De Palma film Body Double. Body Double, a popular 1984 erotic thriller film, contains a film within a film sequence in which Frankie Goes to Hollywood performs Relax on the set of a porn film.[27] '
I know it's not what was intended, but Britt's take is very relevant to now.. Back then, the clashing ideologies of politicians and their voters (er, in some cases) drove much of the old superpower animosity. Now it is arms dealers and tycoons of the military industrial complex driven by psychopathic lusts. Greed is just one, but it's shared by so many in government that they can simply bribe someone like Biden, or financially reward someone slightly less brazen like Lyndsey Graham in ways that are illegal but practically undetectable. Thus, with a bung of just a few million, 'big arma' can stoke the always simmering fire of legislative warmongering and reap billions in contracts. As bad as as illegal corruption or legal lobbying and revolving doors between public office and private board membership are, and as much as I think they are the underlying reason why Britt misheard the above lyric as "When 2 tribes go to war, money's all that you can score", there's a group that is even worse than war profiteers, which is the subject of the rest of this post and is a somewhat off-topic tangential gripe! The media is so spiritually rotten at this point that war propaganda has become like holy scripture to them. Meanwhile, war profiteering is now inherently good since it reassures those twisted old fruits that war is in good shape, a healthy force in the world still, full of beans and the promise of robust continuity. Such confidence is well-founded given the incredible talent of mainstream journalists - not least their ability to turn a blind eye to the collapse of their viewers and readers. MSM today has about as much hope of peddling mass propaganda as a gender-affirming surgery victim does of spreading venereal disease. They're impotent, figuratively speaking, and perhaps literally too if their sour and joyless faces are any indication. Most of them never venture into places where the real public interact, preferring to socialise and isolate in their Beltway bubble or among a dinner set like themselves. If they did go out and try to gauge the wider public's attitudes, they'd start to realise that their sabre-rattling is a major turn-off in a period where people in the English-speaking countries have for two decades been able to witness the plight of so many young men who are missing limbs or organs or have had their nerves irrevocably scrambled by unnecessary wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and so on which were also sold to us with a counterfeit bill of sale. MSM lost a chunk of the audience due to TDS, but they have haemorrhaged even more viewers in the last four years over disingenuous reporting on Russia and the war in Ukraine and America's own inexcusable part in it all, while the penchant of left-wing people to support the Palestinian cause and scorn the Israelis', which they have responded to with more impotence, has also affected their ratings. Is it any wonder that the constant and unpleasant beating of plastic war drums by MSM has prompted progressives and moderate Democrats alike to turn a deaf ear on their former go-to news outlets? They won't be back.
Its Konstantin Chernenko V Ronald Reagan the leaders of the USSR and the US at the time. The video was created by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme who were ex members of the 70s art rock band 10CC. Check out some of their work especially ‘I’m not in Love’ which was revolutionary in pre digital sound production.
I always took it as a reference to the quote attributed to Einstein - "I don't know which weapons will be used in WW3 but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
This is completely heartbreaking. I was not yet born in the 1930s, so youth is no excuse, but if I see a video with Chamberlain, Churchill, DeGaule, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and so on, I would know and recognized them. Sad, sad, sad
This was such a standout song at the time. I still remember listening to the beginning for the first time. The Two Tribes were the USA and USSR. Pres Ronald Reagan vs Chairman Konstantin Chernenko, setting a very bad example.
I can't help but think this music was from a time when artists and culture actually responded to stuff, instead of churning out fluff like I feel we have today.
"When two tribes go to war, one is all that two can score." Denouncing the futility of the Cold War in the 1980s between the United States (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The respective presidents of the two countries are fighting in the ring - surprised you didn't recognise Ronald Reagan. Fast forward to 2023 and it seems we have learnt nothing. 😞 And yes, you should totally react to The Power of Love also by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
The war between America and russia, the nuclear war a point is all you score, meaning you only have one shot and borh sides are dead. A very heavy song with a deadly meaning.
