But he didnt use his crowd control to harm, he had the ability to unify everyone and give them a shared experience. He used his power to gather people together and connect them, to himself and to each other.
Holly Odell Right BUT that's not the point is it darling? It's the band's (more pointedly), Freddie's ability to interact with the fans/audience that was special enough that he COULD be that dramatic pied-piper and lead ppl to do whatever HE wanted in that moment. Of course he wouldn't lead them to self-harm...only fun audience participation.
When Roger Taylor wrote the song it was kinda of a Criticism towards how MTV and television and taking over and Radio was already starting to die out as a way to get to music. The Gaga part comes from one of his kids saying “Radio kaka”. It was changed to Gaga, because it’s easier to pronounce. This song is also the reason why we have an artist called Lady Gaga. That’s true, even tough it sounds like a joke
Radio ga ga. Radio goo goo. Radio ga ga. All we hear is radio caca. Radio blah blah. At least, that's what I hear in the song. And yeah, it's mostly a commentary on how the video age came and began to make the music itself irrelevant. All you needed was a flashy video with some radio-friendly blah blah over the top of it, and you had a hit. The exact opposite happened a lot, too. Christopher Cross famously went from being a pop radio darling to a nobody, just because in video form, everyone saw he was just a boring-looking dude. Same thing happened to Steve Miller. Queen are a testament to bands that had image AND musical chops to back it up. Add their total ownage of the live arena rock stage, and they were nigh unstoppable.
@@woodch can you explain what definition "kaka" has in english? in russian "kaka" is used by small children 3-4 years old in meaning of something negative they don't like, it's not word actually, you can't find it in dictionaries. It's 4 letters that easy to pronounce for small kids, and sounds similiar to 'mama' or 'papa'.
@@Lev_naduvaet In English, it's usually used as a replacement for "poop". Maybe not so much anymore, but I remember it mostly as the "cleaner" version of "poop" or "crap".
I remember Roger also saying when his son said "radio caca" it had to do with what they were listening to on the radio (in his car, I believe) and Roger said, "I had to agree with him (his son)." So the song is lamenting what radio was becoming.
Every time I hear queen, I feel it's an honour. Their music makes you feel a part of it, and a lot of it was written so that the audience could participate. It's timeless
Your generation and the one before you were born at a time when groups began theatrical productions available through cable TV. Us “originals” had 3 tv stations if we were lucky and the wind blew the right way, transistor radios dialed to our closest rock stations (mostly away from our parents ears). Then when FM radio opened up for us, we were ecstatic. Listening to the radio was how we got NEW stuff. Then we headed off to buy it at the music store. Before MTV...groups played on tv before studio audiences or you had to go to a concert. So, the productions like Queen and others put together have grown into what your generation now is accustomed to. We didn’t miss anything on our radios, I can tell you that. Someone always had a bigger better sound system (huge but fat). Those old wood cabinets with woofers and tweeters were like instruments made from wood. Wood made the sounds fat and layered! Like a Stradivarius violin. I love your honesty! Kudos to your mom & gmom, too. I may be Native American Indian but I loved every MoTown, Philly group that ever was, still do! ✌️❤️👵🏻
Gail...LOL 1 station 😆We made dad climb on the roof of the house to aim the antenna for us 😳, then he put up a higher one. If a guy I dated couldn’t pick up WAPE (Jax, FL) 👎no second date for him, if a date turned the bass down and the treble up, 👎no second date for him either. Lucky I was able to find a keeper! 🙏 thanks for the laugh!
Hi, JB! I think that drummer Roger Taylor wrote this song about how he felt that music videos, like those that once were the staple of MTV, might have taken something away from radio's importance and quality. So, he calls that radio "gaga" and radio "blah-blah". He and the other members of Queen, as well as the generation who made them famous (me included), had grown up with radio as the background of their youth. It was crucial to the rise of rock and roll's, and r&b's, importance in popular culture, along with TV. Radio had also been a main format for popular entertainment in the home for the generation before them. Their parents turned to radio, too, when there was no television. Then, there was not only music, but live comedy and radio plays, too. The bandmembers would have been old enough to still remember hearing some of that in their early childhoods, just before television became more common in people's houses. Taylor references that in his lyrics. While MTV's original format of 24/7 music videos was a great, revolutionary new medium, there was a concern that it would kill off radio. It didn't, but it did create a new context for musical enjoyent. It turned it into the multimedia art form we still know today. Another great song you should check out and react to that deals with this same subject is "Video Killed The Radio Star", by The Buggles. Fittingly, it holds a place in pop culture history as the very first music video ever played on MTV, on its launch day in August of 1981. I recommend it! Oh, and interesting factoids: 1. the silent film featured in this video was the classic, futuristic movie, "Metropolis", directed by Fritz Lang. 2. modern day pop star/actress Lady Gaga chose her stage name from the title of this Queen hit!
If you watch the music video, you can see how they use old school movies and imagery. All the members of Queen grew up in the 40s (Freddie and Brian) or 50s (Roger and John; they were a little younger) long before television became the dominant medium that it is today. Before people had to use their ears and imagination. You couldn't "watch" music like today in music videos (MTV had just started when this song came out), commercials and singing shows ("watch the stars on videos for hours and hours") as well as recorded concerts. So even with outdated technology, there was a lot more talent, effort, heart and skill put into making actual music and writing songs. So even back in the 80s, Roger Taylor was making commentary that all music was just starting to sound the same (it's even worse now) and music was more about commercialization and marketing and even brainwashing rather than really listening ("We hardly need to use our ears"). Hence the lyrics, "All we hear is radio ga ga (caca), radio goo goo, radio blah blah". Just noise and not music. But he holds out hope that radio despite having had its time and power back in the day, has yet to have its finest hour and hopefully its best days are to come (not likely), and that they still love radio; radio still has a place in their hearts like a good old friend from teenage nights. I didn't always like this song, but it has grown on me tremendously and this combined with These Are The Days Of Our Lives are by far my favorite Roger Taylor songs followed by A Kind Of Magic. I think Roger's songwriting improved considerably in the 80s and beyond although it was never bad. Quite an amazing group of songwriters, Queen was and are still (every true Queen fan misses John Deacon and just hope that he is doing well), but not for much longer unless Dr. Brian May figures out a real and effective way to use time dilation. Finally, i agree with your assessment of Freddie, Elvis and Michael (you don't even need last names for these legends). I made a short comment about these three on another reaction you just did. It really does suck so much that all three of these "immortals" are dead and gone and so early; none of them made it past 50. What amazing music there must be in heaven...
