When you get a chance, watch "Donnie Darko" and be prepared for this song at the end - will give you a new appreciation for it. I like the Tears for Fears original version, but love this version and believe it it's much, much better.
This is my favorite version. I can't listen to it very often if I want to function. It goes straight to my little me. One of the few songs that makes feel for everyone who ever hurt or will hurt.
I desperately love this song, it's so haunting. I was so young when this was popular. It now makes me yearn for those days when I had no idea how good I had it. I love the Gary Jules and Tears for Fear versions equally.
Basically a song about how pointless existence is. We do the same thing on repeat until we die. None of us are special. As an adult we realize this. As children a birthday is exciting and fun and we cant wait for the next because it will be bigger and better. It then gets to the point that it's just another day. That's the point when you realize how pointless everything really is. It sucks. It honestly sucks to think about. Alchohol will drown your sorrow about thinking about it. It's not actually a song about wanting to die. Nobody wants to die even though it's pointless. Dreaming about dying is comforting as you wouldnt have to deal with another day of repeat. I cant listen to this song at all. I have it on my playlists cause it's a good song but it makes my depression worse whenever I hear it fully.
From "The Hurting" from "Tears For Fears" and that number was early '80s techno new wave. I first noticed them on "Shout" on the Songs from the "Big Chair Album" my senior year of high school and then in college, I found "The Hurting" in the used CD bin and bought it, and loved it just as much as I did "Songs From The Big Chair" The darkness you feel in the music comes from their primal scream therapy they were into and releasing that energy into their music. You'd think they would be a punk band with that influence, but by Seeds Of Love they had gone from techno new wave to new wave Opera and Roland Orzbal does have a background in Opera and it shows from "Songs From The Big Chair Forward" but Curt Smith is the lead vocal on "Mad World" and much of "The Hurting" album, but he had left the band by the time "Elemental" was done but is back for reunion tours. They were a band who I bought their albums when they came out whether the music was already in the top 10 or not because I knew I was going to like it. "Seeds Of Love" was a solid and great album, used to have it on repeat in college and would listen to it for HOURS! Did the same with "Elemental" post-college and "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" Those albums from 83-95 were their best music! India, when you review Tears For Fears, you are in for a real treat! No one else sounds like them until you get Howard Jones' "Cross That Line" album where producers who had worked with Tears for Fears worked with Howard Jones and you can see the influence from the "Sowing The Seeds" album because it is very different from his earlier 80's music.
I feel like this song is just about how sad it is that everyone is really just going through the motions. Everyone has the same experiences and nothing is new and everyday feels the same and a world that exists in that state is a "mad world"
Although I love Tears for Fears, this version is definitely much better in every way. You can feel the lyrics and Gary Jules's voice is both haunting and amazing. Good reaction. Your videos are always so good to watch. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
India love your reactions and yes, please listen to Tears For Fears, there's so many great songs. The Hurting, Mad World, Pale Shelter, Change, Shout, The Working Hour, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Head Over Heals, Women in Chains, Bad Mans Song, Sowing The Seeds of Love, Elemental, Break It Down Again.
Tears for Fears actually said this version was a better representation of the song. They actually like it more than their own which is pretty amazing since they wrote it.
I love moments like that. Like Dolly and Whitney with 'I Will Always Love You' and the Beatles and Joe Cocker with 'With A Little Help From My Friends'.
Classic, from the pen of Roland Orzabal/Curt Smith, of Tears for Fears. They both started in a Mod 'revival' band called Graduate. Check em out, their title song from the album 'Acting my age' shows Orzabal/Smith's early talents, at stringing a few words together, to get your feet tapping!
This is a very nice slowed-down cover by Gary Jules from 2003. But I think I still prefer the original by Tears for Fears from 1982. My favorite Tears for Fears song is their No. 1 hit from 1984, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
@@scarletc.7055 ... So Gary Jules (born in March 1969) recorded and released this 1982 Tears for Fears song when he was 13-ish years old in 1982. And then he released it again almost 20 years later in the early 2000s for the "Donnie Darko" film? If you can believe Wikipedia (which I agree that sometimes you cannot), it says that Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears wrote the song in 1982. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_World en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Jules Mad World" is a 1982 song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching number 3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. "Mad World" has since been covered by various artists, most notably by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack of the film Donnie Darko in 2001. This version was a UK number one hit and won Orzabal his second Ivor Novello Award in 2003. ... The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. (born 19 March 1969), known as Gary Jules, is an American singer-songwriter, known primarily for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko.
