i don't get this music video i love the song and the band but the video makes no sense with the song he does not look impressed while watching his people kill each other i just don't get it
@MRj0hnny5 Its the other way around in my opinion. The way I see it, his people are impressed by the massive amount of power he has, but they also hate him because he is sadistic and brutal. So, they are impressed by his terribleness.
It's actually about Julius Caesar, as it shows the Coloseum the whole video. At the is the guy that stood next to the 'King Robot' In the Coloseum, is actually Brutus who assassinated Caesar (The last part is a reference to that, since Brutus had alot of people with him to kill Caesar)
@jetpoweredgriffin Yes but there is usually only one person peoplethink of when they say Caesar -- Gaius Julius Caesar, the first Dictator of Rome. SOMETIMES people think Octavian because he was the first Emperor.
Guys, it's not Caesar. This video is more reminiscent of the empire, not the republic. Caesar didn't live during the empire. Besides. Caesar was a leader who made himself popular by being a figurehead for the plebeian class, basically by standing up for the little guys, and challenging the Senate, even going as far as to bring his army into the city, because he was explicitly told not to. The group of senators killed him on the senate steps, and the plebeians were horrified. Totally not Caesar.
@forgingiron123 Took me a long time to notice how violent it is, 'cause I was so wrapped up in the incredible lyrics and the throngs of paper robots. Imho, the violence is vital to the message. Your thoughts? :)
@yoshibug100 It's a reference to the Man of La Mancha, or "Don Quixote". The main character constantly attacks windmills because "they might be giants".
@SigandGibbs No dude. it represents Caesar. He was a huge dick basicly, was a ruler (Crown) Big leader (Medals and such) So his council (Those guys with can opener things) Stabbed him to death. Including his buddy, brutus.
@Puppin8or Er.. that's not what happened to Caesar. I've studied Caesar and I know latin. Caesar was well loved by everyone because he did so much to help Rome. He got stabbed by the SENATE (not his council) because he was too powerful.
@Puppin8or It wasn't he was a dick, they thought he was going to claim a monarchy rule on Rome, because the people wanted him to. So his senate killed him, not wanting a king.
@TAZEROXFORD Look back on all of the replies between us, the reply to my after i said "Sad that they didn't get that right off the bat huh?" from you was "penis"
@jpbeagula Youtube would crash if we could give TMBG all the credit they deserve :(
i personally love the text, in my ears this suits perfect with our system, we keep killing eachother and the world but still "you see nobody leaving the stadium" as they put it..
If your talking about Caesar, you have to remember that the "Democracy" that he overthrew was incredibly corrupt, and the Senate knew Caesar was to popular with the masses to control.
What if it's called 'I'm Impressed' to sound like 'I'm Oppressed', because that's what the robots were before they killed their leader. I reckon oppression is the key idea to the song, or at least to the video.
@501LuKe501 I assumed it was a play on the meanings of the word impressed. The first being witness to an awesome display, the other being a way to conscript soldiers into an army. So in the same line the singer is expressing satirically that he is impressed by the spectacle, and at the same time, expressing that he is literally impressed (into the robot army against his will)
Is the 4 people in the church something to with.. i cant remember the details.. but some arch bishop getting stabbed multiple times in a church in henry the 8th period?
Would you narrow-minded idiots stop relating this to the ancient Rome? It's simply about "the man" with power, be it an emperor, a president, a government, your boss, school bully, the church, your parents, the police.. and your relationship and dis/agreeing with him/it. The vid greatly illustrates this point, but the song is not about fucking Julius Caesar. Learn to think.
@shinkle4 The clip is about some futeristic rome with robots. And the message goes farther than that. He is impressed and wants to follow leaders, alpha-males but he does not because he knows what has happened in the past (not just romans but Nazis etc. like the generalissimo mentioned)
@reafdaw01 Yes, and you might add the US to that list, because on The Bob Edwards Show, Linnell admitted that the song is political, saying that "It's just about the strong man in general" and accepting that it could describe the situation in Iraq.
