A while back my sister was working at a radio station and my mother called my sister at work. My sister was away from her desk but a woman with a "fake" southern accent answered. My mother left a message with her and then asked who the woman was. The woman said she was Reba McEntire. My mother thought she was talking to one of my sister's co-workers and said, "Yea right (the co worker) you got the voice down, but the accent needs work." My sister called mom back later and said Reba McEntire could hardly deliver the massage from laughing so hard. It actually had been Reba she was talking to.
Reba wanted to do this cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy" for years but her music industry "handlers" kept telling her no, that a dark song about a desperate mother selling her 15yr old daughter into high-end prostitution would kill her career. Eventually Reba got the handlers to back down & came out with one heck of a smash hit.
My grandpa was 12 during the Great Depression when his mom came to him one day and said she loved him, but because the gov’t wouldn’t give any help if there was an “able bodied man that could work” in the home. Which they considered him to be. At 12. She packed him a bag with clothes, some food, and the tiniest bit of money she had scrimped together, and he had to leave home, just so his mom and siblings wouldn’t starve to death. At 12, he became a hobo, riding the trains, joined the California Conservation Corps @ 14, lied about his age @ 16yo to join the navy during WW2, and wound up finding my gma in California when he was 18 and she was 15, fresh out of a country town in the hills to get a job to send money back home for her siblings, got charmed by a dashing young sailor, and they made it 72 years together before he passed @ 97. Hard times force hard choices, this kind of thing wasn’t limited to the south, he was from Idaho and she was from a no name border town in Texas.
A minor point but in the video, Fancy rips off the inscribed locket her mother gave her before turning her out to be "nice" to the men. Inscription: "To thine own self be true." When Fancy (Reba) comes back in this video, she finds the locket in a box in the bedroom. Her mother picked it up from the dirt after she tore it off and kept it. She places it on top of her mother's tombstone at the end of the song. Fantastic video and great rendition of the song.
This is not a biographical song. It is actually a cover of a Bobbie Gentry song. One of Reba's other great songs is "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" is also a cover, but Reba's version is well worth checking out. Another Bobbie Gentry song that is a great one to check out is "Ode To Billy Joe". Thanks for a great reaction.
This is a bit random but your comment brought it to my mind. Have you ever stopped to notice how many songs in country music are simply covers by current artists? Some things you wouldn't expect. Babies got her blue jeans on, 6 days on the road and I'm going to make it home tonight, The race is on, fool hearted man..........TONS of others
@@natecloe8535 Many songs get recorded by many artists, sometimes with a very different sound. There are also some great songs that are fresh when they come out. Don Williams "I believe in you" and Randy Travis 1982 as a couple of examples. Roger Miller and Tom T Hall wrote many of their own songs.
The lyrics to this song AND the video tell the entire story. Both are very important when interpreting what this story is about. It's heartbreaking and beautiful. In the beginning, she approaches her family's shack for the first time in 15 years; the shack where she was born and raised in poverty. She hears the voice of her mother calling her name "Faaancy." Fancy's family is poor. Her father ran off and left the family behind in the "rickety shack" to fend for themselves. Mama has (what seems to be) lung cancer -- "She looked at me and took a ragged breath. Your Pa's runned off, I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death." She can't afford schooling for Fancy, and can barely afford food. So, with love and desperation in her heart, Mama does what she thinks is best for Fancy, even if it's harsh. She dresses Fancy in a beautiful dress and shoes, tells Fancy "be nice to the gentlemen, and they'll be nice to you" and she gives her a heart-shaped locket. We see Fancy's mama kick her out of the house/shack, and Fancy is so young (18) that she is angry and upset, she doesn't understand why her mom is making her leave. So Fancy rips the locket off of her neck and throws it to the ground and leaves, never seeing her mama or her baby sibling again -- "The welfare people came and took the baby. Mama died and I ain't been back." She's homeless for a bit, living on the streets, and she starts to realize what her "Mama'd been talkin' about." She decides she's going to be successful and she sings "I's gonna be a lady someday, though I didn't know when or how. You know, I might've been born just plain, white trash, but Fancy was my name." Finally, a man takes her in -- "One week later, I was pouring his tea in a 5 room hotel suite." There are implications of Fancy possibly becoming an escort -- "I charmed a King, a Congressman and an occasional aristocrat. Then I got me a Georgia mansion and elegant New York townhouse flat and I ain't been back." More implications of POSSIBLY being an escort -- "In this world, there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites that call me 'bad.' They criticize Mama for turnin' me out no matter how little we had." But because she finally found success, she now understands completely what her Mama did for her when she kicked her out 15 years ago. We see Fancy find the locket that Mama gave her in a drawer in the old shack, and she places it on her Mama's grave site and says "It's okay Mama. I understand" and sings -- "Though I ain't had to worry about nothin' for now all 15 years, I can still hear the desperation of my poor Mama's voice ringin' in my ears." A part of the chorus that plays throughout the song is "Don't let me down, girl, your Mama's gonna move you up town." And after we see Fancy place the locket on her Mama's grave site, Fancy says "Well, I guess she did." Fancy is obviously doing well for herself as we can see she has a fur coat and other luxurious accessories. She returns to the shack to remember and thank her Mama, but the BEST part is if you pay attention at the end of the video, the shot zooms out to show you a full view of the shack and a sign that says the shack is being turned into Fancy Rae Baker's "Home for Runaways." This is Fancy's way of helping girls who are in the position Fancy used to be in. It's a tribute to her Mama.
