Grab a spine and accept some responsibility for your lot in life. You ARE where you ARE in life because of YOUR choices, which is AS it should be! THAT, my friend, is the USA. I'm not giving up that right to choose my destiny without a fight. And by the way, from 2006 to the 2008 melt down, the democratically controlled congress blocked all atempts to put Fannie and Freddie under a microscope. This entitlement mentality needs to be taken to some other country. Make yourself valuable!
@Sidtasticify This utopian idealism shit is just that, shit.
Fiscal conservatism IS the only way forward but there will NEVER be a time when everyone has an opportunity to achieve success. There will always be people who clean toilets and there will always be people who starve to death on the streets.
This is a planet that runs by the laws of social darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Those that aren't fit die, even in socialist states because the socialist states eventually starve.
@mstewartbaxter Trying to implement certain aspects of it? Certainly. Racial Superiority? Certainly. The idea that only the most fit survive and that this extends to the human race? Nope.
Most Republicans are social darwinists and they don't even know it. A true social darwinist would concede to the fact that we can't save everyone and that some people (the poor,handicapped,etc) will be weeded out through natural means (starvation,disease,etc.)
This song is such a lie. Every time I hear it all I think of are the New Yorkers dying of AIDS who were treated like outcasts. This is just superficial prosperity and false comfort. A denial of reality - utter bullshit. The real tragedy of this song is not the fact of 9/11, but that it took 9/11 to bring EVERYONE together in mutual suffering, for a short time at least.
Notes from a survivor of the era, fried hair, shoulder pads, cement block cell phones and Ronald Reagan weren't all they were cracked up to be. I'm just sayin'
Unbelievable! I remember this song playing on a commercial shortly after 9/11 and I was thinking "This song is beautiful" but I had NO idea it was Carly Simon. Awesome!
I replied to someone here that you can only appreciate this song as irony, but I watched the movie again recently and of course sung along with Carly's rousing theme. I felt such nostalgia, not so much for the '80s per se, but for that time in your life when everything's in front of you and all things seem possible--and of course that's the message of the song. That's certainly how I responded to it when I first heard it. I'd love to feel that way again.
Why in the hell does this have to be about politics? The movie was good with a great cast! Can't you people stop over-analyzing everything and just kick back and enjoy something even if it IS a fantasy? That is what is sad to me!
Obama has single-handedly done more damage to the middle class than any President before him. But this is Obama's goal. He wants everyone going to Big Government for help. He wants people to blame big business for their plight.Reagan was right when he said big government isn't the solution, it's the problem. Why do you think our economy crashed in 2008? Dodd, Frank and democrats - those who think Big Government is the solution to everything. I say: go free enterprise! Bring on the competition!
@Sidtasticify You know, I'd answer you point by idiotic point, but why bother. I'm assuming you watch a lot of Fox News and consider Rush Limbaugh some kind of oracle.
@Sidtasticify leave it to a right winger to post an idiotic tirade to a carly simon vid in lieu of effective political discourse. great job. i'm sure you've persuaded a lot of folks to your side.
@Sidtasticify Idiot - by 2008 Republicans had controlled the Presidency for the past 8 YEARS and controlled BOTH houses of congress from 2000 to 2006, plus had a majority of their appointees on the Supreme Court. Brainwashed slave - wake up!
I think this movie has something to do with the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, they want us to believe it was the middle eastern LOSERS, you see a woman making it happen and they hate it over there and the twin towers were in the opening shot!!! but I still think it was BUSH......I HOPE THAT PATHETIC LOSER ROASTS IN HELL!!!!!
@Sidtasticify I think it was an inside job by our own government and that is MY personal opinion, and I AM enttiled to my OPINION, have you seen the video Loose change?? read up on facts SUCKA!!!
wow this song still makes me cry.I see it as a big wake up call to all christians around the world to wake up and get to work on lifting up the nations in prayer.
I'm always amazed when I discover that Carly Simon is behind a great song I've never heard before or one that's vaguely familiar. I guess I shouldn't be, she has GENUINE talent!
For those who longer believe in Amerian exceptionalism,etc.: The 51 percent of the US who ARE paying income taxes will get fed up too. Then who is going to support all the handouts you obviously think you deserve.
Felt tears pricking my eyelids and those goosebumps already mentioned...the Twin Towers there, tall and proud...can't help but think of all those souls who were lost; eerie, actually. This has long been one of my favorite movies to see over and over again; love her scrappiness; have tried to emulate and hopefully, have succeeded. And so, we have tried to get (back) on track, too.
Though I really liked the theme of the movie in 1988, the final sequence of Melanie Griffith in her new office with the camera panning Manhatten Island with the Twin Towers while Carly Simon sang gave me goose bumps. Now, that sequence brings a tear; but still love the movie and song. This is the essence of capitalism and freedom. God bless America!
