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- The Kinks - Lola REACTION/REVIEW
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Just so you know, this song is the band goofing on their manager. While they were out in a city they didn't know, he accidentally stumbled into a gay bar and didn't realize it at first. He was drinking and this chick was talking him up...and then he realized she was actually a dude LOL. They had to clown him for that.
well are you glad you know that, so you wouldnt be so stupid...sigh...
You have no idea the immense popularity of this song, especially at the time of it's release.
What a hoot! Thank you for giving me a great belly laugh. This song is classic and SOO far ahead of it's time. Had fun, thank you...
You are welcome
L-O-L alright, alright. Almost got me.;)
Kinks had a bunch of truly curious hits
It was based on all the transvestites they partied with in the underground clubs in the 60’s
@@watchbizmatik It sounds to me like you didn’t get it at the end😂
Love this song. It was funny the censors didn't pick up on the content. I was too young to know the meaning at the time, but loved the chorus and sang along with it on radio. So many songs were banned for much less in 1970!
I was extremely thankful that my parents never could understand the lyrics of rock songs in general, lol.
They changed to the term Cherry Cola, to get by the sensors.
This was only for the UK market, where it was illegal to have product placements on recordings.
The Kinks were a very sophisticated but young group that had the Davies brothers (Ray & Dave) as creators....writers & performers. They wrote subtle & overt socio-political lyrics AND some very tender, mature material that separated them from everybody else. They crashed the charts with a seminal Rock n' Roll chart "You Really Got Me" that spawned a fantastic Brit garage band sound....and "All Day & All of the Night".. Like Humble Pie mixed with Small Faces and range to their writing and production, you could identify a Kinks song by the guitar tone and voice/lyrics...more thoughtful but still bangers...and interesting. Defined their own quality, unique niche.
Love watching you guys react to Lola. We grew up with 'her' in college and accepted the cleverness of the lyrics and the great great music that's so addictive and great fun. At least you didn't show disgust. You took it with humor and surprise. Bloody good song, especially for the sixties or early seventies.
I love this song! So much fun! The lyrics say, “But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola”! Lola was a man baby! The Kinks are legendary! 😂❤❤😅
Thank you! I came here to see who told him lol
Ah! The 60's my teen years. Loved the Kinks!! They shocked everyone with this one.
1970
@@Kim-ev8pr the kinks was a mostly a 60's band
@@forpspeakingclass4444 I was saying this song came out in 70. But thanks for making me type it all out and not be lazy….. didn’t say 70’s😏😉 much better mood today thanks 😊
@@Kim-ev8pr i know it was a a 1970 song but the band is purely 60's which is why even though its a 70's song technically its complete influence is in the form of the 60's
No one is arguing with you , calm down 😂
One of the greatest songs ever written ❤
Thank you for having the *original* version which says Coca Cola (not Cherry Cola). There was a huge dispute when this song was released from the Coca Cola Beverage/Bottling Company about the use of their Trade Name. They had to change the song later to say innocuous "Cherry Cola". Not kidding. You've got the original here. Cool!
It's always fun to see how long it takes to figure this one out. Another fun song the Kinks did, was "Low Budget" in the late 70's.
Some folks are in denial to this day! ..... Can't Deal!
@@jamesalexander5623 I think it should be played constantly now days! Especially in FL😂
I thought he was gonna figure it out but it got past him. It's amazing how many reactors completely miss the meaning of this song. The Kinks were way ahead of their time.
I loved Lola when it came out, the lyrics are hysterical. I am surprised it wasn't censored back then.
You got this much sooner than most reactors I've seen! One poor young man didn't get it until he read the comments. The Kinks were so fresh back in the day.
Lol I tried to soften up at the end I know how offended people get but the minute I read the lyrics I was like oh wow 😂😂😂
Oh, Lola’s got testosterone alright 😉🤣
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He didn’t know how true that statement was…😉😂
@@lrsrosebud Right?!?! I was laughing so hard and hoping he listened to it again 🤣🤣
Truly the best and one of the funniest reactions to LOLA ever. The only ones funnier are the ones where the creators don't get it.
