Steve Perry - You Better Wait (Official Music Video - 1994) 

Love this song 💖

Glad you discovered this song. Feel free to check out my 3 playlists in the pinned comment below this video, dedicated to Steve's complete and chronological discography (especially the 2nd playlist, where you'll find the entirety of _For the Love of Strange Medicine,_ his 1994 solo album from which this song is taken).

Wow, I'm a fan too, but since 2015 or so (I wasn't born in the 70s). And I realize now that this music video will be 30 years old this year!

Thanks for your comment, Mezzo Mamma, glad you enjoyed the full version of this video.

I couldn't agree more, thanks for stopping by to comment!

Great stuff from this "Strange Medicine band", as Steve himself liked to call them, indeed, both on their only studio album _(I Am, Stand Up Before It's Too Late...)_ and live. Not to the point of dethroning Journey in my eyes though, especially with all the ups and downs he went through with that band, and the musical excellence of each of the members - Neal, Gregg, Steve Smith among others - who made it up over the years (at least from the 70s to the 90s, over the period Steve was involved), but one of my eternal regrets is that Steve didn't revive this 2nd band in 1998, after his definitive departure from Journey and "while the iron was hot"... A few years ago, Lincoln Brewster brought out his _surf green_ guitar from those years, announcing that he was still in touch with Steve, but nothing has come of it musically... yet?

@@CyregO I agree completely, very well said!

One of the best vocalists of his generation, clearly. I also love his discography, hence the 3 playlists I've dedicated to him (both on his Journey period and his solo career before, during and after Journey).

@@CyregO ❤

You have my word! 😉 Kidding aside, I'm honoured to see you commenting here, Chase, given your substantial contribution to safeguarding Steve's _and more generally Journey's_ musical heritage: I assiduously listen to each of your uploads. 🙌 By the way, did you know Velizar edited this? (he shared it with me because I suggested the idea to him a long time ago)

​@@CyregOactually I'm very happy with the results, it's the best i could do and even posted the video for a day or two in my channel but took it down and i dislike reuploading stuff so that's why it hasn't appeared since

Heureux de l'apprendre, Anne-Marie, d'ailleurs j'ai traduit les sous-titres en français si ça vous intéresse. Personnellement, j'apprécie aussi beaucoup ce clip et cette période de la carrière de Steve Perry, mais je vous avoue que le message de cette chanson me semble ambigu : comment un homme dans la quarantaine (puisqu'aucun indice ne nous permet ici de distinguer le chanteur du narrateur) peut-il mettre en garde une jeune fille de 17 ans contre _"the evil of the night"_ tout en lui faisant des avances et en l'appelant _"baby"_ à plusieurs reprises... Ne fait-il pas lui aussi partie du problème ?

Same here, thanks for stopping by!

Avec grand plaisir, merci pour l'abonnement ☺ (et merci aussi à Velizar qui a réalisé le montage : sa chaîne est en description) ! J'ai ajouté des sous-titres en français, mais ils restent sujets à évolution si jamais quelqu'un a de meilleures suggestions de traduction.

Yes, you can feel the freshness and spontaneity of this new band at the time. Thanks for stopping by this video, Lydia (funny, I have a sister named almost like you: Lydie, which is a rather rare name here in France).

Muchas gracias por tu comentario, Augusto: es estupendo llegar a un público internacional, ¡y creo que es la primera vez que tengo la prueba de que alguien lee realmente la presentación del canal! (Aunque tenía más sentido con mi anterior foto de perfil: una minifigura LEGO de Mosquetero 🤺😅).

Hola de nuevo Augusto, hoy he traducido (con la ayuda de DeepL) los subtítulos y la descripción de este vídeo al español. Siéntete libre de echarle un vistazo, y de sugerir correcciones o mejoras si lo crees necesario, especialmente para la letra de la canción: aunque aprendí español durante mis estudios, no lo practico regularmente. 🙏

@@CyregO ahora mismo voy, encantado de leerlo. Porque cuando intento traducirlo yo me quedo perplejo y aturdido. He intentado traducir "Most all" y me he estancado ahí en el título, solamente

@@augustopenafortcaffarena1133 Pido disculpas por el retraso en la respuesta. Los subtítulos en español pueden activarse directamente en el vídeo player. ¿Puedo preguntarle si hay alguna palabra que le parezca extraña o una traducción difícil de entender?

