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  • a british band from the other side of the globe making a racist video about mexicans coming to the U.S, you couldnt get any more ignorant than that, if they werent racist then why do they spend there time creating retarded shit like this? very sad people.

  • haha lighten up :)

    the lyrics as a social comentry are prety sound.

  • take a fuckin joke dude show me one guy who has never made a racist joke take the stick out of our ass and enjoy the music

  • I'm Mexican-American and My Dad and I thought this video and Warner Brothers' "Two Crows from Tacos" were HILARIOUS! Folks just need to lighten UP!

  • I wish I looked how Tony Banks looks in this video all the time.

  • I don't think that it's offensive - it's meant to be catchy and funny, not mean

  • The song is awesomely bad... It's a disgrace to Peter Gabriel's era of Genesis, but it still is a catchy pop tune.

  • I have always loved this song!!! Sure it could be controversial, but it's still a great catchy tune! And I am Mexican-American!

  • catchy tune

  • OMG...good old tune. I remmber playing this albumn constantly back in high school. Funny how the PC Nazis who banned this from radio and whine about the lyrics are too stupid to understand it was a parody.

  • The best part of this video is that there are probably less than half a dozen actors in it who look even remotely Mexican.

  • It's sad how people can be so racist towards Mexicans. There humans like us!

  • My favourite Genesis song!!

  • I love this song!!

    xoxoDanitichenor97xoxo

  • This is a vignette on one of America's sad catch 22s. Good song. Yep, get in line like everyone else dammit, but ya better follow the rules and cough up the dough, or hit the road.

  • rofl phil collins as a mexican. everyone says this song is offensive, but I like it because the illegals need to get the fuck out of our country and go back where they came from. if they love our country so much, why don't they follow our rules and leave? it's like "we love you guys, we'll do anything you say." then go away. "no can do senor"

  • Im pilgrim

  • You know why Mexico never has the Olympics? 'Cause all the guys who can run, jump, & swim are here in America!

  • Jaja very funny stupid

  • '68 Olympics. Mexico City. Still a mildly cute joke but better if it were true. Try using Guatemala instead.

  • one of the most generic joke,ive heard that joke like 3 trillion times, and u said it wrong, which makes it even funnier

  • buy american or we will be the next 3rd world country.peace

  • haha great song! Sometimes i wonder if hes makin fun of stuff or just singing??? lol :P

  • I love it!!

  • Stay on the otherside it's safer lol

    Great pic

    Frank

  • Reverse Manifest Destiny anyone?

  • mustache rides

  • mustache fart

    BTw this is a good song

  • One of their best songs ever!

  • Thanks for uploading

  • este video sempre será uma memoria

  • awesome song

  • Que buena canción, sin embargo es una mala descripcion de una republica bananera, america latina no es asi.

  • Fuck you!

    This country is full of aliens going back to Columbus and all the way up to the Europeans that stole land from Mexico to make this country into the size it is today.

    Believe it or not, even your ancestors are aliens.

    It was Mexico's land to begin with, America just rearranged the land and made them illegal in their own land.

  • three things really stand out about this video (One of my favorite Genesis songs).

    One, it's as relevant today as when it first came out. Two, how is it that a British pop band came out with a song that is so American in tone? And for all those booing and hissing about the song's content, you can bet more than a few Hispanics were in the cast and crew on the video.

  • What's with the cucumbers?! lol

  • You can learn more about illegal immigration by seeing these playlists in my channel-

    Aztlan/Reconquista 101: Ideology of Hate

    Aztlan/Reconquista 102: Declaration of War

    Tan Klan 101: The Other Terrorists

    Black Americans: Immigration and Ethnic Cleansing

    Illegal Immigration: Costs, Crimes and Victims

  • OMG! I forgot about this one!!! Awesome growing up in the 80s. Embarrassing, but awesome.

  • bring back the eighties,best times ever :)

  • so crappy...yet so irresistible.

  • Phil looks like cringo a stavros in this video. Going for the Mexican look and pulls it off with that thick moustache. Awesome band and very good video.... I like his almost foreign accent in the vocals if you listen carefully to this song.........

  • Can you imagine a collaboration between Genesis & Van Halen?! I would PAY to see DLR sing this immense song!!

  • Oh yes!! Rock as it should be!!!

  • One of my alltime favs. Awesome horn section arrangement. The horns kickass.