The video ruins the song. It undermines the lyrics and the song writer's intention. I would love to hear what Bobby Gentry had to say about it. There is no "possibly." Fancy was "turned out" by her mother. That is a phrase that means prostituted. She was "taken in," she was "picked up off the streets" by a "benevolent" man. And then she went from rich man to richer man until she was independent wealthy. She went from teenage street walker to call girl to mistress, but it all means the same thing. In the song, Fancy did not start a charity or become a famous actress or movie star. That is the video's way of whitewashing teenage prostitution: it is all OK if you makes you famous. The charity is a form of penance. Fancy had nothing to apologize for and explicitly says she felt no shame. This video says the opposite and your take on it goes even further in concocting some modern day Pretty Woman fairy tale interpretation of a tragic reality for poor women faced throughout history.
The song was written by Bobby Gentry, who also wrote and sang the song Ode To Billy Joe. The song, Ode to Billy Joe was written as "study in unconscious cruelty" . Bobby Gentry grew up the Mississippi Delta region, and went to live with her Mother in California in the fall of 1955, shortly after the brutal (jim-crow era) murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till. Whose body was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. She said she was portraying the family's indifference to suicide in the song, Ode to Billy Joe.
I remember wishing SO BAD that I worked in her or George Straits employ when the Queen and King toured together. That was destined to make SO MUCH MONEY.
@@natecloe8535 lol...no skin in the game for me. About the only Country I like is Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Hank Jr, Buck Owens, and a few select others. I think growing up though I always heard LL called that. Just so ya know ; )
It's not about her at all. She's from a very small town in Oklahoma called Stringtown. She actually came up in Rodeo with her brothers and got her start singing the National Anthem around at all the rodeos. But her family farm is still in the town she grew up in. We drive through there every year to get to my family reunion.
The drums in Reba's version really makes it. For more Reba songs some hits, "One Promise Too Late", "Little Rock", "Is There Life Out There", "Climb That Mountain High", and "Cathy's Clown"(a cover of an Everly Brothers hit).
Reba is known for her mini-movies!! Next, you gotta do "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" (official video)---and you gotta pay close attention, like you did on this one, cuz there's twists and turns; you'll LOVE it!! I totally believe BJ and Reba go back a little bit---I think she'd be YOUR fan, BJ!!! Y'all done good on this'un!!! ❤
This song always makes me think of my grandmother (RIP). She was born in south Alabama in 1915. In 1928, she was 13 years old, it was the beginning of the great depression. She was already born into a poor family so at 13 she was married off to a 33 year old man. Things like that was common a long time ago, sad but it was surviving! Great reaction to a great song!
"FANCY" was written by BOBBIE GENTRY...THE COUNTRY MUSIC STAR that in 1968 won aĺl of the NASHVILLE and GRAMMY awards. Later she formed the first female production agency for women mainly!!
Reba actually had a very wholesome raising as 1 of 4 kids (& both patents) on a prosperous Oklahoma ranch. The whole family worked & went to church together.
Check out the original version by Bobbie Gentry, who wrote the song. There is a great live version from the Johnny Cash show with Bobbie dancing in a sexy red pantsuit.
Another really awesome version of this is Kelly Clarkson singing it for Reba when she was honored as part of the Kennedy Center Honors a few years ago. She kills it.
This wasn't Reba's life... but here's the thing... an amazing singing/artist can make u believe it... Reba makes you believe everything she sings because she feels the music
The original Bobbie Gentry version is worth a listen too. In the song Mama knew that Welfare would hopefully take the baby, but fancy had just turned 18. Prostitution was the only way Mama knew for Fancy to survive back in the early 50’s. In Gentry’s version you can feel the philosophical angle to the song. You would probably like that, Since you touched on that angle a little bit in this reaction. I did always like how this music video ended with Fancy creating a home for kids that age out of the system too though. Both versions are great in different ways.
