Music REACTION to Blondie - Heart of Glass 

"A gas" was slang for something good, fun, exciting, funny, etc. As in "that party was a gas!" (Blondie is pronounced "blon - dee" by the way). She actually does say in that last verse "once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out was a pain in the ass." So you weren't getting a mistranslation. 🙂 We had the rotary dial phones in America too. They were still pretty common in the 70s when I was a kid, but they mostly disappeared quickly in the 80s. I imagine that Russia may have had them longer than us?

Blondie was huge back in the day. 70s and early 80s. They were the first one to have a rap song reach number one on the charts. "Rapture".

Yep, Manhattan in the late 70's/early 80's, opening with the Twin Towers that tragically fell on 9/11/01. No true New Yorker who remembers them and sees them in historical video and photos doesn't feel a lump in their heart and a tinge of deep sadness. Other shots are of famous NYC landmarks of that era, Studio 54, the most famous disco in the world at that time, coffee shops, music clubs, the downtown scene, etc. Blondie was hottest NYC rock band of that era.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this music video.

I remember seeing Blondie perform this on television on American Bandstand with Dick Clark. Blondie had many other hit songs you could check out such as Rapture, Call Me, The Tide is High, and One Way or Another (which was in the movie Donnie Brasco - don't know if you reviewed that movie yet).

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to say someone is a gas is to say that they make you laugh or they make an experience fun, this is based on laughing gas (i.e. Nitrous Oxide) which is an actual gas which can cause you to laugh when inhaled.

Love blondie 😀

This is definitely 70's, late 70's but still. If you love her though, you'll definitely LOVE "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles. And yes, 70's and 80's jams, at least in the U.S., are definitely timeless Irina

Yes, The band Blondie was very much part of the New York City music scene in the late '70s. They were one of three bands that got their start at a Manhattan east village club named "CBGB's". The other two bands were The Talking Heads, and The Ramones. The lead singer is Deborah Harry who was actually a Playboy bunny in the late '60s/early '70s in New York. She became a fashion icon creating her unique Punk Chic look and style.

"Blondie" (Deborah Harry) was voted the most beautiful woman in the world by Vogue(?) and is HUUUUGE in America. They had her onstage at Coachella last year at the age of 79 and STILL tours often. She is also still very beautiful today and her hairstyles fashion and her hairdye jobs girls your age try to mimic with the blonde and black and mixed colors or the beachwave shag cut everywhere. She started the trends. Her posters are in salons all over the world in 2024. Blondie is a beast! I live in NYC and just saw a pic of her at the Salon just the other day and a framed pic of her for sale.. Oh... And its pronounced Blon deeee. Thank you very much. Its a "gas" means its good or fun or funny. All good. She is also smart with a high I.Q. which makes her sexier and never tried to keep up with whats in style. She created her own and went against whats popular. She was a punk rocker and Blondie was a punk rock band first. She also made the first RAP song to hit number 1 and the first rap video on MTV. MTV was a rock station. Yep. She rapped too wanting to break the racial barrier she saw was happening at the time and get rap on the mainstream map and she did!! Just ONE of the reasons why she was featured at COACHELLA. Just an amazing talented smart and very REAL woman.

Best impression of a rotary phone ever!😊❤

Blondie is actually the name of the entire band. The lead singer's name is actually Debra Harry. They emerged around the late 70s out of the Punk & New Wave scene in New York. They were mainly classified as New Wave but they soon left that label behind, as they liked to experiment with different styles like Disco in this video, Rock, Reggae & Rap, which was also emerging around the last year of the 70s. Debra also worked for a little while as a Playboy Bunny, before she joined the band & became famous.

Nice choice for a song to react to, Irina!!!🎶🎬🎬🎬The song was first released in 1978 and played on AM radio. Blondie sounds like Blondee. Yes, we had rotary dial telephones in the U.S., too. The term "a gas" was an expression from the 70's meaning "a lot of fun". There was also "It's a gas" meaning "It's a lot of fun". Although, there are many definitions for the phrase. "Heart of Glass" refers to "emotional fragility". Almost forgot. Blondie's real name was Debbie or Debra Harry.