@eddiemurphyfan100 Julius Caesar reference, when he gets assassinated, his best friend stabs him, and he says, eu tu brute? which is Latin for: you to Brutus? And i thought it matched with this video.
it's about the positive connotation "impressed" usually imparts, and exploring the flipside. one can be "impressed" by someone who is awful, specifically someone who values brute force. sure, i'm impressed by your display of almighty destructive power, or your ability to strike fear into people; it doesn't mean i like it.
@samiscool86 Its about living in fear. Either school bully on one had he has 5 good reasons to follow him, a fist and relating to "I'll give you 5 good reasons to do it while clinching a fist. A boss, when the gorilla pounds his desk. Or a Commanding Officer, the torpedo in the vest that barks orders. I would say the video relates by showing you you can always fight back, and for the better. The title refers to impressing fear into people.
@samiscool86 Its about living in fear. Either school bully on one had he has 5 good reasons to follow him, a fist and relating to "I'll give you 5 good reasons to do it while clinching a fist. A boss, when the gorilla pounds his desk. Or a Commanding Officer, the torpedo in the vest that barks orders. I would say the video relates by showing you you can always fight back, and for the better. The title refers to impressing fear into people.
this is a bad ass video and a bad ass song!! :) but i think id like it a bit better if i could understand how the video related to the lyrics. lLike whats it about? any help someone??
@savannah631 well, in ancient Rome, thumbs up meant they lived, down means the gladiator was killed. i don't mean to sound like a smart alik, and you probably know more than i do.
@omgitsaduck12345 No one is certain. It could be that thumbs up was a stabbing motion upwards mimicking the method with which soldiers would kill (under the armor and through the ribs to the heart), while down meant lay down the weapon. Or it could be that thumbs up meant hide the weapon and thumbs down had the stabbing motion.
Cool, I get this song and video completely now; the dictator is a brutal puppet master ordering out violence and death to every pawn for sheer enjoyment in a world that initially seems to be just as hedonistic and sadistic as evidenced by the stadium, but as we delve into it, this dictator is a coward who is fully aware the people may rebel against him as he says that past events have taught him he may need to flee or "remember the exits in back of (him)."
@MrEmadshalabi He never takes any action of his own, but orders out everything to be done for him, calling for people to bring about the government he's supposed to maintain, as "(his) head is nodding yes, though (his) legs are not following," and he is extremely persuasive and powerful in speech, as the song says "he'll give you 5 good reasons to follow him" and in video he stirs up the crowd enough to listen to him for a while before realizing the evil he had done.
@MrEmadshalabi And in irony; no matter how much guts and gore are spilled and no matter the perfect fear-based obedience of his people, he isn't impressed, or rather his blood-lust is not satisfied; he just keeps demanding more gore daily, if he was impressed he'd be pleased with what he's already had happen as I believe. On the topic of his people, they had felt remorse on the behalf of the tyrant's absence of such, as expressed by the song and video, which lead to treason of the tyrant...
@MrPapiPop You're very funny. Oh, well, it isn't like I'm the only person here who's licensed to use sarcasm, the bad part is since there is no sneering voice I could put on audio at this moment, I have no indirect way of telling you I used in the first sentence.
@MrWadie123 well i'm not sure if you are responding to somthing i said to someone eles on here, because i don't remember repling to someone under this tag name, but fell free to respond how you please sir. Altho i would love a interesting adult conversation, but this is YouTube. I'll take anything that i can read, that makes a little since, and any reply from someone that don't just type "GAY".
@TheTop5CODPlays It could be actually be of the reign of ancient roman tyrants or broadly any tyrannical dictator in a just world scenario. He was killed as gruesomely he kills... Poetic Justice...
i think this is a Tangential Learning thing where it encourages you to learn about ancient Rome by showing it to you without slapping you in the face with a bunch of text how many of you looked it up after seeing this video or checked out Mesopotamia after seeing The Mesopotamians video that is Tangential Learning
The cartoon looks less like the assassination of Julius Caesar and more like the assassination of Caligula, who was assaulted on his way out of a public games.
