I think you mixed up your on-screen labels. Meatloaf's name was Michael Lee Aday not Jim Steinman. Jim wrote several of the songs that Meatloaf performed and sang... RIP to both of them
it's really an age old story. Two teenage kids in the moment, promises are made and soon regretted. It was brilliantly written by Jim Steinman and performed by Meatloaf. Iconic.
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 - January 20, 2022), known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. He is one of the best selling music artists in history. R.I.P.
You have to remember, that this song speaks from an era, when women didn't give up their virginity without thought. They wanted commitment, but , men/boys in that era were just looking for experiences....and lifetime commitments wasn't on their radar for a 'roll in the hay'. Something so bitter-sweet about this song. The lyrics were pure genius.
Technology has progressed a lot, but I defy anyone to name a better rock video than this one. People who love musical theatre definitely love Meatloaf's stage performances. It truly is rock opera, and never done better.
Ellen Folley the female singer who sang with Meat Loaf on this song declined to tour , so the lady on stage is singer Karla Devito . This music video was created by synching the original voice and vocals of Ellen Folley to the performance of Karla Devito. Loved your reaction , and also loved the way you replayed the part that caught you by surprise. Meat Loaf is his stage name , not the bands name. Can't wait to see what you will be reacting to next!🙂
@@HeidiDenobleMy ‘72 Impala had an interior so big you almost needed a map to find the way back out of the back seat. Even with the front bucket seats I could get eight kids in that car. Cars now a days are so cramped inside my son jokes that his Honda Corolla counts as a church approved form of birth control.
@@stevedavis5704I was born 1959 and when I was 16 I had a 1965 Mustang that I sold before I went in the Navy. When I came home on leave I borrowed my Grandparents Big Big Big Car to take my Highschool Sweetheart out. I'm glad we never got caught by the Dashboard Lights on a Country Road and I'm glad my Grandparents never found out what happened in their car 😂.
@@stevedavis5704, in high school I had about a dozen different cars (my grandpa owned a wrecking yard, so I got all kinds of pieced-together gems). My “monsters” were a 70’s model Buick La Sabre (with no struts) and a 70’s model Ford LTD (both 4-doors); I would joke that “my cars fits 8 people, comfortably…in the front seat.”
I replaced many needles on my record player wearing this album out in Jr. High!!!! We had the best music in the 70's.. I watch all these young reactors that don't know MEATLOAF?? And many other incredible artists from that Era? And I say I'm getting old 😢 BUT, I wouldn't change growing up in the 70's and 80's for nothing... not even youth! It was the best of times ever!!!!!!
Back in the 1970's we called this genre Rock Opera. Some albums did the whole rock opera theme, sometimes it was just a few of the songs on an album. Meatloaf was known for his rock opera songs. : )
@@ReleaseTheQuackers I still have that album, played it one time, while recording it to a cassette tape. I was a teen back then, and figured if my tape broke or got ate by the cassette deck, I could replace it with another blank and pull out my 'pristine' album again and get another recording. I did that with all my albums back then.
From the movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Meatloaf performs a song called, Whatever Happened To A Saturday Night. He's in only one scene singing this song which is a 1950's Rock & Roll genre type melody. You'll like it!
Meat Loaf came up as a Broadway actor/singer. Check him out as Eddie in "Rocky Horror Picture Show". He does a great old school rock n' roll number, then "stays for dinner"... 🤔😎
YAY!!! Meatloaf!!! I was excited to see your reaction!!! Meatloaf (aka Michael Lee Aday) is a legend!! He was very theatrical! He was also in Rocky Horror Picture Show! Two out of three ain’t bad Bat out of hell I’d do anything for love but I won’t do that
I came Home one day and my Mother Ohh she was in Her 60's ??? Sitting in the lounge chair with Head Phones on Ok, I hear Rock music.. I'm a Rock $ Roller myself, She's listening to His 3rd Album.. I make Her take off the phones and ask Who's she listening to, she Says Meatloaf, Go Away and leave Her Alone. Ahh my Mother 👯👯👯 💃
I am a 60 yr old mother and routinely horrify my son by howling along with Bat Out of Hell. And let’s just say I let it all out. No headphones and no recliner. God bless your Ma. The woman knows good music!!
