I met my husband when I was 16 and kept him away from my family for awhile because I met him while drag racing and my folks thought I was hanging out at the library. My pops gave me a 72 Chevelle. What did he think I was going to do with it?? I eventually came clean when we all got caught drifting. My husband and I were together for 37 years and married for 31. He passed away in August of 2022.
I came back from the Vietnam War and first met my beautiful black wife in 1971. In the 1970s, interracial dating was not accepted on either side. We got married and raised 3 very succesful girls into adulthood. She loved this song. RIP baby. We love you.
When I was about 11 I had their album "Double Vision" and the first ever song I learned all the lyrics to and sang all the time was "Hot Blooded" which taught me the word: rendezvous- tough word for an 11 yr old dirty white boy growing up in Texas! Ha.
I was 10 the month Double Vision was released and think I bought a single within a year. Thankfully I'm only a half-Texan dirty white boy so rendezvous wasn't a problem for me. 🤓
I believe Gramm has said this song was about a figure like Elvis Presley, who would have been viewed as a "dirty white boy" by an older generation when he first started breaking...
I was 12 in 1979 in the rock and roll smoking reefer a dirty white boy was just a rebellious kid that smokes drove a fast car and listen to rock and roll
I was 16 years old in '79. I just got my license and a fast car, it was a 69 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ 400 cid. 4 barrel with dual exhaust with the turbo 400 automatic transmission. I bought it from my brother-in-law for $200, it was my own money I had been working at a Amoco gas station for $3.25 per hour. What's kind of crazy is that we got out of school at '4:20' but since I was a good student, I applied for and got out at 1:20. I had to be at work by 2:00 Had not started smoking cigarettes or reefer yet, but after I graduated in '81, it was on! I would love to go back. But I have some great memories, thank GOD for it all! Of course I had the 8-track of Foreigner and blasted this song every day!
I am 59yo. I saw them live back in the day. 1982 at reunion arena in Dallas Tx. It was a great show. It’s kinda crazy, we didn’t think about racial differences, he was just singing great lyrics. The world has become so sensitive.
You got it baby! This is just a straight bad boy song. Justfull of youthful rebellion against anyone who dont think youre good enough. This is a everyman song.
I was a dirty white boy, long hair, leather jacket, earring, into rock n roll, played in a band, would get in fights "if I had to" I never really drank or smoked weed or anything like that, but I was a bad boy, alot of parents didnt like me, but alot of their daughters did. Nothing wrong with bein a dirty white boy.
Great reaction! I remember when it hit, classic rock! The previous album "Foreigner" had some tunes that really pushed the threshold of stereo channels. I had a "quadrophonic" stereo in my room 🙂and I would love how the different instruments would present from each speaker differently or not at all. I'm a little biased, because I preferred those early albums to their older stuff, cuz it was more raw.
Lou lives around the corner from my daughter. When my daughter told her husband, he said I know he's one of my patients. He used to play at my high school dances when he was with Black Sheep.
Aside from the title , Foreigner was a rocking band with great harmonies , awesome sound. Their lead singer was just damn good ! music wise, this song had that rock back beat that kept you dancing :) The 80's were a different time, didnt care about the title just the meaning. PLEASE keep listening to more Foreigner , so many great songs . Great reaction, keep it up love your channel :)
Lou (the lead singer), and Mick (guitar player) are in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Hopefully, the original members will get in the Hall of Fame in 2024.
Great reaction, Mugnify. Funny, I'd heard this on the radio without registering what was actually being said. You've got to laugh at yourself, once in a while.
"Dirty White Boy" is a song recorded by British-American rock band Foreigner, written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, and produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Jones, and Ian McDonald. It was the first single taken from the band's third studio album, Head Games (1979).Jones has claimed that the song was about Elvis Presley, adding that "he always was that dirty white boy who changed the shape of music completely. It was talking about the kind of heritage that he left, and I think that had an effect on all the musicians that came after, like Mick Jagger - he was also a dirty white boy. Elvis paved the way for all that."[1] However, some listeners misinterpreted the song as a "crypto-racist statement."[2] Gramm said of the controversy it's "a song about an irresponsible kid, not a racial song."[3]
As white high schoolers living in a working class poor city, my friends and I loved this song. I didn't think of it as a racial statement, but more of social class song. We hated rich suburban kids driving dad's fancy cars and acting superior
How about Play that Funky Music White Boy 😅 late 70’s early 80’s we had long hair, drank and smoked we were teenagers and didn’t give a shit…we where dirty white boys 😂
Foreigner's "Double Vision" album was one of the first I ever owned. Also, Gramm looks high as hell. ' Frank Zappa called these kinds of songs "body commercials".
Oh man, you’re cracking me up!! Good stuff. 😂😂 I think it’s more tongue in cheek than trying to be outright funny. Even maybe just a simple self analysis? I don’t know. This tune rocks and I’m an old dirty white boy! 🤣
1972 David Bowie, Starman..(funny at the very end of video ,Where he's Waving goodbye,..Funny rewind video 3-4 time's, just the part where hes waving ,Walking off Stage..(smiling)
Their catalog of music is extensive. You would be doing yourself a favor to listen to more. Juke box hero, Cold as ice, Urgent, and Waiting for a girl like you are just a few. Trust me.
I don't know if they were trying to be funny. Perhaps they were being a bit tongue-in-cheek. Probably the truth is someone just said Im a dirty white boy and someone thought oh man that would make a good song title and they built this around that title. They probably knocked it out real quick doesn't sound like a song they mulled over a long time. It's just a simple blues infused rocker.
So you're getting al Yankovic vibes from this tune....I'm getting strong idiot vibes when I hear you talk. And all you can do is laugh and make fun of a classic. And I don't care if you cleaned it up in the end. The first things out of someone's mouth....are usually the truth.