@chatnoir77777777777 well, i liked the late 80's, time of this movie...the Soviet Union soon to fall.. you obviously don't remember the early part of the 80's... Does Lebanon , the Pershing 2 missle ring any bells?
tantos anos tantas coisas que vivi porem numca ao ouvir essa musica a emoção e o arrepio irão passar sempre lembrarei da lição do filme e anos depois da emoção ao ve -lo com meu marido que já se foi para me protejer ao lado de deus
Unfortunately American exceptionalism, and the belief that anything is possible if you work hard enough for it are as out of style as the hairstyles in this video now.
@Quarkburger This video represents the 80's and i still wouldnt agree that the "belief that anything is possible watever watever" is out of style, its not; a lot of ppl still do think like that
Congratulations on your comments about the film. Certainly, the time has passed when working faithfully and diligently are the keys to success. Working smarter is the rule of the game now. Corporations no longer care for the individual anymore than a mechanic cares for a screwdriver. Individuals are nothing more than tools who serve at the behest of the corporation or the government. Carly's song is certainly a wonderful Academy Award winning trip back to a distant time.
@Quarkburger If the belief that anything is possible if you work hard enough for it is "out of style" it is because too many hardworking Americans have been swindled by runaway Corporate Greed aided and abetted by the bought and sold politicians who used to at least pretend to work for us, the folks who elected them. We still want to believe. It just gets harder and harder in the face of what has been happening to us.
@TheCatgirl6 - "Silver cities rise" - this line is clearly showing the 80s´ hope and confidence, the wish that sth. like the American dream could be real. But if you think about it: Who of the last 40 presidents has improved the situation for the normal workers or lessened the injustice?-There is no American, French, German, no British dream. Millions try and never get what they deserve - before, and after a crisis. G.Carlin said: Why American Dream? Cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
@cschmidtler1 Yeah, Carlin's humor was downright bitter by the end, but his anger was justified. And while we've been sleeping the American Dream, at least as it once existed, has become a waking nightmare for middle and working class people. And does anybody in Washington even bother to talk about the plight of the poor anymore? Apparently they're an annoyance we'd prefer go away. Stop sleeping in the streets, poor people! I nearly tripped over you and spilled my latte!
@obichocomeu Another mental giant. I love the song, idiot--my comments, especially the most recent, should have clarified that. But then, you'd have to learn to read first, wouldn't you.
@TheCatgirl6 So true - America used to be the country of the Dream that anyone could be as successful as their talents, no matter what their background. Now studies show that the US has lower social mobility than Canada, most European countries, and even Britain (which was always seen as especially class-bound). Corporate greed has given the rich in America immense power and made the poor vulnerable - struggling to stay above water. Time to give the country back to its people!
@Quarkburger It's STILL true today. Anything is possible. Work hard enough and smart enough, you can have whatever you want, be whatever you want. I'm not part of the 1% but America offers everyone that OPPORTUNITY if you have the GUTS to go for it. And if you fall down and skin you knee, don't blame the world. Just get your butt up and try again. That's it. That's American exceptionalism. Short, sweet and simple.
@Sidtasticify Yeah, I used to believe that... until the Reagan years and the rise of mean, lean, growth-at-any-cost Corporate bosses who laid off hundreds, thousands of workers and slashed the benefits and pay of the dazed survivors while pocketing multi-millions for themselves and becoming the darlings of Wall Street. Until the W years and the tax-cut bonanzas he ushered in for his wealthy friends and donors at the further expense of the middle class.
@TheCatgirl6 absolutely correct. I am from Germany - and believe it, there are more than two and a half people out there who have a vage notion of what is going on in this greedy world. Not only thanks to Howard Zinn, Chomsky, Carlin, Bill Maher etc. Thousands of people regognize that. U do not have to be American to notice.
@Sidtasticify Wall Streeters and Corporate barons love it when people talk like that, because it lets them all very neatly off the hook. If in this economy you aren't making it, if you're working 2 jobs and still can't keep your home, or you're unemployed and can't catch a break and get hired (the unemployed now being seen as "undesirable" by hiring managers) well then you're just not trying hard enough. It's your own damn fault and nothing to do with them.
@Sidtasticify Yes, it's still true. But like I said, it's out of style. And if it continues to be out of style, the current and following generations, when they come into power, will rob us of these opportunities.
@Quarkburger True that. I think the song is lovely, if you take it as a little ironic, a little about gender and racial equality rather than about sheer materialism....still, I know what you mean, Quarkburger.
@innergogo I think that's the only way you can listen to this song now--as an ironic statement--and I say this still loving it, the movie, and Carly Simon.
This is a wonderful song by Carly...If you love her voice try listening to "I Get along without you very Well"....an old song which Carly covers amazingly....I cried the first time I heard her do it.
I heard that stock in hairspray companies went through the roof after this movie! (and somebody please,get the president to sign a law that makes it illegal for shoulder pads to be worn by ANYONE not wearing a football uniform!)
if we could all just be as the water flows then we would have no fear or worries. Sadly those in power do not see it as we 'HUMBLE SOULS' do, they are GREEDY so therefore take away our flow of life. xxxxx
The Twin Towers. When they first put them up I thought they were ugly, but they became a part of my life. I remember driving on the elevated Cross Bronx Expressway after 9/11 and seeing a sign saying "New York City is closed" and no Towers. I started to cry like a baby and had to pull off the road. I wished I were a young soldier again and could go after those evil bastards.