Jesco White The Dancing Outlaw I totally agree with you. MTV has been destroyed over the years because now they don’t even have music. All they show is “ Little women big world” “ 16 and pregnant” “ wives of Atlanta, LA, NY”... it’s absolutely barbaric what they have turned MTV into. Back in the 1980s it was awesome and it was even pretty good in the 1990s.. come to the millennium and MTV and VH1 started changing and in the past 10 years it has been nothing but crap. I bought my house in 2000 and I remember seeing Destiny’s Child on MTV when they put out “independent women” for Charlie’s Angels. Three or four years later they were playing more hip-hop and rap. I like hip-hop and rap from Eminem. He is good & Nelly, BUT I love rock. Queen was always my number one band above all and under them would probably have to be Journey. When a queen song comes on do you know Freddie Mercury’s voice in addition to the musicians. Journey comes on and Stephen Perry’s voice is automatically recognizable as well. Journeys musicians are not as recognizable as Queen b/c they just aren’t. Separate ways is one of my favorite songs by Journey!! I agree with Roger Taylor. “ I like most of the stuff we do, but I don’t like all of the stuff we’ve done”.. he said that sometime around 1985 in an interview and I’m sure he was speaking of Hot Space. It’s the only album that queen put out I didn’t like. It is meh. They didn’t even play those songs at the skating ring. 😂😂 Queen is a better overall band than probably anybody. Reason they are so good is because they were inspired by different musicians and bands. All four of those guys had their own favorites and musicians that inspired them. Put that altogether and they made magic!
JB, please, react to Queen's 'You Take My Breath Away'. It's a song based on simplicity and intimacy - something you have not experienced from Queen so far. It contains marvellous choirs sung by Freddie.
Rhonda Silberberg Which made Freddie Mercury's commanding performance amazing! He had the ppl eating out of the palms of his hands...he was the pied-piper!
Rhonda Silberberg I know!! Everybody bought the tickets a couple months before the concert and Queen was asked by Bob Geldof at the last minute to perform. They had two weeks to get ready for that concert but they had just come off tour in mid May. The movie was really excellent and Rami Malek did a superb job portraying Freddie Mercury because he is the most difficult person I can think of for anyone to portray in a movie- in general. The other three guys who were part of the band did an awesome job as well and they made me laugh so hard😂😂 Ben Hardy, Guy that played Roger Taylor, had me laughing the whole movie and I must’ve watched it 15 times in July just to get a good laugh and hear the music. Those four men put a lot of work blood and sweat into doing the best work they could for Bohemian Rhapsody and they did good!! The critics didn’t like it, but the fans loved it. $1 billion earned so far proves that the movie, actors, & music was par Excellent. I bet it was a Royal Treat for those people who bought the tickets to go and actually see Queen. I watched a RUclips video of a man that was at the Wembley live aid concert 1985. He said it was hot and miserable but everybody was having a good time with the music. He said that he was not a Queen fan, but they out perform and everybody else in the show. There were rumors of that Queen’s sound was louder than everyone else’s but he said that wasn’t true. Queen didn’t sound any louder than anyone else, but they outperformed other bands because of the musicians on top of Freddie Mercury.... and The crowd singing and clapping right along with the band. The man said that he was there to see Elton John and Phil Collins, call McCartney, etc..but Queen did the best job
Wiki: Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio caca" (from something his toddler son once said), which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played.
So glad you entered the magical world of Queen. Try Fairy Feller's Master Stroke. Freddie wrote it after seeing a painting with the same title. Freddie was an art major.
I first came across your reaction of Bohemian Rhapsody and I LOVED watching you experience what I myself experienced WAY BACK when his Album The Game came out in 1980. Now I have to watch ALL your reactions! :) Thanks I'll be watchin'
I love when you talk about it was an honor to have discovered Queen. I can't speak for anyone else but I think most fans felt that way when they first discovered Queen not matter how old or young they were at the time. I felt that way. I was 10 in 1980 and "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" had both hit #1 in the US. This was pre-MTV but I think HBO had started up and would show the occasional video and that's where I saw "Play The Game" and that's when I was really hooked. I soon got their greatest hits album which I think came out in 1981 and discovered "Bohemian Rhapsody" and there was no turning back after that. One great song after another.
Possibly already said, but it's a testament to Queen's relevance and influence today. Lady Gaga, one of the few genuine artists IMO out there with a real respect for music based her name off this song as a tribute.
Such a great song about radio and music itself. How it makes us happy and change. So awesome. "Metropolis" in the video is the most expensive film germany did until this day. Amazing isn't it. I think there are even HD Versions out of it and restorings and so on. So cool 😀 Staying curious is the most cool thing someone can have and imagination!
Fun fact about this song. This song is in GTA V. When you play the mission with Michael dead man walking when you escape the iaa building you could hear radio gaga on the radio
Also, I feel like only those people who grew up in the eras when radio was king will truly understand the depth of this song. I think for the MTV generation and onward it probably won't resonate and make as much sense unless they can fathom the context of the song.
That was the power of Freddie Mercury. He was all about wanting attention but in a good way. He wanted you to love him and he was gonna do anything to make that happen. He put a spell on you through your eyes & ears. He was always himself. That’s what made him so great. Some people are born with that kind of stage presence. You should do a reax to Pearl Jam’s performance at Pink Pop festival. Eddie Vedder can own a crowd also. Back to Freddie, I’m so glad Bohemian Rhapsody was made. Much like you, the young kids at work are so obsessed with the music. It’s time they heard actual music with real instruments, not a computer.
There was a very happy/ sad time ; when MTV was taking over the music industry …..it was mostly unpopular to listen to music on the radio . I am very happy to have been raised on music from the radio …..back from my parents &siblings . It feels really great to have the appreciation for MTV and the Love of growing up listening to radio music with a D.J. . I feel that Queen/ Freddie felt the same way and this video was a show of appreciation of both as well as Metropolis : )
This song always gives me such a strong feeling of nostalgia. Growing up in the 80s and 90s radio was everything for me, and it helped me through some tough times. I listened to it far more then I watched tv, and everytime I hear this song I'm right back there again. So good! EDIT to add: I also loved the old time radio dramas and crime shows!
