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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2009
  • Music video by Flobots performing Handlebars. RUclips view counts pre-VEVO: 18,313,639. (C) 2008 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
    #Flobots #Handlebars #Vevo

Комментарии • 72 тыс.

  • @peterlynchchannel
    @peterlynchchannel 3 года назад +5884

    What a powerful message about bicycle safety. I can't stop listening to this song.

    • @beverlyn72
      @beverlyn72 3 года назад +78

      oh. my. god. yeah, I needed this. This is gonna give me a good giggle all day, for sure. :)

    • @skillfulskillz2217
      @skillfulskillz2217 3 года назад +11

      Lol I'll always Ride with handle bars BTW what's with this and the Logan Paul song of the same name

    • @matto4897
      @matto4897 3 года назад +24

      Have you ever taken the handlebars off your bicycle? It's not safe at all

    • @dylanklopotic2439
      @dylanklopotic2439 3 года назад +10

      @@skillfulskillz2217 it's an analogy

    • @skillfulskillz2217
      @skillfulskillz2217 3 года назад +5

      @@dylanklopotic2439 what's an analogy The part about always riding with handlebars or the Jake Paul song

  • @RobertoBlake
    @RobertoBlake 3 года назад +6459

    Hits different today...

    • @evanhowell9237
      @evanhowell9237 3 года назад +18

      Ongg

    • @evanshatter7544
      @evanshatter7544 3 года назад +195

      Dude as the last verse started to get louder I started getting chills. Scary how the meaning of songs can change over time to you.

    • @sterlingarcher2653
      @sterlingarcher2653 3 года назад +50

      In which way?? It’s still the same song. Nothing changed.

    • @fishtacos2320
      @fishtacos2320 3 года назад +32

      no joke. its a bit surreal.

    • @fishtacos2320
      @fishtacos2320 3 года назад +161

      @@sterlingarcher2653 very much of the last half of the song is eerily similar to what is happening today. Like almost word for word, whereas when the song was written, it was about past events that could easily happen again.

  • @Piizzachuu
    @Piizzachuu 9 месяцев назад +1263

    It’s not that this song was ahead of it’s time. It’s more that it’s timeless. If you sit back to think about it.. things have always been this way.

    • @Ennalame
      @Ennalame 9 месяцев назад +43

      I wouldn’t even say now more than ever. War is just as bad as war has always been. The difference is that this is the first time we don’t have to be there to witness it. This is the first time it’s live on social media. This is the first time we’re super aware people may have friends and family somewhere in danger. It’s not worse, it just hits harder because we’re learning to care more.

    • @jonatanlopez9999
      @jonatanlopez9999 9 месяцев назад +1

      Both good point of views. 👌 But let's smoke 420 because their no freedom y y you ask because human society thought they traded for sercurity now we being followed by the strings from the system who wouldn't lose their mind IN when being controlled

    • @thedog5k
      @thedog5k 9 месяцев назад +5

      You think now is the worst?

    • @Piizzachuu
      @Piizzachuu 9 месяцев назад +20

      @@thedog5k worse when it comes to privacy and the government being all up everyone’s business. With the advancements technology has made throughout the years wtf even is privacy anymore anyways...

    • @dailysuccessmachine
      @dailysuccessmachine 8 месяцев назад +12

      The song is more inspirational and motivational than it is depressing. I take it as seeing human potential, even a single human, more so collectively. It makes me get off my butt and work 💪

  • @TH3666SN1P3R
    @TH3666SN1P3R 8 месяцев назад +406

    Hearing this song so many years later made me realize just how unsettling it was, going from a simple and innocent premise to ending the world is crazy

    • @Pablowme
      @Pablowme 6 месяцев назад +4

      Yea it’s all in his dark twisted mind

    • @vonjoyce1888
      @vonjoyce1888 6 месяцев назад +11

      It's the same power being used: human intelligence and desire. I did it bc I wanted to...😊

    • @DJMetzler337
      @DJMetzler337 5 месяцев назад +18

      The truth is stranger than fiction. We are fucking living this song.

    • @sglasssssss
      @sglasssssss 2 месяца назад +6

      It's called a metaphor for the Hubris of humanity

    • @redmuskratt
      @redmuskratt Месяц назад

      It's unfortunate how well this song aged... =/

  • @kunomuller7423
    @kunomuller7423 5 лет назад +2005

    That went from 1 to 1984 quickly....

  • @dylanlatta2957
    @dylanlatta2957 4 года назад +2399

    Somethings telling me that 99% of people who still listen to this song seem to just pop in their head for no reason

    • @bean_soup2.0
      @bean_soup2.0 4 года назад +28

      Dylan Latta I didn’t know the song existed until it popped up in my head

    • @LAYLAMARIE_
      @LAYLAMARIE_ 4 года назад +8

      Ummm yes this happened

    • @LAYLAMARIE_
      @LAYLAMARIE_ 4 года назад +4

      Wtf

    • @kira-om2mw
      @kira-om2mw 4 года назад +4

      @@LAYLAMARIE_ bro same

    • @evelyng117
      @evelyng117 4 года назад +6

      This makes more sense. Funny it popped in my head too

  • @leomarinho5008
    @leomarinho5008 3 месяца назад +586

    I was searching 14 fucking years for this song, and finaly my quest is over, i can rest now

    • @randomviewer3899
      @randomviewer3899 3 месяца назад +23

      Congrats bro

    • @allenbailey73
      @allenbailey73 3 месяца назад +29

      damn we old asf now lol

    • @Northstar8765
      @Northstar8765 2 месяца назад +16

      Rest easy brother. Its over now.

    • @Buhbogo
      @Buhbogo 2 месяца назад +17

      I only searched for 11 years I heard it once when I was four and never heard it again till a few months ago

    • @mattresbert
      @mattresbert 2 месяца назад +3

      Good to meet you ❤

  • @willryan7968
    @willryan7968 9 месяцев назад +529

    Look at all of us coming back to listen to the song that we are currently living through...

    • @roseclimbpaintcont
      @roseclimbpaintcont 6 месяцев назад +3

      I loved this song while stressed and depressed in 2014 through 2016 so when it all hapoened I was like oh... mygawd

    • @Barteolomeus
      @Barteolomeus 5 месяцев назад +1

      true

    • @charliehaliv7097
      @charliehaliv7097 5 месяцев назад

      skibbdy?@@roseclimbpaintcont

    • @dianamiller3307
      @dianamiller3307 5 месяцев назад +7

      Listening and crying and listening and wondering when we stop this..

    • @thomasdeschenes5634
      @thomasdeschenes5634 5 месяцев назад +4

      was thnking the same thing

  • @g_way
    @g_way 7 лет назад +3084

    This is the definition of "that escalated quickly."

    • @bigman8293
      @bigman8293 7 лет назад +93

      Two guys riding bikes.
      In the span of two minutes, world domination.

    • @g_way
      @g_way 7 лет назад +3

      Three Halves Yep, lol.