"Let all the dreamers wake the nation"...--- I hope you all follow your heart's desire. Follow your dreams. If you do that, our nation will continue to thrive and be great - for free minds are the finest minds in all the world.
@SilentPainTears -- I disagree. Most art is apolitical, though some art definitely is political. To me, the song isn't about a specific place or thing. It's about hoping and dreaming. Being true to yourself. It's abstract.
Remember this one. Indeed, big movie, big stars, big songs, big hair. All part of a big decade called the 80's. I am glad I was there to live all of it. Fun. This great vid shows some terrific scenes of classic & iconic New York City. circa 1988. And what a time it was. Love it.
what do you mean, who was the hairdresser... for the 1980s these were the hairstyles that everyone wore... it was the 80s, and big hari, the bigger the better, was in style... it wil come back someday, if the world lasts that long !
I love this video. I remember when it first came out. It was soo inspiring. It has some melancholy now that the twin towers are gone.
I see the debate below about the meaning of the lyrics. The song was written for the movie. The theme was that New York is the Land of Opportunity for sons and daughters. Come dreamers, its here for the taking. With hard work and determination, you can succeed. Nations have been seeking its shores for centuries...the New World or New Jerusalem- metaphors.
@SilentPainTears ---- Nobody ever said New York was the New Jerusalem?! This song is not about the twin towers. It was produced long before 9/11/2011. Please stop politicizing art. Thank you.
From the moment they made this they KNEW it d be a smash hit! U can tell by the cameos of this film stars on the music video. Oh I miss those naive marketing strategies of the 80´s!!
Carly has said she conceived ths song as a hymn with a jungle beat, inspirational to all the real-life 'working girls' in the modern jungle that is Wall Street!
I think I love every song Carly Simon ever wrote and sang. She is truly an amazingly gifted and talented artist. Her sound is timeless and flow's through the ages like a River strong.. Let the River run...
This song was the first thing that impressed me in Working Girl. I loved the first moment I heard it. It;s a great song but the gospel choir made it legendary!
Why is it when Jewish girls are beautiful, they are the most beautiful and why is it when Jewish girls are talented they are the most talented? I believe Jews are truly God's chosen people! Christians be dammed!!
@york1181 but LOOK AT THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA TODAY. THEY ARE JUST LIKE HITLER FOR ANYBODY WHO IS NOT A FUNDAMENTALIST. EVIL PEOPLE THESE CHRISTIANS ARE. HORRIBELE AND EVIL!
Just watched this film. My wife saw it for the first time, I saw it for, maybe, the fourth time. She enjoyed it, and loves the song too! As do I! Thanks, Carly!
I get a new kind of chilling every time I watch and listen, It is so amazing both in the video visuals and in the sound yet it is so bittersweet with the backgrounds of the twin towers. Tears and Cheers!
@Kathyscv Hello There I love this song by Carly Simon and I also get very upset when I see the Twin Towers The City isn't the same without them there!!!
am i weird for saying that i miss 80's hair? i wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eyes until the early 90's, but i just love 80's style. and carly simon. <3
I love this song. Reminds me of commuting on the Staten Island Ferry with my best friend who was lost on that awful day in September 2001. Very fitting tribute
@CarlySimonWebsite as if we needed more proof that record companies SUCK! first they shove tween pop down our throats then we can't buy the songs we actually want to pay for! (head desk)
@lizclegg This is the version on the Working Girl Soundtrack, at least it is in Australia...I have had it for years on my walkman, ipod and now iphone...
I love Carly Simon....so gorgeous, so talented!
jtbodn99 14 hours ago
One of the best!
Storm411977 2 days ago
Watch this versus the state of the union speech
jimatlowry 5 days ago
I get goosebumps when I hear this song.
JustGotBroadBandWOW 6 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
love this song and play it frequently when in a funky mood
JDarTulane 1 week ago
IBERDROLA
jordivalleriola 1 week ago
estoy transitando un tramo muy especial en mi carrera y voy a lograrlo, porque LA VERDAD esta de mi lado
muy buena esta pelicula
sangreazula 2 weeks ago
Grab a spine and accept some responsibility for your lot in life. You ARE where you ARE in life because of YOUR choices, which is AS it should be! THAT, my friend, is the USA. I'm not giving up that right to choose my destiny without a fight. And by the way, from 2006 to the 2008 melt down, the democratically controlled congress blocked all atempts to put Fannie and Freddie under a microscope. This entitlement mentality needs to be taken to some other country. Make yourself valuable!
Sidtasticify 2 weeks ago
@Sidtasticify This utopian idealism shit is just that, shit.
Fiscal conservatism IS the only way forward but there will NEVER be a time when everyone has an opportunity to achieve success. There will always be people who clean toilets and there will always be people who starve to death on the streets.
