*SO ORIGINAL* 🎵 Elton John - Tiny Dancer REACTION
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I don't think a lot of younger people realize how big a star Elton John was in the 70's. He was selling out stadiums. You really can't go wrong with any of his songs from this time period.
the term "megastar" which was above superstar status had to be coined just for him.
Yeah, now they think he's just some pop charts topper who sang songs for Disney.
I'm 29 I grew up listening to Elton. I love him as a person and as and artist
He was a rock SUPERSTAR!!!!
He’s still a huge star.
I'm a metalhead to the bone, but there's something about elton john that I can't explain. When I'm in a certain mood, he's all I want to listen to.
Same I can go from Pantera to Elton John no problem…good music is good music.
His older stuff was pretty damned good. Madman Across The Water is a great track
Same. Tiny Dancer might be one of my favorite songs, regardless of genre
First time i heard "your song" i just dropped everything (huge metal head myself). What a genius Elton is to music. And i also love that he introduced me to rap via Eminem. Good music is good music, and poetry shows in every genre. I would have never looked at the beatuful side of rap music (that i just thought was garbage cursing out other people), if it were not for Elton.
Why is it always people into metal that like to announce their status and how they identify as a metalhead in music comment sections? You're not special, although you all seem to think you are and your approval of other music is some kind of blessing.
You guys should check out the movie “Almost Famous”, about a teen in the 70s who follows a band around on tour. The soundtrack is filled with 60s and 70s gems, like Tiny Dancer which features in a pivotal scene in the movie.
One of my all time favorites, awesome movie.
Yea this scene on the bus always gets me. Very heartwarming, true forgiveness is pretty rare.
@@cobrakari The band was The Allman Brothers Band.
I can't help but visualize the bus scene from the movie, even though I first heard it as a little kid in the 1970's. Almost Famous is an amazing movie.
Great stuff.
Bernie Taupin wrote all the lyrics for Elton John the song is about his wife who was the seamstress for the band it's never as complicated as you guys think it is
Made him Feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford.
Yeah it was about his wife and a general "California vibe", basically. It's amazing how deep people get on lyrics sometimes when it's often the simplest explanation that's the correct one.
So thisTaupin guy had Elton John sing all his thoughts and dreams? How cool.
@@NJTRAF I disagree. This song makes me feel something completely different based on what I've experienced in life and how this song fits in that piece of my life. I cry every time I listen to this song.
Thinking a song only has one particular meaning is stupid. Everyone interprets music differently and assigns an emotion or event to that song which they relive every time they hear the track.
This track reminds me of the time me and my friends watched Almost Famous when we were in high school. I remember that day clear as day whenever I hear this and miss many of them.
Many lyrics aren't meant to be literal. The best ones aren't.
@@Carl-gj4ed you can interpret a song how you like but the literal meaning of the song and what it's about has been explained by the person who actually wrote the song. So that is quite literally what the song is about. Regardless of whatever you might think. That's not how it works.
Master of Puppets is a song about drugs. We know this because the song, as James Hetfield explained, "deals pretty much with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing, it's drugs controlling you."
If you think it's about the Toy Story movies it does not matter and is factually incorrect.
This was about Bernie Taupin's wife she actually sewed and mended the bands clothes at times. Bernie wrote the lyrics then Elton added the music later. She was his Tiny Dancer in life, the going down the highway with the lights hitting them was a band traveling on the highways and lights from two way streets (far fewer freeways/interstates back in the day)
Yessaahh, so true love this song, but everything that Elton does is great music.
Nope, 95% of today's freeways were in existence in the 70's that are out there today. Now, total lanes of interstate is a whole different ball game. I know, because we travelled coast-to-coast 8 times berween 72 and 84. Lots of bands, even mega hitters would play EVERYWHERE, not just the biggest venues. Performers used to travel to the masses, whether it be NYC or Redding, CA. Also, to keep the money train on the rails, these tours very often were WAYYYYYY outside the legal boundaries on legal hours of operation and were constantly taking to side roads to avoid "weigh stations" and the majority of law enforcement out there.
