Funny that you should say it's like a theater performance. That's exactly what is is, but back in the 1970s we called it "Rock Opera". That is, they sing and act a story out. Both of these singers are accomplished actors and that's precisely what they do during this performance. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is another example of Rock Opera.
One of the greatest Rock Opera singers. His concerts were full blown Operas with the story running all the way through the concert with the songs and change of sets..It was glorious fun.
Meatloaf was actually an ACTOR as well as a singer. Some of his roles included Eddie in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Leonard in BloodRayne (based of a video game), Robert 'Bob' Paulson in Fight Club, he was in Wayne's World, Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny, and Black Dog where he played Red. He's been in quite a few.
"Theatrical." Yes, Meatloaf was a theater actor. He appeared in both the stage version and the movie version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. More recently, he played "Robert Paulson" in "Fight Club."
The RHPS, to which a line was added to a particular scene - thanks to (actual) word-of-mouth in those pre-internet days by various in-theatre cosplay performers across the country, at least - “Meatloaf for dinner *again*?!”
🎹 💯🤯 Meatloaf IS rock opera‼🔥🤟 🎵 "Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife!" 🎶 Remember: "they were barely 17 & they were barely dressed"! Lol! This song is such a fun trip!
I burst out laughing when you stopped tape, looked at the camera and said "They was fuc kin in the car. that's what this is about." Priceless! Peace my fellow rocker on your musical path.'
I had this album in the 70's, and got to see them live. DAMN, thats when live music was real. Meat loaf was about vocals, the band was perfect and what theatrics!! This brought back so many memories, thank you for the reaction.
10:29 - Meat's sass at "I'll give you an answer in the morning, in the morning. I'LL TELL YOU IN THE MORNING!!" when he turns and strides off with those wild eyes has me dying every time! 😂 "Bat Out Of Hell", "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad", "For Crying Out Loud" and "Objects in the Rearview Mirror" are the next Big Four tracks to check out by Meat Loaf - all the same storytelling style and written by the same composer, Jim Steinman.
Best bit "Swearing to my God and on my mother's grave that I would love you 'til the end of time" Next breath "So now I'm praying for the END of time to hurry up and arrive" 😂😂😂😂😂
Jamming in my dinning room to this album on 8-track. Had my mom having to explain the baseball part to her 8 year old son, let's all take a moment and appologize to our parents for the things they suffered for us
One of my sons asked me what the meaning of the ZZ TOP song, "Pearl Necklace," was because he was confused why they would sing about a piece of jewelry. I told him that when he was old enough for me to explain it, he'd probably already know. 😊
HAHA!!!! That is GENIUS!!!!!! I wish I'd thought of it when my kids were of "age"..... Well, maybe I'll pass it along for my future grandkids! Thanks!!!! ;)
First "promotional videos" were the Beatles' Paperback Writer and Rain. 1966 ish. They got the idea from Elvis sending his pink Cadillac on tour instead of himself. So they sent videos to TV shows that wanted them to perform.
Oh this one is fun! It’s a whole story.....let’s go ! Watch the Rocky Horror picture show, Meatloaf is in it, lots of faces you might recognize. It’s a musical...so yeah I’m a music nerd. 🤘😎❤️🎼
I had the incredible luck to see his concert live sitting on the speaker at the side of the stage. It was JUST like this (only louder!). He also sang IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW. Anyone who can sing the same song as Celine Dion and do it justice is pure talent!
@@mom23mangos34 Meat Loaf didn't want to do ITS ALL COMING BACK TO ME right after this one because he felt it was a duet also. So Jim gave it to Celine which upset Meat and made him have to do a cover.
I love how he swears he'll love her til the end of time, then is praying for the end of time. This song was genius, and Meatloaf was a helluva performer! My parents would sing this together and it's one of my favorite memories!
