BIG hit.. Always feit bad for him, always took it like he was just hurting and talking crazy, like someone she would outgrow. Pius how I took it, that they'd both regret if thy broke up. She outgrew him. :(
@@gregfagan199 but they're still in the same business circle, he talk like he have a few connections, some people might owe him a favor or two, so yes he can
Yes well maybe he had a right to say that.... maybe she used him to get to the position she was in and then ditched him that's why he felt so aggrieved
The Human League "Don't You Want Me" dropped in 1981 and the song quickly came to define the sound of synth pop in the early eighties. The song was huge. The chorus is super catchy. The stalker creepiness is balanced by the rebuttal thankfully. She owns the song by the end and we knew it back then too. The success of this song paved the way for other synth pop hits back when. But the underrated synth pop bop of those years, in my view, is still Yazoo "Nobody's Diary". Alison Moyet's vocals wonderfully complement Vince Clarke's synths on that song. Check out the album version when you can because the audio on the MTV video of it is horrible.
I was 6 when this came out and later it was still played and I jammed to it when I was a preteen and then a little older and so on and so on and I still do ❤. Love y’all’s reactions!❤
You can look at this song from two points of view. 1. Her point of view - I was working a shitty job, but I already had huge dreams of what I wanted to do with my life, why do you think you had anything to do with it. Now that I am here, I want to experience all that comes with it. 2. His point of view - You were at that shitty job and I fell in love with you. You told me your dreams and I realized that if you had to spend all your time struggling just to make ends meet, then you would have no time to attain those dreams. I made it so you didn't have to do anything but focus on making it big and even used some of my contacts to help you along. Now that you have your dream, you are just tossing me to the side and I feel used.
OMG Asia, your facial expressions were everything! I almost busted a gut when you said 'she probably don't want him cuz he's crazy!' 🤣🤣🤣. Great reaction guys.
I am rolling with laughter. I was waiting for the song to get to the lyric where Asia just started shaking her head no. Asia was like no no no! It did not disappoint and she caught that mess.
Asia & BJ, Phillip Oakley on lead vocals, Susan Ann Sulley on backup. Great song, but it was very overplayed. Try their "Keep Feeling Fascination" and "Mirror Man" next!!
And to think, the lead singer and the woman with the dark hair were actually a couple at the time. The three of them are still touring. Another great one to check out is 'The Lebanon.'
Very good reaction. This song was meant to be about a man and a woman's power-politics. You rightly sensed it. The irony of this that the songwriter and lead singer (Philip Oakey) and the female members (Susan Sulley and Joanne Cathrall) are the best of friends in real life and still function to this day as a unit. They share a deep bond and friendship. This song is not autobiographical but Phil took inspiration from something that was in a magazine. He almost paraphrased the lyric from that story. :-)
"Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group the Human League (credited on the cover as The Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album Dare (1981). The band's best known and most commercially successful song, it was the biggest selling UK single of 1981,[2] that year's Christmas number one, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK Singles Chart history.[3] It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where it stayed for three weeks. In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the US.[4] In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.[5]
For those of us who were young and into music when this was released, for me aged about 19, this was a massive hit in the UK and I still never grow tired of listening to it. Good video too with the lead singer's character looking like a real control freak! Thanks for another great reaction from you both.
Yessss!! Such a great reaction Asia and BJ...The Human League are such a great 80's UK act...I love how you respond with American ears to something so far out of anything you listened to growing up.....please react to "Facination" by these guys Im sure you will love......peace and love from your subsctiber in New Zealand.
Asia completely got what the song was about!! Love it cause most people don't. I didn't even get it as a kid in 1982 when this song came out...love you guys
This was in heavy rotation on MTV when MTV first came out. This was one of the first music videos. The album this is on is called "Dare" and it's really really good.
Love this song, was one of my favorites in high school. Love the beat, the vocals. The instruments were not ordinary , everything was new wave, synthetic. No string guitars, drums were different too.
