The Song Called In The Year 2525

In The Year 2525 is a song that reached the first place of the Billboard top 100 in 1969 and stayed there for six weeks since the 12th July. The author of the song was Rick Evans, which released it at a local record label company in 1967. A couple of years later the, an Odessa, Texas radio station played the song and In The Year 2525 became a nation wide hit. RCA records signed a contract with Rick Evans and it was picked up for national distribution.

In The Year 2525 offers disturbing prediction at intervals of approximately 1010 years from the 2525. As such, subsequent verses begin with the years 3535, 4545, 5555, 6565, and 7510. There is also a change of pattern in the music with each year the song talks about.

There is no chorus in the song called In The Year 2525, just an ominous orchestral background music that draws the attention of the listener particularly in the 7510 to the 9595 part. Here you can also recognize the profoundly environmental message of the song in lyrics that discuss the survival of human kind that has taken everything from the earth, but never bothered to put anything in return.

The main idea of the In The Year 2525 song is a terrifying vision of a society where the constant development of technology dehumanizes mankind. That is a reference to the zeitgeist of the Jesus Movement, which criticizes the invention of machinery such as robots and test tubes or the genetic assortment of parents, that even though were not completely developed at that time, were still concepts of the science fiction novels and unavoidable in the near future.

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