I had a Math Teacher who was about 25 years old or so back in the mid 60's. She wore short skirts and sat on her desk bouncing her legs. That's all I can remember about Math that year..
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, this was considered all in fun. People, including parents, weren’t sensitive and didn’t overreact to videos like this that were just plain hilarious. I’m a 55 year old mother to 19 year old twin boys and I have no problem with them listening to this. (And they do!) Nah man, the new stuff is just different mainly because they mean what they’re saying. Long live rock and roll! 🎸🤘🏼
The kids in the video represented the Band members when they were in High School. Each member of the band had is own Kid-version of himself in the video. This song was a story about their fantasy teacher when they were all in school. The video wasn't pornographic or explicit like the booty-snapping, twerking girls in today's video's. They were just pretty girls dancing in their bathing suites. And yes, this was a fantasy version of all the 16, 17, and 18 year old boys in every high school in America. Every school had THAT teacher... who was in her mid-late 20's, smoking hot, and was the gossip of every kid in every gym class or lunch room. In my senior year, 17 / 18 years old, my teacher happened to be a history teacher. She was 27 and a blonde bombshell. So I can relate to the kids in this video. Especially that this video came out my senior year in High School! At this point, this video is very tame and almost campy compared to most videos depicting women.
@@DougFM End of the video they are talking about graduation. This was supposed to be high school but the kids looked a little too young for high school.
The kids are ACTORS. Besides, this was FUN not illicit. That's the mindset of today. Everything has to be bad. People who think ANYTHING, but the heart of man is the devil is DELUYDED.
Yea this was the era of Baywatch, Spuds MacKenzie surrounded by models in bikinis in every other commercial, Coppertone girls, L'eggs Pantyhose commercials, morning workout tv where the girls were HOT and wore basically nothing. Everything now is so sanitized lol.
neo feminism has completely cucked the males in the zoomer generation. we have to program masculinity back into young males if we are to have any hope!
The 80s a much more lighthearted time. Lots of fun and you did not have a bunch of people getting offended by the slightest thing. God I miss those years!!!
We didn’t give a shit in the 80’s 😎 There was no worry or psychological analysis about any of this…which is why it was so great. Gen X teens were the first MTV generation and we thrived on the fun of this kind of chaos. You can still see it today. Boomers and Millennials and Gen Z are all analyzing and pointing fingers and being woke about music and culture, and Gen X is sitting back, internally rolling our eyes, and whispering smart ass sarcastic comments. At least where I come from 😂 And respectfully, when you say you can’t believe it while watching this, that just shows that the subsequent generations have worked hard to put those boundaries back up
As a fellow gen Xer, I totally agree. These younger generations have a stick up their asses all the time and where has it gotten them? Chill and don’t take yourself so seriously.
I'm not the biggest Van Halen fan, although I respect the hell out of how talented they were. But this song is hands down my favorite. The opening percussion and riff is one of my all time favorite song intros. It was also one of my favorite videos as a thirteen year old. Fire.
we had fun in the 80's. that's it. fun. this isn't to be taken seriously, it's to help you have fun while driving home from work, or to keep you going while doing chores, or to liven up a party. it was fun. if you try to dissect it and look at it through a "woke" lens, you'll miss the point entirely. I'm a white guy, and I remember Eddie Murphy making fun of how white guys dance, laughing that we only had 1 move, and questioning whether we listen to the words or the beat, lol. I laughed my ass off. I wasn't offended that he was making fun of me, because he wasn't. he was using a racial stereotype to be funny, and it was funny... really funny. Same here. This song isn't to be taken seriously. It's a goof. I mean, come on... the band members are in orange suits doing goofy dance steps including hands on their crotches, lol. It's a song about little boy crushes on their teachers, something most all men experienced at least once in their schooling years, and the bikini/ strip club thing was fantasy. It's all fun and games. Back then we laughed at this stuff, instead of being thin-skinned and whining about how insensitive it might be, lol. I've lived through both time periods now. the wild 80's and the woke 20's, and I can tell you with 100% certainty... it was all better back then!
I second this. The 80's was a time when everyone knew when a joke was a joke, and if you were offended, you were probably the problem or the exception to the rule. The 80's was about getting along and finding common ground, making friends and having new experiences (within reason) without it being forced on you.
@@andreadeamon6419 I was born in 66 so I totally enjoyed everything through the 70s and 80s more than anything we've heard since. We had finally gotten to a place where anything goes, and nobody took themselves that damn serious.
I agree! Born in ‘64 and the 80’s were awesome and VH ruled!! Yes the women were very sexualized… lots of 80’s bands were on that bandwagon! Sex sold records! The unfortunate battle was for the women in rock at the time. Just look at old interviews with the Wilson sisters from Heart or Joan Jett… lots of battles being taken seriously as an artist for women at that time!
I spent my teens in the 80's and loved it. 80's were awesome. I'm so glad I grew up then, I couldn't imagine growing up in the ultra sensitive times today. Every decade has gotten progressively softer and softer ever since.
