Into the groove
| Into the groove | |
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| Madonna | |
| publication | November 12, 1984 (album) July 23, 1985 (single) |
| length | 4:44 |
| Genre (s) | Dance-pop , post-disco |
| Author (s) | Madonna, Stephen Bray |
| Producer (s) | Madonna, Stephen Bray |
| Label | Sire , Warner Bros. |
| album | Like a virgin |
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Into the Groove is a song written and produced by Madonna and Stephen Bray . It appeared in November 1984 on the album Like a Virgin . The fourth single from it was released on July 23, 1985. It is also part of the soundtrack for the film Susan ... Desperately Wanted and is considered one of the most important "disco anthems" of the 1980s and one of Madonna's best-known songs to this day.
history
To write the song, Madonna allegedly took inspiration from a Puerto Rican man she saw from a balcony. Originally, she wanted to leave the song to her boyfriend at the time, DJ Mark Kamins. In late 1984, however, she recorded the hit at Sigma Studios for her European remake of the album Like a Virgin . In the United States, Into the Groove was only released on the B-side of Angel so that two titles of her should not compete with each other in the charts. On July 23, 1985 Into the Groove was released as a standalone single A-side in Europe.
In the spring of 1985 Madonna had two big sales successes with the singles Material Girl and Crazy for You . In April the song Into the Groove was released in the USA on the B-side of Angel , the title reached number five on the singles charts and stayed in the Hot 100 for 17 weeks. The single reached number four on the airplay charts. The single was awarded a gold record in the United States.
Into the Groove peaked in the United States in the US dance chart number one and US Hot Black Singles charts place 19th addition to Great Britain managed to hit it to the top of the charts in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Spain. The initial quote of the lyrics later served as a model for the title of Madonna's remix album You Can Dance .
music
The song combines dance and synth-pop with elements of what was later called post-disco . The piece is based on a mechanically throbbing, extremely danceable drum computer beat and an equally mechanical synthesizer bass track. On top of that - typical for the post-disco sound of the time - are a multitude of different synthesizer sounds and the partly polyphonic singing of Madonna with reverb effects. Like most of the Madonna songs and typical of the synth-pop of the mid 80s, the song's instrumental is purely synthetically produced, so acoustic instruments are not used.
reception
Julian Weber from taz named Into the Groove the “best Madonna song”. He wrote: "The sound of their early days, somewhere between hi-energy disco, electro hip-hop and drum-driven proto house , is most vividly represented for me in this song."
Cover versions
- 1986: Ciccone Youth (a side project of Sonic Youth )
- 1988: Ed Starink
- 1999: Ten Masked Men
- 2002: Mad'House
- 2003: Missy Elliott feat. Madonna (Into the Hollywoodgroove)
- 2003: Dannii Minogue (Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling)
- 2003: Superbus
- 2008: French Affair
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK
- ↑ Randy J. Taraborrelli: Madonna. An Intimate Biography . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 89
- ↑ Ricky Rooksby: The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna . London: Omnibus Press, 2004, p. 19
- ↑ Catalog number Sire 29083, first listing on the charts on February 9, 1985, the record reached number two on the US charts
- ↑ Catalog number Geffen 29051, first chart listing on March 2, 1985, the single reached number 1
- ↑ Catalog number Sire 29008
- ↑ For the information in this section see Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1994, pp. 371f
- ↑ Into The Groove was listed on July 27, 1985 for the first time in the British charts, reached number one on August 10, 1985, the single occupied four weeks in a row. For chart placement, see Dafydd Rees, Barry Lazell, Roger Osborne: 40 Years Of NME Charts . London: Boxtree Ltd., 1992, pp. 434-438
- ↑ https://taz.de/Die-fuenf-besten-Madonna-Songs/!5528524/