Y2K was the moment when every computers have to recognize the new date format and switch from 19XX to 20XX. It was predicted that all the computers in the world would crash at that moment because they were not programmed for any date past 1999. It was supposed to bring the world to a halt. Microsoft rushed to release patches in the hopes disaster could be averted. But in Seattle, the home of Microsoft, we had a huge party at the convention center and it was a blow-out. 🥳
Nah. It was mostly businesses that were worried. There was the hope that it might wipe out everybody's debts, but the average Joe on the street didn't care about it too much. The world wasn't nearly as online in 1999 as we were just a few years later. If we had been, we might have cared more.
Y2K was about a computer glitch that was supposed to cause computer chaos. I worked overnight on New Years in 2000 in a call center. The phone didn't ring even once. I didn't think much about the Y2K bug.
Yup This song was ahead of it's time & you will find out going through Prince's discogrophy that he was a literal fortune teller. Songs like "New World" "The War" "Sign O The Times" Prince would literally predict the future & he also had double etendre's in his lyrics. Prince constantly had double, triple meanings in his music, including the instruments he was playing themselves. I think that you really will find the core of Prince's music is his albums, his hit songs are great too but his albums are the REAL journey imo. 🤗
This song has NOTHING to do with the Y2K panic. It's from almost two decades prior. This was one of MANY songs from the 1980s that were about The Cold War. The Cold War was the "mutually assured self-destruction" of nuclear holocaust as the world's superpowers (USA and USSR) both built up huge nuclear arsenals to keep each other at bay, threatening all life on earth over the whims of idiotic politicians. Beyond the Cold War the song also alludes to lots of religious and cultish superstitions about "end times" coming in the year 2000. That sort of idea was pervasive throughout pop culture in the 20th century. The Y2K thing wasn't really that big of a deal. It was a panicky news headline for a couple of weeks that turned out to be a nothingburger. It's not anywhere as historically significant - or as relevant today - as the climate of Cold War that existed for decades (50s-80s) and ending in the early 1990s as the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union wasn't far behind.
Classic from Prince (one of MANY). As others have noted "1999" is about the threat of Nuclear war that permeated the '80s. Prince is basically saying he's going to party like the end of the world is coming. A dope, edgy premise for a pop song.
"Background. The inspiration for the song came from a TV documentary Prince watched about Nostradamus. In the film, he predicted that a terror would fall upon the world in 1999."
Prince was EPIC and is still missed terribly. I was at the Minneapolis airport a couple of weeks ago and there is an entire store of Prince items and one of his guitars on display.❤ Nice reaction. All of the computers were supposed to crash due to coding not being able to recognise dates beyond 12/31/1999
This was my first Prince song. I was in High School at the time and it instantly became a thing. Even now in 2024 I still use the phrase “party like it’s 1999;” kind of a metaphor for dancing on the world’s grave. Y2K isn’t worth investigating.
The Revolution: Dez Dickerson on guitar, Brown Mark on bass, Lisa Melvoin keyboard, Dr. Fink (Matt) on synthesizer/keyboard, Bobby Z. (Rivkin) on drums, Jill Jones background vox. This wasn't about Y2K, it's about the Cold War between US and Russia and a HBO documentary where Nostradamus predicted the end of the world.
I was 16 when this song came out , and 1999 seemed like a life time away. Those 17 years went by fast , and now 25 more years have past since. Life really does go by fast 😳
This is the Prince I fell in love with. 💜 Rest in Paradise lovie. You are always loved and will forever be missed. There will never be another like you 💜💜💜
I was under the Sydney Harbour Bridge watching the best Fireworks in history, and listening to the hottest music of the time on the evening of 31st Dec 1999.....What a Party.🤩
y2k was a computer issue with the date format and if you had only been using the last two digits for years, it was gonna start causing problems so everyone had to convert to four digit year format and that was it.
Him singing about partying like it's 1999 was based on the idea floating around at the time that the world would end in the year 2000. It wasn't something that was widely believed, but it was before Y2K was on regular people's radar.
In most old computers and mainframes, only the last two digits of the year rolled over, they didn't know what would happen when it rolled over to 1900, they thought everything would screw up. Turns out nothing did.
So glad you watched the video! It played in heavy rotation on MTV. Basically the song is about the end of 1999 and before it turns 2000, blow the roof off the joint and party because you never know what’s coming. The song is the furthest thing from y2k, it came out in 1982.