Funny thing about that "Seventeen" song..... In 1981, Joan Jett recorded a cover of The Arrows' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll". She sang about hooking up with a 17-year-old boy. And nobody batted an eye. The following year, 1982, Stevie Nicks (who is a woman, in case you don't know who she is, and the former lead singer of the band Fleetwood Mac), recorded a song called "Edge Of Seventeen", which is about....again....being an older woman hooking up with a 17-year-old boy. And again, nobody said a damn thing. Seven years after THAT, in 1989, when the band Winger (yeah, Winger, not Warrant, but you were close) released "Seventeen"...about an older MAN with a 17-year-old GIRL....people lost their freakin' minds. Kinda weird how that worked, huh?
The Beatles first #1 hit, I SAW HER STANDING THERE, starts with "Well, she was just 17, ...If you know what I mean".... Elvis' wife was 15 when they officially got married. Jerry Lee Lewis (great balls of fire) married his 14 year old 2nd cousin after dating for a year. This is the way things were back then.
I myself, in the 7th grade had a massive crush on my teacher. Mrs. Nowak. It was the only class I got strait A's in. SOCIAL STUDIES. She was a Cher look alike. I was 13. In 1978. So, this song has a special place in my heart.
Growing up in the 70's and 80's were a blast. It was a simpler time so chill. I also tell younger people that the music was so great. They just have no idea.Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, AC-DC, The Stone, music back then was just different. They don't make music like that anymore! The 70's and 80's were definitely the best decade's of music.
Eddie had the most amazing swing to his guitar playing at it was abundant in that guitar solo... I always love that section. And I think this is one of the funniest videos ever. From the absurdity of the teachers dancing in the bikini's to the four kids as younger versions of the band, to the hilarious shots of the band doing "choreographed" dancing in those suits. It's just great stuff. This is not about adults and kids, this is about the male psyche as he grows into being a young man and the ridiculousness of it all...LOL. It's from his perspective. Oh, and shout out to Miss Blackmon!
YES! That drum intro blew my mind when I found this track in my early teens... and yes, we all had that one hot substitute teacher we just couldn't stop looking at when she was writing on the chalkboard, shaking that fiiine ........
I remember riding to school as a freshman in 88-89 in a seniors Dodge Daytona Zturbo listening to this while going 100 mph on back roads while jumping over little hills in the road and hitting my head on the roof . Good times. As Always , love brother
I was 10 when this came out, and the video was all over MTV. It definitely made me feel some kind of way, even if I didn’t know why I was so interested in the video. But Van Halen were the first band I really got into and they were HUGE in 1984 and all over MTV. Van Halen and breakdancing is what 1984 was all about for me!
Van Halen could have been one of those bands that took themselves super seriously because they definitely had some of the most elite musicians to ever pick up instruments, but for the most part, they chose fun! You have to go into deep cuts to get more serious content. I remember that 80's very fondly and blasting Van Halen in my Trans Am as soon as school let out was a feeling I will never forget. These songs always take me back there.
Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat It. Listen to it now and you can instantly tell it's Eddie. Toto was the studio band for that whole album.
Yeah when I first heard Beat it I trashed it because I said some dude is trying way to hard to sound like Eddie. Then later was like. Oh that's why it sounds like Van Halen.
The last time I heard this song live was at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium on Sept 3rd 2022. Wolfgang Van Halen, (Eddies son), played lead guitar and crushed it!! The first time I heard it live was at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donnington in 1984!!
Wow, glad Van Halen was given to Gen X. You know what we did when this video came out? We laughed and loved Van Halen even more and eddie was dope, all of the band was hilarious here. A world that cant laugh is a very sad world. Thank you Van Halen for this video and the music. Thank you for making us laugh. Rock on GEN X!
another little gem with this video...the scene where the teacher is on the desk with the chalkboard behind her...look at the numbers on the board. each number translated to the letter in the alphabet....1 = A, 2 = B etc...if read from right to left, backwards...it spells out 'HOLY SHIT". David Lee Roth was the mastermind of all of this stuff and he snuck that on MTV back in 1984, these days, it's not a big deal to just say it
I’m tripping you guys never listened to radio stations outside of hip hop stations, I’m glad you guys finally expanding your horizons. Awesome Reaction you old farts
Actually, reading all these comments from my fellow Gen X’ers on how great our childhood was in the ‘80s is making me a little emotional, lol. It’s so different now, you guys. We really had it great.
btw...it's Winger who had the hit "Seventeen", not Warrant. But, there's definitely a lot of them that didn't age well from back in the day. Here's a few for example... "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss. "Jailbait' by Ted Nugent. "All In The Name of Rock' by Motley Crue....lyrics: "She's only 15, she's the reason I can't sleep. You say illegal, I say, legal's never been my scene, oh yeah". The 80s were a wild time, lol
Oh I can't wait for this! This would definitely not be allowed these days in The Land of the Offended! Totally normal for us GenXers! We were wild and didn't give a @#&*!
Hahahah I’m in the middle because I thought this was hilarious but as a dad I was like oh sh** they turned a class room to a strip club 😂 That’s nuts lol!
