First Time Reaction STING Russians (HARD TO WATCH!)

First Time Reaction STING Russians (HARD TO WATCH!) | Dereck Reacts

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Hi all welcome back to another video Dereck Reacts back at it again! This time around we take a look at another PATREON request with STING and his song "Russians." This first time reaction to STING solo with this timely song, not only is it still relevant today, but is amazingly done. My emotions ride high, in this difficult moment to watch. See it now!
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@overtone24 2 жыл бұрын

Yesterday I returned from Moscow. The first thing I did was to listen to this song. Sting was and is right: "There's no thing such a winnable war. It's a lie we don't believe anymore". Thank you for making this video. And of course: Russians are good people and love their children incredibly.

@mistsister 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying that. ❤

@kimberlygabaldon3260 2 жыл бұрын

Of course they do. 💕

@marcuslegion3654 Жыл бұрын

I'm landed in Moscow at almost the same time .... I moved to Russia. I hope Americans love their children too .

@horizonblack Жыл бұрын

@@marcuslegion3654 We do. The most heroic thing any one us can do is to tell our leaders "no." Peace.

@marcuslegion3654 Жыл бұрын

@@horizonblack really? Did America say no to Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Libya? Somalia? Yemen? And that's just the last 20 years.... Kill count 3 million. In 250 years of existence America's only known 20 years of peace. I think you scream yes yes yes rather than no

@dundeedell1960 2 жыл бұрын

It gave me chills 35 years ago and it still does today "How can I save my boy from Oppenheimer 's deadly toy" always gets to me

@cfinley81 Жыл бұрын

And there is no answer. Because you can't. You cannot even save yourself.

@alexls213 2 жыл бұрын

Sting, a person who is iconic af. And his band, The Police, literally serves us one of the most iconic songs of the 80s. Too bad not a lot of people appreciate them and tends to forget about them. But, I will never forget, the moments that they put out. Love you guys 💙

@ImpartiallySpeaking 2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the global impact if he was to perform this live with two young children waving the flags of Russia and Ukraine

@philkahn2459 2 жыл бұрын

This masterpiece of pathos and prescience was recorded after Sting left The Police for a solo career, (both of these are rightly regarded as iconic.)

@dominiquetardy 2 жыл бұрын

Part of the melody is inspired by Prokofiev (Lieutenant Kijé//Romance) and the video was made by French director Jean-Baptiste Mondino who also did Axel Bauer 'Cargo de nuit'.

@JulienNK 2 жыл бұрын

as Farmer's last photo shoot ;)

@RichSchlam 2 жыл бұрын

Don't review Stings5 Fragile you'll cry

@kervgar 2 жыл бұрын

Omg I didn't know for the video thanks, I love cargo de nuit❤️❤️

@kervgar 2 жыл бұрын

Ha mince vous êtes français hahaa mais c'est vrai qu'il y a des similitudes entre les deux clips

@OmoklmOmoklmOmoklm Жыл бұрын

Une partie de l’arrangement musical est tirée du chanteur auteur compositeur kabyle Idir (RIP) poème sur à mort. Sting est tellement a l’écoute de toutes les cultures et humaniste !

@natinatiouchka7173 2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it ironic… 35 years later… Humankind never seems to learn from its past…

@mariemartino1310 2 жыл бұрын

So true and so sad 😭😱

@thomashilcz6278 2 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%!

@positroll7870 2 жыл бұрын

The UN vote was 180 to 5, or something like that. We have made some progress. Problem is rus and chi haven't.

@THE______TRUTH 2 жыл бұрын

So long as dictatorships exist humanity will be at risk.

