Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light | FIRST TIME REACTION 

Meatloaf wasn't just a singer, he was a true performer. One of my favourite songs, Thanks.

Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman and Ellen Foley! One of the greatest rock performances of all time! There is not one artist who even comes close to this today!

This is "Rock Opera" which is its own genre. It includes the music from "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Little Shop of Horrors", and "Tommy - A Rock Opera". Meat Loaf was the king of Rock Opera.

The charisma of the protagonists is so overwhelming that it's easy to overlook how powerful the band is! Let's give a shout out to Todd Rundgren playing guitar, Rundgren's Utopia bandmates Kasim Sulton on bass and Roger Powell on synthesizer, and Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band on piano and drums, respectively.

I will always say this, Meat Loaf was not a singer, he was a performer who just happened to be a great singer.

This is considered Rock Opera.

(fun fact) the radio announcer was a REAL baseball radio announcer from the 70s !! ... his name was Phil Rizzuto - and he was from the New York Yankees

Meatloaf was above all a performer. his songs were always full throttle performances. Many people also like "I'd do anything for love (but i won't do that)" by Meatloaf. watching the video for this is highly recommended.

Story telling rock, but not rock... TAXI and SEQUEL by Harry Chapin. Also, have you done "Hurt" the Johnny Cash version?

"going down town and third base and [hesitant silence] ...head first.." Watching that whole bit from 7:10 to 7:40 killed me!! 🤣🤣 Excellent job, Bisscute, you're gorgeous and funny as hell! xx

I love that you had fun with this song and enjoyed it Bisscute. I love Meatloaf and this song really put him "on the map" but I still think Two Out of Three Ain't Bad is his best, iconic single which showcases his majestic voice. My opinion of course, I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, just my preference. I still love this song and the upbeat tone of the song and the message we can all relate to at some point in our lives, and I love the voice of Meatloaf (of course) but I REALLY LOVE the voice, charisma, facial expressions, and mannerisms of Ellen Foley as well. She just had that look that fit the part perfectly in this song and video. I love the baseball reference in this as well as I was in my teens during the late 80's and after a date my friends would always ask "Did you at least reach 2nd base?" Unfortunately, I usually had to admit "no" as I was a slow runner on the base paths but not my choice of course :(

Listen to the whole album Bat Out Of Hell

The baseball metaphor is the most classic part. She wants his commitment before she gives the body up. He doesn't want to commit. That makes whole song for me. Some of the story telling ever. Great song.

Have you ever seen the show Married With Children? I've always thought of this as the Al Bundy story. He was a high school football star. His life was planned. College football, maybe a chance to go pro. On the night of the big game, he met the beautiful redhead, Peggy. She got pregnant. He did the right thing and married her. Now he's stuck working in a shoe store. His wife won't work, cook, clean, or watch the kids. It made him a little bitter. If you've never seen the show, there are some great compilation videos available.

I remember when this song was released. I love seeing the younger reactors get surprised by the ending!🤘🎸

Meatloaf was a Legend. One of my absolute favorites. EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVEYTHING ELSE!!!!

The meat master general was truly one of a kind. He was an American original, taken from us too early by COVID-19. Thank you for a great reaction. Keep up the good work and rock on.🤘🏻🔥🎶

Pre-Nup had nothing to do with it. It was more like he wasn't sure about getting married.

He is a true entertainer, check him out in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Great memories from college days, 1977 when the album came out. Dormitory stereos were the viral shares of the day. No headphones, just great speakers, Friday afternoon, quiet hours over after class, laying the needle down in these great albums... BOSTON, was the first in my freshman year of 1976... MORE 70s PLEASE!

Meatloaf made a deal to show this promo video (not from a real concert) before every showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which he played Eddie. He was a heldentenor and was offered a lot of money to sing opera. The lady in white is Karla DeVito. Her vocals were replaced by the album vocals of Ellen Foley. Karla is a great singer, but Ellen's vocals were perfection. Karla did the concert tour. Karla has been married to actor Robbie Benson since the 1980s. Ellen was a public defender (Billie) in the TV series Night Court. She also appeared in several movies like Cocktail with Tom Cruise. Meat Loaf never considered himself a singer. He always said that he was an actor, that sometimes portrayed a singer. RIP Marvin "Meat Loaf" Aday.