This is a planet that runs by the laws of social darwinism. Survival of the fittest. Those that aren't fit die, even in socialist states because the socialist states eventually starve.
NihilistSlacker 1 week ago
@NihilistSlacker I feel SO sorry for you.
JamesLM2006 4 days ago
@JamesLM2006 Why thank you. It is quite a burden, being a realist. You can't hide behind comfortable bullshit like religion and utopianism.
NihilistSlacker 4 days ago
@NihilistSlacker uh, social darwinism was disproved many many years ago
mstewartbaxter 2 days ago
@mstewartbaxter Trying to implement certain aspects of it? Certainly. Racial Superiority? Certainly. The idea that only the most fit survive and that this extends to the human race? Nope.
Most Republicans are social darwinists and they don't even know it. A true social darwinist would concede to the fact that we can't save everyone and that some people (the poor,handicapped,etc) will be weeded out through natural means (starvation,disease,etc.)
Life isn't fair or pretty. It simply is.
NihilistSlacker 2 days ago
This is sooo awesome!
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This song is such a lie. Every time I hear it all I think of are the New Yorkers dying of AIDS who were treated like outcasts. This is just superficial prosperity and false comfort. A denial of reality - utter bullshit. The real tragedy of this song is not the fact of 9/11, but that it took 9/11 to bring EVERYONE together in mutual suffering, for a short time at least.
Messylin 2 weeks ago 2
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Messylin 2 weeks ago
WORKING GIRL was from 1988, not 1989.
amilheim 3 weeks ago
@amilheim The movie premiered on 21 December 1988, but the soundtrack wasn't released until 1989.
ToothpickMe 3 weeks ago
Notes from a survivor of the era, fried hair, shoulder pads, cement block cell phones and Ronald Reagan weren't all they were cracked up to be. I'm just sayin'
MrDadtunes 3 weeks ago
Epic!
kylereese777 3 weeks ago 3
Unbelievable! I remember this song playing on a commercial shortly after 9/11 and I was thinking "This song is beautiful" but I had NO idea it was Carly Simon. Awesome!
MrDreamturkey 3 weeks ago
nice!
asas2jh 1 month ago
I'll never forget the first time I heard this song - pure joy in freedom!!
MsGelemos 1 month ago
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chocofingers1 1 month ago
how could someone dislike this??
LittleRe012 1 month ago 2
Nothing has happened to you Quarkburger. Just get off your butt, stop bitching and get on with it!!!!
johncmiles1 1 month ago
I replied to someone here that you can only appreciate this song as irony, but I watched the movie again recently and of course sung along with Carly's rousing theme. I felt such nostalgia, not so much for the '80s per se, but for that time in your life when everything's in front of you and all things seem possible--and of course that's the message of the song. That's certainly how I responded to it when I first heard it. I'd love to feel that way again.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago 2
Why in the hell does this have to be about politics? The movie was good with a great cast! Can't you people stop over-analyzing everything and just kick back and enjoy something even if it IS a fantasy? That is what is sad to me!
junerose621 1 month ago
Obama has single-handedly done more damage to the middle class than any President before him. But this is Obama's goal. He wants everyone going to Big Government for help. He wants people to blame big business for their plight.Reagan was right when he said big government isn't the solution, it's the problem. Why do you think our economy crashed in 2008? Dodd, Frank and democrats - those who think Big Government is the solution to everything. I say: go free enterprise! Bring on the competition!
Sidtasticify 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify You know, I'd answer you point by idiotic point, but why bother. I'm assuming you watch a lot of Fox News and consider Rush Limbaugh some kind of oracle.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify This person has no idea what is going on in America! Or in politics, for that matter
Joycenech 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify leave it to a right winger to post an idiotic tirade to a carly simon vid in lieu of effective political discourse. great job. i'm sure you've persuaded a lot of folks to your side.
WikeddTung 3 weeks ago
@Sidtasticify Idiot - by 2008 Republicans had controlled the Presidency for the past 8 YEARS and controlled BOTH houses of congress from 2000 to 2006, plus had a majority of their appointees on the Supreme Court. Brainwashed slave - wake up!
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I love this song!
SPIERDOOL 1 month ago
so inspirational! I want to run through ny and have fun!
loveumomma72 1 month ago
I like NY.
eduotavio 1 month ago
I think this movie has something to do with the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, they want us to believe it was the middle eastern LOSERS, you see a woman making it happen and they hate it over there and the twin towers were in the opening shot!!! but I still think it was BUSH......I HOPE THAT PATHETIC LOSER ROASTS IN HELL!!!!!
brattyboybrett 1 month ago
@brattyboybrett Bush????? It was al Qaeda who knocked the towers down, ya idiot. Hello...is anybody home?????
