Tears for Fears - Apple Bottom Jeans

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • "Apple Bottom Jeans" is a song by English pop rock band Tears for Fears. It was written by Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, and Chris Hughes and produced by Hughes. The song was first released on 18 March 1985 by Phonogram, Mercury, and Vertigo Records as the third single from the band's second album, Songs from the Big Chair (1985).
    "Apple Bottom Jeans" is a new wave and synth-pop song with lyrics that detail the desire humans have for apple bottom jeans and centre on themes of gettin' low.

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  • @CallMeEitan
    @CallMeEitan 3 года назад +4009

    i love how this meme is extending to every single artist that ever existed.

    • @elliottsmith8636
      @elliottsmith8636 3 года назад +6

      Tenacious d?

    • @youthofyesterdayrecords
      @youthofyesterdayrecords 3 года назад +23

      Interestingly, it only seems to be used on bands and artists that actually performed music, with like musical instruments...You aren't seeing other computer made noise things with nonsense words parodying the original computer made noise thing with nonsense words this was originally made as.

    • @GNo03
      @GNo03 3 года назад +93

      @@youthofyesterdayrecords yea because these bands are older and more “sophisticated” so it’s funnier when they’re singing autotune rap lyrics

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius 3 года назад +1

      @@Scooby_Doobie_Doo Yes it is

    • @Scooby_Doobie_Doo
      @Scooby_Doobie_Doo 3 года назад

      @@dildonius No, it isn't.

  • @statu5gaming236
    @statu5gaming236 3 года назад +2598

    Timbs for fears

  • @paisenpaisen
    @paisenpaisen 3 года назад +1570

    they don’t make music like this anymore

    • @twincherries6698
      @twincherries6698 3 года назад +21

      And they never will

    • @aarondx3764
      @aarondx3764 3 года назад +9

      @@twincherries6698 Damn

    • @molly6398
      @molly6398 3 года назад +2

      makes me so sad

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius 3 года назад +8

      >"Music evolves and changes over time."
      >"Whoaaaa so deep! I agree and am very smart! Much more intellectual and profound than people who like modern thing. Modern thing bad. Cell phone bad. Wife bad."

    • @twincherries6698
      @twincherries6698 3 года назад +7

      @@dildonius 1. The joke
      Your head
      2. OK zoomer

  • @RLACDC2000
    @RLACDC2000 3 года назад +1979

    Missed the perfect opportunity for 'Everybody wants to look at her'

    • @ya.thegoat8795
      @ya.thegoat8795 3 года назад +17

      Are you stupid? That lyric is to early, he would end up singing "Boooooots wiiiiiitth thhhhhhhhhhhe furrrrrrrr" just to make for no lyrics

    • @RLACDC2000
      @RLACDC2000 3 года назад +126

      @@ya.thegoat8795 I'm sorry, I thought creativity was a thing to be valued

    • @terrorrbabbletwo
      @terrorrbabbletwo 3 года назад +6

      LMAO

    • @SB-se7vb
      @SB-se7vb 3 года назад +56

      You have to carefully straddle that line between creativity and preservation of the original meme.

    • @jackallenproductions
      @jackallenproductions 2 года назад +5

      @@RLACDC2000 I used that same line when the couple I was babysitting for started getting all uppity when they came home to me painting a mural on their living room wall with my poo.

  • @ashleak2715
    @ashleak2715 3 года назад +716

    We need an a-ha version of this ASAP

    • @normanclatcher
      @normanclatcher 3 года назад +46

      Gawking away
      Apple-Bottom, what's to say?
      I'll shake it anyway.
      Today is a nice day for the whole club
      To shy away...
      I'll be parodying "Low," okay?
      *-Shaaaaaake oooooonnn meeee-*
      _Nope._ Nope nope nope I regret everything-- 😫

    • @charlesthorndike2702
      @charlesthorndike2702 3 года назад +14

      ABSOLUTELY
      We also need: Duran Duran, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates, Johnny Hates Jazz (Shattered Jeans), Nik Kershaw, Cyndi Lauper, and Belinda Carlisle versions

    • @clam8894
      @clam8894 3 года назад +3

      ruclips.net/video/zfgHKRR3HJQ/видео.html

    • @helenemc5008
      @helenemc5008 3 года назад

      YES

    • @matthewpuleo9307
      @matthewpuleo9307 2 года назад

      Aren't y'all in luck: ruclips.net/video/zfgHKRR3HJQ/видео.html

  • @WeDwellinaFiefdom
    @WeDwellinaFiefdom 3 года назад +831

    Honest to god this may be the best version of this meme I’ve seen.