@@Wolverines77 Thats just not true, no one is speaking about Just interstates. I know many, many roads that were just two lane US Highways that are now double lanes and separated. That's why I said Freeways, I know most of the Interstates were here already, Many state Highways that are busy look just like interstate roads from the 60s and 70s, they are Four Laned and Separated. Besides that most modern roads have also been straightened out, I remember state highways so curved you could not really do over 50 MPH on them. So, those roads in years gone by were much different from today.
People went from medium to small cities on back roads or state highways, nowadays those same "freeways" looked like our old Interstates. That's the point I was making, as a retired Truck Driver I should know. 😊You googled to see and you got a stat, but stats can be misleading, I am not speaking of just the Federal Express Highways or Interstates but rather all of our US Highways and even State Highways. U.S. 280 in Birmingham was a 2 lane curvy ass road, now its a 6-8 lane highway that's lit up for miles, you can't see lights from cars heading your way as that song speaks about because there are a 100 cars zooming by and the whole freeway is lit up. Things were just different, back in the day those same highways went by farms, so when another car was coming you NOTICED the other cars lights, now with strip malls and 100s of cars, not so much. You have to be in the TIME to understand it sonny.
I read that they used to “Count The Headlights On The Highway” to fall asleep. Pretty much like you’d “Count Sheep”
@@MrRondonmon This dude knows. Was going to say something similar, as I remember distinctly traveling in parts a 2-lane from Oklahoma to California and back in the early 70's.
I grew up a big Beatles fan in the sixties, but I believe Tiny Dancer is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. It's like something you hear in a dream.
This song was used in the film ALMOST FAMOUS; one of the all-time great rock ‘n roll scenes in film history.
And one of the best films ever made.
“Don’t do drugs!”
“You ARE home!”
"Rock stars have kidnapped my son!"
You can never hear the song again without seeing that scene playing in your head and grinning from ear to ear.
Loved how Cameron Crowe used this song in the movie Almost Famous. Was the perfect moment for this song. Such a great movie and song.
Saw him in 1974 in Seattle while on his Yellow Brick Road tour. Great concert. Tickets 6$.
Was it at the Kingdome? I think my mom went to that concert
@@deflepfan1975 no Kingdome was opened in 1976. This was at key arena by the Space Needle
Ok, cool. Thx
Totally should watch the Tiny Dancer scene in Almost Famous! it's an amazing group of people from a band singing along to this song!
Yes they need to watch the whole movie, might help with understanding rock music.
I was also going to suggest that; it was so perfect! That movie was a wonderful look at what it would have been like to tour with a rock band back in the '70s. Everybody knew this song and all the others that were big at the time, and we were all singing right along with them in the audience!
I AM A GOLDEN GOD!
I dig music...... AND I'M ON DRUGS!!!!!
Elton was knighted by the Queen
This is my favorite Elton John song. That voice. That piano. That melody. That orchestration. It's just all so wonderful.
The man is a genius, when he was coming up in Los Angeles, it was the place to be, and the time to be there. The piano riffs and the strings throughout are just a masterpiece. Lyrics perfectly encapsulate Los Angeles in the late 60s. The song is about a specific girl (a tiny dancer,like in a music box) a nickname, but generally about that type of girl, the kind of girl who wore a headband, and hung out on the streets, you know, hippie girls! Also official video is a work of art in its own right
When he was coming up in Los Angeles? He's from England though?? Unless I misunderstood what you were saying
Always thought the song was set in San Francisco... "The boulevard isn't that bad"
@@shawnk7832 Sunset Blvd. L.A.
@@user-jq7di9pz8m "coming into his own"
@@Handletakenlol Vey likely he means Santa Monica Blvd - where the Troubadour is - site of one of his very first American performances and one that really launched him into LA music scene.