REBA put on one of the most Amazing Live Concerts I've ever seen. She Changed outfits almost every song. High Energy, and Beautiful Concert, and Masterful Musicianship . 🎼🎼🎼
If her mother had not done this, Fancy would have likely ended up on the streets anyway but might have stayed there. In the song it says her mother spend the little money she had to buy the clothes, shoes, etc. so that Fancy didn't look like a homeless street walker. Mama was dying and the baby was sick. Soon after Fancy left, Mama lost custody of the baby and died. Fancy, being underage, would have been taken into the system, too, and kicked to the curb as soon as she turned 18. Who knows what would have become of her in between that time? Or after that long in the system. Her mother saw what she did as a better choice for her daughter to take some control of her destiny but remain true to herself. Looks like she did.
Fancy didn’t have much of a choice really. Her mother was ill & dying, her father was gone, no other family to take them in, and she was 18 so no foster home or care that minors get... It was a bad situation. Fancy was strong and lucky and made it through and out the other side.
Most people don’t catch that…I’ve watched people react to this that never got the picture as a whole. The worst is when they act like she sold her daughter but they never catch the “she died 2 weeks later and the welfare took the baby” line.
@@jessicachilders7287 yep - I’ve heard reactors say mom was playing pimp to her daughter and sending her out to make money. Only about half hear the line that mom died soon after
She didn't even look 18. Her mom knew, though, that if she was taken in, the cycle would continue. She either had to grow up and make her destiny or not and that dress and makeup was her best chance. She definitely didn't sell her daughter off, or even managed to find a husband. Fancy took control of her own life.
This song is fire!!!!! I love Reba McEntire music and she is still touring to this day . She is one of the most influential country icons ever! Awesome reaction Asia and BJ
A little back story on this song specifically ... Reba's original record label refused to let her do this song years and years back because they thought there was gonna be backlash from it but when she switched labels they asked her what song she wanted to do she said Famcely and they said "let's do it" 😍😍😍
Those strings really sold the sense of desperation, but also the determination of young Fancy. I love a good string section when it isn't overdone, and here it fit in, didn't overstay, and was so emotionally stirring. I've always been a fan of Reba and her singing. I wonder how she can sing like this and not get that lump in her throat from how sad the story was at first. I know it always brings tears to my eyes.
Queen of country music The night the lights went out in Georgia by Reba McEntire is a MUST as well…..y’all should definitely do a Reba McEntire live!!!!
THIS IS A BOBBIE GENTRY SONG. Remember "Ode to Billy Joe" dumping something off the bridge....that woman. This is her music, so make certain to watch her perform it. You won't regret it! ❤️
"Dumping something off the bridge"?? Oh, c'mon......you damned well what it was. .......a wrapped newborn that was smothered after birth because abortion was illegal/too expensive and the infant would have been ruinous to both the singer and Billie Joe as well as their families. "Seems no good ever comes on Choctaw Ridge." .....the site of birth.....and death. Billie Joe couldn't live with guilt, but the singer is a survivor.
@@sophistichistory4645 SPOILER ALERT! Someone is just bubbling over with clever here!! Not the point. But, I'm so proud of your cleverness none-the-less!
@@nitab1971 Yeah, well, what seems obvious to you now, wasn't in 1967. The lyrics were clever enough to get by the eagle-eyed Puritanical censors at the time. Hell, they were arresting Lenny Bruce right off the stage for "obscene language" in NYC when this song came out. So, Gentry's discussion of personal isolation and familial ennui was enough of a smokescreen to keep the song from getting banned from the radio. But, I'm glad you figured it out.
@@sophistichistory4645 Exsqueeze me? Twas born in 1952. Saw the Beatles at Shea. Saw Jim Morrison arrested in New Haven. Went to Woodstock. The meaning of those lyrics were clearly understood by the less than stupid at time. You just wanted be a spoiler. Go for it.
I just found you guys because I was watching a church reactions and I just want to say your energy is so great I'm just smiling away over here and then I followed up with Alanis Morissette and I'm halfway through your fancy Reba McEntire reaction. You guys are the best subscribed and a huge fan for sure. I just felt my whole energy change and I'm enjoying my day now thank you so much!! For the energy bring and how you're not afraid to experience Andre open to any genre. Fancy is taking me back to my childhood Reba was out there killing it when I was young to get the energy from you guys at the same time is just a treat! AKA cherry-on-top :-)
Thank you. You guys are the only ones to pay attention to the video and listen to the song. My grandmother qas 14 when she married my grandpa and he was 30. It was not trafficking. It was life back then.
Mama didnt sell her off, or marry her off, she turned her out, this is your only chance to get out of this poverty, it's to late for mama but this is your chance and she did it and did it well...
