Metallica - One REACTION! THIS WHAT YA BEEN WAITING ON FINALLY 

He came back from WAR, No arms, No legs, no face no voice but they (Government) wont let him die but he's totally aware of whats going on. Nightmare sht. Go watch the official video.

"That's all drums right there!!" Kirk: "Hold my non-alcoholic beer"

They used it in the trailers for the Netflix show Punisher.

You should watch the Official video for "One" now on your own time. It has speaking clips from the movie "Johnny got his gun".. It makes the song even more intense.. The words in the song are just the soldiers thoughts cause he can't communicate with his Doctors......

This song was actually based off a WWII novel called Johnny Got His Gun. I read it in 8th grade randomly, not knowing at the time. This is their interpretation of the story in song form. IT's about a WWII pilot shot down who loses all his abilities to communicate with the outside world. The story is narrated by his mind's inner thoughts and inner monologue.

The drums in the middle of the song right before the solo drops is purposely meant to mimic machine gun fire

This is based off of a movie "Johnny got his gun" but if I`m not mistaken its also a book.... But its about a soldier from WWI who had lost both arms legs, his sight, hearing, and speech. You have to check out the official video.

I Vietnam they had the Stones and Creedence. In Desert Storm they had METALLICA.

I am glad you reacted to the music and lyrics only and not the official video.

Now you can watch the official video.

What I would give to experience this song for the first time again

Bro I’m so glad you finally reacted to this. One of the best Metallica songs ever (no pun intended) Up next for the Metallica songs, I’d probably recommend something from their Seattle 1989 show... maybe Whiplash will please your ears... no homo haha 😂

Your metal journey wouldn’t be complete without “Pantera - Domination (live Moscow ‘91).” One of the best live performances ever! Turn it all the way up 🤘🏼

It kinda throws you. Some of the most elegant, complex guitar work and then the raw fear in the lyrics and vocals... just amazing, but definitely disconcerting.

When Kirk comes in with the solo, your face was priceless lol 🤘🏻

The line from the film... "What's democracy?....", "It's got something to do with young men killing each other!"

The song is called "One", why did I die 6 times already? :DD Nice one....

Whether or not it was "in a movie" is not what we (that heard this when it came out) care to entertain, or concern ourselves with. It is a Metallica classic that doesn't make a difference where it went later.. it is just what it is. (period)

I have loved this song a since I was a teen, the official video is amazing! As a mom of two sons, my worst fear was the idea of them being soldiers. I started playing this song for them young. Showed the video to my oldest son when he was about six. He was curious enough to want to see the movie. Johnny Got His Gun. Awesome. When it was over I asked him if he maybe wanted to join the military when he was older. "No! I don't want to be a body bag." It really stuck with him and he isn't away at war. He didn't join the military, but he did see Metallica in concert last year 😎That's a win! He was so excited, "They played One." Grinning from ear to ear.

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This song is a re-telling of the movie "How Johnnie Got His Gun." It's an old classic of how war scars all involved, and kills more than those who are shot.

The actual video to this song really puts it all together...must see

Yes! I requested this a lot!

Lyrics make more sense with official video for song. Thanks for playing it. I forgot how good that song is.

You definitely need to watch the official video,the song will make so much more sense.

Based on a movie called "Johnny Got His Gun" about WWI , released in 1971. It had Donald Sutherlannd, Jason Robards & Timothy Bottoms as Joe who was hit by an artillery shell. The video is amazing!!!!

You need to watch the official video to get the full emotional reaction to this song.

My favorite song of all time. Thanks for doing this video. Kirk's solo is legendary.

This is one of their best songs & it introduced the rest of the world to them outside the metal underground. It was a wrap after that.

Imagine being blind and deaf and unable to move. All you have is memories and thoughts as your experience from here and the future to come. The video shows this perspective. The man was injured in a war He knows he is alive because he feels the touching and he remembers his past. This is a song to make you see from other eyes.

This is the song that I turn to when I talk to people that are younger (didn’t grow up as part of the Pepsi Generation) and who have no idea what the big deal is with “that Metallica band.” It’s a complete masterpiece.

You could double dip this song and react to the original video. It's powerful.

For years this song has been my reference song when buying speakers and headphones. Soft to hard levels, deep and even sub-bass drums, guitar and vocals. If your sound system can play this from start to finish without sounding like crap, you've got a nice setup.

If memory serves, it was inspired by the film 'Johnny got his gun.' Which the original video has clips from that film, too.

