Perfekt tolkning av den låten tror jag. Det handlar mer om hur folk från utanför förorten nästan ser det som ett främmande land, mer än att se ner på folk som bor där.
This is so representative of how the suburbs like Rinkeby and Tensta were seen in the 90s. "Hey, you should go see Rinkeby, it's like going abroad, it's soo nice", people used to tell me. Today all the focus is on the problems these places have, and those problems have admittedly become worse since the 90s.
A bit of the joke also lies in the fact that Just-D were three white guys who all came from fairly well-off homes that started doing hip-hop. Most people who listened to hip-hop looked down on them a bit, so it also hints a bit at how the whole hip-hop scene in Sweden looked at them. Another band that is really good at mixing styles is Movits! their songs: Fel del av gården, Limosin, Halvägs, Na Na Nah! ore Äppelknyckarjazz are all Swedish classics and songs I think you would like.
I'm glad you picked the remake with Thorleifs. It's the version that got popular and the video is great. I believe it was recorded in Jamaica and they brought some Swedish stuff there like the Tunnelbana sign to make it look like a Stockholm suburb. The original song from Plast is at ua-cam.com/video/D4THJiFD_7M/v-deo.html
100% correct interpretation. The butt of the joke is indeed anxious white people who are scared of the “suburban wilderness” that turns out to be a quite vibrant community. “Förortsdjungel” is also a play with words; suburbs with loads of brutalist blocks of flats known as ”miljonprogrammet” are sometimes referred to as a “betongdjungel” where everything looks so similar that you easily get lost.
Yes, it definitely a reference to betongdjungel, whose use I think predates the arrival of most migration waves to Sweden (bar the Finnish and some other I guess).
This is a great song in my opinion, the mix of styles, the great lyrics. Like it a lot! If you want to hear another great and quite surprising song from one of these guys, try out "Missarna" by Wille Crafoord. A great song with brilliant lyrics that didn't get enough credit. It was in Melodifestivalen, maybe 1996 or 97 something like that.
@@kattahj It was the best song that year but not a winning song since the strength is the lyrics and it would have been lost in the Eurovision. It must have been 1997, it was such a bad year that even the winner really sucked. Missarna was the only good thing.
@@susannes7023 Yeah, I told my friends, I don't care if it comes LAST in ESC, I want it to win! But at least he got Karamellodiktstipendiet for the album it was on.
@@kattahj I had to check it out, it was 1997 and Missarna actually came 3rd so it did well in the contest. I don't know if people in general remember it but to me it is a classic and often played.
You need to do a Reaction-video to Thorleifs huge hit "Gråt inga tårar" from the mid 70's where Thorleifs set the sound to the dansbandgenre with saxes and all that the get the whole grip. Just D did this track together with Thorleifs at the Swedish Grammis-award back in 1996. Glad you like the mix between genres. ua-cam.com/video/szdtqi7HYqU/v-deo.html
Great song, Great reaction! I think you nailed the message perfectly! Just D breakthrough song is a HipHop song. Its about how your daughter growing up, and you dont like it.... "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen?" Please React :)
Whil I agree that he should react to "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen", that is an early swedish hip hop classic, it is not their breakthrough. Their earliest successes was "Hur e d möjligt." and "Relalaxa". Even "Juligen" came before "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen."
Hi Jonathan! I wonder if "Petter - Saker & Ting ft. Eye N'I" is one of the hip-hop songs that you have already heard? If not could you please do a reaction to it?🙏🏻
I don't think this song would have much problems today, it's pretty clear that it's about the three gringos having problems feeling at home and nothing else. Maybe a few years ago when exaclty everything was rascist, but luckily, those weird times have passed, hopefully forever... And the sax solo. Not even close to as good as that schredding sax in "Die Mauer", but still. Every song should have a sax solo. :)
Just D have probably made the longest rap song of all times - clocking in at more than an hour. It's quite interesting, though not really a candidate for a reaction video. A huge part of it is kind of biographical - about their career, breakup and reunion. It's called "LALSK" (Livets Allra Längsta Sommarkväll) and can be found on their album "Den Feladne Länken". It's most definitely not a potential banger, but it's interesting from a lyrics perspective.
