*THIS WAS SAMPLED!* đ” MARTIKA "TOY SOLDIERS" REACTION
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- This is our first time listening to Martika. Toy Soldiers is such a vibe.
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Martika wrote the song about a friend who was battling a cocaine addiction.
Too bad that sad events motivate people to write beautiful songs.
Funny, is was written by Prince, i'm pretty sure. Anyway, I know he had a helping hand in getting her started...
It was about her brother she wrote it
@@lastpenny849 Not really, Prince gave her "Love thy will be done", not this one.
@@Caprizonica Yes, I have been informed. He did help her quite a bit with her career. He helped many young female artists.
"It's true, I did extend the invitation, I never knew how long you'd stay" is a GREAT line about drug addiction.
Aaall the lines are pretty darn powerful & really explain addiction well.
and also In-Laws
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Yep
Its about addiction "wont you come outside and play with me" is the drugs talking to her. The toy Soldiers is a metaphor for not having control of your life when you are an addict. You are just a piece being moved around wherever the addiction wants to take you
Wow I never realized that. But then I never tried drugs.
I also feel like she's talking about how everyone says just cause they got addicted doesn't mean that I will. But the soldiers keep falling down.
Sheâs singing about a close friend of hers that was addicted to drugs⊠luckily they overcame & cleaned up, unlike the person in the song. (The video shows her visiting the grave after)
If you have a problem, PLEASE get help. I've lost too many GOOD people to this fucking epidemic. I don't even know you, and I care about you enough to beg you to stop.
yup the line about the next one is going to be me.. is about her maybe dying from it?
Martika wrote the song about a friend who was battling a cocaine addiction. "I was a little hesitant because I had only written two songs before, and they were light songs. I came up to Michael and said I wanted to write about drugs. It was the first time I got the nerve to write about something that was scary for me to talk about, so I did." According to an episode of VH-1's Pop-Up Video, in which "Toy Soldiers" was featured, the friend-in-question eventually conquered the addiction.
Wow! This song still gets me in the feels. It always had a strange hold over me as a kid in the 80s. Guess I must've found it pretty haunting back then.
Well you are not wrong, while I was a bit pre teen back then, i really fealt it of a road to something new... well that pree teens often do
I feel ya an am there with ya!
It will be the demonic children as backing singers. There were a lot of memorable horror films in the 80s.
@@matsv201 I think I was only 9 myself. I think this was around 89 ish.
@@TheRetroManRandySavage Yea.. i think it was popular here in europe like one year later, so i would been around 12ish
Man, I haven't heard this song in ages, brings back a lot of memories on my younger years. Thank you very much...
Martika's song " won't you come out and play with me"are the drugs calling. This hits home really really close I love it.
It was 1989 and I was 6 years old with my first loose tooth. This cassette was my reward for letting my aunt and mom wiggle it out.đ
Awww lol
Hey guys. The song is about drug addiction. One of my favorites but I can't listen to it too often because it is one of those songs that has the power to literally make me sad. Love watching y'alls videos!
I remember her from a kids' show called K.I.D.S Inc. it was a group of kids that did cover songs of popular songs at the time and doing life lessons and I think she was the eldest (a very young Fergie was also on this show).
Also Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jennifer Lopez.They're singing background on this
The background singers are the kids from K.I.D.S. Inc., Fergie, Rashaan Patterson, Renee Sands, Kimberley McCollough, and Devyn Puett.
@@danachestnut1638 OK. now that I didn't know. Thanks.
@@pastorofmuppets22 at 45 and I can still learn things.
I loved that show! Really showed how talented they were even as young as they were
I forgot how strangely powerful and brilliant this song was
I remember Toy Soldiers the old Sean Astin movie. Not that there's any connection between the two but I can't think of one without thinking of the other.
NO AUTO TUNE. This song is forever and ever, most romantic song. Greatest Cuban singer all the times.
Eminem used this song in one of his many hits , & it was Excellent
Wtf! Lol. I never expected anybody to react to this tune..thatâs Awesome đ
Had a huge crush on Martika back in the day, and this is in my top 20 fav songs of all time, love it.
Still get chill bumps listening to this 40 years laterâŠ.
Omg... I remember how you just couldn't get away from this song back in the day... Now 8 actually appreciate it!! Thanks guys!
I sang this in grade 4 at a talent show. I was quite the kid at 9 lol
Heavy stuff at 9 but then again most of us have a song we loved as kids that have pretty deep themes.
This takes me back to the summer that I stayed with my older brother down in Mississippi. There was a water slide park that was right by the beach that we use to go to and they played this song on the loud speakers a lot.
I believe Martika wrote this song after losing a friend to drug addiction.
I love this song, its beautiful. Knowing the context though? It hits real hard.
Eminem's sampling was a masterstroke too. Great song đ
such a great tribute
Her friend was addicted to cocaine, but apparently recovered.
This was one of the biggest songs of '89, my senior year of HS.
Awesome song, and still so powerful.
Pop music in the early 90s was so great.
this is from 89
@@MovieGuy666 It squeaks in.