@@CyregO ¡Muchas gracias! Intentaré explicarme. Hay otra canción de Steve Perry que se titula "Most all" y en español puede tener muchos significados distintos. Y depende de uno y otro significado varia mucho el mensaje de la canción. Te pongo este ejemplo para decirte lo bueno que es que nos lo traduzcas. ¡Muy interesante tu trabajo!

Thanks for having let me know, and welcome back to RU-vid, Jrny&SP (nice profile pic too, matches well Matthew Dalley's I think: _Le Rouge et le Noir,_ as we'd say in France 😄)!

I don't know, but you'll find in the description how Steve himself presented his song: _"The city is a magnet, and kids gravitate toward it because they can finally leave the nest. The only problem is sometimes you can get lost on the streets, and when young people get lost on the streets they sometimes don't get back. That's what this song is about."_ Personally, although Steve has never confirmed it, I think this song refers to his / one of his girlfriends in the 90's, at the time of this album's production, who had been a glamour model in her youth. I should point out, however, that although she was much younger than him, she was far from 17 at the time of their relationship, unlike the character in the song. Anyway, what you mention reminds me of a testimony Steve shared in an interview with Kate Mossman for the New Statesman in 2018: _"People don’t become performers because they don’t have needs. Singing, though it can be very lovely, is essentially a primal scream. And I was screaming pretty loudly - and quite big. [...] There was a lot going on but nowhere to take it. Things happened to me as a child that I still can’t talk about - nothing to do with my parents, but things did happen. It happened to a lot of kids, as I find out. [I was] about nine. But there was nowhere to take that stuff back then. One of my needs to perform was the need to get myself heard. Now, please, do understand, I’m not complaining - but there was nowhere to talk it out, so I got to sing it out instead."_ In 2019, during his Big Interview with Dan Rather, he specified: _"From a public standpoint, the best word I can come up with is "a violation". And it changed my life, tremendously, to the point I couldn't even access the idea or talk about it till I got older. [...] There was nowhere to take it, Dan: [...] you stuff it, you shut up, you move on."_

@@CyregO Thank You Soo much for sharing, I can completely relate to it, sounds like my life in my younger days.

@@michaelmichalesko8910 You're very welcome and I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to you in your youth. I hope you were able to start over and that the truth has since come to light. I haven't personally been the victim of such serious acts, and imagine it's easier to write than to live, but as with any form of injustice, the shame must change sides: it's the aggressors who must be blamed, not their victims! Regarding the song's subject now, to be quite honest, it raises questions in me: that a narrator (who we imagine to be the 45-year-old Steve Perry performing this song) wants to get a 17-year-old girl out of the clutches of _streetwalking,_ or at least prevent her from falling into it, is quite laudable, but to make her understand that _"somewhere there's love"_ by calling her _"a child", "precious girl"_ or _"baby"_ throughout seems to me at best clumsy, at worst problematic. This young girl could be his own daughter, but nothing in the text resolves this ambiguity, quite the contrary... I don't know what you think, or if you share this feeling? 🤷‍♂ That said, if you haven't already watched it, I highly recommend Steve's 43-minute *_Big Interview with Dan Rather_* I mentioned earlier, viewable for free on AXSTV.

@@CyregOI am definitely not a victim at all. When you see what's not right, you correct it and move forward, that's what I did. I can relate to what your saying, it's possible. No I haven't watched the interview but I will now, Thank You!

@@michaelmichalesko8910 💪 (here, I was using the term "victims" not as a permanent status or a way of reducing people's identity to it, but only as having gone through a particular event)