Sidtasticify 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify I think it was an inside job by our own government and that is MY personal opinion, and I AM enttiled to my OPINION, have you seen the video Loose change?? read up on facts SUCKA!!!
brattyboybrett 1 month ago
WATCH ME TESS!!! LEARN FROM ME!!!
brattyboybrett 1 month ago
WHO MAKES IT HAPPEN???? I MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!
brattyboybrett 1 month ago
Awesome movie- Awesome song- every time I see it I'm humming the theme for days!! LOVE IT :D
AuntiKiki08 1 month ago
Let ....The Carly Run
78rohan 1 month ago
I love this song
shweyinthan 1 month ago 2
long run the river of darkness the river of dreams
urantiruslan 1 month ago
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ahoyminator 1 month ago
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ahoyminator 1 month ago
were all the women in this video electrocuted or something lol their hair is AWFUL :/
blueipodgal94 1 month ago
@blueipodgal94 It was the '80s. You had to be there. :-)
TheCatgirl6 2 weeks ago
wow this song still makes me cry.I see it as a big wake up call to all christians around the world to wake up and get to work on lifting up the nations in prayer.
ReducedTuna 2 months ago
A truly feel good movie, but with a sting in its tail...
PaulCastle001 2 months ago
Demasiado tiempo ha pasado ya, y la canción sigue siendo maravillosa
VampiroScott 2 months ago
Wow, look! People going to work in the morning. Those were different times.
fixinah 2 months ago
I'm always amazed when I discover that Carly Simon is behind a great song I've never heard before or one that's vaguely familiar. I guess I shouldn't be, she has GENUINE talent!
jeremyl5842 2 months ago
i have to sing this in chorus class. and im in 8th grade. -___-
MsTheShannon1 2 months ago
Not true! You just know how to surf the current waves.
stjack279 2 months ago
So true...So true. Nobody can sing her songs like she can. She doesn't write songs, she gives birth to them!
stjack279 2 months ago
For those who longer believe in Amerian exceptionalism,etc.: The 51 percent of the US who ARE paying income taxes will get fed up too. Then who is going to support all the handouts you obviously think you deserve.
Tangisuma 2 months ago
John cusake wasn't in this, that's Harrison Ford.
dyingangel24 2 months ago
@dyingangel24 He said Joan Cusack.
bettythorny 2 months ago
Joan Cusack was great in this!
aja1804 2 months ago 4
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isahiro8286 2 months ago
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MUSIC is not a hobby or a game to me and I want to be able to achieve my greatest dream, triumph with it.
I know theres like A MILLION of those in this world
But I know if I keeping work hard I can achieve my dream (that's all I want for my life)
In the future, I'll make music because I want to show people my emotions through music that I love.
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Anlimema 2 months ago
Felt tears pricking my eyelids and those goosebumps already mentioned...the Twin Towers there, tall and proud...can't help but think of all those souls who were lost; eerie, actually. This has long been one of my favorite movies to see over and over again; love her scrappiness; have tried to emulate and hopefully, have succeeded. And so, we have tried to get (back) on track, too.
enialaj49 2 months ago
I miss Melanie Griffith's old face.
mygirlruth 2 months ago 3
it doesnt matter that her mouth is huge because the most beautiful sonds come from that mouth. Voice of an ANGEL.
scud552 2 months ago
Though I really liked the theme of the movie in 1988, the final sequence of Melanie Griffith in her new office with the camera panning Manhatten Island with the Twin Towers while Carly Simon sang gave me goose bumps. Now, that sequence brings a tear; but still love the movie and song. This is the essence of capitalism and freedom. God bless America!
Dagger82 2 months ago
this was the time when the world is still a relatively peaceful place. can't beat the 1980's era.
chatnoir77777777777 2 months ago
@chatnoir77777777777 well, i liked the late 80's, time of this movie...the Soviet Union soon to fall.. you obviously don't remember the early part of the 80's... Does Lebanon , the Pershing 2 missle ring any bells?
irish89055 2 months ago
I miss the Trade Towers.
gregf509 2 months ago 3
tantos anos tantas coisas que vivi porem numca ao ouvir essa musica a emoção e o arrepio irão passar sempre lembrarei da lição do filme e anos depois da emoção ao ve -lo com meu marido que já se foi para me protejer ao lado de deus
helenmabergier 3 months ago
me llena de esperanza esta canción
silroma76 3 months ago
pre - sex & the City NYC ... make you just want to live in NYC regardless if you have money or not ....
spokar1 3 months ago
Knocks me over, I just love this!
afufle 3 months ago
Unfortunately American exceptionalism, and the belief that anything is possible if you work hard enough for it are as out of style as the hairstyles in this video now.
Quarkburger 3 months ago 29
@Quarkburger This video represents the 80's and i still wouldnt agree that the "belief that anything is possible watever watever" is out of style, its not; a lot of ppl still do think like that
sofuckinndope 2 months ago
@sofuckinndope It's not just the 80s. It was the feeling in America throughout most of America's history
Quarkburger 1 month ago
@Quarkburger Out of style? Your comment has a twang of victim-blaming that I'm not sure I like.
bettythorny 2 months ago
@bettythorny Not that I give a crap what you like, but you've missed the point.