I like this. This is one of the very first music videos I ever saw. This was before MTV. Nite Trax and once in a while Solid Gold were the only video shows on TV then. This was early 80s. I was like 10th grade I think.
You want to know what's funny - I just finished watching your reaction to "HOOK" by Blue's Traveller; in which you spend a great deal of time discussing whether or not the hook of a song is all that people really pay attention to. Then @5:11 in this video, Asia laughs and says "I've heard this before I recognize - but ONLY THE HOOK." I call that serendipitous validation!
Man, this song always makes me flash back to 1992, the summer of 3rd grade this was my jam lol. I know it was released in 81 but I was born in 84 so I had to get hip late 🤣
This song was number one when it debuted in 1981! This is part of the new wave music from the British Invasion during the 80s. They have many other great music!👌😎👍
Your reactions are brilliant - The Human League are a great band & very good live ..... Phil Oakey (the lead singer) went on to make another iconic song - Together In Electric Dreams with Giorgio Moroder :)
In the 60's we had the first British invasion into the U.S music scene/ HUMAN league among many others in the 80's gave a second (B.I). They refer to this style as new wave or Synth pop.
This is a great song, a great band, Asia's face! He's saying, you only made it because of me and she's saying I would have made it anyway! Great band, still going and touring!
Great classic! Thanks for reacting to this one. Other suggestions: Keep Feeling Fascination, The Lebanon, Human, Mirror Man. Also, John Farnham--You're The Voice would be awesome. He's a great singer from Australia. Thanks! If you'd like to listen to a classic 80's bop here's one from 1982: Animotion--Obsession. I think they played the hook of this song in a commercial or two recently. Someone made a suggestion of playing Duran Duran--I'd go with either Rio, The Reflex, Hungry Like The Wolf or Electric Barbarella. If you want something weird and scary: Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day.
Good Reaction and ONCE AGAIN you see the benefit of watching the VIDEO as BJ said "It perfectly depicts the story"......:) One thing I have learned in my 67 years as no Woman who makes it, like Shania Twain, with the initial help of her millionaire Man, later acknowledges it! lol "I would have made it anyway! " but WOULD YOU THOUGH?
the girls were regulars at the club where the band performed and the lead singer needed more movement on stage because the band kinda just stood there...he liked the way the girls moved and asked them to dance on stage while they played ...so the girls danced up there while the band played and there you go...history....just thought i'd share that✌
Giving me flashbacks to being a kid and getting up in the middle of the night to whiz, and passing by my parents bedroom i could hear songs like this on the radio....80s pop
Oh my god this song!!! back in the day when it came out. Of course we all went crazy for it but I’m from Miami, so we used to sing part of the song we change the words to something related to Miami, and all of us used to sing it at school and it was a fun time.
One of the better synth pop bands of the eighties. Have a look at these great bands too. Ultravox Depeche Mode Eurithmics Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark Duran Duran Talk Talk
Brings back memories. Back in the 80s, my prom date and I sang this song along with the radio. After high school we went on to our seperate lives and didn't keep in touch. Found out a couple of years ago she had passed away after losing her battle with cancer. RIP, Amy.
It _is_ a creepy lyric. For what it's worth, Philip Oakey (the lead singer) has been in relationships with both the young ladies you see in the vid, and they still all get along just fine, after 40+ years together. In other words, he's not at all a predator like the song character suggests. He's just a really, really good singer. :^}
It might sound stalker-ish in the 2020s but it isn't. He feels taken advantage of and he's hurt. That doesn't mean he's going to do anything. It's a song about a guy and a woman and a relationship that is over and he's hurt and she's moving on. That's all. Nobody in the 80s thought that about it. We just danced. It was a huge hit! And I love your hair!!!
Loved the reaction! Asia's expressions were amazing while BJ was just like, "yeah, guys say stupid things." This is one of my favorite bands growing up (yep, I'm old) and even to this day. The 411 on the Human League is that they deal with the human condition without sugar coating it or making it glamorized. This is the story of a man who finds himself on the outside of what he once had and is both hurt and upset. Is he being ridiculous and making baseless threats? Sure; but then that's what men are known for. The woman, in contrast, knows where he's coming from, and speaks to him with firm sympathy. It's relatable, if not precisely comfortable.