  • his mustache and his hair looks like hitler XD

  • Who says it's no fun being an illegal alien? Whoever it was, has never been to Indianapolis, Indiana. Free education, healthcare, pay little {if any} taxes, section 8 housing, food stamps, all on the tax paying LEGAL citizens. What suckers the gringo is! And we who are legal must compete with them for the few available jobs in this recession. I think I'll become an illegal alien, I'll cross the border and buy myself a new ID. Screw paying taxes and working hard. Play by the rules, and you lose!

  • well, phil and the boys are just being sarcastic.

    there is a part in the song that says, all you have to do is hold out your hand.

  • Anthem song for those who live in Maricopa County AZ.

  • love it ,i gunna watch this every night lol

  • Cool song!

  • bloody hilarious XD

  • The 80's were a sad time for music....It was nice to have some good tunes around.

  • The Police, Sting, Genesis, Phil Collins, U2, Billy Joel, REM, Prince, Howard Jones, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, Squeeze just name a few very NON-sad artists of the 80's.

  • Hate to break it to you man, but the Police (including Sting) have some very dark and dreary songs, same with Tears For Fears. They just cover up the lyrics with a more "upbeat" sound.

  • Hate to break it to you, but "sad" was the word used by the person I was replying to. And they meant it in the crappy context. Not unhappy.

  • Grew up this video an MTV fav!!

  • If people only could see the humor of this, it's reality

  • Yes I can understand the great sense of humor

    ;)

  • This was sooo 80's. (It's one of those "You had to be there" to get the joke.) After all these years (yea, I ~was~ there!) this song & video still cracks me up. Phil & the boys had such a wicked sense of humour.

  • this was the early 80s, conservative Reganomical times! Who knew that everyone would get all sensitive and start complaining in the following decades. Who would this affend? The song sounds sympathetic if anything, and besides ...oh boy i had better not go any further or ill get people yelling at me who for some reason think that they are allowed to live here and not assimilate and instead go into gangs and take our money and send it back...so few of them are grateful of their new home.

  • I have to say - that I can see how some MIGHT be offended by this tune - but it is a great tune! I am sure they did not mean any offense to anyone; the only folks that should be offended are folks in countries around the world illegally - then who cares if they are offended!

  • learn english humour. this song is great. what's racist? hiding out with your sister..etc. etc. tell me what's fun being an illegal alien? jeez....uptight wanks.

  • shut up redneck u dont know anything about culture.. and if u have is stolen like everything u have like petrol, intolernat beanersssss

  • whose culture, mine? i know my culture very well thank you. The mexican culture? I have no clue. Now let's have a beer.

  • just try getting out of your idiotic little town and see how it feels

  • consideration for your fellow man

  • not only is it shit buts it also racist even though they say its not fun bein an illegal alien.Phil collins is still making fun of mexicans or hispanics with his bad impersonation and dodgy moustashe.The other band members wearing somberos.

  • i find it hillarious how Tony and Mike look so serious with the sunglasses, then phil looks retarded(in a good way).

  • Mike Rutherford catching cigarettes in his mouth. Little kids wearing sombreros. Phil Collins singing, "Over the border, there lies the promised land. Where everything comes easy, you just hold out your hand." This shit is hilarious!

  • im venezuelan but if I was mexican i'd probably be offended.this video is so bad I can only feel sorry for Phil, came here cuz there is an article in wiredDOTcom asking if this is the worst video or song ever, I know little about music but the rhythm on the beginning is horrible, the lyrics are offensive towards mexicans,I can see why Phil's career ended. They were so cheap, wonder why they never did anything like this against black people? Maybe he didn't want to get shot.

  • grab a sense of humour man!!

  • "wonder why they never did anything like this against black people? Maybe he didn't want to get shot."

    HaHa! You act all concerned and talk about how offensive it is and then you say something like that that is COMPLETELY offensive to black people?! LMAO! People need to lighten up. If you wanna hate on Phil hate on him for his later solo stuff which while it sold millions of records was way too commercial in my opinion- but this was the last great Genesis album in my opinion. Phil is awesome.

  • I so forgot this song til i heard it today.. Great Genesis classic

  • yeah but it's also no fun having 10 bucks for one moth libing.

  • I used to bag on Mr. Collins with a good friend of mine all the time but I can't stay away from this video. It's underground.