@rinatst.petersburg6511 2 жыл бұрын

@@positroll7870 Those 180 is actually 1. So it's more like 1 to 5. We heard that that 1 is only 20% of the earth's population that are being dictated by am. Would you like to disagree or explain why some of the guys here follow the trend of calling the ru president a dictator or a tyrant?). The majority of Russians will honestly laugh at this idea, the rest will not be surprised because they know how much is being invested in weakening this country. There is a percentage of people that will support "this" idea, they are the ones you see starring on your mainstream media and make you think: THIS IS SO TERRIBLE! I wrote a few times how it works. Not again. It's just truly sad how entire nations can be manipulated and how little it takes to not recognize fakes and believe them. (I am a believer. For many years I could not understand how is it possible for the prophecies come to pass... But now we see some of them in action)

@IrisPatricia 2 жыл бұрын

I’m German and I’m turning 55 this year. My childhood and my teenage years were covered by a feeling of fear of a Third World War. As Germany was split into East and West Germany we were in the center of the Cold War. So this fear was very realistic. More than once the world was only an instance away from a nuclear war and Germany would have been the first country to be bombed. And this was the time when Sting would publish this song. It very much described my feelings back then. All us kids felt like that. And now, today, this scary feeling is back, accompanied by the horror of the war in the Ukraine…

@MsSoulProvider 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad Germany is only a puppet nowadays

@user-yc5bh6rd6s 2 жыл бұрын

May be it is just because you are 55 now, because when you were 33 and Germany joined NATO military operation without UN sanction bombing Belgrade with uranium, did you feel the same?

@andreaohne26 Жыл бұрын

I am German as weil, turned 52 in july this year an remember that thread was always present. I remember when ABC test alarms went off, I would always hide unter the kitchen table or a bed. And people don't get smarter. UKRAINE....smh to Mr. f*** putin. I for my part have lost trust in humanity a long time ago.

@robyfiorili Жыл бұрын

The war in Ukraine is basically wanted by the USA. They want Ukraine since the end of the Cold War. Even taking advantage from the western ukrainian people who are basically fascists and nazis.

@martinhamburg2301 Жыл бұрын

I was living in West Germany from 84-87 and saw Sting on his Dream of the Blue Turtle's tour in Frankfurt. I can recall as an American we had to have a go bag in case of invasion. Where I lived in Wiesbaden was only like 6 hours from a tank invasion from East Germany. Made one think.

@heinedietiker4943 2 жыл бұрын

I heard this song in the summer of 1988 in a discotheque in Ukraine, then still USSR. Even then it was clear that the Ukrainians are a people of their own and wanted to be independent.

@sandrinecozic7214 2 жыл бұрын

Lot of nazi in Ukraine

@casualtravelers5847 2 жыл бұрын

Ukrainians have been fighting for their independence for centuries

@dianam4832 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when I first heard this song when I was 14,yo in History class. We were studying the Cold War, our teacher made us listen to this song and watch the video, and let me assure you, there was not one single dry eye in this classroom (I (don't know if it was mandatory in highschools in France but my teacher did it at least). 10 years later, I still got the chills and teary eyes. thank you for your reaction Derek (now i can actually listen to this song again because i couldn't remember the title until now lol)

@angeldevilsoulmusic 2 жыл бұрын

For me it's his best song. He as got a lot of splendid other songs but this one describes so well the geopolitical situation in 1985 (and of today) and the fears of the normal people not able to do something against the march of history and violence...

@sarahm.5356 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this whole album so much.

@oliveb. 2 жыл бұрын

@@sarahm.5356 I literally wore this tape out and had to purchase a second copy. Dream of the Blue Turtles was an amazing album.

@jeanine6328 2 жыл бұрын

This song is as powerful today as it ever was. Sting is just an incredible man.

@susanjohnston8267 2 жыл бұрын

I have never heard this Sting song. Thank you for reviewing it. From hearing it, it is as deep as Cranberries- Zombie. The children are innocent, it is viewpoints in the grown ups heads that twist them up and spit them out. The song I am currently listening to is The War Song by Culture Club.

@thomashilcz6278 2 жыл бұрын

This song was a big hit in the 80s and is as relevant today as it was then.

@Cre80s 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't "a big hit". But it hit hard. I never once heard it on the radio, if that's a measure of what "big hit" means. But to call things "a hit" is something people tend to want to put on a song or a musician as if there is no significance without it. Anyway, those of us who were plugged in very much knew about it. Frankly, radioplay is a wasteland, always has been, always put off by songs with any actual depth. Often, you'll have either one of the other, seldom both depth and "a hit you heard on American Top 40." Thankfully, there was not a lot of time between the era this song was released in and the fall of the Berlin wall, just a few years

@kathrynbeecher2963 Жыл бұрын

@@Cre80s *"It wasn't "a big hit". But it hit hard."* Precisely stated. Played even less than "Children of the Sun", but you only had to hear it once for it to be indelibly unforgettable.