@Kornmeister They share a few names but they aren't the same person. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was Caligula. and he lived from from 12AD to 41AD. Gaius Julius Caesar is Julius Caesar and he died over a hundred years before Caligula was born.
@loliver231 actually, I think they needed a little of both; most of the body motions seem to me like real stop motion movements, while the finer movements of the hands are probably computer animated. They also took shortcuts animating one robot and copying him a few times for crowds. The blood at the end however, is definitely stop motion, it is nearly impossible to get that sort of effect on a computer.
to me the message of the song is that he himself is appalled that people are able to gain such power, and even more so how they abuse it. power is impressive but it isn't everything, especially when it is used the wrong way... he wants to follow but he knows it isn't right. i feel almost as if he is referring the high ranking officers as miniature dictators, or maybe talking about dictators. I don't know, this is just my oppinion
@fiercealmond It kinda did. What started as a stupid name I entered on a whim has become a stupid name that is also the main character in this music video
if you think that this is good then watch the streetlight manifesto we will fall together music video. streetlight is a third wave ska band from new jersey and they are my fav band.
OOh yes I'm impressed!
smallmercy 6 days ago
stfu, it's a great clip.
yoshimannetje 6 days ago
@SamSioke97 Julius Caesar was assassinated around 100 years before the Colosseum was built.
BerserkArcher 1 week ago
i don't get this music video i love the song and the band but the video makes no sense with the song he does not look impressed while watching his people kill each other i just don't get it
MRj0hnny5 1 week ago
@MRj0hnny5 Its the other way around in my opinion. The way I see it, his people are impressed by the massive amount of power he has, but they also hate him because he is sadistic and brutal. So, they are impressed by his terribleness.
Wearenotthewar 1 week ago
It's actually about Julius Caesar, as it shows the Coloseum the whole video. At the is the guy that stood next to the 'King Robot' In the Coloseum, is actually Brutus who assassinated Caesar (The last part is a reference to that, since Brutus had alot of people with him to kill Caesar)
SamSioko97 2 weeks ago
"Caesar" was a family name that became an Imperial title.
It is the source of the German title "Kaiser"
and the Russian title "Tsar" or "Czar".
So,FWIW,
many of the comments below are inane in that they assume "Caesar" to be one person.
There were MANY Caesars...
and there is too much confusion!
Not to mention too much drama...
jetpoweredgriffin 2 weeks ago
@jetpoweredgriffin Yes but there is usually only one person peoplethink of when they say Caesar -- Gaius Julius Caesar, the first Dictator of Rome. SOMETIMES people think Octavian because he was the first Emperor.
MrMockJohnson 1 week ago
@MrMockJohnson
As usual,though,
most of them do not really seem to be thinking at all...
jetpoweredgriffin 1 week ago
Guys, it's not Caesar. This video is more reminiscent of the empire, not the republic. Caesar didn't live during the empire. Besides. Caesar was a leader who made himself popular by being a figurehead for the plebeian class, basically by standing up for the little guys, and challenging the Senate, even going as far as to bring his army into the city, because he was explicitly told not to. The group of senators killed him on the senate steps, and the plebeians were horrified. Totally not Caesar.
spindawg97 2 weeks ago
One of my favorite TMBG songs, and love the vid, too. It goes perfectly with the lyrics!
schoolybear1 3 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for They Might Be Giants
This video is...erm...gruesome?
forgingiron123 1 month ago
@forgingiron123 Took me a long time to notice how violent it is, 'cause I was so wrapped up in the incredible lyrics and the throngs of paper robots. Imho, the violence is vital to the message. Your thoughts? :)
TwiPrime 2 weeks ago
What does they might be giants mean?
yoshibug100 1 month ago
@yoshibug100 It's a reference to the Man of La Mancha, or "Don Quixote". The main character constantly attacks windmills because "they might be giants".
MrMockJohnson 1 month ago
@yoshibug100 Its the title of a movie, they named their band after it.
KirbySonicTeam 2 weeks ago
Them Greco-Robo-Romans.
