Gen Z Reacts To Iconic 80s Songs! (Prince, Madonna, Pat Benatar) | React

- ♪ Dun-dun-dun, dun-dun ♪
♪ Duh-nah-nah-nah-nah ♪

♪ Duh-duh-duh-duh ♪

- Yo! (laughs)
- Everyone knows this song!

- Yeah, Take On Me.

- What is this song?

- I don't know,
I think that's the challenge?

(bell rings)

- Oh!
- Oh, I'm gonna do bad.

- ♪ Take on me ♪
- ♪ On me ♪

- ♪ Take on me ♪

- ♪ Take me on ♪

- ♪ Take on me ♪

- ♪ I'll be gone ♪
- You got it, you got it.

- ♪ In a day or two ♪

- (React) Yeah!

- It'd be like scary,
you know?

- Yeah.
- I think it would feel weird,

turning into paper.
(laughs)

- Oh my God,
I love A-ha.

- One of the most classic
'80s music videos too,

that's Take On Me.

- (React) And the artist is?

- The guy who wrote
Take On Me.

- (React) We're gonna be watching
a bunch of '80s songs,

in a video of Do You Guys Know
These '80s Songs?

- I'm gonna fail so badly.

- In my defense,
I was not even born 'til 2007.

- (React) You're disgusting.

Moving on!
(both laugh)

- This is Let's Get Physical, yeah?

Okay, okay.
- Oh!

(Jeremiah laughs)

- ♪ Physical, physical ♪
- Uh...

Oh?
What the hell?

- (gasps) Olivia Newton-John!
- (React) Yeah, girl!

- Of course!

- Mm-hmm.

This one feels like I can,
I'm looking into a time machine, too.

- ♪ Let's get physical, physical ♪

- Yeah, that's like what
Drake be wearing

in that Way Too Sexy video.

- ♪ Physical, physical ♪
- ♪ Let's get into physical ♪

- Oh wow!

- What is going on?

- I'm rather intrigued,
I think you could say,

about this one.

- ♪ Let me hear your body talk ♪

- I would not wanna be
in that gym.

- It's very small.

- Yeah!
- Very...

- I do know the name
Let's Get Physical.

I don't know the artist, though.

- (React) Are you guys fans
of Grease?

- Yeah!
- Oh.

- (gasps) Oh my God,
the girl on Grease, her?

- What?
- I don't know her name,

but she's pretty.

- Olivia Newton-John.

- Funnily enough, I only know her
through Xanadu.

- I think it really captures
the aesthetic of the '80s, you know?

- (React) What do you think
that song is obviously about?

- Let's [censored].

- (React) Hell yeah.
- Get straight to the point.

- Dude, '80s workout outfits
go hard.

- The butt jiggling, that was just...
- Those thighs.

- Wow, what?
- Ooh, like...

(crunches)

They're like the turkey legs
you get from Disneyland.

Big enough to share. (laughs)
- Ugh!

I...
(both laugh)

- (React) Next video, next video!

♪ (upbeat music) ♪

- I need to give it a second.
- Wait.

- I don't recognize
the music video right away.

- Love...
- Wait, I feel like I know it.

Um, um, um, um...

- ♪ But you're not home ♪
- I don't.

- Yeah, I don't.
- Hmm.

- I don't know actually.

- I don't know this!
- I don't know this one.

- Look very fierce.

- There's not much going on
in the music video.

- Yeah.

- ♪ Your mind ♪
- Your mind.

- ♪ Is not your own ♪

- I like the band he's got
going on though,

the ensemble's...

- The girls look
way too serious.

- They feeling it, they said...
- They look like models.

- Wait, is this it?
Of the music video, like,

no new backgrounds?
Interesting.

- I feel like I've heard it
in a movie.

- You're Addicted To Love.

- That's the song name?

- (React) That was Robert Palmer's
Addicted To Love.

- Robert Palmer.
- (React) Mm-hmm.

