Dude you need to check out Bliss N Eso My Life

More Tracy Chapman please. 😊

Please listen to Tracy Chapman..All that you have is your soul...💘💘

Black water by JJ Grey & Mofro!!

You need to check out Gang of Youths Deepest Sighs Frankest Shadows

Do you know how many of my black "friends" told me how much they Hated Tracy Chapman???? I figured it out in the end...They hated my white ass too...I still like Tracy's song....screw them.

She's very Joan Armatrading

She is a treasure for the whole world

@@mac1975 i am from France and she is a treasure for me. My favorite singer.

Where do you all get this stuff? First, her hair is not "wild." They're locs. It's a pretty standard hair style for Black people, even back then. Somebody had to do it for her. And plenty of Black people love Tracy Chapman. It's impossible for 40 million people to ALL love or hate the same thing.

Wow

What age are you now?

Blessings to you!

Glad you overcame. I did too. My kids have what we didn’t. Peace out :)

🙏🏾❤️

❤

Total goosebumps❤

Her and Nina Simone are why I always felt physically sick around any type of racism and prejudice. Billie Holiday too. 3 women in 3 separate iconic times STILL looking for the same freedom. So I have serious problems when I encountered any form of it. Whether it was a white relation to LatinX immigrants because she didn't understand the language OR an Asian relation towards someone of Armenian refugee who drives a great car and doesn't work. Turns my stomach every time & yeah, I've seen people treat melanin-rich humans (it's a good way of humanizing people who simply carry the slight change in genetics between race that simply alters the amount of melanin in our skin-tone for all those prejudiced people who are determined to believe that we are different people). Ugh. If we were all the same then heaven would be boring AF. Course I don't think certain people will be in my afterlife because I want a happy, joyous, fully enriched spiritual existence where color only matters in how we paint our skies.

@W What's with the "not as good as"? What makes Kendrick Lamar "better"? Because he's a boy?

@W better singer

Jennie Kreiner better now? I hope.

@@agricolaregs yes that was over 30 years ago I have a wonderful life for the most part. I have PTSD and a few other problems like that but I do my best to live life every day

I hope all is well now , best wishes

So glad you are better. This song makes you think and evaluate your life, seriously!

Homeless at 14! What the hell!

OMG! NO! I feel so old 😂😂 I remember sitting on the doorstep in the summer listening to this x

Wow, I hate you lol. I graduated from high school a year before this album came out. The years are flashing by now. 😐

My how time flies, didn't it was quite that old damn ...♡

Yep, 1988! It its timeless. If it were released today it would still be a huge hit. Very current feeling.

True, and one of the best songs ever written.

Same here this song puts me in some kind of mood

Yep, same here!

This fool knows the song. All these channels with "first time hearing" are a load of bollocks. This guy has loads of them, no way are they all genuine.

Carl Rees yeah I felt watching it that he may have listened to it before recording but when Rihanna Kanye and Paul McCartney had a song years ago and there was a small bunch of people who hadn't a clue who Paul was, I realised that there are some with very sheltered music exposure. The reaction videos are different to the first time hearing videos as far as I know.

Same

It’s interesting, that happens to me too. I don’t get emotional with these types of songs unless I’m watching a first reaction video for some reason…

You’re a survivor! I’m so happy you got out of such a bad situation!

Just the fact that you left. Even with nowhere to go and came on the other side better...warrior! 💪 👏

This gives me strength in my situation.

Well done you. Head down and go for it is the only way, no looking back to see the burning bridges; they are burning for a reason. Be very proud of you Zoe.

Thank-you for sharing your beautiful story..full of so much hope. You are very brave and incredibly strong.

I shed a tear hearing.

It kinda is a feel good song, its aspiring to get a better life and how it would happen and what it could be like.

Ain't nothing wrong with truth!

@@welshman100 True, but then it hits you with the last part, where she's still stuck in the same place because of her now-deadbeat husband. It's sad af, but if there are people who can take the good out of it and aspire to get out of their own rut, I can see how it could be a feel-good song.

people react to songs differently than others. it can be a sad song, but he feels good listening to it and you should let him. you can weep, he can nod along and smile

@@Pistolwhipperz Yep, exactly.

The struggle is real my friend

​@@Pistolwhipperz Why did you feel the need to bring race into this. Are there poor people of other races where she comes from?

@@richardjw953 Correct, there are poor people all over the world that try to escape poverty, generation after generation. This song is not confined to a specific place on earth. The song is valid on a global scale.