Evanspar 1 month ago
it is about any ruler that dose not treat his people with justice .NOT CESAR IN SPECIFIC
TheKeven28900 1 month ago
@TheKeven28900 Et tu, random youtuber?
PenguinAegis 1 month ago
Tubeular
Jesuswasaufo 1 month ago
i wish i can thumbs up
randompspstuff 2 months ago
@randompspstuff why?
physcokitty101 2 months ago
@physcokitty101 idk so i can here awesome comments, jokes, and stuff
randompspstuff 2 months ago
any one notice the wheels on the big meat shreder when it rolling in its rolling backwards!
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groooovyj 2 months ago
lol its caesar
bladex454 2 months ago
@bladex454 It's not Caesar, Caesar didn't have medals or a crown or anything like that.
SigandGibbs 2 months ago
@SigandGibbs No dude. it represents Caesar. He was a huge dick basicly, was a ruler (Crown) Big leader (Medals and such) So his council (Those guys with can opener things) Stabbed him to death. Including his buddy, brutus.
Puppin8or 2 months ago
@Puppin8or Er.. that's not what happened to Caesar. I've studied Caesar and I know latin. Caesar was well loved by everyone because he did so much to help Rome. He got stabbed by the SENATE (not his council) because he was too powerful.
SigandGibbs 2 months ago
@SigandGibbs Agreed. It would more fit Caligula, no? Now, he was a dick, and killed by personal guards.
41stTI 1 month ago
@Puppin8or It wasn't he was a dick, they thought he was going to claim a monarchy rule on Rome, because the people wanted him to. So his senate killed him, not wanting a king.
Insert1name1here 2 months ago
Awesome!
Gigi33ization 2 months ago
it looks like roman times mixed with robots
physcokitty101 2 months ago
@physcokitty101 astute.
Ravenkliff 1 month ago
One of TMBG's best songs, in my honest opinion.
SlipMeATwenty 2 months ago
@SlipMeATwenty One of TMBG's worst songs, in MY dishonest opinion. :D
FancyLobotomist 2 months ago
are you all stupid? really? its julius caesar!
TAZEROXFORD 2 months ago
@TAZEROXFORD Sad that they didn't get that right off the bat huh?
deathtamer666 2 months ago
@deathtamer666 penis
TAZEROXFORD 2 months ago
@TAZEROXFORD Who is it that jacked this account?
deathtamer666 2 months ago
@deathtamer666 no one did
TAZEROXFORD 2 months ago
@TAZEROXFORD Then why did you randomly reply to me saying "penis"
deathtamer666 2 months ago
@deathtamer666 no i didnt what are you talking about?
TAZEROXFORD 2 months ago
@TAZEROXFORD Look back on all of the replies between us, the reply to my after i said "Sad that they didn't get that right off the bat huh?" from you was "penis"
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@deathtamer666 no i didnt say anything
TAZEROXFORD 2 months ago
oBAMA
094venom 2 months ago
No it's Gaddafi! :/
VVillowz 2 months ago
IM IMPRESS that shall be my catchphrase
randompspstuff 3 months ago
Caesar was a Dick.
MsMirandaXoxo 3 months ago in playlist MsMirandaXoxo's favorites
I agree with @tix999 , i just think the ending where the robo king was killed reminded me of how Caesar was stabed by hus councel.
namornivek 3 months ago
That's not Caesar! is Nero!
Caesar challenged a power hungry and corrupted senate and was killed because he was LOVED by the people.
Nero was heartless fuck who killed people left and right if they disagreed with him. He is what they are singing about him.
tik999 3 months ago
@tik999 Possibly, but Nero killed himself when the lad burned down the country.
SuperIGotHacked 3 months ago
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Oh yea. Then it was probably Caligula.
But it's not caesar
tik999 3 months ago
Now I remember this :/ I really used to be horrified by this :(
jengantner 3 months ago
this really could be atributed to any dictator in history, Caesar, Hitler, Kim etc.
superkeaton 3 months ago
awesome i love this video
Gr3s0n1 3 months ago
Im reading about Caesar right now.... And my first thought was to put this on. It makes learning bout him so much better
BleachxShikamaru 3 months ago
Their music videos are scary, but I love how accurate they are to history. I take that the king robot must of been Julius Caesar.
