Blondie - Rapture REACTION!!! | reacting to reactors reacting
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2024
- In this video, reacting to reactors reacting reacts to Blondie's 1981 hit, Rapture.
From wiki: "Rapture" is a song by American rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album Autoamerican (1980). Written by band members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, and produced by Mike Chapman, the song was released as the second and final single from Autoamerican on January 12, 1981, by Chrysalis Records. Musically, "Rapture" is a combination of new wave, disco and hip hop with a rap section forming an extended coda.
"Rapture" was another commercial success for the band, shipping one million copies in the United States, where it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spent two weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, their fourth and last single to reach the top ten. It was the first number-one single in the United States to feature rap vocals. The single also peaked at number three in Canada, and number five in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein were friends with Brooklyn- and Bronx-based hip-hop artists such as Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite) in the late 1970s. Brathwaite took Harry and Stein to a rap event in the Bronx one night in 1978, and they were both impressed by the skill and excitement as MCs rhymed lyrics over the beats of spinning records and people lined up for a chance to take the microphone and freestyle rap. Harry and Stein went to a few more such events, before deciding to write a rap song of their own in late 1979. They decided to combine what they had seen and heard in the Bronx with Chic-inspired disco music. Keyboardist Jimmy Destri found some tubular bells in the back of the studio, which added a haunting touch to the song. The title "Rapture" was a pun on "rap", according to Stein.
In an early recording the music was slower and simpler. Stein said that "[t]he slower tape was just bass, drums and guitar doubling the bass, I don’t think much else." This version was put aside and later reworked as "Rapture". For "Rapture", Stein said that "[w]e decided to make it faster." Stein later retrieved the original recording, and Harry and Brathwaite added vocals. The result was released in the UK as "Yuletide Throwdown", as a flexi disc given away with the magazine Flexipop.
Stein loved B-movies and science fiction imagery, so he wrote some surreal verses about a man from Mars. For the chorus, Harry tried to capture the feeling of a crowded hip-hop dance floor in the Bronx: "Toe to toe / Dancing very close / Barely breathing / Almost comatose / Wall to wall / People hypnotized / And they're stepping lightly / Hang each night in Rapture." The rap section references Fab 5 Freddy ("Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly"), as well as Grandmaster Flash ("Flash is fast, Flash is cool").
Record World said that "Debbie's sweet, enticing vocal transforms itself into a streetwise jam," calling the song "infectious" and calling the rhythm "hypnotic."
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Honestly she gets it more than he does. Blondie always had an absurdist aesthetic that tortured the connections between genres and she understood the weird juxtapositions between the images in the video, the polarities of musical expectations, and the dissonance between genres that someone like the guy, who's much more linear in his expectations and reactions, doesn't.
Great video. You nailed the appeal of Brad and Lex. They are a great team. Brad is really sharp and intellectual. He really analyzes the meaning of a song, and is pretty astute. She is full of energy and all about how something feels. She's more in tune with musical concepts like rhythms and riffs. And both are extremely likeable. They are one of the first reaction channels I got into.
You nailed it 💯. Great analysis. Brad is more analytical while Lex is more laid back and enjoys the “fun” side of the music.
After Rap appeared on the scene I heard Rapture again one day and it hit me that this WAS the first RAP song before Rap was a thing. Who would of thought!
Debbie was ace. Every woman wanted to look like her and every man ( unless gay) wanted to ………. Fill in the whatever! I never noticed the rap aspect of the song I just loved watching the/ her. Music is music. in The Flesh was a great example of an accidental playing of a B side that exploding them to the stratosphere. I was a married woman at the time, but my husband and myself were mesmerised by her beauty , her edgy attitude and her talent. In my opinion no female singer has ever come close to Debbie’s beauty and edginess.
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No lie, I had the biggest crush on Debbie Harry around the "The Tide Is High" period (1980 I think). Very unique look and attitude.
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@garthbigelow appreciate you taking the time to spread a little positivity here. Thanks for watching, commenting and subscribing. Very much appreciated.
It's funny... Brad used to be sorta slow on the uptake, in my view... his early reactions. But he has skyrocketed in understanding and heart over the last couple of years. I enjoy his takes a lot. She surprises me from time to time, as well, but yeah more surface level comments from her. I give this a 10/10/10
Great take. Thanks.
Brad always seems to have the same almost Poker Face on, while Lexi's 💗is more on her sleeve. Used to watch em back in the day. Too damned many reactors to keep up with now, lol!
LOL!!!
Love Brad & Lex.
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Deborah Harry came from a folk music background. Rapture is disco funk with some rap vocals.
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"A Boy Named Sue" made it to #1 on US Billboard Hot Country Singles, and US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks. It made #2 on US Billboard Hot 100. It is a rap song that came out in 1969.
I don't know if I'd consider A Boy Named Sue rap. There are speaking elements in the song for sure.
@@censorshipsucks9493 Johnny Cash raps through the entire song. Not sure if you are referring to the same song.
Before Blondie there was Charlie Daniels Band with The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Reached #3 on Billboard, and #1 on Country.
I could never get into this song back in the day. I've been a rocker my whole life with one exception, I knew ever word to Rapper's Delight, lol. I still remember about a 3rd of it. It blows my friend's minds when I start rappin' it, lol
I too know the lyrics to this day!
A classic. I love it when a top melody line has that floating feeling, almost a Brazilian bossa nova kind of thing.
Have you heard their earlier version, released in the UK as "Yuletide Throwdown"? It's slower & the verses are totally different, featuring Fab 5 Freddy: ua-cam.com/video/jxtK2757mz4/v-deo.html
I will definitely check this out!
I miss Brad & Lex. Lex stopped doing the reactions after they had a baby, and while Brad has continued (on his own channel, Brad After Dark) it’s just not the same. He also tends to do more obscure tracks, but what I really miss is the dynamic between the two.
Brad and Lex had to scrap their channel. Too many copyright strikes.
Hate to tell you but Lou Reed beat Blondie to Rap by a couple decades. He wrote a song called The Original Wrapper back in the Sugar Hill Gang days to remind everyone.
Hello! As I mentioned in the video (and thumbnail), I was referring to "commercially popular". Blondie's "Rapture" spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts. Of course, spoken words over music goes back to the beginning of recording, but I'm referring to a genre of music popularized as such.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated.
@@r2rr Well, Lou was commercially popular in my universe, so there 🙂
@@GB-ez6ge You got me there!
Sooo...You are reacting to reactors??? And you wonder why your channel doesn't have more subscribers? Hmmm. A real puzzler.
Nope, wasn't wondering at all.
Thanks for the engagement to help it grow. Much appreciated.
There were white actors rapping in the 1930s or 1940's in black and white films. I remember seeing them as a kid. I can't remember the name of the movie though.
I'm only referring to a genre of music, popularized as 'rap music'. "Rapture" was the first song, featuring 'rap vocals' to reach #1 on the Billboard charts. This is what I was referring to.
Thanks for your comments.