I believe it means that even though radio has been around for well over 100 years and we spend so much time watching TV, movies and video it is still in it's infancy.
just discovered your channel and smashed the subscribe button. love your reactions. so heartfelt and honest. keep up the good work. plenty of people were spot on with the meaning if the song, heck, you had it figured during your reaction. binge watching you all weekend bro.
its fun watching your reactions. Im an old fan of Queens since their beginning, and i still get the same reaction you show on your face when i listen to Queen,,lol Life time of smiles~~
“Everyone in the crowd doing whatever Queen wanted them to do.” So when I saw Queen with Adam Lambert a couple of years ago, the crowd was NOT CLAPPING during this song. Like WTF people- do you not know what to do in this song?!!! I love your reaction videos. Keep doing them!!
I'm sure someone already talked about the title. The song was written by drummer Roger Taylor after his son used the phrase "radio ca ca" saying it was bad. "Ca Ca" means shit. Radio had become too commercialized and formatted and played the same songs all the time so Roger started to write the song as an anti-commercial radio song but the rest of the group did not like that title. So it was changed to "Ga Ga" and Roger rewrote it praising radio (of his youth) and turned it into a kind of anti-MTV song saying we're going to need radio "...when we grow tired of all this visual ..." The Songfacts on this song said that all the extras in the video got the "clapping and raising arms" sequence down right away but the four Queen members were the ones who had trouble with it. They used a lot of footage from the classic silent film Metropolis. That's why they thanked Metropolis at the end of the video.
I won't get into what the song's about since have already done so much better than I could, but I will make a suggestion: It's A Hard Life by Queen. I really love the song and video and think you would, too 😀
You also need to check out some Elton John. Check out Rocket Man, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Crocodile Rock and/or Bennie and the Jets. I couldn't decide, lol.
This is good advice. It's a Hard Life is a great song - and the video is great, too. I read somewhere that it was one of Freddie's favourites out of all the songs he'd written.
I am about the same age as Freddie would have been if he were still here. Not sure what the meaning is for sure but looking at the video it went back in time to when were were young.....in the early 50’s. There was no TV only radio. There were weekly programs on the radio that you would listen to on a regular basis. Also the Orson Wells radio broadcast of the ‘war of the worlds’ which the audience thought it was real. When we were young, that’s all we had was the radio. That may not be the meaning of the song, but it appeared that way by the video.
Elvis, Michael Jackson and Queen. Great group of artists there. You might well like some Prince if you like good music and performances as well. Prince wrote a lot of pop music, but he was a great guitarist and performer. Check out a live performance of purple rain for all of those things together.
The words wars of worlds invaded by mars refers to Orson Wells war of the worlds which was played on the radio. Some people thought it was a real event and thought we were getting invaded by aliens from space...
i think he was in love with his radio as boy, back then together with a few channels on tv it was all the entertainment he could get. to connect with the stars and dream
About those black and white scenes in the videoclip, they're from the 1927!! movie Metropolis. Beyonce used that robot like figure as well in her live shows. In fact it is one of the most influential films ever made. Look it up!
Music is the best way to bring people of different cultures,backgrounds,and ethnicity's together.It's one medium we can use to "break"the ice and talk about what we have in common also our differences and problems.It can bring people,and countries together and also I believe to solve some problems.Just my opinion.
It was Freddie's charisma and the writing of the whole band that made people do what queen wanted them to do at concerts.Sadly as john deacon said queen isn't the same queen anymore without freddie,but i understand why they want to keep on going.I hope in a part it's to keep the memory of freddie alive.
People tend to focus more on the second set of verses, those criticizing the '80s music video scene (Top Of The Pops, MTV, Much Music, etc.), but the first verses really set up *why* Roger was commenting on music videos, and it's often overlooked. He starts the song by establishing how important radio was a medium for society (not just music). Radio helped Britain get through WWII, before TV, it was THE dominant media, responsible not just for entertainment (music, radio shows, etc.), but for information like world news and politics. By the '80s, at least in Roger's opinion, the importance of radio had diminished as a mass media source of connecting the world, but as Roger warns, society would greatly miss radio if it went away, because they took it for granted. So yeah, it's more than just 'Roger hates music videos' (which he did, by the way, it was his least favourite thing about recording albums, having to do the videos).
Great comments here! New subscriber! Btw, it looks like Freddie could pop out of your cracked closet doors just like in the video were the bldg cracks in two!
I've been watching your channel for about a day now, going through what you're reacting to and how your reacting to it. You said in one of your videos what happened to this music. The answer is that we've become a society that wants a quick fix of everything. It doesn't matter if it's a TV show or music or even reading the news. Everything has been predigested into bites (or bytes) for easy non-thought consumption. I believe you said something along the lines of that you rarely watch anything longer than the TV show or maybe a movie. This was in the video where you reacted to Queen at Live Aid. I also saw you tear up when you watched Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona. This is music. Hip-hop and rap can trace their origins directly to the 1950s and 60s of beat poets and scat. Those forms of music were as much social protest as the wrap and hip-hop songs of today. When you feel ready to listen to one of the most brilliant composers of our time and not have to do a reaction to it, but just listen try Mike Oldfield. Start with tubular bells (ruclips.net/video/TXvtDm820zI/видео.html). Put your headphones on and just listen. And keep something in mind, the composer is playing all of the instruments. That alone should blow your mind!
radio still his life, even tho people thought it was garbage. he didn't, it got him into performing.he s felt it hadn't got to it zenith yet you got to remember, shit wasn't done for modern music for a long time on tv and in England they may have had two channels
JB your reactions are great, especially to Queen. They were the pinnacle at the time for bands reaching so many audiences. I would love to see you react to Stevie Ray Vaughn. After Hendrix I would consider him the embodiment of what Hendrix would have done if he hadn’t left this world so soon. Little Wing, Voodoo Child or Texas Flood. Make sure to find live shows so you can watch him become one with his guitar. Keep it up 👍👍👍👍
This song and the song "Video Killed The Radio Star." Are talking back how when MTV and music videos came along and pretty much started to "kill" radio. That's what this song is talking about when he says "Radio, someone still loves you." He's referring to the band and their generation pretty much.