MLPMusicVideos 3 months ago
@amberm1994 yea i think so too. Just something really cool about it
namornivek 3 months ago
In the ending when everyone is stabing the king guy, i think about Julius Cesear and how he was stabed by his councel. O.o
namornivek 3 months ago
@namornivek I think that was the inspiration, and it's just fantastic
amberm1994 3 months ago
well Do not waste time, come to my room I'm all burning
GretaWendybz670 3 months ago
WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH?? D:
ipunchrock 4 months ago
@ipunchrock this.... what was i supposed to say?!?!?!
kingcrabbster12 3 months ago
I love how some of TMBG songs are all like ABC 123! But others are about gladiators and have bloody papercraft and say damn :D
mrbubbles551 4 months ago
@mrbubbles551 yeah what's up with all those kiddie videos? thier cute but why cant there be more songs like this?
atter0 4 months ago
My Art teacher showed me this :D he was showing us things to do with papercraft and this came on :D
LittleMissWhitey 4 months ago
epic
ckg41700 4 months ago in playlist ckg41700's Favorited Videos
lol
samisderrikk22 4 months ago
welcome to the borg homeworld prepare to be assimilated
techman987 4 months ago
What????
sirskelletor 4 months ago
I'm impressed♥ ~
HeavyCriticism 4 months ago
That kind of scared me a little
krasieladie 4 months ago
wow this is pretty graphic lol
emocircusops 5 months ago
@emocircusops dont worry they are just robots
pickl3dpickl3s 4 months ago
@pickl3dpickl3s Robots that bleed 0_0
MosinNagantMan1 4 months ago
Ouch, a paper cut
Spicelen123 5 months ago
I'm not fucking impressed.
minibuddy9I 5 months ago
0:14 oh hell yeah. im gonna make me some
youpooper1234567890 5 months ago
nahh .. go ahead
InfoWarsTV2 5 months ago
This video is great! Why can't I vote it up? I want to give credit where it's due.
jpbeagula 5 months ago
@jpbeagula Youtube would crash if we could give TMBG all the credit they deserve :(
i personally love the text, in my ears this suits perfect with our system, we keep killing eachother and the world but still "you see nobody leaving the stadium" as they put it..
LOVELY song. love the band
JollSSteR 5 months ago
hey! that's the dude, the one who ended roman democracy!
hillary5281 6 months ago
@hillary5281
If your talking about Caesar, you have to remember that the "Democracy" that he overthrew was incredibly corrupt, and the Senate knew Caesar was to popular with the masses to control.
tik999 5 months ago
35 people were not impressed, they where wrong.
Millspecmoron 6 months ago
impressive <333
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ThaEther 6 months ago
Favourite line:
When the Tornado from the West, Crushes Buildings i'm Impressed.
thesciencecat 6 months ago
The King:
Choke on 'em!
nowdoitsomemore 6 months ago
im impressed
JollSSteR 6 months ago
Awesome song <3
JollSSteR 6 months ago
What if it's called 'I'm Impressed' to sound like 'I'm Oppressed', because that's what the robots were before they killed their leader. I reckon oppression is the key idea to the song, or at least to the video.
501LuKe501 6 months ago
@501LuKe501 I assumed it was a play on the meanings of the word impressed. The first being witness to an awesome display, the other being a way to conscript soldiers into an army. So in the same line the singer is expressing satirically that he is impressed by the spectacle, and at the same time, expressing that he is literally impressed (into the robot army against his will)
Mthwprk 6 months ago
Is the 4 people in the church something to with.. i cant remember the details.. but some arch bishop getting stabbed multiple times in a church in henry the 8th period?
cheesytom1 6 months ago
Would you narrow-minded idiots stop relating this to the ancient Rome? It's simply about "the man" with power, be it an emperor, a president, a government, your boss, school bully, the church, your parents, the police.. and your relationship and dis/agreeing with him/it. The vid greatly illustrates this point, but the song is not about fucking Julius Caesar. Learn to think.
andy1cz 7 months ago
@andy1cz agreed.