  • It's never ever going to be fun being an illegal alien. What can you say?! People get all racist and shit but what are you supposed to think?! Hold out those fucking hands and keep taking mutha fuckas! Things never change!

  • Oh, I was a little stone when I posted that, so there may be some mistakes with grammar and spelling. I hope I spelled Latino correctly! Latino babes rock!

  • I must say, I am a Professor at Harvard and

    never thought I would stoop to this. You are all Morons, like the troubled wack jobs I teach law to. oh, Lord , all of them will someday have someone's life in their hands!!

    Anyway, I think Latino women ar the hottest, no whit girl can measure up to the natutal beauty of a Lation babe!!

    Great Video. Well, so long from oxford University, carry on.

  • All you people who said that this video is racist and what not need to think before they post. This video was not intended to be offensive and racist in any way. If you think this video is racist then you need to swat up on your knowledge.

  • Is it really Good 'ol Phil at 0:58?He looks like a totally different person with dark hair and moustache.

  • Oh, well. They'll never build a wall big enough to keep these guys out.

  • First of all its not the least bit racist, maybe politicaly incorrect is a better phrase.

    Secondly God forbid anyone in the world should ever be ofended. Art should always ofend someone, otherwise go buy a black velvet painting of elvis or dogs playing pool.

    Is it fun being a illegal alien?

  • Clam down it's just a fucking MUSIC video.

  • Amazing chords in this one.

    Don't forget, they are from the UK not the US so they're not as sensitive to the situation as someone in the US would be.

  • This was a fun song when it came out. Most people thought it was hilarious and not at all racist. Its making fun of the culure not the Mexican race which is a blend of Native American and European.

  • hey i'm mexican and i love this song i think its hilarious the first time i heard it i died laughing

  • dear dummies the song says its NO FUN being an illegal alien NOT hi im a white supremacist, look before you cross the street gordo!

  • could never be made today. everybody is so sensitive and politically correct. how boring we have all become. this was meant to be fun....not harm.

  • A personal favourite.

  • you sick fuck.

  • Thanks Phil..I guess it's...no..fun..being an ..illegal alien..Could they have made a more offensive video..What's with the instrumental? Isn't that the theme song for hte 70's game show "Tic Tac Doe"?

  • disrespect this asshole....I am stopped by cops too. I am Italian, but you group every white person into the same category. I think you are a racist.....RB

  • Hey brancate thats funny fur heads but I like beaners aswell

    We should beallowed to shoot them when they are over here look at the money we can save 25 cents for a bullet or 10,000.00 each to send back hmmm lets do the math

  • Hey artyp3 you probaly have to shoot beaners because even the smallest mexican is considered to have more balls than the average white hillbilly redneck american which are considered the biggest ,laziest pussies around.motherfucker go to Phoenix or L.A and call them "beaners "which were born and raised here fur heads,then get bitch-slapped and shot as your women gets a brown burrito in her ass

  • I love the personality of this band!

  • Funny...they wouldn't play this song back in the 80's when they played the Orange Bowl in Miami...

  • send those fucking fur heads back to Mexico where they belong...se si puede my ass.!!!!!

  • Yeah pussy fuck with people who are weaker than you your dumb hilbilly ass! you probably think everyone with brown skin is a wetback. Talk your shit in east Phoenix to a chicano(an american with mexican ancestry)( like that and get bitch slapped.take your ass back south to the trailers and inbreed with your sister.wrong stereo typing eh? well get off yor ass and quit trying to hire mexicans for cheap labor.Oh I forgot your jobless cause your a lazy fucking hillbilly.

  • it's sad what has happened to genesis since the days of peter gabriel and steve hackett to wind up with this crap! i wouldn't waste a nickel to see these sell-outs!

  • This song is the best still today. I love the words and the music is cool too. Just hold out that fucking hand, thief fucks! No fun at all! Genesis Yeah!!!!!!!

  • it's not fun being God's puppet

  • Phil is the only one in the band that had the balls to not wear sunglasses.

  • I'm part Mexican-Indian, and I like Phil Collins and this song!

  • Friggin' funny!

  • haha...stupendo!!!

  • what a fun video

  • what does mike rutherford try to catch with his mouth in this vid?^^

  • Well when they are taking the pctures its a cigarette. That what you mean?