Hey Billy! Today is my birthday, and this is my favorite song! HOW DID YOU KNOW?!? Thanks for reacting to it! Would love to see you react to Alter Bridge - “Blackbird” or “Metalingus” next! Much love

I'm sure someone has said thisaalready, but if not, here goes. This song is based on a novel titled "Johnny got his gun" with only a few minor details changed in the lyrics. In the book it was an artillery shell not a landmine. But it was set during WW1 where medical advancements hadn't been made yet and the docs were keeping him alive just to see if they could.

Be sure to check out the official video - it gives so much more context than this lyric video does

I'm so glad that someone finally reacted to the song with the lyrics and not that distracting video that, for what I have seen in other reaction videos before, it makes them lose the whole point which is appreciating music, and they start commenting about the video and it seems like the movie clips in the video take much more importance than the song itself since the music seems to fade down a bit in order for the movie clip to overcome the sound of the song, I'm not saying is not important, since the song is based on that movie, but it seems to me they didn't give the song the credit it deserved and keep in mind that this was Metallica's first video ever.

Iron Maiden - Afraid to Shoot Strangers. A most underrated song.

Idk if this song is in a movie, but there is a movie in the song.

All the poor soldier who gave to democracy was left as man who has nothing left but his brain's capacity to think. He's stuck . He can't express to anyone that he just wants to die a hero, but Instead, his "life" is the cage of his own personal hell as long as he lives. The only way to communicate is by morse-code. The concept of this song was taken from a movie called "Johnny, Get Your Gun". The official music video is so haunting. Watch it. It's message is as real as real gets.

Its time to watch the official music video and see what its all about

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn dawg Nice reaction as always, but shoulda reacted to the official video for this one

How have you been reacting to metal for this long and never did One? This is usually top 3 for reaction channels

Google the movie Johnny got his gun, and watch the trailer. It's about a soldier getting blown up, and just wanting to die..

Since you now have the background on this song and how it came about, as a veteran (thank you for the service, BTW) think of how you reacted with Disposable Heroes. This would be something like an epilogue from that, while dealing with what happened to the kid that was sent Back To The Front. Very nightmarish, indeed. Definitely watch the official video of this: Not the shortened one, not the "Jammin' version", but the full theatrical version. You'll get a lot of context of what is being played here.

You were supposed to react to the music video... It's really not the same if you're not seeing them play the song in the music video

you missed on the original video big time.. but this song is so good the audio will be enough.

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BillyYSC James hadfield wrote the song one after reading Johnny got his gun. It's really messed up. The guy was just a torso with a head in a hospital bed. He keeps having flashbacks. I think the war he was in was Vietnam. Watch the video to this song to gain context for it. The video fades out with the guys still conscious. In his mind he keeps saying SOS help me SOS help me SOS help me.

Those two kids laying there under the stars is from a Halo 3 ad.

Billy, this song deserves a reaction to the official video, the one with scenes fromJohnny got his gun, ( not the jamming video) you’ll get the full effect.

You need to see the video, so good!

I recommend watching the official video, it has scenes from a 1971 movie Johnny Got His Gun mixed in, and makes an even more powerful impact.

you sould really see da official video for dis. great video and it explains da song better

a very powerful song. The original video Metallica made was extremely great.

it was inspired by the movie/book, 'Johnnie get your gun.'

This song is THE ONE. It's historic. There'll never be anything like it. This is the Met song that made it to MTV for the first time ever. Before this, Met never released video clip for TV to promote their albums.

The official video to this has clips from the film in it. It makes more sense.