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@andy1cz dude the song is about fucking rome. Didn't your stupid narrow minded fucking brain see the collusium!? THOUGHT NOT FUCK FACE.
shinkle4 7 months ago
@shinkle4 The clip is about some futeristic rome with robots. And the message goes farther than that. He is impressed and wants to follow leaders, alpha-males but he does not because he knows what has happened in the past (not just romans but Nazis etc. like the generalissimo mentioned)
reafdaw01 7 months ago
@reafdaw01 Yes, and you might add the US to that list, because on The Bob Edwards Show, Linnell admitted that the song is political, saying that "It's just about the strong man in general" and accepting that it could describe the situation in Iraq.
Dreamsofashadow 6 months ago
has anyone seen coraline other father
Ruben5Oh3 7 months ago
@Ruben5Oh3 EVERYONE has seen Coraline: Other Father.
And it's amazing.
reverberate10 7 months ago
eu tu brute?
mrpotatohead34 7 months ago
@mrpotatohead34, what does that mean
eddiemurphyfan100 7 months ago
@eddiemurphyfan100 Julius Caesar reference, when he gets assassinated, his best friend stabs him, and he says, eu tu brute? which is Latin for: you to Brutus? And i thought it matched with this video.
mrpotatohead34 7 months ago
What a morbid tribute to regicide...
NameNotFounderrorXPR 7 months ago
@NameNotFounderrorXPR dork
shinkle4 7 months ago
Amazing song and brilliant video, one of the best I've seen in a long time.
retroSLEDGE 7 months ago
it's about the positive connotation "impressed" usually imparts, and exploring the flipside. one can be "impressed" by someone who is awful, specifically someone who values brute force. sure, i'm impressed by your display of almighty destructive power, or your ability to strike fear into people; it doesn't mean i like it.
herbluestboy 7 months ago
I agree i don't get it either. I like the song but what is it about.
samiscool86 7 months ago
@samiscool86 Its about living in fear. Either school bully on one had he has 5 good reasons to follow him, a fist and relating to "I'll give you 5 good reasons to do it while clinching a fist. A boss, when the gorilla pounds his desk. Or a Commanding Officer, the torpedo in the vest that barks orders. I would say the video relates by showing you you can always fight back, and for the better. The title refers to impressing fear into people.
jeepmanxj 7 months ago
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@samiscool86 Its about living in fear. Either school bully on one had he has 5 good reasons to follow him, a fist and relating to "I'll give you 5 good reasons to do it while clinching a fist. A boss, when the gorilla pounds his desk. Or a Commanding Officer, the torpedo in the vest that barks orders. I would say the video relates by showing you you can always fight back, and for the better. The title refers to impressing fear into people.
jeepmanxj 7 months ago
this is a bad ass video and a bad ass song!! :) but i think id like it a bit better if i could understand how the video related to the lyrics. lLike whats it about? any help someone??
devilduck10 7 months ago
The last scene reminds me of the end of The Russian Revolution.
HawkWarrior2 7 months ago
With the amount of work put into this, how could anyone be not impressed?
FighterGuDude3214 7 months ago
I like the punk tone of this song. Shame the rest of the songs on the album weren't as good.
reheheeeally 7 months ago
Some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel from our beloved TMBG
bruceisbehindyou 8 months ago
Stop motion + paper craft? I'm impressed.
eternal0star 8 months ago
I hate music videos. This is one of the few exceptions.
TommyMeda 8 months ago
Uh oh, they messed up. Thumbs down meant they lived..
savannah631 8 months ago
@savannah631 well, in ancient Rome, thumbs up meant they lived, down means the gladiator was killed. i don't mean to sound like a smart alik, and you probably know more than i do.
slk1771 8 months ago
@slk1771 Nope, look it up, it was actually reversed back then.
omgitsaduck12345 8 months ago
@omgitsaduck12345 No one is certain. It could be that thumbs up was a stabbing motion upwards mimicking the method with which soldiers would kill (under the armor and through the ribs to the heart), while down meant lay down the weapon. Or it could be that thumbs up meant hide the weapon and thumbs down had the stabbing motion.