@Cre80s Жыл бұрын

@@kathrynbeecher2963 OMFG, did you just cite Billy Thorpe like that, straight out of the blue??? WOW! You legit AF! 😆

@GrafindeKlevemark 2 жыл бұрын

For those of us who lived through the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs, this song has never been forgotten. At the time I was in a UK boarding school (14 years old, I believe) and my parents in Germany (my father military and the NATO tanks rumbling through the night on operations), all I wanted was to get to them. Letters were the only way of communicating with them. What is happening today brings this all back.... and Sting's song is in my mind again.

@Budini67 11 ай бұрын

The same day Ukraine was invaded I ordered 2 cases of Potassium Iodine from Amazon. I. AM. THAT. AFRAID. We lived through the cold war of the eighties and right now we are back on that same edge. The Iodine is not for me. I'm old and I have health issues. It is for my children and grandchildren. To protect them as best I can. BTW... the prices of those 2 cases is now 6 times what it was when I ordered mine.

@mandarinlearner 4 ай бұрын

I was a child on a nuclear security air force base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. My father would have been dropping nuclear bombs if ordered to do so. This song hits me so hard

@sirjohnmara 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, a classic! Brilliant video too. Strange; just a month ago, you could tell young people: Okay, that was a long time ago, everything is normal now. And now, one week ago - Back to this?!? Again?! Good reaction Derek, I feel your emotions...

@pbhansen731 2 жыл бұрын

I never thougth this song would be relevant again but sadly it is 😪 it is a strong message

@samueldevulder 2 жыл бұрын

I studied the lyrics of this song in English class back then in high school. Great memories. Many thanks to my English teacher of the time.

@albamartinez4987 2 жыл бұрын

This song has always hit hard especially if you read the lyrics. When this came out we were on a knife edge, nuclear war was threatened on both sides and the fear was tangible. This song was expressing what we all felt at the time. If you notice Sting composed it so it would sound like a funeral march plus the ticking in the background reminds us of the imminent threat, how much time do we have left? This song has been playing in my head now for a week, since Russia invaded Ukraine. It's sad we haven't learnt and we are back to this solemn place yet again. 😔

@jamielandis4308 2 жыл бұрын

Few songs capture the Cold War like this. It’s a shame that we are still thinking this way 37 years later. The clock at the beginning represents the Doomsday Clock. It’s strange that you would say you guess things were going on then. When this came out we were on the verge of nuclear war every day.

@oliveb. 2 жыл бұрын

Scary times. I remember watching the TV movie The Day After about nuclear war and having nightmares.

@nicolleleney5299 2 жыл бұрын

That caught me too. But when you think about it, he’s likely too young to remember. I don’t think the Cold War is really taught in schools, is it? I was a child of the 80s, so I remember this part, but I know there was so much more in the decades before that I really just know from hearing about it. We at least never had drills to hide under desks like they did back then. People of this younger age never knew an East and West Germany. Their maps in geography class didn’t say USSR. We have adults know that don’t even really remember 9/11 because they were too young. It is sad that we are clearly not learning enough from history, because some of it is definitely repeating itself.

@jamesw8132 3 ай бұрын

Our school library had a book about nuclear war and survivable rem/rad doses and I swatted on that as much as anything else at school. Probably wouldn’t mean much on the frontline, but in New Zealand I thought we had a chance.

@NoCanDu 2 жыл бұрын

I was 16 when I first heard this. I got chills, just like you. It always brings me to tears. The Russians do love their children, too. Putin doesn’t give a shit. 🥺 As a Cold War Child, I prefer my war cold. 😞 🇺🇦

@frederiquemartin223 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I m the same age as you and at the time those lyrics about Russians loving their children too were reassuring. That was a different era, before Putin....

