This is my favorite reaction of all time!!! You are cracking me up. You win the Internet from me today. There’s so much crap in the world today and you turned it completely around. Fantastic!
I'm white and I didn't realize there was so much confusion about the Bee Gees race. LOL! But that's because I'm old and I grew up with this music. I can understand how you were tricked because you said that this song is played in many black movies. I didn't know that... so there you go, I learned something too.
Yes with a huge backlash!! "Disco sucks" a movement that filled cominsky park, burnt the records of black, gay and women artist, along with the beegees!!! Just FYI 🤗
@@ThomasBeauchemin-z4b I remember it, but it didn't change the music of the times. Black artists are well represented in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Gay artists too. Women...not so much, and for good reason.
@@ThomasBeauchemin-z4b That's called fairness. Everyone turned on disco no matter who produced it. Today people would jumping over each other to pander and virtue signal over which albums should be burned.
Amen. We didn't need the word because even though we of the 70s thought various demographics strange, we were fully prepared to accept them and let them participate freely in American life. Then came Reagan and a huge backlash against acceptance and all sanity in general that lasts till this day. God I hope someday the human race gets tired of hatred.
I just love watching black people discover beegees for the first time, you guys have them in your culture and never knew they were white I bloody love it
@@watchbizmatik When people first heard that, "Three brothers sang that song.", they figured that they were Black. They were the Gibbs brothers. There were four of them who had singing careers.
I appreciate the honesty, brother. Nat King Cole sound white, Bobby Caldwell sound black. So what? But if this song don't put you in a groove, you already dead. Great reaction.
I love how there are so many of you younger people listening and commenting on our age music. I’m 73. Keep up the great videos on RU-vid I watch these videos all day. I’m retired and I don’t have to go to work. ♥️♥️♥️
I loved your reaction!!! I grew up listening to The Bee Gees in the 70s. I’m a 62 yr old white woman who thinks you have nothing to apologize for!!! People can be so ridiculous sometimes!!!
Exactly!! How horrible and fake would reactions get if reactors have to hold back when they find something funny. Or if they have to watch what they say, to not “offend” anyone. I don’t get offended often, but if I do or if I don’t like or agree with something, I just move on.
Every time this comes up I watch it so I can laugh with you❤❤❤❤. It is a hoot. Back in the day you could listen to songs on the radio and never see the singers for real. Roy Orbison was a bit disappointing to me. He could have felt the same about me!! A good laugh is the best medicine.
I’m 78 years old and have always heard The Bee Gees. Your reaction is so hilarious that I watch it over and over, have shared your reaction with my daughter and my friends. Keep up the good work, The Bee Gees were phenomenal, music that will last.
Great reaction, I heard a comedian say it best, Nobody admits they listen to the Bee Gees, but alone in your car? You hittin every high note and know every word,
I'm a 65-year-old white lady and grew up on the Bee Gees. And I think your reaction was sooooo awesome! Most black people thought the Righteous Brothers were black too and some other artist. I think it's cool. I think we hear people and have preconceived ideas about how they sound. LOL And it so great seeing people react to the old groups from the 70's and 80s. I love it. I had every Bee Gee album.
Just about all black folks over the age of 40 loved the Bee Bees - at the height of their fame in the 1970's they churned out many funky ,soulful hits that have stood the test of time to this day.
I preferred The Gees Gees to The Bee Bees but everyone is different. Others like The Bee Gees though I don't think they are as good as The Gee Bees. Now they WERE good :)
as a white dude, i am proud that you view the Bee Gees as Honorary men of Soul. Your reaction had me in tears. Its not often white dudes drip, but when they do, they do it well. I made my housemate have an existential crisis a few years back when he found out the Bee Gees were white......i remember him spurting out "my community has lied to me for too long", and i'm pretty sure he said "I don't know whether i'm happy or sad" as well at one stage, so i'm pretty sure this is a normal reaction for a black dude discovering the Bee Gees.
@@leonardlarrisey7525 They were born the Isle of Man I think and emigrated to Australia with their parents in the sixties on scheme encouraging emigration to Australia which allowed travel for ten pounds per person ! Heard Barry say that he thinks of Australia as home always !
@@leonardlarrisey7525 As I previously posted ‘ mysteriously disappeared ‘ Bee Gees born in Isle of Man in UK , but emigrated as children to Australia as children ! They considered Australia their home !
HAHAHAHA!!! Your reaction is PRICELESS, old chap!!! That sideway glance at the camera just says it all! Yes, this is what they looked like back in 1977, four years before I was born. And would you believe my dad had long hair like that and wore pants like that!
It’s never occurred to me that people might think the bee gees were African-American. Like as an Aussie you just grow up listening to it and just know. they were born in the UK but their parents moved the family out to Australia where they eventually kicked off their music career later on. Like I genuinely thought everyone knew they were white. Great video tho! Your reaction was hilarious
OMG, need to share a story of this in reverse. Right after Micheal Jackson passed away, they were showing all these videos of his days with Jackson 5. She said" I didn't know Micheal Jackson was black?!!", and pardon me for my reaction, but I started laughing so hard I cried, and she laughed also but didn't know why. I know he had a skin condition that I was very aware of and I know it was a very sensitive issue for Micheal. But those of us who grew up aware of him saw the gradual difference, but it him someone who didn't witness those changes, how would they know?!!! All the jokes that people made about him, I wouldn't allow my children or grandchildren to laugh at someone with this issue. But I look at it as ya'll were laughing because you were surprised the Beegees were white?!!!, no offense taken, whatsoever!!!. My heart really ached for Micheal and I really felt his pain when he did "Oprah interview, and she brought up how people actually mentioned they thought he bleached his skin to get rid of his blackness. You could tell it really hurt.
