Culture Club Reaction Karma Chameleon (I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!) | Empress Reacts

[@mrmagassi]

The Karma Chameleon in this song is Jon Moss (the drummer of the band) with whom Boy George was having an affair with. But Jon Moss was not fully committed to the relationship and would often "come and go" with the ladies. Great song and amazing hook!

[@alecffernandez5556]

Red, Gold and Green are the colors of the Rastafari flag. Boy George and the band were very inspired by Jamaican culture!

[@EmpressReacts]

I see that!

[@darnell49]

Boy George's vocals + the lyrics= Culture Club Classic ‼️ This is pure 80s magic ✨. Fun song even though it's about someone that can't be true to you or themselves.

[@EmpressReacts]

Definition of a fake persob

[@Lovejazz01]

“Thick slices of cheese” 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀😄😄😄😄yes indeed Empress!

[@todddepue681]

Idk about Mississippi in 1870, but in middle-of-nowhere Iowa where I was growing up in 1983, they used to play this song on the local (mostly farm report) radio station every morning about the time I was having my breakfast.
That says something about how big this song was!
My dad hated it! Meanwhile, i was quietly glad that he had no idea what Boy George looked like 😂

[@samyheath8103]

I remember him in an episode of The A-Team. I think he played himself

[@willfromyadkinville]

off one of the best pop albums ever! i will die on that hill!

[@RBS_]

...no need to, because I'm WITH ya! ....CLASSIC Album.....C-L-A-S-S-I-C......

[@trevorjames426]

I saw them in Australia a few weeks ago with Berlin. Boy George can’t really hit the notes he used to but it was still great. Terri Nunn on the other hand wow, she’s still got it!

[@markr.devereux3385]

One of the better hits from CULTURE CLUB. I always liked the video also.

[@graphiquejack]

My love of Culture Club preceded even my love of Madonna, who made it big about a year or so later. This song is a certified fiyah bop. Always will be. One of the biggest songs from the 80s. Bring on the cheese

[@Lovejazz01]

This was one of the hottest songs and definitely one if the hottest music videos on 80’s MTV! I think all of pop culture in the 80’s was changed and influenced by what was hot on MTV back then, and MTV gave exposure to bands like Culture Club that probably would not ordinarily be seen or heard in North America .

[@richardwalker9038]

Bruh boy George was almost as big Micheal javelins Madonna when I was a kid … him and George Micheal always had amazing vocals

[@WCD199317]

This song was labeled to be thier signature song and was the second single of thier second album ''Colours by Numbers''. This was thier fifth single to reaching the top 10 and was thier only n.1 single in US, spent 3 weeks at n.1 in US and also reaching n.1 in a lot of countrys. A huge pop/reggae and country song who reunited all the publics in 1984. This made this album thier best selling album to date and was a sold out at thier concerts during this period who the album came out during this era.

[@jorgedangelo3331]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@bwilliams463]

I first saw this vid at a Spencer's Gifts in an area shopping mall. It was the first time Mom had to...explain some things, to me. I just knew it was catchy as hell.

[@EmpressReacts]

😂😂😂love that this song was a teachable moment

[@TroyGrey]

This song makes me sooo nostalgic ❤ What’s not to love about the gorgeous Boy George ❤

[@teralmiles]

It blows my mind how huge this song was and how it’s known around the world and yet you’re hearing it for the first time. That in a way, as much as I’ve heard this song in the last 40 years, it was great to hear it this morning, to see your take on it. We should get someone to do a mix of the “Survival” vocal in with Madonna’s Survival. Niki and George remix. 😂

[@EmpressReacts]

😂😂😂I would love that

[@sxnico]

imagine all the huge songs from the 50's, 60's and 70's that we have all missed.

[@Zey-The-Mouse]

Great to hear you love this B-O-P! I've loved it since i was 5 years old, its happy, uplifting, bold and thank you for doing a reaction to Karma Chameleon, many regards, Ian & Zey :)

[@mikecaetano]

"Karma Chameleon" was a bigger hit for them than "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me". Definitely eighties cheese. The song reminds me of high school. Boy George probably would have passed as a "European Dandy" in Mississippi 1870.

[@EmpressReacts]

😂 interesting

[@royg9080]

Love this reaction Empress and so glad to see this one finally out of YT jail!! 😃. Have always loved Culture Club and this is one their biggest hits for sure!

[@gabrielmcdonnell8699]

This is your 6th reaction to Culture Club and I’m not mad. Keep ‘em coming, Patreons! If you need suggestions, here’s my two cents:
“That’s The Way (I’m Only Trying To Help You)” (feat Helen Terry)
“Mistake Number 3”
“It’s A Miracle”
“Colour By Numbers” (an actual song, not just the album title)
“I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”
“Move Away”
“Church of the Poison Mind” (feat Helen Terry)

[@RBS_]

...I SO agree! ..."Mistake..." NEEDS a reaction from Empress, just from the Video ALONE!

[@ashleyfrost8906]

The War Song!

[@xRahzel]

Came here because of your Culture Club reactions but staying because you sing so well haha :) Good job girl

[@EmpressReacts]

Thank you so much!!

[@CCTH2221-lp2zj]

LOL I remember when this came out DJ’s @NYC radio stations would send this out to “straight guys who keep getting lost riding through the Village”😛

[@michellelaguerre8760]

Empress your expressions are so adorable, you look like the little girl who is sneaking into her big siblings records, when they we’re not looking I know that look because I had the same look myself

[@EmpressReacts]

😂😂I love that!