Other hits by them include …Sound of the Crowd,….The Lebanon….Life on your Own, ….Louise,…Tell Me When……i tried to pick out ones not mentioned already. They are still active and gigging
I saw them do this live around 12 days ago in the UK, great concert! Phil Oakey has said about their songs, the women always come out on top or are in charge even when the man thinks he is. I wish there were more Human League reaction on youtube, things like Open Your Heart, Keep Feeling Fascination, Sound of the Crowd,The Lebanon, that one is a rock track. Then there is the original lineup, things like Dignity of Labour, Circus of Death, Toyota City, etc.
Asia's face expression was EVERYTHING.... This was definitely a banger in the 80s... You would live Duran Duran
They would love them as well as live them, I'm sure....:)
One doesn't merely love Duran Duran. True fans LIVE IT!
BIG hit.. Always feit bad for him, always took it like he was just hurting and talking crazy, like someone she would outgrow. Pius how I took it, that they'd both regret if thy broke up. She outgrew him. :(
'Til Tuesday "Voices Carry"..A Must Hear Classic.
Absolutely. I still have my original cassette tape that I bought when that song came out along with the song Coming Up Close.
Yes, please review this song! ❤️
Yes! Great one!
Yes!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Definitely
The look on Asia's face when he said "and I can put you back down too" was absolutely classic.
Yes that kind of shook her a bit, she had the WTF! emoji face😲, she really start listening to them lyrics then
The thing is, he really can't though. She has moved beyond him, and he resents it.
@@gregfagan199 but they're still in the same business circle, he talk like he have a few connections, some people might owe him a favor or two, so yes he can
That is not supported by the lyrics at all
Yes well maybe he had a right to say that.... maybe she used him to get to the position she was in and then ditched him that's why he felt so aggrieved
An Absolute MUST HEAR,, Human League "Human"
Definitely! The twist is something eye opening the first time you hear it!
Don't forget fascination,1983.
One of my favorite song ever.
Agree . Published a piano cover too on my page 🎹
Open your Heart - Banging!
The Human League "Don't You Want Me" dropped in 1981 and the song quickly came to define the sound of synth pop in the early eighties. The song was huge. The chorus is super catchy. The stalker creepiness is balanced by the rebuttal thankfully. She owns the song by the end and we knew it back then too. The success of this song paved the way for other synth pop hits back when. But the underrated synth pop bop of those years, in my view, is still Yazoo "Nobody's Diary". Alison Moyet's vocals wonderfully complement Vince Clarke's synths on that song. Check out the album version when you can because the audio on the MTV video of it is horrible.
I was 6 when this came out and later it was still played and I jammed to it when I was a preteen and then a little older and so on and so on and I still do ❤. Love y’all’s reactions!❤
Absolutely right! Asia's facial expressions during the intro stanzas were the best thing I saw this week.
Lol
This was a big hit when I was in high school. Fascination was another of their big hits
Fascination, human, mirror man, love action. All great tracks by them
You can look at this song from two points of view.
1. Her point of view - I was working a shitty job, but I already had huge dreams of what I wanted to do with my life, why do you think you had anything to do with it. Now that I am here, I want to experience all that comes with it.
2. His point of view - You were at that shitty job and I fell in love with you. You told me your dreams and I realized that if you had to spend all your time struggling just to make ends meet, then you would have no time to attain those dreams. I made it so you didn't have to do anything but focus on making it big and even used some of my contacts to help you along. Now that you have your dream, you are just tossing me to the side and I feel used.
OMG Asia, your facial expressions were everything! I almost busted a gut when you said 'she probably don't want him cuz he's crazy!' 🤣🤣🤣. Great reaction guys.
I am rolling with laughter. I was waiting for the song to get to the lyric where Asia just started shaking her head no. Asia was like no no no! It did not disappoint and she caught that mess.