  • Holy crap, can't people just enjoy a video? It isn't like these guys are elected officials, they're MUSICIANS YOU IDIOTS...IT'S JUST A SONG.

  • love it.......thanks frank im saving my vinyl

  • Phil's hair in this was so ahead of the time. Now every kid seems to have that hairstyle. Go Phil for starting a trend! :P

  • This song rocks ass. When I have kids they will be force fed all this classic era Genesis until they know what's good for them. Thank you Mr. Collins, you are a saviour to my future family's wellbeing. Peace up.

  • :P i just saw it for the first time on the tv, i didn't saw phil until they make that pictures:P

  • lol@ phils wig and the kids wearing sombrero's,awsome video

  • Hey, it's a good song and it pertains just as much in Europe as it does here. Anyone who thinks it's racist really needs to have their head examined.

  • Hmm, I don't know whether I should take it in jest or be offended by it. Was it intended as racist ?

  • WHAT YR THIS SONG COME OUT

  • Funny song, funny video. Haven't seen it in ages, and totally forgot how entertaining the guys were. Thanks for putting it up. It's a shame this one is abused by so many idiots.

  • distorted sound effects at the very beginning lol

  • ha ha ha ha That was cool !!

  • Tony Banks looks so funny with that tache :-D

  • Is it just me, or with the wig & moustache, doe Phil kinda resemble Colin Farrell in this clip?

  • scottynx : fuck you , there are no borders in this word

  • Great song.

  • They were prophetic of the times we're in today! HA! Talk about writing for the future, they fortold the future in the 80s! :)

  • AGREED!

  • Why, exactly?

  • I work at Harvard University... the bastion of liberal diversity speak,,, and it's no fun being an illegal alien....

  • que gran canccion de genesis

  • I grew up in San Diego on the Mexican Border and this video is hilarious!!! You had to be there...haha

  • I totally know

  • reportanddeport,your fucking racist!

  • are you man at genesis? or mexicans?

  • I called reportanddeport an racist beacause he said:its no fun being an illegal alien,then go back where you come from,beacause i sure as hell dont want you in MY USA.

    I think people saying that are racists,dont you?

  • No, people who say that, such as I, are not racist. We are patriots who are sick of the government not protecting out southern border.

  • I'm a patriot too however I dont like the cops stopping me because of my brown skin. I'm what you call a chicano American born here but with Mexican and Indian ancestry.I dont tolerate whites or blacks talking shit to me or disrespecting me read the difference already?I'ts bullshit and white Amerticans are the ones illegally hiring illegals . so blame them ,by the way most terrorist come by way of Canada.Bullshit your not racist!

  • Once again, I did not say anything racist, and I am labeled a racist. Pulling the race card is a last pathetic effort to win an argument. I know that America has done this to itself. Illegals are not the only ones to blame. The terrorist came through Canada, but they overstayed their visas. The government didn't check up on this and their status was illegal.

  • whinners

  • its no fun, being in hollywood!!

    ,,,Adios Genesis!!!

  • callate pelotudo

  • Genesis es lo mejor que hay

  • they re making fun of Mexican people

  • A little maybe but what other group is obviously an immigrant without being overtly offensive?

  • Funny thing ,they say Phil Collins has latin heritage, his real name is Felipe Colina.

  • "They" are wrong. He was born Phillip David Charles Collins in the Chiswick section of London, U.K.

  • I just am here for the video.....sorry

  • "America Is Fed Up", if you like this video you'll,love mine. However, if you hated this, your gonna Hate me. The truth hurts some times. Great job on this video, keep them comming.

  • no

    hear there earlier work

  • You're the joke, cock jockey.

  • Heh. "Cock jockey."

  • I think there is a video playin somewhere on this page but I can hear it over the bleating of the pundits.

  • You hear the video through this crap, too? Thank God! I thought I was delusional!

  • Lou "The King of Media Whores" Dobbs

  • no the kings of media whores are some folks in Hollywood and Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers

  • Świetny teledysk,świetny utwór z równie kapitalnej płyty.

    Silver wielki fan Genesis.

    P.S. polecam go wszystkim.

  • This is the only Genesis song I ever liked

  • Don't bring Jesus and God into this, they have no part in it. It's all down to Man and Man's desire for better things.

  • ABSOLUTELY RIGHT

  • Here is a way to discourage "illegal" immigration: raise the federal minimum wage to $17.10. That will keep the "illegals" out.