Meatloaf was a wanna be actor who auditioned for a play that Jim Steinman was producing. They became lifelong friends and Jim wrote exclusively for Meat for a while. The songs were written specifically for his voice. Bat Out Of Hell is one of the most iconic albums in history. Two people in the right place at the right time.
I've heard a lot of really great duets in my life (68 years old). This has to be one of the best. Most duets are one singer singing and then the other singer sings their part. But the way they integrated separate parts of the song together makes this one of the all time greats. Just totally brilliant!
Loved your reaction. You’re right…it’s practically impossible to take one’s eyes off Meat Loaf! So much to love from ML and genius songwriter Steinman. They are simply incomparable.
watching the emotions changing on your face was priceless! sometimes i wish i could time travel and listen to music for the first time again. :) big love to all people :)
So yea like others have said, Jim Steinman wrote Meat Loaf's music, but Meat Loaf himself is Marvin Lee Aday. Steinman also famously wrote Bonnie Raitt's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which was originally written for a musical about vampires! The musical never went anywhere in most of the world, but he did find an audience in I thin it was Germany of all places.
This is like a short rock opera. Go watch the video to "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are", that is a whole short film. Michael Bay, the director of such films as Transformers, Pearl harbor, Bad boys and 6 underground with Ryan Reynolds directed three videos for Meatloaf of which that is the best. Meat Loaf is himself a film actor with over 40 roles most notably in The Rocky Horror picture show and Fight club but I think he might have done his best job here where he is playing a characters who had an abusive father, just like Meat himself had.
I just live to watch people hear this for the first time😂😂😂 i love this song. Great reaction. Meatliaf is just him. He has some great songs. You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth. It's another good one
I was 15 when I first heard Bat out of hell. I am was in my late 20's when I first saw him in concert (Bat out of Hell 2) He was a powerhouse and at his best on stage. In the early days it was said that he gave so much that after the show he would collapse and was given oxygen. That's why they call it Rock Opera, it is like Opera it tells a story with song and acting, but instead it is now with rock.
Baseball: When this song was first made, music was audio only, so he had to tell what was happening in the car to someone listening to their stereo at home. Baseball was commonly used as an analogy for high school kids to tell their friends what happened during a make-out. First base = kissing Second base = breasts Third base = bikini zone Home base = intercourse add other terms like "stealing a base", "strike out" (didn't even get to first base), being "thrown out", etc.
You should also react to "I would do anything for love". His name was Michael Aday, but got the nickname meatloaf as a child and it stuck with him for his entire life.
The album this is from, Bat Out of Hell is worth a listen in its entirety. But in the mid 90’s approximately they released a follow up album. It was never released as a single but one of the most emotional songs on it was called Objects in the Rearview Mirror (May Appear Closer Than They Are). One of my favorites, the only one that could compete in my opinion is Out of the Frying Pan(and Into the Fire). The album is called Bat Out of Hell II Back Into Hell😊
The recorded female voice is Ellen Folley (Billie from Night Court) - the lady on stage is Carla DeVito... both amazing in their own right and still recording
This was a great song to help suggest to me and my fellow teens back then that maybe we were a little niev and that not as smart as we thought we were!
Jim Steinman wrote this. He wrote a lot of great songs you'd probably like. The baseball game serves a dual purpose. Rounding the bases is a metaphor for making out/sex, plus a game is the kine of thing that might have come on the car radio at night. :)
Remember, this was released in the 70's, to get away with the explicit stuff (the making out), Baseball (first base, second and so on) was used, but it works as that's on the original track. It was a clever way of giving a visual video without it getting too graphic, and subtle enough for younger viewers to not quite understand, but the parents immediately get it. It's kind of a Pantomime trick, a show written for families, but full of dirty jokes that only the grown ups will get.