@@BlackPegasusRaps Yes it is hilarious! Best line ever "I don't feel tardy!" If you really want to see some messed up hilarious music,check out Steel Panther! Asian Hooker,Gloryhole,Always Gonna be a Ho. Those guys will have you rollin'!!
@@BlackPegasusRaps If you think this is risque, don't check out "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" by Meatloaf or "Dynamo Hum" by Frank Zappa. They'll probably make you faint.
Whining has become an art form among the grievance miners. If things from the past offend them, they shouldn't watch them, just looking for things to be "outraged," by.
I was 14 and in 9th grade when this song came out. The 80s were so much fun, and everything wasn't taken so seriously. These kids were around 13 or 14 in this video. This year, we had a new home web teacher right out of college. She was gorgeous. Every boy tried to transfer to home ec! 😂 Nothing was so politically correct, like today. It was fun, no one took any of this seriously. For of those boys in that class represented the members of Van Halen in their early teens. Vice-president Al Gore's wife went after rock music in the 80s. Take a look at Dee Snyder, the lead singer from Twisted Sister speaking to Congress. (RUclips video title - How Twisted Sister Outclassed Congress) It's a great video about 'adults misunderstanding rock music' and he put them in their place!
For real, I love when you get off track, it's even more fun when you have guests. Love your music journey. I spent 6 years over seas in the military so I get what u mean. Its like I have a 6 yr gap that's missing.
The defining years, of my middle school days. Our band teacher, took turnes, with all us boys. Even letting us drive her, Mustang Cobra, around town during class....
Eddie is the man. However, his brother Alex (the drummer) always seems to be overshadowed in Van Halen, but he is way underrated thoughout music circles. This song Alex shows off! 🍻
My 6th grade teacher used to wear these button down shirts and the buttons used to be spaced so wide apart (she had a big rack) that whenever she bent over a little bit you could see inside her shirt. So many of us boys in that class got wood to that teacher every day in class.
We ROCKED in the 80's... My Mom was a hippie. Weed was part of the culture. If this was bad... Watch the movie Taxi Driver at 8 years old... 70's was peace, sex and drugs...
graduated in 84......watching you guys.....if you haven't lived it, you wouldn't understand. girls, weed, coke, music , parties, and fast cars......24/7. DAZED AND CONFUSED !!!!! if you want to try and understand.
You know 120,000 songs are released every day right? You dont think more than 2% of them have sick guitar rifts and a catchy hook? Maybe you arent actually searching in the genres you like anymore
@@121scarface First of all, I said the album, not this specific song, so maybe actually read with comprehension before you start throwing shade. Second, I have four kids, so yes I listen to a lot of new music. At least 99.5% of it is garbage, so by definition my original statement is still accurate. And third, do you know what 'imho' means? In my humble opinion. You are more than welcome to your own opinion, but don't presume that you can change mine, or that I give a rat's ass about yours beyond respecting your right to have one, no matter how dubious its quality.
By far their heaviest track. Another great one from their 1984 LP is titled Panama. To me, to this day, Panama seems overshadowed by Jump and HFT. The intro solo on drums, by Alex Van Halen, is insane.
The kid that played Michael Anthony’s “mini me” is Yano Anaya. He was Grover Dill, the bully Scott Farkus’ little henchman. He also played the paperboy in Better Off Dead.
Waldo’s purple Excalibur at the end belonged to their attorney and was always parked at The Rainbow! His house was our after party place every weekend! Fun times!
Looking at this from a 2024 lense is different then the 80's. All boys had a teacher crush at one point. Its a fun song and video portraying the band members. If it was one kid fantasizing about one teacher would either be boring or creepier😅 The industry is what ruins it. They look at this success and then repeat and repeat, they get raunchier and raunchier till they've x'd the music and fun. Loved the reaction guys and your POV. Hope you get to some Van Haggar as well. Total different vibe
Mentioned at the 13:50 mark, the song is "17 "is by Winger and it rocks. The 80's was the greatest decade to grow up in....So very grateful in hindsight.
Hurts my heart to see Van Halen from the late 70's to seeing this... and late 70's I'm olde than y'all but I was 13 in 1980. Give me old school Van Halen every day and twice on Sunday
Fun fact : This music video was inspired for Situations by Escape The Fate that you saw a couple days ago. If look compare the two videos, they are directed the same haha. Hot For Teatcher was the song that got me into Van Halen because I saw the comparison haha
We who grew up in the 80s and watching MTV and liostening to the huge variety of very creative music made us into people who are very opne to 'different' or 'strange', 'weird' sounds, performances, movies, videos etc. It was a time of huge performance & music/video experimentation & yeah, we knew it was out there, but we thought being out there was cool! We got so excited when some new, crazy video or song came out. We didn't way, 'What is this weird stuff?', we said, 'This crazy shit is so cool!'.When music quality & creativity dropped off so bad from the mid-90s, younger people now are so much more shelterd from weird, cook, strange, experimental or enen just silly, fun stuff & can't deal with it, lol.
I graduated from high school in 1985. Van Halen was the band of my youth. I still listen to them full blast and I’m 57 years old!!! So glad you’re giving VH the respect they deserve!