I remember working so much overtime and weekends preparing for Y2K. It was so stressful and tiring. I told everyone Thank God I won’t be here for Y3K 😂
1982 we started playing this song at every party lol and we didn't find out about Y2K until 1995 and we worried about it real hard in 1999 and people thought everything would be chaos and things would shut down but nothing happened and we still play this song at parties!
The Y2K freakout was the fear that the computers would not recognize the time when it would turn that date and everything computerized would melt down because of it. A lot of everything is controlled by it so they were afraid that the entire grid would go down
See my original comment. Yes, Y2K, ridiculous headline-grabbing media frenzy as it was, is not related to this song other than thanks to it’s title it got played a lot in…. 1999🎉 It’s a massively fantastic song all that aside. I can never tire of it, like much of his stuff ❤
Y2K freak out was that they weren’t sure if computers would work once it went from 1999 to 2000, like the computer wouldn’t be able to understand it being ‘00, but nothing happened. Computers were smarter than they gave them credit for.
No one knew what was going to happen when the computers went from 1999 to 2000 so December 31 was kinda scary. That's why I was in Las Vegas that night. lol
When this song came out, NO ONE was thinking about the Y2K stuff. This was way before that. But of course in 1999 this song had a huge resurgence. Appropriately so. When it came out, I think people still considered the year 2000 as far enough away to consider it a sort of apocolypic year possibly. So party like we're about to go through some stuff. You know? So the Y2K stuff in 1999 naturally made ppl think of this song. As we know by now, Y2K was a big bunch of hoopla over nothing. It was mostly about how computers were going to handle the change. (That's the simplest version of an explanation. I assume soemone will have a better one, but I'm feeling lazy )
As others have said, this song doesn't have anything to do with Y2K. Y2K was about updating all the old computer software that was pretty much running everything. The problem was, the old programs worked with a 2 digit year. Many systems didn't have the ability to store or do calculations on a 4 digit year. I was a programmer writing banking software at that time. Any software code that had anything to do with dates had to be fixed before Y2K. It was a big deal for software developers and businesses, but not so much for everyone else.
This came out almost 2 decades before the Y2K freak out. It was more about living during the Cold War and some of the fiction, folklore we grew up with… Nostradamus predictions.
First things first, thank you for letting us be your copilot on this journey. Sometimes seeing your reactions, I try to remember when and how, what I was doing, what I felt the first time I listened to these songs. Prince basically did it all by himself, which is something he often did. According to Wikipedia: Credits from Guitarcloud and Benoît Clerc Prince - lead vocals, ARP Omni-2, Oberheim OB-Xa, electric guitars, bass guitar, Linn LM-1, cymbals, Pearl SY-1 Syncussion, tambourine, handclaps, cowbell Lisa Coleman - lead vocals Dez Dickerson - lead vocals Jill Jones - lead vocals Jesse Johnson - backing vocals (uncredited) Bobby Z. - Pearl SY-1 Syncussion (uncredited) I think it's time to get into a more serious Prince. I suggest you to discover him by playing his music live. Some songs you can try. Just copy the txt and tell UA-cam to search for it: · Prince Live - Play that funky Music - Hollywood Swinging - Fantastic Voyage 4/28/11 · Prince - Live @ Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show 2007 - Remastered - 4K - 5.1 Surround · Prince, The New Power Generation - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live at Glam Slam, 1992) · Prince- It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night ( this one ua-cam.com/video/eWESS-xjhTs/v-deo.html ) · Transcription || Prince · "Prince: The Art of Musicology", acoustic set [guitar] (the video is shown so small and there's a score above it, but this is the only version I could find with the complete set)
Y2K was about computers not being able to read 00 for the end date. Instead of 1999 they were scared when the date flipped all computers would stop working. It was real. Btw every Prince song you hear is all him.
They realized all computer systems including the internet had not been designed past 1999. Worldwide efforts by computer scientists, programmers had to hurry and patch the system to rollover to the 2000s. Think about all the computer systems connections, even computers that controlled medical hospital
The world as you know today is primarily run by computers-before 2000 we were in the infancy of the computer age and certain computers needed to be upgraded to adjust to the year 2000-so the Y2K scare was that all computers were going to go haywire at midnight December 31 creating all kind of havoc. Planes in the air crashing-missles launched automatically with no way to stop them etc. In short the start of the apocalypse-end of the world.
Agreed the song was not about Y2K at all! Doomsdayers were into Nostradamus and his predictions in regards to Final World war predictions for the year 2000.