One of the great but underrated Kinks albums Is Celluloid Heros - a leisurely stroll through the summer of a touring band.
If you enjoyed the genderbent protagonist in Lola, check out Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby album. Not to by missed.
He Doesn't "Get It" .... He thinks Lola is some "Heavy Chick" instead of a Beautifil Tall Black Drag Queen!
Love the music...so much bottom in the acoustics! Great reaction Biz!
Love this! The Kinks are a great band! ☮️❤️😎
Great reaction to an absolutely fun song. Mom and Dad used to jam this when I was a kid.
Was censored due to the use of Coca-Cola. Ray had to fly back from your to change the lyrics, the UK had a restriction on product placement.
Oh Biz, man, it was hilarious watching you as the song meaning dawned on you!
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LOL! when I was a teenager in the 70's had similar facial expressions while listening to this song for the first time. My hat is off for the Kinks and admire their courage to perform that contraversial song back in the 70's. Even in 2023 I am sure that song still raises a few eye brows.
The first band I ever saw live in concert was The Kinks at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1984 when I was 14 years old. Went with my friends Michele & Donna and their mom Lori took us. Best time and still one of my favorite bands to this day. RIP Michele, Lori, and the Philadelphia Spectrum 😢. Nice review 🙂
Total Jelly! lol
Damn! Jealous
@Carol Little It was a Christmas gift from my mother in 1984. I begged her to go, and she let me. She's another no longer here but always here. It's 14 years this weekend that she has passed away. RIP Momma Cass 😇
@@melissaford717 That's great, Melissa -
Mine was at the Felt Forum at MSG in 1973.
GREAT REACTION Biz!! You got me to laughing. I love this song.
This was current was I was in college in the early 70's. One of the student employees who checked IDs at the cafeteria entrance dressed as a woman with the name tag "Lola." Man, did I do a double take. His girlfriend lent him the clothes. Fifty years later, I can't believe people are getting their knickers in a twist over this sort of thing.
Always loved this goofy song
In '81 they had a sort of sequel song Destroyer, spoilers, he's still with LOLA
👏👏👏 This was a blast Biz!!! Oh and btw, it's about time u got to this one... SOOOO many of us, myself and Sheila included requested this one back on ur last Kinks reaction (over a year ago)!!! It's all good though, I rock with you and loved ur reaction and your love of the music!! This was so much fun!!🙃
P.S. sorry I haven't been present in the comments lately (working 6 days a week😉), but always know that I'm here and I'm watching!! I will always support you and the channel!!!👊💯💯💯 As always... you rock Biz!!!😎 Peace and light...❤
Tina!!
You have the funniest reaction to this song more than any other reactor!!!!!!🤣🤣😂😂👍👍
Thanks 😆
I was in the Navy visiting Singapore and in a "club" a buddy took a girl upstairs - that "girl" ended up being a guy ! He freaked out , punches were thrown , we put money on the bar until owner said enough , we left . to this day we have no clue how much . that was 1985 . some things you never forget
Ha! Biz, I've wondered for 53 years what a "dark, brown voice" sounds like, and now I know! I've seen the Kinks nearly a dozen times since '73 and never came away disappointed. What a great band, up there with the Stones and the Beatles in my opinion. The Lola vs Powerman album is one of their best. A few other good ones from this album are "Top of the Pops", "This Time Tomorrow", and "Strangers". A few other Kinks classics are "Victoria", "Well Respected Man", "All Day and All of the Night", "Till the End of the Day", "Do It Again", and "Better Things."
😂😂😂😂 I was wondering the same thing
I always heard "darkroom voice" or "bathroom voice". Maybe that makes more sense.
The sound you here during the outro is someone hitting a guitar amp with spring reverb. It adds a very unique sound at the same time the drummer is hitting the crash cymbal.