Quarkburger 1 month ago
@Quarkburger
Congratulations on your comments about the film. Certainly, the time has passed when working faithfully and diligently are the keys to success. Working smarter is the rule of the game now. Corporations no longer care for the individual anymore than a mechanic cares for a screwdriver. Individuals are nothing more than tools who serve at the behest of the corporation or the government. Carly's song is certainly a wonderful Academy Award winning trip back to a distant time.
wavygravynet 2 months ago
@Quarkburger If the belief that anything is possible if you work hard enough for it is "out of style" it is because too many hardworking Americans have been swindled by runaway Corporate Greed aided and abetted by the bought and sold politicians who used to at least pretend to work for us, the folks who elected them. We still want to believe. It just gets harder and harder in the face of what has been happening to us.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago 16
@TheCatgirl6 - "Silver cities rise" - this line is clearly showing the 80s´ hope and confidence, the wish that sth. like the American dream could be real. But if you think about it: Who of the last 40 presidents has improved the situation for the normal workers or lessened the injustice?-There is no American, French, German, no British dream. Millions try and never get what they deserve - before, and after a crisis. G.Carlin said: Why American Dream? Cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
cschmidtler1 1 month ago
@cschmidtler1 Yeah, Carlin's humor was downright bitter by the end, but his anger was justified. And while we've been sleeping the American Dream, at least as it once existed, has become a waking nightmare for middle and working class people. And does anybody in Washington even bother to talk about the plight of the poor anymore? Apparently they're an annoyance we'd prefer go away. Stop sleeping in the streets, poor people! I nearly tripped over you and spilled my latte!
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago
@TheCatgirl6 I could not have said it in better words*
cschmidtler1 1 month ago
@TheCatgirl6 QFT, catgirl. <3
innergogo 1 month ago
@TheCatgirl6 You are full of S...t stopping been at the computer criticizing the song and find somewhere else to be!
obichocomeu 1 month ago
@obichocomeu Another mental giant. I love the song, idiot--my comments, especially the most recent, should have clarified that. But then, you'd have to learn to read first, wouldn't you.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago
@TheCatgirl6 So true - America used to be the country of the Dream that anyone could be as successful as their talents, no matter what their background. Now studies show that the US has lower social mobility than Canada, most European countries, and even Britain (which was always seen as especially class-bound). Corporate greed has given the rich in America immense power and made the poor vulnerable - struggling to stay above water. Time to give the country back to its people!
bogoas81 2 weeks ago
@Quarkburger It's STILL true today. Anything is possible. Work hard enough and smart enough, you can have whatever you want, be whatever you want. I'm not part of the 1% but America offers everyone that OPPORTUNITY if you have the GUTS to go for it. And if you fall down and skin you knee, don't blame the world. Just get your butt up and try again. That's it. That's American exceptionalism. Short, sweet and simple.
Sidtasticify 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify Yeah, I used to believe that... until the Reagan years and the rise of mean, lean, growth-at-any-cost Corporate bosses who laid off hundreds, thousands of workers and slashed the benefits and pay of the dazed survivors while pocketing multi-millions for themselves and becoming the darlings of Wall Street. Until the W years and the tax-cut bonanzas he ushered in for his wealthy friends and donors at the further expense of the middle class.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago 2
@TheCatgirl6 absolutely correct. I am from Germany - and believe it, there are more than two and a half people out there who have a vage notion of what is going on in this greedy world. Not only thanks to Howard Zinn, Chomsky, Carlin, Bill Maher etc. Thousands of people regognize that. U do not have to be American to notice.
cschmidtler1 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify Wall Streeters and Corporate barons love it when people talk like that, because it lets them all very neatly off the hook. If in this economy you aren't making it, if you're working 2 jobs and still can't keep your home, or you're unemployed and can't catch a break and get hired (the unemployed now being seen as "undesirable" by hiring managers) well then you're just not trying hard enough. It's your own damn fault and nothing to do with them.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago
@Sidtasticify Yes, it's still true. But like I said, it's out of style. And if it continues to be out of style, the current and following generations, when they come into power, will rob us of these opportunities.
Quarkburger 1 month ago
@Quarkburger True that. I think the song is lovely, if you take it as a little ironic, a little about gender and racial equality rather than about sheer materialism....still, I know what you mean, Quarkburger.
innergogo 1 month ago
@innergogo I think that's the only way you can listen to this song now--as an ironic statement--and I say this still loving it, the movie, and Carly Simon.
TheCatgirl6 1 month ago
@Quarkburger The belief that "anything is possible if you work hard enough" should have been recognized as a foolish pipe dream even in 1989.
innergogo 1 month ago
@innergogo You're a monument to mediocrity
Quarkburger 1 month ago
@Quarkburger That is the attitude that the Status quo needs, so good for you! You're a perfect fit to perpetrate a lousy system!
VassiliZaitsev05 1 month ago
Carly looks stunning in this video.