This IS the dansbandsversion with Thorleifs! Ja, den är mer känd men den är inte originalet. Här rappar de inte utan sjunger så jag hoppas du väljer en till Just D-låt snart där också låter som Just D... Gärna "Hur e d möjligt?" eller "87-87" (som är en spoof på Ulf Lundells "67-67"). Tre Gringos-texten har jag alltid sett som en drift med segregationen i Sverige/Stockholm.
Hello Jonathan! Just D! Please listen to ”Adam & Eva” by Wille Crafoord. Somebody allready mentioned ”Missarna” from the same album. I think you will like the groove in Willes songs and they are truly classics.
ÄNTLIGEN!!! Äntligen lyssnar du på Just D och ger dem den cred de förtjänar. Nu väntar "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen" "87-87" och "Hubba bubba"
I would say "I djungeln" in swedish refers more to a disorienting unknown place. For instance "det var värsta djungeln" = it was completly wild, I felt out of place/threatened. I do agree with your analysis but with nuance I would not say it is problematic. I see how an american could see it that way with your history though.
Efter Just D så bildade två av medlemmarna countrygruppen Sverige. Lyssna på "Vi säger samma saker men på olika sätt". Kanske mer punk än country. Mer Pepps är alltid bra.
Time to listen to some women rappers. "Bland dom" with Syster Sol and Femtastic massive (aka tons of other women rappers) is over a decade old by now but still good. I think you can follow along even without lyrics and parts of it is in English anyway. If you want something really old you could listen to "Relationsteorin" by Melinda, but I think what people loved most about that was the lyrics. Syster Sol "Bland dom": ua-cam.com/video/IROBCprPQPI/v-deo.html
Nah, a joke like this would be perfectly fine today. People like to exaggerate the fear of cancel culture, but it often has very little to do with reality.
Förortsdjungel is just another word for suburb. The way you listen to it is way overdoing the lyrics. Just D was fighting for equal rights for the people in the suburb, and this song is just about the prejudice most Swedes have about the förortsdjungel.
You are missing the whole point. It’s about three white (gringos) men from inner city going to immigrant suburbs. Why not adress what made the song stand out - The words - not the music.
Jag insisterar på; * Alive - Da Buzz (valfri annan av deras största om den redan hörts... = DOM är klassiker 💕) * Vacker utan spackel - Joakim Hillson (kla.ssi.ker!!) * Stjärna på himlen - Drömhus (90tals-banger!! Sa nån skoldisco..? 🎶) * I Can Jive - Robin Williams (sann banger-klassiker!) * Jimmy Dean - Troll (favorit från mammas gamla LP-klassiker ☺) * Du lever bara en gång - Noice (80tals-banger) * Vi kan gunga - Jimmy Jansson (kul schlagerpop 😅) * Release Me - Agnes (slog stort!) * Glassigt - Mange Schmidt (...sommarplåga 🍦) * Walk Idiot Walk - The Hives (fun fact; gjort jullåt med Cyndi Lauper)
Ah good ole days when racism was cute, we laughed at the hippety hoppety and ate negerbollar all week. Except for those who got beaten by skinheads or shot by lasermannen. Well, jokes aside it still has a bitter taste. Rap came into Swedish culture through comedy, characters like Ulla-Bella, Kurt Olsson (Arne), Werner & Werner and the likes had big cash in hits when literally no one had heard of LL Cool J. A few artist like Papa Dee, Neneh Cherry, Kayo had some rap in their rnb-pop songs. But when actual hip hop came about rap was still mostly laughed at. And these guys didn't really help. They are perhaps the link between comedy rap and hip hop. Sure they did some good beats, especially in their "Faith no more"-style-era, when they rapped about comfortable shoes, having a shit and things that make you go AAAHHH. At least they didn't look like the rapper Snow anymore and like "representing Stureplan". And a quite good reason they are not respected or even mentioned in the hip hop community is that they are open about having appropriated the style. They didn't like the music, they did it for the ladies. And even if this song is multilayered enough to be on the right side, their "translation" of I Shot the Sheriff is a bloody abomination. Please never react to that :-)
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 On the topic: Do you want to react to the first ever Swedish blues song. Gräsänkling blues by Povel Ramel from 1951 I believe. Is it comedy? Yes. Still awesome. Or the first Swedish rock song Diverse Julboogie by Owe Thörnqvist 1955. Comedy? Well, yes sort of. Perhaps save that for december. See the pattern... As a comedian you can make a new genre happen. And I have to mention my favourite reggae track by Peps: "Babylon". At least he is dead serious even if you can laugh at his accent :-)
Perfekt tolkning av den låten tror jag. Det handlar mer om hur folk från utanför förorten nästan ser det som ett främmande land, mer än att se ner på folk som bor där.