THE GIRL JILL JONES THE BLONDE LISA COLEMAN BURNNET DIZ DICKERSON THE MAN JILL JONES HAS SONG LISA IS A PART WENDY& LISA THEY GOT SONGS TO AND DEZ DICKERSON GOT SONGS LISA WAS IN THE REVELATION 1984 BUT LISA DOCTOR THE MAN PIANO AND BOBBY Z ON THE DRUMS WAS IN THE REVELATION TO.
Wide spread panics have always existed & will continue to it's more about your attitude to this phenomena..& Prince's idea was to party.. Youth attitude, flippant & irreverent about mass-annihilation & armageddon
Great reaction. This song was an early expression of Y2K anxiety, although the “Y2K” monicker was really not around back in 1982. The Revolution is the band, yes.
Because the man just could not stop screaming about the end of the world. This was the most terrifying song I'd ever heard... right up until I heard "Master of Puppets" by Metallica 😂😂
Man, if you were alive when the 1900's ended and became 2000, that was one helluva New Year. This song came out in the 80's. But everybody played it. As far as Y2K, look it up. It didn't happen.
Were you spooked by the Y2K frenzy???
Personally no but corporations were freaked. Lol
Y2K was the moment when every computers have to recognize the new date format and switch from 19XX to 20XX. It was predicted that all the computers in the world would crash at that moment because they were not programmed for any date past 1999. It was supposed to bring the world to a halt. Microsoft rushed to release patches in the hopes disaster could be averted. But in Seattle, the home of Microsoft, we had a huge party at the convention center and it was a blow-out. 🥳
Nah. It was mostly businesses that were worried. There was the hope that it might wipe out everybody's debts, but the average Joe on the street didn't care about it too much. The world wasn't nearly as online in 1999 as we were just a few years later. If we had been, we might have cared more.
Y2K was about a computer glitch that was supposed to cause computer chaos. I worked overnight on New Years in 2000 in a call center. The phone didn't ring even once. I didn't think much about the Y2K bug.
@@MRoyClark Exactly right, the internet was new to most of us casual users, we didn't have sensitive info online with apps and such
Yup This song was ahead of it's time & you will find out going through Prince's discogrophy that he was a literal fortune teller. Songs like "New World" "The War" "Sign O The Times" Prince would literally predict the future & he also had double etendre's in his lyrics. Prince constantly had double, triple meanings in his music, including the instruments he was playing themselves. I think that you really will find the core of Prince's music is his albums, his hit songs are great too but his albums are the REAL journey imo. 🤗
This song has NOTHING to do with the Y2K panic. It's from almost two decades prior. This was one of MANY songs from the 1980s that were about The Cold War. The Cold War was the "mutually assured self-destruction" of nuclear holocaust as the world's superpowers (USA and USSR) both built up huge nuclear arsenals to keep each other at bay, threatening all life on earth over the whims of idiotic politicians. Beyond the Cold War the song also alludes to lots of religious and cultish superstitions about "end times" coming in the year 2000. That sort of idea was pervasive throughout pop culture in the 20th century. The Y2K thing wasn't really that big of a deal. It was a panicky news headline for a couple of weeks that turned out to be a nothingburger. It's not anywhere as historically significant - or as relevant today - as the climate of Cold War that existed for decades (50s-80s) and ending in the early 1990s as the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union wasn't far behind.
Classic from Prince (one of MANY). As others have noted "1999" is about the threat of Nuclear war that permeated the '80s. Prince is basically saying he's going to party like the end of the world is coming. A dope, edgy premise for a pop song.
"Background. The inspiration for the song came from a TV documentary Prince watched about Nostradamus. In the film, he predicted that a terror would fall upon the world in 1999."
I will never forget this song playing at the bar I was at right before the ball dropped to ring in the year 2000
Prince was EPIC and is still missed terribly. I was at the Minneapolis airport a couple of weeks ago and there is an entire store of Prince items and one of his guitars on display.❤ Nice reaction.
All of the computers were supposed to crash due to coding not being able to recognise dates beyond 12/31/1999
This was my first Prince song. I was in High School at the time and it instantly became a thing. Even now in 2024 I still use the phrase “party like it’s 1999;” kind of a metaphor for dancing on the world’s grave.
Y2K isn’t worth investigating.
The Revolution: Dez Dickerson on guitar, Brown Mark on bass, Lisa Melvoin keyboard, Dr. Fink (Matt) on synthesizer/keyboard, Bobby Z. (Rivkin) on drums, Jill Jones background vox.
This wasn't about Y2K, it's about the Cold War between US and Russia and a HBO documentary where Nostradamus predicted the end of the world.
