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"Feel the Funk"' is the title of an R&B single by Immature, later known as IMx. It was featured in the 1995 motion picture Dangerous Minds and appeared on the soundtrack and Immature's album We Got It. It was also a b-side to the UK release of the We Got It single. The song heavily samples the 1979 hit "Love Changes" by the band Mother's Finest.
Funk music such as the type performed by groups like Parliament Funkadelic uses catchy electric bass lines and drum patterns to create a propulsive, emphatic rhythmic "feel" that is often referred to as a "groove". In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing".
Outside the US, "If You Feel the Funk" reached number 42 in Germany, number 13 in the Netherlands, and number 9 in Belgium. Jackson performed "If You Feel the Funk" as well as "Are You Ready" on the November 8, 1980 episode of Soul Train. [1] She performed "If You Feel the Funk" on the December 13, 1980 episode of American Bandstand. [2]
And when she says “funk,” she means Brazilian funk, what is frequently referred to as funk carioca or baile funk and is heard in favelas around Rio — a combination of Brazilian rhythms ...
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When the 1980 disco-funk song “Funkytown” was still a 1980s hit, listeners to KKDA/104.5 FM and KKDA/730 AM grew up hearing the station refer to “Funky Town Fort Worth.” The song is catchy.
Funk drumming creates a groove by emphasizing the drummer's "feel and emotion", which including "occasional tempo fluctuations", the use of swing feel in some songs (e.g., "Cissy Strut" by The Meters and "I'll Take You There" by The Staple Singers, which have a half-swung feel), and less use of fills (as they can lessen the groove). [36]
In the 1941 song “Let Me Off Uptown” by Gene Krupa, Anita O’Day invites Roy Eldridge to “… come here Roy and get groovy”. The 1942 film Miss Annie Rooney features a teenage Shirley Temple using the term as she impresses Dickie Moore with her jitterbug moves and knowledge of jive .