I am sorry for the length of this response to the meaning of the song but unfortunately I do not know how to make it shorter.It is from Wiki. Recorded in 1983 and released in January 1984, the song was a commentary on television overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past for a favourite comedy, drama, or science fiction programme. It also addressed the advent of the music video and MTV, which was then competing with radio as an important medium for promoting records. The video for "Radio Ga Ga" would receive a Best Art Direction nomination.[11] Roger Taylor was quoted: That's part of what the song's about, really. The fact that they [music videos] seem to be taking over almost from the aural side, the visual side seems to be almost more important.[12] Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio caca" (from something his toddler son once said),[13] which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played.[4] The song makes reference to two important radio events of the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in the lyric "through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars", and Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 "This was their finest hour" speech from the House of Commons, in the lyric "You've yet to have your finest hour".[14]
Freddie was unique.. special.. we love him..thats the only words that fit.. MJ, and Elvis..both good performers, but they are on different levels.. not better, not worse just different.. but my soul will always be a Queen and Freddie person. I remember coming home after school and listening to the radio, recording on tape our favourite song. trying to get a version with no other jingle. radio used to be the only way we could get new music the tv's in the UK we had 3 channels, and that was controlled by the dad/mum so the radio was the only way, but there was a lot of stuff and we had to find the right music channels.. (i am 45 this was not too long ago) then there was the radio serials, like Journey into Space, where the whole family would sit around and listen..
Roger Taylor wrote this as a critique of radio stations, which were becoming commercialized and playing the same songs over and over (and this was before radio was deregulated, allowing companies to own multiple stations in a market, resulting in more corporate ownership, less competition and generally bad radio).
It's true. Bands make videos today they don't really play just for the music queen said today it's all about music videos people need to go back to just listening to songs without the images of videos. That's when music was better
Roger's partner, later to become his first wife, was French and their child said "Radio KaKa" meaning it was shit. They can be heard to say KaKa within the song. It was a knock at the MTV world. Where music wasn't enough, people needed video. "We hardly need to use our ears"
I love you hold in your guitar!! ❤️ this song came out and brought the band back from the album Hot Space that did horribly because it was the disco album pretty much. Nobody really wanted it and they only tried it to see if it would be popular in clubs but it was a flop. Paul Prenter put it into Freddie Mercury‘s mind that a disco album would be good at the clubs- Gay clubs in all kinds of clubs. If it was popular, that’s the only place it was and I was in Junior high school and too young to go to those places and don’t even go now that I’m older. I do know that they never played anything from the hot space album at the roller skating rink! They did play everything else from queen on the jukebox. Another one bites the dust was everybody’s favorite on the jukebox at the roller skating ring❤️❤️ kaka means shit😂😂 Roger Taylor‘s little boy he said radio Kaka and they got a chuckle out of this three-year-old boy saying that. Roger Taylor made this song and it’s radio gaga but there are some places that say radio Kaka.
Do you recognise the song and audience clapping movements from Live Aid as well? They performed this song, which only came out 1 year before Live Aid, so everyone had seen this music video and knew the clap-hand movements at Live Aid.
Please do a react video to "How Can I Go On" by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe. (It'd be a logical thing to do, since you loved their video of Barcelona.) :)
Like your comments but you should have seen the Wembley Live version with 80,000 eating out of the palm of Freddie's hand with massive crowd participation..:)
i'm not a great queen fan, but i do love their more popular songs. this is my favourite of them, and my favourite pop video of all time. freddie is also my favourite 'performer'. nobody compares. david bowie is also good, though. i love your open mindedness about music. have you reacted to pink floyd, yet? i can't recall. i'd also like to remind you about katherine jenkins. i'm sure that you'd like her. 'everything i do' , 'who wants to live forever?' and 'angel' are among my favourites of hers.
"It was like everybody in the crowd would jump off a building if Queen jumped off a building".
Nobody has ever summed it up better!!
But he didnt use his crowd control to harm, he had the ability to unify everyone and give them a shared experience. He used his power to gather people together and connect them, to himself and to each other.
@@hollyodell4012 One of the underrated reasons why they were so great
Parent: "If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it?"
Me: "Hell yeah, if they remembered to bring the bungee cord."
Holly Odell Right BUT that's not the point is it darling? It's the band's (more pointedly), Freddie's ability to interact with the fans/audience that was special enough that he COULD be that dramatic pied-piper and lead ppl to do whatever HE wanted in that moment. Of course he wouldn't lead them to self-harm...only fun audience participation.
When Roger Taylor wrote the song it was kinda of a Criticism towards how MTV and television and taking over and Radio was already starting to die out as a way to get to music. The Gaga part comes from one of his kids saying “Radio kaka”. It was changed to Gaga, because it’s easier to pronounce. This song is also the reason why we have an artist called Lady Gaga. That’s true, even tough it sounds like a joke
Radio ga ga. Radio goo goo. Radio ga ga. All we hear is radio caca. Radio blah blah. At least, that's what I hear in the song. And yeah, it's mostly a commentary on how the video age came and began to make the music itself irrelevant. All you needed was a flashy video with some radio-friendly blah blah over the top of it, and you had a hit. The exact opposite happened a lot, too. Christopher Cross famously went from being a pop radio darling to a nobody, just because in video form, everyone saw he was just a boring-looking dude. Same thing happened to Steve Miller.
Queen are a testament to bands that had image AND musical chops to back it up. Add their total ownage of the live arena rock stage, and they were nigh unstoppable.
@@woodch can you explain what definition "kaka" has in english?
in russian "kaka" is used by small children 3-4 years old in meaning of something negative they don't like, it's not word actually, you can't find it in dictionaries. It's 4 letters that easy to pronounce for small kids, and sounds similiar to 'mama' or 'papa'.
@@Lev_naduvaet In English, it's usually used as a replacement for "poop". Maybe not so much anymore, but I remember it mostly as the "cleaner" version of "poop" or "crap".
In spanish it means poop!! I hear him say that too !! Its crazy that they felt about music like that back then ! Cause music is trash nowadays
I remember Roger also saying when his son said "radio caca" it had to do with what they were listening to on the radio (in his car, I believe) and Roger said, "I had to agree with him (his son)." So the song is lamenting what radio was becoming.