- That's perfect for a movie,
I would never listen to it.

- (React) Visually considered like
an iconic video from the '80s.

- (gasps) Really?
- (React) Mm-hmm.

- Oh my God.

- I can understand
why it's iconic,

but also,
it is not a good video.

- He was very,

it was very like a main character
moment for him, you know what I mean?

- Yeah.

- If it were my song,
and I were the star,

I wouldn't make myself look
worse than the people behind me.

- Honestly.
- But that's just me.

- ♪ The lights are on ♪
♪ But you're not home ♪

- I guess it was like
about as chill as Let's Get Physical,

but it wasn't as physical,
so that's why it was more chill.

- (React) Yeah. (laughs)

- It was giving very
wilkommen, bienvenue.

- What is that?
- What is that, Cabaret!

- Thumbs up.
(fireworks exploding)

- This song was pretty good.
- (React) Okay.

- Not very popular.
- (React) Alright, ooh boy.

- Not my taste.

- Oh.
(Jeremiah laughs)

- Okay, okay, okay.
I do know this one.

I've never seen this
music video though, actually.

- Oh, we know this song.
- ♪ We can dance if we want to ♪

- Yes!

It reminds me of
do the roar from Shrek.

Do the roar!

- ♪ As long as we abuse it ♪
♪ Never gonna lose it ♪

- This is a head bop song.
- ♪ Everything'll work out right ♪

- I forget the name of the band.

It's either Men At Work
or Devo.

- (React) Men Without Hats.
- Men Without, it's neither! (laughs)

- This isn't the first kind of thing
I would think of,

like, when it comes
to this song.

- You don't think like
medieval get-together.

- Yeah.

- ♪ It's the safety dance ♪
♪ Oh yes, the safety dance ♪

- Yeah, I have no clue
what this is.

I'm trying to figure it out.

- We can dance, can we?
Yeah.

- This is a very iconic song.

- Really?
- Yeah!

- (React) Alright.
- That's amazing!

- (React) Alright, what is
the name of that song?

- We Can Dance If We Want.
- (React) No.

- No, actually it's not?
- (React) No.

- The what?

- (React) The Safety Dance
is what that's called.

- Oh, yes. (laughs)

- (sighs) You can go first.
(Jaxon laughs)

- ♪ Dun-dun ♪
♪ Duh-duh-duh-dun ♪

As soon as that plays,
you exactly what it is.

- (React) Mm-hmm.
- Well, maybe not for you, but...

- It's iconic, though,
I love it.

- It's almost like a Power Ranger
pose or something,

you know, like a power pose.
- (React) Yeah, yeah.

(Jeremiah laughs)

- ♪ Oh yes, the safety dance ♪

- I feel like I'm in
an anime.

(Goten and Trunks screaming)

♪ (upbeat music) ♪

- Oh my goodness, that synth
just went crazy in my ear.

- ♪ I'm M.C. Kat on the rap ♪
♪ So mic it ♪

♪ Here's a little story ♪
♪ And you're sure to like it ♪

- Ooh, it flows so hard.

- That grin, 'cause you know
this is a good song!

- ♪ Paula Abdul ♪

- ♪ Baby ♪
- Ooh Paula Abdul!

- Oh my God!

- Oh my goodness.
- Okay!

- ♪ You like the movies ♪
♪ And I like TV ♪

- Oh look, oh damn!

- He's getting it,
look at that boy go!

- ♪ Come together ♪
♪ 'Cause opposites attract ♪

- This reminds me
of High School Musical.

Doesn't it?
Like, get your head in the game!

- I never saw
High School Musical.

(crowd gasps)

- No, I think I like
this one, actually.

- Oh my God, I love this!

And I don't know why that guy,
is he a cat?

- (React) (laughs) Yeah.
- He's fine.

- (React) His name is MC Skat Kat.
- He's fine!

- (React) Yeah, great.
- He's fictional.

