I met Billy a few years back in a lounge at a airport , flight was delayed when waiting we heard a acustic guitar playing and started singing this song really really nice of him , kids all around him and i got to talk with for a few mins , solid guy and a great memory thanks Billy
Welcome to the 80s, where every song and every music video were a fresh new universe of style, fashion and emotion. And 40 years later, they continue giving a masterclass about how to make music. Real, unique, wonderful music.
The backup singers are singing "Les Yeux sans visage" which is "Eyes Without a Face" in French. The song was inspired by a 1960's French horror movie of the same name.
Memories...Around 1980ish my brother and I were going to see the band RUSH at the "Forum" in Los Angeles. We had taken a rather large dose of LSD and parked behind a gas station a block away from the venue...This song came on as we were coming on...at the bridge...I snapped out of it just long enough to make it to the show...Thanks you Billy Idol.
Love the back story about the French horror movie and finding out the lyrics in French, now I know this information. Such a great story behind this song. Seeing the lyrics on screen was neat.. he is kinda hard to understand. I saw him in a small concert back in the early 90's When you read the lyrics this is a pretty dark song.. love it!
One of the most unapologetic rockers of all time! And one of the best at it!!! Everyone out there that only know the radio hits...look up the song Blue Highway from his album Rebel Yell.
Before starting to sing as Billy Idol he had a punk group called Generation X where he already sang Dancing with Myself, which he later included in his album as Billy, in case you are curious about what he sang when he was younger
He truly is an IDOL... I still remember him unzipping his pants and removing an envelope at a music awards gala LIVE.... I was 8 years old, Rebel yeahhhhh
FunFact: Around the time this song came out I was a teenager (17) and one day I bleached my hair and styled it like Billy Idol because I was a big fan! 😂🤣😂🤣
WOW, that was so cool , l knew about 3 or 4 sentences in French when l was younger, and spoke it when kids were mean to other kids , they would look at me and there’s that weird French girl ,and run in the opposite direction 😂 ,
Some one says here how dance and discos make the 80s a complete comunion and it was ! 💯..dance and spots for do that , was the heart of how music rotate in doby and mind...not apps ..not RUclips..YES DANCE AND YES MIND TO MEMORIZED all songs in mind until you arrive to your home and cassettes ! Wow ! ☕🎵🕶️👖📻📼📺🎸
Exactly 💯..dance and spots for do that was the heart of how music rotate in doby and mind...not apps ..not RUclips..YES DANCE AND YES MIND TO MEMORIZED all songs in mind until you arrive to your home and cassettes ! Wow ! ☕🎵🕶️👖📻📼📺🎸
Great song. Never knew the female back up singers were singing in French, I just figured I couldn’t understand the lyrics 😂. Everyone loves a good guitar solo, and this is no exception, but the bass, even though it’s a fairly simple bass line through most of the song, is the backbone to the song. Thanks for this. Brings back good memories 😎
This song could be about heroin addiction. Notice the scene where he is putting a rubber band around his arm to make the veins pop out? But from Wikipedia it says... "n his memoir, Dancing with Myself, Idol explained he had always been fascinated with the titles of horror films, including the 1960 French film Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face). The movie concerns a plastic surgeon who vowed to restore the face of his daughter who had been disfigured in a car accident, and this quest led him to murder victims and graft their facial features onto his daughter in an attempt to restore her beauty. By the end, all that remained of her original face was her eyes, thus making her "eyes without a face". Idol saw some parallel between the movie and the moral decay he experienced living in New York in the 1980s.[7] He said, I started to use "Eyes Without a Face" as a possible title/lyric/chorus for the song. I began to write words that, in some disguised form, spoke about my life in New York and a relationship gone wrong, on the edge of disintegrating into madness. Perhaps I was reflecting on my own touring infidelities. In a way, those can leave you feeling soulless, especially if you're already in a relationship that you value but are degrading by looking elsewhere for additional sexual kicks."
I read somewhere that the song is about falling in love with a drug addict. He loved her for who she was but as he stared into her eyes he realized it was just a dream. She was nothing more than a junkie using him to get high. She was just eyes because her face was so numb from all the drugs she used. Hence why he despised her and calls her a human waste.
Great reaction, one of my favorite tunes, there4 react 2 ZOE, NUNCA MTV UMPLUGED, and one of d best voices ever! MON LAFERTE, QUEDATE ESTA NOCHE, LUNARIO, VIVO. greetings from within d matrix.
It’s about a relationship with a crack head ,and his disgust with her fakeness just after a hit, hence such scenes as putting the band around the female tattoo on his arm, it’s only getting worse
For me the lyrics don't really make the song great-it's they way they sound when sung. It's the music, although I really like the break-"steal a car and go to Las Vegas!" etc.
I met Billy a few years back in a lounge at a airport , flight was delayed when waiting we heard a acustic guitar playing and started singing this song really really nice of him , kids all around him and i got to talk with for a few mins , solid guy and a great memory thanks Billy
dream on XD
How did you know the ladies were singing in French
He is pissed off
I love your reaction
And Adam Sandler showed up out of nowhere
This is his best song and one of the best 80's song.