    • @Henry-ld7vh
      @Henry-ld7vh 3 года назад +12

      have you see elvis version?

    • @Sea_witch_
      @Sea_witch_ 3 года назад +13

      Have you heard the TOOL version? Its amazing too

    • @AHDN1964
      @AHDN1964 3 года назад +5

      the simon and garfunkel one is pretty funkin good

    • @patrickellis6529
      @patrickellis6529 3 года назад

      Watch the Beatles strawberry fields forever one

    • @retroera2739
      @retroera2739 3 года назад +2

      wait… tears for fears is a meme now?😃 now my 80s obsession looks like a meme

  • @Whatevs_Punyeta
    @Whatevs_Punyeta 3 года назад +342

    This video is 2:08 minutes of flawlessly executed art. There are no low or missed points. The beat, the melody, the lyrics were all so on point it's as if it came from the reality where for them this was the original song.

    • @estellegrignon
      @estellegrignon 3 года назад +46

      You sure there really isn't any "Low" in this? 🤔

    • @KIJIKLIPS
      @KIJIKLIPS Год назад +1

      ​@@estellegrignon just shawty

  • @robsmithadventures1537
    @robsmithadventures1537 3 года назад +171

    Abraham Lincoln was listening to this on his iPod shuffle before he was assassinated in 1963!

    • @soljafon
      @soljafon 3 года назад +22

      You mean Reagan? Lincon died well over 4 years before 1963. Also he was using a Samsung galaxy note 7 as ipods hadn't been invented yet.

    • @robsmithadventures1537
      @robsmithadventures1537 3 года назад +8

      @@soljafon oh yeah that was the one bro

    • @Ty-vj4wg
      @Ty-vj4wg 3 года назад +1

      @@soljafon *Reagan

    • @renatoimperatori5289
      @renatoimperatori5289 3 года назад +1

      @@soljafon you dumb? the note 7 didn't come out until 1965

    • @soljafon
      @soljafon 3 года назад +3

      @@renatoimperatori5289 well duh, everyone knows the TSA went back in time to give it to Reagan

  • @drebeck2542
    @drebeck2542 3 года назад +108

    People: What's your favorite genre of music
    Me: Apple Bottom Jeans

  • @user-vi4xy1jw7e
    @user-vi4xy1jw7e 3 года назад +769

    I was born in the wrong generation. 🥺

    • @heyzeus5569
      @heyzeus5569 3 года назад +27

      *right*😤

    • @aarondx3764
      @aarondx3764 3 года назад +14

      No you fucking weren't lmao

    • @3Bernie
      @3Bernie 3 года назад +2

      Same here

    • @joshuamorrow8863
      @joshuamorrow8863 3 года назад +6

      @headinleclouds :D go back I want to be MONKE!!!

    • @Ty-vj4wg
      @Ty-vj4wg 3 года назад +6

      I hope that’s sarcasm. The generation you were born in is the right generation for you, whether you think it or not.

  • @Valientlink
    @Valientlink 3 года назад +164

    used to bump this on my microwave back in 1968, miss those daze

    • @jeremyc9593
      @jeremyc9593 3 года назад +12

      What? You've owned a microwave? Settle down there, Humblebrag.

    • @Valientlink
      @Valientlink 3 года назад +12

      @@jeremyc9593 the rock and roll life chose me

    • @Ty-vj4wg
      @Ty-vj4wg 3 года назад +9

      Tears for Fears wasn’t around back then. Try twenty years later (1988).

    • @nickd7935
      @nickd7935 3 года назад +2

      @@Ty-vj4wg woosh

  • @katherinefrost6318
    @katherinefrost6318 3 года назад +119

    Documentary voice: The 1980s saw urban Britain undergo massive change...

  • @ayoutubechannel3813
    @ayoutubechannel3813 3 года назад +60

    This is an 80s masterpiece. This better be in Stranger Things season 4.

  • @penpen7935
    @penpen7935 3 года назад +46

    This has escalated my depression dramatically.