So blessed to have grown up in the 70’s and 80’s. This song is so simple yet complex. Who is this tiny dancer? I appreciate your dedication Brad and Lex. Thanks for brightening my day’ Lex, you’re a total 70’s woman ❤️🇨🇦
I have never understood a single lyric in this song, I adore every word, and have no idea why, his tone, the piano, the strings, images , smells, memories roll thru my head when I hear this song. I've been hearing it all my life, and it holds a memory for every stage of my life, one of my all time favorite songs. 💜
I had this album - Madman Across the Water as an 8-track, played it as a loop continuously while studying. Another great song off the album is Levon.
The title track is my favorite Elton John banger.
Holiday Inn and Indian Sunset are great songs off this album, too.
Levon wears his war wound like a crown...
Dude! Open your eyes. You've got the tiny dancer right there - beside you.
I remember a scene in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati where a Russian man wants to defect to the U.S. with the help of Baily Quarters and the gang. In the last scene he quietly says to her "Hold me closer tiny dancer" before leaving. It was him secretly embracing western culture at the same time thanking her for her help. Very sweet ending.
Man, I loved Bailey Quarters.
It was actually to Les Nessman, which was even funnier :-D .
Bailey got "bourgeoisie exploited American worker," ua-cam.com/video/2qFmGXCrIlk/v-deo.html.
@@markstyles1246 Thanks for the refresher, it's been a while but I stand corrected. Baily's 'Tiny Dancer' compliment came at 11:27 in the video. And yes, it was even funnier directed to Les.
Wow, you brought a blast of nostalgia there...WKRP. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah... Wow! Used to be on telly in England, late Friday nights. Early eighties. That, and Soap and Benson.
Any Englishman around the 50 mark, grew up on CHiPs and Rockford Files.
He’s talking about the band on the road, and there’s a girl on the bus everyone is madly in love with.. And he sees her as a figurine in a music box.. Perfect, knows all the songs, hums along, but unattainable..
It’s about Bernie’s wife, the guy that wrote the lyrics.
"Levon", "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters", "Goodbye Yellowbrick Road", "Funeral For a Friend", Saturday's Alright For Fighting", "Your Song" and so many more.
Yes, Levon!! Love that song!
Brad & Lex. Elton's "Philadelphia Freedom", "Crocodile Rock" and "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" are next for you!! Then you'll only have 30 great songs left. Elton John(music) & Bernie Taupin(words) are one of the greatest songwriting teams!
I've always been partial to Madman Across the Water. Great song.
Philadelphia Freedom is an underrated banger!
The live cover of Don't the Sun Go Down on Me by George Michael featuring Elton John is worth a listen. I'm not a bug fan of the other two songs I tend to go for earlier album tracks like Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters or Where to Now, St. Peter, Madman Across the Water, Amoreena, Grey Seal, etc.
@@kanjjn My favorite is "I guess that's why they call it the blues"
The reactions of these two are always refreshing. No memories, no context, just a fresh listen. For me this song is forever a bittersweet memory of the girl I was with at the time and how I screwed it up. Good to hear a different perspective. Thanks.
Think about a tiny ballerina spinning on your dashboard as you make your way home to your woman you love and is just as precious and characteristic as a tiny dancer but now in the palm of your hand. When he is with her she is real to him as real can be. She gets him home. I can see this song taking many different meanings but I can see myself in a old pickup Chevy making my way home. Love Elton John and his music is so thought provoking like YellowBrick Road, Daniel. You got to love this man 👏👏👏👏
Madman Across the Water is a must. And Someone Saved My Life Tonight….
Great song and reaction, as usual...'Madman across the Water' and 'Indian Sunset' are another two incredible tracks from the 'Madman...' album.
I fell in love with this song cause it was used in the movie Almost Famous! I work at a movie theater when it was in theaters and I watched the seen with this song in it hundreds of times cause the music is just great!
That's called song writing 🎶🎶
Exactly!