Just wanted to thank you.................. You don't know how many people don't understand the song. They just bob their head and never listen to the words.

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As always has to be pointed out, this is a a lip-synced performance over the studio album, and the girl here wasn't the singer on the album. That was Ellen Foley. It's very theatrical rock-n-roll. The ooo-shap-shap bit is a direct reference to classic 50s rock.

@12:07 You should clip that part, save it for when you find the man you want to marry and send that clip to him 🤣I mean, you're very cute and all but if i was sent that clip, i'd be having second thoughts about my life choices. 😏😁

Meatloaf was a great entertainer he started on Broadway for about 5 years where he won awards for Hairspray and Rocky horror picture show and along with his music which was great but he also appeared in about 90 movies such as Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fight club to mention a couple

A LITTLE RESPECT GOES A LONG WAY WHEN COMPLIMENTING MY BEAUTIFUL YOUNG FRIEND AND HER REACTIONS COWBOYS 👍

Just imagine all the kids that had to experience their parents singing along with this song every time it came on the radio :)

Glad you enjoyed this great classic by the late great Meatloaf although I suspect some of the euphemisms didn't translate well into your first language, for example "I got a big surprise" and "Going all the way" and "first/second/third base".

@8:11 “SLEEP WITH THE FISHES!!!”😂😂😂 Thank God I wasn’t drinking anything at that moment!😅😎

Alice Cooper. You and Me. From the Muppet Show.

*JIM STEINMAN IS/WAS A ROCK GOD!!!* Steinman wrote and composed all the songs on the "Bat Out Of Hell" album and so many more epic songs. Artists like Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply and Celine Dion recorded Steinman songs. The lady in this video is Karla DeVito who went on tour with Meatloaf to support this album, it is studio vocals by Ellen Foley you are hearing in this video. Ellen Foley was working on her own solo album and just didn't want to make out with Meat every night... LOL!

This song gives me the fondest memories of my youth. The reason you feel like it is more a performance than a mere a song is that these two began careers as musical stage performers. Acting and singing brought took their stage shows to a higher level. Thank you for doing this one.

Bat Out of Hell one of the best albums of all time , 43 Million copies sold

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I really , really , really like your reactions ! This reaction was special, I could see it in your face before you spoke. Great job Bisscute !! Thank you !!!

Meat Loaf was such an amazing performer, a master of rock opera. One of his masterpieces that for some reason seems to fly under everyone's radar is "OBJECTS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR MAY APPEAR CLOSER THAN THEY ARE" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3jPMv9zJ1LE.html. Beautiful song, fantastic cinematography, and so deep. It touches on several facets of the human experience and will grab you at your core. Do visit it sometime. You'll love it.

Karla DeVido has such a great look in this video. Love her coy look.... very sexy.

watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Oh my, I am jealous i missed this one. One of the great classics.

One of the coolest films I seen was the true life story of Meatloaf. 💘 🎶 🎸

Lol. It is definitely a performance as much as a song. My parents freaked out when me, or my older sisters (or the radio) played it. Peace, Love!!

Can you imagine what a bomb this was. We had the candy stick named Elvis and then came this. KABOUM.

You really got to love the memories. And you gotta love Meat loaf. I really do like Meat loaf. My mom makes the best. William s

I have seen many reactions to this video, but I was laughing so much 😂😂😂 to your reaction! I wasn't sure you got the baseball reference being from Romania, but I think you did. One of the best Bisscute! Happy you enjoyed it.😎

I’ve missed the chair dancing. Great to see again!!! 🤘🏼🤪🤘🏼

The genre is rock opera aka as theatre rock. Meatloaf got his start on stage plays: hair, rock horror picture show and brought that to his music. Almost all of his songs are as much acting as singing.