I feel like this song was part of my life. I had a vivacious Ukrainian Ancient European History teacher that sat on her desk, in skirts, and lectured us. I went on to try and save western civilization through exquisite debauchery
as an 80s kid, when we saw this video we just looked at it like the kids in the video were supposed to be high school kids but they used younger kids to play them, it seemed like harmless fun at the time because we all knew it was the guys in Van Halen singing the song, not the kids
Fun facts: Waldo was played by Phil Hartman. Yes, THAT Phil Hartman. Also, in the dancing scenes, Alex Van Halen (Eddie's brother) is the one who was always off rhythm.
The only Phil Hartman I know was on SNL. He was on SNL in the late 80's and was approximately 35-40 years old. This video was released around 1984. I don't see how Waldo could be played by this Hartman. If there's another Hartman, please let us know, b/c I don't know who you're talking about.
Graduated in 82. So very familiar with song your trying to remember, withe the line "shes just 16 yrs old, leave her alone they say" called into the night by benny maradones. Us girls loved the song as a love song. Realized what it was about after becoming adults. Wants check out the best acoustic guitar players ever. Rick dawes and tommy emmanuel version of somebody i used to know. Is so awesome
Hahaha, you just had to be there. We were kids, the song and video are dope (we only had videos on Saturday nights back then!), and we loved it. And we loved all the other videos too. It was a great time to grow up. I wish I could explain, but you just had to be there. - ‘74
I will always have a soft spot for the original Van Halen band with David Lee Roth as the singer. I grew up in the same town and I remember them playing locally before they really took off and became so popular. RIP Eddy
Definitely my favourite VH track..! That opening drum beat is wild and the ZZ Top-esque La Grange guitar punctuation is definitely a rock classic. Next up - Girls Girls Girls by Mötley Crüe
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I graduated high school in 1982....the 80s rocked.....the weed had seeds.....but it was an awesome decade.....Peace!
This was an awesome time to be young! Class of 82 as well!
Class of '85 here. 80's were great!
When the weed had seeds, you could make more weed. Now nothing is free.
and they wonder why kids sleep with their teachers lol class of 86 80s rocked
@@bretthardin9239 Class of 86...same here 😎🤘
I had a Math Teacher who was about 25 years old or so back in the mid 60's. She wore short skirts and sat on her desk bouncing her legs. That's all I can remember about Math that year..
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i think i had that teacher too......im not sure though... she taught math? could've sworn she was teaching me something else. ;)
Eddie's solo walking on top of the tables in the library is one of the more iconic rock moments of the 80s.
God Bless Van Halen and the 80s.
I was a freshman in high school when this came out. The 80s were the best time to be alive. Great job guys!
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, this was considered all in fun. People, including parents, weren’t sensitive and didn’t overreact to videos like this that were just plain hilarious. I’m a 55 year old mother to 19 year old twin boys and I have no problem with them listening to this. (And they do!) Nah man, the new stuff is just different mainly because they mean what they’re saying. Long live rock and roll! 🎸🤘🏼
LOL! That’s cause most of the dads were hot for teacher too!
@@causticchameleon7861 😂
Let's just call it like it is, the 80s ruled.
The kids in the video represented the Band members when they were in High School.
Each member of the band had is own Kid-version of himself in the video. This song was a story about their fantasy teacher when they were all in school.
The video wasn't pornographic or explicit like the booty-snapping, twerking girls in today's video's. They were just pretty girls dancing in their bathing suites.
And yes, this was a fantasy version of all the 16, 17, and 18 year old boys in every high school in America. Every school had THAT teacher... who was in her mid-late 20's, smoking hot, and was the gossip of every kid in every gym class or lunch room.
In my senior year, 17 / 18 years old, my teacher happened to be a history teacher. She was 27 and a blonde bombshell. So I can relate to the kids in this video. Especially that this video came out my senior year in High School!
At this point, this video is very tame and almost campy compared to most videos depicting women.
You think those little kids are in high school? It's grade school.
@@DougFM End of the video they are talking about graduation. This was supposed to be high school but the kids looked a little too young for high school.
The kids are ACTORS. Besides, this was FUN not illicit. That's the mindset of today. Everything has to be bad. People who think ANYTHING, but the heart of man is the devil is DELUYDED.
Yea this was the era of Baywatch, Spuds MacKenzie surrounded by models in bikinis in every other commercial, Coppertone girls, L'eggs Pantyhose commercials, morning workout tv where the girls were HOT and wore basically nothing. Everything now is so sanitized lol.
agree, these two don't deserve to even watch Van Halen. He keeps calling David Lee Roth "Tommy", ...uh! so sad.
neo feminism has completely cucked the males in the zoomer generation. we have to program masculinity back into young males if we are to have any hope!
@@evilfantasy69 oh no, now we have Drag Queen Story Hour..
@@EricFalkDesign Really? I have a lot of respect for them to listen, and enjoy, music other than what they are accustomed to. Quit being a gatekeeper.
The 80s a much more lighthearted time. Lots of fun and you did not have a bunch of people getting offended by the slightest thing. God I miss those years!!!
Me too!
