Irene Cara - Flashdance...What A Feeling

[Chelsea Press 2]

With all these sample tracks a la Eric Prydz coming out, there was bound to be one utilizing this classic Irene Cara track. There are 6! Most of them just use one line of lyrics, if at all. And those are not even in sequence.

Anyways, the original is miles ahead of these new creations.

This is one of the greatest soundtrack songs from the last 25 years! And Irene's performance of the song has solidified her a place in musical history.

I recently got a Casablanca Records box set that featured the 12" mix of this song, and I really began to appreciate the song again. It had been ages since I had heard this song.

Who else remembers this one?

[Pet Shop Boy]

Fantastic song, an all time classic.

[Hervard]

Oh, I remember it, alright! It came out around the end of my fifth grade year and, by the time summer vacation began, you couldn't turn on your radio without hearing this song. I hated the hell out of it back then, but somehow, I suddenly started liking it. Probably because "Every Breath You Take" took away it airplay? Anyway, I like it a lot now.

This song was number two on the "Top 40 Movie Hits of the 1980s", which B96 broadcast on New Year's weekend, 1990 in place of the "Top 100 of 1990", which they aired at a different time (probably New Year's Day). The number one movie hit from the 1980s was "Call Me" by Blondie, from "American Gigolo". I think that, on the R&R chart, there were exactly forty number one movie hits, since they were ranked according to weeks on the chart and "Batdance" was at number 40. It spend only a single week at the top and six weeks in the Top Ten.

[A Thug Named Slickback]

I was in diapers, but I still remember this song. Irene can sing. Surprised she never really blew up after her 2 big hits...

[kellydicted]

I hate it!

[jimmy74747]

Love this song

[halo19]

Hector said:

I hate it!

[Nick]

This is a classic!

I love the 7 minute extended version the best.

[Cutie]

Hector said:

I hate it!

[Chelsea Press 2]

Nick said:

This is a classic!

I love the 7 minute extended version the best.

That's the Jellybean mix.

[reception]

I hate the beginning but the rest of the song jams.

[Chelsea Press 2]

r/t/tc said:

I hate the beginning but the rest of the song jams.

It made doing a remix a pain! I have been working on doing a new mix of the track. If I cut out the beginning, it's fine. The bpm seems to go up and down, so putting a beat or a synth under it was difficult. And it didn't seem to match up with the rest of the song without manipulating the tempo.

[Nick]

I am really looking forward to seeing Irene sing this tom'w night on "Baby One More time."

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kellydicted said:

I hate it!

[velcro]

Mmmm... I like it. I like that it started out as a ballad... built into an uptempo.

[Moonshadow]

I've heard this song on the radio 4 days straight this week, and I've listened to it every time.

[Nick]

Irene sang this last night on "Baby One More Time", and she won! Good for her!

[cartman2002]

Flashdance...What A Feeling was #1 for 6 Weeks in 1983

[Deleted]

JAM!

[Deleted]

How can you not jam to this when it's on? It's one of those universal, uplifting songs like "Lean On Me" and "Walking On Sunshine" that sticks with people.

[Glove Slap]

This is one of the best singles of the 80s.

[Dreams]

It's a classic. I like the song just fine, the movie sucked though, IMO.

[disman00911]

I often heard this as an 80s flashback on the AC stations to point of overkill.  Still good to listen once in a while, though.

music video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miax0Jpe5mA

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

May 6, 2005 8:53:28 GMT -5 Pet Shop Boy said:

Fantastic song, an all time classic.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

[Soulsista]

Great song.

Peaked at #2 on the R&B chart.

[Soulsista]

RIP. 😥

[areyoureadytojump]

40 years ago this week, "Flashdance...What A Feeling" debuted at #7y on the April 2, 1983 Billboard Hot 100.

Solid Gold:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashdance..._What_a_Feeling

#1 Dance
#1 Cash Box
#2 UK
#4 AC

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#492 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: The propulsive and anthemic theme song that perfected the art of the film/music tie-in at the outset of the MTV era.

Hollywood Nights: Cara performed the song, written for and titled after the 1983 welder-turned-dancer drama Flashdance, on the Academy Awards the next year, in a dazzling production number in which she was joined by 44 boys and girls. Later in the show, she won an Oscar for co-writing the song with Moroder and Keith Forsey — becoming the first Black woman to win an Oscar in a non-acting category.

Who Put the Bomp: Giorgio Moroder, who supervised most of Donna Summer’s biggest hits, composed and produced Cara’s single. Joe Esposito, a member of Brooklyn Dreams, which teamed with Summer for the 1979 smash “Heaven Knows,” sang backing vocals.