Every time I hear queen, I feel it's an honour. Their music makes you feel a part of it, and a lot of it was written so that the audience could participate. It's timeless
Freddie Mercury was a one in a million showman.
We don't need a million showmen. We need only Freddie.
Maybe one in a billion!
Something I don't think has been touched on...the clarity of each word that comes from Freddie's mouth....always amazes me.
He really did have great diction, didn't he?
@@jenfine I do so appreciate being able to understand what an artist is trying to express... lol
Your generation and the one before you were born at a time when groups began theatrical productions available through cable TV. Us “originals” had 3 tv stations if we were lucky and the wind blew the right way, transistor radios dialed to our closest rock stations (mostly away from our parents ears). Then when FM radio opened up for us, we were ecstatic. Listening to the radio was how we got NEW stuff. Then we headed off to buy it at the music store. Before MTV...groups played on tv before studio audiences or you had to go to a concert. So, the productions like Queen and others put together have grown into what your generation now is accustomed to. We didn’t miss anything on our radios, I can tell you that. Someone always had a bigger better sound system (huge but fat). Those old wood cabinets with woofers and tweeters were like instruments made from wood. Wood made the sounds fat and layered! Like a Stradivarius violin. I love your honesty! Kudos to your mom & gmom, too. I may be Native American Indian but I loved every MoTown, Philly group that ever was, still do! ✌️❤️👵🏻
Gail...LOL 1 station 😆We made dad climb on the roof of the house to aim the antenna for us 😳, then he put up a higher one. If a guy I dated couldn’t pick up WAPE (Jax, FL) 👎no second date for him, if a date turned the bass down and the treble up, 👎no second date for him either. Lucky I was able to find a keeper! 🙏 thanks for the laugh!
Great summary of our musical life back then!
This music video has incorporated pieces from the 1927 classic film Metropolis
just what i was going to say then i saw your comment
you see in this video the initial reason why people clapped that way in wembley live aid 1985.
Hi, JB! I think that drummer Roger Taylor wrote this song about how he felt that music videos, like those that once were the staple of MTV, might have taken something away from radio's importance and quality. So, he calls that radio "gaga" and radio "blah-blah". He and the other members of Queen, as well as the generation who made them famous (me included), had grown up with radio as the background of their youth. It was crucial to the rise of rock and roll's, and r&b's, importance in popular culture, along with TV.
Radio had also been a main format for popular entertainment in the home for the generation before them. Their parents turned to radio, too, when there was no television. Then, there was not only music, but live comedy and radio plays, too. The bandmembers would have been old enough to still remember hearing some of that in their early childhoods, just before television became more common in people's houses. Taylor references that in his lyrics.
While MTV's original format of 24/7 music videos was a great, revolutionary new medium, there was a concern that it would kill off radio. It didn't, but it did create a new context for musical enjoyent. It turned it into the multimedia art form we still know today.
Another great song you should check out and react to that deals with this same subject is "Video Killed The Radio Star", by The Buggles. Fittingly, it holds a place in pop culture history as the very first music video ever played on MTV, on its launch day in August of 1981. I recommend it!
Oh, and interesting factoids: 1. the silent film featured in this video was the classic, futuristic movie, "Metropolis", directed by Fritz Lang. 2. modern day pop star/actress Lady Gaga chose her stage name from the title of this Queen hit!
Video did hurt music. Some of the greats of the 60s would have never made it after video. They weren't photogenic.
Radio had the last laugh. MTV is long dead and buried, yet my SiriusXM radio is playing in the background.
If you watch the music video, you can see how they use old school movies and imagery. All the members of Queen grew up in the 40s (Freddie and Brian) or 50s (Roger and John; they were a little younger) long before television became the dominant medium that it is today. Before people had to use their ears and imagination. You couldn't "watch" music like today in music videos (MTV had just started when this song came out), commercials and singing shows ("watch the stars on videos for hours and hours") as well as recorded concerts. So even with outdated technology, there was a lot more talent, effort, heart and skill put into making actual music and writing songs.
So even back in the 80s, Roger Taylor was making commentary that all music was just starting to sound the same (it's even worse now) and music was more about commercialization and marketing and even brainwashing rather than really listening ("We hardly need to use our ears"). Hence the lyrics, "All we hear is radio ga ga (caca), radio goo goo, radio blah blah". Just noise and not music. But he holds out hope that radio despite having had its time and power back in the day, has yet to have its finest hour and hopefully its best days are to come (not likely), and that they still love radio; radio still has a place in their hearts like a good old friend from teenage nights.
I didn't always like this song, but it has grown on me tremendously and this combined with These Are The Days Of Our Lives are by far my favorite Roger Taylor songs followed by A Kind Of Magic. I think Roger's songwriting improved considerably in the 80s and beyond although it was never bad. Quite an amazing group of songwriters, Queen was and are still (every true Queen fan misses John Deacon and just hope that he is doing well), but not for much longer unless Dr. Brian May figures out a real and effective way to use time dilation.
Finally, i agree with your assessment of Freddie, Elvis and Michael (you don't even need last names for these legends). I made a short comment about these three on another reaction you just did. It really does suck so much that all three of these "immortals" are dead and gone and so early; none of them made it past 50. What amazing music there must be in heaven...
He was talking about basically when music videos started like MTV etc no one listened to music on the radio like they used to
yes but not just music. Things like War of the Worlds also.