This is so representative of how the suburbs like Rinkeby and Tensta were seen in the 90s. "Hey, you should go see Rinkeby, it's like going abroad, it's soo nice", people used to tell me. Today all the focus is on the problems these places have, and those problems have admittedly become worse since the 90s.
I had no idea how good this song was, back in days! Hip Hop, dansband, swedes and "förort" in a brillant mix! 😍
Här kommer ett förslag också: Nygammal Vals, med Svante Thuresson och Lill Lindfors! 🙂
Lyssna på Stonecake - Tuesday Afternoon. Högkvalitativ musik från dalarna!
Håller med, grym låt!
Dalarna, Sveriges Detroit!
A bit of the joke also lies in the fact that Just-D were three white guys who all came from fairly well-off homes that started doing hip-hop. Most people who listened to hip-hop looked down on them a bit, so it also hints a bit at how the whole hip-hop scene in Sweden looked at them.
Another band that is really good at mixing styles is Movits! their songs: Fel del av gården, Limosin, Halvägs, Na Na Nah! ore Äppelknyckarjazz
are all Swedish classics and songs I think you would like.
I'm glad you picked the remake with Thorleifs. It's the version that got popular and the video is great. I believe it was recorded in Jamaica and they brought some Swedish stuff there like the Tunnelbana sign to make it look like a Stockholm suburb.
The original song from Plast is at ua-cam.com/video/D4THJiFD_7M/v-deo.html
Thanks for the info!
Thorleif is fantastic 🤩 They have a melodifestivalenbidrag called Kissing in the Moonlight That is definitely worth checking out!
100% correct interpretation. The butt of the joke is indeed anxious white people who are scared of the “suburban wilderness” that turns out to be a quite vibrant community. “Förortsdjungel” is also a play with words; suburbs with loads of brutalist blocks of flats known as ”miljonprogrammet” are sometimes referred to as a “betongdjungel” where everything looks so similar that you easily get lost.
Yes, it definitely a reference to betongdjungel, whose use I think predates the arrival of most migration waves to Sweden (bar the Finnish and some other I guess).
@@thehoogard Bob Marley sang about the concrete jungle 40y ago!
@@yeahbee8237 so?
Yes and he was in Sweden before he was world renown.
Do you mean he was singing about the Swedish concrete jungle?
@@Doorsofprcptn No just that it was a Word used.
Bob Marley have Said that Peps is the only White Guy that "got" reggae though...
This is a great song in my opinion, the mix of styles, the great lyrics. Like it a lot!
If you want to hear another great and quite surprising song from one of these guys, try out "Missarna" by Wille Crafoord. A great song with brilliant lyrics that didn't get enough credit. It was in Melodifestivalen, maybe 1996 or 97 something like that.
I remember watching with my friends that year, and the night definitely perked up when that song came on!
@@kattahj It was the best song that year but not a winning song since the strength is the lyrics and it would have been lost in the Eurovision. It must have been 1997, it was such a bad year that even the winner really sucked. Missarna was the only good thing.
@@susannes7023 Yeah, I told my friends, I don't care if it comes LAST in ESC, I want it to win! But at least he got Karamellodiktstipendiet for the album it was on.
@@kattahj I had to check it out, it was 1997 and Missarna actually came 3rd so it did well in the contest. I don't know if people in general remember it but to me it is a classic and often played.