We didn’t give a shit in the 80’s 😎 There was no worry or psychological analysis about any of this…which is why it was so great. Gen X teens were the first MTV generation and we thrived on the fun of this kind of chaos. You can still see it today. Boomers and Millennials and Gen Z are all analyzing and pointing fingers and being woke about music and culture, and Gen X is sitting back, internally rolling our eyes, and whispering smart ass sarcastic comments. At least where I come from 😂 And respectfully, when you say you can’t believe it while watching this, that just shows that the subsequent generations have worked hard to put those boundaries back up
Hey now, us early Millennials (Xennials to some, early 80s) are not much different than y'all. We think the woke stuff doesn't make sense.
As a fellow gen Xer, I totally agree. These younger generations have a stick up their asses all the time and where has it gotten them? Chill and don’t take yourself so seriously.
I'm not the biggest Van Halen fan, although I respect the hell out of how talented they were. But this song is hands down my favorite. The opening percussion and riff is one of my all time favorite song intros.
It was also one of my favorite videos as a thirteen year old. Fire.
Born in 1970…yep rolling ,y eyes and making sarcastic comments..lol
Gen X... true words
Them 10 year old’s ain’t confused . Gotta love the 80’s .
we had fun in the 80's. that's it. fun. this isn't to be taken seriously, it's to help you have fun while driving home from work, or to keep you going while doing chores, or to liven up a party. it was fun. if you try to dissect it and look at it through a "woke" lens, you'll miss the point entirely. I'm a white guy, and I remember Eddie Murphy making fun of how white guys dance, laughing that we only had 1 move, and questioning whether we listen to the words or the beat, lol. I laughed my ass off. I wasn't offended that he was making fun of me, because he wasn't. he was using a racial stereotype to be funny, and it was funny... really funny. Same here. This song isn't to be taken seriously. It's a goof. I mean, come on... the band members are in orange suits doing goofy dance steps including hands on their crotches, lol. It's a song about little boy crushes on their teachers, something most all men experienced at least once in their schooling years, and the bikini/ strip club thing was fantasy. It's all fun and games. Back then we laughed at this stuff, instead of being thin-skinned and whining about how insensitive it might be, lol. I've lived through both time periods now. the wild 80's and the woke 20's, and I can tell you with 100% certainty... it was all better back then!
Sure was - born in 67 and I've been looking for my time machine to go back. Today sux!!
I second this. The 80's was a time when everyone knew when a joke was a joke, and if you were offended, you were probably the problem or the exception to the rule. The 80's was about getting along and finding common ground, making friends and having new experiences (within reason) without it being forced on you.
@@andreadeamon6419 I was born in 66 so I totally enjoyed everything through the 70s and 80s more than anything we've heard since. We had finally gotten to a place where anything goes, and nobody took themselves that damn serious.
I agree! Born in ‘64 and the 80’s were awesome and VH ruled!! Yes the women were very sexualized… lots of 80’s bands were on that bandwagon! Sex sold records! The unfortunate battle was for the women in rock at the time. Just look at old interviews with the Wilson sisters from Heart or Joan Jett… lots of battles being taken seriously as an artist for women at that time!
Im black and concur. Rock on Gen X. Love you all!
This was fun! The 80’s were wild! Thanks y’all!😂❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
Yall were late 😅
Watching the video is fun and brings back nostalgia, but if u just heard it in the car... with the sound high... it Freakin ROCKS 🤘🏽😎
I spent my teens in the 80's and loved it. 80's were awesome. I'm so glad I grew up then, I couldn't imagine growing up in the ultra sensitive times today. Every decade has gotten progressively softer and softer ever since.
Funny thing about that "Seventeen" song.....
In 1981, Joan Jett recorded a cover of The Arrows' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll". She sang about hooking up with a 17-year-old boy. And nobody batted an eye. The following year, 1982, Stevie Nicks (who is a woman, in case you don't know who she is, and the former lead singer of the band Fleetwood Mac), recorded a song called "Edge Of Seventeen", which is about....again....being an older woman hooking up with a 17-year-old boy. And again, nobody said a damn thing. Seven years after THAT, in 1989, when the band Winger (yeah, Winger, not Warrant, but you were close) released "Seventeen"...about an older MAN with a 17-year-old GIRL....people lost their freakin' minds. Kinda weird how that worked, huh?
The Beatles first #1 hit, I SAW HER STANDING THERE, starts with "Well, she was just 17, ...If you know what I mean".... Elvis' wife was 15 when they officially got married. Jerry Lee Lewis (great balls of fire) married his 14 year old 2nd cousin after dating for a year. This is the way things were back then.
lol This is how I remember the eighties
😂 me to
I myself, in the 7th grade had a massive crush on my teacher. Mrs. Nowak. It was the only class I got strait A's in. SOCIAL STUDIES. She was a Cher look alike. I was 13. In 1978. So, this song has a special place in my heart.