Jesco White The Dancing Outlaw I totally agree with you. MTV has been destroyed over the years because now they don’t even have music. All they show is “ Little women big world” “ 16 and pregnant” “ wives of Atlanta, LA, NY”... it’s absolutely barbaric what they have turned MTV into. Back in the 1980s it was awesome and it was even pretty good in the 1990s.. come to the millennium and MTV and VH1 started changing and in the past 10 years it has been nothing but crap. I bought my house in 2000 and I remember seeing Destiny’s Child on MTV when they put out “independent women” for Charlie’s Angels. Three or four years later they were playing more hip-hop and rap. I like hip-hop and rap from Eminem. He is good & Nelly, BUT I love rock. Queen was always my number one band above all and under them would probably have to be Journey. When a queen song comes on do you know Freddie Mercury’s voice in addition to the musicians. Journey comes on and Stephen Perry’s voice is automatically recognizable as well. Journeys musicians are not as recognizable as Queen b/c they just aren’t. Separate ways is one of my favorite songs by Journey!! I agree with Roger Taylor. “ I like most of the stuff we do, but I don’t like all of the stuff we’ve done”.. he said that sometime around 1985 in an interview and I’m sure he was speaking of Hot Space. It’s the only album that queen put out I didn’t like. It is meh. They didn’t even play those songs at the skating ring. 😂😂 Queen is a better overall band than probably anybody. Reason they are so good is because they were inspired by different musicians and bands. All four of those guys had their own favorites and musicians that inspired them. Put that altogether and they made magic!
I just love your reactions to all of Queens songs. I didn't discover them until I was in my 50's and I'm 75 now. I love Freddie and Queen.
Roger looked like Benjamin Orr in that flying car.. 😁😘
RIP Benjamin and Freddie
Yes he does!
JB, please, react to Queen's 'You Take My Breath Away'. It's a song based on simplicity and intimacy - something you have not experienced from Queen so far. It contains marvellous choirs sung by Freddie.
The Royal Viewer my favorite
"Freddie, Michael, Elvis". Spot on. I love you man.
The old footage is from Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'.
The Live Aid audience was not even a Queen audience. Check out a Queen concert.
Rhonda Silberberg Which made Freddie Mercury's commanding performance amazing! He had the ppl eating out of the palms of his hands...he was the pied-piper!
Rhonda Silberberg I know!! Everybody bought the tickets a couple months before the concert and Queen was asked by Bob Geldof at the last minute to perform. They had two weeks to get ready for that concert but they had just come off tour in mid May. The movie was really excellent and Rami Malek did a superb job portraying Freddie Mercury because he is the most difficult person I can think of for anyone to portray in a movie- in general. The other three guys who were part of the band did an awesome job as well and they made me laugh so hard😂😂 Ben Hardy, Guy that played Roger Taylor, had me laughing the whole movie and I must’ve watched it 15 times in July just to get a good laugh and hear the music. Those four men put a lot of work blood and sweat into doing the best work they could for Bohemian Rhapsody and they did good!! The critics didn’t like it, but the fans loved it. $1 billion earned so far proves that the movie, actors, & music was par Excellent. I bet it was a Royal Treat for those people who bought the tickets to go and actually see Queen. I watched a RUclips video of a man that was at the Wembley live aid concert 1985. He said it was hot and miserable but everybody was having a good time with the music. He said that he was not a Queen fan, but they out perform and everybody else in the show. There were rumors of that Queen’s sound was louder than everyone else’s but he said that wasn’t true. Queen didn’t sound any louder than anyone else, but they outperformed other bands because of the musicians on top of Freddie Mercury.... and The crowd singing and clapping right along with the band. The man said that he was there to see Elton John and Phil Collins, call McCartney, etc..but Queen did the best job
Wiki: Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio caca" (from something his toddler son once said), which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played.
So glad you entered the magical world of Queen. Try Fairy Feller's Master Stroke. Freddie wrote it after seeing a painting with the same title. Freddie was an art major.
I first came across your reaction of Bohemian Rhapsody and I LOVED watching you experience what I myself experienced WAY BACK when his Album The Game came out in 1980. Now I have to watch ALL your reactions! :) Thanks I'll be watchin'
I Love The Bassline....so atmospheric.
I love when you talk about it was an honor to have discovered Queen. I can't speak for anyone else but I think most fans felt that way when they first discovered Queen not matter how old or young they were at the time. I felt that way. I was 10 in 1980 and "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" had both hit #1 in the US. This was pre-MTV but I think HBO had started up and would show the occasional video and that's where I saw "Play The Game" and that's when I was really hooked. I soon got their greatest hits album which I think came out in 1981 and discovered "Bohemian Rhapsody" and there was no turning back after that. One great song after another.
I'll also thank God for making you who you are, because I think you're pretty awesome! Keep reacting :) Peace!
Great song by another great 80's band!
Possibly already said, but it's a testament to Queen's relevance and influence today. Lady Gaga, one of the few genuine artists IMO out there with a real respect for music based her name off this song as a tribute.
Such a great song about radio and music itself. How it makes us happy and change. So awesome. "Metropolis" in the video is the most expensive film germany did until this day. Amazing isn't it. I think there are even HD Versions out of it and restorings and so on. So cool 😀 Staying curious is the most cool thing someone can have and imagination!
This song is amazing.
Freddie always had the fans in his control!
Fun fact about this song. This song is in GTA V. When you play the mission with Michael dead man walking when you escape the iaa building you could hear radio gaga on the radio
I forgot about this one! Major fond memories, thank-you JB!
Also, I feel like only those people who grew up in the eras when radio was king will truly understand the depth of this song. I think for the MTV generation and onward it probably won't resonate and make as much sense unless they can fathom the context of the song.
That was the power of Freddie Mercury. He was all about wanting attention but in a good way. He wanted you to love him and he was gonna do anything to make that happen. He put a spell on you through your eyes & ears. He was always himself. That’s what made him so great. Some people are born with that kind of stage presence. You should do a reax to Pearl Jam’s performance at Pink Pop festival. Eddie Vedder can own a crowd also. Back to Freddie, I’m so glad Bohemian Rhapsody was made. Much like you, the young kids at work are so obsessed with the music. It’s time they heard actual music with real instruments, not a computer.
There was a very happy/ sad time ; when MTV was taking over the music industry …..it was mostly unpopular to listen to music on the radio . I am very happy to have been raised on music from the radio …..back from my parents &siblings . It feels really great to have the appreciation for MTV and the Love of growing up listening to radio music with a D.J. . I feel that Queen/ Freddie felt the same way and this video was a show of appreciation of both as well as Metropolis : )
This song always gives me such a strong feeling of nostalgia. Growing up in the 80s and 90s radio was everything for me, and it helped me through some tough times. I listened to it far more then I watched tv, and everytime I hear this song I'm right back there again. So good! EDIT to add: I also loved the old time radio dramas and crime shows!