@@Pistolwhipperz Sorry but it's not. Its a song about how people become who they are and how history repeats. Poverty was a theme but not the message. The key was comparing her childhood in the story and who she ended up marrying was a guy just like her alcoholic father. Buy the end up the song she doesn't have money issues and lives int he suburbs with her kids but become just like her mother who bailed on her. This song equally about chasing dreams, but also of the nightmare of ending up where you began (by becoming who you were running from).

We don’t have to let the past define who we are. We can rise above that past and be who we want to be!

In a Cambridge Subway

Proof that not being blonde and blue eyes isn't prejudice to real talent winning

@@aatikahcarmenhappy3494 Talent prevails, no matter the race. :)

Aatikah Carmen happy ...........wow that’s so racist, while I was growing up, born in 1955 we never had racism where I lived. I had black freinds but never had to think about their colour. These days everybody is racist. I am as white as they come and never knew racism until these leftwing SJWs and white wasters brought it up to get control the black and coloured people to ‘get’ their votes. Stop thinking about racism to stop being racist.

@@hangxiaohuz748 I was born 10 years later in 1965. I have never seen race relations so bad in my life, and things were fairly turbulent in my childhood.....but nothing like they are now! I don't understand it. I have my theories, though.

Yes!!!!

Every word of it rings just as true now as it did when she recorded it..sadly..

Scary how it fits 2021 🙏✌️🇺🇸

the album has many great songs to listem to

Out here 3 years in the future, your comment gave me shivers. I can imagine the magic you described.

DannX68 sometimes I think that too, but he’s reasonably young and we forget how old this song is

@@yvonnemclay8097 I know and it's all good, it's just that I think it's one of the best songs ever written, and so I just want everyone to be aware of it :D

Yvonne McLay I just cant believe he’s never heard it on the radio before. I’m in my early 20’s and grew up with this song being played a LOT. But I am in the UK.

@@rhapsodicsky4843 I couldn't handle it being played everywhere when it first came out. It was like getting punched in the gut 5 times a day.

Well put

Me too.

My people❤ same here lol

yes

Same. I’m bawling like a baby.

It hits the heart in a more powerful way as you get older. The lyrics are so real 😌💗

Zee Zaa me too ❤️💜

Zee Zaa mine too. My life. This brings back too many memories

She reminds me of a modern day Bob Dylan.

Still after all this time it is still one of my absolute favourite albums.... I never get bored listening to it 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Remember Robert Cray was big at the same time Tracy Chapman was big.

_Gimme one reason to stay here ... And I'll turn right back around … I don't want leave you lonely … But you got to make me change my mind_ *💘*

Do not pin sjw on her. She is so much better than that, in my opinion. So much BETTER. She is real and meaningful, nothing about force coming from her, in this at least.

That's a goddess, there.

...in the belly of the British Empire, that is. Cars and booze and work all day for the system to pay the bills. Better times ahead!

I'd have to say it's one of the saddest songs ever written, and lyrically one of the best. And it's so sad because even when in her imagination her humble dreams came true, there were still problems. Big problems.

Bigsurjay at least we got one 😊

@@Bacopa68 It's history repeating despite her struggles that makes this song tragic. She basically married a man just like her father, and become the mother that abandoned her.

Hope - this song is about hope and our journey....

Yes love give me one reason -great song

Stayed on the charts for a long time

Amen.

You're right every song on that album was amazing, try finding that today.

Sure is Kevin.

Yup.

You have to listen to “baby can I hold you tonight” by her.. that song! Is it!

Yes she was totally different from anybody who came before her 👍💗

DS9Sisko perhaps he listened to it and had a different interpretation of it than you? That’s the joy of music, it means something different to everyone. Stop being so judgemental, it’s not needed

Great song it reminds me of my father....

@@fortunax22 US Americans are conditioned to believe in "The American Dream", that's not his fault. But he wants to listen more and more, so might get it, in time.

Love that song!

Brilliant song

The Promise

And Last Night

Oh, yesssss! Check out the version with Tracy, and Eric Clapton. Pure gold.

But the last verse is her telling the fast car driver to make a decision, grow up, or get out. I can see how the slow but sure grind of the single parent family, alcoholic father, leaving school, jumping from minimum wage job to minimum wage job and ending up with a partner who is a complete deadbeat is sad. But some people will see her ultimatum at the end as her making a stand. Taking control and trying to do something. And those people who hear that message are so lucky. I think that this is one of those truly breathtaking songs that is shaped by the listener as much as the singer - and that's entirely down to her writing.

I could not agree more. Even at the younger age I was when I first heard this, I understood what it was to be trapped in poverty's gaze. It was hope and hopelessness all at once.

Yes, indeed.

Me too.

Sinead O'Connor's entire first Lion and the Cobra album is a masterpiece. Troy is one of my favorites.