Britt: You'll be telling us that you've never heard of Frankie next!! Where you been hiding, girl? "Welcome To The Pleasure Dome" ruclips.net/video/JvIBixw9-gg/видео.html&pp=iAQB
When two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score, score no more, score no more. It's USA and Russia constantly attacking each other in front of the world
Okay... HOLY CRAP!!! I'm a huge FGTH fan, been digging these guys since back in the '80s when I first heard "WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME" ruclips.net/video/WzOGLKTmeuY/видео.html. Been out of town a few days, just got home today and was scrolling through all the reactions I've missed and was musing along, wondering if we'd ever see FGTH's Pleasure Dome video on here. I scrolled down to the next line and look what I found! Sure, not a total psychic event because it wasn't the exact song, but hey -- it's still Frankie! I still have the album on vinyl that I bought back in '85, and no, it's not for sale. ;) Thanks, Britt!
Money is the only score? Seriously, how did you hear that? FGTH are supposed to be getting back together for the Eurovision song on the 13th of May.. USA and USSR are the two tribes. Nuclear decimation was what we had to worry about in the 80's, so making light of it with pop videos seemed the best way of accepting our fate. If we ever got "the 3 minute warning", I personally was going to leave the family home, walk across the road and sit in the middle of the school field then wait for the big flash bang, GAME OVER!!!!!!
Britt, I would recommend you a crash-lesson about world history of the last 150 years. It could help to understand the incidents that finally led to the decades long cold war, at which this video was made. It‘s the same thing that continues until today in the conflict between Russia and the Ucraine which in fact is a war between NATO and Russia or better said between the USA and the countries which do not belong to the western empire.
"When two tribes go to war, one is all that you can score." In other words if two nuclear armed countries start, the only result possible is everyone loses. This was late '80's, the two "combatants" here are Reagan & Yeltsin. There was genuine fear that the world was on the brink of nuclear war. You're correct about the money (represented here in people betting on the fight) because wars have nearly always been fought for profit. Some may have started over different ideological views (WW2 was started over the West rejecting fascism) but many of the world's "developed" nations economies now depend on the war machine to keep the cash flowing.
@@stefanjohansson-cw1ro You’re a month late informing this guy too dickhead. I’m sure he was over it long before you and your overwhelming brilliance came on the scene.
This song came out in the 80s when I was a teenager. We didn’t have active school shooting drills we had nuclear war drills, which were absolutely ridiculous because let’s face it if there’s a nuclear war getting under our desk wasn’t gonna do a damn thing! But yes, the cold war always had us fearing actual nuclear war. the two figures are President Ronald Reagan and Russian president Gorbachev.
It's joked about a lot, but a surprising percentage of people survived the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The point of hiding under the desks was to provide shelter from debris rather than the blast itself. In the UK the UK we don't have active shooter drills and we didn't have nuclear war drills either. Despite the fact that most of the UK population would have been in the blast area of a likely nuclear target.
I'm slightly concerned about how many people have to explain the song to this lady , not to mention the meaning behind it...sure, as a YT person you can say : I don't get this song ya'll... but that's....just sad, it's not about this song , it's the history that made this song possible.... ya'lll
The two fighters in the ring are ment to be Leonard brushniv and Ronold Ragen this song came out in the eightys the most dangerous time the world had ever seen Russia and America were moments away from a war . I remember getting a two hour then one hour standby sitting on an open plane at 0300 wondering if I would see the sun rise at 0400 or mushroom clouds and yes it was that close by 0900 stand down came and at 1000 we were back at camp at 1200 we were sitting in a pub in our local city and watching the people walking around who never knew how close thay came to being made glass that's what happens when a big one goes off everything is turned to its basic heat water matter when it's cools down all you will find in an impact area is glass and the city I was sitting in was a target for at least four warheads the city and its surrounding area
@@stefanjohansson-cw1ro Hey, look who it is, Stefan the supertroll, a month late again!! What would we do without the little Tinkerbell dipping into every conversation, even though he’s never on time, bless his little heart ❤️.