The actual music video for One messed me up

The music video “One,” which includes the band members playing their song as well as movie clips from Johnny Got His Gun, is strongly based on the idea of war and isolation from the world. This leads us to the main point of this music video, which is to represent the negative physical and emotional effect of a war on the soldiers through visual and lyrical elements of the song. However, the band does not try to turn people completely against war; they want to give their audience a more realistic perspective on how war really looks like. Metallica uses the motif of imprisonment, anaphora, and visual imagery to create ethos, pathos, and minor elements of logos to provide an appropriate image of war to clearly carry their message. “Landmine/Has taken my sight/Taken my speech/Taken my hearing/Taken my arms/Taken my legs/Taken my soul/Left me with life in hell.” Metallica uses anaphora with the representation of word “taken,” to again create strong emotions and sympathy among the audience for the American soldier. The repeated word emphasizes that all these elements which made him who he was, were “taken” away. He did not willingly give them away; he was forcefully striped from them during the battle and later by the doctors. This fragment of the song portrays the man in the hospital bed as a completely victim of the war since the word “taken” does not imply any agency. The use of anaphora in this context activated logos among the audience, since Metallica makes a logical argument of Joe being a victim in their last stanza. Also, in the last line, Metallica uses the image of hell simply because of the broad understanding of the word and the impression of suffering it has. Thanks to many religions and folkloric traditions, the audience is familiar with the contrasting ideas of hell and heaven. Heaven is a place everyone wants to get to and be simply happy in their afterlife and hell is a place in which people spend their eternity is a state of torment and punishment. “One” uses this general knowledge to emphasize the level of Joe’s misery; he is in his personal hell even while he is still alive. This powerful image created by the visual and lyrical elements of “One” creates again sympathy and pity (pathos) for the main character even while it uses logic to help the listener understand the soldier’s situation. The band wants to create a strong connection between their piece and the audience, so the viewer/listeners will more likely accept the dark and negative side of the war that is so often forgot by the media like TV and advertisements....and the story continues in more depth.... That's what I found about the song. All I know is that song LiVE and in person is an experience I'll never forget! BadA!

The drumming in this song is STUPID GOOD!!! 🤘😝🤘

Excellent reaction!

You MUST go watch the Official Video!! Even after hearing the song do a reaction to that video, it will still get to you!

"One" is meaning "one in a million." The chance of someone surviving and being in that condition and still being alive is one is a million....but even in those chances - there's still that one. And what do you do with that one when it does happen?

My favorite Metallica song great reaction bro

Check out the book or the movie "Johnny Got His Gun." That's what this song is based on. And having all of that taken away from him is only the beginning of his troubles. The book is an excruciating study in the depths one's mind will descend into facing such a tragedy, as well as pointing the finger at mankind and the depths of depravity he is capable of. I highly recommend it.

It’s in one night in paris

That album Justice for all in my opinion was there best.

I believe you haven't reacted to some newer Metallica so: That was just your life Moth into flame Atlas rise End of the line Broken beat and scarred Dream no more Halo on fire Judas kiss SPIT OUT THE BONE Cyanide All nightmare long

awesome lyrics

Metallica is a very well read band and the stories find their way to many of their songs. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo inspired this song. Metallica bought the rights to the movie also made by the author and used footage in their video. It is a powerful piece of art that is worth experiencing.

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The song with some backstory.

The lyrics are about a young boy who went to fight in war. He stepped on a landmine and lost everything - sight, limbs, ability to speak, hearing... - except touch. He woke up practicaly as a naked awareness. He tried to communicate via morse code with hospital personel begging them to kill him but military men denied...

Sadly many of our Vets suffering with PTSD relate to this song as their anthem.

Your reaction towards the end of the song 🤣🤣🤣

You have to and I mean have to go checkout the original music video for this song it adds so much to it that you don't get from just the song

If your into books. The book this song is based off of is a good read for sure

Four Horsemen!!!! Call of Ktulu next. Please crazy

da drum part toward da end is played by 2 bass drums simultaneously

I love that your not watching the video. It takes away from the song and you can't hear the music until they sing.

Johnny Got His Gun

Billy, was on one of the Guitar Hero games.

One ✌

How many “it’s your boy” reaction guys are there on RU-vid?🤔

maybe youre confusing it for the intro to battery which sounds kind of the same, melody wise, and they used that song in project X towards the end, in the scene with the flamethrower guy

The song is based on the movie called Johnny got his gun. Watch the movie or watch the actual video that was produced.

I'm glad you did this version first and not the official music video. The Video is very well done, but for a first time listener, it might distract from the music, and story a bit. I would watch it now though on your own time to get more out of the story behind the lyrics. Edit: Yes I realize I am commenting really late, but still lol.

Good freaking video!!!!

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I kinda wish you reacted to the music video. You should react to it. They do, do something different to help to understand the meaning of the song in my opinion

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This song is amazing!! If I remember correctly.. The video has scenes from the movie Johnny got his gun...

Great reactions! Please check out Stevie Ray Vaughn, you will not regret it (unless you wait). Always choose the live version and start at Texas Floods. Remember the first time you heard Chris Stapleton, yeah...like that but different. His guitar is like Eminem’s bars.

He was blown up by a landmine lost both of his legs, both arms, his face, and is also blind and deaf. Machines are keeping him alive and he can't die continuously living through the horrors of war

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Song is based on a movie ' Johnny got a gun '