Meatloaf is legendary in the rock scene. One of the best to ever do it.

I love watching you have so much fun with this.❤❤❤❤

Ok fine, let's go: in 1 place I listened to this song days before you brought it to the channel and I agree with you Madalina (Bisscute) it has a very danceable vibe and the story about this song about how they were 17 years old and if falling in love and fighting against the getting married part was a really good part and when it was 5:20 I started laughing when I saw your face about that moment, but the song is really good and I really liked it, just like you, if I may recommend a song for you Bis I would recommend Self Control by Laura Braingan, it's an extremely good song and I think you'll like Biss and what's more, continue with the work you're doing and greetings from Brazil to you! 💚💛💚💛

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Meet loaf. What's more rock opera Similar to Queen. William s

The first reactor I've seen who understood exactly what "Let me sleep on it" was referring to.

Every teenager should be made to listen to this before they get a drivers license.

This is real music it's the stuff that when your driving down the road and this comes on the volume goes on high ❤

Pre-nup! Thats hysterical😂😂😂

Fun reaction. You didn't miss much about the messages in this great performance.

Your reactions as the song evolved had me rolling. The songs situation was a fairly common scenario of the time, one of the songs many selling points was its relatability.

This song is a pure piece of Americana!!

Pink Floyd if you like depressing music

Paradise by the dashboards light is her virgna

You mentioned liking sad music you should try one I haven’t seen anyone react to! Blue October - the 21st

When this came out every woman I knew owned this album, just for this song.

You can tell from this performance that they were both originally from musical theatre.

I always love that the woman in this piece is the one that is erratic "I gotta know right now" and the guy is calm "Let me sleep on it" :). I must say some of those Carpathian girls are kind of cute ;).

His name was Robert Paulson.

It’s such a great song.heartbreaking but also so very realistic

Bisscute I love how vicious you are. Sleep with the fishes 😂

ITS ROCK N ROLL LOL!!! MY HIGH SCHOOL WAS CRAZY ABOUT THIS SONG WHEN IT CAME OUT !!!!!

A great song. Wonderful reaction. 😊😊❤❤

One of the best reactions to this production. I think you’re the only one who got the “head first” reference for second base😅. Such great lyrics. Well done!

A beautiful and funny reaction to an amazing song. Rock on, Bisscute!

There are few greater combinations in Music History than Meatloaf and Jim Steinman (though, Steinman was pretty much brilliant across the board).

do Cab Galloway....Minnie the Moocher from the Blues Brothers Movie....

For Gen X this song is just part of our lives. Been hearing it and singing it with our friends at parties as long as we can remember.

pure theatre! :D keep up the great work my friend! big love to all people :)

saw him live twice.

Hi Bisscute !! Can you react MB14 La Cup worldwide showcase 2018.. I'm sure you gonna like his voice!! Thank you Bisscute 🙏

You really have to listen to Meat Loaf/Cher duet in 'Dead Ringer for Love' (1981). Super energetic with a beautiful Grease (the movie) vibe touch. You'll super-love it 😉

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again there is a Meatloaf song in the Rocky Horror Picture Show......also the Time Warp from the same movie

Another beautiful Jim Steinman song sung by Meatloaf is "Rock And Roll Dreams Come True"

Hello Ms. Biss! You are always a fun reaction to these musical performances and your commentary is delightful (an energetic)! MEATLOAF tends to have great storytelling in his songs, and the music videos or stage performances tend to enhance his lyrics! 🤟😝 "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is one of his most iconic Rock Opera music videos, and I hope you will have the time to enjoy and share your reaction to that piece in the future! Until then, ROCK OUT LUV!!! ✌😁