Growing up in the 70's and 80's were a blast. It was a simpler time so chill. I also tell younger people that the music was so great. They just have no idea.Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, AC-DC, The Stone, music back then was just different. They don't make music like that anymore! The 70's and 80's were definitely the best decade's of music.
it was a golden age
Not to forget ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man and legs. Everything from Hard Rock to glam rock it was all that and the bag of chips
We were blessed with it, stevie nicks, earth wind and fire, skid row, living color, all kinds of groups.
I've been a drummer for 10 years and this song has kicked my ass, especially the ride cymbal groblve with the constant double bass
Eddie had the most amazing swing to his guitar playing at it was abundant in that guitar solo... I always love that section. And I think this is one of the funniest videos ever. From the absurdity of the teachers dancing in the bikini's to the four kids as younger versions of the band, to the hilarious shots of the band doing "choreographed" dancing in those suits. It's just great stuff. This is not about adults and kids, this is about the male psyche as he grows into being a young man and the ridiculousness of it all...LOL. It's from his perspective.
Oh, and shout out to Miss Blackmon!
That was Winger "She's only Seventeen" also checkout Cherry Pie by Warrant
Don't care what anyone says, that riff in Seventeen is money
Need to check out "I saw red" too
There was also "Sexy & 17" by the Stray Cats, "Rock the Cradle of Love" by Billy Idol, and several others with the same theme.
"Into the night" by Benny Mardones is like that too
@@savi_rizzo71"Into the Night" might be the "champion" of this category 👀
YES! That drum intro blew my mind when I found this track in my early teens... and yes, we all had that one hot substitute teacher we just couldn't stop looking at when she was writing on the chalkboard, shaking that fiiine ........
Im from 75’, 90’ was good music too, from hip hop to metal, was great but im ok 70’ and 80’ were incredible, so to live those décades
I remember riding to school as a freshman in 88-89 in a seniors Dodge Daytona Zturbo listening to this while going 100 mph on back roads while jumping over little hills in the road and hitting my head on the roof . Good times. As Always , love brother
I was 10 when this came out, and the video was all over MTV. It definitely made me feel some kind of way, even if I didn’t know why I was so interested in the video. But Van Halen were the first band I really got into and they were HUGE in 1984 and all over MTV. Van Halen and breakdancing is what 1984 was all about for me!
Van Halen could have been one of those bands that took themselves super seriously because they definitely had some of the most elite musicians to ever pick up instruments, but for the most part, they chose fun! You have to go into deep cuts to get more serious content. I remember that 80's very fondly and blasting Van Halen in my Trans Am as soon as school let out was a feeling I will never forget. These songs always take me back there.
Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's Beat It. Listen to it now and you can instantly tell it's Eddie. Toto was the studio band for that whole album.
Yeah when I first heard Beat it I trashed it because I said some dude is trying way to hard to sound like Eddie. Then later was like. Oh that's why it sounds like Van Halen.
Gen-X had different rules. Our own.
You know you were an 80’s kid if you have ever said “I don’t feel tardy” when you were late
Yup. I still use it to this day.
No one was damaged or hurt watching or making this video, in fact we had...fun. imagine that. Fun without artificial guilt.
IDK my daughter was raised on MTV from Day One and I sometimes wonder what was I thinking
In the 80’s scoring with a hot teacher was life goals. Now days is predatory.
The last time I heard this song live was at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium on Sept 3rd 2022. Wolfgang Van Halen, (Eddies son), played lead guitar and crushed it!!
The first time I heard it live was at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donnington in 1984!!
David Lee Roth was the absolute Showman I loved his solo stuff like Yankee Rose and Just a Gigolo
My dad was a preacher lol but he listened to this stuff all the time, how I found a love with rock
Was 16 when this came out. God I miss the 80’s!!
Wow, glad Van Halen was given to Gen X. You know what we did when this video came out? We laughed and loved Van Halen even more and eddie was dope, all of the band was hilarious here. A world that cant laugh is a very sad world. Thank you Van Halen for this video and the music. Thank you for making us laugh. Rock on GEN X!
another little gem with this video...the scene where the teacher is on the desk with the chalkboard behind her...look at the numbers on the board. each number translated to the letter in the alphabet....1 = A, 2 = B etc...if read from right to left, backwards...it spells out 'HOLY SHIT". David Lee Roth was the mastermind of all of this stuff and he snuck that on MTV back in 1984, these days, it's not a big deal to just say it
I’m tripping you guys never listened to radio stations outside of hip hop stations, I’m glad you guys finally expanding your horizons. Awesome Reaction you old farts
This wasn't even considered pushing the boundaries. That's how chill and fun the 80's were. This was just hilarious. no cringe. At all.
Love this song 🤣 Have not heard it in a very long time.👯♀💃
Listen, I’m 54 years old so obviously you’re listening to this and this is one of my favorite songs ever still is!
The drums in this song were the bane of my life for like a whole year! I still have no clue how to do it!
They represented what was happening at that time.
Greatest generation ever! I was 8 in 1980 and 18 in 1990; I fully lived it!!! Totally... Freakin'... AWESOME 🤘🤘
Same age! Agree 100%
Actually, reading all these comments from my fellow Gen X’ers on how great our childhood was in the ‘80s is making me a little emotional, lol. It’s so different now, you guys. We really had it great.