Bobby Gentry (the lyricist) was a philosophy major. She was one of the first female musical writer/producers. She focused on female issue of that era. Recommend Bobby Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe"
Reba is awesome all the way around! I love her duet with Kelly Clarkson "because of you". Great video like this one. Great songs, horrible stories. 😢 I like the way y'all talked it over & understand the song. It's nice. ❤
Love, love love how much you guys appreciate every type of music-it’s so refreshing. I first saw Reba at our fair for free back in 1988. She is an incredible performer! On another note 😉 have you tried George Strait’s “The Chair” yet. “King George” will always give you the feels.
I see such a difference in her, crazy going , back, but I want to say how beautiful you are and to see your confidence in your later videos. I'm just so happy , truly
This is my favourite video of all time, and has been since I was 12. I even have a heart-shaped locket with “To thine own self be true,” engraved on it, a gift from my great-aunt due to my obsession with the song and video. I do remember my mother asking me what I thought Fancy did for a living, and at 12, I assumed she was a maid (“pouring his tea”). 😂
I love Reba. She's a wonderful storyteller as a singer, but also one of the first country singers to take advantage of music videos. She has many great music videos, but this was one of a few "mini-movies" she made that had dialogue before/during the song. As others mentioned, Fancy's mother wasn't "selling" her daughter. She was trying to prepare her daughter to take care of herself and that meant "being nice to the gentlemen." There was no money and the mother was sick. Not long after Fancy left the baby was taken away by welfare people and the mother died.
Great reaction. Reba made this her song with her incredible acting and legendary voice. Fact was Fancy had 2 bust down 4 some real ones 2 not only survive but prosper. #peaceandstaywild
I don't think she came to thank her mother, she came to forgive her and to tell her she understood. To make peace.
exactly....yes
Yes. I agree.
She wanted closure.
She already had her peace she came to give her mother her peace
Reflection
A while back my sister was working at a radio station and my mother called my sister at work. My sister was away from her desk but a woman with a "fake" southern accent answered. My mother left a message with her and then asked who the woman was. The woman said she was Reba McEntire.
My mother thought she was talking to one of my sister's co-workers and said, "Yea right (the co worker) you got the voice down, but the accent needs work."
My sister called mom back later and said Reba McEntire could hardly deliver the massage from laughing so hard.
It actually had been Reba she was talking to.
Reba wanted to do this cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy" for years but her music industry "handlers" kept telling her no, that a dark song about a desperate mother selling her 15yr old daughter into high-end prostitution would kill her career. Eventually Reba got the handlers to back down & came out with one heck of a smash hit.
My grandpa was 12 during the Great Depression when his mom came to him one day and said she loved him, but because the gov’t wouldn’t give any help if there was an “able bodied man that could work” in the home. Which they considered him to be. At 12. She packed him a bag with clothes, some food, and the tiniest bit of money she had scrimped together, and he had to leave home, just so his mom and siblings wouldn’t starve to death. At 12, he became a hobo, riding the trains, joined the California Conservation Corps @ 14, lied about his age @ 16yo to join the navy during WW2, and wound up finding my gma in California when he was 18 and she was 15, fresh out of a country town in the hills to get a job to send money back home for her siblings, got charmed by a dashing young sailor, and they made it 72 years together before he passed @ 97. Hard times force hard choices, this kind of thing wasn’t limited to the south, he was from Idaho and she was from a no name border town in Texas.
A minor point but in the video, Fancy rips off the inscribed locket her mother gave her before turning her out to be "nice" to the men. Inscription: "To thine own self be true." When Fancy (Reba) comes back in this video, she finds the locket in a box in the bedroom. Her mother picked it up from the dirt after she tore it off and kept it. She places it on top of her mother's tombstone at the end of the song. Fantastic video and great rendition of the song.
"I might have been born just plain white trash but fancy was my name". It gets me every time.
Yes it does Reba has so much soul
Miss Reba! She's Country Royalty. Hands down.
Yeah! Amen to that!!
This is not a biographical song. It is actually a cover of a Bobbie Gentry song. One of Reba's other great songs is "The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia" is also a cover, but Reba's version is well worth checking out. Another Bobbie Gentry song that is a great one to check out is "Ode To Billy Joe". Thanks for a great reaction.
This is a bit random but your comment brought it to my mind. Have you ever stopped to notice how many songs in country music are simply covers by current artists? Some things you wouldn't expect.
Babies got her blue jeans on, 6 days on the road and I'm going to make it home tonight, The race is on, fool hearted man..........TONS of others
@@natecloe8535 Many songs get recorded by many artists, sometimes with a very different sound. There are also some great songs that are fresh when they come out. Don Williams "I believe in you" and Randy Travis 1982 as a couple of examples. Roger Miller and Tom T Hall wrote many of their own songs.