Asia & BJ, Phillip Oakley on lead vocals, Susan Ann Sulley on backup. Great song, but it was very overplayed. Try their "Keep Feeling Fascination" and "Mirror Man" next!!
LOVE Fascination!
Yasss to fascination or in electric dreams!
Fascination is fire 🔥
Phil Oakey (not associated with any sunglasses) 🤣
And to think, the lead singer and the woman with the dark hair were actually a couple at the time. The three of them are still touring. Another great one to check out is 'The Lebanon.'
I’m sure you guys would love “Human”, it was written & produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
I look for a comment like this before I made one😁
Definetely my fav 🎵 published a piano cover too on my page 🎹
Very good reaction. This song was meant to be about a man and a woman's power-politics. You rightly sensed it. The irony of this that the songwriter and lead singer (Philip Oakey) and the female members (Susan Sulley and Joanne Cathrall) are the best of friends in real life and still function to this day as a unit. They share a deep bond and friendship. This song is not autobiographical but Phil took inspiration from something that was in a magazine. He almost paraphrased the lyric from that story. :-)
"Don't You Want Me" is a single by British synthpop group the Human League (credited on the cover as The Human League 100). It was released on 27 November 1981 as the fourth single from their third studio album Dare (1981). The band's best known and most commercially successful song, it was the biggest selling UK single of 1981,[2] that year's Christmas number one, and has since sold over 1,560,000 copies in the UK, making it the 23rd-most successful single in UK Singles Chart history.[3] It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 3 July 1982, where it stayed for three weeks.
In November 1983, Rolling Stone named it the "breakthrough song" of the Second British Invasion of the US.[4] In 2015, the song was voted by the British public as the nation's seventh-favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV.[5]
For those of us who were young and into music when this was released, for me aged about 19, this was a massive hit in the UK and I still never grow tired of listening to it. Good video too with the lead singer's character looking like a real control freak! Thanks for another great reaction from you both.
This was a Number 1 Billboard Hit in The U.S.
Yessss!! Such a great reaction Asia and BJ...The Human League are such a great 80's UK act...I love how you respond with American ears to something so far out of anything you listened to growing up.....please react to "Facination" by these guys Im sure you will love......peace and love from your subsctiber in New Zealand.
YES to Fascination. Great reaction guys 🥰🦋
Yes Julie! Glad you giving some love to that song...hope they do a react to it.
This is the 80s all day….They were huge, played on the radio constantly for years.
What a fantastic piece of 80's electronic music from The Human League. Their album 'Dare' was No 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Masterpiece 😎👍
Such a solid well crafted song.
having a trip down memory lane.human league were quite big in the 80s and this is the song they are most remembered for.cheers from England 🇬🇧.
Asia completely got what the song was about!! Love it cause most people don't. I didn't even get it as a kid in 1982 when this song came out...love you guys
Your facial expressions ARE EVERYTHING Asia
A fun song to crank in the car that was everywhere in ‘82 - radio and clubs. Never paid attention to the lyrics ’til now 😊
Love Asia`s take on this one!
Skating rink music around here -back in the day! Love it!💖💙✌️👍
Even though I'm a metal head, I enjoyed some of the British New Wave pop music of the 80's.
You guys actually spotted it, so many people believe this is a love song when it's really about control in an unhealthy relationship
This was in heavy rotation on MTV when MTV first came out. This was one of the first music videos. The album this is on is called "Dare" and it's really really good.
Such a big song in our teens; huge! ❤️
You guys really need to listen to the group ABC and the song The Look of Love.
Love this song, was one of my favorites in high school. Love the beat, the vocals. The instruments were not ordinary , everything was new wave, synthetic. No string guitars, drums were different too.
Asia 🤣 When he said "I can put you back down too" 🤣🤣🤣
Love that you guys react to so many Brit groups / artists - think you would be really down with Alison Moyet too!
I LOVE THAT I WAS A TEEN IN THE 80'S. Soooo much great music 🎶 I love this song.🧡😊
One of the great 80’s tunes and there are many……..I love the duet/back and forth style of the song.