    • @eggdog778
      @eggdog778 7 лет назад +4

      Evie Doodleberry wait wait wait...TEMMIE?+

    • @ilasley2002
      @ilasley2002 7 лет назад +2

      nice pic and name

    • @scottharbin1868
      @scottharbin1868 7 лет назад +3

      Evie Doodleberry THATS WHAT I SAY EVERY WHEN I HEAR THIS

  • @Hypno_Llama
    @Hypno_Llama 3 года назад +919

    The escalation in this song is legit.
    Like innocence to pure evil.

    • @d4nt3sinph3rn0
      @d4nt3sinph3rn0 3 года назад +2

      If you like that, you'll like the She Sells Sea Shells rap ruclips.net/video/-W9zpUKfyCU/видео.html

    • @thegodpill9696
      @thegodpill9696 3 года назад +24

      It's not pure evil. It's a warning. We are here to save the world, but if you are intent on burning it, will make sure you burn first.

    • @leadlobotomy
      @leadlobotomy 3 года назад +9

      Godamn it we're in the apocalypse, and have been for a minute. The old doctrine of the "Right of Conquest" reigns supreme. There is no force which exists that can oppose what is occurring. As the Bible says "who can make war with the beast?" . So the world is dominated, we will be guided to hell, and if you have any sense you will escape before you're trapped in hell.

    • @thegodpill9696
      @thegodpill9696 3 года назад +2

      @@leadlobotomy I'm Jesus child, and I will save you

    • @davegrohl817
      @davegrohl817 3 года назад +2

      @@leadlobotomy Only unbelievers say that. But the book is written and what was said was said. Therefore it is, so we know who wins too.

  • @cpkvidz6096
    @cpkvidz6096 8 месяцев назад +336

    Did this song just randomly come into everybody else’s minds aswell

    • @Festivekiller
      @Festivekiller 8 месяцев назад

      Hassan’s critic video had this playing Hasan such an idiot lmao

    • @akhiem6
      @akhiem6 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Festivekiller Which video? There's so many these days 😅

    • @MagicCookieGaming
      @MagicCookieGaming 5 месяцев назад

      Literally

    • @dianamiller3307
      @dianamiller3307 5 месяцев назад

      Here.

    • @bradoakwood
      @bradoakwood 5 месяцев назад

      Yep! Talking to my girlfriend about it tonight.

  • @MurderingWithCookies
    @MurderingWithCookies 9 месяцев назад +404

    I will forever be impressed by the crescendo of this song, how as he achieves more and more power the music heightens with it.

    • @dailysuccessmachine
      @dailysuccessmachine 8 месяцев назад +2

      *…how as WE achieve more and more…” it’s about our potential 😉

    • @wtfnoheals
      @wtfnoheals 8 месяцев назад +4

      Yeappers, echoes the rise of the ego in humankind. Some will do anything, say anything, step over anyone for recognition and fame at no concern of bodily risk, harm of ones self and others with zero thought on consequence.

    • @martianknight6341
      @martianknight6341 7 месяцев назад

      let's being impressed together cousin while we kill them cookies! =P

    • @sasamarie
      @sasamarie 7 месяцев назад +2

      It literally makes my heart speed up

    • @e.d.1642
      @e.d.1642 5 месяцев назад +2

      It still actually manages to give me chills, which is pretty rare.

  • @Virdit
    @Virdit 4 года назад +2657

    I just randomly remembered about this song

  • @Immortal0Witch
    @Immortal0Witch 3 года назад +4415

    In 2021, this just hits different. Scary how accurate this was.

    • @stephaniehires9267
      @stephaniehires9267 3 года назад +86

      Honestly yeah, Shits crazy these days

    • @toriiiann
      @toriiiann 3 года назад +103

      I’m not ready for this new world..

    • @AstralKama
      @AstralKama 3 года назад +145

      Especially the ✊ symbols towards the end...

    • @Immortal0Witch
      @Immortal0Witch 3 года назад +202

      @@AstralKama Right! 11 years ago, I don’t think anyone would have thought twice about. Now that we know that’s a communist power symbol and it’s been adopted by AntiFa and BLM, it’s crazy to think this was foreshadowing what’s to come. But they say n the song we know who the puppet masters are.

    • @krisp2599
      @krisp2599 3 года назад +27

      Accurate or just plain truth and pre conceived

  • @CosmilkCow
    @CosmilkCow 8 месяцев назад +40

    when i was a kid (about 10-12 years ago) i BEGGED my grandma to play this song OVER AND OVER!!!! She bought the album on CD and record so I could listen to just this song as many times as I wanted.
    Later in life (now) i come back to it and realize how insane the lyrics are. This song is still amazing to this day, aged beautifully and wish it would be talked about again.

  • @jaiodyssea
    @jaiodyssea 4 месяца назад +253

    Not enough people talking about how prophetic this song has become.

    • @Feedbackking13
      @Feedbackking13 4 месяца назад +16

      Its just a Marxist depiction, its been true for all of history. Marx was a descriptive god and people talk too much about his prescriptive claims.

    • @blickedxb
      @blickedxb 4 месяца назад

      @@Feedbackking13 Marx was a moron that prayed on the low I q.

    • @Dan-ger82
      @Dan-ger82 4 месяца назад +15

      It's in human nature to do terrible things to each other. History repeats itself so it's easy to see the trends and the disease that is the human being. Just like Rorschach said "God doesn't make the world this way. We do!"

    • @Feedbackking13
      @Feedbackking13 4 месяца назад

      @@Dan-ger82 Thats an inherent contradiction in statement bro. To claim its human nature as if its an unavoidable bane cast on us by genetic evolution and then claim we have a choice as in we make the world this way, which the scripture makes clear, is inherently a contradiction. Furthermore if you actually do research you'd learn that the nature vs. nurture debate is pointless as epigenetics is the predominant theory which illustrates that our environment guides us to specific behaviors but lacks the infinite problem of environmentalism and relativism.
      In conclusion, read Proudhon and most other Anarchists discourse on human nature.

    • @graffitiwomen
      @graffitiwomen 4 месяца назад +16

      ​@@Feedbackking13a Marxist depiction? People like you bring Marx into EVERYTHING, and as a socialist, I honestly think your type is obsessed with Marx..... and it's freaking weird.

  • @varunbisht8576
    @varunbisht8576 3 года назад +722

    This song perfectly defines how humanity has key to both their transcendence and doom .

    • @GunShot-1996
      @GunShot-1996 3 года назад +5

      You need more likes. I didn't think of that but your comment truly does sum up this song.

    • @thismaybebrent
      @thismaybebrent 3 года назад +7

      @@GunShot-1996 I mean, not bashing them for saying it, but that's what people have been saying for the last 10 years, I'm more surprised it's the first time you're seeing or realizing that meaning

    • @kellyrose5800
      @kellyrose5800 3 года назад +1

      No a rebirth more being more powerful than you could ever undersnd an the dumbed down are not invited. Sorry not sorry.

    • @ransom2610
      @ransom2610 3 года назад +2

      @@kellyrose5800 can you please explain what you mean to me?

    • @hllyenaylleth9576
      @hllyenaylleth9576 3 года назад +1

      @@ransom2610 You know what is met.

