HER NEW FAVORITE SONG??? Bad Religion - I Want To Conquer The World (REACTION) 

Moral soldier isn't a literal soldier. He's talking about people who feel it is their duty to uphold righteousness, doing so by proclaiming their acts to be proper, backed up with book burnings of immoral material. Funny how every listener seems to interpret the lyrics differently

Mika broke this down very thoroughly and Ive also heard this song a bazillion times! Great reaction video y'all! Cant wait to continue this journey with ya!

She likes humor in her anger. NoFX should be next up to the plate.

"Hey moral soldier you've got righteous proclamations & precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations" This is about how religious people take positions of moral authority based on their holy books. They see themselves as moral soldiers, and that their proclamations are right. and their holy book (the bible, the Torah, Quoran..etc) fuel their rants in the pulpit of their churches or temples, these are sometimes falled "fiery speeches from the pulpit", therefore "pulpy conflagrations"

Great interpretations of the song! One thing: “pulpy conflagrations” seems like it is likely a double entendres, where pulpy is both “trashy” or “worthless” and also meaning “pulp” like a pulp mill which produces paper that books are printed on, which the aforementioned tomes are printed on.

When I heard this over 30 years ago I was struck. It still is my favourite song in present day.

The lyrical and sonic build-up to the punchline "with a quick wink of the eye, and a 'god you must be joking!'" Was the moment that I became a fan for life. It's just perfect.

Pulpy has a double meaning as does that whole line. A book is made from tree pulp. Your interpretation is right on, while it also is eluding to burning books as fuel to propagate more war.

Damn Mika is deep! I need her to explain every Bad Religion Song to me!!!

About the "Hey moral soldier" line, I've always read it as the moral soldier being somebody forcing their views on others using what they see as "righteous" reasons, using their holy book ("precious tomes") to justify keeping or taking information away from people (pulpy conflagrations being books made out of paper pulp burning)

I still have the flier from 96' when I saw them in Melbourne beach Florida as a snot nosed punk rock kiddo at the holiday inn...one of my all time favorite bands.

love the way you did this, do more 90's punk bands and ill sub.. old folgy dude get off my lawn ya young whippersnapper here... ha ha cheers

Great song and a great band. They sound great live for being the age they are.

"And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations" also has one more literal meaning: Book burning. Either as a metaphor for censorship and control of information and literal banning and burning of books.

Generator next !

Mika's on-the-fly analysis of the lyrics are so much to watch! I just found the channel, and I'm binging through these Bad Religion reactions (onto Rise Against next!). PLEASE have her listen to Epiphany, from The Process of Belief. I got into Bad Religion with American Jesus, but the lyrics in Epiphany are what sold me on the band for life. I remember being thirteen and checking in online dictionaries for every other word. It felt great to have finally found music with something to say. Still my favorite band 15+ years later!

No Control is a must for punk listeners! Classic!

This song is my one of my favorites of all time for how it is both a critique of how things are now and how people think it would be all too easy to fix everything. Also! 5:16 I think along with how you interpreted it, I think that it is also a reference to book burnings.

Now hit 'er with some NOFX. She seems to be digging the political & religious themes in Bad Religion, so I'd recommend "We Called it America", "The Idiots Are Taking Over", or (if she's feeling brave and you have some time to kill), "The Decline". edit: Classic Metal and 90s Punk are my favorite musical genres, how did I not find this channel sooner? Subbed, gonna go check out y'alls back catalog!

Fun video, I'm always glad to see people exposed to Bad Religion... one note, there's a heavy dose of Sarcasm to the chorus, they're not actually saying they want to conquer the world and remake it, they're pointing out the foolishness of anyone thinking they can single-handedly fix everything

Greg is very intelligent and well educated as you mention, and has written many fantastic lyrics. However, Brett Gurewitz wrote many of Bad Religion’s songs and I am pretty sure he wrote I Want to Conquer the World. Brett doesn’t have a college degree. Just reiterating Mika’s point.

I don't know how you sing along with almost any bad religion song and not have your middle finger in the air. I always have it up when I'm singing along. 😂

I love bad religion!

I love this song and band so much❤

Now you just need something off of How Could Hell Be Any Worse? which is just a whole era of Bad Religion in itself

I'm a huge fan of Bad Religion, I even bought a brown fender precision

Get her into some Propagandhi and have her explain some of their songs ;)

Dystopia- Hands That Mold

Just for fun, you should show a song from into the unkown

BR is my favorite band of all time. Y'all need to up your literary and philosophical background if you want to start really getting into Greg's lyrics, depending on the song.

5 stars , I knew this song would get this score from her

Precious tomes to fill your pulpy conflagrations... Pretty sure this has to do with book burnings which both governments and religions have done throughout history

Just wanted to say, Mika is amazing

Sorry, the key word in the line about moral soldier is moral… think culture wars, not military wars

Screaming? And intelligent lyrics? Looks like Night Letters by Propagandhi is up next

Need the Subhumans next

I don’t believe either one of these people to be anything other than NPCs, I wish there was a metal scene and bands that were believable, however theres not something happened and I think social media killed it