OMG!!!! I swear I JUST looked like a couple of days ago to see if this one was let out of "YT jail" yet and I didn't see it!!!! Then somehow it literally pops up and starts playing at the end of a different reaction of yours that I was watching!!!! AND I have "auto play" turned OFF!!! I'm glad whatever forces were involved though because this was hilarious!!! Great review fam 💯🔥💯😂😂😂 💞
A cautionary tale of young love. I remember my mother watching this video and applauding at the end. Marry in haste, repent in leisure she said. The man is teaching an important lesson.
You could call this a rock opera. This is a great warning against teen sex. Back in the late '70s I was a regular at the midnight screenings of Rocky Horror, which had Meatloaf as an actor. Each week they played this and the Bat Out of Hell videos before the movie. Great memories.
Meatloaf has one of the best rock voices of all time. Unfortunately the woman ( who’s name escapes me right now) needs to be acknowledged as well. She kills it !
In the video it's Carla DeVito lip syncing to Ellen Foley's studio track. Ellen was unavailable to tour due to her contractual obligation to the TV show Night Court. Carla sang the part on tour though... and killed it. Not that lip syncing a video is bad, almost everyone does it because actually singing that much across that many takes would thrash your voice
The entire album is incredible, especially when you listen to it from beginning to end. You need to react (or at least listen) to the Bat out of Hell album.
He says I would love you to the end of time. Now I am praying for the end of time. He says. “I will never break my promise or forget my vows”. So they did get married, and there is no divorce. So he’s paying for the end of time.
these 2 are in real life husband and wife. This was live. also realize b4 the mid 80's there was no videos. Only live performances taped or a camera in studio.
R I P Meatloaf 1-20-2022 now him and his co song writer and friend Jim Steinman can make music again together in that big music venue in the sky you both will be missed very much by your fans btw this song and album was written and performed in the 1970's when the world was a much different place than now days.
Just found your channel tonight, been debating if I would subscribe or not after watching a few of your videos... This one made me push that subscribe button, you reactions were fantastic! Heard and seen this video so many times, it was so fun watching someone see it for the very first time! Rest in peace Meatloaf and John Steinman!
Meat Loaf appeared in over 50 films and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His film roles included Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Robert Paulson in Fight Club (1999).
Haha. This is what it was like before birth control became the norm. Guys were expected to step up if they got a girl pregnant and there were tons of shotgun marriages. I know that I was conceived in a car. Luckily my parents grew together in love but a lot of couples lived in regret too.
I’ve watched a bunch of reaction videos tonight to Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Nobody seemed to get the significance of the baseball sequence; they seemed to be watching the action or just talking over the speaking. On the record, of course, all you could hear was the speaking. It was by Phil Rizzuto, an All Star player for the NY Yankees. He won seven World Series. After retiring from baseball, Rizzuto famously broadcast Yankee games on radio and television for the next 40 years. His popular catchphrase was "Holy cow." In the song, Meat Loaf says, “We’re going to all the way tonight tonight, we’re going to go all the way tonight.” At least in the 50s, a guy tried to get to first base (kissing), then second base (boobs), then third base (fingering), and then “go all the way” home. Get it? RIP Marvin Lee Aday.
There is an alternate live recording where right at the very end of the song, she snatches off the dress she's wearing and has a whole sexy as hell lingerie out fit own and he ends the song with his jaw dropped and going to her. But it can be difficult to find.
The soundtrack for this video is from the actual album where the female vocals was by Ellen Foley. The visuals are from a live stage show where the female vocalist was Carla DeVito. Not exactly lip syncing since they were actually singing on stage, but the two were combined for this video.
Somewhere there us a video of Meatloaf singing the National Anthym at a sporting event. This shows you the full voice of him. Right up there with Whitney. Yes I said that!
Phil Rizzuto, who did the baseball voice over, was a famous baseball player and legendary play by play announcer. "Holy cow" was his catchphrase. Supposedly he did not know exactly what this was being used for or it's context and was upset when he found out.
Best reaction to this song EVER. I have loved this song ever since it came out. If you want to hear something really crazy, check out Meatloaf's Wasted Youth. It's all spoken word.