  • @copdatchoppa
    @copdatchoppa 4 года назад +2816

    This song aged like fine wine.

    • @Ancienregime8090
      @Ancienregime8090 4 года назад +59

      Yeah. The message of the Fight with Tools album has only gotten more terrifyingly relevant over the years.

    • @thom3616
      @thom3616 4 года назад

      Y E S S I R !

    • @LudwigOnfroy
      @LudwigOnfroy 4 года назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/1NjaQ0VWEAA/видео.html

    • @Chimera.Actual
      @Chimera.Actual 4 года назад

      It sure did.

    • @kathleenj3979
      @kathleenj3979 4 года назад +4

      I agree, it has aged but I don’t think I would call this a fine wine. I find it scary

  • @CallMeKPYourLeader
    @CallMeKPYourLeader 2 месяца назад +55

    this is literally one of the best songs to ever be created

  • @JPG023
    @JPG023 3 месяца назад +36

    As a kid I just heard straight bars really. But as an adult, this hits totally different. WOW.

    • @Lordpickleboy
      @Lordpickleboy Месяц назад +2

      yeah..... Vote for Kanye

    • @coltydoodledoof8237
      @coltydoodledoof8237 Месяц назад

      @Lordpickleboy Nahh, Kanye is a nazi... Trump or RFK are better candidates.

  • @danail4444
    @danail4444 4 года назад +3356

    I can see your face on the telephone,
    Apple: Write that down, Write that down.

    • @jenniferm8118
      @jenniferm8118 4 года назад +6

      DanaiL 😂

    • @Cjopa
      @Cjopa 4 года назад +6

      😂💀💀

    • @snowstormkitten
      @snowstormkitten 4 года назад +6

      there is an apple on the vid 0o0

    • @ACTAASSTV
      @ACTAASSTV 4 года назад +3

      🤣😭😭😭

    • @danail4444
      @danail4444 4 года назад +7

      I didn’t expect to get this many likes lol ty guys xd

  • @ngomichael5373
    @ngomichael5373 5 лет назад +3113

    sent here by Mary Ham !!
    👊🏽👊🏽

  • @Nickimite
    @Nickimite 3 месяца назад +12

    My cousin passed and I’m not sure why this songs makes me think of him so much but every time I think of this song he’s right there in the memory. I’m grateful for all that he has done for me. He shaped me into who I am and I now know what it truly means for a piece of you to just be ripped away from you. I’ll try to grow from this pain but it’s drowning. R.I.P Jacob Lee Chambles. Words are too little to express my appreciation and gratitude for you and the life that you led

  • @danielphillips3784
    @danielphillips3784 11 дней назад +5

    Just popped in because my kids listening to this and it sounded familiar. 😂😂😂 Carry on!

  • @ezio_auditore5425
    @ezio_auditore5425 4 года назад +649

    The song is about the duality of man. We can use power for good or evil. The "no handlebars" intro and outro speaks to the duality of the act. It can be dangerous, or it can be skillful, it just depends who is behind the wheel.
    Brilliant song.

    • @ak27q
      @ak27q 4 года назад +26

      Yes!
      And it is written as a retrospective of a person’s life from the moment he first let go of the handlebars of a bicycle, as his thoughts, the choice that he makes on a certain stretch of life. And in this case, we see this boy as a result of a person of Hitler's scale. Brilliant, yes!
      Sorry my english

    • @ykMMD
      @ykMMD 4 года назад +4

      Thanks Sherlock

    • @Cooltubeco
      @Cooltubeco 4 года назад

      Nice

    • @julien4803
      @julien4803 4 года назад +7

      i used to sing this song all the time in rock band it was my favorite song ever i just remember it and i listened to the lyrics for the first time and i took it as he can ride his bike without using his hands making him feel strong as if he can do anything and he thinks he can do all this becuase the bike inspired him

    • @skycastrum5803
      @skycastrum5803 4 года назад +7

      I disagree with that interpretation, if only slightly. It's definitely about duality, but the message isn't about who is behind the wheel. The two friends aren't neccesarily that different. Instead, I'd see it as more personal.

  • @subyouth1257
    @subyouth1257 9 лет назад +4120

    MY INTERPRETATION
    I watched this video alot, and ive listened to it even more, i came up with what it means,
    He can ride his bike without using the handlebars

    • @cthulhujankinx5652
      @cthulhujankinx5652 9 лет назад +11

      You are a yard, just like the guy who put in that he likes minecraft

    • @invader2134
      @invader2134 9 лет назад +100

      Finally! Someone who's right! It's about time. xD

    • @iCrakken
      @iCrakken 9 лет назад +7

      I agree, sir.

    • @TheJosh4300
      @TheJosh4300 9 лет назад +10

      Adam quiroz lol

    • @roryswenson3782
      @roryswenson3782 9 лет назад +23

      ***** yeah I had trouble finding an high IQ but Finally I found this one.

  • @tiltedangel2727
    @tiltedangel2727 Месяц назад +24

    14 years later and i still can sing this song WORD for WORD

    • @ilovefilmseattle
      @ilovefilmseattle 18 дней назад +1

      I can sing the words
      Just from memory
      Just from memory

    • @luciddreamworks
      @luciddreamworks День назад

      ​@@ilovefilmseattlequality comment!! I'll give you the love you deserve lol

  • @DanielBooneSpoon
    @DanielBooneSpoon Месяц назад +5

    Is there any late 80's peeps here still loving this timeless song?!?!

  • @aprillydilly
    @aprillydilly 3 года назад +1390

    This song is about the addictive nature of power, how seductive it is. It begins innocently enough but left unchecked it becomes a colossal evil. To me this is one of the most profound and prophetic songs ever written.

    • @Ms-pr7fe
      @Ms-pr7fe 3 года назад +48

      Absolute power corrupts absolutely

    • @Heather_Morgan
      @Heather_Morgan 3 года назад +55

      Yes, absolutely! You said it perfectly!
      That's where the "I can ride my bike with no handlebars" comes from. It's an innocent child saying "look mom, no hands!".
      And then that same kid can grow up to either become something great or destroy the world. And how it's so easy to give into the greedy temptation and lust for power and control.
      It's addictive and can start off as simply as learning to ride your bike without holding on and it just grows from there.
      Once you get a taste for that power, you keep chasing it until it's never enough and you keep needing to outdo yourself and it doesn't matter who or what you destroy in the process, even if you "end the planet in a Holocaust".

    • @luisaelenamanriquez9066
      @luisaelenamanriquez9066 3 года назад +4

      Do you think it could also be phrased a fall from innocent ambition?

    • @typeheatwave6587
      @typeheatwave6587 3 года назад +3

      @Turbo Crystal Song was about bush

    • @MrFredstt
      @MrFredstt 3 года назад +30

      @Michael Primak You couldn't be more wrong.

  • @mikeklein7802
    @mikeklein7802 3 года назад +870

    wow him and his friends really did “understand the future.”

    • @LastbutNotFirst
      @LastbutNotFirst 3 года назад +23

      not the future but the machine.