You’re rockin the hair Asia!!😉
I like this. This is one of the very first music videos I ever saw. This was before MTV. Nite Trax and once in a while Solid Gold were the only video shows on TV then. This was early 80s. I was like 10th grade I think.
You want to know what's funny - I just finished watching your reaction to "HOOK" by Blue's Traveller; in which you spend a great deal of time discussing whether or not the hook of a song is all that people really pay attention to.
Then @5:11 in this video, Asia laughs and says "I've heard this before I recognize - but ONLY THE HOOK."
I call that serendipitous validation!
Asia reation during the female part is so great!!😂❤
Man, this song always makes me flash back to 1992, the summer of 3rd grade this was my jam lol. I know it was released in 81 but I was born in 84 so I had to get hip late 🤣
Whoa, I loved this song as a kid for its poppy upbeatness but now realizing there are much deeper layers.
"The most vicious love song over" Philip Oakey......
This song was number one when it debuted in 1981! This is part of the new wave music from the British Invasion during the 80s. They have many other great music!👌😎👍
Love the hair Asia 🔥🔥🔥
Your reactions are brilliant - The Human League are a great band & very good live ..... Phil Oakey (the lead singer) went on to make another iconic song - Together In Electric Dreams with Giorgio Moroder :)
In the 60's we had the first British invasion into the U.S music scene/ HUMAN league among many others in the 80's gave a second (B.I). They refer to this style as new wave or Synth pop.
new wave baby ❤️
ASIA you been GOTTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a great song, a great band, Asia's face!
He's saying, you only made it because of me and she's saying I would have made it anyway!
Great band, still going and touring!
LOVE how the song bust’s out with this NightRider like arpeggios… MAN i miss the 80s !
Great classic! Thanks for reacting to this one. Other suggestions: Keep Feeling Fascination, The Lebanon, Human, Mirror Man. Also, John Farnham--You're The Voice would be awesome. He's a great singer from Australia. Thanks! If you'd like to listen to a classic 80's bop here's one from 1982: Animotion--Obsession. I think they played the hook of this song in a commercial or two recently. Someone made a suggestion of playing Duran Duran--I'd go with either Rio, The Reflex, Hungry Like The Wolf or Electric Barbarella. If you want something weird and scary: Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day.
love Asia's response to this great song. A great little story and a song we loved dancing to back in the 80s
Depeche mode- just cant get enough.
Another 80s banger
They used to live next to my great aunts in Sheffield, UK
The Human League were pioneers of techno-pop and made lots of classics. They have been a major influence on music through the years.
When that song came out in 1981 I was station in Germany,, it was a hit overseas
So many films, romantic comedy movies especially, included this song, and often sang karaoke by main cast
Legendary 80s new wave band i was 16 when i first head in in music television
80s New Wave is 🔥🤘
Ok Fascination should be the next one. You will recognize it also. 😉😉
I love this song! Glad you're reacting to it ☺️
One of my favourite bands.
The chorus of this song was used in a several commercials, swiffer and chips ahoy
Great song! Listen to their song HUMAN..
its great!
Good Reaction and ONCE AGAIN you see the benefit of watching the VIDEO as BJ said "It perfectly depicts the story"......:)
One thing I have learned in my 67 years as no Woman who makes it, like Shania Twain, with the initial help of her millionaire Man, later acknowledges it! lol
"I would have made it anyway! " but WOULD YOU THOUGH?
the girls were regulars at the club where the band performed and the lead singer needed more movement on stage because the band kinda just stood there...he liked the way the girls moved and asked them to dance on stage while they played ...so the girls danced up there while the band played and there you go...history....just thought i'd share that✌
The Human League are English New Wave (sometimes bundled in with the New Romantics)
LOVE this song.
They are sampling all these great songs from the past and putting the hook into newer songs for your generation because they were just soooo good!