Great song great reaction!!

"soon turned out to be a pain in the ass" - that's the actual phrase they replaced to make it more radio friendly

Blondie came from the New York punk/new wave scene in the '70's. They liked to experiment with different styles, including disco here, which was popular in the mid- late 70's. I really love this song and to me it's the best disco song hands down. Some other Blondie songs you might check out sometime are their reggae song "The Tide Is High", "Dreaming", and "Sunday Girl". "It's a gas" is an old expression that means it's a lot of fun. It was probably more popular in the '50's and '60's but you might still occasionally hear it today. Lol, yes we had them, they were called 'rotary phones' and I used to love to play with the dial when I was little.

I seem to recall that some radio stations wouldn't play the song for swearing, or the TV stations bleeped out the phrase "pain in the ass" And it is historical, for that reason alone:)

60,70,80 and 90s, the time when music, was actually music...the good thing is that who knows what good music is, can steel enjoy it..

I like the band blondie. From the disco era. They were much more than disco. They even did one of the first rap songs .by the way it was a "gas" was a old slang term meaning a "thrill" .

It means a moment of fun that was Short then gone

Sunday Girl

If you read her lips, she is singing "Soon turned out to be a pain in the a$$" which was the actual lyric to the song. Just in the last verse.

The phrase "it was a gas". Is slang from the 70's, I think. It means someone or something is funny or playful.

The Rolling Stones/ Mick Jagger made this famous in Jumping Jack Flash , "Jumping Jack Flash, its a gas" , means your having a lot of fun, .... Austin Powers (Comedy) also used the line "its a gas baby"

I love their song "Dreaming".

It was a gas she fell in love and it was great. But she had heart broke. Hence heart of glass, it broke. Sometimes they refer to a boxer as having a glass jaw. Which means he can be knocked out easily. It's slag.

In one of the street scenes that is shown before Debbie Harry (the lead singer) starts singing, there's a glimpse of the outside of Studio 54, a popular disco club in New York at the time. It's referenced in a few other places, most notably in the disco song "Le Freak" by Chic, a popular band of the time.

We definitely had rotary phones in America we didn't have one I was a bit too young for those but its interesting if rotary phones were popular into the late 90s early 2000s in Russia as they were mostly out of style at that point in America

Hello Miss Irena !!! You are correct she was at the Top in the late 70's to the early 80's !!!😀. Yet here are A Few more of her songs 1) Call Me 2) The Tide is High 3) Rapture As for Her Gas lyric is not liquid Gas but Great Fun !!! 😂😂😂 Or open to interpretation , In My Humble Opinion Still Subscribed, like button Illuminated

"a gas" is a laugh. Although Deborah Harry is American, she hit it big in the UK, and regularly "partied" with Iggy Pop and David Bowie in the UK

This is not the first time I heard this song. This is from 1980, two years before I was born. The singer's name is Debbie Harry

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Great Time , Fun !

Brilliant song, legendary. Always on every dance-floor a bomb.

Deborah Harry was the original gangster Rock N Roll Diva. They hit it huge in the 78\79 and were massive through the early 80s. Madonna, everyone who followed basically tried to copy her style. They all failed bc Harry had her own sense of style and fashion. She designed her own clothes, everything. She wrote all the lyrics which are often quite deep and complex. She is a also criminally underrated singer. Her voice was deceptively good both in studio and live. The drummer Clem Burke is probably one of the top 5-10 drummers of all time. A technically perfect metronome. His drums actually flesh out and make the band's sound work.

1) That's not Kate Bush. 2) "Gas" used to be a slang term for a good time. 3) They don't sound like it here, but Blondie was one of the very first punk bands. They started playing at a club in the Bowery in Manhattan called CBGB's (the birth place of punk music) in the mid-'70s along with The Ramones, Television, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Talking Heads, and many others.

