🎵 SIMON & GARFUNKEL 'Mrs. Robinson' REACTION

Thanks for checking out our Simon & Garfunkel reaction. Mrs. Robinson is quite the interesting song lol.

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[patricknicolucci]

Joseph Paul DiMaggio[a] (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "The Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D." was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Sicilian Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and had a 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands

[marknash]

As others have said, it's used as the theme to "The Graduate, " which does have a "Stacy's Mom"-type plot point. (Although the mom is the initiator, and it's a straight-up seduction rather than a wishful fantasy.)

But the song is really about the younger generation shedding the hypocrisy and corruption of the older generation. The song was recorded against the backdrop of 1960's turmoil, the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement, so there was some serious intergenerational beef going on.

The first verse ("We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files...") seems to imply that Mrs. Robinson is being checked into a long-term mental health facility of some sort.

The second verse is about a dirty little secret the older generation tries to hide from the younger generation.

The third verse implies that the corruption extends to the entire older generation, regardless of which political party they follow.

And the the "where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio" part again lands a punch at the emptiness of the older generation's nostalgic view of itself, as Joe DiMaggio was a major baseball legend whose post-game public life devolved into non-stop tabloid fodder.

So the song is kind of throwing a middle finger at the old guard and pushing them out of the way for the younger generation.

[GoEqBro]

Joe DiMaggio is one of baseball’s all time greats, but in this song he was a metaphor for innocence.

[Yumm...]

Lex absolutely nailed it! It is like Stacy’s Mum but instead of the perspective of a young high schooler crush it’s a recent college graduate with the complications and confusion of that age. And all the stuff about Mrs Robinson being perceived as a nice simple lady but secretly seducing someone her daughters age

[douglasmijangos]

Scarborough Fair is one of the most beautiful songs ever .. I love that part in the movie when he’s running back to her and that song comes out .. ❤️

[reality]

I love it. The lyric printed said:

Heaven holds a place for those who "prey".

Laughed my ass off.

[jrepka]

From the soundtrack of the movie "The Graduate." Several versions were released, one on the album "Bookends." Simon's original title was Mrs. Roosevelt, but it was a working title, just needing a three-syllable name. When he mentioned it to Mike Nichols, director of the movie, he became excited because it was the name of one of the main characters. It was S&G's first song to hit #1 on the pop charts and won two Grammy awards. Other songs from the movies included The Sound of Silence & Scarborough Fair/Canticle.

[bradleyhart]

Joe DiMaggio's one of the all time great baseball players, spent his career with the Yankee's. Probably best known for his 56 game hitting streak. A streak that many think will never be broken, including me.

[angelskunk]

You're correct, Lex. Mrs. Robinson is a song from the movie The Graduate. A young Dustin Hoffman plays a college student who is seduced by Mrs. Robinson.

[bluebird]

Lex your very right in fact, the movie this was written, "The Graduate"

'The film tells the story of 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older married woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then becomes obsessed with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross)-Wikipedia

[chuckjohnson]

Paul Simon said that in this song Joe Dimaggio was a metaphor for the innocence and wholesomeness of his time. Hence, "where have you gone Joe Dimaggio...?"

[joelilley]

Joe DiMaggio represented American wholesomeness and family values that have left and gone away. 👍

[JPMadden]

Paul Simon is a good singer and guitarist and a phenomenal songwriter. Art Garfunkel is an excellent singer, although with age his voice is not the same. But together in the 1960s they created something magical. Their collaboration is an example of something being "greater than the sum of its parts." Along with The Beatles, their music touches me like no other.

[furiogiunta]

Lex is right, it's like Stacy's mom. This song is from The Graduate movie, college boy has relations with his girlfriend's mama. Simon and Garfunkel plays great folk music. They played a concert in Central Park that was legendary, my folks went to it.

[joelsanoff]

Joe DiMaggio was a great New York Yankee, a real hero to kids. When they sing "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, " it was a plea about the lack of real American heroes in the '60s. Joltin' Joe was his nickname. He played in the 1930s and 1940s.

[SuperHappyflowers]

One of the most musically interesting bands from that era. Another great and unique-sounding masterpiece was Cecilia, but honestly they had so many huge hits you can't miss.

[centuryrox]

I highly recommend you two watch the movie this song is from, 1967's "The Graduate", starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Truly a classic, and featuring a ton of Simon & Garfunkel's music!

[OronOfMontreal]

Lex's instincts never cease to amaze me. "The Graduate" is one of the seminal movies of the Baby Boom generation and I recommend it to you. All the other folk here have given you plenty of great background.
"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" is a haunting, mysterious beauty of a song; "El Condor Pasa" will stay with you forever, once you have heard it -- it is based on an indigenous song from the mountains of Equador, and those folk have great, great music.

[lazyorangehousecat]

Watching a song go completely over your heads is quite amusing.

[christinehill]

As someone who enjoys watching reaction videos, I can't thank you both enough for going right into it when the video starts. Literally all the other videos, you have to scroll 2 minutes in just to see the reaction.
Thanks for that.