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"Celebration" is a 1980 song by American band Kool & the Gang. Released as the first single from their twelfth album, Celebrate! (1980), it was the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2016, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [3]
The song is a dance-oriented track with influences of Madonna's singles from the 1980s and 1990s, and consisting of a speak-sing format bridge. Its lyrics invite one to come and join a party. The song was released as the lead single from Celebration on July 30, 2009, by Warner Bros. Records.
Dennis Hunt of the Los Angeles Times called Celebrate! "the band's mostly excellent new album." [6] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave a C− grade saying "It says something for these funk pioneers that unlike James Brown, George Clinton, and the Ohio Players they've adapted painlessly, nay profitably, to disco: a number-one single leads their Deodato-produced album into the top ten.
Celebration received a score of 84/100 at Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim" from music critics. [13] Sarah Crompton from The Daily Telegraph gave the collection four out of five stars and said: "Madonna's Celebration shows just how consistently she delivers the goods, with tracks such as 'Music', 'Ray of Light', 'Frozen' and 'Don't Tell Me'", with "only a couple of [songs] which feel ...
The section's final song is a shortened "Rain"; footage of the "Frozen" music video plays on the screens, as Madonna —decked out in a long black robe— is embraced by a dancer in black. On the final interlude, set to a mashup of "Like a Virgin" and Jackson's " Billie Jean " (1982), silhouettes of Madonna and Jackson interact and hug each ...
Celebration is a musical with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt. The musical fable, employing a nearly bare stage, explores the contrasts between youth and old age, innocence and jaded corruption, love and ambition, and poverty and wealth. It was presented on Broadway in 1969 and was not a financial success. Although ...
"Celebration" is a song by American rapper Game featuring fellow American rappers Tyga, Wiz Khalifa, & Lil Wayne and American singer Chris Brown, released as the lead single from the former's fifth studio album Jesus Piece. "Celebration" premiered on Los Angeles' Power 106 on August 22, 2012.
"Celebration" is a song by German Eurodance band Fun Factory, released in August 1995 by various labels as the second single from the band's second album, Fun-Tastic (1995). The song is performed by Marie-Anett Mey and the rap parts is by Smooth T (a.k.a. Toni Cottura).