    • @naomipinckney
      @naomipinckney 3 года назад +5

      @@LastbutNotFirst bruh

    • @paul_warner
      @paul_warner 3 года назад +36

      "I can hand out a million vaccinations"

    • @thehighnoonsaloon7794
      @thehighnoonsaloon7794 3 года назад +32

      Not as much did they understand the future as they did history. When you understand history, the future becomes easier and easier to predict. The only danger there is it starts to become a self fulfilling prophecy when we forget about honor through reading about the dishonor of our past.

    • @MultiverseMediaSpace
      @MultiverseMediaSpace 3 года назад +5

      @An Capall Mór I humbly disagree.

  • @mattwalker7604
    @mattwalker7604 2 месяца назад +35

    Here listening to this epic song in June 2024

    • @Lordpickleboy
      @Lordpickleboy Месяц назад +1

      I am here listening to it trying not to cry as the song slowly becomes our reality

    • @scrossman27
      @scrossman27 17 дней назад

      ​@@Lordpickleboyseriously 😢

  • @Gibbz17
    @Gibbz17 2 месяца назад +32

    14 years of listening to this, 14 years of a relevant message.
    Never have I ever, and never will I skip this song.

    • @marshman54
      @marshman54 2 месяца назад +2

      Listen to it again, right now

  • @ActualJesusChrist
    @ActualJesusChrist 9 лет назад +373

    This song is a representation of the division between the power that freedom grants. You can use the power to grow and become a better person. To know and understand more, learn about what you want and live a simply elegant lifestyle as you please. The flipside to this coin however, is the advantage that you can take because of the availability to exercise greed and corruption by controlling the free people for your own personal agenda.
    In the beginning these two friends were just that: friends. Nothing more or less. By the end they had both utilized their freedom differently, one for better and one for worse. They were the same in the beginning, which is quite noteworthy. We are all born the same curious and naive creatures until we either become sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.

    • @xXMidnightSinXx
      @xXMidnightSinXx 9 лет назад +58

      Thank you for explaining this Jesus

    • @117bigbro
      @117bigbro 9 лет назад

      Love it :)

    • @Randomyoutuber-4831
      @Randomyoutuber-4831 9 лет назад +4

      Wise words my friend

    • @LaszloBereti
      @LaszloBereti 9 лет назад

      Jesus Christ I could not have explained that any better then you. the ending always moves me ngl

    • @GreatestxKimchi
      @GreatestxKimchi 9 лет назад

      Jesus Christ Thanks Jesus

  • @xCostly
    @xCostly 4 года назад +2954

    All these comments acting like this song is coming true. As if it hasn’t been like this for a very long time.

    • @RIFFRAFF104
      @RIFFRAFF104 4 года назад +25

      Exactly.

    • @Derbyyy
      @Derbyyy 4 года назад +10

      Hahaha exactly bro, spot on

    • @theflanman420420
      @theflanman420420 4 года назад +1

      True

    • @alexist2802
      @alexist2802 4 года назад +41

      The veil is just lifting off more people. This is the start of a big ass event that will be in the history books.

    • @abhirajkahol
      @abhirajkahol 4 года назад +12

      It was always true. People just realised that now.

  • @seouljer
    @seouljer 5 месяцев назад +16

    Aged like fine wine. Will forever love this song.

    • @StihlmaddArborist
      @StihlmaddArborist 4 месяца назад +1

      Yah - songs like the quality of this transcend time.

  • @chillstep4life
    @chillstep4life 9 месяцев назад +249

    This song was so ahead of its time... gives me chills everytime

    • @ambernichole2918
      @ambernichole2918 9 месяцев назад +19

      It was right on time, unfortunately that time just kept going

    • @ccheww
      @ccheww 8 месяцев назад +10

      Unfortunately it has always been this way, and always will.

    • @wilfordbrimley1506
      @wilfordbrimley1506 8 месяцев назад +1

      It's just an analogy about haughtiness, kind of a story as old as time

    • @flanflan88
      @flanflan88 8 месяцев назад +4

      Really? I felt like it was a song about the past, present, and future.
      But I'm almost positive that people will hear this song and scream "Trump!" even though it was before his time.
      Such is humanity's folly.
      We'll never learn.

    • @IISocratesII
      @IISocratesII 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@flanflan88 Yeh you can literally just say "things will get worse" and be right at any point in history, because it always eventually comes. People have been saying the same things since BC.

  • @SaintsAwayOllie
    @SaintsAwayOllie 7 лет назад +1880

    When I was 12 in 2009 I was like "lol this songs about riding your bike with no handlebars"
    Now I'm 20 in 2017 I'm like "wow this is some powerful shit"

    • @scrmnthn5233
      @scrmnthn5233 7 лет назад +51

      SaintsAwayOllie damn you were pretty dumb when you were 12 then

    • @SaintsAwayOllie
      @SaintsAwayOllie 7 лет назад +67

      Fuck Me Can't say I disagree

    • @necrogeneticist
      @necrogeneticist 7 лет назад +16

      SaintsAwayOllie I'm 11 and I perfectly get the idea of this.

    • @maiarustad5062
      @maiarustad5062 7 лет назад +16

      Same here, except 9 & 16, I thought it was just a couple of people in a brag off and seeing the vid for the first time really changed my understanding of it.

    • @thenotorioussk
      @thenotorioussk 7 лет назад +1

      SaintsAwayOllie truth brother

  • @definition.of.insanity
    @definition.of.insanity 3 года назад +627

    This is one of those songs that you can go literal decades without hearing but know the lyrics instantly the next time you hear it.

    • @ranuigibson7177
      @ranuigibson7177 3 года назад +8

      Papa peli!

    • @Eeeemomo
      @Eeeemomo 3 года назад +9

      @@ranuigibson7177 spread the good word of his channel or he’ll assasinate everyone in a holocaust

    • @Y0unGSoldi3r
      @Y0unGSoldi3r 3 года назад +4

      SOOO TRUE 😅 i forgot all about that song for a whole decade, and somehow remembered the lyrics by heart 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @cd2936
      @cd2936 3 года назад

      Bloody Legend

    • @mikec6935
      @mikec6935 3 года назад

      i don’t know the lyrics so you’re wrong

  • @TrickeeFrog
    @TrickeeFrog 4 месяца назад +13

    My dad showed me this song when it came out, I was a whole 4 years old. I still randomly remember it every now and then

  • @ADeneChef
    @ADeneChef 2 месяца назад +23

    Does anyone just randomly start coming back to this song every couple of years since release? I’ll randomly start humming it and be like, “yeah, I could go for some no handlebars rn”

  • @E_Lizard
    @E_Lizard 4 года назад +850

    "I can ride my bike with no handlebars"
    *a few mins later*
    "I CAN END THE PLANET IN A HOLOCAUST"
    Well that escalated quickly

    • @dograguy2124
      @dograguy2124 4 года назад +13

      Try to understand the meaning

    • @dograguy2124
      @dograguy2124 4 года назад +30

      Both of those guys started same but later choose different paths which resulted in affecting their future

    • @ianmelamud8773
      @ianmelamud8773 4 года назад +28

      yep, opening that thrift store had disastrous consequences for the planet.