Welcome to the 80s, where every song and every music video were a fresh new universe of style, fashion and emotion. And 40 years later, they continue giving a masterclass about how to make music. Real, unique, wonderful music.
I saw Billy Idol for this tour at the Irvine California Meadows Theater in 1984.
"Flesh for Fantasy" is good too.
Billy idol made awesome music in the 80s and 90s and the songs aged very well.
😍🥰 Beautiful girl; beautiful song!!😎🤟
Dancing With Myself will get you dancing!
With yourself! That’s not to say you can’t dance with someone else, but the song specifically does not require it.
Flesh for fantasy
Billy is pure rock n roll. ✌️
"Its easy to decieve, its easy to tease. But hard to get release".
Can't get enough of this amazing song! The 80s ROCK!
The backup singers are singing "Les Yeux sans visage" which is "Eyes Without a Face" in French. The song was inspired by a 1960's French horror movie of the same name.
I don't know which is more scary, eyes without a face, or a face without eyes!
Another great 80s ROCK N ROLL great! ✌️
Love me Some Billy Idol! A great artist!
This, and Dancing With Myself are my two favorite songs of his. I could hear them a thousand times, and still enjoy them.
Memories...Around 1980ish my brother and I were going to see the band RUSH at the "Forum" in Los Angeles. We had taken a rather large dose of LSD and parked behind a gas station a block away from the venue...This song came on as we were coming on...at the bridge...I snapped out of it just long enough to make it to the show...Thanks you Billy Idol.
His girlfriend Perri Lister is the female voice singing in French. She was also the bride in the White Wedding video.
Love the back story about the French horror movie and finding out the lyrics in French, now I know this information. Such a great story behind this song. Seeing the lyrics on screen was neat.. he is kinda hard to understand. I saw him in a small concert back in the early 90's When you read the lyrics this is a pretty dark song.. love it!
She is also in Duran Duran's The Chauffeur video
Classic Idol😁😁From a classic time🥰🥰
Les yeux sans visaaage...reminds me of the mid-1980s trip to Paris I never took.
Flesh for Fantasy is another good one...
Still rocking today and a grandfather! 🤘
Love your reaction, one of my favourite songs ever ❤
❤ love billy, amo a billy Idol, era mi amor 80 '
Saludos desde Chile ❤
Also my favourite song from Billy loves your reaction Inna. He is a legend and still go strong
one of the iconic 80s songs
always a pleasure to watch your reactions
One of the most unapologetic rockers of all time! And one of the best at it!!! Everyone out there that only know the radio hits...look up the song Blue Highway from his album Rebel Yell.
Next one hot in the city great song from Billy.😎🫶👍
Before starting to sing as Billy Idol he had a punk group called Generation X where he already sang Dancing with Myself, which he later included in his album as Billy, in case you are curious about what he sang when he was younger
re: french lyrics
Billy Idol has stated that the title (and the background lyric) are from the french film "Les Yeux sans visage" (1960)
great video! so funny! and great thoughts on the song!
White wedding and Rock the cradle of love❤
He is still rocking. You should check out Running From The Ghost by him.
The butt slaps are one of the best parts of the video that i look forward to 😎👍
"Flesh for Fantasy" is good. Somewhere in between this one and Rebel Yell. Same with "White Wedding". One of his most well known.
You can't keep a grieving bad boy down - butt slap to the rescue! 😄
His looks intense for the sheer fact that he never blinked the entire verse as the camera panned in.
It rocked at the end!!!!!!!!!
Do Flesh for Fantasy please❤
He truly is an IDOL... I still remember him unzipping his pants and removing an envelope at a music awards gala LIVE.... I was 8 years old, Rebel yeahhhhh
FunFact: Around the time this song came out I was a teenager (17) and one day I bleached my hair and styled it like Billy Idol because I was a big fan! 😂🤣😂🤣
😲🙌🏼😊
WOW, that was so cool , l knew about 3 or 4 sentences in French when l was younger, and spoke it when kids were mean to other kids , they would look at me and there’s that weird French girl ,and run in the opposite direction 😂 ,
Some one says here how dance and discos make the 80s a complete comunion and it was !
💯..dance and spots for do that , was the heart of how music rotate in doby and mind...not apps ..not RUclips..YES DANCE AND YES MIND TO MEMORIZED all songs in mind until you arrive to your home and cassettes ! Wow ! ☕🎵🕶️👖📻📼📺🎸
Inna you would have loved the 80s,it was all about Dancing/Dance clubs. So sweet to see you having so much fun with these videos! It was fun times!
Exactly 💯..dance and spots for do that was the heart of how music rotate in doby and mind...not apps ..not RUclips..YES DANCE AND YES MIND TO MEMORIZED all songs in mind until you arrive to your home and cassettes ! Wow ! ☕🎵🕶️👖📻📼📺🎸
We need BILLYS now !! ✊🏼🛞✨
Cradle of Love and this song are my favorites, its a wash. React to Cradle of Love you will love it!!!!!!
Beauty reaction Inna😊❤
Another Billy soft song is sweet sixteen.
I really enjoy your reaction to this video song.