This was a club BANGER, but not this ridiculously fast version. The extended club version is what you want to check out. Not these video versions. We partied our asses off to a way more smooth version than what you are reacting to. House Music classic.
Its a fight between Ronald Reagan (President of USA) and Chernenko (Leader of the Soviet Union) in 1984 when this song came out. Its an anti-war song. But its 2023 and it does not look like things have changed much. Great song from a great band.
Well, it was played in a recent South Park episode ruclips.net/video/-O_rByF3ZY8/видео.html
You are so right, and honestly, it will never be, never ever, it would be nice if ever ... wishfull thinking
I was 10 when this song came out (which means I'm pushing 50 now). It was the height of the cold war. This song was an absolute monster hit in the UK - 9 weeks at No.1, the longest reigning No.1 of the whole mighty 80s.
This video was too hot to handle at the time, and was banned as it depicts the leaders of the 2 superpowers (lookalikes of President Reagan and Chairman Chernenko of the USSR) duking it out in a sandpit instead of sending their soldiers to fight for them. It's basically about WWIII.
It amazes me that this is not more well-remembered...
Olivia neeton johns physical was 1 of the decade consecutive weeks
If you were old enough in the 80's, the symbolism in this video is hard to miss. It was the time of the cold war. The presidents of USA and Sovjetunion fighting. "When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score (meaning: you can't win the war)".
When two tribes go to war...and fighting in the ring are most likely Soviet Union and Usa. Have to remember that when this song came out cold war was still a very real thing.
the cold war never ended as far as the us is concerned
@dawatcherz, and as far as Mr. Putin is concerned also.
@@klm23.98 at the moment, yes.
but you cannot say he didn't try to prevent this, as opposed to the us that has been pushing for a confrontational relationship since their darling jeltsin was replaced and the looting of the former soviet union was ended..
Americas nemesis USSR the viscous circle caused by the England.
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The Song is about the "Cold War".
So the two Tribes are the USA and the other is the CCCP.
Hands down my favourite Bassline in any track of the 80's! That Bassline is soooo thick lol!
I saw Trevor Horn play this at a gig in Detroit a few months ago. I’d forgotten that he produced Frankie. He is still a hell of a bassist.
"When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score".. talking about the cold war, in the seventies/eighties... something we're getting close to once more it seems. The two protagonists are the then Presidents of the USA, Reagan, and the USSR, Chernnko
Chernenko was the nuke plant that melted down. Gorbachev was the Soviet leader during the Reagan era.
@@Paladin70 chernenko was the president of the communist party in the soviet union, chernobyl is the nuclear plant that melted down.
@@dawatcherz Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko[a] (24 September 1911 - 10 March 1985)[2] was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He briefly led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death on 10 March 1985. The power plant you guys are thinking of was Chernobyl
(Gorbachev came after Chernenko)
@@dawatcherz I stand corrected, thank you. Now I remember. Got my “Cher”s mixed up. I think he was only in office for about a year though and died and Gorbachev took over.
It’s absolutely a Cold War video. Reagan and Chernenko are the combatants.
Chernenko was the nuke plant that melted down. Gorbachev was the Soviet leader during the Reagan era.
@@Paladin70 Chernenko was Soviet leader from April 84 to March 85, during which time this song/video was released. Gorbachev then took over as leader. The Soviet Union had four different leaders during the Reagan era. The 'nuke plant' was Chernobyl.
Almost 40 years old, this song is even more actual than any other song! So sad the people of the world have learned nothing!
There are 6 remixes of this song and were Annihilation, Carnage, We Don't Want To Die, Hibakusha, Cowboys & Indians and For The Victims of Ravishment.
The song is about the Cold War, the 2 fighting in the ring are supposed to be Ronald Reagan USA and Konstantin Chernenko USSR.
It focuses on the futility of MAD Mutually Assured Destruction and the underlying fear we all lived through. Some of the sampled voices are from the UKs Protect and Survive booklet and PSAs for if the Cold War suddenly got Hot.