    • @chelseamayer9118
      @chelseamayer9118 4 года назад +6

      Ive been laughing about this comment for 3 days haha

    • @antoniomendez6492
      @antoniomendez6492 4 года назад +12

      @@dograguy2124 it goes deeper than that. It's all about ambition. How powerful a single person's ambition can impact a civilization, for better or worse. "I can" is the theme of the song.

  • @loucampin7188
    @loucampin7188 2 года назад +2325

    FlotBots .....ahead of your time. This song still moves me like it did back in 2009. This album fits so well in the times we are going thru right now. PEACE!

    • @quentingrant9080
      @quentingrant9080 2 года назад +14

      Has it really been that long. I was born in 2003 and I feel like I’ve listened to this song since I was born.

    • @Boombox69in
      @Boombox69in 2 года назад +11

      And soon we’ll be living the lyrics

    • @klausschwab5236
      @klausschwab5236 2 года назад +7

      2009 this in my head phones Samsung slide up back of the class stoned asf good times.

    • @brandonharrison60162
      @brandonharrison60162 2 года назад +6

      I literally was thinking this fits perfectly in today's time

    • @frze5386
      @frze5386 2 года назад

      @@quentingrant9080 Was born in 2003 as well, I feel exactly the same. Remember singing this song with my cousin when I was young.

  • @rodzilla6425
    @rodzilla6425 3 месяца назад +107

    Well... this aged like wine, didn't it?

    • @Thespoiledbat
      @Thespoiledbat 3 месяца назад +2

      Ooooof right?

    • @randomone4832
      @randomone4832 3 месяца назад +4

      This message is as old as time. Hubris and greed.

    • @voyagerx9344
      @voyagerx9344 3 месяца назад

      ?

    • @sglasssssss
      @sglasssssss 2 месяца назад

      Lol I think y'all need to double check the metaphors. Maybe look up "Des Colores" for starters💞🫶🏼

    • @toddharig8142
      @toddharig8142 2 месяца назад +3

      Sad part is that its only gonna get better with time. Humanity will sooner end than reach a state where this song ceases to be relevant.

  • @josephvasquez370
    @josephvasquez370 19 дней назад +2

    I wish everybody knew how powerful this song really is!!! I remember hearing this back in the day, but just hearing it now on everything that’s happened in the world. Wow!!!!!

  • @RUDEMusicUS
    @RUDEMusicUS 8 лет назад +1838

    One of the greatest songs of the modern era.

    • @patrickbama1234
      @patrickbama1234 8 лет назад +23

      LOL

    • @yahweh208
      @yahweh208 8 лет назад +9

      +patrickbama1234 ?

    • @hamzaarshad8921
      @hamzaarshad8921 8 лет назад +2

      +patrickbama1234 you just understand the deep meaning behind this

    • @hamzaarshad8921
      @hamzaarshad8921 8 лет назад +2

      +Hamza Arshad don't*

    • @annacry7615
      @annacry7615 8 лет назад +14

      Ya cause it's not stupid it's about important things because when you first hear the first few lines were just like oh I can totally do that too but then after a while it gets more more important and you know they're just not bragging or joking about stupid stuff that actually trying to tell you something controversial and real

  • @vincentmack9542
    @vincentmack9542 3 года назад +813

    Lyrically without the video I have always looked at this song as saying humans are so potentially amazing that we can literally do anything. But with unlimited potential comes the ability to lose sight of how far we “should” take things just because we can.

    • @mechanomics2649
      @mechanomics2649 3 года назад +16

      Given what the lyrics say, I don't know how you got a relatively benign message out of it. I've always heard it as a song about class struggle.

    • @wannabecarguy
      @wannabecarguy 3 года назад +11

      Power corrupts always.

    • @josephgamble8193
      @josephgamble8193 3 года назад +31

      @@mechanomics2649 Probably because people have different interpretations, and don’t think the same as others. Jamie Laurie himself has a different interpretation than you, and he made the song. If you don’t know how someone got a different message than you from something, maybe consider that their thought process is different than yours and hear them out.

    • @pyrophantom5150
      @pyrophantom5150 3 года назад +25

      @Oluwanimike Makwini I agree with OC. The verses go back and fourth, one being the average joe happy with his life, two being the rise and corruption of the wealthy friend, and three being the demise and catastrophe caused by the uprising/clash.
      I always found it chilling that the verse that speaks about building a business/enterprise ends with “I see the strings that control the system” “I can do anything with no resistance”
      Think Jeff bezos / elon musk..
      “I can make anybody go to prison just because I don’t like them” is another biggie in my opinion. When you think about the 0.01%, they COULD probably get any of us plebs incarcerated if they wanted to.

    • @user-rx2ur5el9p
      @user-rx2ur5el9p 3 года назад +3

      @@pyrophantom5150 "I can make anybody go to prison" was probably referring specifically to Guantanamo Bay.

  • @dacrib5350
    @dacrib5350 2 месяца назад +4

    My tv control shattered into pieces just now and as I put it back together I kept thinking about this song and how I used to listen to that line and think "I hope I'm naturally bright enough in my adult years so that I could fix stuff and be looked up to" and guess what you guys.. I did! Put it back together in no time. My wife was already ordering a new one 😂

  • @zachblakey489
    @zachblakey489 5 месяцев назад +11

    From balancing a bicycle with no hands to the destruction of humanity.....when does progression become regression?? When does the curiosity become the death of the cat?

  • @thejerm2982
    @thejerm2982 3 года назад +670

    So did we all just recently look up this song at the same time for no reason??

  • @guitargeekette
    @guitargeekette 6 лет назад +631

    The Logan Paul atrocity makes me appreciate this ALL THE MORE! Flobots and the everlasting gem that is Handlebars.

    • @noname-nl9vw
      @noname-nl9vw 6 лет назад +4

      guitargeekette Logan can steal the song with no copyright

    • @animalmanoriginal534
      @animalmanoriginal534 6 лет назад +1

      guitargeekette yeah

    • @eggosxon185
      @eggosxon185 6 лет назад +2

      anonymous Angel this is copyrighted.

    • @joev3958
      @joev3958 6 лет назад +3

      This generation are pansys!!

    • @jerrs581
      @jerrs581 6 лет назад +4

      Kavindu Wimalaratne Logan's is terrible, it can't compete with this

  • @contramundi5873
    @contramundi5873 8 месяцев назад +12

    I swear this song just keeps getting more and more relevant

  • @DaraRae
    @DaraRae Месяц назад +3

    Still can't make it through this song w/o tearing up. In 2024, this song means more than ever before. Scary times in the US.