This song is loosely based on Meatloaf's loss of virginity. He told Jim Steinman about it and Jim turned it into a classic. The story performed is a couple trapped in a troubled marriage who during yet another fight recount the night they lost their virginity to each other. The song was released in 1977, so the middle-aged couple are thinking back to when they were 17 years old around 1959-1961. The early rock & roll style of music reflects that era. (The fella is doing the reminiscing, so he reverts to 1970s porn music when he envisions the sex scene with his girl.) I love the triple meaning of the baseball metaphor in this. -While 'parking' in the over's lane by the local lake, they soften the silence in the car by running the car radio and half-listening to the baseball game broadcast. The radio shines a low glow from the dashboard revealing the girl's 'Paradise'. -The baseball game provides 'commentary' on the progress of the sexual activity: 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base, and the promise of 'sliding into home base'. -Young men at that time extended their performance by imagining baseball plays or mentally running baseball statistics to distract themselves from physical sensations. It's probable the video clips are meant to represent the fella's mental baseball plays. It's nearly 65 years past the night depicted in this song, and American culture has changed a LOT in the interim. In 1960, we're 15 years from legalized abortion. Birth control, especially for kids (under 18), was difficult to get. A bad reputation could cost a girl any hope of the stability of marriage. Pregnancy might cause her parents to kick her out. Women were underpaid and had few career possibilities and landlords often refused to rent to single mothers. 'Going all the way' was a life-changing situation for a girl, so it makes sense in 1960 that a girl would want to get a promise from a guy before giving up her 'virtue'. And the event that night was consensual but did not require completion. This song is a masterpiece in conception, writing, and performance. Love it!
Not only isn't this a "live" recording, but just like in many official videos, what you are hearing is the _studio_ audio (and the singers are lip-syncing to the recording). Also, the woman _seen_ in the video is NOT the woman you _hear_ singing. The female part was recorded by Ellen Foley, but she didn't tour with the group. Instead Karla DeVito would perform at live shows and she is the one seen on the video. Similarly, the woman seen on Meatloaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" video is Dana Patrick, but she's lip-syncing to Lorraine Crosby's vocals.
This sums up the battle of the sexes in one ingenious song ... be careful of the situations you get yourselves in kids. Save it for marriage and it will likely turn out a whole lot better!👌
Oh the memories!! Thank you Biz you are the best.!!! This came out as a video performance for "Don Kirshner's Rock Concerts" which were always on Sat nights at midnight. This was going along w the theme of the "Midnight Movies" we all went to see. i believe it got this feel from Rocky Horror bc the other great midnight movies at that time were concerts like "The song Remains the Same (which OMG Biz you need to see) and Woodstock (another must see for you)..
I saw him in concert about 15 years ago. He was amazing. I felt bad for the hot little way too young for him singer that played tonsil hockey with him on stage when they did this song.
Funny that you should say it's like a theater performance. That's exactly what is is, but back in the 1970s we called it "Rock Opera". That is, they sing and act a story out. Both of these singers are accomplished actors and that's precisely what they do during this performance. Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is another example of Rock Opera.
One of the greatest Rock Opera singers. His concerts were full blown Operas with the story running all the way through the concert with the songs and change of sets..It was glorious fun.
Meatloaf was actually an ACTOR as well as a singer. Some of his roles included Eddie in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Leonard in BloodRayne (based of a video game), Robert 'Bob' Paulson in Fight Club, he was in Wayne's World, Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny, and Black Dog where he played Red. He's been in quite a few.
"Theatrical." Yes, Meatloaf was a theater actor. He appeared in both the stage version and the movie version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. More recently, he played "Robert Paulson" in "Fight Club."
The RHPS, to which a line was added to a particular scene - thanks to (actual) word-of-mouth in those pre-internet days by various in-theatre cosplay performers across the country, at least - “Meatloaf for dinner *again*?!”
Rest In Peace Jim Steinman - he wrote the song and he just passed away recently on April 19, 2021.
RIP to a great songwriter
He wrote the whole Bat out of Hell album.
They both are makin music together again.