- It's my first time hearing it,
and I do like it, it's funky.

- I think the music video's
also really entertaining.

- (React) They were inspired by
when Gene Kelly

danced with Jerry the Mouse
from Tom and Jerry,

back in the day.

- Hmm.
- That's so cute.

- Maybe like, the creativity
is just there.

- (React) Okay.
- I feel like I can appreciate that.

- (React) What did you
think of the song?

- It was pretty good.

- (React) Who was the artist?
- Paula Abdul.

- (React) Boom!
- And Skat Kat.

- And Skat Kat.
- (React) And the song was called...

- (both) Opposites attract.

- (React) Boom, what do we think?
- Amazing!

- ♪ Hey ♪

- Okay.

- This is an interesting
music video style. (laughs)

- He just looks like
he's constipated, you know?

- Oh my gosh!

I haven't heard this
in a fat minute.

- Yeah, it's like they're doing
stop motion with him.

- Yeah.

- I respect the effort,
I just don't like it.

- Why don't people get this
creative with music videos anymore?

- He looks very uncomfortable.

- I don't like it.
Ugh!

- (React) Alright. (laughs)

- Amazing.
- Yeah.

- I think it was super cool.

- ♪ Sledgehammer ♪
Isn't there a song about that?

- (React) That's the song.
(laughs)

- Is that!?

♪ Sledgehammer ♪
♪ Dah-dah, dah-dah ♪

You know what I'm talking about?

- (React) I mean, I just listened
to the video Sledgehammer with you,

so I think that's what
you're talking about? (laughs)

- There's no way
this is the same song.

There is no way.

- (React) Peter Gabriel
and Sledgehammer.

- Gotcha.

- I'm so confused,
like, I just, I don't,

I can't process
what I just watched.

- (React) To make that video,
he would lay on the ground

under a glass plate
for 16 hours a day.

- Ugh!

- Oh, 16 hours,
oh my God.

- No wonder he looked
so uncomfortable!

- Respect it.

- (React) Respect it, don't love it?
- No.

- Do we rate it out of 10?
- (React) Sure, go for it.

- I'd give it more
of like a seven.

It's not my type of music,
but I can see myself listening to it.

Just popping up.
- (React) Okay.

- I completely forgot the song,
I can just imagine him with like...

- Why'd you tell us
to rate it out of 10,

if you don't know the song?

- I don't know why I did it!
I didn't think about...

♪ (upbeat music) ♪

- Back with the shoulder movement.

- ♪ We are young ♪

- ♪ Heartache to heartache ♪
- (gasps) I do know this!

- ♪ We stand ♪
- Ooh!

- I like this beat
way more than the last one though,

I gotta just be honest.
- And I like the dancing in this one.

- Love Is A Battlefield, baby!
- By who?

- Ah shoot.
Pat Benatar!

- (React) Nailed it!
- (gasps) I love Pat Benatar!

- ♪ Love is a battlefield ♪

- Oh my God, wait,
I know this one!

- He looks like, he's shocked.
- (laughs) Distraught.

- He's like that did
not just happen.

(Jeremiah laughs)

- ♪ So long ♪

- Oh my God,
this song is so good!

- Pat Benatar is an icon
of the '80s.

- Yeah.
- A lot going on here.

- How did the song do?
- (React) Amazing.

- Well, yeah.
- (React) Big deal.

- It's really good.

- Um, I was a little confused,
in the beginning,

just 'cause I was like oh,
like her, and her man,

they're dancing in the club,
and then she's like no,

and she just throws
water on him,

and I was like oh, okay,
well, good for you!

- I feel like she was
rejecting that guy,

and he looked very sad
in the end.

- Mm-hmm.

- But they were leaving,
because they didn't feel comfortable.

They were doing
the safety dance.

(both laugh)

- (React) Pat Benatar was
just inducted

into the Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame like a month ago.

- Oh wow.