I always was lulled by the melody, so dreamy. Took me a couple decades to realize its an EPIC break up song (im kinda dim)
Looks simple but is a amazing work
Great song. Never knew the female back up singers were singing in French, I just figured I couldn’t understand the lyrics 😂. Everyone loves a good guitar solo, and this is no exception, but the bass, even though it’s a fairly simple bass line through most of the song, is the backbone to the song. Thanks for this. Brings back good memories 😎
Soo true 🙌🏼😊
Now Rebel yell please💯💯
Saludos desde Argentina
If you like the ballad aspect of Billy you should react to Sweet Sixteen. Also White Wedding is a great song but more rock based.
You should do rebal yell or dancing with myself next
Please do "Hot in the City" !
love Billy! "To Be A Lover" is an underrated goodie! you should check it out!
❤❤❤
In your movie reactions, you need to check out "The Wedding Singer" if you haven't already.
The bass line was played by Puerto Rican salsa bass master Sal Cuevas RIP
That is real ? 😮
Yes it’s true . Check out Sal Cuevas discography and you’ll be surprised about the amount of artists he played bass for
linda
So if you like a great female voice singing french, try Desireless with "Voyage Voyage". One of my favorite Songs and i don't speak french
I'm a "Flesh For Fantasy" person, myself.
This song could be about heroin addiction. Notice the scene where he is putting a rubber band around his arm to make the veins pop out?
But from Wikipedia it says...
"n his memoir, Dancing with Myself, Idol explained he had always been fascinated with the titles of horror films, including the 1960 French film Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face). The movie concerns a plastic surgeon who vowed to restore the face of his daughter who had been disfigured in a car accident, and this quest led him to murder victims and graft their facial features onto his daughter in an attempt to restore her beauty. By the end, all that remained of her original face was her eyes, thus making her "eyes without a face". Idol saw some parallel between the movie and the moral decay he experienced living in New York in the 1980s.[7] He said,
I started to use "Eyes Without a Face" as a possible title/lyric/chorus for the song. I began to write words that, in some disguised form, spoke about my life in New York and a relationship gone wrong, on the edge of disintegrating into madness. Perhaps I was reflecting on my own touring infidelities. In a way, those can leave you feeling soulless, especially if you're already in a relationship that you value but are degrading by looking elsewhere for additional sexual kicks."
You look great in black.
She would look great with nothing on too
If I'm right, Eyes Without A Face is a French novel. Then came the movie! PS the solo guitar is epic. PS, she's mad cute!
About her ..lol ..yes but inteligente 🍀
He dated Prince's ex
Her name was Vanity
This was the 80s
Vanity died in 2016
strange lyrics, but good melody. I actually never knew the lyrics all these years, I was humming along.
Well, when a song takes its title from a French horror movie, I guess it can’t be too surprising that it’ll at least be unusual.
I read somewhere that the song is about falling in love with a drug addict. He loved her for who she was but as he stared into her eyes he realized it was just a dream. She was nothing more than a junkie using him to get high. She was just eyes because her face was so numb from all the drugs she used. Hence why he despised her and calls her a human waste.
Linda Ronstadt- Down So Low- Offenbach, Germany-1976
Billy Idol was deep into hard narcotics. That's why the rubber tourniquet. But he's sober now.
Great reaction, one of my favorite tunes, there4 react 2 ZOE, NUNCA MTV UMPLUGED, and one of d best voices ever! MON LAFERTE, QUEDATE ESTA NOCHE, LUNARIO, VIVO. greetings from within d matrix.
His, video cover of LA woman / the Doors girly.
I thought about this song a lot while people went through life wearing face masks.
Recommend, Billy idol " speed" oficial video , 🤘🏻☠️🤘🏻
Check out this performance. I think you'll really like it. Joe Bonamassa - Mountain Climbing
I am not a fan of the ending of the song. But the beginning always makes me feel nostalgic
I recommend you ¨Cradle of love¨ , it is a good song and video.
Starts off softly and then.....
reacts to Indio Solari in Olavarría. The best of all time
Your Generation from his punk days
This is the first time I realized how short you actually are. You're barely taller than your chair. It's great.
Hahahah yeah I’m super small 😂 around 1.58 cm / 5’2 😅
@@InnaSoloMusic Fun sized is fantastic.
All you remember from ex partner is her eyes
INNA TU ES TROP BELLE POUR AVOIR DES TATTOOS, Tu n'as pas besoin de TATTOOS sur ton corps so 🙃🙃
Agree 100%.
Les Yeux Sans Visage
For the record: this song is about television and the entertainment industry. (“Eyes without a face” is a camera.)
But your interpretation is common.
It’s about a relationship with a crack head ,and his disgust with her fakeness just after a hit, hence such scenes as putting the band around the female tattoo on his arm, it’s only getting worse
White wedding
This song is about sleeping with women you don't care about
It’s about a relationship with drug addicted woman
For me the lyrics don't really make the song great-it's they way they sound when sung. It's the music, although I really like the break-"steal a car and go to Las Vegas!" etc.
Pause too much
you should have started 3 years ago.... you to late, you on dying channel
Hate the tattoos!