Voice of actor Patrick Allen "Mine Is The Last Voice You Will Ever Hear " at the end of the Carnage remix is so haunting.
I'm afraid many people born after 1991 don't understand what the Cold War was and the living with the very good chance of Nuclear War and the aftermath.
this was back in the day of the Cold War between Russia and the USA, there’s also a bit of a social commentary on tabloid press and how Sex and Violence is entertainment
In the UK, They used this Song for an Advert for McDonalds vs Burger King 😂 It's True ❗️
The wailing sound at the start is the nuclear air raid siren that was supposed to go off four minutes before a nuclear attack, it was also the same siren that they used in the UK in WWII. A sound of oncoming dread and terror.
If you react to Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood, the lyrics , well let's say, they're self explanatory , to the point where it was banned from playing on the radio, it was 1983 mind . 😁
just make sure you watch the correct music video, as in the one that was banned to playtime after 11pm or, in some places, never to be played on tv at all.
That was Relax not Hollywood
Relax defo
You're both kind of right. Relax was banned as a song, but Two Tribes was banned as a video. The controversy made them one of the bestselling acts of the decade in the Uk, ahaha!
@@BardOfAndromeda wikipedia for Relax:
'The first official music video for "Relax", directed by Bernard Rose and set in an S&M themed gay nightclub, featuring the bandmembers accosted by buff leathermen, a glamorous drag queen, and an obese admirer dressed up as a Roman emperor, played by actor John Dair, was allegedly banned by MTV and the BBC, prompting the recording of a second video, directed by Godley and Creme[26] in early 1984, featuring the group performing with the help of laser beams. However, after the second video was made the song was banned completely by the BBC, meaning that neither video was ever broadcast on any BBC music programmes.
A live performance video of the song was directed by David Mallet, making the rounds at MTV.
Another MTV video of the studio version includes footage from the Brian De Palma film Body Double. Body Double, a popular 1984 erotic thriller film, contains a film within a film sequence in which Frankie Goes to Hollywood performs Relax on the set of a porn film.[27] '
Now watch the video to Frankie’s first hit, ‘Relax’!
There are also references to Mad Max 2, where "two great warrior tribes went to war" and guzzolene (black gas) is a key factor.
I know it's not what was intended, but Britt's take is very relevant to now.. Back then, the clashing ideologies of politicians and their voters (er, in some cases) drove much of the old superpower animosity. Now it is arms dealers and tycoons of the military industrial complex driven by psychopathic lusts. Greed is just one, but it's shared by so many in government that they can simply bribe someone like Biden, or financially reward someone slightly less brazen like Lyndsey Graham in ways that are illegal but practically undetectable. Thus, with a bung of just a few million, 'big arma' can stoke the always simmering fire of legislative warmongering and reap billions in contracts.
As bad as as illegal corruption or legal lobbying and revolving doors between public office and private board membership are, and as much as I think they are the underlying reason why Britt misheard the above lyric as "When 2 tribes go to war, money's all that you can score", there's a group that is even worse than war profiteers, which is the subject of the rest of this post and is a somewhat off-topic tangential gripe!
The media is so spiritually rotten at this point that war propaganda has become like holy scripture to them. Meanwhile, war profiteering is now inherently good since it reassures those twisted old fruits that war is in good shape, a healthy force in the world still, full of beans and the promise of robust continuity. Such confidence is well-founded given the incredible talent of mainstream journalists - not least their ability to turn a blind eye to the collapse of their viewers and readers. MSM today has about as much hope of peddling mass propaganda as a gender-affirming surgery victim does of spreading venereal disease. They're impotent, figuratively speaking, and perhaps literally too if their sour and joyless faces are any indication. Most of them never venture into places where the real public interact, preferring to socialise and isolate in their Beltway bubble or among a dinner set like themselves. If they did go out and try to gauge the wider public's attitudes, they'd start to realise that their sabre-rattling is a major turn-off in a period where people in the English-speaking countries have for two decades been able to witness the plight of so many young men who are missing limbs or organs or have had their nerves irrevocably scrambled by unnecessary wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and so on which were also sold to us with a counterfeit bill of sale. MSM lost a chunk of the audience due to TDS, but they have haemorrhaged even more viewers in the last four years over disingenuous reporting on Russia and the war in Ukraine and America's own inexcusable part in it all, while the penchant of left-wing people to support the Palestinian cause and scorn the Israelis', which they have responded to with more impotence, has also affected their ratings.