  • @MissRobb
    @MissRobb 7 лет назад +150

    Just gonna drop this right here...
    "Jamie Laurie stated that the song is about "the idea that we have so much incredible potential as human beings to be destructive or to be creative."
    "And it's tragic to me that the appetite for military innovation is endless, but when it comes to taking on a project like ending world hunger, it's seen as outlandish.
    It's not treated with the same seriousness.[...] at the same time, I knew there were people at that moment who were being bombed by our own country.
    And I thought that was incredibly powerful." It is the contrast between these "little moments of creativity, these bursts of innovation," and the way these ideas are put to use "to oppress and destroy people" that the singer feels is both "beautiful and tragic at the same time." - WIKIPEDIA.
    So please, people, stop the hateful comments, and at least try to interpret the song seen from different perspectives... Believe it or not, as a human being you are allowed to "think" and reflect upon your own thoughts.
    Also... I don't think the artist is really singing about himself in this video :/ Though, this is what the world has come to... I fear for our future.

    • @VicMeep
      @VicMeep 7 лет назад +9

      Underrated comment.

    • @jerrell8467
      @jerrell8467 7 лет назад +3

      MissRobb Yeah but music is art and art is subjective if somebody wants to see meaning then let them

    • @jasonb.9313
      @jasonb.9313 7 лет назад +6

      Best comment, OP, that I've seen on RUclips this year.

    • @ophist8399
      @ophist8399 7 лет назад +2

      Then Jamie Laurie is an idiot, and the rest of women.

    • @Muykle
      @Muykle 7 лет назад +3

      Aaron Jerrell, art can be interpreted subjectively, but the common cultural experience of the memes of this world gives some specific meanings. The specific interpretations of the memes and tropes may vary between person to person, but some things like showing well armed soldiers/police shooting unarmed protesters can not possibly mean that supporting the authorities are a good thing inherently.
      Also, the meaning of the artist's intent is not meaningless. It is the original intention of the work of art.
      (However, the audience is allowed to interpret any way they want in the limited ways it can be interpreted)

  • @XxREDEMxPTIONxX
    @XxREDEMxPTIONxX 8 лет назад +267

    This song depresses me.
    It does a good job pointing out how humanity is the bane of their own existence. It doesn't matter who you are, you'll want to do good. The bad thing is that one person's good is anothers bad.

  • @joshuagary2745
    @joshuagary2745 6 месяцев назад +15

    15 years and still so good.

  • @isssaabel
    @isssaabel 4 месяца назад +7

    And here we are again... and again

  • @caseus8323
    @caseus8323 7 лет назад +1324

    Roses are red
    Thorns are prickly
    Might I just say
    That escalated quickly

    • @fredpaterson2007
      @fredpaterson2007 7 лет назад +1

      Cheese Chan you gotta say it like qikalee for it to rhyme

    • @azzidrost1418
      @azzidrost1418 7 лет назад +7

      Or just pronounce prickly as priklee and not prikalee. owo

    • @meganstiles7957
      @meganstiles7957 7 лет назад +1

      I love ur pictureee

    • @cameronhill8279
      @cameronhill8279 6 лет назад

      I pronounce priklee anyways. Yeeea the South! We pronounce everything differently!

    • @jakobwendt8999
      @jakobwendt8999 6 лет назад +1

      Alex Dunnam prikly is how I've always pronounced it

  • @levidaniels585
    @levidaniels585 4 года назад +4976

    Who else just remembered this song out of nowhere?

    • @thepslendidwizard
      @thepslendidwizard 3 года назад +8

      Me

    • @victormanuelcorpeno1095
      @victormanuelcorpeno1095 3 года назад +14

      Always best song to come back to imo

    • @Solizeus
      @Solizeus 3 года назад +9

      This time the raised fists are on the other side though, when they aren't in the throne to fuck people's lives they are in the streets fucking people's lives

    • @eccoweaver
      @eccoweaver 3 года назад +16

      Not even a couple days ago, this spontaneously pops into my head for the first time in years. Oh, and so did some Walk the Moon classics, which I'mma have to listen to next.

    • @levidaniels585
      @levidaniels585 3 года назад +1

      @@Solizeus preach, brother

  • @kittykat8538
    @kittykat8538 4 месяца назад +86

    Crazy how much a song from 2005 can relate to 2024

    • @dirkfrey4715
      @dirkfrey4715 3 месяца назад +2

      Because we're in pretty much the same situation today we were in 20 years ago...

    • @shaquillefuentes3819
      @shaquillefuentes3819 3 месяца назад +1

      😂dam I went to write a comment thinking I was original n saw this

    • @dirkfrey4715
      @dirkfrey4715 3 месяца назад +1

      @@shaquillefuentes3819 there is nothing new under the sun, comrade...

    • @sennadesillva
      @sennadesillva 3 месяца назад

      haha exactly. I posted essentially the same thing back in 2021, sad how it still holds truth to it.

    • @dirkfrey4715
      @dirkfrey4715 3 месяца назад

      @@sennadesillva 🤷‍♂nothing will change unless someone changes it

  • @timmartin8088
    @timmartin8088 Месяц назад +1

    This song and vid has never gotten old. Just fits every time it pops into a playlist.

  • @sanctionedsuicide4548
    @sanctionedsuicide4548 6 лет назад +326

    These lyrics are so ironically relevant to 2017

    • @secreus5517
      @secreus5517 6 лет назад +21

      What's great about the message of the song is that it'll sadly always be relevant

    • @derpytw
      @derpytw 6 лет назад +7

      not ironic. the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

    • @blindvalkyrie9352
      @blindvalkyrie9352 6 лет назад

      too true

    • @jaydensmith4136
      @jaydensmith4136 6 лет назад +2

      Sanctioned Suicide. 2009 those were the days , no Donald trump , no wall , and no kardashions .then I thought that this was the coolest song ever . lol

    • @robertogurrola7465
      @robertogurrola7465 6 лет назад

      This will never not be relevant, as long as there's power this will be relevant

  • @LiquidXVision
    @LiquidXVision 2 года назад +1658

    It's been a long time Flobots.....Still so good in 2022!

    • @TheVampireking330
      @TheVampireking330 2 года назад +4

      yup, i love the dj shadow version

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool 2 года назад +11

      Just hit me how genius this song is

    • @myview5840
      @myview5840 2 года назад +7

      @@lindboknifeandtool how close to the bone it is now

    • @anonymousfella5473
      @anonymousfella5473 2 года назад +3

      @@myview5840 fkn facts.

    • @myview5840
      @myview5840 2 года назад +1

      @@anonymousfella5473 indeed, sadly. Classic tune though. Have a wonderful day.

  • @theclockworktempest
    @theclockworktempest 9 месяцев назад +13

    I'm in my 30s, and this is literally the first time I've seen the video. It sent chills through me at every turn. The song has a great impact on me now.

  • @buttery2014
    @buttery2014 4 месяца назад +1250

    Anyone here in 2024?

    • @kittykat8538
      @kittykat8538 4 месяца назад +15

      Just came here to say this.

    • @shawnmason7901
      @shawnmason7901 3 месяца назад +5

      Ya buddy

    • @shawnmason7901
      @shawnmason7901 3 месяца назад +13

      Playing true so far

    • @thatonescrambler
      @thatonescrambler 3 месяца назад +3

      I dont like pepe the frog, but im white passing, and racist

    • @mudlinka
      @mudlinka 3 месяца назад +8

      This was my homepage music on MySpace.