Almost 55 years and its more relevant now. Thats how ahead of their time they were. Fearless.❤
Lucky enough to see them live,Lola closed the show & went on forever,omg did my throat need some lubrication after that,brilliant!
I was in boot camp when I first heard this. Shocking.
Laughed my ass off! Your best reaction since "Stayin' Alive!"
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Some nice proto-punk music in The Kinks. They were WAY ahead of their time!
This was the best reaction ever, and you weren't a prick about it. I love it so much. Our high school rock band played this song because we thought it was funny. It STILL is. But it is an absolutely dope song and ahead of its time. I love EVERYONE.
Great reaction. I bet everyone was watching the expression on your face to see when you would catch on. Still does not beat your Blondie reaction. That was absolutely your best one ever.
Lol 😂
I'm 64 and certainly in the UK, there's no-one my age who doesn't know this song it was a massive hit, and it's not surprising as it's so catchy.
This was so cool AND a trip when they first started playing it on the radio back in 1970 ! This one snuck by the censors back then - lots of songs had to get lyrics cleaned up or changed entirely (this was a Gender Bender and a first for American radio).
Our parents were cooler than we may think.
😂 I love the way you said, Lola!! That will be imprinted on my mind whenever I hear this song! 😂❤✌️
It’s a very fun song from the 70’s I really enjoyed your reaction thank you Biz
Love this old song!!! From my generation ❤
LOL good timing for you to react to this, literally like a few minutes before this was posted I was telling my friend what this song really meant
👀 I'm so happy you FINALLY got to "Lola"‼🔥
🤯 The Kinks were just a very different kind of band - an acquired taste of sorts‼lol ☮ ❤ 🎶
Good Reaction and it is amazing how many Female reactors continue to smile and miss the significance of the lyrics that you soon picked up on.
This was risque in 1970/ lol
It finished "I'm Glad I'm a MAN, and so IS LOLA...:)
This was sooo riskay back then which made it all the more popular lol! Thanks for the memories and keeping oldies alive
If you haven’t heard of Iron Butterfly, plz react to their song In a Gadda Da Vida. It was really named In The Garden of Eden but got named the other one that doesn’t make any sense because when they sang it once while drunk, that’s how it came out
Biz,that look of realization on your face,was funny as he'll! Great reaction!
Ha ha, I wanted to see how long it took you to figure this out but you have to give The Kinks a lot of credit to see a song like this during in the late 60’s, early 70’s; as teenagers we never listened to the words
ooohhh god ! ahh shit i cant breath,oh wow bro maaan i havent laughed that damn hard in a long time,my jaw hurt now! Lola flipped him over lol🤣
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Lmao 😂😂😁😁🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thanks, Biz! such a fun song... this was popular when I was young, but almost nobody paid attention to the lyrics, and so never realized it was about "transgender"... lol... and yet, also the Kinks were not negative about it.. just "it was an experience"... back in the days when people weren't "judge-y".. Hope you listen to more Kinks music - they have a lot of different styles and statements in their songs.
& the song is also about an actual night out that, The Kinks had after a big gig. The guy in the song was one of their stage hands who was DRUNK! No one told him about, Lola that night because he was having a brilliant time with her
@@andrewmoss3681 Thanks, Andrew - I didn't know that! I think it's cool that they made it "first person" instead of telling a story about some "foolish guy" to be mocked... and they were respectful of Lola!
@@GinMae & at no point does it mock either of our heroic characters. They wanted to celebrate a great night out that they had seen. It also made for a very eye opening story, when you listen to the words. It's a messed up world, except for Lola. Lola is the only person who knows who she is
@@andrewmoss3681 Exactly, Andrew! I love that line and also... "always hope it will be that way..." although in these perilous times in our mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, I worry about the Lolas!
Lola is a man. You're funny man, love it.
Thank you
I’ve been waiting so long for this day. 😮
There you go lol
Soho is the equivalent of 1960/70s Times Square. Dens of iniquity everywhere. "Champagne" was not really champagne, fake and very expensive. "Dark brown voice" just means deep.