A gas meant like a blast/good time.

While on painful themes ("heart of glass") , one of the best songs is actually "Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perry - that is a superb song, based on her personal life. Not painful in the end, as she met someone far better and has made a huge success of her life. Just love that woman. 😍

"it's a gas" was slang for something good that happened.

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Parallel Lines (1978). Seminal New Wave album.

The gas is an old school hippie way of saying it was GREAT.."she's so pretty" you say? Well Playboy magazine thought so, too..and so did the readers.(She made "Bunny of the Month") Between that and this BIG no. 1 hit, it was her year, and the band kept giving us hits well into the 80's.

"It's a gas" just means something is great. You enjoy it. Debby Harry (Blondie) and you both have stunning eyes! 😁

Seeing others see/listen to classic videos for the first time allows me to vicariously re-enjoy these videos for the first time and feels me with joy. These classics have been classics to me for decades, so it can be easy to feel jaded about them.

Sounds like a song Dave would recommend haha you do a great job reacting to songs and breaking them down despite only learning English for 2 years. Cool!

Gas I always thought it was short for having a blast. Fun times

Having a gas - a great time. Lots of fun. Pronounced Blond EE ( as in blonde hair ) . Nice seeing your moves to the beat !

Nice tattoo . She's from the 70's & 80's🎸

The band is actually called Blondie, but we always refer to the lead singer, Debbie Harry, by that name. She will be 77 years old next week. Where the hell has the time gone? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😞

5:40. It’s called a ‘Disco Ball’.

Am I on the correct video? 🤣

i loved blondie when i was younger ,, debbie was ny first celebrity crush, lol

The best thing about it Debbie Harry’s fashion style is that it was cutting edge at the time and you could wear her hair,makeup and clothes now and it would still be considered chic

Hey it's been a while, missed your beautiful spirit.

You should’ve done a comparison with this versus Meg Myers

IT'S A GAS MEANT IT WAS A GREAT TIME WE HAD.

Well I'm late to this reaction and it looks like all of your questions have been answered. My grandparents on my dad's side actually still had 1 working rotary phone while I was growing up. So in the 90s and early 2000s. Having said that they did have modern phones too that they used most of the time.

Blondie is an American rock band co-founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American new wave scene of the mid-1970s in New York. Their first two albums contained strong elements of these genres, and although highly successful in the United Kingdom and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the United States until the release of Parallel Lines in 1978. Over the next five years, the band achieved several hit singles[2] including "Heart of Glass", "Call Me", "Atomic", "The Tide Is High", and “Rapture”. The band became noted for its eclectic mix of musical styles, incorporating elements of disco, pop, reggae, and early rap music.

Check out Heart, Pat Benatar, Scandal, The Go-gos, Tawny Tain, Bonnie Tyler, & Laura Branigan.

She is still doing concerts to this day

The band was called "Angel and the Snakes". But guys would see here and yell "Blondie!", like Dagwood would. So they changed the name. Clem was a hell of a drummer.

i have to just say this , Irena you are soo pretty, your eyes are stunning

"Call Me" is ok also. Probably my fav.

This one of the softer Blondie songs. The disco vibe and her singing style is not typical for this band. They started as punk, but they had an uncanny knack for exploring outside if their genre and coming up with hits. If you want to see their punk side, try Detroit 442, Eat to the Beat and Atomic, which still has a tiny bit of 70s vibe to it, but it's definitely harder rock. Debby Harry is the singer, Blondie is the band. They are iconic and had a huge impact on the music scene, so definitely worth looking into further.

It was a gas. It was entertaining. Enjoyable.