  • @nyahgiles6613
    @nyahgiles6613 4 года назад +680

    This song just popped into my head after however many years

  • @jasonjean5333
    @jasonjean5333 9 лет назад +752

    " I can see your face on the telephone"
    Flobots predicted Facetime xP

    • @yungmar8268
      @yungmar8268 9 лет назад +4

      Yep

    • @siZeDcuBe
      @siZeDcuBe 9 лет назад +54

      jason jean Skype, they predicted Skype for mobile.
      Facetime predicted that if they copied Skype they would make money XD

    • @28604
      @28604 9 лет назад +16

      jason jean Not everything (in fact, almost nothing) Apple does is original.

    • @jasonjean5333
      @jasonjean5333 9 лет назад +5

      ***** it's very unlikely anything anyone does is original.. you need to be inspired by something

    • @Frabjous1
      @Frabjous1 9 лет назад +13

      No. In fact, the Flobots talked about the 1927 AT&T _ikonophone_ 81 years late.

  • @aaronshy9674
    @aaronshy9674 6 месяцев назад +11

    Even in it's time this song was speaking mad truths about human nature and it's just more and more true as time goes by.

  • @bobbydarker1959
    @bobbydarker1959 15 дней назад

    "and I can almost put it back together" 😂 HILARIOUS

  • @jojosim
    @jojosim 3 года назад +3906

    Forgot how good this song was… it’s been YEARS. Nostalgia

    • @mandybrooks5789
      @mandybrooks5789 3 года назад +17

      2021 I’m asking “Were’s your head at?” 🎹🎼🎺🥁🎸🪕🎷🎻🪘🎧🎤

    • @3katd
      @3katd 3 года назад +6

      Yep

    • @RJ-mh3ox
      @RJ-mh3ox 3 года назад +5

      Factsss

    • @theogkingler2579
      @theogkingler2579 3 года назад +6

      They don’t music like they did when I was growing up I know every generation says it but 90s kids got it all we merged okay with tech maybe not as fast or advanced as these kids coming up but we aren’t like our parents chilling on flip or cheap cheap hardly working Android we truly are lucky and humbled we understand there’s bad issues in the world but just a tad to young to get to them yet once the old rulers go I have great faith we can fix the world at least a little

    • @pyrophantom5150
      @pyrophantom5150 3 года назад +6

      It’s great.. it’s almost better a decade latter.. more relatable.

  • @conorfinn5125
    @conorfinn5125 3 года назад +393

    Me listening to this song in 2021. "I'm beginning to see a pattern I'm not so sure I like."

    • @MCM5595
      @MCM5595 3 года назад +2

      too bad its 12 years later huh.

    • @bitcoinzoomer9994
      @bitcoinzoomer9994 3 года назад +3

      Long after shit hits the fan, once the dust settles, people this will seem completely prophetic.

    • @fallonwhitelock3667
      @fallonwhitelock3667 3 года назад

      Welcome to the woken world ......when you wake you stop sleeping ........ x

    • @mattm402
      @mattm402 3 года назад +1

      @@fallonwhitelock3667 when you wake from being woke you get to think for yourself.

  • @LegendaryYuxie
    @LegendaryYuxie 5 месяцев назад +2

    This was my favorite song for a solid 6yrs until I started listening to other music. Just remembered this was a song while watching a clip I took. I was playing the TTS for R6 and my sister was talking to me about riding a bike for the 1st time without training wheels, and that brought back memories where I was listening to this song when I was still using training wheels.

  • @TheJennick13
    @TheJennick13 7 месяцев назад +4

    Omg i love screaming out this one & I'm freaking 51!!!! Love it!!

  • @elliebarnhart2043
    @elliebarnhart2043 6 лет назад +293

    This song gives me depression and cures my depression at the same.

  • @frozenelement7110
    @frozenelement7110 6 лет назад +280

    Here I am listening to this song because of nostalgia, just to find a whole new generation of people finding this song for the first time because of copyrights.

    • @alexisvandenbroucke5232
      @alexisvandenbroucke5232 6 лет назад +9

      Frozen Element Well, better that than no ''promotion'' at all right ?

    • @minecraftminertime
      @minecraftminertime 6 лет назад +13

      You don't need nostalgia to enjoy it. It's not bad that younger people are enjoying this song.

    • @TheRealSnhyper
      @TheRealSnhyper 6 лет назад +3

      Found this video because of my recommendations list and I’ll say I’m not disappointed

    • @TheKehru
      @TheKehru 6 лет назад +1

      Same here 😂😂

    • @rigg4146
      @rigg4146 6 лет назад +2

      the ironing is delicious

  • @patrick8358
    @patrick8358 2 месяца назад +2

    RIP Square. I'll never forget the first time we heard this song. My God, has it really been 15 years? I miss you.

  • @Minotaur6
    @Minotaur6 4 месяца назад +1

    Finally alone in the car when I put it on for the 3rd time today. Sobbed. Sometimes I think God's greatest gift isn't unanswered prayers, but hindered power.

  • @AncientCS
    @AncientCS 7 лет назад +6668

    i can get fat with no candy bars

    • @hoodiearmyleader3781
      @hoodiearmyleader3781 7 лет назад +18

      Ancient CS me to

    • @AMNCreason
      @AMNCreason 7 лет назад +77

      "I cannot get fat without candy bars" will match the syllables

    • @ryanb7878
      @ryanb7878 7 лет назад +101

      Kevin I can smoke Crack with Bruno Mars

    • @QueenieNirvana
      @QueenieNirvana 7 лет назад +15

      lol funniest response ever

    • @justinm7616
      @justinm7616 7 лет назад +4

      Ancient CS thats good bro 😂

  • @argo_z
    @argo_z 5 лет назад +3152

    Who's here cause they actually remember when this song came out?

    • @sirferrell6142
      @sirferrell6142 5 лет назад +11

      Oh yeah buddy

    • @einarblood-axe9328
      @einarblood-axe9328 5 лет назад +43

      I dont remember when it came out, but I remember hearing it as a kid cause my older brother liked to show me all kinds of music he likes which in turn made me gain a preference toward this kinda music, this and metal. I probably heard it around 2009 or 2010, when I was like 8 or 9.

    • @VoltaLumensVG
      @VoltaLumensVG 5 лет назад +8

      Heck yeah. I remember listening to this song countless times on the bus ride to school when it came out

    • @paranoid_virgo1738
      @paranoid_virgo1738 5 лет назад +4

      This is the most nostalgic band for me. There concert was my first ever when I was 4. Theyre the reason I’m so into music now.

    • @Ratty_Mask
      @Ratty_Mask 5 лет назад +3

      Don't remember when it came out, just remember my dad's burned CDs had this song as one of the tracks

  • @brucewayne7187
    @brucewayne7187 9 месяцев назад +7

    Still to this day. This is one of my favorite songs of all time.