I was 16 when this song came out , and 1999 seemed like a life time away. Those 17 years went by fast , and now 25 more years have past since. Life really does go by fast 😳
💜PRINCE💜
1999 was the end of 1000 year cycle and it felt far away in 1982...
The Revolution was the name of his band. The two women on the keyboard are Lisa Coleman and Jill Jones.
His "Pop Life", "Money Don't Matter Tonight", and ""I Wud Die 4 U" are my faves from Prince.
This is the Prince I fell in love with. 💜 Rest in Paradise lovie. You are always loved and will forever be missed. There will never be another like you 💜💜💜
I was under the Sydney Harbour Bridge watching the best Fireworks in history, and listening to the hottest music of the time on the evening of 31st Dec 1999.....What a Party.🤩
It's Lisa and Jill (one of Prince's ladies) in this version of the Revolution
I've seen him. Wembley 89 maybe? 5 rows from the front, centre stage. Prince was pocket dynamite.
Prince was the whole package: handsome, talented, wild! 😎
y2k was a computer issue with the date format and if you had only been using the last two digits for years, it was gonna start causing problems so everyone had to convert to four digit year format and that was it.
Him singing about partying like it's 1999 was based on the idea floating around at the time that the world would end in the year 2000. It wasn't something that was widely believed, but it was before Y2K was on regular people's radar.
I was 10 in 1982. The year 1999 was a huge deal. People saying the world would end. Time would stop. Going into 2000 we referred to as Y2K.
In most old computers and mainframes, only the last two digits of the year rolled over, they didn't know what would happen when it rolled over to 1900, they thought everything would screw up. Turns out nothing did.
So glad you watched the video! It played in heavy rotation on MTV. Basically the song is about the end of 1999 and before it turns 2000, blow the roof off the joint and party because you never know what’s coming. The song is the furthest thing from y2k, it came out in 1982.
I remember working so much overtime and weekends preparing for Y2K. It was so stressful and tiring. I told everyone Thank God I won’t be here for Y3K 😂
1982 we started playing this song at every party lol and we didn't find out about Y2K until 1995 and we worried about it real hard in 1999 and people thought everything would be chaos and things would shut down but nothing happened and we still play this song at parties!
The Y2K freakout was the fear that the computers would not recognize the time when it would turn that date and everything computerized would melt down because of it. A lot of everything is controlled by it so they were afraid that the entire grid would go down
I was of the mindset of whatever happens, happens. No worries. 🙂 thanks for the reaction. ❤️
See my original comment. Yes, Y2K, ridiculous headline-grabbing media frenzy as it was, is not related to this song other than thanks to it’s title it got played a lot in…. 1999🎉
It’s a massively fantastic song all that aside. I can never tire of it, like much of his stuff ❤
Y2K freak out was that they weren’t sure if computers would work once it went from 1999 to 2000, like the computer wouldn’t be able to understand it being ‘00, but nothing happened. Computers were smarter than they gave them credit for.
No one knew what was going to happen when the computers went from 1999 to 2000 so December 31 was kinda scary. That's why I was in Las Vegas that night. lol
The Genius
Lisa and Wendy is the 2 ladies and yes The Revolution is the Band
Wendy didn't join The Revolution until 1983. This is Lisa and Jill Jones 1982.
When this song came out, NO ONE was thinking about the Y2K stuff. This was way before that. But of course in 1999 this song had a huge resurgence. Appropriately so. When it came out, I think people still considered the year 2000 as far enough away to consider it a sort of apocolypic year possibly. So party like we're about to go through some stuff. You know? So the Y2K stuff in 1999 naturally made ppl think of this song. As we know by now, Y2K was a big bunch of hoopla over nothing. It was mostly about how computers were going to handle the change. (That's the simplest version of an explanation. I assume soemone will have a better one, but I'm feeling lazy )
One of my favorites from the 1980s. It's about nuclear war / the Cold war. Not about the Y2K bug.
As others have said, this song doesn't have anything to do with Y2K.
Y2K was about updating all the old computer software that was pretty much running everything. The problem was, the old programs worked with a 2 digit year. Many systems didn't have the ability to store or do calculations on a 4 digit year. I was a programmer writing banking software at that time. Any software code that had anything to do with dates had to be fixed before Y2K. It was a big deal for software developers and businesses, but not so much for everyone else.
This came out almost 2 decades before the Y2K freak out. It was more about living during the Cold War and some of the fiction, folklore we grew up with… Nostradamus predictions.