Is it any wonder that the constant and unpleasant beating of plastic war drums by MSM has prompted progressives and moderate Democrats alike to turn a deaf ear on their former go-to news outlets?
They won't be back.
@BritReacts have a listen to one of their other songs THE POWER OF LOVE totally different, and beautiful.
Peace and Love ❤️🙏🙏❤️
At the beginning of the video it’s the uk emergency broadcast we were in fear of the Russians bombing us
Its Konstantin Chernenko V Ronald Reagan the leaders of the USSR and the US at the time. The video was created by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme who were ex members of the 70s art rock band 10CC. Check out some of their work especially ‘I’m not in Love’ which was revolutionary in pre digital sound production.
The best anti-war song I've ever heard in my life 😊 Two Tribes (1984) from Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Great song...even more relevant today...
I always took it as a reference to the quote attributed to Einstein - "I don't know which weapons will be used in WW3 but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
"When two tribes go to war a point is all that you can score, working for the black gas."
This is completely heartbreaking. I was not yet born in the 1930s, so youth is no excuse, but if I see a video with Chamberlain, Churchill, DeGaule, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and so on, I would know and recognized them. Sad, sad, sad
The Nigerians in the video are really attacking people it was not staged
1:26 when two tribes go to war a point is all that you can score.
This was such a standout song at the time. I still remember listening to the beginning for the first time.
The Two Tribes were the USA and USSR. Pres Ronald Reagan vs Chairman Konstantin Chernenko, setting a very bad example.
I recommend to react their other song, The Power of love. It's bit different than this one.
The driving rhythm created by the producer Trevor Horn .
-“when two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score.”
I can't help but think this music was from a time when artists and culture actually responded to stuff, instead of churning out fluff like I feel we have today.
I was high school when this song was hitting. Simpler times and house parties. Gen X baby!!!
Nice !
Thanks!
great song and video back in the day.
"When two tribes go to war, one is all that two can score." Denouncing the futility of the Cold War in the 1980s between the United States (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The respective presidents of the two countries are fighting in the ring - surprised you didn't recognise Ronald Reagan. Fast forward to 2023 and it seems we have learnt nothing. 😞 And yes, you should totally react to The Power of Love also by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
It's about war, atomic!
The war between America and russia, the nuclear war a point is all you score, meaning you only have one shot and borh sides are dead. A very heavy song with a deadly meaning.
Britt: You'll be telling us that you've never heard of Frankie next!! Where you been hiding, girl?
"Welcome To The Pleasure Dome" ruclips.net/video/JvIBixw9-gg/видео.html&pp=iAQB
Cold war baby.
When two tribes go to war a point is all you can score (the game "nuclear war" ends fast)
The black gas is obviously oil.
CLASSIC 80's Track - You Do Know You've Open a Major Can of 80's Music 😜👍
britt need to react to relax from frankie goes to hollywood that,ll open your eyes .
Regan vs Gorbachev
its anti war.
the business men are Reagan and Brezhnev.
Geo-politically, this is a really big deal.
This is pre-cool war
Great Song
When two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score, score no more, score no more. It's USA and Russia constantly attacking each other in front of the world
Okay... HOLY CRAP!!! I'm a huge FGTH fan, been digging these guys since back in the '80s when I first heard "WELCOME TO THE PLEASURE DOME" ruclips.net/video/WzOGLKTmeuY/видео.html. Been out of town a few days, just got home today and was scrolling through all the reactions I've missed and was musing along, wondering if we'd ever see FGTH's Pleasure Dome video on here. I scrolled down to the next line and look what I found! Sure, not a total psychic event because it wasn't the exact song, but hey -- it's still Frankie! I still have the album on vinyl that I bought back in '85, and no, it's not for sale. ;) Thanks, Britt!