  • @badkarma8199
    @badkarma8199 4 месяца назад +2

    14 years ago 😳. Still relevant. Music is important. Thank you ❤

  • @malakhamad4962
    @malakhamad4962 6 лет назад +2605

    I keep coming back to this song because its such a good song with a great message
    Cant say that about no handlebars 'by' logan paul

  • @ItsCamille735
    @ItsCamille735 6 лет назад +118

    This song went places I didn’t expect

    • @jaydensmith4136
      @jaydensmith4136 6 лет назад

      Maya Zulf one hit wander is how I would describe the Creator lol

  • @tylerbeck1405
    @tylerbeck1405 3 месяца назад +2

    Here and reliving s part of my childhood lol forgot all about this song...now I'm just letting it play reliving the good times

  • @rtoniify
    @rtoniify 8 месяцев назад +3

    Top of the Myspace curator playlist!

  • @Mackattack946
    @Mackattack946 5 лет назад +581

    This song always reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe’s “the bells” because it starts off innocent and progressively gets angrier and angrier till everything just goes nuts ❤️

    • @c.yr0623
      @c.yr0623 5 лет назад +1

      Little Mac attac I see that now! Omg wow

    • @Peanutdenver
      @Peanutdenver 5 лет назад +19

      Good analogy...It's all about how our rich and powerful politicians are controlling the masses with false promises in their ivory towers until the people are sick of it and revolt. Only to be murdered for standing up for what is right. Flobots have some mad tracks about politics. They did a great diss track to logan paul too that is super tough.

    • @meganaxeliar
      @meganaxeliar 5 лет назад +1

      I just read that poem, now I’m scared

    • @unknownperson-rq1nf
      @unknownperson-rq1nf 4 года назад +2

      the end kinda reminds me of big brother because of the camera's and stuff. i can imagine the beginning of big brother happening and building up is this. like if there is a movie on the book this would be the beginning of a flashback or something.

    • @Catalistic
      @Catalistic 4 года назад +2

      So... growing up?

  • @Kazekiddo101
    @Kazekiddo101 7 лет назад +290

    It's sad how this song becomes more and more relevant as time goes on.

    • @TheeGreenDino
      @TheeGreenDino 7 лет назад +9

      7 years old and still as relevant as ever.

    • @earthalien769
      @earthalien769 7 лет назад

      WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS!?

    • @bnoname673
      @bnoname673 7 лет назад

      +Earth Alien qrr
      €{{€{¶¶}¶

    • @zarsasilver
      @zarsasilver 7 лет назад +16

      It's about how a little bit of courage and confidence led to much greater and powerful things ... and how that confidence can go too far.

    • @coreysturner2748
      @coreysturner2748 7 лет назад

      Zarsa

  • @jordancressley7385
    @jordancressley7385 4 месяца назад +7

    This was one of my good friend's favorite songs. He commited suicide back in October of 2016. Miss you, Tyler. John, miss you too homie. I wish you guys were still here. Tyler, i miss playing call of duty zombies with you. Youd have liked black ops 4 zombies. John, i miss jamming with you. We didnt spend a lot of time together but that doesnt mean i dont miss you

  • @myfirstcrappyvideobilly
    @myfirstcrappyvideobilly 5 дней назад

    Ms. Rice. You are my personal hero. I've read your books. Every one.

  • @s.gabriel2853
    @s.gabriel2853 6 лет назад +162

    Thank you, Philip de Franco, for introducing me to the Flobots.

  • @milktoast5716
    @milktoast5716 8 лет назад +248

    I once saw a guy riding his bike with no handlebars uphill. Like that's fuckng skill.

    • @jeremyvandale9252
      @jeremyvandale9252 8 лет назад +8

      it's easy to ride a bike without handlebars, the only hard part is trying to keep the front wheel straight

    • @andrelopez3321
      @andrelopez3321 8 лет назад

      It's not hard trust me, it's all about balance

    • @blatantchutoy1555
      @blatantchutoy1555 8 лет назад +1

      +Jeremy Vandale it's all easy to me. I used to ride all the way to school no handed!

    • @iwantdeathanddeathwantsme815
      @iwantdeathanddeathwantsme815 8 лет назад +4

      +Trek Sand wow

    • @jeremyvandale9252
      @jeremyvandale9252 8 лет назад +2

      Trek Sand WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!!?!??

  • @Igomeow7383
    @Igomeow7383 7 месяцев назад +14

    We need songs like this now more than ever!❤😊

    • @Igomeow7383
      @Igomeow7383 7 месяцев назад

      I'm just grateful. So thank you. I love your music. Totally understand. Even if I don't know much at 40 years old.

    • @Igomeow7383
      @Igomeow7383 6 месяцев назад +1

      I get it now. Damn it

  • @raisefanfics
    @raisefanfics 13 дней назад +1

    I remember listening to this song during Eight Grade English class and trying to interpret this song. Now, I see this song as something a lot of us can relate.

  • @sodado6989
    @sodado6989 5 лет назад +988

    6 year old: Look dad, no training wheels!!
    Flobots: I'm about to end this man's whole career

    • @mumblezz__5890
      @mumblezz__5890 5 лет назад +2

      Sodado you trynna joke and don’t even know what’s going on. You prolly 6.

    • @supremeeditz814
      @supremeeditz814 5 лет назад

      no

    • @doge_loord808
      @doge_loord808 5 лет назад +2

      Took you a couple of years to think of this huh?

    • @MegaEpicMax
      @MegaEpicMax 5 лет назад

      Sodado that’s pretty lit

    • @hiuer1945
      @hiuer1945 5 лет назад +17

      Why the fuck is this man getting shat on by random people for making a joke? Fill me in on this please.

  • @cjrockband
    @cjrockband 3 года назад +653

    This is exactly how people that ride without holding the handlebars act.

  • @samantharokus862
    @samantharokus862 19 дней назад +2

    Holy shit yeah here in 2024 . How prophetic it is today

  • @Bladeboii
    @Bladeboii 8 месяцев назад +10

    Been listening to this since 2010

  • @ne80219
    @ne80219 2 года назад +1515

    We had to bury a childhood friend today. This was his favorite song and they played it at his funeral today. I can never hear it the same. Rest easy man.

  • @carlosrivas3489
    @carlosrivas3489 7 лет назад +2368

    well that escalated fucking quickly

    • @danielgalindo5304
      @danielgalindo5304 7 лет назад +3

      hue hue hue

    • @theflanman420420
      @theflanman420420 7 лет назад +15

      tastiest of space so does reality

    • @steampunkgirl5136
      @steampunkgirl5136 7 лет назад +5

      well actually it was probably over a course of a year or more so not really.

    • @carlosrivas3489
      @carlosrivas3489 7 лет назад +88

      Steampunk Girl going from riding a bike with no handlebars to dictating a nation in a year is pretty quick

    • @gregoryjimenez2068
      @gregoryjimenez2068 7 лет назад +27

      Did you just assume its gender?

  • @Conus426
    @Conus426 2 месяца назад +2

    Finally found this song again...

  • @LuffyTheLabrador
    @LuffyTheLabrador 2 месяца назад +2

    My big brother showed me this back in the day I first thought it was Eminem lol RIP bro thx for the memories