Rhythm is a dancer
| Rhythm is a dancer | |
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| Snap! | |
| publication | March 30, 1992 |
| length | 3:43 |
| Genre (s) | Eurodance |
| Author (s) |
Thea Austin , Benito Benites , Durron Butler , John "Virgo" Garrett III |
| Award (s) | echo |
| album | The Madman's Return |
Rhythm Is a Dancer is a published on 30 March 1992 Song of the Dance - group Snap! The song reached number 1 in numerous charts and is considered the first big hit of the Eurodance wave that began in 1992 .
Text and music
The title was written by Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti using their pseudonyms Benito Benites and John "Virgo" Garrett III as well as Thea Austin and Durron Butler. The song's singer is Thea Austin, the rap comes from Turbo B. Rhythm Is a Dancer is based on the song Auto-Man from 1984 by the American electro and hip hop group Newcleus .
Music video
The music video was directed by Howard Greenhalgh. It shows the singer Thea Austin and a band in the "Rocket Garden" of the visitor center in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which is filled with a lot of fog. The singer and the group act on moving platforms , while below them dancers dance on a fixed platform. Semi-transparent digital recordings of flickering flight navigation maps, animated geometric figures as well as cloud fields and people dancing are integrated into the scenes .
reception
Charts
Rhythm Is a Dancer was the second single from Snap !, which reached number 1 in the UK - where the song topped the charts for six weeks from August 1992. In Germany the title climbed to number 1, and in early 1993 it reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States of America . In France , the song entered the charts at number 5 on August 8, 1992, before climbing to the top four weeks later and staying there for six weeks. In the French charts, Rhythm Is a Dancer was the first dance single at number 1.
In May 2003, a remix reached position 17 in the UK Top 40 charts.
On May 25, 2008, Rhythm Is a Dancer entered the UK Top 40 at number 36 and climbed to number 23 two weeks later. BBC Radio 1 DJs Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates speculated that this was due to a commercial for there was a water called "Drench".
Chart placements
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| 1992 | Rhythm Is a Dancer The Madman's Return |
DE1 (35 weeks) DE |
AT1 (26 weeks) AT |
CH1 (31 weeks) CH |
UK1 (19 weeks) UK |
US5 (39 weeks) US |
First published: March 30, 1992
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| 2003 | Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003 90 >> 2003 The Cult of Snap! |
DE7 (12 weeks) DE |
AT10 (13 weeks) AT |
CH35 (11 weeks) CH |
UK17 (4 weeks) UK |
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First published: February 2, 2003
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| 2008 | Rhythm Is a Dancer Volume 08 single track |
DE84 (3 weeks) DE |
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UK23 (10 weeks) UK |
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First release: May 23, 2008
feat. Tom Novy |
Prices
- 1993: in the category "Single National / International"
Awards for music sales
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Cover versions and media presence
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Rhythm Is a Dancer has been covered by the following artists, among others:
- Berk and the Virtual Band
- Chic Flowerz feat. Muriel Fowler
- Leone di Lernia
- 1996: Max Deejay
- 2002: System Drivers
- 2003: The Lollies
- 2005: Superb
- 2007: Sagi Rei
- 2009: Hermes House Band
- 2010: Electric Lady Lab - received the first Act approval, Rhythm Is a Dancer for her song You & Me to sample
- 2010: Christopher S & Mike Candys feat. Antonella Rocco
- 2010: In the US comedy Cop Out - Loading and saving is u. a. Rhythm Is a Dancer used as the soundtrack.
- 2013: Bastille - Bastille released the song Of the Night , a medley of Rhythm Is a Dancer and Corona's The Rhythm of the Night .
- 2014: Jeremih feat. YG - The title Don't Tell 'Em contains, in addition to the first sung movement, various borrowings from the original.
- 2015: 3LAU & Nom de Strip feat. Estelle
- 2017: MaxRiven
- 2017: Spongebozz - Rhythm Is a Gangster
- 2017: Alex Christensen & The Berlin Orchestra
- Since October 2013, Neo Magazin has broadcast the Prism is a dancer section , which alludes to the NSA surveillance program PRISM and uses the modified refrain from Rhythm Is a Dancer as an intro . In the video you can see the dancing Jan Böhmermann .
- Snap! released their own song in new versions in 1996, 2002/2003 (with CJ Stone) and 2008.
- In the 1992 documentary Running Wild by Austrian director Egon Humer about youth gangs in Vienna, Rhythm Is a Dancer accompanies some scenes.
- The song was used on German television in 1995 in a television commercial for the Ford Escort .
Individual evidence
- ↑ release date Rhythm Is a Dancer , accessed February 5, 2015
- ↑ Auto-Man on Youtube, last accessed on: January 28, 2014
- ↑ Director of Rhythm Is a Dancer ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Last accessed on: December 30, 2013
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ UK
- ↑ AT
- ↑ sverigetopplistan.se SE
- ↑ US
- ↑ DE
- ↑ Chart sources: Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart sources2: [1]
- ↑ Chart sources3: Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rhythm Is a Dancer by Max Deejay in the charts at Musicline.de ( memento of the original from December 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Last accessed on: December 30, 2013
- ↑ Of the Night in the chartsurfer.de charts, last accessed on: December 21, 2013
- ↑ Electric Lady Lab at Discogs (English)
- ↑ Bastille - Of the Night at austriancharts.at last accessed on: December 21, 2013
- ↑ Cover info