Mrdduck84 3 months ago
Mothernuggetjones 3 months ago
Stand up proud americans, as you are one of the most amazing nations on this Earth.
reno1715 3 months ago 2
This is a wonderful song by Carly...If you love her voice try listening to "I Get along without you very Well"....an old song which Carly covers amazingly....I cried the first time I heard her do it.
gazono2 3 months ago
I heard that stock in hairspray companies went through the roof after this movie! (and somebody please,get the president to sign a law that makes it illegal for shoulder pads to be worn by ANYONE not wearing a football uniform!)
acqua257 3 months ago
this reminds me of Staten island and all the great times that i have there and will have again ... love this song
karolmc1 3 months ago
The power of the song makes me go on!!!!
matigios 3 months ago
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me gusta esta cancion i like all abouth carly simon
lucianostanguellini 3 months ago
me gusta esta cancion i like all abouth carly simon
lucianostanguellini 3 months ago
if we could all just be as the water flows then we would have no fear or worries. Sadly those in power do not see it as we 'HUMBLE SOULS' do, they are GREEDY so therefore take away our flow of life. xxxxx
princesscatyx 3 months ago
Cada vez que me siento desanimado escucho esta cancion y me recarga las pilas..! :D
cuervoale 3 months ago
great voice. beauty carly
andreswoodyto 3 months ago in playlist lista 2
The Twin Towers. When they first put them up I thought they were ugly, but they became a part of my life. I remember driving on the elevated Cross Bronx Expressway after 9/11 and seeing a sign saying "New York City is closed" and no Towers. I started to cry like a baby and had to pull off the road. I wished I were a young soldier again and could go after those evil bastards.
trajan75 4 months ago
It is creepy seeing the World Trade Centre Towers in the background, knowing what happened.
Edders73 4 months ago
carly simon is pretty
100monstersofdoom 4 months ago
"Let all the dreamers wake the nation"...--- I hope you all follow your heart's desire. Follow your dreams. If you do that, our nation will continue to thrive and be great - for free minds are the finest minds in all the world.
thewildpearl 4 months ago
@SilentPainTears -- I disagree. Most art is apolitical, though some art definitely is political. To me, the song isn't about a specific place or thing. It's about hoping and dreaming. Being true to yourself. It's abstract.
thewildpearl 4 months ago
Remember this one. Indeed, big movie, big stars, big songs, big hair. All part of a big decade called the 80's. I am glad I was there to live all of it. Fun. This great vid shows some terrific scenes of classic & iconic New York City. circa 1988. And what a time it was. Love it.
62view 4 months ago
que saudade do filme. essa linda musica é realmente maravilhosa.
obrigado por tão lindo video.
SCHATZELI 4 months ago
Carly Simon , love of my life
CarlosLobbo1958 4 months ago
what do you mean, who was the hairdresser... for the 1980s these were the hairstyles that everyone wore... it was the 80s, and big hari, the bigger the better, was in style... it wil come back someday, if the world lasts that long !
noracarol2002 4 months ago
who the Hell was the hairdresser?
combasso2 4 months ago
The DOT should play this on a continual loop on the Staten Island Ferry.
Hypestrike1 4 months ago
I love this video. I remember when it first came out. It was soo inspiring. It has some melancholy now that the twin towers are gone.
I see the debate below about the meaning of the lyrics. The song was written for the movie. The theme was that New York is the Land of Opportunity for sons and daughters. Come dreamers, its here for the taking. With hard work and determination, you can succeed. Nations have been seeking its shores for centuries...the New World or New Jerusalem- metaphors.
8mycrab 4 months ago
@SilentPainTears ---- Nobody ever said New York was the New Jerusalem?! This song is not about the twin towers. It was produced long before 9/11/2011. Please stop politicizing art. Thank you.
thewildpearl 4 months ago
we're singing this for my school choir, this is truly an amazing song. I love New York, it's my home forever <3
SuperIzzyBella 4 months ago
@SuperIzzyBella Better sing "Dust in the wind"... This song has a terribly dark background.
veigvideos 4 months ago
Sigh... I so wanna go to New York someday...
IVH93 4 months ago
From the moment they made this they KNEW it d be a smash hit! U can tell by the cameos of this film stars on the music video. Oh I miss those naive marketing strategies of the 80´s!!
ianveneno 4 months ago
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Thorneization 4 months ago
I could not go through this particular day without hearing this song.
ValkyrieSwan 4 months ago in playlist ValkyrieSwan's Favorited Videos
Carly has said she conceived ths song as a hymn with a jungle beat, inspirational to all the real-life 'working girls' in the modern jungle that is Wall Street!
DrJekyll38 4 months ago 2
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god will be there on September 11
mrstaffytoots 4 months ago
A tuto volume in cuffia... Mi piace...
maryvaleri 4 months ago
amazing
jetsgirlxo 4 months ago
brilliant song have to sing this in afew days
666demonlex 4 months ago
The first minute is historic in its own right. Everlasting greatness!
hasekdom 4 months ago
she's a great songstress....
MsCrazycatlady7 4 months ago
I think I love every song Carly Simon ever wrote and sang. She is truly an amazingly gifted and talented artist. Her sound is timeless and flow's through the ages like a River strong.. Let the River run...