@@natecloe8535 Another example is "I Will Always Love You" was first done by Dolly Parton before Whitney Houston recorded it.
Yeah it's not fair that Bobbie Gentry never gets any credit when she had the original (and best) version.
@@natecloe8535 A little Sawyer Brown🤠
I’m not even a big country fan but Reba goes hard in the paint. Just an absurd amount of everything in her voice.
The lyrics to this song AND the video tell the entire story. Both are very important when interpreting what this story is about. It's heartbreaking and beautiful.
In the beginning, she approaches her family's shack for the first time in 15 years; the shack where she was born and raised in poverty. She hears the voice of her mother calling her name "Faaancy." Fancy's family is poor. Her father ran off and left the family behind in the "rickety shack" to fend for themselves. Mama has (what seems to be) lung cancer -- "She looked at me and took a ragged breath. Your Pa's runned off, I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death." She can't afford schooling for Fancy, and can barely afford food. So, with love and desperation in her heart, Mama does what she thinks is best for Fancy, even if it's harsh.
She dresses Fancy in a beautiful dress and shoes, tells Fancy "be nice to the gentlemen, and they'll be nice to you" and she gives her a heart-shaped locket. We see Fancy's mama kick her out of the house/shack, and Fancy is so young (18) that she is angry and upset, she doesn't understand why her mom is making her leave. So Fancy rips the locket off of her neck and throws it to the ground and leaves, never seeing her mama or her baby sibling again -- "The welfare people came and took the baby. Mama died and I ain't been back."
She's homeless for a bit, living on the streets, and she starts to realize what her "Mama'd been talkin' about." She decides she's going to be successful and she sings "I's gonna be a lady someday, though I didn't know when or how. You know, I might've been born just plain, white trash, but Fancy was my name." Finally, a man takes her in -- "One week later, I was pouring his tea in a 5 room hotel suite." There are implications of Fancy possibly becoming an escort -- "I charmed a King, a Congressman and an occasional aristocrat. Then I got me a Georgia mansion and elegant New York townhouse flat and I ain't been back."
More implications of POSSIBLY being an escort -- "In this world, there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites that call me 'bad.' They criticize Mama for turnin' me out no matter how little we had." But because she finally found success, she now understands completely what her Mama did for her when she kicked her out 15 years ago. We see Fancy find the locket that Mama gave her in a drawer in the old shack, and she places it on her Mama's grave site and says "It's okay Mama. I understand" and sings -- "Though I ain't had to worry about nothin' for now all 15 years, I can still hear the desperation of my poor Mama's voice ringin' in my ears."
A part of the chorus that plays throughout the song is "Don't let me down, girl, your Mama's gonna move you up town." And after we see Fancy place the locket on her Mama's grave site, Fancy says "Well, I guess she did." Fancy is obviously doing well for herself as we can see she has a fur coat and other luxurious accessories. She returns to the shack to remember and thank her Mama, but the BEST part is if you pay attention at the end of the video, the shot zooms out to show you a full view of the shack and a sign that says the shack is being turned into Fancy Rae Baker's "Home for Runaways." This is Fancy's way of helping girls who are in the position Fancy used to be in. It's a tribute to her Mama.
If you pay attention to the intro, she is made of money, when she goes back. Not only was she an escort. She was a singer and movie star.
The video ruins the song. It undermines the lyrics and the song writer's intention. I would love to hear what Bobby Gentry had to say about it.
There is no "possibly." Fancy was "turned out" by her mother. That is a phrase that means prostituted. She was "taken in," she was "picked up off the streets" by a "benevolent" man. And then she went from rich man to richer man until she was independent wealthy. She went from teenage street walker to call girl to mistress, but it all means the same thing.
In the song, Fancy did not start a charity or become a famous actress or movie star. That is the video's way of whitewashing teenage prostitution: it is all OK if you makes you famous. The charity is a form of penance.
Fancy had nothing to apologize for and explicitly says she felt no shame. This video says the opposite and your take on it goes even further in concocting some modern day Pretty Woman fairy tale interpretation of a tragic reality for poor women faced throughout history.
@@Yowza78 NGL, the only music video from Reba's catalogue that screws the pooch more is the one for The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia.
@@thedorkone1516 Right, I love that song, but I HATE that video. It's awful. You can't even hear the song or lyrics at multiple places.
It's nigh on 15 years and I ain't done bad, not I ain't been back.
Just saw Reba in concert Saturday...she is still POPPIN!
The song was written by Bobby Gentry, who also wrote and sang the song Ode To Billy Joe. The song, Ode to Billy Joe was written as "study in unconscious cruelty" . Bobby Gentry grew up the Mississippi Delta region, and went to live with her Mother in California in the fall of 1955, shortly after the brutal (jim-crow era) murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till. Whose body was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. She said she was portraying the family's indifference to suicide in the song, Ode to Billy Joe.