I met Tony Danza in a bar in Malverne , NY and of course I sang the TD version to him
Bravo! 😂🤣😂🤣👏🙌
love it when lex gets into a song....she's got a vibe that makes me laugh (in a good way). Thanks!
Great Live Video of him singing at Princess Diana's Funeral....Candle in the Wind....Beautiful
He held it together really well with all the pressure and emotion- he was very moved by my suggested changes to a few lines of the lyrics, that were more personal to him (no doubt too much so, though i thought it might be included in the service but the VIPs had already agreed to the version as played.) Anyway, the 1973 original about Marilyn Monroe is much better, sadly underrated now.
Love , love, love this song! Elton John is fantastic in concert! Saw him in 1976 and later in the 1980’s!! One of my all time favorite singer’s!
Love your reaction Lex..lol..oh and your hat too! Back in the day they traveled by bus and sometimes count the headlights from boredom I guess..lol..rock on yall...Madman Across the Water! Ps I love your reaction Brad...I don't know! Lol
"In my hand" just means he was holding hands with an actual woman who was the seamstress for the band also a ballerina, not Thumballena.
"Count the headlights on the highway" is a game played while traveling on a tour bus for months at a time. Easier game back in the 70's, too many headlights now.
they take things too literally
Omg 😂🤣 Thumbelina....that cracked me .up
One of the most beautiful songs of the 70’s. I’m glad you both could feel it. 😊
Watching her really vibing with this song brought a smile and a tear to my eye -such a beautiful moment when music resonates with your soul.
I'm a hard core metal and rock guy, but I gotta admit, I love me some 70:s Elton John. React to Daniel next, such a great emotional song
This man live is pure perfection. Saw him in Perth Western Australia.
If you liked this, you might like Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Rocket Man." Also "Candle in the Wind," though please do the original version.
Edit: Think you guys are taking the lyrics *way* too literally...
Yes they are!!
Brad doesn’t do metaphors.
All good but "Daniel" should be next
Elton John is simply one of the best singer/songwriters ever. I usually listen to harder or edgier stuff, but his songs are just so perfect in every way that I can't help but sing along.
"Hold me closer, Tony Danza", Phoebe Buffet.
Had the pleasure is seeing Elton Several times from the 70’s thru the 90’s, just an incredible music experience live
Lyrics are poetry. "tiny dancer" allusion is derived from the famous ballerina music box form. My interpretation; Hold me close (cherish me) Count the headlights on the highway (think of where am I in your life) Lay me down in sheets of linen (make love to me).
or maybe she's with him on the tour bus looking out the window?
@@Bekka_Noyb Staring back at me from the window beside?
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One of my personal favorite songs to blare in my car. I've been at lights and caught people singing along.
Elton John is a phenomenal musician, and you just really can't go wrong with Elton
His two most powerful piano based songs:
Goodbye Yellow brick Road
Someone Saved My Life Today
These are my two favorite along with "I Guess That's why They Call It The Blues" which came out many years later.
My favorite Elton John song. The strings in this song are amazing!
Great reaction guys. Enjoyed it. That was the Cello that really stood out.
One of my favorites. Used to listen on AM radio in my '69 Torino with my girlfriend at the local drive in while waiting for the movie to start. Thanks for playing!
Blue Jean Lady. Very 70s. 🥰
Bernie Taupin wrote the song and said that he and Elton came to California in the fall of 1970. It seemed like the populace is radiating sunshine. The lyrics of the song capture the spirit of California from 1970. Talking about the meaning of Tiny Dancer, Bernie Taupin said that he was just trying to capture the spirit of that time. He shared that he was encapsulated by the women they met, especially at the clothes stores and restaurants and bars during the Sunset Strip. He further mentioned that the women were very contrasting to what he had seen in England. He also added that the women had a thing about embroidering clothes and they wanted to sew patches on the jeans. Bernie Taupin had called it a perfect oedipal complex. Bernie Taupin has effortlessly brought all these women to life by calling them ‘Blue Jean Baby’ in the song. See the Tiny Dancer song here.