I believe it means that even though radio has been around for well over 100 years and we spend so much time watching TV, movies and video it is still in it's infancy.
just discovered your channel and smashed the subscribe button. love your reactions. so heartfelt and honest. keep up the good work. plenty of people were spot on with the meaning if the song, heck, you had it figured during your reaction. binge watching you all weekend bro.
its fun watching your reactions. Im an old fan of Queens since their beginning, and i still get the same reaction you show on your face when i listen to Queen,,lol Life time of smiles~~
“Everyone in the crowd doing whatever Queen wanted them to do.”
So when I saw Queen with Adam Lambert a couple of years ago, the crowd was NOT CLAPPING during this song. Like WTF people- do you not know what to do in this song?!!! I love your reaction videos. Keep doing them!!
I'm SO glad you're open to discover new things, too and have joined the Queen tribe. 😊
This is the song that inspired Lady Gaga's name. She is a big fan of Queen.
I'm sure someone already talked about the title. The song was written by drummer Roger Taylor after his son used the phrase "radio ca ca" saying it was bad. "Ca Ca" means shit. Radio had become too commercialized and formatted and played the same songs all the time so Roger started to write the song as an anti-commercial radio song but the rest of the group did not like that title. So it was changed to "Ga Ga" and Roger rewrote it praising radio (of his youth) and turned it into a kind of anti-MTV song saying we're going to need radio "...when we grow tired of all this visual ..." The Songfacts on this song said that all the extras in the video got the "clapping and raising arms" sequence down right away but the four Queen members were the ones who had trouble with it. They used a lot of footage from the classic silent film Metropolis. That's why they thanked Metropolis at the end of the video.
Totally agree. It is about changing times. How things will left behinr.
My Favorite Music Of Queen
Before Google and RUclips, there was a radio. It means radio is time less. You'll always hear the radio and different types of music it has.
When a Queen was actually a King ! 👑
I won't get into what the song's about since have already done so much better than I could, but I will make a suggestion: It's A Hard Life by Queen. I really love the song and video and think you would, too 😀
You also need to check out some Elton John. Check out Rocket Man, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Crocodile Rock and/or Bennie and the Jets. I couldn't decide, lol.
This is good advice. It's a Hard Life is a great song - and the video is great, too. I read somewhere that it was one of Freddie's favourites out of all the songs he'd written.
RADIO WAS THE GENRE WE GREW UP ON ,KIND OF LIKE BEING NURSED BY THE MUSIC FROM YOUTH TO GROWING UP
I am about the same age as Freddie would have been if he were still here. Not sure what the meaning is for sure but looking at the video it went back in time to when were were young.....in the early 50’s. There was no TV only radio. There were weekly programs on the radio that you would listen to on a regular basis. Also the Orson Wells radio broadcast of the ‘war of the worlds’ which the audience thought it was real. When we were young, that’s all we had was the radio. That may not be the meaning of the song, but it appeared that way by the video.
Elvis, Michael Jackson and Queen. Great group of artists there. You might well like some Prince if you like good music and performances as well. Prince wrote a lot of pop music, but he was a great guitarist and performer. Check out a live performance of purple rain for all of those things together.
The words wars of worlds invaded by mars refers to Orson Wells war of the worlds which was played on the radio. Some people thought it was a real event and thought we were getting invaded by aliens from space...
i think he was in love with his radio as boy, back then together with a few channels on tv it was all the entertainment he could get. to connect with the stars and dream
About those black and white scenes in the videoclip, they're from the 1927!! movie Metropolis. Beyonce used that robot like figure as well in her live shows. In fact it is one of the most influential films ever made. Look it up!
Music is the best way to bring people of different cultures,backgrounds,and ethnicity's together.It's one medium we can use to "break"the ice and talk about what we have in common also our differences and problems.It can bring people,and countries together and also I believe to solve some problems.Just my opinion.
wow i love this song, its the 80s
Best front man of all time!!! Trust me.. any audience would have followed Freddie right off a building lol no doubt about it.
There is a video on RUclips, that is the making of this video! It pretty cool, with a few bloopers!
I love queen! Bicycle bicycle!
It was Freddie's charisma and the writing of the whole band that made people do what queen wanted them to do at concerts.Sadly as john deacon said queen isn't the same queen anymore without freddie,but i understand why they want to keep on going.I hope in a part it's to keep the memory of freddie alive.
People tend to focus more on the second set of verses, those criticizing the '80s music video scene (Top Of The Pops, MTV, Much Music, etc.), but the first verses really set up *why* Roger was commenting on music videos, and it's often overlooked. He starts the song by establishing how important radio was a medium for society (not just music). Radio helped Britain get through WWII, before TV, it was THE dominant media, responsible not just for entertainment (music, radio shows, etc.), but for information like world news and politics. By the '80s, at least in Roger's opinion, the importance of radio had diminished as a mass media source of connecting the world, but as Roger warns, society would greatly miss radio if it went away, because they took it for granted.
So yeah, it's more than just 'Roger hates music videos' (which he did, by the way, it was his least favourite thing about recording albums, having to do the videos).
"Freddie, Muchael and Elvis". Never gonna find better singers, it's a shame they all died way too soon!
Great comments here! New subscriber! Btw, it looks like Freddie could pop out of your cracked closet doors just like in the video were the bldg cracks in two!
one of the songs from my childhood that i remember with love
I've been watching your channel for about a day now, going through what you're reacting to and how your reacting to it. You said in one of your videos what happened to this music. The answer is that we've become a society that wants a quick fix of everything. It doesn't matter if it's a TV show or music or even reading the news. Everything has been predigested into bites (or bytes) for easy non-thought consumption.
I believe you said something along the lines of that you rarely watch anything longer than the TV show or maybe a movie. This was in the video where you reacted to Queen at Live Aid. I also saw you tear up when you watched Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona. This is music.
Hip-hop and rap can trace their origins directly to the 1950s and 60s of beat poets and scat. Those forms of music were as much social protest as the wrap and hip-hop songs of today.
When you feel ready to listen to one of the most brilliant composers of our time and not have to do a reaction to it, but just listen try Mike Oldfield. Start with tubular bells (ruclips.net/video/TXvtDm820zI/видео.html). Put your headphones on and just listen.