Stay safe, stay sane, be well
🎹 💯🤯 Meatloaf IS rock opera‼🔥🤟
🎵 "Glowing like the metal on the
edge of a knife!" 🎶 Remember: "they were barely 17 & they were barely dressed"! Lol! This song is such a fun trip!
I burst out laughing when you stopped tape, looked at the camera and said "They was fuc kin in the car. that's what this is about." Priceless! Peace my fellow rocker on your musical path.'
Truckin Fuckin
Their facial expressions after the baseball scenes are priceless, especially his eyes
I had this album in the 70's, and got to see them live. DAMN, thats when live music was real. Meat loaf was about vocals, the band was perfect and what theatrics!! This brought back so many memories, thank you for the reaction.
true cindy
they did this live on stage it was amazing i know i was there
Meat Loaf was one of the first to come up with a Rock Opera. His whole show was intertwined like a movie. This was the finale.
10:29 - Meat's sass at "I'll give you an answer in the morning, in the morning. I'LL TELL YOU IN THE MORNING!!" when he turns and strides off with those wild eyes has me dying every time! 😂
"Bat Out Of Hell", "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad", "For Crying Out Loud" and "Objects in the Rearview Mirror" are the next Big Four tracks to check out by Meat Loaf - all the same storytelling style and written by the same composer, Jim Steinman.
I 2nd all of those and add..... "It's All Coming Back To Me Now"....
Best bit "Swearing to my God and on my mother's grave that I would love you 'til the end of time" Next breath "So now I'm praying for the END of time to hurry up and arrive" 😂😂😂😂😂
I was actually 17 when this came out. This is a cautionary tale for daughters that some teenage boys will say anything to get the poon.
100
No auto tune and raw talent!
"I'll never break my promise or forget my vow...etc.' What a lyric!
Should be in the hall of fame..... this guy put a show and sung his heart out
4:46 - “So...they were fukkin in the car.” 😂🤣 Subbed.
😂😂😂😂 thanks for the sub fam
Jamming in my dinning room to this album on 8-track. Had my mom having to explain the baseball part to her 8 year old son, let's all take a moment and appologize to our parents for the things they suffered for us
One of my sons asked me what the meaning of the ZZ TOP song, "Pearl Necklace," was because he was confused why they would sing about a piece of jewelry. I told him that when he was old enough for me to explain it, he'd probably already know. 😊
This was played in our sex Ed class in high school. I then played the video for my kids when the age came.
HAHA!!!! That is GENIUS!!!!!! I wish I'd thought of it when my kids were of "age"..... Well, maybe I'll pass it along for my future grandkids! Thanks!!!! ;)
Don't make decisions in the heat of the moment! Yes they both regret it 🙄😐
Lol! Wow that never occurred to me! Awesome
This video and the Hot/Crazy Matrix is the finest advice you can give to a young man.
That's freaking fantastic!!!. Lmao.
Meatloaf was in the original Broadway musical "HAIR " VERY TALENTED!!!
My dad played this song for me when I was a teen, I loved it then and I still love it
Theatrical and musical genius.
Of all the drunk/drug parties (in the 80's) This tune brought out all the drunken singers more than any other!
This song and Bohemian Rhapsody were our drinking songs! We knew all the words.
Lol oh don't count out Journey! Pretty sure it's a crime to NOT sing don't stop believing 🤣✌️
Still worked in the 90's! We screamed this song.
Yes!! I grew up in the '80's and we rocked it every time! 🤣
No joke...
We didn't have music videos back then - this was their live performance
No and no.
This was NOT a live performance. In fact the girl in the video is not the singer in the song. She's acting.
First "promotional videos" were the Beatles' Paperback Writer and Rain. 1966 ish. They got the idea from Elvis sending his pink Cadillac on tour instead of himself. So they sent videos to TV shows that wanted them to perform.
Oh Meatloaf. One of the best. RIP. What an artist. Jim Steinman wrote all this. He’s gone too. Doing rock opera in heaven with Meat.
