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  • I love this song... but could someone please explain what its actually about?

  • @Eembuster

    it's about a plane crash, witch killed some talented artists: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP richardson.

    But Don always said it wasn't about this...

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  • i dont care what its truly about. the music died when dub-step and electronic music was invented.

  • 673 people have never had pie...

  • @ssloling153 fail

  • The music died when Don Mclean made this song because his criticising his own song "American Pie" as well as the song that came after it. LOL

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  • the music died wen JB said his first words

  • 672 Dislikes? How is that even possible? They must not dig these rhythmic blues.

  • I'm not one to listen to an entire song I haven't heard before- especially a 7 minute long one, but this song was so great. The story, they lyrics, everything.

  • What is the song about?

  • @TheSalamguy The plane crash that killed ritchie valens, buddy holly, and the big bopper three music legends and plenty things like the half time air was sweet perfume the perfume is poisen gas used during WW2 and " the grass" is marauanna" you can look it up or in a month or two i will have a vid bout it but mainly its about the crash and ther turn of the century not just drugs

  • -buddy holly and ritchie valens die, point antimusic

    -don mclean writes the most iconic american rock song ever; point music

    -rap and cheap pop becomes popular and takes front stage musically; point antimusic

    high time we even the score

  • For u who say this song is gay, u can u shove a guitar up it butt, cause u probably don't even know what this song is about.

  • for extra credit on an English quiz we had to name the three artists who died and inspired this song, and i was the ONLY one who got the point.

    WTF seriously??

    Richie valens, Buddy Holly and the big bopper!!! Hello???

    Im losing faith in my generation

  • @aubandtt And you're a fuckass, but you don't see me just saying it for no reason. You don't even know what the song is about asshole.

  • all these sopa songs are gay

  • I love this song I love the chorus

  • i cant remember if i cryed the day i heard of sopas plans

  • My dad and I used to sing this when I was like 5. I'm 15 now and I found the old tape with the song and put it one for my Dad and a smile came to his eyes, I love music for making my dad smile :}

  • Say bye, bye to the Internet guys...

    SOPA will pass and PIPA will fly.

    And the good old boys cried:

    This'll be the day that we die...

    This'll be the day that we die...

  • RIP RITCHIE VALENS!!!!!!

    ~Raven Esquivel age: 15

  • The music did die...now we just have electronic beeps. sad...

  • @KatherineFal a few things: 1) When the piano was invented, most musicians and listeners preached about how it will ruin creativity and how it doesn't take any talent to use and how the harpsichord is the only true instrument 2) those beeps are still music and creative 3) if you don't like listening to it, there are SO MANY country, rock, jazz, blues, and metal bands touring the country and making a living off of it, but most are just not well known. They make their money off of live shows and

  • @KatherineFal not from studio. 4) this is coming from a classically trained music composition major. Fact is the music industry never dies. It just changes. And right now, it is better than ever. Humanity will always be creative with those 12 tones and infinite rhythms and combinations.

  • @metallica04100 profit wise the music industry is better than ever. Music wise the industry is in a coma with the RIAA trying to switch off its life support

  • But SUCH A GOOD SONG

  • *Lenin

  • Search meaning of American Pie there is literally a new meaning to EVERY LINE in this song. I was like :O

  • did you write the book of laws, and do you believe in the internets flaws, if the government tells you so? Do you believe in pipas hold, can sopa, save, your, pirating soul? and can WMG stop deleting my videos reaaaal slooow? well i know baracks, in love with sopa, because i saw them both do the polka, they both kicked off their shoes, man i hate them liberty blues.

    sorry i had to add lol great song by the way

  • I can't help but relate this to ACTA.

  • This song is awesome

  • Hey! My name is Brooke and I have a blog called "Your Daily Dose of Brooke" where I discuss how to get rid of campaign callers, ace your finals, and how to find a guy that is a "five". You should definitely go check it out here: the-brookester.blogspot com/ (add periods after blogspot)

    First 100 members get invited to all the parties

    Stay calm and look for fives

  • A long long time ago deep in a galaxy far away. That's the saga begins

  • The Day The Internet Died .

  • This was the #1 song the day I was born. Another reason why I should have crawled back up my Mom's cunt and died.

  • @godforge2003 I agree. You don't deserve to be born on such a date.

  • @godforge2003 who just says that... i am officially mind fucked congrats sir... you have won

  • 666 dislikes?