Reba is the QUEEN 👸 of country! Her songs always tell a story! And yes BJ she is a staple! Reba is amazing!!
I remember wishing SO BAD that I worked in her or George Straits employ when the Queen and King toured together.
That was destined to make SO MUCH MONEY.
I thought that title was already bestowed on Loretta Lynn?
@@Guitaural. No........not even close. That's borderline ridiculous even.
@@natecloe8535 lol...no skin in the game for me. About the only Country I like is Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Hank Jr, Buck Owens, and a few select others. I think growing up though I always heard LL called that. Just so ya know ; )
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Reba is a legendary icon and she made this song a classic
It's not about her at all. She's from a very small town in Oklahoma called Stringtown. She actually came up in Rodeo with her brothers and got her start singing the National Anthem around at all the rodeos. But her family farm is still in the town she grew up in. We drive through there every year to get to my family reunion.
This is without a doubt one of my all time favorite Reba songs. Easily top 3 imo. The way you can hear the pain in her voice gives me chills
The drums in Reba's version really makes it. For more Reba songs some hits, "One Promise Too Late", "Little Rock", "Is There Life Out There", "Climb That Mountain High", and "Cathy's Clown"(a cover of an Everly Brothers hit).
Reba is known for her mini-movies!! Next, you gotta do "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" (official video)---and you gotta pay close attention, like you did on this one, cuz there's twists and turns; you'll LOVE it!!
I totally believe BJ and Reba go back a little bit---I think she'd be YOUR fan, BJ!!!
Y'all done good on this'un!!! ❤
She did what it took to survive her situation! ❤️Tennessee
She was in Louisiana. 😉
This song always makes me think of my grandmother (RIP). She was born in south Alabama in 1915. In 1928, she was 13 years old, it was the beginning of the great depression. She was already born into a poor family so at 13 she was married off to a 33 year old man. Things like that was common a long time ago, sad but it was surviving! Great reaction to a great song!
What gets me is ppl look down on the girl and the parents, but never the men who buy or bought them.
Reba ! She has an infectious smile. "The Night The Light's Went Out In Georgia"
"FANCY" was written by BOBBIE GENTRY...THE COUNTRY MUSIC STAR that in 1968 won aĺl of the NASHVILLE and GRAMMY awards. Later she formed the first female production agency for women mainly!!
Reba has a voice that’s so amazing!!!
She was in the movie Tremors, with Kevin Bacon, too.
I think this is one of the best songs ever written. Such amazing storytelling.
Reba in 'Tremors' is plays a classic character in a classic movie.
Thanks for the reaction.
Reba actually had a very wholesome raising as 1 of 4 kids (& both patents) on a prosperous Oklahoma ranch. The whole family worked & went to church together.
Check out the original version by Bobbie Gentry, who wrote the song. There is a great live version from the Johnny Cash show with Bobbie dancing in a sexy red pantsuit.
Another really awesome version of this is Kelly Clarkson singing it for Reba when she was honored as part of the Kennedy Center Honors a few years ago. She kills it.
Agree. I remember that. It was amazing!
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I wish you would react to "She thinks his name was John". A powerful message in the song and she nails it, as always. Love me some Reba!!
Yes! Such a powerful song!
I can’t hear that one without bawling.
This wasn't Reba's life... but here's the thing... an amazing singing/artist can make u believe it... Reba makes you believe everything she sings because she feels the music
Jim Stafford " the wildwood weed" Very funny!
The original Bobbie Gentry version is worth a listen too. In the song Mama knew that Welfare would hopefully take the baby, but fancy had just turned 18. Prostitution was the only way Mama knew for Fancy to survive back in the early 50’s. In Gentry’s version you can feel the philosophical angle to the song. You would probably like that, Since you touched on that angle a little bit in this reaction. I did always like how this music video ended with Fancy creating a home for kids that age out of the system too though. Both versions are great in different ways.
REBA put on one of the most Amazing Live Concerts I've ever seen. She Changed outfits almost every song. High Energy, and Beautiful Concert, and Masterful Musicianship . 🎼🎼🎼
If her mother had not done this, Fancy would have likely ended up on the streets anyway but might have stayed there. In the song it says her mother spend the little money she had to buy the clothes, shoes, etc. so that Fancy didn't look like a homeless street walker. Mama was dying and the baby was sick. Soon after Fancy left, Mama lost custody of the baby and died. Fancy, being underage, would have been taken into the system, too, and kicked to the curb as soon as she turned 18. Who knows what would have become of her in between that time? Or after that long in the system. Her mother saw what she did as a better choice for her daughter to take some control of her destiny but remain true to herself. Looks like she did.