- (Angel) Love it.
- Love, love, love, love.

- That sounds like
a road trip song, you feel me?

Like just one that's
in the mix somewhere,

you don't know where.

♪ (upbeat music) ♪

- This is scary.

- ♪ I won't be coming home tonight ♪

- (laughs) This is scary.

- ♪ My generation ♪
♪ Will put it right ♪

- These are like the grotesque,
like caricature puppets.

- I don't like this!

- ♪ That we know ♪
♪ We'll never keep ♪

♪ Too many men ♪
♪ There's too many people ♪

- This is awful,
you were not kidding.

(React laughs)

- [Censored].

- I love the ugly muppets.
They're so cute!

- (React) These are all puppet
versions of celebrities

and singers of the time.

- That's Michael Jackson.
(both laugh)

- I don't like that!
Forget that video, oh my God!

- They're so scary,
it's like nightmare fuel.

- And you like that?

- I was a bit taken aback
from the music

by the visuals on that one.
(laughs)

- I think I listened
to the song a bit, yeah.

It was there,
I was definitely aware of it.

- When it first came on,
what the what?

- (React) The first visual?
- Don't put it back.

- (React) I'll put it back.
- Joe!

- (React) I'll put it back.
- Stop it!

- (React) That guy.
(Angel screams)

That's Ronald Reagan.

- Why is he foaming
at the mouth?

- Those remind me of like
Jeff Dunham puppets,

you know what I mean?
- (React) Yeah, yeah!

That was Land of Confusion
by Genesis.

You liked the song though?
- The song was good.

- I did not care
for the song.

- I think the title
matches the video.

- I was gonna say
the same thing.

There's definitely a land of confusion
when you watch that video.

- That was great.
I didn't like it.

(React laughs)

- ♪ Life is a mystery ♪
♪ Everyone must stand alone ♪

- I think everybody was just
dramatic back...

- ♪ I hear you call my name ♪
♪ And it feels ♪

- He's fine as hell,
who is that!?

Who is that?
- ♪ Home ♪

- ♪ When you call my name ♪
- Oh.

- Oh, wait!
- ♪ It's like a little prayer ♪

- No. (laughs)
- ♪ I'm down on my knees ♪

♪ I wanna take you there ♪
- ♪ You there ♪

Ah, there we go,
I knew!

- I thought it was I Wanna
Dance With Somebody,

for like a half second.
- Yeah, I kinda thought that too.

- Is that Madonna, right?

- That is Madonna, yeah.

- It's Madonna?
That's Madonna?

What the [censored]!

- ♪ I wanna take you there ♪

- Oh, I love this,
she's so beautiful.

He is!

- (React) Who was the artist?
You know the artist!

- I feel like her name,
she looks like a Debra.

- I've only ever seen Madonna
with the blonde hair.

- Me too!
- Wow!

- We love Madonna here.
- And we love him.

Who is that?
(React laughs)

- That's Madonna?
- (React) That's Madonna.

- Oh my God!

- (React) That video,

where she falls in love
with a black saint in a church.

(Dani gasps)

Was banned and condemned
by the Vatican.

- Oh wow.

- Jesus is a sexy man.
I don't know.

(React laughs)

- (React) Madonna said it's
about religious ecstasy,

but others think the song
is about oral sex.

- Mmm, I'm sure, you know,
art is interpreted in many ways.

(both laugh)

♪ (upbeat music) ♪

- Prince.
- (React) Mm-hmm.

- I wanna know this one!
- When Doves Cry.

- (React) Nailed it!

- Prince?
Yeah, okay.

- Classic.

- Okay, Prince.
- Prince! (screams)

Ooh, I know this song!

- Dang, Prince,
why you looking at me like that?

- I know!
(both laugh)

- I can't tell if he's
sexy or creepy. (laughs)

- Yeah, his eyes are very like...

- She's so lucky!
(React laughs)

- What was the other
very famous song that he did?