First things first, thank you for letting us be your copilot on this journey. Sometimes seeing your reactions, I try to remember when and how, what I was doing, what I felt the first time I listened to these songs. Prince basically did it all by himself, which is something he often did. According to Wikipedia:
Credits from Guitarcloud and Benoît Clerc
Prince - lead vocals, ARP Omni-2, Oberheim OB-Xa, electric guitars, bass guitar, Linn LM-1, cymbals, Pearl SY-1 Syncussion, tambourine, handclaps, cowbell
Lisa Coleman - lead vocals
Dez Dickerson - lead vocals
Jill Jones - lead vocals
Jesse Johnson - backing vocals (uncredited)
Bobby Z. - Pearl SY-1 Syncussion (uncredited)
I think it's time to get into a more serious Prince. I suggest you to discover him by playing his music live. Some songs you can try. Just copy the txt and tell UA-cam to search for it:
· Prince Live - Play that funky Music - Hollywood Swinging - Fantastic Voyage 4/28/11
· Prince - Live @ Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show 2007 - Remastered - 4K - 5.1 Surround
· Prince, The New Power Generation - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live at Glam Slam, 1992)
· Prince- It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night ( this one ua-cam.com/video/eWESS-xjhTs/v-deo.html )
· Transcription || Prince · "Prince: The Art of Musicology", acoustic set [guitar] (the video is shown so small and there's a score above it, but this is the only version I could find with the complete set)
The world was going to end in 2012? Man, glad I missed out on that worrying!!
Just a small reminder...
TFF...Secret World. I know you are a super busy young man. Just keeping the reminder out there.
This song is about nuclear destruction. Computers were uncommon in the early 80s.
Y2K was about computers not being able to read 00 for the end date. Instead of 1999 they were scared when the date flipped all computers would stop working. It was real. Btw every Prince song you hear is all him.
Prince had a reputation of being able to steal your girlfriend away from under your nose.
They realized all computer systems including the internet had not been designed past 1999. Worldwide efforts by computer scientists, programmers had to hurry and patch the system to rollover to the 2000s. Think about all the computer systems connections, even computers that controlled medical hospital
Great one!!! Cant wait to watch🪩🪩🕺
The world as you know today is primarily run by computers-before 2000 we were in the infancy of the computer age and certain computers needed to be upgraded to adjust to the year 2000-so the Y2K scare was that all computers were going to go haywire at midnight December 31 creating all kind of havoc. Planes in the air crashing-missles launched automatically with no way to stop them etc. In short the start of the apocalypse-end of the world.
Bat Dance official video❤❤❤
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COBOL programmers made bank in 1999
React to Prince "Private Joy"
Agreed the song was not about Y2K at all! Doomsdayers were into Nostradamus and his predictions in regards to Final World war predictions for the year 2000.
Princes stuff is all great but maybe get into his less well known songs like thieves in the temple, party man or sexy MF
This was an 80s song
THE GIRL JILL JONES THE BLONDE LISA COLEMAN BURNNET DIZ DICKERSON THE MAN JILL JONES HAS SONG LISA IS A PART WENDY& LISA THEY GOT SONGS TO AND DEZ DICKERSON GOT SONGS LISA WAS IN THE REVELATION 1984 BUT LISA DOCTOR THE MAN PIANO AND BOBBY Z ON THE DRUMS WAS IN THE REVELATION TO.
We should have partied 2019 instead, before covid hit. Prince wasn't around to make a song for it.
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REACT TO BWP TWO MINUTE BROTHER OFFICAL MUSIC VIDEO.
Check princes song... automatic
I was on a plane from California back to the North East on New Years Eve !1999 So no I was not scared at all ..I didn't buy into the hype.
Wide spread panics have always existed & will continue to it's more about your attitude to this phenomena..& Prince's idea was to party.. Youth attitude, flippant & irreverent about mass-annihilation & armageddon
Great reaction. This song was an early expression of Y2K anxiety, although the “Y2K” monicker was really not around back in 1982. The Revolution is the band, yes.
music did die in the 2000's...😅 🎤⬇️✌️
Because the man just could not stop screaming about the end of the world. This was the most terrifying song I'd ever heard... right up until I heard "Master of Puppets" by Metallica 😂😂
Ignore the y2k crap; this is about tipping over into a new MILLENIUM!! Y2K huge scam yes computers.
No I wasn't.
Listen to Elvis Presley live concert just pretend
Man, if you were alive when the 1900's ended and became 2000, that was one helluva New Year. This song came out in the 80's. But everybody played it. As far as Y2K, look it up. It didn't happen.