One of my fav songs!!!!!☺️🫶🏾
Fancy didn’t have much of a choice really. Her mother was ill & dying, her father was gone, no other family to take them in, and she was 18 so no foster home or care that minors get... It was a bad situation. Fancy was strong and lucky and made it through and out the other side.
Most people don’t catch that…I’ve watched people react to this that never got the picture as a whole. The worst is when they act like she sold her daughter but they never catch the “she died 2 weeks later and the welfare took the baby” line.
@@jessicachilders7287 yep - I’ve heard reactors say mom was playing pimp to her daughter and sending her out to make money. Only about half hear the line that mom died soon after
Amen and God Bless You got it 💯❤️
She didn't even look 18. Her mom knew, though, that if she was taken in, the cycle would continue. She either had to grow up and make her destiny or not and that dress and makeup was her best chance. She definitely didn't sell her daughter off, or even managed to find a husband. Fancy took control of her own life.
Bobby is super private and has not done an interview in decades. When asked about Fancy's origins, she hinted that Fancy's story was her mom's story.
This song is fire!!!!! I love Reba McEntire music and she is still touring to this day . She is one of the most influential country icons ever! Awesome reaction Asia and BJ
There is another song Bed of Roses sung by Tanya Tucker is similar. In modern times….Epstein trials.
A little back story on this song specifically ... Reba's original record label refused to let her do this song years and years back because they thought there was gonna be backlash from it but when she switched labels they asked her what song she wanted to do she said Famcely and they said "let's do it" 😍😍😍
Love the reaction.
Reba is another great rabbit hole you need to go down
Reba is an amazing artist and storyteller. Her, " The Night the Lights went out in Georgia" is also amazing!
POWERFULL!!!!! Great, Great Song!!!!
Those strings really sold the sense of desperation, but also the determination of young Fancy. I love a good string section when it isn't overdone, and here it fit in, didn't overstay, and was so emotionally stirring.
I've always been a fan of Reba and her singing. I wonder how she can sing like this and not get that lump in her throat from how sad the story was at first. I know it always brings tears to my eyes.
Reba kills this cover and really makes it her own!!!!! 😉❤✌
This is one of my fav country songs.
Is there life out there is one of her songs that I love too you guys should listen to it.
The video is pretty good too❤
Queen of country music
The night the lights went out in Georgia by Reba McEntire is a MUST as well…..y’all should definitely do a Reba McEntire live!!!!
THIS IS A BOBBIE GENTRY SONG. Remember "Ode to Billy Joe" dumping something off the bridge....that woman. This is her music, so make certain to watch her perform it. You won't regret it! ❤️
Reba has tried to get a sit-down conversation with Bobbie for a long time but never could get in touch.
"Dumping something off the bridge"?? Oh, c'mon......you damned well what it was.
.......a wrapped newborn that was smothered after birth because abortion was illegal/too expensive and the infant would have been ruinous to both the singer and Billie Joe as well as their families.
"Seems no good ever comes on Choctaw Ridge."
.....the site of birth.....and death.
Billie Joe couldn't live with guilt, but the singer is a survivor.
@@sophistichistory4645 SPOILER ALERT! Someone is just bubbling over with clever here!! Not the point. But, I'm so proud of your cleverness none-the-less!
@@nitab1971 Yeah, well, what seems obvious to you now, wasn't in 1967. The lyrics were clever enough to get by the eagle-eyed Puritanical censors at the time.
Hell, they were arresting Lenny Bruce right off the stage for "obscene language" in NYC when this song came out. So, Gentry's discussion of personal isolation and familial ennui was enough of a smokescreen to keep the song from getting banned from the radio.
But, I'm glad you figured it out.
@@sophistichistory4645 Exsqueeze me? Twas born in 1952. Saw the Beatles at Shea. Saw Jim Morrison arrested in New Haven. Went to Woodstock. The meaning of those lyrics were clearly understood by the less than stupid at time. You just wanted be a spoiler. Go for it.
Dang spirit of the kitchen made into a Reba video lmao
Little Rascals is my favorite too! So underrated 😭
Great song by Reba. Love her. She is an iconic country singer. Great reaction. Love your O's hat. Go Orioles.
Love that y'all enjoyed this classic 💝 Reba is awesome. Great opinions/evaluation without degradation 👊
Fancy, Fancy
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Ohhh Reba🤩
I think that Reba has one of the most powerful voices in country music. She is a legend and a treasure.
Watch the movie, "Sophie's Choice"...the things through time that Mothers have had to do is horrendous and heartbreaking...none-the-less, true.
You need to listen to the original, written and performed by Bobbie Gentry.