That comment “they were fucking in the car” is the most spot on and honest reaction I’ve heard to this song
😂😂
Oh this one is fun! It’s a whole story.....let’s go ! Watch the Rocky Horror picture show, Meatloaf is in it, lots of faces you might recognize.
It’s a musical...so yeah I’m a music nerd. 🤘😎❤️🎼
Meatloaf opened for the ELO Out of the Blue tour in july of 1978. Awesome show and this is how the Meatloaf performs live.
I had the incredible luck to see his concert live sitting on the speaker at the side of the stage. It was JUST like this (only louder!). He also sang IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW. Anyone who can sing the same song as Celine Dion and do it justice is pure talent!
What the actual....!! I am sooooo jealous, talk about a memory of a lifetime!
Jim Steinman wrote that song too. He wrote all of Meatloaf’s music.
@@mom23mangos34 Meat Loaf didn't want to do ITS ALL COMING BACK TO ME right after this one because he felt it was a duet also. So Jim gave it to Celine which upset Meat and made him have to do a cover.
This is is one best live performances ever
Except that it isn't the live audio we're hearing in this video.
its not live per se it was recorded in studio
YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH-MEATLOAF
Brilliant performance... thank you for the reminder.. "It was long ago and it was far away and it's so much better than it is today.."
I love how he swears he'll love her til the end of time, then is praying for the end of time. This song was genius, and Meatloaf was a helluva performer! My parents would sing this together and it's one of my favorite memories!
CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL WITH A MESSAGE ABOUT THE TRUTH OF LOVE AND WHAT IS NOT LOVE. But connected to the ALBUM that it comes from is MAGIC.
OMG!!!! I swear I JUST looked like a couple of days ago to see if this one was let out of "YT jail" yet and I didn't see it!!!! Then somehow it literally pops up and starts playing at the end of a different reaction of yours that I was watching!!!! AND I have "auto play" turned OFF!!! I'm glad whatever forces were involved though because this was hilarious!!! Great review fam 💯🔥💯😂😂😂
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they're both pretty good actors
Everybody is smiling when listening to this. Because they can kind of relate?
So true.
A cautionary tale of young love. I remember my mother watching this video and applauding at the end. Marry in haste, repent in leisure she said. The man is teaching an important lesson.
You could call this a rock opera. This is a great warning against teen sex.
Back in the late '70s I was a regular at the midnight screenings of Rocky Horror, which had Meatloaf as an actor. Each week they played this and the Bat Out of Hell videos before the movie. Great memories.
Same.
Meatloaf has one of the best rock voices of all time.
Unfortunately the woman ( who’s name escapes me right now) needs to be acknowledged as well. She kills it !
Ellen Foley
In the video it's Carla DeVito lip syncing to Ellen Foley's studio track. Ellen was unavailable to tour due to her contractual obligation to the TV show Night Court. Carla sang the part on tour though... and killed it. Not that lip syncing a video is bad, almost everyone does it because actually singing that much across that many takes would thrash your voice
The entire album is incredible, especially when you listen to it from beginning to end. You need to react (or at least listen) to the Bat out of Hell album.
Great reaction. Love this whole song and video. That was a lot of fun.😀👍❤️✌️🌼
I always pictured Al and Peggy Bundy from Married With Children were this couple 15 years later.
“Where has this song been?”
This song was on every single jukebox in America from around 1977 until the early 90s.
It someone played it every night.
This is my all time favorite album.
This was and is opera that I can get into. The lady was awesome. Loved her performance. Every body folds eventually junior.
He says I would love you to the end of time. Now I am praying for the end of time. He says. “I will never break my promise or forget my vows”. So they did get married, and there is no divorce. So he’s paying for the end of time.
Even though he "folded", he stuck to his vows even though he hated doing it...
This is one of those songs where you see and feel the talent, thoroughly enjoy it and keep it that way by not putting it on playlist
these 2 are in real life husband and wife. This was live. also realize b4 the mid 80's there was no videos. Only live performances taped or a camera in studio.