I looked it up last night and that is what is said. This morning I looked it up and yes, I was wrong. Actually, the internet was gave me incorrect information. Very sorry for the incorrect information. Good point. I never looked at the years of birth and compared it to when the song came out.
It's a different perspective - I wouldn't say fits the lyric "better" since the person who wrote them did so with intent and the juxtaposition with the upbeat - is one of those things you know... How are you? Me oh great with a smile while you're dying inside.... and I find it kind of funny and I find it kind of sad....
If you decide to do Tears for Fears, "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" are their big hits. "Mad World" was a bigger hit for Gary Jules because it got featured on a video game series and some commercials. So if you are a gamer, you may have heard it before.
@Collin Reisenauer Yes, that is understood. The OP is saying it wasn't as big a song for them, as the cover was for Gary Jules. She should listen to the original, but maybe pair it with one of their bigger hits. Kinda like how Sinead O'Connor's biggest hit is a cover of a Prince song. And, Blinded By The Light is originally a Bruce Springsteen song. There are plenty of cover songs, that were bigger hits as covers.
Hi India! I love your videos. Pure nostalgy. I'd like to suggest you this 1990's jewel. "En Vogue - Hold On". Do you know it? I loved this music. Perfect harmony! Greetings from Brazil. @
Tears For Fears the original artists, with the superior version. Other awesome Tears tracks would be Shout, Pale Shelter, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Head Over Heels and Sowing The Seeds Of Love. You should add them to the artist list certainly! Also try Talk Talk :)
This is a cover of the Tears for Fears original specifically composed for the 2001 movie Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Check out the movie and the original song in your own time.
If I were to have a Suicide play list this would be there, Along with “I can’t make you love me” Bless this broken road, Trouble by Coldplay, Now I’m just depressing myself
Cover some Tears for Fears songs....from the well known Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Shout, Head over Heal, Woman in Chains, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Elemental, Everybody Likes A Happy Ending, Goodnight Song etc. etc.
So I'm late to this, but if you're going to listen to Tears for Fears" I would recommend my personal favorite, and I was about 14 when this song came out, "Shout." As time goes on, it feels like more of an anthem that seemed possible in the 1980s.
Also - all "reactor" videos to music, music when I was young, music that my parents listened to lightens my heart in a way I had thought was no longer possible. (Yes I'm feeling sentimental - you will too one day.) :)
Please do Pictures Of You by The Cure 1987. The song is now the official song for a memorial funding group in Europe. Its message is heartbreaking and beautiful.
This is a good cover version but i like the orginal from Tears For Fears from the 80's more. Btw. 80's...Can you react to OMD/Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Maid Of Orleans from 1981 please?
I don't care much for the original Tears For Fears version. Gary's official video is kind of cool.....but there' are also a couple of 'live' versions of him singing in a studio that I LOVE. NO echo & accompanied by only a piano on one.......but the other has him singing with the guy who wrote it...( Kurt....or Curt......somebody....) ua-cam.com/video/D1Nq086QB1Q/v-deo.html
This rendition is flawless and timeless, a true masterpiece.
This song reminds me of my favorite movie of all time, Donnie Darko.
Great film
I was going to type the same thing.
That's where I found it.
Why do you wear that stupid man-suit???
Ive watched it tons of times, still dont get... i guess thats where lies it beauty...., brilliant soundtrack too
When you get a chance, watch "Donnie Darko" and be prepared for this song at the end - will give you a new appreciation for it. I like the Tears for Fears original version, but love this version and believe it it's much, much better.
This is my favorite version. I can't listen to it very often if I want to function. It goes straight to my little me. One of the few songs that makes feel for everyone who ever hurt or will hurt.
I desperately love this song, it's so haunting. I was so young when this was popular. It now makes me yearn for those days when I had no idea how good I had it. I love the Gary Jules and Tears for Fear versions equally.