But '88-'92 were the best years for pop. The pinnacle was Boyz II Men's 'End of the Road'.
I have a song suggestion for you guys - 'Chiquitita' by ABBA should please you both. Brad will appreciate the straightforward lyrics and the harmonies while Lex will not be able to stop smiling due to the prominent piano and theatrical presentation. It's so totally different from the ABBA songs you have heard! And, if you like it, give 'Cassandra' and 'Fernando' a listen - I think you'll discover why ABBA is considered one of the top supergroups of all time.
Powerful song đ„č Love it, Love Martikaâš Love and miss the 80'sâ„ïžđđŸ
I just have to say I really enjoy that very soft "welcome to our channel" in the intro.
Martika was on an awesome show in the 80's called "KIDs Incorporated"....she left the show to do the solo gig.
she also does a pretty good cover of I Feel The Earth Move
Love her version of that!
Martika was on a kids singing variety show in the mid 80's with Fergie. The show was called "KIDS Incorporated"
Hope you react to Martika's songs "Love...Thy Will Be Done" and "Martika's Kitchen" both written (or co-written) by Prince.
You should really check out the song Luka by Suzanne Vega. It came out a year before toy soldier
Aw man! Her song Toms Diner rules!
Should do, Love thy will be done, prince gave her that song. Even sings backing vocals.
I had such a huge crush on Martika back in the day!
I'm old enough to remember most of the original songs that were sampled in the 90's and 2000's.
This takes me back a few years, she had a few really big hits.
I was in like 6th grade when this song came out. I haven't heard this song in at least 30 years!
She was on a tv show called Kidâs Incorporated.
Absolutely love this song... I remember when it first hit MTV.
"Love... Thy Will Be Done" by Martika is also an excellent song!
I hate Sampling cuz it seems the Original peps Never get the Proper Credit Deserved for it! đ Love this Classic!! â€ïžđ„đŻđ
Eminem paid her bud
The song is so sad. She lost a really good friend to his addiction.
according to other sources, the friend in question conquered the addiction eventually
It was a huge hit and on the radio all the time in 89
Here in Brazil too!
Martika wrote the song about a friend who was addicted to drugs
While Em wrote Like Toy Soldiers about him wanting to end all his beefs and in honor to One of the D12 members (Eminem's old band group thing) who died, and then years later ems friend Proof Dies, so It Turned into like a tribute to both of them (what i think)
A beautiful song about drug addiction. You gotta check out Martika's "Love Thy Will Be Done", written for her by Prince. My favorite song by her.
Literally her best song! I love her debut album too!
Love her voice. This shouldn't be sampled it a great stand alone song
Wow... Forgot about this one. Just got smashed up side the head with a dose of nostalgia.
This song is about drug addiction and the singer Martika was in a show back in the 80's called Kid's Incorporated also starring Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.
Toy Soldiers is also a 1991 film starring Sean Astin about a boy's prep school taken over by terrorists and the boys fight back. Martika was in the popular show in the 80's called K.I.D.S. Incorporated of which I remember well. Look up her rendition of Berlin's "Masquerade." You'll like it. Request: Peter Murphy--Cuts You Up. Btw, Fergie was also in that show.
I absolutely know what addiction is about. đą By the grace of God I've been clean and sober for 40 years. Got to change who you hang out with and most of all you are just a drink or pill away from going back to Hell on earth Thank you God most high for hearing my prayers so long ago â€
An there's the difference between artists and writers. There's a huge difference between just writing lyrics to talk over a beat. Then you have artists that not only write lyrics. They actually sing, composed, write the different music parts.
This would be analogous to like an 80s version of Demi Lovato crowd - several of those artists got a name for themselves from Nickelodeon or Disney. Martika was on a TV show called "KIDS Incorporated" which my sister used to watch (I think Saturday late mornings after cartoons). They would sing in the show like several shows on Disney or Nickelodeon. Martika was a stand out and that gave her an opportunity cut this record. I do not believe she ever had success with any other song. But this is an 80s classic that really took off - so beautiful yet haunting at the same time.
Several of the other castmates sung on this song including the most famous singer of them Fergie.
A lot of people donât know but the young girl singing in the song is fergie and that last solo breakdown is fergie too. Even at a young age she was quite talented. Great reaction by you too.
I kept requesting this song almost every week, itâs reminds me of a forgotten time in my life.
Great song never gets old and she was on Miami Vice, them was some fun days back then
It's a song about existential angst, we are born, but we must die, every second that passes(left right left), marches us to our destruction
This song really well done.it really hits The Feelers
It's about addiction and the constant "step by step" battle against addiction.
This was our song in 8th grade. I never really listened to the lyrics but the chorus. Man I really miss the 80s.
"How could I be so blind to this addiction? If I don't stop, the next one is gonna be me." Death from drug addiction - and realizing the looming consequences and still not being able to overcome the addiction alone.
Nice, this song is one I always loved but forgot about!