He's like
♪ Ooh ♪

- (React) Oh, Kiss.
- Yeah. (laughs)

I like how you knew it immediately
as soon as I went ooh!

- ♪ Dah dah dah ♪
- Ow!

- ♪ Dah-dah dah-nah ♪
♪ Dah dah-dah-dah ♪

♪ Dah-dah dah-nah ♪

- (React) What do we
think of Prince?

- Icon.
- King.

Not even Prince, King.

- He's okay.

- He's a good singer,
good artist.

But he is really creepy,
when he looks, he's like...

- Yeah.
- He was looking into my soul.

- Yeah, just a bit
too long, you know?

- One of the most talented
musicians ever.

- Ever.

- (React) Another video,
very controversial at the time.

It was deemed too sexual
by the ad execs.

They would hate to
be around today.

Oh my God.
- I know.

- The '80s was very modest,
oh my gosh.

- (React) What do we think
of this song?

- I like this one.
- 10 fingers.

- (React) Ooh, 10 out of 10?
- He has a lot of good ones.

Love Purple Rain.

- ♪ Ah ♪
- Nail in the coffin.

- Oh shoot, wait, wait, wait!
Oh, oh, oh!

What's his name?
What's his name, oh my God!

- He's in The Wedding Singer.
- (React) Yes!

(Jeremiah laughs)

- Who is this?
Who is it?

- ♪ Hey little sister ♪
♪ Who's your Superman ♪

- Oh my freaking God,

he was just put on
the Walk of Fame!

White Wedding, baby.
- (React) There you go.

- Oh my God, who is it?

- I vibe with it.

- ♪ It's a nice day for a ♪
- Rock and roll, man!

- You are killing me right now.
What's his name?

- Did this also
piss off the Vatican?

(React laughs)
- Yeah. (laughs)

- ♪ Start again ♪

- (React) There you go!

- White Wedding?
- I need to know who that is.

Who is that?

- No, do not say it.
I'm pulling up my Spotify.

- (React) No, you can't cheat.
- No, I know his name, though!

- (React) You can't cheat.
No, you don't know his name.

- I do know his name!
- I totally know his name.

- (React) Yeah, Paulina knows.

- Yeah, it's White Wedding
by Billy Zane.

- (React) (laughs) Billy Zane!
- Right?

- (React) No, Billy.
- No, Billy!

- Billy Idol!
- (React) There you go!

- Oh my God,
you suck so much!

Oh my God!

- (React) What did you
think of his style?

- I love it.
- Aw, so. (kisses)

- Loved it.
- Very bad boy.

- Yeah.
- You know?

- That was cool, he's hot,
so he made it work.

- '80s music videos are a lot
more entertaining than I thought.

- Oh my God, yeah.

- Y'all just put me
onto so many songs, wow.

- (React) Bam!
- No, like the '80s had so many bops.

- Now it's just kinda repetitive.
- Now it's like

♪ A, B, C, D ♪
- ♪ E, F-U ♪

- We're gonna get so much
hate for that.

- Oh my God, they're gonna be like...
- She's a TikToker.

- Why would they do that?
- You're so mean!

- Ugh!

- So, the lyrics actually
go way deeper than that.

- Way deeper than that,
they have a meaning...

- The A stands for acronym.
(laughs)

- Exactly, so don't play with her,
and don't disrespect her name.

- (React) You guys are all
talking [censored],

but I know you
like that song.

- Yes.
(both laugh)

- Thank you guys for going down
this '80s rabbit hole with us!

- (React) Name five things
from the '80s, go!

- '80s music.
- Madonna!

- '80s clothes.

- Those big phones
that are like this big.

- Oh yeah, there you go.

- Children.
- The color block jackets.

- Big hair!

- Scrunchies.
- Leopard print.

- Leg warmers.

- Perms.

- Oh my God,
what's it called?

Pfft, cocaine!
(group laughs)