I just found you guys because I was watching a church reactions and I just want to say your energy is so great I'm just smiling away over here and then I followed up with Alanis Morissette and I'm halfway through your fancy Reba McEntire reaction. You guys are the best subscribed and a huge fan for sure. I just felt my whole energy change and I'm enjoying my day now thank you so much!! For the energy bring and how you're not afraid to experience Andre open to any genre. Fancy is taking me back to my childhood Reba was out there killing it when I was young to get the energy from you guys at the same time is just a treat! AKA cherry-on-top :-)
Love Reba... Have been listening to her a long time too BJ.
Reba McIntyre is the Real Deal! Fantastic! Oklahoma girl. 🤠🇺🇸🐎
Thank you. You guys are the only ones to pay attention to the video and listen to the song. My grandmother qas 14 when she married my grandpa and he was 30. It was not trafficking. It was life back then.
The greatest country singer ever you should listen to more of her music her voice is amazing
Love Reba as a singer and actress. Check out her version of the night the lights went out in Georgia.
Definitely listen to the night the lights went out in Georgia. Another fantastic story song from Reba
One of all time favorite songs!
Watching Reba TV show on dvd right now, she always makes me laugh
Very powerful song and sad but the singer is my favorite singer she's the best
REBA! Legendary! You have hear her a cappella version of Sunday Kind Love from the Reba Live Album!
Mama didnt sell her off, or marry her off, she turned her out, this is your only chance to get out of this poverty, it's to late for mama but this is your chance and she did it and did it well...
It has always been that way. Fancy became a Madam✌️😃❤️
Reba's songs have some great storylines that would make great movies.
I love y'all videos! Love that you can sit and listen to every type of music and see the beauty in all of them❤
Bobby Gentry (the lyricist) was a philosophy major. She was one of the first female musical writer/producers. She focused on female issue of that era. Recommend Bobby Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe"
LOVE LOVE LOVVVE alllll this! Congrats to you and your team. KEEP THEM COMING!! Respect ALWAYS. - BZ.
It’s so funny to watch people react to this. An put there interpretation on it
You two are the most genuine kindest coolest cats. God bless you guys
Saw Reba in concert with Brooks & Dunn She did this song it was great.
Reba is awesome all the way around!
I love her duet with Kelly Clarkson "because of you". Great video like this one. Great songs, horrible stories. 😢
I like the way y'all talked it over & understand the song. It's nice. ❤
Never been a country music fan but I just love Reba.😎
This song was originally written and sung by the great Bobbie Gentry. This is Reba's cover.
Reba is a queen and a staple! Great reaction.
The Script “Superhero” is a fantastic song about the strength of the heart. One of my favorites.
Love, love love how much you guys appreciate every type of music-it’s so refreshing. I first saw Reba at our fair for free back in 1988. She is an incredible performer!
On another note 😉 have you tried George Strait’s “The Chair” yet. “King George” will always give you the feels.
I see such a difference in her, crazy going , back, but I want to say how beautiful you are and to see your confidence in your later videos. I'm just so happy , truly
This is my favourite video of all time, and has been since I was 12. I even have a heart-shaped locket with “To thine own self be true,” engraved on it, a gift from my great-aunt due to my obsession with the song and video.
I do remember my mother asking me what I thought Fancy did for a living, and at 12, I assumed she was a maid (“pouring his tea”). 😂
PS it came out when I was 12. I’m 46 now.
This is a Bobbi Gentry song that Reba covered, you should listen to Bobbi singing Ode to BillyJo
Happy to hear you guys and your interesting intelligent conversations
Oringal singer is Bobby Gentry she wrote and sang this song along with song Ode to Billy Joe! She had a album.
Need to listen to Bobbie Gentry. In the early 70's she was a trailblazer. Her music was amazing.
Nobody like miss Reba ❣️
I love Reba. She's a wonderful storyteller as a singer, but also one of the first country singers to take advantage of music videos. She has many great music videos, but this was one of a few "mini-movies" she made that had dialogue before/during the song.
As others mentioned, Fancy's mother wasn't "selling" her daughter. She was trying to prepare her daughter to take care of herself and that meant "being nice to the gentlemen." There was no money and the mother was sick. Not long after Fancy left the baby was taken away by welfare people and the mother died.
Alison Krauss "Ghost In This House"
You lie is a great song that never gets requested. It's a hidden gem.
love this song
Great reaction. Reba made this her song with her incredible acting and legendary voice. Fact was Fancy had 2 bust down 4 some real ones 2 not only survive but prosper. #peaceandstaywild
Powerful song
YES!!
I’m new to y’all’s channel… hello. ❤ Love how Asia gets into the stories of the Songs and BJ be loving his Reba. 😂😂
Reba McEntire tells another really powerful story in her 1994 song "She thinks his name was John" I'd love to see your reaction to this.
QUEEN!!!!!
love some Reba