You need to do a Reaction-video to Thorleifs huge hit "Gråt inga tårar" from the mid 70's where Thorleifs set the sound to the dansbandgenre with saxes and all that the get the whole grip. Just D did this track together with Thorleifs at the Swedish Grammis-award back in 1996. Glad you like the mix between genres. ua-cam.com/video/szdtqi7HYqU/v-deo.html
The 90´s was all about irony. Several "artists" were somewhere between singer/rapper and comedian.
Och just det! Agnetha Fältskog - Snälla doktorn. 😁
Great song, Great reaction! I think you nailed the message perfectly!
Just D breakthrough song is a HipHop song. Its about how your daughter growing up, and you dont like it....
"Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen?"
Please React :)
Whil I agree that he should react to "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen", that is an early swedish hip hop classic, it is not their breakthrough. Their earliest successes was "Hur e d möjligt." and "Relalaxa". Even "Juligen" came before "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen."
Hi Jonathan! I wonder if "Petter - Saker & Ting ft. Eye N'I" is one of the hip-hop songs that you have already heard? If not could you please do a reaction to it?🙏🏻
I don't think this song would have much problems today, it's pretty clear that it's about the three gringos having problems feeling at home and nothing else. Maybe a few years ago when exaclty everything was rascist, but luckily, those weird times have passed, hopefully forever...
And the sax solo. Not even close to as good as that schredding sax in "Die Mauer", but still. Every song should have a sax solo. :)
Just D have probably made the longest rap song of all times - clocking in at more than an hour.
It's quite interesting, though not really a candidate for a reaction video.
A huge part of it is kind of biographical - about their career, breakup and reunion.
It's called "LALSK" (Livets Allra Längsta Sommarkväll) and can be found on their album "Den Feladne Länken".
It's most definitely not a potential banger, but it's interesting from a lyrics perspective.
Jag tror att din analys av låten är spot on!
This IS the dansbandsversion with Thorleifs! Ja, den är mer känd men den är inte originalet. Här rappar de inte utan sjunger så jag hoppas du väljer en till Just D-låt snart där också låter som Just D... Gärna "Hur e d möjligt?" eller "87-87" (som är en spoof på Ulf Lundells "67-67").
Tre Gringos-texten har jag alltid sett som en drift med segregationen i Sverige/Stockholm.
Hello Jonathan! Just D! Please listen to ”Adam & Eva” by Wille Crafoord. Somebody allready mentioned ”Missarna” from the same album. I think you will like the groove in Willes songs and they are truly classics.
ÄNTLIGEN!!! Äntligen lyssnar du på Just D och ger dem den cred de förtjänar. Nu väntar "Vart tog den söta lilla flickan vägen" "87-87" och "Hubba bubba"
Tipsar om
Caesars - Jerk it out.
The Knife- pass this on
Stakka Bo -Here we go
Dansbandet Thorleifs var med o fixa låten samt spelar saxofon i videon. Låten blev en rejäl landsplåga till slut
You should listen to the Radio show Rallys spoof version of this song, "Tre langos". Very funny!
I would say "I djungeln" in swedish refers more to a disorienting unknown place. For instance "det var värsta djungeln" = it was completly wild, I felt out of place/threatened. I do agree with your analysis but with nuance I would not say it is problematic. I see how an american could see it that way with your history though.
It whas Thorleifs on the sax.
Nu när det snart är sommar måste du ju reagera till: "Balsam boys - Här kommer sommaren"
Jag tycker den är såå skön! Det är riktig sommarfeeling! Blir lika glad varje gång den spelas! Skiter i om den är ”ocredd”eller ej!
I like the title!
Lägger Jonathan till den lär vi inte höra reaktionen förens till hösten 😄🤌🏼
@@donpierro2694 😂 Jo, men man vet aldrig?!
Det lät ändå hoppfullt i hans kommentar…😊 Hoppas, hoppas, hoppas…!😄
Kör Ateens - floorfiller eller Robyn-show me love!!
Yeah! Floorfiller!!!!😁
Efter Just D så bildade två av medlemmarna countrygruppen Sverige. Lyssna på "Vi säger samma saker men på olika sätt". Kanske mer punk än country.