It's an eighties classic and you guys we're swaying away to the music. That's what an Eighties Ballard esq song will do to you. Great song and I approve the sampled version my Eminem. One of my favorites đ
he has a feeling that there is more she's not clearly saying but she is! and the look on his face shows it.
Thank you for putting up the lyricsđđŒ.
Wow,forgot about this song.music is time stamps in life.i recall my age ,where I lived, who my friends were etc
This song is sung from my wifes perspective. . Her pain ended 11 years ago.
I'd forgotten this song....pure nostalgia!
Check out Berlin take my breath away. Was used in the movie top gun both as the song itself, but as pick up line
I did buy this cassette. Wasn't much of an 80's pop person, at the time, but I really dug this. Good stuff!
Itâs not pop as much as it is a ballad lol
I am pretty sure this song is about addiction
Song was dedicated to the late actor, Corey Haim who was battling drug addiction in the late 80s
This has been going on for a long time. Rock and Roll used the old blues songs. Rappers use Rock and Roll songs.
I like how the song is about Death and LEX is smiling the whole time lol
Bummer you guys don't react with the original videos because the Original Video to Toy Soldiers just depicts the story SO WELL! It's about addiction/drugs.
One of the best songs of my mouth. Martika was so hot. But she was basically a one hit wonder(or two hits wonder). Remembering the video, I think it was about a girl who falls for a guy older than her.
Truer words, man. I love women w/ black hair who have that general look of hers. You watch that video and you want her as your woman.
@@nonplayerzealot4 damn right! that late 80s early 90s short hair women look lol
Addiction is something that most people know someone who has a problem with something. Drugs alcohol, gambling.
This song remind me of my first Love and a broken heart at the same time....
Yeah
Fergie is one of the kids singing Lil musical tidbit
I haven't seen it mentioned but Martika was the lead on Kids Incorporated. It was a show in the very early 80's about a group of kids that sang cover songs of all the current 80's hits. A lot of people got their start there like Fergie, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Ryan Lambert
Such a sad song. It is about her childhood friends addiction and her overdose death. Watch the official video. You will understand it more.
TIL the lyrics aren't in fact "We never quit / The battle rages on", as I'd always (mis)heard it. Gives it a different meaning altogether.
A beautifully haunting song
You two are like that perfect mix called a peanut butter cup. The right amount of chocolate, the right amount of peanut butter. (I can't wait for some dumbass to think that's a racial thing) Brad is always looking for the meaning as he listens, Lex is always feeling the energy. And both are looking for the best in the song. That's why it works so well.
you should react to some Doobie Brothers songs, like the live version of Don't start me talkin', long train runnin' at the farewell tour and many more
I always thought she really nailed the chorus in this song. :)
I recommend the songs I Dont Wanna Lose You (Gloria Estefan) and This Is The Right Time (Lisa Stansfield) from the same year 1989 as this Martika song :)
Yes I was wondering, if yall was gonna catch on. Nice đ€đŸđđœđđŸ
Fun fact Martika was on a TV show called Kids Incorporated with Fergie (Black Eyed Peas & My Humps fame) when they were kids. This was her attempt at having a career after the show.
That's right! In fact the parts with kids singing in this song was done by the other kids incorporated cast.
Also... Jennifer Love Hewitt was there in later years too.
@@Blu9_Nin9 It was pretty much the same time.
I think only an addict can truly understand this sound.
Itâs about addiction and her friend in real life.
Eminem ainât coming up with something like that on his own. Itâs about addiction. Reliving these song with you guy, And with brad and the lyrics. Itâs probably a good think we didnât listen to closely at the time theses were big. I feel like if we did most of us would of turned into junkies.
In the 80s crack vials weâre called dead soldiers. â It's getting hard to wake up in the morning
My head is spinning constantly, How could I be so blind to this addiction?
If I don't stop
The next one's gonna be me, Only emptiness remains
It replaces all
All the pain
(Won't you come out and play with me?)
Thatâs weird because thought opposite! I listened to this alot when I was a teenager & became addicted for many years. The other day when i watched the video, it was sooo sad that I wondered if it wouldâve helped me to not do it! Itâs crazy how ppl can get feel different reactions from certain things.
All I hear is Eminem now and I was a kid when this came out , this original reminds me of my childhood as well my dad out in the garage tinkering around with this music playing on his radio. Man I love music, memory inducing.
Martika wrote this song. It's excellent.
Why is music so powerful!? WORDS, rhythm. OUR entire world is this! ULTRASOUND, just very sophisticated.
God spoke our world into being.
Words / Sword. Yes, the word of God is a sword and they are VERY powerful!
Did a musical with Martica! She's salt of the earth. This was her only big hit besides More then You Know.
What about "Love... Thy Will Be Done"?
This song lands in that small pocket of the 80s where pop songs had guitar solos and some rock songs had synth or sax solos. Really weird lol.
I remember this song getting a lot of radio play. The singer Martika is cute AF.
Try to find the 1080p version and then listen to the version you guys are listening to and you'll notice the difference
A powerful song about addiction
Expose' was a young kid when this came out. good memories.