R I P Meatloaf 1-20-2022 now him and his co song writer and friend Jim Steinman can make music again together in that big music venue in the sky you both will be missed very much by your fans btw this song and album was written and performed in the 1970's when the world was a much different place than now days.
I love her powerful voice.
They were talented big time!!! Amazing days!!
You're hilarious! The way you stop and look at the camera, "gotta give her some of the Meatloaf"...dead 😂
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Just found your channel tonight, been debating if I would subscribe or not after watching a few of your videos... This one made me push that subscribe button, you reactions were fantastic! Heard and seen this video so many times, it was so fun watching someone see it for the very first time! Rest in peace Meatloaf and John Steinman!
4th most sold album of all time, It spent 522 weeks on the UK top Charts.
Meat Loaf appeared in over 50 films and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His film roles included Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) and Robert Paulson in Fight Club (1999).
Haha. This is what it was like before birth control became the norm. Guys were expected to step up if they got a girl pregnant and there were tons of shotgun marriages. I know that I was conceived in a car. Luckily my parents grew together in love but a lot of couples lived in regret too.
You made me laugh tonight. He was just Meatloaf being Meatloaf!
"He's sassy" !!! I spit out my drink! 🤣
"Two Outta Three Ain't Bad" should be next!
Carla DeVito the background singer.. No one vocalizes this song with him like her its part of what makes this song a classic
Actiualy Ellen foly sang the female part ,not Carla devito...great performance on stage tho!!
I just found your channel. Love your reaction. I like the fact you don’t interrupt a lot
"Bat out of Hell " Complete album is awesome 👌. Not a bad song on it.
Brilliant...A great historical piece of American art.
The better lyric is “open up your THIGHS.I got a big surprise”.
He's trying to get to first base and eventually score, and she wants a commitment first. LOLOL
I’ve watched a bunch of reaction videos tonight to Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Nobody seemed to get the significance of the baseball sequence; they seemed to be watching the action or just talking over the speaking. On the record, of course, all you could hear was the speaking. It was by Phil Rizzuto, an All Star player for the NY Yankees. He won seven World Series. After retiring from baseball, Rizzuto famously broadcast Yankee games on radio and television for the next 40 years. His popular catchphrase was "Holy cow." In the song, Meat Loaf says, “We’re going to all the way tonight tonight, we’re going to go all the way tonight.” At least in the 50s, a guy tried to get to first base (kissing), then second base (boobs), then third base (fingering), and then “go all the way” home. Get it? RIP Marvin Lee Aday.
There is an alternate live recording where right at the very end of the song, she snatches off the dress she's wearing and has a whole sexy as hell lingerie out fit own and he ends the song with his jaw dropped and going to her. But it can be difficult to find.
Such a fun song, love me some meatloaf! Dig Biz dig.
The soundtrack for this video is from the actual album where the female vocals was by Ellen Foley. The visuals are from a live stage show where the female vocalist was Carla DeVito. Not exactly lip syncing since they were actually singing on stage, but the two were combined for this video.
I love this song. I never get tired of this song.
This song brings back alot of memories lol great times :)
I really liked you reaction to this. New sub for you 👍🏻
Thanks for subbing!
@@watchbizmatik I watched a few of your older vids, very good but also saw no Iron Maiden. Left a few on your Metallica one video 👍🏻
He a Broadway actor in hair ,it's Eddie from rocky horror picture show,he bought Broadway to main stream people
Somewhere there us a video of Meatloaf singing the National Anthym at a sporting event. This shows you the full voice of him. Right up there with Whitney. Yes I said that!
The punchline: .........and now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive.
Gets me every time.
Meatloaf was a star on Broadway before his fame in music and a ton of movies he was in
Lmao at your reaction 🤣 so funny. Thank you
Phil Rizzuto, who did the baseball voice over, was a famous baseball player and legendary play by play announcer. "Holy cow" was his catchphrase. Supposedly he did not know exactly what this was being used for or it's context and was upset when he found out.
Best reaction to this song EVER. I have loved this song ever since it came out. If you want to hear something really crazy, check out Meatloaf's Wasted Youth. It's all spoken word.