  • @mufasanatangwe8394
    @mufasanatangwe8394 3 года назад +180

    The cover by Flo Rida has nothing on the original

    • @ernovincze2900
      @ernovincze2900 Год назад

      You mean the Louis Armstrong classic that both Tears for Fears and Flo Rida paid homage to?

  • @Satan666Official
    @Satan666Official 3 года назад +21

    Love how the "low low low low low" actually went lower in the song. Nice composition!

  • @nicoelgreeko
    @nicoelgreeko 3 года назад +22

    I just love this because the original song by Tears for Fears is so epic. I had to listen to this one twice.

  • @TheDenssy
    @TheDenssy 3 года назад +11

    TFF is my favorite band and I clicked this thinking this was a rare song that I've never heard before. And I wasn't wrong.

  • @TheForza65432Dude
    @TheForza65432Dude 2 года назад +7

    Nice to see Tears For Fears pay homage to the Louis Armstrong classic

  • @judgepig7518
    @judgepig7518 3 года назад +65

    Truly a masterpiece. You're making relics sir, relics.

  • @shmizzleshmazzle9830
    @shmizzleshmazzle9830 3 года назад +484

    I got in trouble for grinding on random girls to this at my school's homecoming in 1986.

    • @orgalorg3329
      @orgalorg3329 3 года назад +25

      Holy shit man - sounds like a blast

    • @twincherries6698
      @twincherries6698 3 года назад +29

      We got a wild one

    • @preciousfurb5720
      @preciousfurb5720 3 года назад +73

      I wish I could go back to the 80s...before all the technology and drama. I remember driving around with the love of my life back in 86’ We listened to this song and danced and sung along. She was diagnosed with ligma a year later. I always look back at that moment and remember the good times.

    • @WillCookSound
      @WillCookSound 3 года назад +24

      @@preciousfurb5720 had em in the first half

    • @s1rdaddy
      @s1rdaddy 3 года назад +13

      @@preciousfurb5720 I feel you, my lover caught boffum and passed too

  • @neu-ter
    @neu-ter 3 года назад +4

    It is there when I want it and it is there when I need it. It's amazing

  • @Alan_The_Jaguar
    @Alan_The_Jaguar 3 года назад +28

    This has strangely the same vibes as the bioshock infinte songs from the future

    • @tungstencrayfish5921
      @tungstencrayfish5921 3 года назад +1

      One of them is literally this song, or at least the original

    • @miguellorenzosingian1562
      @miguellorenzosingian1562 3 года назад

      @@tungstencrayfish5921 what are you talking about, this is the original

    • @efthymiosn3381
      @efthymiosn3381 3 года назад

      This is everybody wants to rule by lorde

  • @DxPxOfficial
    @DxPxOfficial 3 года назад +6

    Didn’t even know this was a meme and now I see a whole bunch of videos from this meme. Going down the rabbit hole now. Wish me luck

  • @danieldeelite
    @danieldeelite 3 года назад +9

    I remember when this was on Top of the Pops in the 80s. That's how I learned how to spell "Florida"

  • @rissarose781
    @rissarose781 3 года назад +2

    This is the smoothest one yet

  • @jamespetko7773
    @jamespetko7773 3 года назад +5

    The Cure - Friday I'm In Love surelyyyyy

  • @kaydwessie296
    @kaydwessie296 3 года назад +5

    FINALLY this expanded to an artist I love

  • @BekkiUndSo
    @BekkiUndSo 3 года назад +3

    I will never be able to read and or hear those lyrics the same. This is gold. 😂

  • @pepesilvia1924
    @pepesilvia1924 3 года назад +3

    Takes me back

  • @Tenshii_Artii
    @Tenshii_Artii 3 года назад +8

    For a second, i was doubting whether my childhood was a lie, at the fact that Apple Bottom Jeans was actually a cover of an old song. Damn lmao.

  • @nattiedraws
    @nattiedraws Месяц назад

    Apple Bottom Jeans truly is a true american standard, based on it's rich folk tradition by being covered by so many artists through the years.

  • @bariumselenided5152
    @bariumselenided5152 Год назад +1

    I've seen enough of these that I feel confident in saying this is the best one.