@NoCanDu 2 жыл бұрын

@@frederiquemartin223 😥

@sandrinecozic7214 2 жыл бұрын

Propagande....OTAN dont love children

@zahrans 2 жыл бұрын

That's great and all. Shame the same cannot be said for the 14,000 dead East Ukrainians these past 8 years, the majority who were killed by forces loyal to the PRO WESTERN Ukrainian government.

@ivanl.8201 2 жыл бұрын

I was only a few months shy of my thirteenth birthdays when I first heard this in 1986. I was living in Belgrade, but ended up escaping 7 years later to the United States, as I didn't want to take part in a civil war that my family lived on both sides of. I remember loving this song so much that I recorded it on my favorite cassette tape as soon as I could. I'm an amateur keyboardist, and have always had this huge love for amazing strings + synthesizers arrangements like this one. I feel like it's actually more tense now than it was in 1986. Yugoslavia wasn't a part of the Warsaw Pact, but we all breathed a huge sigh of relief when Gorbachev became a new President of the USSR in 1985. He was a peace-loving man, and probably the only USSR President that I actually really liked. I also started to like Reagan more and more, as he kept working with Gorbachev on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that was signed at the end of 1987. I remember different USSR presidents, and I read a bit about each one, and I think the ones not named in the song were the worst: namely Stalin, Brezhnev and Andropov. Check out what "Brezhnev doctriine" is, and it will send chills down your spine. I feel like Putin is operating straight out of the Brezhnev doctrine, and it's terrifying. Also, I think the times when Yuri Andropov was the President of USSR was the scariest time for me in all of cold war. I was just a kid then, and everyone kept mentioning this name "Andropov, Andropov". People openly talked about different nuclear war scenarios. This was during the 1982-1984 period. We all felt a huge wave of relief when Andropov died. Love and prayers to Ukraine and to all the Russians that either protest this war or deep down don't want this war and were duped and fooled into supporting it.

@traog 2 жыл бұрын

Another Sting song with a similar message is "Fragile". Something musically quite different, "Desert Rose" is a good choice.

@leisen9679 2 жыл бұрын

The message of Fragile is similar, but very different. It is inspired by the suffering of Chileans under Pinochet. theres also a Spanish version, Fragilidad. And this makes an important point: While the US brought, and helped to maintain peace, prosperity and stability to my continent, Europe, they brought suffering and destruction and anything but democracy to most of Latin America.

@MFLimited 2 жыл бұрын

And “Children’s Crusade”

@ReeM-wz7bs 2 жыл бұрын

I remember Sting playing an acoustic version of Fragile as the one and only song on 9/11, when he was due to play in New York. Its lyrics are so poignant for 9/11.

@dominiqueloury6854 2 жыл бұрын

I like sting, I bought all his albums when I was young. He made others emotionals songs like this one. the beautiful for me is "they dance alone"

@cfinley81 Жыл бұрын

"They dance alone." is a true gem!

@carlosmodegahan4455 2 жыл бұрын

I was 12 years old in 1985 and was worried about a nuclear war between USSR and USA due to all the hype of the Cold War, I remember listening to this song and was deeply moved by it at that age. I still listen to it from time to time. Good timing on this with the current situation.

@bogeythedog163 2 жыл бұрын

I was scared too

@Albachris79 2 жыл бұрын

The timing for discovering this song is on point !

@stevedow5842 2 жыл бұрын

If there was a Nobel Peace Prize for uTube videos, I nominate Dereck!!!

@cliveklg7739 2 жыл бұрын

His first performance of this live was on his first solo Album "Bring On The Night" and the documentary of the same name shows him setting some of the arrangement for the song for that performance. What is even more powerful about the documentary is they set the song over the birth of one of his kids, actually being in the hospital as he is in the delivery room. So the lyrics are even more striking with that imagery. I highly recommend that documentary.

@crumbcrunchers5017 2 жыл бұрын

This song has been going through my head a lot lately, which led me to your video. You had a great reaction to it, it was obvious that you were genuinely moved. It is an amazing song and is even more meaningful with what's been going on.

@mariemartino1310 2 жыл бұрын

J'adore tellement cette chanson💖 , punaise ! Elle tombe pile dans l'actualité de ce début d'année 2022 !!