Basically a song about how pointless existence is. We do the same thing on repeat until we die. None of us are special. As an adult we realize this. As children a birthday is exciting and fun and we cant wait for the next because it will be bigger and better. It then gets to the point that it's just another day. That's the point when you realize how pointless everything really is. It sucks. It honestly sucks to think about. Alchohol will drown your sorrow about thinking about it. It's not actually a song about wanting to die. Nobody wants to die even though it's pointless. Dreaming about dying is comforting as you wouldnt have to deal with another day of repeat. I cant listen to this song at all. I have it on my playlists cause it's a good song but it makes my depression worse whenever I hear it fully.
" The Dreams In Which Im Dying Are The Best Ive Ever Had" Yeah Been There, Genius Lyrics.
That is line that sticked in my head too
That line is deep cause I have felt like this before.
Can anyone think of a song that is more emotional than this? Lots of sad songs out there but this one is the only one that makes me actually cry.
One of the best remakes ever. I play this for my psych patients and it is very powerful.
This is a Tears for fears song. This version covered by Adam Lambert when he was on that singing contest show
isn't gary jules the original?
@@xyr3s Tears for Fears
Ya It is Gary jules
Tears for Fears did it in 1983. Gary Jules did it in 2001. Do the math.
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One of a few Songs that get right to Soul.
From "The Hurting" from "Tears For Fears" and that number was early '80s techno new wave.
I first noticed them on "Shout" on the Songs from the "Big Chair Album" my senior year of high school and then in college, I found "The Hurting" in the used CD bin and bought it, and loved it just as much as I did "Songs From The Big Chair"
The darkness you feel in the music comes from their primal scream therapy they were into and releasing that energy into their music. You'd think they would be a punk band with that influence, but by Seeds Of Love they had gone from techno new wave to new wave Opera and Roland Orzbal does have a background in Opera and it shows from "Songs From The Big Chair Forward" but Curt Smith is the lead vocal on "Mad World" and much of "The Hurting" album, but he had left the band by the time "Elemental" was done but is back for reunion tours.
They were a band who I bought their albums when they came out whether the music was already in the top 10 or not because I knew I was going to like it.
"Seeds Of Love" was a solid and great album, used to have it on repeat in college and would listen to it for HOURS!
Did the same with "Elemental" post-college and "Raoul and the Kings of Spain"
Those albums from 83-95 were their best music!
India, when you review Tears For Fears, you are in for a real treat! No one else sounds like them until you get Howard Jones' "Cross That Line" album where producers who had worked with Tears for Fears worked with Howard Jones and you can see the influence from the "Sowing The Seeds" album because it is very different from his earlier 80's music.
I saw him live at a dive about 11 years ago. He was opening for Joshua Radin and it was AWESOME. He’s so much fun live.
I love this song. One of my favorites.
I feel like this song is just about how sad it is that everyone is really just going through the motions. Everyone has the same experiences and nothing is new and everyday feels the same and a world that exists in that state is a "mad world"
Beautiful song
Great song....
This was a Christmas number 1 in the UK I always thought it was a bit bleak for Christmas.
Although I love Tears for Fears, this version is definitely much better in every way. You can feel the lyrics and Gary Jules's voice is both haunting and amazing. Good reaction. Your videos are always so good to watch. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
This was used in the movie Donnie Darko.
Just a beautiful cover. It's one of the few that I prefer to the original, even though I am a HUGE Roland Orzabal fan.
thanks so much from Panamá
Great video and reaction! Head over Heels is my favourite Tears for Fears song.
Haven’t heard this one in a while. Good song!!!
I love this cover. It is more fitting for the lyrics than the original since it's slower, darker & more depressing.
Original Version is from the duet TEARS FOR FEARS !
Tears For Fears "Sowing the Seeds of Love"
Alone again naturally by Gilbert o Sullivan. No ones reacted to this classic.
Excellent
Love this song
Dimash singing SOS... Worth the look.
Yes do tears for fears, they have rest good music
My favorite version.
India love your reactions and yes, please listen to Tears For Fears, there's so many great songs. The Hurting, Mad World, Pale Shelter, Change, Shout, The Working Hour, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Head Over Heals, Women in Chains, Bad Mans Song, Sowing The Seeds of Love, Elemental, Break It Down Again.