"Wasted youth" is the spoken intro to "Everything louder than everything else". Love it, too!
My fav version was British girls singing along in a pub in Spain in'86. Good fun!
This song is loosely based on Meatloaf's loss of virginity. He told Jim Steinman about it and Jim turned it into a classic.
The story performed is a couple trapped in a troubled marriage who during yet another fight recount the night they lost their virginity to each other. The song was released in 1977, so the middle-aged couple are thinking back to when they were 17 years old around 1959-1961. The early rock & roll style of music reflects that era. (The fella is doing the reminiscing, so he reverts to 1970s porn music when he envisions the sex scene with his girl.)
I love the triple meaning of the baseball metaphor in this.
-While 'parking' in the over's lane by the local lake, they soften the silence in the car by running the car radio and half-listening to the baseball game broadcast. The radio shines a low glow from the dashboard revealing the girl's 'Paradise'.
-The baseball game provides 'commentary' on the progress of the sexual activity: 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base, and the promise of 'sliding into home base'.
-Young men at that time extended their performance by imagining baseball plays or mentally running baseball statistics to distract themselves from physical sensations.
It's probable the video clips are meant to represent the fella's mental baseball plays.
It's nearly 65 years past the night depicted in this song, and American culture has changed a LOT in the interim. In 1960, we're 15 years from legalized abortion. Birth control, especially for kids (under 18), was difficult to get. A bad reputation could cost a girl any hope of the stability of marriage. Pregnancy might cause her parents to kick her out. Women were underpaid and had few career possibilities and landlords often refused to rent to single mothers. 'Going all the way' was a life-changing situation for a girl, so it makes sense in 1960 that a girl would want to get a promise from a guy before giving up her 'virtue'. And the event that night was consensual but did not require completion.
This song is a masterpiece in conception, writing, and performance. Love it!
best. music. video. EVER!!! even though everything in this ''live'' video is dubbed; music & singing. except for the acting. RIP MEATLOAF 1/20/2021
Not only isn't this a "live" recording, but just like in many official videos, what you are hearing is the _studio_ audio (and the singers are lip-syncing to the recording).
Also, the woman _seen_ in the video is NOT the woman you _hear_ singing. The female part was recorded by Ellen Foley, but she didn't tour with the group. Instead Karla DeVito would perform at live shows and she is the one seen on the video. Similarly, the woman seen on Meatloaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" video is Dana Patrick, but she's lip-syncing to Lorraine Crosby's vocals.
Praying for the end of time! Enjoyed your take on this classic song!
This sums up the battle of the sexes in one ingenious song ... be careful of the situations you get yourselves in kids. Save it for marriage and it will likely turn out a whole lot better!👌
Oh the memories!! Thank you Biz you are the best.!!! This came out as a video performance for "Don Kirshner's Rock Concerts" which were always on Sat nights at midnight. This was going along w the theme of the "Midnight Movies" we all went to see. i believe it got this feel from Rocky Horror bc the other great midnight movies at that time were concerts like "The song Remains the Same (which OMG Biz you need to see) and Woodstock (another must see for you)..
The baseball announcer is former New York Yankee and announcer Phill Rizzuto.
Lmao at this reaction. Great job.
Thank you
Loovve your reaction , lol great song , very entertaining 15 minutes, thank you
This is Rock Opera! We had some cool music back in my day!!!
Meatloaf's genre is considered "Rock Opera" I miss having some paradise...
they played all over usa and canada---live
I saw him in concert about 15 years ago. He was amazing. I felt bad for the hot little way too young for him singer that played tonsil hockey with him on stage when they did this song.
My dad 💘this song 🎵 he would say play meatballs 😆🤣😂😹😆
Here a suggestions for you
You should listen to
-I'd do anything for love
-Objects in the rear view mirror
-For crying out loud
HAHAHAHA!!! You hit the nail on the head.
Love you're reactions bro lol
As teens, we listed to this while parked, just such great memories.