Giving me flashbacks to being a kid and getting up in the middle of the night to whiz, and passing by my parents bedroom i could hear songs like this on the radio....80s pop
Oh my god this song!!! back in the day when it came out. Of course we all went crazy for it but I’m from Miami, so we used to sing part of the song we change the words to something related to Miami, and all of us used to sing it at school and it was a fun time.
This is the song version of the movie A Star Is Born, which has been remade many times, most recenty with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.
One of the better synth pop bands of the eighties. Have a look at these great bands too.
Ultravox
Depeche Mode
Eurithmics
Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark
Duran Duran
Talk Talk
This was like the “hippest” song back in the early 80s.
The best days of my life. And the best days of mtv.
Brings back memories. Back in the 80s, my prom date and I sang this song along with the radio. After high school we went on to our seperate lives and didn't keep in touch. Found out a couple of years ago she had passed away after losing her battle with cancer. RIP, Amy.
It's a case of a BROKEN HEART!!!!!!!!!! anything goes
It _is_ a creepy lyric. For what it's worth, Philip Oakey (the lead singer) has been in relationships with both the young ladies you see in the vid, and they still all get along just fine, after 40+ years together. In other words, he's not at all a predator like the song character suggests. He's just a really, really good singer. :^}
Soooo many 80's one hit wonder songs that were great.
One of my favorite groups. 😊🥰😊🥰🥰😊
Human League, from my home city, Sheffield England 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Now check out Human by the same group. It was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who produced Janet Jackson's Control album. Incredible song!
Human my fav ! Published a piano cover too on my page 🎹
It might sound stalker-ish in the 2020s but it isn't. He feels taken advantage of and he's hurt. That doesn't mean he's going to do anything. It's a song about a guy and a woman and a relationship that is over and he's hurt and she's moving on. That's all. Nobody in the 80s thought that about it. We just danced. It was a huge hit! And I love your hair!!!
Takes me back Top of The Pops Thursdays.early 80s
Loved the reaction! Asia's expressions were amazing while BJ was just like, "yeah, guys say stupid things." This is one of my favorite bands growing up (yep, I'm old) and even to this day. The 411 on the Human League is that they deal with the human condition without sugar coating it or making it glamorized. This is the story of a man who finds himself on the outside of what he once had and is both hurt and upset. Is he being ridiculous and making baseless threats? Sure; but then that's what men are known for. The woman, in contrast, knows where he's coming from, and speaks to him with firm sympathy. It's relatable, if not precisely comfortable.
Great reaction! Check out their song, "Human". It's my favorite of theirs! Love you guys! ❤
Other hits by them include …Sound of the Crowd,….The Lebanon….Life on your Own, ….Louise,…Tell Me When……i tried to pick out ones not mentioned already. They are still active and gigging
TOTALLY 80's
I saw them do this live around 12 days ago in the UK, great concert! Phil Oakey has said about their songs, the women always come out on top or are in charge even when the man thinks he is.
I wish there were more Human League reaction on youtube, things like Open Your Heart, Keep Feeling Fascination, Sound of the Crowd,The Lebanon, that one is a rock track. Then there is the original lineup, things like Dignity of Labour, Circus of Death, Toyota City, etc.
Also, an early one, The Path of Least Resistance, and a later one, One Man in My Heart, with Susan Sulley lead vocals.
I love your hair Asia!!
Great reaction y'all and love the hair Asia ‼️‼️‼️❤️❤️❤️ this is my first time hear the full song love it
CLASSIC 80's song✌️ loving your new hair style Asia 🤗
You should also try “Obsession” by Animotion - from a similar time, just fire! 🔥
This was a big hit in the early 80s. You should check out their song Fascination next.
Mirror Man by THL (some call it electronic Northern Soul), is one of my favourites of theirs, but I love this song too.
Think we need to appreciate Asia's hair here it looks great
Saw them live in Cardiff brilliant
"Probably 'cause he's crazy...look at him"! Hah! I nearly fell off my chair! 🤣
This is one of those songs that people dance and bounce to because it sounds so happy. But it is a really dark song.
Human is a classic from them aswell