You get a better feel for this song watching the official video. The ultimate road trip song
Road trip song. So true.
Seen Elton in concert. He was in his 60's and could still ROCK. I listen for over 50 yrs. The concert was teenagers up seniors all rocket to Elton!!!
Hold me closa Tony Danza!
I finally got to see him live in 2008. It was too good for words. The man who got me through my teens.
great scene in Almost Famous has this song
This song touches me so much that I can't help but shed a tear... Soo beautiful..
The Tiny dancer is Maxine Feibelmann Bernie Teupin's... Eltons lyrics writer first wife... Elton only wrote the music
Only?
I always imagined that he and his wife/ girlfriend (tiny dancer) were cuddling in a hotel room after a long day on the road just relaxing and watching the headlights on the Highway outside the window
"Madman Across the Water" is on the same album as "Tiny Dancer". It has a nice, dark edge to it!
One of his best.
E. J. Is the perfect example of someone God put here on purpose just to make music...
The tiny dancer is the little dreamer in all of us that dances to our lives This seamstress for the band lives her life with the spirit of the tiny dancer in all of us. She’s not caught up in the world. She’s a dreamer and dances to her life. It’s a spiritual song telling us all to never let go of the little dancer in our soul
That’s some talent right there, thanks again
Saw him in concert last month. Even at 74, one of the best concerts I've ever been to. I didn't know, he has had a top 10 song in 5 decades. A true legend!
This is classic.
I remember in high school, walking into an empty gymnasium and seeing a good friend of mine play this song flawlessly on piano. That’s what made me want to learn how to play piano. In fact, within a year I bought an upright piano and taught myself how to play. Before that I was heavy into playing guitar and bass guitar. That was so long ago now, and I haven’t played piano in ages. Tiny dancer = ballerina.
Suggestion. Someone Saved My Life Tonight from Elton John. I played that to death as a teenager. It tells the story of the time Elton John considered suicide during his engagement to Linda Woodrow 1n 1969.
You could go down the Elton John rabbit hole and never get out.
He has endless great songs, whether they where hits or not.
Classic💜
Some songs are just so beautiful that they can make me cry regardless of the relatability of the words. This is one of those songs.
The orchestration is nice
so glad I never had to analyze music, I could just drop some acid, kick back and enjoy the hell out of a lot of the best music ever recorded
Hold me closer Tony Danza
Elton is synonymous with piano!
You two should check out the movie Almost Famous, you'll love it!!
I do so appreciate your getting straight into songs! I've clicked off others who babble way too much at the start.
Elton John... "SOMEONE SAVE MY LIFE TONIGHT"....... Elton has sooooo many songs...... Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics and Elton wrote the music.
Tiny Dancer is one of my favorite songs. It is one of 40 that I have on my phone so I can play it with blue tooth on my car stereo.
He's saying "Tony Danza" not "tiny dancer"....He's a huge Who's the Boss fan...
I always thought Tiny Dancer was a metaphor for a music box. Lift the lid and there is a tiny dancer in there. So he's comparing this girl he's singing about to the tiny Dancer in the music box.
You are overthinking it. Not a huge story behind it. He wrote the song about his writing partner’s (Bernie Taupin) girlfriend just for the heck of it because he thought Bernie would like a song about his girl. No deep meaning. In the video for the song they show people in L.A. going about their lives, but all are unknowingly brought together for a moment, listening to Tiny Dancer on the radio. Btw. A ballerina is a tiny dancer which I believe Bernie’s girlfriend may have wanted to be. Instead, she made many of Elton’s costumes in the beginning of his career (seamstress for the band). And, Driving down the highway with your arm around your girl, “hold me closer”… And if your girl is a ballerina and you are holding hands… you’ve got a Tiny Dancer in your hand.
Relax guys. Have you ever seen a music box with a ballerina twirling? It's called artistic license!