What can be said of meatloaf? Maybe the greatest singer songwriter composer performer ever, at least there with Freddy Mercury, Prince, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Bowie, Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc. I believe the album Bat out of hell has been in sales the top 200 every year, since it came out! Thats 50 years !😮😮😮 Its the story of a boys life, to adult middle aged guy. About twenty years after this, he did a followup album, back into hell, also a monster seller! The original video, anything for Love, total classic! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9X_ViIPA-Gc.htmlsi=X6XQ4_-SJs9RNjmU He was also great in movies. The last thing i saw him in was Fight Club and the first thing i saw him in was the cult classic, Rocky Horror picture show! RIP to the great Meatloaf! How big huge influential important was Rocky Horror? There used to be an old school turn of the 1900s theater in Houston called the Alabama Theater. A big screen , big stage in front, various balconies. From the time this movie came out, they would play this at midnight Friday and Saturday night. And dozens of people would come dressed in full costumes, and play and sing every part, on stage and in the aisles, every part, including throwing buckets of water during the rain scenes!😮😮😮 And i think this went in from the 70s through the 90s!!! And in this song, the decades long baseball announcer Phil Rizutto.... meatloaf asked him to come in and do this, he came in, listened to the song twice, wrote his baseball announcer notes down on paper, just a few. And in two more takes, nailed the announcer part!😮😮😮. The amazing thing is, he always said," I'm not a singer, i can't really sing at all. I'm an actor. But when I'm on stage and playing a part, sometimes the characters I play, they can sing!" If u watch his videos from bat out of hell, and how he sings and petforms, u will realize jack black learned everything he knows, from Meatloaf, and even put Meatloaf in his movie, Pick of Destiny! I day this is his writer's version of Phantom of the Opera! When they began filming Rocky Horror, they auditioned tons of singers. No one could clear the diction of each word, because its a musical play. Or if they had diction, they didnt have the air control, and had too many breaks in their singing, between words ir phrases. Meatloaf comes in for the audition. The director and producers tell him the same. He listens to the hardest song played on piano , a couple times, following aling with sheet music. Then he joins the next time its played and nails it. When they are done, he looks at the director and piano player and says, ,"So whats the problem guys?". Classic Meatloaf!

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Please react to Bruce Springsteen, Rosalita, from 1978. Live show. You will love that.

I was going through your playlist and I knew I had to see your reaction to this. I remember when I was a kid my parents would play this. So glad I watched your reaction.

You nail it biss now can you play" broken dreams " by justin hayward he was the singer of the moody blues I know you'll like it his fans love it Another band that was out in the early 70s. It's called bread. And the song. Called if. Lots of the reactors. Have heard it. And based on Their reaction. They loved it.❤😊

RIP Meatloaf 🙏🏼 one of the best male performers of all time

I'm listening this for this time. They are great

Hello Bisscute. Meatloaf Paradise by the Dashboard Light. Great song & performance. Telling the story of what no doubt everyone has experienced. Afterall we've all had a first love. That didn't become our life partners. Thank you fir sharing such great song for your reaction video

Hi, you should react to Keanu Reeves band Dogstar songs like Breach, Blown away, I promise you won't be disappointed

He went to get a job parking cars but got a part in HAIR instead...good for him..RIP MEATLOAF

Just about anything in his library is worth listening to. But I personally love Out of the Frying Pan (and Into the Fire), Objects in the Rearview Mirror (May Appear Closer Than The Are) and Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere). 😊 All three are from the follow up album Bat Out of Hell 2 (Back Into Hell) in fact there’s only one or two songs from this that I personally don’t enjoy. Give it a listen sometime

This song is such a journey, truly a masterpiece.

Meatloaf... the pinnacle of theatrical, operatic rock and roll. Even Queen with Freddie Mercury couldn't touch his overly dramatic stage presence. Of course, Meatloaf usually added a bit of comedy and satire to the whole thing.

Absolutely flipping fantastic hilarious reaction! I’ve been watching a lot of reactions to this song and this was the best! No joke! 🙂💯

Nice job on the music selection. Your personality & go gettem attitude is infectious 😎…. New sub👨‍🚒

The woman in the video is not the singer. Ellen Foley, who sang on the album, declined to be on the Bat Out Of Hell tour, and Karla DeVito assumed live performance responsibilities, so the music video was created by syncing the video of DeVito's performance to the audio of Foley's vocals.