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  • "But something touched me deep inside

    The day the internet died."

  • @RaVaL47

    All of my this. Thought the same exact thing. :c

  • @RaVaL47 This song came to mind just now, and I needed to hear the lyrics. To Hell with Sopa! People are done with the broken system. America promised rainbows and Lolipops. Now all we have is Diabetes and pollution

  • @RaVaL47

    So, Bye-Bye, All you Internet Guys,

    Take your ponies and your arrows cause they don't abide

    Congress brought SOPA alive,

    And this will be the day that I die,

    This will be the day that I die

  • Great sagas, like this song, begin "A long, long time ago..."

  • Wow brilliant lyrics as always "When i read about his widowed bride"

  • i'm locky that i'm not american .... sopa heh

  • @ManBearBg I see why you could say that, yet I would bet you money that if SOPA would be passed (which for now its on hold) it would cripple more than the American people. Do you know how many important companies are based in America? Do you also know that countless of countries depend on those online economies? I am not defending the American idea, I am just defending my rights, I will not say that this country is the best on the world since I have not seen the whole world.

  • :'(

  • I Fuck ACTA, i want only listen this music.

  • i believe that washington's goal of SOPA and PIPA (to stop online piracy) is ok but the method of censorship goes against our base freedoms. i also disagree with the 90+ million dollar pay out to congress from holywood

  • @MsZaneman you are against piracy? so you think we should pay alot of money to those already way 2 rich artists/managers/money pistons. i disagree

  • @paulv3rm3ul3n stop being butthurt, there's a lot of people who make art and *gasp* AREN'T rich.

  • *About the politicians*

    and they were singin,

    bye, bye mr. internet guy

    I sure hope sopa passes and that pipa will fly

    us good old boys are gonna make them all cry

    This'll be the day that it dies,

    this'll be the day that it dies

  • I think that the devil realized that the only way of getting rid of Buddy Holly was by killing him in a plane crash. He never did anything horribly wrong, he was actually a benign fellow, and so hence the devil didn't like this. 1959 was a bad year for Rock N Roll. The devil did what he could, but he sure couldn't kill it all off. Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were also relatively innocent, but its just that Buddy was one hell of a gentleman. I think we should all strive to gentlepeople too.

  • Buddy Holly, may your music live on forever!

  • try the saga begins by weird al

  • CTY anyone?

  • @smexyiceprincess I'm from Georgia, and that is the worst stereotype and vulgar insult I have ever heard.Not everyone has a farm or tractors, and about the anger part, we happen to have "southern hospitality".

  • @pokesaurus12 I'm from Georgia too. I've lived here all my life, and people never think I'm from the South. I have no accent, and I've never had fried green tomatoes or biscuits and gravy. It always makes me laugh when people ask if I'm from up north or on the west coast.

  • the best music ever !!

  • Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper

  • The saga begins wierd al

  • EVERY one thumbs this up so people can know (the day the music died) was when billy haley The big bopper and ritche valens died

  • @mw2chap123 Bill Haley??? The fuck man, he died in the 80's, it was Buddy Holly who died the day the music died.

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  • Oh that song brings me lots of regards! Really funny to know about it again^^

  • Don't you just love it there are no words for this it is amazing music, soulful and generaly beatiful as well as having really clever and insightful lyrics, I love it. Can you teach me how to dance, real slow!

  • thisll be the day that I die FUCK SOPA AND PIPA

  • @jackzigtech The legislation was withdrawn today....Calm your ass. I bet you don't even Pirate shit the right way.

  • Poor buddy holly. I wasn't alive when you were here but I still miss you and this song is so sad. I can't believe it even had to be written.

    The song was written for the Big Boppers, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly's funeral after they died in a plane crash.

  • fuckin SOPA only the american idiots could think of such bullshit.

    America deserves its BAD reputation

  • @ch3573r90 yup. cause we totally wanted this :/

    Its the people we THOUGHT were gonna lead our country well that are to blame

  • @13rokenknightascar ye right, who voted for them?

    Seriously.. the world thought you've learned something since the Bush election..but obviously..

  • @ch3573r90 The American people, including me now since i just became 18, are easily manipulated by flashy guys with big words. basically a nation of gullible people who believe the government should "protect" them. And its been going on longer than Bush.