  • @bluefootwalking
    @bluefootwalking 3 года назад +15

    It's almost like like an SCP how this song keeps spreading like this

  • @oOFranCescA2080oO
    @oOFranCescA2080oO 3 года назад +7

    I CAN'T
    I FOUND THIS CHANNEL BY CHANCE AND NOW IM LAUGHING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET WHILE GOING HOME FROM A HARD DAY
    I LOVE YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE
    PLS DO PET SHOP BOYS SOONER OR LATER

    • @popatochisps5926
      @popatochisps5926  3 года назад +2

      I'm glad I could bring you such immense joy from such a ridiculous meme trend. More vids on the way soon, stay tuned! 😉

  • @roxiatarka
    @roxiatarka 3 года назад +16

    TFF IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS THIS IS AMAZING I LOVE IT 😂

  • @TheHuskyK9
    @TheHuskyK9 3 года назад +7

    I’m gonna tell my kids that this was the most popular song in the 80’s

  • @durian.electra
    @durian.electra 2 года назад +2

    Now I need an apple bottom jeans version of this song but the Lorde cover

  • @owaisthegamer240
    @owaisthegamer240 3 года назад +7

    When Tears for Fears at home is actually good

  • @ericrhodes5174
    @ericrhodes5174 3 года назад +75

    I knew this wasn't an original song! Rappers don't have an original idea in their heads

  • @leppe1799
    @leppe1799 3 года назад +2

    There are so many of these videos now and I love it

  • @amber203
    @amber203 3 года назад +2

    talented, brilliant, show-stopping, incredible

  • @jstewartfilm
    @jstewartfilm 3 года назад +27

    John Denver for the love of GOD

    • @MrGared22
      @MrGared22 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/KVwrLPePLbI/видео.html

  • @christophawscanopy5692
    @christophawscanopy5692 2 года назад +5

    The lyrical formation of Apple Bottom jeans and WAP and its ability to match syllable to syllable to damn near all future popular songs is stuff of conspiracy👁👃👁

  • @WhiteHank
    @WhiteHank 3 года назад +2

    im crying

  • @st.nimbos
    @st.nimbos 3 года назад +8

    Please please please do a Depeche Mode one 😭😭 I'm in love with these videos

  • @bagelbelen
    @bagelbelen 3 года назад +1

    Oh god what have you done?
    ….it’s an absolute banger

  • @leonardopech2374
    @leonardopech2374 3 года назад +4

    This is the best I've heard so far

  • @mrjamesbudd
    @mrjamesbudd 3 года назад +5

    incredible cover :-) well done guys

  • @definitelynotafox6262
    @definitelynotafox6262 3 года назад +11

    are there any goth versions yet? we need apple bottom jeans by sisters of mercy

  • @andreasroyoi2510
    @andreasroyoi2510 3 года назад +30

    Please do Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

  • @ya.thegoat8795
    @ya.thegoat8795 3 года назад

    what a nice song

  • @iLOVEpalestineFOREVER
    @iLOVEpalestineFOREVER 3 года назад +2

    Sounds like the way you make me feel

  • @MSW96
    @MSW96 3 года назад

    I cannot believe a video like this exists. I don't deserve it.

  • @mbsucks101
    @mbsucks101 3 года назад

    Aaaaaaaaaaaah i love this song so much

  • @superlegal2965
    @superlegal2965 3 года назад +1

    These memes are so much worse when you've heard the actual song a million times but I have to admit your Tears for Fears impression is great

  • @serotonie12
    @serotonie12 3 года назад +25

    Toto please! Love your stuff.

  • @williamwhite9487
    @williamwhite9487 3 года назад

    Roland went crazy with this one

  • @danieldeelite
    @danieldeelite 3 года назад

    I've never turned on notifications before now. I feel, I feel seen.

  • @chmclovrrctn3171
    @chmclovrrctn3171 3 года назад

    This is the best one 100%

  • @SuperNitpicker
    @SuperNitpicker 3 года назад +1

    I love the description. Really informative.

  • @grimTales1
    @grimTales1 3 года назад +3

    This rocks, great job!

  • @boopyboop0
    @boopyboop0 3 года назад +1

    All of your videos are masterpieces, thanks for making this shitty week better, blessed af

  • @xoxxpeach
    @xoxxpeach 3 года назад

    yes

  • @jtpal12
    @jtpal12 3 года назад +10

    I love your descriptions man.
    Also can you do a CCR or Rolling Stones version? Keep it up.