@courastro-ng 2 жыл бұрын

Je l'adore aussi mais on l'avait qq peu oublié ...C'est juste "waouh" comme elle résonne à nouveau tellement fort !! "I hope that Russians love their children too"...😥

@cedrigo 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite song ever ! Sadly, History is repeating itself... Thank you Dereck for the goosebumps.

@TheDavid8371 2 жыл бұрын

Cette chanson a raisonnement avec ce qu il se passe chez nous en Europe...prions pour la paix 😔🙏😔🙏💙💛

@colombe245 2 жыл бұрын

Sting is amazing, love his voice and his music, a true nice man and gentleman. Everything that comes from him is a positive thing. Love him 👌🏻💖

@DereckReacts 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing man

@rouguy1972 2 жыл бұрын

Always loved this song ❤️

@ImpartiallySpeaking 2 жыл бұрын

The cold war was never as bad as it is today. Interesting to hear this channel refer to events in Europe where it’s worth remembering Russian threats against the West and NATO would effect the America just as much as anywhere else. It’s not merely a European crisis

@leisen9679 2 жыл бұрын

This sent shivers down my spine, 40 years ago, when living on the cold war frontline in Germany. I didn't expect the song to become so relevant again...again threatened by a Russian nuclear bomb. Horrible.

@sandrinecozic7214 2 жыл бұрын

And OTAN ?

@leisen9679 2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 this is not about NATO/OTAN or the US. This about a country trying to join the EU, the European family which has brought us more than 70 years of peace and stability, brought by a fundamental change in which (Western) Europeans see and approach their lifes. A country wants to join this club, another country wants to stop it, wages war on it, killing innocent women, men and children. Nato can't do anything to stop this cruel and bloody dictator, because of being threatened by outright nuclear war. Any further questions or opinions?

@bernhardstil6128 2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 Yeah? What about NATO? Did NATO just invade an European Country? Did NATO just threaten the Russians with nuclear weapons? So what about OTAN?

@bogeythedog163 2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 nato in french is otan

@alienweekrawumm4741 2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 U Talk about Propaganda and in the same Way u believe all the Lies Putin talks about. Wow thats so stupid. BtW Russia has a Nazi Problem too but they will fight as special Operations Team for Putin (Group Wagner). 'But OTAN'....- is OTAN shooting at a nuclear powerplant? Is OTAN robbing the Ukraine and kill thounsands of people? Is OTAN making a civil war in Ukraine? Is OTAN threaten with nuclear weapons? Putin will conquere the whole Ukraine and install a russian jumpin Jack as President. And Russia signed a contract in 1994 that they'll get the 1000 ukrainian Nuclear Missles and respect the Borders of Ukraine. A sh*t for Putin.

@paulocarvalho6480 2 жыл бұрын

One of the few songs that made as much sense back then, when it was released, as it does right now. Sting is a visionary genius.

@ruthfoley2580 2 жыл бұрын

I remember this very well. You know how nervous you are about the bomb now? Welcome to my childhood.

@jena_thornwyrd 2 жыл бұрын

The music is an arrangement of the Romance theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev :) Damn I love Prokofiev !!!!

@thothemron7912 2 жыл бұрын

J'avais 12 ans quand elle est sortie, dans un contexte de guerre froide très tendue. C'est un petit bijou d'émotion et d'intelligence.

@fredericpouzol1498 2 жыл бұрын

Dear dereck, Please try "an englishman in New York " . Thanks

@patricelion902 2 жыл бұрын

what a song !!!!

@marce4000 2 жыл бұрын

40 years ago and now have the same situation... When on the 80's ear this song, break my heard, and now too, I hope that all peaple go to right way and make peace and love...

@DannyD714 2 жыл бұрын

keep in mind this was released in 1985. two days ago (mar. 7, 2022) a russian general was killed on the front lines in ukraine at age 37.... born the same year this song came out. he was one of the children sting was singing about. ironic and tragic all at the same time.

@karneko4531 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite Sting song. ❤️ from Russia

@pascalmarfaing1690 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck with . . .