9:54 Meatloaf's real name wasn't Jim Steinman, Jim Steinman was the guy that wrote these songs, Meatloaf's given name was Marvin Lee Aday. Both Meatloaf and Jim Steinman have passed, however
True in some ways.. They were big on their own tho.. Marvin have an impressive acting back log and Jim have made way more then what he did with Marvin.. they are both legends in my mind :)
Meatloaf started on Broadway for a few years where he won awards for Hairspray and Rocky Horror Picture Show when he met Jim Stienman and he started his singing career a lot of people don't know is the long list of movies he's been in like Fight Club almost 90 movies
It was a married couple looking back on how their life together begun. lol, you could say it was a public service announcement for horny teens. Meatloaf was huge here in New Zealand. He performed again here a few years ago and packed out the stadium.
I enjoyed your reaction- thanks! This is a genre of music referred to as a rock opera because it was so theatrical. Meat Loaf is the singer (his real name is Marvin Lee Aday but his football coach in high school called him Meat Loaf because of his weight) and the brilliant lyrics to all of his songs were written by his best friend, Jim Steinman. Jim Steinman also wrote some of the best power rock ballads of the 1980's and made other artists stars but most people did not realize that Jim Steinman wrote the songs. I would highly recommend that you check out Meat Loaf's "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" and "Hot Summer Night/Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" official videos to see Meat Loaf perform live while Jim Steinman is playing piano next to him ( Jim Steinman has a speaking cameo in the beginning of "Hot Summer Night/Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth"). You looked a bit confused by the baseball analogy in the middle as it was a common crude analogy of teenage boys about how far they got with a girl (first base- making out; home run or score was going all the way). Jim Steinman sadly passed away about three months before Meat Loaf did- RIP to two legends!
Loved your video, thank you for sharing. Yes, Ellen Foley does have an incredible voice, but she was not the one on stage. Although Karla DeVito (who toured with Meat Loaf in support of the album) is featured in the music video, DeVito is lip synching to Foley's vocals.
I loved your reaction. And, yes, more Meatloaf! His theatrical voice and talent is present in almost every song.⬅ Others have already mentioned that this type of song with in-depth, theatrical, story telling is known as rock opera. Another classification is that it is, in classical music terms, a "rhapsody", just as is Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. That is one non-consistent piece with entirely different segments than somehow work together to form a cohesive whole.
Michael Lee Aday (Meatloaf) is the male singer. Most of his biggest hits were composed by Jim Steinman (who appears in this video on piano). Karla Devito is the woman performing in the video, but the lyrics were recorded by Ellen Folley as they've sync'd the album audio to this video. The baseball references are due to the old practice of rating how far a girl would let you go by how many bases you could get (first base: kissing, second base: some petting, etc.) The announcer's voice is actually a famous play-by-play baseball announcer. Other videos to react to by him are "Two out of three ain't bad" and "Bat out of Hell" (both from the same album as this). Also "I Would Do Anything for Love" (from a bit later in his career).
Please please please do the songs: 2 out of 3 aint bad or Heaven can wait His love ballads show his vocals. Also from his later album - objects in the rearview mirror. PLEASE
I was on the edge of my seat, wanting to see how you'd react to this. This is one of my favorite songs by Meatloaf. You truly missed a treat seeing him in person. He would literally take strangers from the audience and have a girl straddle some guy on a desk in the middle of the stage and pretend to make out for that part. I was fortunate to watch him perform in Boston about 20 years ago. He certainly was a great performer as far back as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. If you haven't heard it yet, check out I'd Do Anything for Love. Another great one by him.
Meatloaf believed in entertaining. Check out the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show. A comical musical horror film and Meatloaf is in it. It’s a cult classic that played at the theater for years with people dressing up as the characters.
MeatLoaf appeared in a lot of movies that's why his concert and bids are like mini films* More than you deserve is one u should watch it's definitely like a mini movie
You don’t know the first base, second base, third base, fourth base metaphors? Gotta be someone at Wrigley (or Comiskey) who can explain them…Jim Steinman is NOT Meatloaf. He was the writer. Meat's actual name is Michael Aday and he was from Texas...