    • @DongusMcBongus
      @DongusMcBongus 3 года назад +2

      Proud Mary CCR. Stones…. Ooooh what stones song would go the best

  • @garfieldthecat3881
    @garfieldthecat3881 3 года назад +15

    Do Pimk Floid

  • @anib
    @anib 3 года назад

    I’m unintentionally watching every version of thing song

  • @frdare
    @frdare 3 года назад +1

    This is the best one in my opinion hands down

  • @ForceFedFetusFillet
    @ForceFedFetusFillet 3 года назад

    Perfect

  • @zackhamblen
    @zackhamblen 3 года назад

    My favorite band finally

  • @Goglby
    @Goglby 3 года назад +1

    I was about to comment "this is called Head Over Heels!" I was younger then, innocent, not yet hurt by the world

  • @nefilibata328
    @nefilibata328 3 года назад +2

    ITS ABOUT TIME.
    Now I wanna hear a Kraftwerk one.

  • @_ZimZam
    @_ZimZam 2 года назад

    Awesome

  • @donalddarko5807
    @donalddarko5807 3 года назад

    The description is great

  • @venipunkture
    @venipunkture 3 года назад +3

    These are all so good

  • @Ty-vj4wg
    @Ty-vj4wg 3 года назад +2

    I seriously thought this was a Tears for Fear song I didn’t know. When I heard the “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” intro I was so confused.

  • @travesty77
    @travesty77 3 года назад +3

    Mate I’ve just watched all of your Apple bottom jeans vids you’ve got a talent keep it up mate

  • @_andthelike
    @_andthelike 3 года назад +1

    THIS IS AMAZING

  • @borednow
    @borednow 3 года назад

    That description hahahahhaha "centre on themes of getting low"

  • @ninjapig3855
    @ninjapig3855 3 года назад +4

    This meme will never get old

  • @dhandharum6040
    @dhandharum6040 3 года назад +10

    amaaazing, bravo, this shit got me dancing so bad

  • @molly6398
    @molly6398 3 года назад

    yeah

  • @curseofizanagi
    @curseofizanagi 3 года назад

    This is perfect what

  • @s1rdaddy
    @s1rdaddy 3 года назад +2

    This is one of the greatest memes ever😂

  • @thelowmein9143
    @thelowmein9143 3 года назад

    The world was dark place, virus, political unrest, hate, stress and depression, then someone found their muse and thought "What if every band sang apple bottom jeans". And hope was kindled!!

  • @bulletproofair
    @bulletproofair 3 года назад

    I have this on vinyl.

  • @TotoStyxSweet
    @TotoStyxSweet 3 года назад +1

    there needs to be a Spandau Ballet version

  • @evanreakes
    @evanreakes 3 года назад

    Still listening in 2021.

  • @sienataylor1580
    @sienataylor1580 3 года назад +1

    I needed this. Thank you

  • @MePeterNicholls
    @MePeterNicholls Год назад

    Shortie was never the same after the tonal change of the pre chorus

  • @jdjk7
    @jdjk7 3 года назад

    I knew intellectually that this could potentially happen, but i was not ready

  • @martamariajorge8090
    @martamariajorge8090 Год назад +1

    linda, linda linda 👍♥️♥️♥️♥️💋💕🤗💙

  • @Paytttoon
    @Paytttoon 3 года назад +3

    Thank you you’ve made my day

  • @viniciusgomes5147
    @viniciusgomes5147 3 года назад +1

    Album: Songs from the Big Club (1985}

  • @nocturnalpisces1299
    @nocturnalpisces1299 3 года назад +4

    YOU ARE SO TALENTED BAE

  • @lesgold430
    @lesgold430 3 года назад +7

    This shit straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @TheTheoTherone
    @TheTheoTherone 3 года назад +2

    Scroll scroll scroll...
    Ooh! Tears for Fe-
    Oh no. Not again...
    Ok let's go

  • @peachy2774
    @peachy2774 3 года назад +3

    holy shit this is amazing

  • @KumaPaws376
    @KumaPaws376 3 года назад +1

    Apple bottom for jeans

  • @malhalsey4994
    @malhalsey4994 3 года назад

    Another great pair of Apple Bottom Jeans! Keep em coming! 🍎 🍑 👖