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"I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" is a popular disco song recorded by American singer-songwriter Alicia Bridges in 1978. It was released as the first single from her debut album, Alicia Bridges (1978), and went to number two on the US Billboard National Disco Action Top 30 (now the Dance Club Songs chart) for two weeks.
"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released in 1971 on the album of the same name , the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 starting January 15 [ 2 ] after just eight weeks on the US Billboard charts (where it entered at number 69). [ 3 ]
Don McLean shares how he came to write 'American Pie,' from delivering papers with the news of Buddy Holly's death to meeting the Everly Brothers.
The song's disco influence was noted to be new for Gomez's usual "poppy" music. [1] Mikael Wood of Billboard said the song "rides a fist-pumping electro groove". [2] According to Amar Toor of AOL Radio Blog, the song pulls influence from Kylie Minogue circa 2001. [1] The song's lyrics speak of a relationship going around in circles. [1]
The song's name is an acronym and comes from the lyrics in its chorus, in which a woman is described as "D.I.S.C.O.". In other words, each letter of the word standing for a certain quality, except "O", which simply leads to singing "oh-oh-oh" ("She is D, delirious / She is I, incredible / She is S, superficial / She is C, complicated / She is ...
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]
Whenever artists veer into politics, McLean said, “You’re gonna piss somebody off, or they’re gonna get turned off.” “I agree with that, but I can’t help myself,” he said.
Similar to most of the songs from Light Years, "Spinning Around" is a "string-laden" dance-pop track with prominent influences from disco music. [1] [2] According to the sheet music of the song published by BMG Rights Management at Musicnotes.com, it is composed in the key of F ♯ minor and features a moderate tempo of 120 beats per minute. [15]