[@josephprovencher6345]

Saw Culture Club when they first reunited back in 1998 with Howard Jones and the Human League as their opening acts and they were ALL amazing. Unfortunately my abusive boyfriend at the time was trying to ruin it for me til my boss at the time threatened to lay him out, and trust me she would have. One of my fave 80s songs and LIVING for ur reaction ❤

[@xanajak]

"Every day is like survival, you're my lover, not my rival" is one of the great lyrics. Tremendous song and video. Next Culture Club song you do should be Time (Clock of the Heart)

[@lordmaul3]

Little known fact. Culture Club was sued by a singer-songwriter named Jimmy Jones and his co-writer Otis Blackwell because of this song. Jones song was 60's R&B song named "Handy Man". They claimed Boy George’s “karma-karma-karma” bit sounded a whole lot like Jones’s “come-ah, come-ah, come-ah,” and the song swings along at a similar tempo. Jones and “Handy Man” co-writer Otis Blackwell sued Culture Club, and the group settled.

[@EmpressReacts]

interesting! now i want to hear this song

[@julianmulloy3772]

A good reaction empress to our English bands love it😂

[@DanielVargas-l4d]

Me encanta esta musica , y tu sonrisa es super amigable

[@DanCrowleyNYC]

Literally one of the first songs I remember loving as a toddler. I was barely 2 when this came out, but that melody was so catchy, it always stayed with me!

[@EmpressReacts]

😂😂I can imagine a kid in a car seat singing their heart out to the chorus

[@gregoryalt9366]

Empress, This song has stayed the same through the years... which is great ! However, you don't...... you keep getting better and better every week !! You are very, very pleasant on my eyes !!!

[@EmpressReacts]

Wow, thank you

[@johnashley327]

Huge song when it came out. MTV played it like 30 times a day.

[@Uvray]

Listen, it's not my kinda stuff. But I'll tell you a funny story. When Culture Club made their UK television debut we was like 13. And in the classroom at school this kid called Nicholas was late next day and we was all sitting there and the door swung open and he walked in and the first words out his mouth was "DID YOU SEE THAT CHICK ON TOP OF THE POPS LAST NIGHT? SHE WAS F----ING gorgeous!"
We all knew who he meant and the whole class almost in unison went: "IT'S A MAN!!!"
But yeah. Boy George really has a great voice.

[@eddie623]

In case I don't get to see you I want you and you'res to have a fantastic thanksgiving ❤️

[@yolandabrooksqueenofsevens]

This was my cut serious I was 13 when it came out❤

[@EmpressReacts]

🔥🔥🔥

[@lamartruth6601]

80s cheese...it was awesome

[@bridgettedenise]

I used to live boy george

[@dahliapatricia750]

you could react to karma chameleon live. at first I thought boy George is a girl and i search he was a boy, and i start listening culture club and i enjoy it

[@RBS_]

***SHOULD RBS EVEN BOTHER WITH CULTURE CLUB TRIVIA TIME!??*** ...'eh, why not, I don't want KARMA....(0:57).... ; )
- ...to ALL the Kids who were there during Culture Club's mania, please leave.....NOW, this tune was the 2nd single from their 1983 / 1984 Album, "Colour By Numbers"....this tune is about Boy's LONGTIME fiery romantic relationship with the SMOKIN' HOT Drummer in the band, Jon Moss....
- ...back then, Jon was wanted by EVERYONE, Men, Women, and he 'dabbled' ...a LOT.... this tune was Massiv-.... NO.... *TREMENDOUSLY MASSIVE!* ....#1, across the WORLD! ...Culture Club hit #1 Pop, Feb. 1984 (for 3 weeks) , and the Album sold BOATLOADS!
- ...Boy George became a cultural ICON for those Alternate, 'fluid' Youngsters who wanted to experiment with makeup, clothes....SE-XUALITY....he truly was a game-changer, who opened Doors for Sam Smith, Lady Gaga, Troye Sylvian, Adam Lambert, and MANY other who were aware of WHO 'they' are, and who they wanted to LOVE.....It's a VERY Important Song....and, BAND....

[@gabrielmcdonnell8699]

_troye sivan_

[@RBS_]

@@gabrielmcdonnell8699 ..it shows you how OLD I am! ...ha-HAA!

[@royg9080]

@@RBS_😂

[@bradgibson856]

Also, I'll tumble for you.

[@josephprovencher6345]

I went to join but there was no option past the $9.99 one and none said yoy could request a song. I want to request one I KNOW will bring a tear to your eye which is "Take Me To Church" by Hozier.

[@LOVE2BTHEONE]

@Empress Hey beautiful hope all is good so, I know you love duets so, I have a great one for you, check out Kenny Loggins - Love Will Follow (from Outside: From The Redwoods) featuring Shanice. I'm positive you're going to love it.

[@EmpressReacts]

Thanks!

[@RBS_]

...I loooooooove 'Love Will Follow"!! ...an actual Radio station called CD101.9 opened many years ago, and that was the FIRST Song they played....The Owner (of the station) said he came up with starting the station, BECAUSE of that tune!

[@LOVE2BTHEONE]

@@EmpressReacts Happy Thanksgiving 🦃