Youâve seen videos like the one embedded below: People are shown content that they havenât been exposed to. We laugh at their bewilderment.
This one is different.
In the latest Fine Bros. âreactionâ clip, elders are shown Queen videos. But itâs 2016, and elders are Baby Boomers who lived through the iconic British rockersâ parade of radio hits in the â70s.
So things got a little melancholy.
These people are essentially shown a reel of their lost youth, a soundtrack to their high school antics, a reminder of opportunities lost. The sole African-American woman is downright frustrated that songs like âWe Will Rock Youâ and âWe Are the Champions,â inescapable anthems, are by artists whom she doesnât instantly recognize. (Itâs a sour reminder that 40 years ago, the radio catered to painfully segregated user bases.)
This video is a stark realization that the old people you rememberâthe ones from World War IIâare mostly dead. In their place, you are the old people.
The Fine Bros. produced this clip with Nov. 24 in mind, as last week marked the 25th anniversary of Queen frontman Freddie Mercuryâs death. After their reactions, the elders spoke about what it was like to live through the 1980s AIDS epidemic, which claimed the life of Mercury.
But itâs also a nice reminder that Queenâwhether youâre 75 or 15âcompletely rules.