Mer Pepps är alltid bra.
aj aj aj aj aj
They wore in grammisgalan with Thorleifs
En klassiker är ”kom ner från taket” med Egon kjerrman
Exactly that
Fler låtar att reagera på av Just D är Relalalaxa, Sköna skor och Hur E D möjligt.
Låtarna "Resten av ditt liv" & "Det löser sig" bägge av Timbuktu är några du borde lyssna på
Time to listen to some women rappers. "Bland dom" with Syster Sol and Femtastic massive (aka tons of other women rappers) is over a decade old by now but still good. I think you can follow along even without lyrics and parts of it is in English anyway. If you want something really old you could listen to "Relationsteorin" by Melinda, but I think what people loved most about that was the lyrics.
Syster Sol "Bland dom":
ua-cam.com/video/IROBCprPQPI/v-deo.html
Nah, a joke like this would be perfectly fine today. People like to exaggerate the fear of cancel culture, but it often has very little to do with reality.
Åh, falsk matematik! Längtar tills fredag
Förortsdjungel is just another word for suburb. The way you listen to it is way overdoing the lyrics. Just D was fighting for equal rights for the people in the suburb, and this song is just about the prejudice most Swedes have about the förortsdjungel.
You said exactly what I said
I understood it as the butt of the joke is the Swedes get uncomfortable in the "jungle". You may need to listen to what I said ;)
You are missing the whole point. It’s about three white (gringos) men from inner city going to immigrant suburbs. Why not adress what made the song stand out - The words - not the music.
I recommend Latin Kings - Mitt kvarter och Latin Kings - De e knas!
Det finns många betydligt bättre låtar med Just D.
Den videon har inte åldrats väl. Oj!
Jag insisterar på;
* Alive - Da Buzz (valfri annan av deras största om den redan hörts... = DOM är klassiker 💕)
* Vacker utan spackel - Joakim Hillson (kla.ssi.ker!!)
* Stjärna på himlen - Drömhus (90tals-banger!! Sa nån skoldisco..? 🎶)
* I Can Jive - Robin Williams (sann banger-klassiker!)
* Jimmy Dean - Troll (favorit från mammas gamla LP-klassiker ☺)
* Du lever bara en gång - Noice (80tals-banger)
* Vi kan gunga - Jimmy Jansson (kul schlagerpop 😅)
* Release Me - Agnes (slog stort!)
* Glassigt - Mange Schmidt (...sommarplåga 🍦)
* Walk Idiot Walk - The Hives (fun fact; gjort jullåt med Cyndi Lauper)
Ah good ole days when racism was cute, we laughed at the hippety hoppety and ate negerbollar all week. Except for those who got beaten by skinheads or shot by lasermannen. Well, jokes aside it still has a bitter taste. Rap came into Swedish culture through comedy, characters like Ulla-Bella, Kurt Olsson (Arne), Werner & Werner and the likes had big cash in hits when literally no one had heard of LL Cool J. A few artist like Papa Dee, Neneh Cherry, Kayo had some rap in their rnb-pop songs. But when actual hip hop came about rap was still mostly laughed at. And these guys didn't really help. They are perhaps the link between comedy rap and hip hop. Sure they did some good beats, especially in their "Faith no more"-style-era, when they rapped about comfortable shoes, having a shit and things that make you go AAAHHH. At least they didn't look like the rapper Snow anymore and like "representing Stureplan".
And a quite good reason they are not respected or even mentioned in the hip hop community is that they are open about having appropriated the style. They didn't like the music, they did it for the ladies. And even if this song is multilayered enough to be on the right side, their "translation" of I Shot the Sheriff is a bloody abomination. Please never react to that :-)
Thanks for sharing your insight and perspective!
@@JonathanRollinssthlm305 On the topic: Do you want to react to the first ever Swedish blues song. Gräsänkling blues by Povel Ramel from 1951 I believe. Is it comedy? Yes. Still awesome.
Or the first Swedish rock song Diverse Julboogie by Owe Thörnqvist 1955. Comedy? Well, yes sort of. Perhaps save that for december.
See the pattern... As a comedian you can make a new genre happen.
And I have to mention my favourite reggae track by Peps: "Babylon". At least he is dead serious even if you can laugh at his accent :-)