Man 4 sure! Nothing compares to you by Sinead O'Connor

@@andrewvam then listen to the ORIGINAL BY THE ONE AND ONLY PRINCE " RIP"

Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2 U. His is amazing.. Durh, Prince. Sinead's rendition left my heart in the floor.

Church...!

Exactly it’s a must hear

Talking about A Revolution is my favorite

My ABSOLUTE favorite song on the planet. It came on the radio years ago on my way to ask my dad if I could come back home. It's brilliance to me personally is that she sings everything that I was thinking when I left home. The last thing my dad said is "You'll be back". I failed. I had to go back. Hung my head in shame. All these years later, and after losing Pop, I thank my him for never saying "Don't come back". Dads are usually right. Mine let me go to fly on my own. And he hugged me so tight after coming back. Not once said I told ya so.

I heard her live with Eric Clapton

I'm a grown ass man and this song makes me cry

Emotional indeed. Tracy is a legend in my book.

Actually you can run from your past with one exception... If you have some type of illness.

I love her songs so much but I can't listen to them a lot, they hit me way too hard.

Same 😥

Thank you for reminding me about this song. ❤️ It's my next stop on yt.

Oh yes! I loved that song!

Great song, and the 'Boyzone' cover of it was fairly decent too!

One of my all time favs!!

One of my faves 🤩

badlongon She doesn’t get the recognition that she deserves. I guess it’s partially because of the sociopolitical nature of some of her songs and partially because she is different. She doesn’t fit the industry’s definition of what is considered beautiful and she doesn’t walk around with her ass or tits hanging out. Smh.

Modern jazz music never sold out to the money pimps. Disco, what is called country, and rap music do so on a daily basis, and they do so with pride.

Sad but true.

Yes, but it's rare. Check out First Aid Kit.

Just a fast car and you keep on driving

If he was born in 2000, it's possible. He has this special opportunity now. It's how I discovered 70s albums on the 80s and 90s

donald dunlop Me too. 😭

Nailed it. Perfectly said

I am not crying. Ok maybe I am

So glad you said that. I thought I was the only one that teared up everytime I heard it. She was let down by so many people she should've been able to count on, but she keeps on going...surviving.

Is it sad or hopeful?

@@brucecoleman5379 It's sad because their hope finds no resolution. At least up to that point, their hope had found no resolution. It's the plight of most people on this planet. Those of us fortunate enough to live with "normal" comforts are actually living exceptional lives compared to many. Just the fact that we can converse in this manner using a computer: It shows our privilege.

@@brucecoleman5379 It is sad. Because by the end of the song, she realises that her dreams of a better life aren't going to happen. She sacrificed herself while caring for her father in the beginning, and now she has to sacrifice herself caring for her children. She encourages the father to ... fly away, or live and die this way. She has given up all hope.

Music can touch the deepest places in our hearts whether we like it or not. My friend committed suicide 12 years ago and his favorite song still makes me cry and it’s not even sad. Music is so powerful 💚 I’m sorry for your loss. It’s terrible to lose a friend.

What about just "Be Someone".

Kiara Banks hmm isn’t that exactly what he’s doing here? 😂

Nick Gibbs yeah but Tracy Chapman isn’t some undiscovered artist that only a handful of people know about... I mean sheesh her music is still played on the radio... 😂 That’s like people saying they don’t know about A Tribe Called Quest

@@kiarabanks6123 we're glad that you know the song...let him enjoy this moment...its a beautiful and eloquent song with heart ...too many people judging because of him not know the song...he's young...

Literally he must have never listened to the radio growing up. Impossible

wtf is A Tribe Called Quest.

Di B That is one of my all-time favorites. Love that one!

I love that song so much.

Di B I love this song too 🌸

I thought she is a guy

@@jisookruzat Apparently you are not singular in your assessment. I have never thought of her as male, or even thought beyond simply enjoying her beautiful essence, talent, and incredible smile. She's a gift. If you are new to her, there is much music to enjoy. She is deeply respected in the industry and has some great collaborations as well. : )

I believe there are still many singer songwriters just as (well almost) as good out there today. No music studios are promoting them unfortunately. We probably will never here them.

@@brianbarnett1004 true there out there but will never hear them to much auto tune in the way

Ok boomer

@@divyansh2023 You're so clever!

@@LG123ABC I mean I could also give them a logical explanation and a list of very talented artists who are still releasing extremely well crafted albums but everyone knows that they will stick to their opinions so why bother

Or Sign your Name..

Young is not an excuse, maybe he doesn't hear music much or simply hears the same music

ya im younger than him im pretty sure and have heard this song so no excuse lol

well, hearing certain music also has to do with how/where you're raised.