Bakkerkid 8 months ago
Though... I think it's a bit too less pain in the last scene. ^-^
Urnakl 8 months ago in playlist my music
I really love this video, makes me feel so happy every time i see the robot king get cutted!
Urnakl 8 months ago
@TheGentlemanWolf Why did they disable rating for this vid? You made my day!
Gadaffi indeed
snalin 8 months ago
geez, that ending's intense
androidabc 8 months ago
This video is completely Raw!
Wilfjord 8 months ago
If it weren't for the video I wouldn't know that it was about Julius Ceasar.
Love the song
mrme150 8 months ago
@mrme150 - The song isn't about Julius Caesar. It's not about robots or papercrafting, either.
rosemwelch 8 months ago
whell shadow government is alright
swimtastik77 9 months ago
only good song they ever made
swimtastik77 9 months ago
@swimtastik77 Harsh.
MrEmadshalabi 9 months ago
@swimtastik77 i guess all thoes other HIT songs and DVD's they made don't count
MrPapiPop 9 months ago
@swimtastik77 No it's not. Shut up.
ColossalM 8 months ago
@swimtastik77 Hey! This was pretty much the first band to use an accordion in awesome songs!
inmonkeyness 7 months ago
Cool, I get this song and video completely now; the dictator is a brutal puppet master ordering out violence and death to every pawn for sheer enjoyment in a world that initially seems to be just as hedonistic and sadistic as evidenced by the stadium, but as we delve into it, this dictator is a coward who is fully aware the people may rebel against him as he says that past events have taught him he may need to flee or "remember the exits in back of (him)."
MrEmadshalabi 9 months ago
@MrEmadshalabi He never takes any action of his own, but orders out everything to be done for him, calling for people to bring about the government he's supposed to maintain, as "(his) head is nodding yes, though (his) legs are not following," and he is extremely persuasive and powerful in speech, as the song says "he'll give you 5 good reasons to follow him" and in video he stirs up the crowd enough to listen to him for a while before realizing the evil he had done.
MrEmadshalabi 9 months ago
@MrEmadshalabi And in irony; no matter how much guts and gore are spilled and no matter the perfect fear-based obedience of his people, he isn't impressed, or rather his blood-lust is not satisfied; he just keeps demanding more gore daily, if he was impressed he'd be pleased with what he's already had happen as I believe. On the topic of his people, they had felt remorse on the behalf of the tyrant's absence of such, as expressed by the song and video, which lead to treason of the tyrant...
MrEmadshalabi 9 months ago
@MrEmadshalabi WOW. now lets hear your perspective on "Birdhouse In Your Soul"
MrPapiPop 9 months ago
@MrPapiPop You're very funny. Oh, well, it isn't like I'm the only person here who's licensed to use sarcasm, the bad part is since there is no sneering voice I could put on audio at this moment, I have no indirect way of telling you I used in the first sentence.
MrWadie123 9 months ago
@MrWadie123 well i'm not sure if you are responding to somthing i said to someone eles on here, because i don't remember repling to someone under this tag name, but fell free to respond how you please sir. Altho i would love a interesting adult conversation, but this is YouTube. I'll take anything that i can read, that makes a little since, and any reply from someone that don't just type "GAY".
MrPapiPop 9 months ago
@MrPapiPop I have access to EmadShalabi and Wadie123 Accounts, so, I am the same person you presumably sardonically responded to.
MrWadie123 8 months ago
Dark.
JazzUkulele 9 months ago
Super epicly awesome
JustLikeTheOtherDay 9 months ago
ahh, the gladiatorial days, where people mindlessly killed each other, good times.
sporelover345 9 months ago
What historical events could this song represent?
TheTop5CODPlays 9 months ago
@TheTop5CODPlays It could be actually be of the reign of ancient roman tyrants or broadly any tyrannical dictator in a just world scenario. He was killed as gruesomely he kills... Poetic Justice...
