Did they get cancelled?! | Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525 | Reaction 

The video was taken from the movie called Metropolis the film is almost 100 yrs old it was a silent movie but visually way ahead of its time you should give a watch.

Yes - I’m old enough to remember this song, not when it came out, but as a late 60s, 70s music fan. It was completely unique at the time, and so well produced - haunting…..

I was 8 yrs old when this came out. I remember hearing on the car radio first. My dad rest his sole leaned over, turned up the vol a bit saying "Oh, I like the harmonies on this one". He'd been hearing it at work for a couple of days on his little transistor radio. Good ole AM radio. Man, the time has flown by......OIY!!

Metropolis, from 1927 is a great [and one of the first] dystopian movies and paired with this track it fits really well! The Stallone film was Demolition Man...

You're right, I think instead of each being 1000 years apart it's more like every decade from the time they wrote this

Great song from the '60s, Mrs. Realistic. Incredible but poignant and powerful one-hit wonder.

Love this reaction! I was 11 when this song came out and it was always a favorite. Personally I give mankind possibly another 100-150 years. We won’t ultimately destroy the planet just our ability to survive on it. The planet will be just fine as George Carlin said

Great reaction - love and respect from the UK 👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍

Thank you for the reaction!🤘🎸

I was just a kid not even ten year old when this song was on the radio. Songs like 2525 and The Byrds' Eight Miles High made me think.

I remember the 60s and got 2525 and Eve of destruction .

Yes I loved this movie Atlas

There are like six or seven different versions of this song 😢😢. I have heard it a million times, since I was a child

no , it wasn't even being talked about until the 80... they were predicting and they sure came very close.

Scary Times. Gonna Be Like Putting Out A Fire With Petrol. Great Song, Great Reaction As Usual.

I remember when this came out. I am also familiar with the movie Metropolis. It was just on TV the other night.

Whether or not something is necessary, relevant, beneficial, benign, or even undesirable for the human race, never doubt that there are those who feel it is their mission in life to 'Just Do It' to claim their moment in history. Occasionally new things are found or learned, but many times we realize we need higher guardrails.

13 when I heard this song on the car radio. It was the same year as the moon landing.

My parents had this on 45. I played that record to shreds as a kid. If you’re looking for some fun similar themes, check out the albums “Time,” by ELO and “Kilroy Was Here,” by Styx. Both are semi-dystopic concept albums. Just begin with the first song on each, though with “Time” you need to listen to “Prologue/Twilight” together. The movie you’re thinking of is “Demolition Man.”

namaste from canada \m/

God bless you Mrs. Realistic

Fascinating, isn't it? You might find 'Stephen Fry describing our future with artificial intelligence and robots' an interesting watch too.

All you have to do is pay attention to what is going on in our society the past 15 years or so and then you can see how relevant this song is today.

I was 10 when this was released in the summer of 1969. It played in continuous rotation of AM radio for quite a while. It was huge. Sadly, they really didn't have any other songs that hit the charts. You have to remember the times at well back then. The space race between us and the Soviets was in the news, we were the first to the moon, racial unrest was rampant in the country, my father had just retired from the Army after serving in Vietnam and he got caught up in riots while selling insurance in a neighboring town, and young men were dying thousands of miles away in a foreign country in a war half the country didn't support.

You noticed all the people in the 'looking at my cell phone' stance? This footage is from a silent movie in the 1920s.

if you're really interested in this type of thing, try listening to Paul Harvey ''if I were the devil'' recorded in 1965, you'll be amazed how spot on he was

The Stallone film was Demolition Man (w/ Sandra Bullock). I remember this song coming out in my mid-teens - never realised I'd be living it. Thank Darwin I won't be around to see much more of it...

I was a kid when this came out so I didn't really appreciate the message back then. It makes more sense now!

You're my favorite YouBoomer!

The irony is all of the imagery in the video is 30s or 40s movie footage……

In 1969, we knew about eugenics from WWII, and also Star Trek. But the test tube baby wasn't a thing yet,

I'm embarrassed.Almost 52 years and never heard this till a couple years ago.As a teen I listened to everything dmfrom Buddy Holly to Chuck Berry to the Greatful Dead Doors to Glam Rock and some how never heard this...this song is scarey seeing the political climate

My dad said this was a great song in the day he was born 1949 he's 75. Do we have any corvyx lined up?

I don't think they were cancelled. This was just a one-off.

Wonder if Ren has heard tis song, his reaction would be interesting.

Why would they be cancelled? Why do people get so weirded by this song? It simply speaks truth.

The best movie about genetics and what can and is happening now is the movie Gattaca.

Great memories...... But.....second line: if men is still alive............ Think this is the most important line. Since then (a little bit earlier) mankind had the first time the ability to erase itself........ Nowadays the question is more: will mankind be enslaved by AI or be erased ...either by itself or by AI.....which.....developed enough doesent need humans anymore....... Nobody back then thought we will have phones for the pocket ....... Our signal to come home had been the street lights....... You can spend an philosophical night on that song............

Great reaction to a song that fascinated me even as a child. And even more so as I got older and understood the meaning. I agree with many of your statements. But in one case, you too are a victim of targeted disinformation through social media. If you believe that Elon Musk is actually warning about the dangers of AI because he cares about the well-being of humanity, freedom and democratic values, then you are completely on the wrong track. If he does this publicly, it only serves to maintain his philanthropic image and facade as public discussion about the dangers of AI becomes louder and louder. And speaking out as a warning voice in this discussion is, of course, very well received by the gullible. Please don't take this as a personal attack, but we in Western Europe (still) have free media that are not completely controlled by opinion-forming corporations, autocracies and dictatorships, which is why we probably know more about what is going on behind the scenes. Elon Musk is not the protector of humanity and savior of the world that he portrays himself to be in public. That is just what the whole world is supposed to believe about him. He is a master of manipulation and disinformation, and unfortunately his charade works in most people's minds. Elon Musk has very close ties to leading figures in the right-libertarian movement (Peter Thiel, to name just one), who fundamentally reject any form of democracy and constitutional legality, including, for example, women's suffrage. And Musk's takeover of Twitter was not simply an extravagance of a bored multi-billionaire who doesn't know what to do with his money. He did it with very specific intentions. A quote from an article of 2022 by the German publicist Richard Herzinger (herzinger.org - sorry, but only in German) that aptly sums up his true intentions: "By taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has acquired a powerful tool for influencing public opinion. Under the pretext of allowing more "diversity of opinion", he is opening up the short message service to fake news and anti-democratic conspiracy fantasies - and thus to the Kremlin's disinformation warriors and the networks of their western sound amplifiers. Billionaires like Musk or Peter Thiel embody a new type of egomania that is reminiscent of the villains of the James Bond films and calls democracy into question worldwide." So my advice to you is to inform yourself beforehand about people who you portray in your videos as having integrity.

If you haven't seen the movie "Contagion". It'll scare the crap out of you. I'm starting to believe we're being warned but too entertained to notice

Call me crazy but "The Warning's" "Disciple" is right along these lines. "Tip of the tinfoil hat".

The first test tub child was born 1978. So the answer is no to your question.

The birth of the world's first 'test-tube baby', Louise Brown, on 25 July 1978 in Oldham, northwest England has come to represent the origin story of technologically assisted human reproduction

We the people do not decide if we adopt AI but a small elite do .True democracy does not exist anywhere on this planet.

Early Beatles vibe!? Absolutely not!

I'm not religious but.... God created man, man destroys God, man created A.I., A I. Destroys man............

We don't live on a planet. We live on a plane. Hopefully you will come to this realization as well.

This is not a good video. The rest are better.