@Sofield119 2 жыл бұрын

Hope all the sanctions won't affect your daily life, and that it won't escalate. Civilians have nothing to do with all this mess.❤ from France

@charleshope8856 2 жыл бұрын

It was one of my favorite songs here in America, too.

@karneko4531 2 жыл бұрын

@@Sofield119 our government has been making our lives miserable for years. If we fought against. They pointed weapons at us and put us in prisons. We are not afraid of sanctions. We are more afraid of our own government. Thanks for your words. Now many people hate me just because I'm Russian.Peace for Ukraine.

@pierreo2629 2 жыл бұрын

@@karneko4531 you, my dear Russian fellows, the people of the great Russia. have the key to stop all this horror. Go out, in the streets, to protest against Putin's agression. Russia isn't Putin and Putin's not Russia. Please shout it out on the streets ! Now ! You are the key, really. They're bombing and invading Ukraine. People of Russia, change the history, now.

@sebastiencalandrini9650 2 жыл бұрын

How ironic to react to this song now...! The lyrics just used to sound like they belonged to a bygone era__until a few days ago. How sad! How tragic! History repeating itself over again. 😥😢😓😭

@SeanRCope Жыл бұрын

This was a song that really made me think as a Veteran who served overseas on a Cold War border. Scary if thought about too much then, but pride now in having stood up and lived it. We won that one and yet here we are, and now my kids are of age :-(. The beat goes on. Live in the now.

@Djefer69 2 жыл бұрын

Such a powerful song! People who were already on this Earth at that time do remember - especially in Europe - that this nuclear threat we feel today was an everyday feeling then : for 40 years we were wondering "When will they invade us, when will they drop the bomb and USA will lanch theirs too as a response" :(

@anima6780 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Dereck for your reaction to this really powerful song ! Sting has got so many beautiful and clever songs. You should also listen to 'Moon over Bourbon Street, 'Fragile', Fields of Gold', 'They dance alone'. Love from France

@malenebrydov8434 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this - fantastic song and very relevant lyrics.

@explorateurterrestre8962 2 жыл бұрын

Que Dieu nous préserve de la folie des Hommes... 🙏

@peaked_aussie 2 жыл бұрын

Really glad to see a reaction to this song, that is just as relevant today than it was in 1985. Another one from Sting that is beautifully poetic and poignant is called 'A Children's crusade'. A song by the Clash that you might also be interested in is called, 'The Call Up'.. it mentions the wheat fields over Kiev 'maybe I want to see the wheat fields over Kiev and down to the sea. There is a rose that I want to live for, although God knows, I may not have met her' .. thanks!

@CandleLight1974 2 жыл бұрын

This was at the height of the Cold War. The idea of a nuclear was very real. Sadly, some things barely change.

@teamsockmonkeymultisport2085 6 ай бұрын

this song. Im 57 translated this song into Russian in my Russian 101 class back in 1985 and had a girl I was trying to date sing it in Russian.... Was in the Army in Geramy in '94 and still have a piece of the recently downed berlin wall ....chills to hear this now AGAIN

@donatodelapaz8468 2 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable....exact same thing that came out of my mouth when I first heard this song 30 years ago. It's just so nice to witness the generation now discovering how great and meaningful our music was back in the day. Okay....let me go back now to my Tik-Toking.

@Claudia-xq4rm 11 ай бұрын

Love this song. It’s a masterpiece music wise

@pxll8643 2 жыл бұрын

La folie des puissants, et c’est le peuple qui souffre. Mon enfance bercée par la guerre froide, et l’histoire qui se répète ! 😪

@robby6656 2 жыл бұрын

It nearly makes me cry... It's so unbelievable what is happening.

@jonketcher8325 2 жыл бұрын

This song was not “a head of its time”, it was a product of its time. And now history repeats itself

@ludivinebalthazar9189 2 жыл бұрын

Sting j'adore ❤️ très classe comme mec

@paulojrneto 2 жыл бұрын

The "little boy" in the video also appeared on Madonna's Open Your Heart video.