“ Soho “ refers to the area in London, not Soho in New York, and the actual event occurred in a Paris nightclub.
The Kinks "Destroyer" kinda Lola part 2
Live and let live! Freedom of expression is a given right! I'm a 60 year old white male,living in Germany Everyone has the right to be what they want(LGBQT),it doesn't matter do your thing!
That was a classic reaction to a classic song 🎶
Thank you
Thanks for this one. We (some of us) were so innocent back then and didn't get what it was about right away. Yeah. I guess we were sheltered.
Oh My God!!! THANK YOU BIZ...I needed this. Thanks My Friend...I'll never look at Rambo or Lola the same again!!!
You are so welcome 😂😂😂
Aahh Lola, such a naughty girl!
The champagne tasted like Coke because is WAS largely Coke. Clubs would serve gin-and-tonics that were pretty heavy on the tonic; if they go stingy on the alcohol, you have to buy more to get drunk.
Ray Davies (songwriter, vocals, rhythm guitar) first started paying attention to the gay portion of his audience when the band was in San Francisco in 1964 and he was singing a song that had the lyric "he likes his fags the best", not knowing that while "fags" was simply British slang for cigarettes, it had a DIFFERENT meaning out by the SF bay…
So when a friend of the band would invite them to drag clubs, Ray got the inspiration.
Someone in the comments below notes that they were lucky to get this one past the censors…well, they couldn't get it past Coca-Cola! For the radio version, they had to record the line as "cherry cola", taking the brand name out of it. (Ray has always sung "Coca-Cola" in concert, though.)
The "Lola" song you sing at the beginning was not originally from whatever ad you saw, but from the stage musical "Damn Yankees", with Gwen Verdon as Lola. I don't know if you review Broadway songs, but the film is probably on RUclips, so you can react to Verdon's performance, if you want.
I absolutely _adore_ your reaction! ❤
This is great watching your review, I am lmao
The Adam's apple always gives it away.
so true
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Yep. Just look at Michelle Obama
@@davejennings9460 😂😂🤣🤣👍👍
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Also- MC5 "Motor City Is Burning".
The term 'Coca Cola' was a change the make to the sensors allow the song to play. It was originally just a slang word for nose coke.
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗹𝗮
so is Lola also glad that he's a man (?)
I've always thought that was the most brilliant part of the lyrics. It created a little ambiguity to it.
Try Father Christmas, best Christmas song ever.✌️Lola was a drag queen. Love it hell love the kinks.
Love this song so much my cat is named LOLA
My other is named LAYLA after Derek & the Dominoes song
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A very clever song.
Oh yeah. Enjoy this legendary classic song. Oh Lola. Lol.
Well, I'm not the most passionate man and so was Lola. I was a little kid when this came out. Didn't know what was really about until probably 15 years later. Lol
The kinks were a top band till they were banned from the USA. Then they finally got the ban lifted. This song hit the top of the charts but it hurt them in the long run. The scuttle but was they were gay and at that time being gay was a popularity damper if not a popularity killer. Anyway, you look at it this song what is a Way a head of its time.
Lol, your reaction was funny!…. YOU missed the line towards the end that says that Lola was a MAN! 🤣❤️
Don't forget CCR's "Long as I can see the light"
❤keep doing what you do…. Great stuff
I will 🙌🏿🙌🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
“Lola’s aggressive” 😂
Bro...I heard this back in the 70's and I had no idea what it was about. I think I figured it out
😂😅i love your "Dark Brown voice" pmsl
I LOVE your great reaction! How can anyone not love this fun, catchy song?? But... these days, there are so many killjoys out there looking to find outrage in anything. 🤨 When are people gonna lighten up again?
Now the Lola's are everywhere.