MrEmadshalabi 9 months ago
It was suprising to see how we cannot like this video.
Guess they are afraid of people expressing how impressed they are.
Handymancinema 9 months ago
oh gosh i have latterly been looking for this for 3 days. im so happy i could find this.
chimi1999 9 months ago
this is the best music video ps its wierd when u watch roy g biv then this lol
imagoosbumpsfan 10 months ago
i think this is a Tangential Learning thing where it encourages you to learn about ancient Rome by showing it to you without slapping you in the face with a bunch of text how many of you looked it up after seeing this video or checked out Mesopotamia after seeing The Mesopotamians video that is Tangential Learning
Polytractor 10 months ago
@Polytractor i cant give you a thumbs up. i dont know why but yeah i did just that.
MrPapiPop 10 months ago
awesome animation!!!
SherdebHan 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
its like Julius caesar
ruarck 10 months ago
That's what I think it looks like to.
joaquinakiwi 10 months ago
The cartoon looks less like the assassination of Julius Caesar and more like the assassination of Caligula, who was assaulted on his way out of a public games.
thecoweyed 10 months ago
@thecoweyed Julius Caesar IS Caligula.
His name was Gaius Iulius Caesar, but he reigned as Caligula.
So it's the same person :p
It's confusing with the Roman's hang towards re-using their names for their children.
Kornmeister 9 months ago
@Kornmeister They share a few names but they aren't the same person. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was Caligula. and he lived from from 12AD to 41AD. Gaius Julius Caesar is Julius Caesar and he died over a hundred years before Caligula was born.
thendofbeginnings 9 months ago
@Kornmeister How is this possible when they where both alive at different time periods?
PkmnGrn 6 months ago
@PkmnGrn There were several people with the same name. As I said Romans tend to re-use their names quite a lot ;)
Kornmeister 6 months ago
I think the message here is "Beware the Ides of March."
NanashiYami 11 months ago
This is my favorite TMBG music video. :)
beatlesgirl95 11 months ago
@beatlesgirl95 or the one for the mesopotamians is good :)
Pancakeslol3 11 months ago
GSP is not impressed with this video
Kino483 11 months ago
I like this.
wtfhah 11 months ago
The things you can do with cardboard these days
RobotKing27 11 months ago
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loliver231 11 months ago
@loliver231 actually, I think they needed a little of both; most of the body motions seem to me like real stop motion movements, while the finer movements of the hands are probably computer animated. They also took shortcuts animating one robot and copying him a few times for crowds. The blood at the end however, is definitely stop motion, it is nearly impossible to get that sort of effect on a computer.
figaroatl 11 months ago
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loliver231 11 months ago
well, im impressed by this song
thumbs up all around
moisesf606 11 months ago
to me the message of the song is that he himself is appalled that people are able to gain such power, and even more so how they abuse it. power is impressive but it isn't everything, especially when it is used the wrong way... he wants to follow but he knows it isn't right. i feel almost as if he is referring the high ranking officers as miniature dictators, or maybe talking about dictators. I don't know, this is just my oppinion
UkumaOokami 11 months ago
@UkumaOokami so can we just say its Julius Ceasar?
shadowthepikmen 11 months ago
Gotta say...IMO this song is their best work since Apollo 18. *ducks* lol
dmnapolitano 11 months ago
watching this video gave a whole new meaning to my youtube profile name:
robotking27
RobotKing27 1 year ago
@RobotKing27 No, it didn't.
fiercealmond 11 months ago
@fiercealmond It kinda did. What started as a stupid name I entered on a whim has become a stupid name that is also the main character in this music video
RobotKing27 11 months ago
This music video made my soul jism.
muskabulldog 1 year ago
My new fight song?
SuperDisser 1 year ago
@KurtG85 TL;DR
Daddymaddyenigmatic 1 year ago
if you think that this is good then watch the streetlight manifesto we will fall together music video. streetlight is a third wave ska band from new jersey and they are my fav band.
thedragonforce10 1 year ago