Tears for Fears actually said this version was a better representation of the song. They actually like it more than their own which is pretty amazing since they wrote it.
I love moments like that. Like Dolly and Whitney with 'I Will Always Love You' and the Beatles and Joe Cocker with 'With A Little Help From My Friends'.
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Yeah you have to listen to both. They each have intrinsic qualities of their own.
Classic, from the pen of Roland Orzabal/Curt Smith, of Tears for Fears.
They both started in a Mod 'revival' band called Graduate. Check em out, their title song from the album 'Acting my age' shows Orzabal/Smith's early talents, at stringing a few words together, to get your feet tapping!
Do Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
Duran Duran - Come Undone
This song was in the gears of war Game trailers and one of the game cutscenes
Yeah, you’re right. It reminds me of “Sounds of Silence” too.
You can't go wrong with any Tears For Fears they are awesome
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels & Woman in Chains, would be my two recommendations. Great band.
I love that song head over heels
Thanks!
This is a very nice slowed-down cover by Gary Jules from 2003. But I think I still prefer the original by Tears for Fears from 1982. My favorite Tears for Fears song is their No. 1 hit from 1984, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
Gary Jules wrote and recorded it. It is not a cover. Tears for Fears covered the song.
@@scarletc.7055 ... So Gary Jules (born in March 1969) recorded and released this 1982 Tears for Fears song when he was 13-ish years old in 1982. And then he released it again almost 20 years later in the early 2000s for the "Donnie Darko" film? If you can believe Wikipedia (which I agree that sometimes you cannot), it says that Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears wrote the song in 1982.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_World
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Jules
Mad World" is a 1982 song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching number 3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982.
"Mad World" has since been covered by various artists, most notably by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack of the film Donnie Darko in 2001. This version was a UK number one hit and won Orzabal his second Ivor Novello Award in 2003. ... The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.
Gary Jules Aguirre Jr. (born 19 March 1969), known as Gary Jules, is an American singer-songwriter, known primarily for his cover version of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World", which he recorded with his friend Michael Andrews for the film Donnie Darko.
I looked it up last night and that is what is said. This morning I looked it up and yes, I was wrong. Actually, the internet was gave me incorrect information. Very sorry for the incorrect information. Good point. I never looked at the years of birth and compared it to when the song came out.
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I have not heard the Tears for Fears version; that would be nice. You are seen now and I enjoy watching your channel!
It's faster and has a very clear 80s New Wave sound.
I prefer this version because it fits the lyrics better, the original sounds too upbeat to me.
It's a different perspective - I wouldn't say fits the lyric "better" since the person who wrote them did so with intent and the juxtaposition with the upbeat - is one of those things you know... How are you? Me oh great with a smile while you're dying inside.... and I find it kind of funny and I find it kind of sad....
Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels
Fave song from them tbh
Yes! Do this one. Classic. Total Classic.
@@TheNraveles so fucking same too. We soul Brothers? Lol
Very haunting version of a Tears for Fears song made for the movie Donnie Darko...
i've never heard anyone speak so fast as you India n the intro! loved you analysis though...
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Seeds of Love, Head Over Heels. Elemental, Low Life. Woman In Chains, Goodnight Song etc.
If you decide to do Tears for Fears, "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" are their big hits. "Mad World" was a bigger hit for Gary Jules because it got featured on a video game series and some commercials. So if you are a gamer, you may have heard it before.
I know this version because I am British. And in are charts this version was No 1 for a good few weeks.
@Collin Reisenauer Yes, that is understood. The OP is saying it wasn't as big a song for them, as the cover was for Gary Jules.
She should listen to the original, but maybe pair it with one of their bigger hits.
Kinda like how Sinead O'Connor's biggest hit is a cover of a Prince song. And, Blinded By The Light is originally a Bruce Springsteen song.
There are plenty of cover songs, that were bigger hits as covers.
It was a bigger hit because it was used in the film Donnie Darko. THAT is what made it a hit.
I remember it was in a commercial for the release of the game, "Gears of War."
Please react to Tears For Fears music video of this song. The originated the song Gary Jules did a good cover song of this.
This isn't a cover lol he made the song. I love this song sooo much
Hi India! I love your videos. Pure nostalgy. I'd like to suggest you this 1990's jewel. "En Vogue - Hold On". Do you know it? I loved this music. Perfect harmony! Greetings from Brazil.