Over forty years ago my now husband introduced me to Meatloaf and his albums. The first card he sent me after our first date was a drawing of a man’s hand being pulled down by a woman’s hand in a car and he wrote the title of this song inside (along with some romantic feelings of expressions). Still have the card in my jewelry box and always love watching reactions to this song. I was surprised too! 😹 Truly appreciate your insights! 😽💋🎶
This is my first time seeing one of your reactions. I like your “captions”, I haven’t seen anyone else do that. 🫶 the originality! This is one of my favorite songs of all time, and one of my top picks for karaoke (as long as I have someone to sing with). I got to see Meatloaf in concert twice. The first time was when Bat Out Of Hell 2 came out and his career had a big resurgence in the 1990’s. That concert was like being at a Broadway show, full theatrical production. The second time was about 15 years later, small venue, he was no longer on the charts. His daughter, Pearl (married to Scott Ian of Anthrax), was touring with him, performing the part of Ms. Loud. It was an intimate, stripped down show. Both were incredible, and I love that I got to see him do two totally different types of performances. FYI, he put so much into his shows that they had oxygen tanks just off stage. He always needed it at the end, sometimes during the show, as well.
Mr. Loaf RIP, was rock opera. His songs all tell a story and many flow from one to another. I would do anything for love but I won't do that was one of his biggest hits with a comeback album, Bat out of hell two. He sang so hard he had to take long breaks to heal between tours. His name Meatloaf was a nickname because of his look growing up. He also did a number of movies including one musical, Rocky Horror Picture Show. His style is all his own and most carry a dark undertone that touches the heart.
If you think about it every one of his songs were like a mini Rock Opera. Rock operas were all the rage back in the 70's with longer ones like The Who's Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar just to name a couple. Meatloaf came in and made the 1 song mini ones at that time.
Meatloaf is the singer. Same song. He had a tremendous voice. The album, Bat Out of Hell, is one of the best rock albums released. It was on the Billboard chart for a decade after its release.
You dipped you foot in the Meatloaf pond , now's the time to take a swim , there is a ocean full of great songs , all with a story to them . " I would do anything for love" and " because of you" also "two out of three ain't bad" are good one to start with
A totally different side of Meatloaf is his song, Objects in the rearview mirror appear closer than they are." A true story of his childhood, losing his best friend young, living with an abusive alcoholic father, and his first love. True movie quality and a masterful lyrical video that is wonderfully produced. Please view it for the other side of Meatloaf. I hope you will. George (Subscriber)
I really enjoyed your reaction to this song! I'm in my late 60's and this was the music of my generation, and I guess we were somewhat desensitized to the type of antics this video has. Of course, when this song came out music videos were not really a thing yet, and we all heard the music on the radio and saw the artists perform on TV variety or music shows like The Midnight Special or Soul Train. While the lyrics are "suggestive" (to say the least) if you watch carefully --and it's a testament to Meatloaf's theatrical acting ability, although it SOUNDS like they are really getting Hot and Heavy on stage, they aren't really DOING anything! In fact they are actually performing a very carefully choreographed scene with very little physical touching. But, it sure does LOOK intense! Anyway, I am looking forward to watching more of your videos reactions, especially to music of the 60's/70's.
Meat Loaf's original name was Marvin Aday, but he later changed it to Michael Aday. The songs were written by Jim Steinmann. He often played the piano for the show. Meat Loaf started in musical theater. I first saw him in the musical, Hair. Try, I Would Do Anything For Love (try the official video. It's brilliant), Bat Out Of Hell, too, is a favorite. The guy didn't do a bad song as far as I'm concerned. R.I.P. Meat Loaf. R.I.P. Jim Steinmann. Thanks for your music. ❤❤❤❤❤
Jim Steinman was NOT Meat Loaf (real name Marvin Lee Aday). He wrote and composed all of his brilliant songs and some for Bonnie Tyler and others, too.