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If you like a big disco ball And if you like a good guitar solo Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb" - Pulse Concert

Debbie Harry and Chis Stein, the guitar player were high school sweethearts in Hawthorne, N.J. They moved to Manhattan and auditioned over 50 drummers before finding Clem Burke. That was the core of Blondie, and after cutting their teeth at the legendary CBGB in Greenwich Village, where so many great groups wee discovered. Call Me, the theme song from 😮 9:25 American Gigilo was another hit

Could you actually LISTEN before you talk?

the expression "Gas" comes from the dentist- "nitrous oxide" laughing gas - Popular expression in the 1960s and 70s

For some reason (cannot remember now), I used "Heart of Glass" as my test song when evaluating headphones. Listen to the huge amount of content in both the low bass and high treble.

I think you were talking about a rotary phone? We had those in the US, but after rotary phones and before cell phones were invented, we had wired phones with 12 buttons for 20+ years.

This song is on their Parallel Lines Album came out around 1978-1979

Blondie was new wave , She was also one of the First to start Rap Music back in the early 70's Has many no.1 hits !

Эту песню я слушал первый раз 79 году в Германии когда служил в армии и она мне очень понравилась хотя люблю хард рок

Gas in this context means a laugh, a good time. I hope Google's Russian translation works: Gas-- газ смешной контекст

"Blondie" Debra Harry....and Pat Benatar 2 of the greatest girl rock n rollers of the early 1980's...in my opinion Have heard Pat Benatar's "Hit me with your Best Shot"?

Blondie refers to a girl with blond hair, in this case, Debra Harry, the singer. Yes, you interrupt too much, ;). But, I love you anyway. lol.

4:10 You are talking about "rotary phones". They went out in the 70's when push button phones came along. 5:38 A 'disco ball" in disco dance clubs and bars. Very 70's.

The other commentor was right - "gas" is 1960s and 1970s American slang meaning "fun" or "good". I'm not sure of the origin of the term, as I'm not American-born either. But, she's saying that the person who was her love was good and fun at first, but soon turned out that their heart was an illusion, that it was glass, not a real heart. A heart of glass. A fake. Also, yes the original version of the song, she does call this person who she no longer loves a "pain in the ass". For some reason, some versions of the video take that out because not all Americans like words they deem vulgar.

Um... anyone going to tell her? That's Blondie- Heart of Glass like you said, not Kate Bush- Running up that Hill.

I thought Deborah Harry was just beautiful in this video. Live versions of this song, you could tell she was strung out, and jacked up on coke. Signs of the times, I suppose.

"a gas" light-hearted, funny ...most people your age in the US wouldn't know what that means anyway...old fashioned term

Please watch the movie "The Hunt For Red October" (1990) or if you dont wamt to i reccomand you read the book.

You're good at this. Have you reacted to any more Blondie? Most of their songs were rockier than this classic.

Dreaming & Rapture are two excellent songs by Blondie.

7:54 The actual lyric is ‘be a pain in the ass’, but they had to change it for American TV and radio.

you say it difficult to work out which is old music and which is current older music you can see them play intruments new music will come from a computer box ,i wonder where all this new music will be in 10 - 20 years love the way russian's say russia it sounds as if very big and powerful to me

All these comments and no mention of Debbie Harry...Blondie would have been nothing without her.

Hi, It was a gas, Means it was fun.

You seem like a nice girl, and Blondie is one of my favorite groups, but I'm a minute into it and you have already stopped the video three times and that is so annoying so I have to bail out. Good luck.

listen more and talk less if you want understand.... she is singing a punk song in Disco style and in 1979 was a HIT

You keep stopping the song every ten seconds, because you think that you are so much more interesting than the song. It's repulsive.

If something was a 'gas' it was something really cool. Like the word 'cool'.

It's a gas...70s...means it's cool we would say wow that was a gas...a experience that was good great...

too much interruptions. you ruined the whole song. you do not give yourself time to appreciate the music. listen first!!!!

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Do not worry over your words in English. You are very sweet.

Seems like that part hit home with her when she said beautiful. She froze for a couple seconds, thought video was paused.