  • NOPA SOPA, NOPA PIPA

  • Death to SOPA and PIPA

  • I'll sing to my children the day the internet died :( Stop SOPA

  • DEATH TO SOPA!!!!!

    

  • My gram used to listen to this song all the time. but then she died when i was 4. :'(

  • how dare SOPA even try to remove videos on youtube. even more how dare youtube let them.

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  • @m1l3spr0w3r77 I'm not able to thumbs down, so I'll just provide an argument equivalent to yours : [ I disagree]

  • @foodforthoughtFEAST So, you're telling me you're PRO governmental regulation and censorship of the internet?

  • @m1l3spr0w3r77 No, I'm telling you that SOPA/PIPA has nothing to do with censoring one's opinion. It's about copyrights, for crying out loud!

  • I see what you're doing here, youtube.

  • OH MY GOD, SHUT UP, PEOPLE! SOPA/PIPA ARE GETTING RID OF THE ILLEGAL VIDEOS. IF AMERICAN PIE IS COPYRIGHTED, WHICH I DOUBT CONSIDERING MADONNA SOMEHOW MANAGED TO BE ABLE TO GET HER GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS ON THE RIGHTS TO THIS SONG, THEN WE MIGHT HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE OFFICIAL VIDEO, WHICH IS THE FIRST THING YOU SEE WHEN YOU SEARCH "american pie-don mclean"!

  • @foodforthoughtFEAST

    What if I don't want to see the official video, but the video with the lyrics like this one? I mean, seeing as how I like to sing the songs I like, lyrics videos are pretty useful. Doesn't that kind of take that option away from me if SOPA is passed and just unceremoniously bans videos like this that, for all intents and purposes, are not really hurting anything?

  • Lenin, not Lennon.

  • A long loing time ago, I can still remember, how the internt used to be free, and I knew that if I had the chance, I could rock it out to every just dance, making me happy for a while, but January made me shiver, when congressmen they delivered, bad news for the internet, if congress takes that step, I know that I will cry, when I read the internet died, something angers me deep inside, the day that freedom died. so bye bye, all of youtubes files, No more facebook and myspace,
  • @Socoolscienceshow What, so its a bad thing that Congress is simply enforcing anti-piracy? Where did you even come up with the entire collapse of the internet? I guess we should just rebel because it's illegal to take books from the library and sell them for like, $30 each.

  • @foodforthoughtFEAST there are two types of people who look at this isue, you got the redneck hill billy hicks who trust the government to not abuse thier power. Then you got smart intellecutal people who see the whole picture and never trust the governemtn to do anything correct sept corruption. Im guessing your the redneck hill billy hick.

  • :')

  • If SOA/PIPA is passed, we would all be singing bye bye miss American Pie...

  • It's not on VEVO. This is gonna be illegal soon...

  • I was just joking......I wanted to see some feed backs. I actually like this a lot.

  • @MrAlphagun Troll

  • This song makes me cry everytime. Whenever my family got together, we would always sing this song (a shortned version somtimes) and we (i think) sounded amazing. last year my grandpa passed away. In his will, he left me one of his guitars, saying "don't let the music die". I miss you so much Grandpa Al, and I love you more than I was ever able to tell you. I know you are watching over us and I love you so much

    Your Grandson,

    Tristan <3

  • @fancybrit93 beautiful comment

  • @fancybrit93 Amazing!

  • @fancybrit93 I didn't cry until I read your comment. I now raise my beer and drink to Grandpa Al. Cheers old man!

  • @fancybrit93 Reading this made me cry, you and your Grandpa are heroes :')<3

  • @fancybrit93 God bless him

  • The Day The LOLcats Died

  • is this about communism?

    

  • @bboy32167 No it's about the death of Buddy Holly

  • FUCK THIS SOAP SHIT ILL NEVER WASH MY HANDS AGAIN!!!!!

  • best guitar hero song !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @1972Yaris No. Just sto

  • stop talking about poopa

  • 659 people approve of SOPA

  • Im pretty sure if that sopa/pipa bill passes this video right here would be illegal. Fucking Communists

  • @blackdroid97 Do you even know what communism is?

  • @foodforthoughtFEAST Yea Im pretty sure I do but for your sake go and look up what communists do to their citizens and how they regulate their own internet by filtering out content, making their citizens see what they want, not what they should. So go troll somewhere else, There are people here who care about their freedoms

  • I always hate people who do this. But i have to say something about the 659 people who disliked this.

    they are fucking idiots, sorry

  • I'm a zygote and I love this song.