And keep something in mind, the composer is playing all of the instruments. That alone should blow your mind!
radio still his life, even tho people thought it was garbage. he didn't, it got him into performing.he s felt it hadn't got to it zenith yet you got to remember, shit wasn't done for modern music for a long time on tv and in England they may have had two channels
JB your reactions are great, especially to Queen. They were the pinnacle at the time for bands reaching so many audiences. I would love to see you react to Stevie Ray Vaughn. After Hendrix I would consider him the embodiment of what Hendrix would have done if he hadn’t left this world so soon. Little Wing, Voodoo Child or Texas Flood. Make sure to find live shows so you can watch him become one with his guitar. Keep it up 👍👍👍👍
This song and the song "Video Killed The Radio Star." Are talking back how when MTV and music videos came along and pretty much started to "kill" radio. That's what this song is talking about when he says "Radio, someone still loves you." He's referring to the band and their generation pretty much.
would love you to look at david bowies last song he did under pressure with queen orginally, keep listening to music and keep finding the joy
Check out Mother Love. Freddie’s last song ever. Hauntingly beautiful.
I am sorry for the length of this response to the meaning of the song but unfortunately I do not know how to make it shorter.It is from Wiki.
Recorded in 1983 and released in January 1984, the song was a commentary on television overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past for a favourite comedy, drama, or science fiction programme. It also addressed the advent of the music video and MTV, which was then competing with radio as an important medium for promoting records. The video for "Radio Ga Ga" would receive a Best Art Direction nomination.[11] Roger Taylor was quoted:
That's part of what the song's about, really. The fact that they [music videos] seem to be taking over almost from the aural side, the visual side seems to be almost more important.[12]
Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio caca" (from something his toddler son once said),[13] which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played.[4]
The song makes reference to two important radio events of the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in the lyric "through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars", and Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 "This was their finest hour" speech from the House of Commons, in the lyric "You've yet to have your finest hour".[14]
You’ve got to see this song on Live Aid!!!! BEST PERFORMANCE IN HISTORY!!! 😇
Freddie was unique.. special.. we love him..thats the only words that fit.. MJ, and Elvis..both good performers, but they are on different levels.. not better, not worse just different.. but my soul will always be a Queen and Freddie person. I remember coming home after school and listening to the radio, recording on tape our favourite song. trying to get a version with no other jingle. radio used to be the only way we could get new music the tv's in the UK we had 3 channels, and that was controlled by the dad/mum so the radio was the only way, but there was a lot of stuff and we had to find the right music channels.. (i am 45 this was not too long ago) then there was the radio serials, like Journey into Space, where the whole family would sit around and listen..
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Toto - Africa.
Very good Song. I promise.
Fantastic seventies song
Roger Taylor wrote this as a critique of radio stations, which were becoming commercialized and playing the same songs over and over (and this was before radio was deregulated, allowing companies to own multiple stations in a market, resulting in more corporate ownership, less competition and generally bad radio).
I wish I’d seen them live, I regret I never got the chance 😢
It's true. Bands make videos today they don't really play just for the music queen said today it's all about music videos people need to go back to just listening to songs without the images of videos. That's when music was better
Spread your wings by Queen!! Lol I’ve asked so many times🙁😊
The Dancing Outlaw Jesco White YES!
Lady Ga Ga took her name from this songs title. Just goes to show how much influence Queen had over the music landscape through the generations!
Roger's partner, later to become his first wife, was French and their child said "Radio KaKa" meaning it was shit. They can be heard to say KaKa within the song. It was a knock at the MTV world. Where music wasn't enough, people needed video. "We hardly need to use our ears"
I love you hold in your guitar!! ❤️ this song came out and brought the band back from the album Hot Space that did horribly because it was the disco album pretty much. Nobody really wanted it and they only tried it to see if it would be popular in clubs but it was a flop. Paul Prenter put it into Freddie Mercury‘s mind that a disco album would be good at the clubs- Gay clubs in all kinds of clubs. If it was popular, that’s the only place it was and I was in Junior high school and too young to go to those places and don’t even go now that I’m older. I do know that they never played anything from the hot space album at the roller skating rink! They did play everything else from queen on the jukebox. Another one bites the dust was everybody’s favorite on the jukebox at the roller skating ring❤️❤️ kaka means shit😂😂 Roger Taylor‘s little boy he said radio Kaka and they got a chuckle out of this three-year-old boy saying that. Roger Taylor made this song and it’s radio gaga but there are some places that say radio Kaka.
You should react to queen live at Milton Keynes 1982, one of there best performances
queen is queen - others are others
You should watch the live version at Wembley 86 with the participation of the audience.
I agree Spread Your Wings! Great John Deacon song💖😁😜
you need to watch the live aid one Freddie has the crowd eating out of the palm of his hands
Do you recognise the song and audience clapping movements from Live Aid as well? They performed this song, which only came out 1 year before Live Aid, so everyone had seen this music video and knew the clap-hand movements at Live Aid.
Please do a react video to "How Can I Go On" by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe. (It'd be a logical thing to do, since you loved their video of Barcelona.) :)
It with the MTV era videos the place of the radio
This amazing Video is one of Queen's finest. Using clips from Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece "Metropolis" made the video all that more amazing.
Lyrics amazing
Roger Taylor's son, who is half French was listening to the radio and said Radio Caca. Caca means shit in French.
Loving your Queen journey
Like your comments but you should have seen the Wembley Live version with 80,000 eating out of the palm of Freddie's hand with massive crowd participation..:)
radio ga ga is like radio playing something/whatever :) radio bla bla if you remember the concert haha
JB you really should watch Breakthru and Invisible Man by Queen, Both with amazing bass lines
Check out one of their earliest songs, Liar
The word radio ga ga was in fact what Roger tayors son said when younger but not ga ga but ca ca they changed it to ga ga.
u are such an old soul
Dedicated to radio music and shows
They say "radio gaga, radio ca ca, radio blah blah"
i'm not a great queen fan, but i do love their more popular songs. this is my favourite of them, and my favourite pop video of all time. freddie is also my favourite 'performer'. nobody compares. david bowie is also good, though. i love your open mindedness about music. have you reacted to pink floyd, yet? i can't recall. i'd also like to remind you about katherine jenkins. i'm sure that you'd like her. 'everything i do' , 'who wants to live forever?' and 'angel' are among my favourites of hers.