@reginebody3133 2 жыл бұрын

Then you look '2 tribes' from Frankie goes to Hollywood on the same subject. The video is incredible

@fabricedubuisson8370 2 жыл бұрын

This song takes on its full meaning today and it's so sad ! . . . 😔😔😔! . . . 😢😢😢! . . .

@loicbarbier4490 2 жыл бұрын

Une magnifique chanson de Sting. Un immense artiste...

@davidknowledge4721 6 ай бұрын

SIR, your reactions are remarkable 👏 👏👏 and surprising 😮

@marjorieroman9591 2 жыл бұрын

Finally someone reacts on this song!! You did it! I was 13 when it was released and I still remember ALL the lyrics though it's been some decades we've been listening to it. It struck me so deep at that time...So as soon as I 've heard what 's happening in the world right now, I couldn't help myself from remembering this song and hope too...And can you believe it??? there's a live version recorded on the First of the year 2011 in...Moscow!!! Thanks Dereck to light young people with this masterpiece...

@DCM1970 2 жыл бұрын

STING Fantastic!

@kathrynbeecher2963 Жыл бұрын

Just now learned that the bridge bringing Russian supplies and troops to Crimea has been destroyed by Ukrainian forces, and this song instantly came to mind. Found your site my third replay. I grew up under the fear of the Cold War. My youngest child was born the same year Sting released this piece, and it brought me to tears. It is provokingly poignant that it is being rediscovered and received with similar impact by our children's children in this new age of uncerainty. May compassion prevail. Pray for peace.

@sanijadresko2675 2 жыл бұрын

I start listening Sting when he relese this song in 1985 and i fell in love with this song and his voice,music..The Polices too!Iwas a kid of just 8 years!

@davidknowledge4721 6 ай бұрын

Yes, that sound unlike no other🤷🏿‍♂️

@LexusLFA554 2 жыл бұрын

I am glad you enjoyed this song. It is absolute goosebump territory from start to finish.

@Irisnietnodiggg99 2 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! Finally someone who reacts to this masterpiece! This song makes me emotional too, even after all these years. +1 sub

@alessandrac.4417 2 жыл бұрын

I was there. I was 12 at the time. Although I was basically a little girl, it touched me a lot and I couldn't help thinking of this song right away. I was hoping we'd never have to listen to it with the situation and spirit we're in now. It's a masterpiece

@bonepicker1 2 жыл бұрын

The sinister ticking of the Nuclear clock brings the song home as well.

@eriksvideos6022 2 жыл бұрын

It gave me goosebumps in high school and it still does today. I wish this song was less relevant.

@j.k.1963 2 жыл бұрын

In one moment last week we were instantly put back 40 years in time. The fear of destruction never really vanished. And here we are again. Delivered into the hands of one maniac madman. All we can do is pray. Because the question if Putin loves 'his children', is now answered. He does not.

@jkb8748 2 жыл бұрын

It was a dark, scary time. Never thought we’d be here again!

@garryiglesias4074 2 жыл бұрын

One of Sting's masterpiece... On Prokofiev music...

@courastro-ng 2 жыл бұрын

hello Dereck... It's a song that I loved and still love...it "vibrated" at the time so much! And "wow" how it sounds so loud again!! "I hope that Russians love ...their children too"...😥

@totof381 10 ай бұрын

thank you Dereck !

@kevcall 2 жыл бұрын

Well said.. We're going through an awful time over here at the moment. Let's hope people see some sense ASAP.

@edithkeller9694 Жыл бұрын

This song definitely summed up the feelings many of us where having at that moment...Growing up in the 80s we were always preparing for war with Russia.. I was 15 when this song came out and really made me stop and ponder that question....We came very very close to a nuclear war, but if it wasn't for a Soviet submarine military member and his gut feeling to not fire! Bless that man!

@chrizzend8445 2 жыл бұрын

I have been thinking about this song recently. Too.

@enguerranddemarigny 2 жыл бұрын

"Robert Oppenheimer's deadly toy", we all know what does it mean !!!!