These guys were incredibly soulful. They were heavily influenced as teenagers by black artists of the time. They wrote their first international hit "To Love Somebody" for Otis Redding.
Love your surprised reaction! I am same age as Barry Gibbs 1946 we are now 76. we grew up listening to black groups! I was recognized by my soulful Dancing actually at parties made me Dance! I miss dancing at my age now!
The disco era was the most fun time to be out dancing in clubs. And the Bee Gees were the Kings of Disco. Their music was everywhere. They had numerous dance hits.
Don't see how someone could be angy at you thinking they were black. Honestly, seeing people find out the Bee Gees were white is funny as hell, and understandable.
The Bee Gees are amazing and suffered a terrible backlash which caused them to kind of disappear ..... they started writing songs for other people instead. They are legends.
This has been probably the worst week of my life. But your reaction actually got me to laugh out loud...didn't think that was possible. Thank you for that gift. 💙
The brothers Gibb...British transplants who settled in Miami . Unique and exceptionally prolific. Hit after hit. This one is an all time favorite they made for the movie Saturday Night Fever. Disco era
@@mom67lovesu - Only spent less that 8 years in Australia. No hits there and returned to their HOMELAND of the UK to get in on the tail end of the British Invasion. Were always British citizens.
Screw the hypersensitive. I'm a huge BG fan and i know what you mean. Join the club of those who thought they were black, lol. BG created the funkiest 70's music. This song was about the bad situation in NY back then especially in Bronx.Please, react to 'You should be dancing'
Here I am, 68 years old and you made me smile! I love the way you said "I thought it was....". Subscribing cause I need to see someone as happy as you reacting to my music of the 70's.
It is enough to know that we humans can create such beautiful music. The colour of their skin is no more relevant, in terms of having such ability, than the type of shoes they wear. One of the most wonderful things about music is that it transcends everything else, including race. As Duke Ellington once said, "there's two kinds of music - good music and the other kind." The Bee Gees made good music.
Amazing Voices Amazing Song Amazing Bee Gees. I grow up with the best Group ever .I love the Bee Gees. They had so many Songs. And every Song is a surprice. Everybody knows the Song Staying Alive. But not everybody knows its a Song from the Bee Gees. 🕺🥰👍
If you think this is funky, wait until you hear- You should be dancin', Night Fever, & Jive Talkin'... especially the last one, i promise you're going to love it! Maurice Gibb on bass guitar just kills it with that sick funky beat. It's one of my favorite Bee Gees song since I first heard when it came out; I was 8 yrs old, now 53 yrs & still groovin' to it. :-) Barry must be protected, he is our last Bee Gee!
as a white woman who remembers this song, i am not offended, at all, by your reaction. well, as long as you don't mind that i lmfao 2 your reaction. thank you. :)
I ADORE you, Biz! Don’t you apologize! This now my favorite reaction of yours. This is the original. They wrote it, sang it on the album from the movie “Saturday Night Fever.” These men were magic.
You could never offend anyone! I think you are my new BFF, you made me smile so many times it is incredible...dude. you are the perfect reactor; never stop...seriously.
Your reaction cracked me up. I enjoyed it so much. Consider this too. They were born in England and were raised in Australia! They were geniuses of reinvention and experimentation. Try Jive Talking and Nights on Broadway for funk.
They were all actually born in Douglas on the Isle of Man which is a Self Governing British Crown dependency in the Irish sea between Great Britain and Ireland.
Barry was nearly 12 and the twins were nearly 9 when his family left England for Australia as £10 Poms in 1958 so Barry spent most of his childhood within the British Isles.
I think your reaction has been the best one yet. Don't let anyone tell you that was hating on someone. I'm 66 and can remember when radio stations wouldn't play their songs because they sounded "to black' those stations are no longer in business. I love your laugh because you are being sincere with your review of this.
So funny to see the younger generations reacting to the music I grew up on in the 70s! Priceless! Every kid on the block in my day knew this from the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack and you could not turn on the radio back in the day without this song being on every half hour!
Love the Bee Gees. Your reaction was so funny. Everyone who was at least a teen when Saturday Night Fever came out had a copy of this album - didn't matter if you were black, white, brown, yellow or whatever - you owned it and played it to death.
Thank you for your reaction and keeping it real!!! Too many people are way too sensitive over nothing nowadays. I grew up with this music and everyone loved it, we all danced together.
Genius song writers. Every song of theirs is fantastic. Some they've written for other artists. Their youngest brother Andy Gibb has some amazing songs too. I could live in the 70's, 80's and 90's forever.
Love The Bee Gees...brothers Gibb. I’ve listened to them since the 1960’s. Barry hadn’t discovered his falsetto yet, so I never thought about how later they might be mistaken as black. Love how RU-vid reactors are bringing us all together through music. Loved your reaction❤️❤️❤️
I'm not offended loved your reaction (I grew up hearing them on the radio in Australia) and the fact that you still dig it is awesome! Sit back and enjoy the ride!
The BeeGees are the bomb; sure appearances were different; bell bottoms, dancing was alot different; the disco era was soooooooo much fun; I wish I could go back in time