👀👀 lol I didn’t say it 😂😂😂😂 but you are right
A dark voice has to do with moving your jaw long and your cheeks in as opposed to a light voice with your lips pulled back in a smile and your chin high. It has to do with length versus roundness of the resonating cavity. You get the same extremes between a round string instrument like a banjo at one end and a long skinny one like a violin at the other. Brown is also a reference to the second deepest part of a human voice. You get a little bit of buzz. Allow it and you've also got the upper chest range above it then the midstrange then the head voice and then the falseeto. A lot of operas have a darker voice and most pop music is ultra light in its tones. The queen song with four voices has a much darker voice flavor compared to his normal singing tone.
Dark brown voice referred to the person Lola that their manager was seeing at the club. Lola was dark skin. The manager did not realize what he had in his hands. This song is based on a true event. So the dark brown voice refers to Lola her\his skin color.
That’s what I always assumed.
Of course, the censors came down heavily on this one... No - not for the transgender/cross-dressing theme but for using a commercial brand name, which was definitely not allowed on the BBC (the British Broadcasting Company, fondly known to generations of Brits as 'Auntie'). So, for the UK market, the lyrics had to be changed from 'Coca-Cola' to 'cherry cola'.
The point of the 'champagne' tasting like something other than champagne is that it wasn't genuine champagne but a cheap substitute... and that it was THAT kind of bar. Lots of seedy places like that in 'old Soho', London's red light district back in the 1960s. Being a young and innocent lad, fresh from the country, these clues went over his head; he didn't know what sort of place he was in until it was a bit late and he'd already fallen for the lovely (if slightly scary) Lola....
...Just as the real meaning of the song went over the censors' (and most of our) heads with a giant Whoosh! They were definitely more innocent times, and Ray Davies broke new ground when he penned this fun masterpiece, based on a real life experience one of their managers had, out on the town in a strange city. He didn't get that the big strong woman he'd been smooching with all night was a guy until the early hours of the morning, when the stubble began to come through... 🙂
Lola wasn’t transgender he was a transvestite ( completely different terms ). Also the actual event took place in a Paris nightclub. “ Soho “ was better for the lyrics. 9:26
@@cheryla7480 Thanks for the comment and for the information about the events that inspired the song taking place in Paris, not London. As to whether the original and/or fictional Lola was transgender or a transvestite, I understand of course they are two different things, but I'm not sure it's so clear-cut from the lyrics which category Lola would have identified with.
When the narrator says (sings) "I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola" I don't think that's necessarily proof that Lola identified as a man. It could just mean that he (the narrator) sees her as a man. If this was said today, it would be highly 'incorrect', if Lola was trans. But, back then the language around these issues was not as developed as it is now, and neither was the depth of understanding of the issues in the general population.
Furthermore, surgery and hormonal treatments were not readily accessible, so a trans woman might retain all her masculine physical features, which would make it more likely someone from the outside might understand her to be a man. That's why I used the phrase "transgender/ cross-dressing" to describe the theme, rather than just cross-dressing or transvestite, since to me, it was not 100% clear which it was..
I hope this makes some sort of sense! As the mother of a transgender woman, I have no wish to offend anyone dealing with these issues; quite the opposite, in fact! I apologise if anyone's feelings were inadvertently hurt, or principles disrespected by what I've said - which is simply my opinion; others may draw different conclusions about the song and the 'Lola' character, and that's fine by me.
I do thank you for bringing up the issue, and thus offering the opportunity for an open discussion around these sensitive questions.
there ya go! LOL
The Davies Bros. and band......."L-O-L-A Lola......... la la la Lola !"........hey, it was the 60's ! everybody made a mistake......luv the ending double entendre......
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A. Yoda........
LOL for LOLA song lyrics.
Great song!!!
AYOOOOOO
This is a true story. The names were changed to protect the innocent
...and now the Weird Al Parody, "Yoda"
Yeah, you might wanna re-read that last line.
Lola is a MAN for Christsake!....it's right their in the lyric!
You hilarious! 😎
You just have to give yourself over to the music... it's a great one on so many levels!
He goes...Loola in a Rambo voice. Lmao.
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love it!
Thank you
That’s last take was very optimistic of you Biz 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 lol I didn’t want to get cancelled yet