TheMeriale 4 months ago 10
This song was the first thing that impressed me in Working Girl. I loved the first moment I heard it. It;s a great song but the gospel choir made it legendary!
grantscharoff 4 months ago
The WTC in the background.....Great song by a great singer.
azcrum 4 months ago 2
She simply beautiful and talented artist. Great song and very american, She has beautiful mouth too.
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GremlinsAndGnomes 5 months ago
42 people like the old Jerusalem.
iw32 5 months ago
@iw32 I like the old Jerusalem, but Revelations says the new Jerusalem will be better.
GremlinsAndGnomes 5 months ago
Seriously I'd lose the first few seconds.. just the drum da dadada .. then Carly
grantlandsmith 5 months ago
@grantlandsmith . Oh come on. The opening to this song is essential to the song in its full context. I love the opening! It is beautiful,
hasekdom 4 months ago
Why is it when Jewish girls are beautiful, they are the most beautiful and why is it when Jewish girls are talented they are the most talented? I believe Jews are truly God's chosen people! Christians be dammed!!
RImusclebear 5 months ago
@RImusclebear Not so sure Adolf would think along those lines
york1181 4 months ago
@york1181 but LOOK AT THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA TODAY. THEY ARE JUST LIKE HITLER FOR ANYBODY WHO IS NOT A FUNDAMENTALIST. EVIL PEOPLE THESE CHRISTIANS ARE. HORRIBELE AND EVIL!
RImusclebear 4 months ago
She's got a mouth like a tunnel
york1181 5 months ago
I wish Carly would write an equally upbeat and inspiring new song to commemorate the tenth anniversary and the rebuilding at the site.
kobbywobby 5 months ago 2
Carly is so hot
TheSpectre38 5 months ago
@TheSpectre38 And you've got bad taste
york1181 5 months ago
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The New Jerusalem was a metaphor for Wall Street!
ANIMALAURA9 5 months ago
This song just still gives me chills.
ccie12933 5 months ago 28
@ccie12933 Agreed... This sing was underrated.
I believe it won't be appreciated and give it's due until after she is gone....Like many atrists, unfortunately
roberto59457 5 months ago
Nice!
asas2jh 5 months ago
Wow! am I glad Carly Simon was born.
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mwktoday 5 months ago
@mwktoday why?
york1181 5 months ago
Kick ass 80's movie didn't see until VHS because it was R rated but there was alot of heart on the screen here and is a must watch for any generation
rundatable 5 months ago
最高な彼女の笑顔ですね♪
低評価 41 人 は、押し間違え？
なにが、いったい不満なのだろうか？
buyfutureJapan225 5 months ago
people in the 80s didn't know that hairspray is only intended for people loosing hair
matimaui 5 months ago
fantastic!!!
cunningsophie 5 months ago
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Just watched this film. My wife saw it for the first time, I saw it for, maybe, the fourth time. She enjoyed it, and loves the song too! As do I! Thanks, Carly!
uzzle65 6 months ago
she's unique!!!!! in my life always Carly simon ha a music to help in harda monents! Thanks Gos for you exist.
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fructuosowish 6 months ago
Oh God, she's so beautiful.
OrochiShiki 6 months ago 2
I get a new kind of chilling every time I watch and listen, It is so amazing both in the video visuals and in the sound yet it is so bittersweet with the backgrounds of the twin towers. Tears and Cheers!
Kathyscv 6 months ago
@Kathyscv Hello There I love this song by Carly Simon and I also get very upset when I see the Twin Towers The City isn't the same without them there!!!
Musicman201155 5 months ago
am i weird for saying that i miss 80's hair? i wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eyes until the early 90's, but i just love 80's style. and carly simon. <3
kmkrauss 6 months ago 2
Any plans for a remake, with Rebekka Brooks?
Oops, fairy tale went up in smoke. Sorry.
And now back to our regularly scheduled propaganda.
7855waldo 6 months ago
Let the river run... and here we are, way to default for almost every developed country.
veigvideos 6 months ago
Hello Carly! (♥‿♥)
Misan7hrope 6 months ago
I love this song. Reminds me of commuting on the Staten Island Ferry with my best friend who was lost on that awful day in September 2001. Very fitting tribute
realman6ft6 6 months ago 3
@lizclegg Try Carly's Greatest Hits. It's called Reflections.
RJAndTheCity 6 months ago
@CarlySimonWebsite as if we needed more proof that record companies SUCK! first they shove tween pop down our throats then we can't buy the songs we actually want to pay for! (head desk)
ginastarke2 6 months ago
@lizclegg guessing the working girl soundtrack? or maybe the soundtrack to "little black book"
ginastarke2 6 months ago
@lizclegg This is the version on the Working Girl Soundtrack, at least it is in Australia...I have had it for years on my walkman, ipod and now iphone...
Otterje 6 months ago
NYC will never be defeated. A man from Watertown NY. We're all New Yorkers.
robandrene 6 months ago
:57, was that Billy Joels drummer? I was wrong! That was "Hall and Oates" drummer, wasn't it?????????
BeezoHow 6 months ago