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One of the best karaoke songs ever .. if you've had enough beer first and a partner that can actually sing!
OMG "Tiny " doesn't mean inches. She could just be a slim dancer build and short compared to the music man ...
Bernie Taupin is the songwriter that I have always wanted to be. Pure genius.
It’s about being in a tour bus, following a band, working for the band, loving the piano player, her whole life is the tour life - but she’s cool. She brings so much to the whole experience as well, even though she is “just” the seamstress. It’s a beautiful love song.
“Rocketman” or “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word” ♥️🎶♥️
I’ve always thought Bernie’s lyrics were more like poems which I also had trouble understanding in high school! But Elton sure makes the lyrics sing with his beautiful arrangements!
Absolutely in my top 2 favorite Elton John songs! PLEASE do "Your Song"! It became my favorite Elton song when the movie Moulin Rouge came out and is still at the top spot after all these years! Great reaction guys!
Perhaps my favourite Elton song, and I love almost ALL of his 70s and 80s material.
That 'hold me closer' coda is just incredible!
There's no rabbit hole like Elton John songs - sooo many, such greatness. Yes, besides his outstanding piano playing and his amazing vocals, I do love the violins in this song. Perfection. : )
The great Elton John songs from the 70's to react to are endless.
Elton John and his songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin, are a seriously talented songwriting duo. A huge discography of fantastic songs! Classics!
Some song get in your head and you can hear them from time to time. To me tiny dancer lives in my head . One of the most wonderful tunes and songs in my life.😊
Great song and artist.
Madman is a masterwork that perfectly fit the time of it’s release. To have seen Elton John coming, from first album and performances at the Troubadour, through Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, was to know what ubiquitous means. His music was everywhere, along with the great contemporaries of the 70’s. You’ve merely scratched the surface. A deep dive awaits, as he has recorded music in at least 7 decades. The Stones and very few others can say that. But it is an interesting list.
That was good reaction your personalities blend nicely,the story was that the song was about Bernies wife or girl friend who was the seamstress for the band but bernie clarifies what he wrote the song about I took this off Google for yall........We came to California in the fall of 1970 and it seemed like sunshine just radiated from the populace,” Taupin says. “I guess I was trying to capture the spirit of that time, encapsulated by the women we met, especially at the clothes stores and restaurants and bars all up and down the Sunset Strip. They were these free spirits, sexy, all hip-huggers and lacy blouses, very ethereal the way they moved.......keep spreading the music around guys God bless.
Hahahaha!! You can't take everything so literally 😉 Especially in the 70's, a lot of the songwriting was very metaphorical. Even today. Counting the headlights on the highway was probably about when he's on a tour bus, and looking out the window and Counting headlights. Very small part of the song..
This was a 1970 song which along with Your Song launched Elton John to music stardom. He had a writing partnership with a named Bernie Taupin who wrote all of the lyrics then when Elton John got the words he would write the music arrangements. Just an incredible team. Elton John was the biggest artist on the planet from 1972 to 1976. Check out a song called Levon from the same 1970 tome. His catalog of music Daniel, Crocodile Rock, Rocket Man, Honky Cat and never mind the whole Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. He was huge. He's the one artist of that time period who had such memorable songs. Enjoy the Elton John rabbit hole you're entering.
I think it’s about the bus driver for the band who watches her during shows and with the band and then they load up and all he has is this little plastic dancer on his dashboard as he drives the bus or the rig to the next show. You used to see those back in the day. This song kept me going through high school. Kept me alive just hearing beautiful feelings and sounds during the early 70s, so full of promise and so very difficult. No cellphones, no cable, no computers, just records, stereos, and your imagination. Actually better in so many ways back in the day. Keep it up you guys. Your awesome. Takes me back. Thank you. Matt in ABQ, NM
It's about Maxine Feibelman, Bernie Taupin's 1st wife and literally the seamstress for the band.
I remember hearing this all through the 70s and thinking he was saying "Count the head-lice on the highway".