Amazing fun band that didn't take themselves too seriously. ❤❤❤
btw...it's Winger who had the hit "Seventeen", not Warrant. But, there's definitely a lot of them that didn't age well from back in the day. Here's a few for example... "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss. "Jailbait' by Ted Nugent. "All In The Name of Rock' by Motley Crue....lyrics: "She's only 15, she's the reason I can't sleep. You say illegal, I say, legal's never been my scene, oh yeah". The 80s were a wild time, lol
Warrent had cherry pie
Billy Idol, Cradle of Love!
Seventeen from Winger is still a killer tune...!!! Very catchy guitar riffs.
Oh I can't wait for this! This would definitely not be allowed these days in The Land of the Offended! Totally normal for us GenXers! We were wild and didn't give a @#&*!
Hahahah I’m in the middle because I thought this was hilarious but as a dad I was like oh sh** they turned a class room to a strip club 😂 That’s nuts lol!
@@BlackPegasusRaps Yes it is hilarious! Best line ever "I don't feel tardy!" If you really want to see some messed up hilarious music,check out Steel Panther! Asian Hooker,Gloryhole,Always Gonna be a Ho. Those guys will have you rollin'!!
I am offended My little Miss Gender. We saw HIM last week. He looked like he was dressed by a tornado at a yard sale.
@@BlackPegasusRaps If you think this is risque, don't check out "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" by Meatloaf or "Dynamo Hum" by Frank Zappa. They'll probably make you faint.
Whining has become an art form among the grievance miners. If things from the past offend them, they shouldn't watch them, just looking for things to be "outraged," by.
Loving all the '80 reactions you doing these past few weeks. Epic!!
I had a teacher in 7th grade that every guy in Class had a crush on. We were all so bummed when she got engaged. Miss Flint, I’ll never forget her.
I was 14 and in 9th grade when this song came out. The 80s were so much fun, and everything wasn't taken so seriously.
These kids were around 13 or 14 in this video. This year, we had a new home web teacher right out of college. She was gorgeous. Every boy tried to transfer to home ec! 😂
Nothing was so politically correct, like today. It was fun, no one took any of this seriously. For of those boys in that class represented the members of Van Halen in their early teens.
Vice-president Al Gore's wife went after rock music in the 80s. Take a look at Dee Snyder, the lead singer from Twisted Sister speaking to Congress. (RUclips video title - How Twisted Sister Outclassed Congress) It's a great video about 'adults misunderstanding rock music' and he put them in their place!
That was wild but that WAS the 80's😮 I'm happy I lived through the era🎉
class of 86~my childhood was awesome! California was an amazing place to grow up!
For real, I love when you get off track, it's even more fun when you have guests. Love your music journey. I spent 6 years over seas in the military so I get what u mean. Its like I have a 6 yr gap that's missing.
The defining years, of my middle school days. Our band teacher, took turnes, with all us boys. Even letting us drive her, Mustang Cobra, around town during class....
Eddie is the man. However, his brother Alex (the drummer) always seems to be overshadowed in Van Halen, but he is way underrated thoughout music circles. This song Alex shows off! 🍻
there is a kid representing each band member. it aint rocket science.
My 6th grade teacher used to wear these button down shirts and the buttons used to be spaced so wide apart (she had a big rack) that whenever she bent over a little bit you could see inside her shirt. So many of us boys in that class got wood to that teacher every day in class.
I’m 59 the 80’s were about one thing, FUN, something in 2024 could learn from
Love that solo
Winger is the band that did the song 17.
Banging Your teacher was kind of a thing back in the 80's. Class of 84
The Mighty Van Halen was the BEST!!
We ROCKED in the 80's... My Mom was a hippie. Weed was part of the culture. If this was bad... Watch the movie Taxi Driver at 8 years old... 70's was peace, sex and drugs...
So good ------ love it. Great song , good fun times. World is always changing, boys
graduated in 84......watching you guys.....if you haven't lived it, you wouldn't understand. girls, weed, coke, music , parties, and fast cars......24/7. DAZED AND CONFUSED !!!!! if you want to try and understand.
Good lord...this album is 40 years old...and still better than 98% of the stuff dropping now. (imho)!
You know 120,000 songs are released every day right? You dont think more than 2% of them have sick guitar rifts and a catchy hook? Maybe you arent actually searching in the genres you like anymore
@@121scarface First of all, I said the album, not this specific song, so maybe actually read with comprehension before you start throwing shade.
Second, I have four kids, so yes I listen to a lot of new music. At least 99.5% of it is garbage, so by definition my original statement is still accurate.
And third, do you know what 'imho' means? In my humble opinion. You are more than welcome to your own opinion, but don't presume that you can change mine, or that I give a rat's ass about yours beyond respecting your right to have one, no matter how dubious its quality.
The best years to be alive!🤟
By far their heaviest track. Another great one from their 1984 LP is titled Panama. To me, to this day, Panama seems overshadowed by Jump and HFT. The intro solo on drums, by Alex Van Halen, is insane.