@nabilbelmokadem9092 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome music

@kotoal 2 жыл бұрын

On nous oblige à choisir un camp, celui du "bien" évidemment, qui dépend de l'endroit où on se trouve. Mais nous sommes tous frères et les prétentions des oligarches ne devraient pas nous concerner. Au contraire c'est la population qui subit. Soyons solidaire aux hommes plutôt qu'aux idées venues d'en haut.

@firelance3113 2 жыл бұрын

had this song in my head when it started. great song.

@bennyStrecico 6 ай бұрын

❤😢❤😢❤😢❤😢❤😢❤😢 THIS IS STING......THIS IS.......UNFORGETTEBLE......OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!REGAN.....RUSSIAN.......STING❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@cfinley81 Жыл бұрын

The ticking that continues at the end is also telling because (I think) it says that it's still just a matter of time, still a very real possibility. As long as we possess these weapons and they are locked and loaded and ready to go, it will always be a real possibility.

@pascalmarfaing1690 2 жыл бұрын

In 1987 , Indochine recorded " Les Tzars ". This song is AGAINST DICTATURES.. In the video you will see Adolf Hitler , Benito Mossulini , Léon Trotsky , Joseph Staline , Mao Zedong and Idi Amin Dada who was cannibal. Lyrics : « Qu'ils nous foutent la paix ! » « La révolution ! »

@samueldevulder 2 жыл бұрын

Il est temps pour un reboot avec de nouveaux noms....

@stephanebreton3708 2 жыл бұрын

Scorpions - Linving for tomorrow (live in St. Petersburg)

@connexionnature4583 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes silence is here. It's like that. Thanx.

@Leftatalbuquerque 2 жыл бұрын

It was the era. I was there. Now listen to "Forever Young" by Alphaville. Available as ballad and dance remix.

@disenchantedwanderer9033 Жыл бұрын

The arrangement of the chorus is a lift from Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijè Suite, 'Romance'. One of Stings best.

@clsme7999 2 жыл бұрын

This song should be re-released today.

@TryMyMartini Жыл бұрын

"We share the same biology, regardless of ideology." And "There's no such thing as a winnable war, it's a lie we don't believe anymore."

@eduardojuscelinodiazmartin9969 2 жыл бұрын

Moon over Bourbon Street...! Mad about you...! Shape of my heart...! Fields of Gold!!!

@caerphillykid6644 2 жыл бұрын

a pure brilliant song!!

@bardoubruno498 2 жыл бұрын

Je ne me suis jamais intéressé aux paroles, c'est clairement édifiant et d'actualité ! Sinon que j'aime les artistes anglais, quand on voit et entend sting encore aujourd'hui, le mec n'a pas pris une ride en terme de charisme !

@enguerranddemarigny 2 жыл бұрын

Tu aurais du 😁 ! J'avais 13 ans à l'époque et on l'avait apprise en cours d'anglais (le prof était super il est vrai). Oppenheimer deadly toy" est incroyable. C'est grâce à cette phrase que j'ai su qui était Robert Oppenheimer et de quoi il était le "père" ! L'année suivante, en avril, c'était Tchenobyl ! Ce mi-temps des années 80 était irrespirable !

@carolynthompson3291 2 жыл бұрын

That’ll be the transcendental sex 😉🤣

@HighFashionQueen Жыл бұрын

I was never a fan of Sting or the Police, but this song gets me. I am an 80 child, but I was not afraid then, my country is neighbout to russia, this song is so relevant now again.

@SebGeddy 2 жыл бұрын

Emotional and amazing reaction to this essential song by the great Sting, Dereck 👍👏

@Le_Chat_Cosmic_4493 2 жыл бұрын

Russians takes up the musical theme of the Romance from the orchestral suite Lieutenant Kijé, composed by the Russian Sergueï Prokofiev. In 2010, Sting explained that the song was inspired by watching Soviet TV at Columbia University: "I had a friend in college who figured out a way to pick up the satellite signal from Russian TV. We would have a few beers and walk up a small flight of stairs to watch Russian TV... At that time of the night, we could only see the children's shows (because of the jet lag), their “Sesame Street”. What struck me when I watched these programs was how much care and attention and clearly love had been invested in these programs. And they were our enemies, but they clearly love their children like we love ours".