Money is the only score? Seriously, how did you hear that?
FGTH are supposed to be getting back together for the Eurovision song on the 13th of May..
USA and USSR are the two tribes. Nuclear decimation was what we had to worry about in the 80's, so making light of it with pop videos seemed the best way of accepting our fate. If we ever got "the 3 minute warning", I personally was going to leave the family home, walk across the road and sit in the middle of the school field then wait for the big flash bang, GAME OVER!!!!!!
Britt, I would recommend you a crash-lesson about world history of the last 150 years. It could help to understand the incidents that finally led to the decades long cold war, at which this video was made. It‘s the same thing that continues until today in the conflict between Russia and the Ucraine which in fact is a war between NATO and Russia or better said between the USA and the countries which do not belong to the western empire.
❤
"When two tribes go to war, one is all that you can score."
In other words if two nuclear armed countries start, the only result possible is everyone loses.
This was late '80's, the two "combatants" here are Reagan & Yeltsin. There was genuine fear that the world was on the brink of nuclear war. You're correct about the money (represented here in people betting on the fight) because wars have nearly always been fought for profit. Some may have started over different ideological views (WW2 was started over the West rejecting fascism) but many of the world's "developed" nations economies now depend on the war machine to keep the cash flowing.
Wrong. Reagan and Chernenko.
@@stefanjohansson-cw1ro
You’re a month late informing this guy too dickhead. I’m sure he was over it long before you and your overwhelming brilliance came on the scene.
From WW1 on the US got a lot of money selling weapons.
This song came out in the 80s when I was a teenager. We didn’t have active school shooting drills we had nuclear war drills, which were absolutely ridiculous because let’s face it if there’s a nuclear war getting under our desk wasn’t gonna do a damn thing! But yes, the cold war always had us fearing actual nuclear war. the two figures are President Ronald Reagan and Russian president Gorbachev.
It's joked about a lot, but a surprising percentage of people survived the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The point of hiding under the desks was to provide shelter from debris rather than the blast itself.
In the UK the UK we don't have active shooter drills and we didn't have nuclear war drills either. Despite the fact that most of the UK population would have been in the blast area of a likely nuclear target.
The tribes are US and Russia..
I'm slightly concerned about how many people have to explain the song to this lady , not to mention the meaning behind it...sure, as a YT person you can say : I don't get this song ya'll... but that's....just sad, it's not about this song , it's the history that made this song possible.... ya'lll
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So sad sad sad you can't even recognise one of your own presidents 😂
The two fighters in the ring are ment to be Leonard brushniv and Ronold Ragen this song came out in the eightys the most dangerous time the world had ever seen Russia and America were moments away from a war . I remember getting a two hour then one hour standby sitting on an open plane at 0300 wondering if I would see the sun rise at 0400 or mushroom clouds and yes it was that close by 0900 stand down came and at 1000 we were back at camp at 1200 we were sitting in a pub in our local city and watching the people walking around who never knew how close thay came to being made glass that's what happens when a big one goes off everything is turned to its basic heat water matter when it's cools down all you will find in an impact area is glass and the city I was sitting in was a target for at least four warheads the city and its surrounding area
Do I have to correct everyone in this thread? It´s Reagan and Chernenko.
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Hey, look who it is, Stefan the supertroll, a month late again!! What would we do without the little Tinkerbell dipping into every conversation, even though he’s never on time, bless his little heart ❤️.
Britt you are very beautiful looking but how can you not know one of the fighters is meant to be Ronald Reagan
nuclear war
This was a club BANGER, but not this ridiculously fast version. The extended club version is what you want to check out. Not these video versions. We partied our asses off to a way more smooth version than what you are reacting to. House Music classic.
The american president anf his Russian opposite.
Just pull up the lyrics like all the other reaction channels do. That way your are not trying to 'guess' what is being said.
Can’t see it
You too young to remember Reagan and Chernenko.