The kid that played Michael Anthony’s “mini me” is Yano Anaya. He was Grover Dill, the bully Scott Farkus’ little henchman. He also played the paperboy in Better Off Dead.
Waldo’s purple Excalibur at the end belonged to their attorney and was always parked at The Rainbow! His house was our after party place every weekend! Fun times!
*peak van friggin halen!*
fwiw i was diggin my teachers in elementary school.
That look on your face is priceless.
I frickin' love this channel!! Much respect...I have subscribed and look forward to joining the Fam-Bam conversation!!
Looking at this from a 2024 lense is different then the 80's. All boys had a teacher crush at one point. Its a fun song and video portraying the band members. If it was one kid fantasizing about one teacher would either be boring or creepier😅
The industry is what ruins it. They look at this success and then repeat and repeat, they get raunchier and raunchier till they've x'd the music and fun.
Loved the reaction guys and your POV.
Hope you get to some Van Haggar as well. Total different vibe
Mentioned at the 13:50 mark, the song is "17 "is by Winger and it rocks. The 80's was the greatest decade to grow up in....So very grateful in hindsight.
Hurts my heart to see Van Halen from the late 70's to seeing this... and late 70's I'm olde than y'all but I was 13 in 1980. Give me old school Van Halen every day and twice on Sunday
The 80’s ruled!!! Graduated HS in ‘88 and had the best childhood. Greatest music, people were not offended by everything. Best movies and comedy too!!
That Eruption performance is a must see
Fun fact : This music video was inspired for Situations by Escape The Fate that you saw a couple days ago. If look compare the two videos, they are directed the same haha. Hot For Teatcher was the song that got me into Van Halen because I saw the comparison haha
We who grew up in the 80s and watching MTV and liostening to the huge variety of very creative music made us into people who are very opne to 'different' or 'strange', 'weird' sounds, performances, movies, videos etc. It was a time of huge performance & music/video experimentation & yeah, we knew it was out there, but we thought being out there was cool! We got so excited when some new, crazy video or song came out. We didn't way, 'What is this weird stuff?', we said, 'This crazy shit is so cool!'.When music quality & creativity dropped off so bad from the mid-90s, younger people now are so much more shelterd from weird, cook, strange, experimental or enen just silly, fun stuff & can't deal with it, lol.
I graduated from high school in 1985. Van Halen was the band of my youth. I still listen to them full blast and I’m 57 years old!!! So glad you’re giving VH the respect they deserve!
I feel like this song was part of my life. I had a vivacious Ukrainian Ancient European History teacher that sat on her desk, in skirts, and lectured us. I went on to try and save western civilization through exquisite debauchery
as an 80s kid, when we saw this video we just looked at it like the kids in the video were supposed to be high school kids but they used younger kids to play them, it seemed like harmless fun at the time because we all knew it was the guys in Van Halen singing the song, not the kids
Fun facts:
Waldo was played by Phil Hartman. Yes, THAT Phil Hartman.
Also, in the dancing scenes, Alex Van Halen (Eddie's brother) is the one who was always off rhythm.
I love Alex. 100% underrated as a drummer!
The only Phil Hartman I know was on SNL. He was on SNL in the late 80's and was approximately 35-40 years old. This video was released around 1984. I don't see how Waldo could be played by this Hartman. If there's another Hartman, please let us know, b/c I don't know who you're talking about.
@@gracieb.3054 He means that Waldo's voice is performed by Phil Hartman.
@@xenialafleuri just looked that up myself. He was only the voice of Waldo
Graduated in 82. So very familiar with song your trying to remember, withe the line "shes just 16 yrs old, leave her alone they say" called into the night by benny maradones. Us girls loved the song as a love song. Realized what it was about after becoming adults. Wants check out the best acoustic guitar players ever. Rick dawes and tommy emmanuel version of somebody i used to know. Is so awesome
HAHA…you guys are geekin’ on all the “boy” stuff…and the song itself is DYNAMITE!
I watched this video dozens of times in the 80’s.. I turned out just fine. As did everyone I know. The 80’s were so much fun.
I was 8 in 84 when this came out. I saved up all summer to buy this cassette because of "Jump". Loved this album
Hahaha, you just had to be there. We were kids, the song and video are dope (we only had videos on Saturday nights back then!), and we loved it. And we loved all the other videos too. It was a great time to grow up. I wish I could explain, but you just had to be there. - ‘74
I will always have a soft spot for the original Van Halen band with David Lee Roth as the singer. I grew up in the same town and I remember them playing locally before they really took off and became so popular. RIP Eddy
I loved that comment we been looking for Waldo all these years and here he was in the broom closet all these years it’s the teacher lover it
Runnin with the devil. Little dreamer. Jamie’s cryin. Ain’t talkin bout love. That’s just off their first album. Gotta do some oldies of VH.
The 80s didn't have boundaries. 🤭
Watching your reaction to this is PRICELESS! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was in high school when this came out.
I love you recognized the beast but you didn't slow his roll! Great reaction as always thx guys!
Such a fun band
Definitely my favourite VH track..! That opening drum beat is wild and the ZZ Top-esque La Grange guitar punctuation is definitely a rock classic.
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