  • omfg im gonna clear this up so you people can stop filling up my inbox. this music is great. so is linkin park, green day, and a few other modern artists. i APOLOGIZE for the pop and rap shit. i dont apologize for the rock and country. so stfu

  • No offense, but nobody gives a shit how old you are. Listen to the music and enjoy it. <3

  • I am 12 and I love music like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, this song, metallica and many others not in my lifetime...... I think I was born in the wrong time period.....

  • @LittleBigVids1 that makes two of us although im 17^^

  • "They day that music has died" will come when the SOPA gets active. oppose by liking this.

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  • So cool music.

  • RIP bob hope

  • BRENDA!

  • Usually when i listen to big songs, like 10 min long i turn to next one in the half of song..but this one.... THIS ONE IS SPECIAL <3 listened through the hole song with rhythm :D

  • Altamont...

  • The Saga Begins :D

    

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  • Sorry, I'm pretty sure SOPA would not approve of this.

    FUCK SOPA.

  • SOPA is going after sites that are dedicated to copyright infringement. Youtube is not one of them.

  • @1spitonyourgrave SOPA would give copyright holders enormous power over sites with user-generated content, including YouTube.

  • @1spitonyourgrave Are you using the same site as the rest of us? They take videos down for Copyright all the time!

  • @BentlyGirl5 You're forgetting about PIPA, as well.

  • @BentlyGirl5 SOPA and PIPA would change the title to The Day The Internet Died

  • @NostalgicTimeMan Actually it would be "The Day LOLcats Died".

  • @digidragon1 same thing, lol

  • songs like this are pure classics they have no age group or generation they were made for everyone and all time

  • Why, why are laws a thing you can buy? They got paid off, should be laid off, re-election denied~

  • @MrAlphagun kill yourself

  • @lucariomaster117 nigga got trolled 

  • @MrAlphagun Sorry man, but you don't love music then.!The celebrities you picked offer entertainment, pop tunes. But this you're listening to is a musical odyssey. Over there you have dance number... but here you have artwork. Its like saying I like The Spice Girls, but I don't like Beethoven.

  • Did I really just get an advert halfway through the video?!

  • I love this song and I'm 10

  • Im 12 and wat is this?

  • 5 generations of my family know this song and have sung it together - a true classic.

  • Has anyone thought about this song with the possibility of the internet going dark tomorrow?

  • @4244al Search "The Day the LOLcats Died".

  • The meaning behind this song is so deep.. every single line has another pop culture reference to the times...... It's probably one of the best songs ever written.

  • 658 people disliked this, that is just sad

  • i grew up im 10 but when me and my grandma went camping and elkriver and other places we listened to this its my FAVE <3 song

  • I'm 13 and this song is my favorite song. My friends are always listening to eminem but I think I will stick to this and Bruce Springsteen.

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  • i love this song so much but it makes me cry i dont know why i listen to this song since i was 5 and i would always sing this song wen someone died who ever hates this song can go to hell

  • the sega begins is a parody of this song

  • Lenin not Lennon

  • What are you doing??? Scroll back up!

  • this guy sounds like Elton John from rocket man but its still awesome

  • I hope this song never dies. I con't believe I love it so much. ♥

  • It's really sad how narrow minded people are these days. Most of my friends would call this song gay and stuff like that. Hope this music never dies though <3

  • I don't know why I like this song, it is so sad.

  • The day the music died is the day he left us.

    He was di man.

  • @dolphin1367 how old r u

  • Heard this for the first time a few months back, thought is was a great and emotional song. Then I looked up a interpretation of the lyrics, now I think it's even better.

  • Good one.  I am an oldie, but this captured my son when he was about 18.

    Real catcher. Thank you

  • @jeanskirt2011 consider it an amazing feat that a fetus can even type let alone spell

  • i sing this song alll the time. gunna preform it at school. im 14. dont say my generatons music s crap. i <3 altenative, classic, indie, and grunge rock.

  • Whoever hates rap, why are you downing it on this great songs comments? stop spamming these comments, this song is great, and so is a lot of old songs, but this the old generation. Some of you are stuck in the 70s, this is the new generation of rap and hip hop and this is how society is. Some if its good, and some is complete bull shit. But its all everyones opinion, so can we please just shut up about this and listen to this song?