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tears for fears epic song
Most people remember this from 2 sources. Vines and Gears of War
Tears For Fears the original artists, with the superior version. Other awesome Tears tracks would be Shout, Pale Shelter, Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Head Over Heels and Sowing The Seeds Of Love. You should add them to the artist list certainly!
Also try Talk Talk :)
A band named Alter Bridge and a song called In Loving Memory. Try not to tear up. L8
The movie Donnie Darko and Gears Of War 3 and Dom's death... :(
Mertaranta I always think about gears when I ever I hear this.
Damn...Doms Death was intense for me back then...no joke.
Much love from Germany and stay healthy y'all. Live long and happy 🙏❤
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Tears For Fears originally did this in 1983. Nice cover. Can you play "For All We Know" by The Carpenters (1971)?
Check out "I Want To Be Alone" by Jackson C. Frank. it's got the same mood. It was in a Daft Punk movie.
This is Hamilton Depression Rating Scale of 20+ could be put to music
This is a cover of the Tears for Fears original specifically composed for the 2001 movie Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Check out the movie and the original song in your own time.
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TEARS FOR FEARS Mad World it is the original song
Please do a reaction to yesterday when i was young by Roy Clark
If I were to have a Suicide play list this would be there, Along with “I can’t make you love me” Bless this broken road, Trouble by Coldplay, Now I’m just depressing myself
React to Gary Moore - still got the blues. Great song
Cover some Tears for Fears songs....from the well known Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Shout, Head over Heal, Woman in Chains, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Elemental, Everybody Likes A Happy Ending, Goodnight Song etc. etc.
You should listen to "The Funeral" by Band of Horses. That is a pretty good, sort of melancholy song as well.
Brilliant cover, very few are as good as the original. Which you should react to sometime. Tears for Fears
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Yes do Tears for Fears. Puddles Pity Party with Haley Reinhart is really cool also.
Try Tears for Fears Seeds of Love. Love you videos!!
Make sure you listen to the original, written and performed by Tears for Fears.
this catches the mood better than the original by tears for fears, which is to upbeat
I like the original better, but I do like them both. For me the original comes across as more angry than upbeat.
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I think that you should try doing a reaction video to "more than this" by Roxy music.
Get back soon India, love you.
So I'm late to this, but if you're going to listen to Tears for Fears" I would recommend my personal favorite, and I was about 14 when this song came out, "Shout." As time goes on, it feels like more of an anthem that seemed possible in the 1980s.
Also - all "reactor" videos to music, music when I was young, music that my parents listened to lightens my heart in a way I had thought was no longer possible. (Yes I'm feeling sentimental - you will too one day.) :)
Puddles Pity Party Hailey Reinhart PNJ version is great!
noneof urbizness I have Never here’d that version.
@@shspurs1342 give it a try. Puddles doing jazz hands with Hailey is hilarious! They do the song justice in a retro way.
Yeah! Puddles and Hailey together are awesome!
Please do Pictures Of You by The Cure 1987. The song is now the official song for a memorial funding group in Europe. Its message is heartbreaking and beautiful.
1989.
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MY GIRL DONE LIKE 3 REACTION VIDEOS IN A DAY. GET YO MONEY HONEY......
Soundtrack to the movie Donnie Darko
Please do Prince - When doves cry.
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Treat Her Right Tom Jones
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Original 1982 version by tears for fears is the best. More upbeat with such a melancholy message.
call of duty used this song for their upcoming game at that time, but never version
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This is a good cover version but i like the orginal from Tears For Fears from the 80's more.
Btw. 80's...Can you react to OMD/Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Maid Of Orleans from 1981 please?
Orinoco flow by Enya
You should check out the original version
Frank where's the beer
I don't care much for the original Tears For Fears version. Gary's official video is kind of cool.....but there' are also a couple of 'live' versions of him singing in a studio that I LOVE. NO echo & accompanied by only a piano on one.......but the other has him singing with the guy who wrote it...( Kurt....or Curt......somebody....) ua-cam.com/video/D1Nq086QB1Q/v-deo.html
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Please please please react to Hallelujah by Pentatonix.
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