#gonna make you sweat (everybody dance now) c&c music factory

[eye-of-the-purricane]

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

[ask-sebastian]

This week's Kiwi dedicated songs heheh 🥝💚

🐎 They have a horse in the clip at some point 👀🐴 https://youtu.be/mOYZaiDZ7BM

THANK YOU FOR SENDING COTTON EYE JOE! If you hadn't I was definitely going to post it.

[duranduratulsa]

On the turntable today...

Christopher Cross (1979)

Hard To Hold Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Rick Springfield (1984)

Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory (12" Single) (1990)

Footloose Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)

Frehley's Comet by Ace Frehley (1987)

#christophercross #hardtohold #hardtohold40 #rickspringfield #candcmusicfactory #gonnamakeyousweat #everybodydancenow #gonnamakeyousweateverybodydancenow #footloose #footloose40 #acefrehley #frehleyscomet #70s #80s #90s #records #album #LP #12inch #12inchvinyl #vinylrecords #vinyl

[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Flashing lights

Title: Dance Intermission: ReGroove 2

Editor: MoonieAMV

Studio: SoulAnimeStudios

Song: Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (Radio Mix)

Artist: C+C Music Factory

Anime: Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Chuunibyou demo koi ga Shitai!, Lucky Star, Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei, Dragon Ball series, Hanayamata, Monogatari series, Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya, Doki Doki Precure, To aru Kagaku no Railgun series, Love Live! Sunshine!!, Macross Frontier, Love Live! School Idol Project, The Idolm@ster, Precure AllStars (films), Kannagi, Kanon, Golden Time, Nichijou, Tamako Market, Aikatsu, Tribe Cool Crew, Tokyo Mew Mew New, Toradora!, Chobits, Shuffle, Yumekui Merry, Zenki Sesshou Symphogear, Space Dandy, Hibike! Euphonium, Kill la Kill, Suite Precure, Smile Precure, unknown anime

Category: Dance/For fun

[hiromicota]

(“Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” comes on)

Most people: Oh, yeah! This is a banger.

Me (smashing through a wall): Imma tell you a tale about fatphobia & misogynoir in the music industry!

The gospel singer Martha Wash sang the main vocals for “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).” However, she didn’t appear in the music video; instead Zelma Davis, the thinner singer who sang on other tracks on that album, lip-synched to Mrs. Wash’s vocals. Not only did Mrs. Wash not get featured in the video, her vocals were uncredited, and she received no royalties until she sued Sony & the titular C+C of C+C Music Factory: David Cole and Robert Clivillés. The case dragged on for ~3 years.

It’s messed up that Martha Wash didn’t get her due; she deserves more recognition. It’s also messed up that C+C hung Zelma Davis out to dry, leaving her to face bad press and fan outrage on her own. Like, Sony and C+C screwed two Black women. All four musicians made up afterwards (at least enough to work together again.) I’m still gonna be salty about the misogynoir, though.

[theyellowotter]

I was tagged by @infamouslydorky in a fun music challenge—thanks for the tag!

Rule: put your On Repeat playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs.

I usually play my Liked Spotify songs and as I go about doing housework, working out, or commuting. I'll put one song on repeat and just won't change it. Usually, it's a peppy, easy-to-listen-to tune, so these probably aren't going to be obscure at all. 😅 Edit: nope lol

1. Tiny Dancer - covered by Florence+The Machine

2. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C&C Music Factory, Freedom Williams

3. Taking What's Not Yours - TV Girl

4. Red Wine Supernova - Chappel Roan

5. Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon

6. Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran

7. End of Beginning - DJO

8. Underneath My Skin - The Band CAMINO

9. Left Right Left - Charlie Puth

10. SOS - cover by SOAP

This was fun! I tag: @friendly-jester , @jtownraindancer , @sparklehoard , @technicallyoneofakind @silentmistynight

If I didn't tag you but you wanna play, please do!!

[dedalvs]

So there's this techno song by C+C Music Factory called "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)". It's most famous for the vocal scream line "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!". I want to draw your attention to the rapping by Freedom Williams—in particular, these two lines:

It's your world and I'm just a squirrel Tryin' to get a nut to move your butt

I want you to hear this every single time you hear this song from now on.

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory ft. Freedom Williams

[penroseparticle]

Music asks: 5, 9, 18

5. A song that needs to be played LOUD

Fuck Up The Friendship- The Knocks Remix by Leah Kates. It's gotta be like. Fucknasty making out at the bar at the end of a night out. Entirely too fucking loud in here but you guys are in your own little world yeah?

9. A song that makes you happy

You Wish by Flyana Boss. What a good song. It's perfect. It is exactly long enough, it's exactly stupid enough. The whole song wrapped up in an extended Austin Powers reference, it's got some of the crispest blasphemy this side of the 2010's, it's got that bedroom laptop feeling but the production is still tight. The girlies know how to spit a bar and the references are, in a word, risible (as in they got me to laugh. A lot. Like a lot a lot. Not that I thought the wordplay was laughable. It was fun and fresh.)

Also the Chipotle video makes me happy all the times I remember it. Idk the fishbowl lens effect and them running is just the frenetic energy that this song's video needed. Great stuff girls and you haven't disappointed since.

Honorable Mention: I Don't Wanna Dance by Top Bunk. Man what the fuck am I even talkin about? Let's tear this shit up. Again- so stupid but so fun to dance to. It's got charisma.

18. A song from the year that you were born

Everyone say thank you to Martha Wash for Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C&C Music Factory ft. Freedom Williams. You know, because she was uncredited, they cast a skinny woman as her in the video, and she's the only memorable bit of the song.

[randomvarious]

1990s House Playlist

Alright, folks, this is the week where I add a bunch of sweet bangers to this slowly growing 90s house playlist of mine, almost all of which come from one of my favorite dance mixes of all time, Dimitri From Paris' Monsieur Dimitri's De-Luxe House of Funk, which was released back in 1997 by biblical electronic music monthly Mixmag as part of their own Mixmag Live series.

Now, you can't find most of the tracks from this mix on Spotify, but luckily there's still one that you can: Parisian Bob Sinclar's "Visions of Paradise," which predates his making of really annoying tracks, like his update on C&C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)," by a whole bunch of years 🤢. This one, though, is a pretty perfect track for the middle of any late 90s house mix. Bob sampled the vocal from a 1991 house track of the same name by a Long Island duo called Island Noyze Productions, and he imported a retro streak from a few-second portion of Brooklyn disco-funk band Brass Construction's scorchingly uptempo 1976 tune, "Sambo." But he also mixes those samples with some surging orchestral strings that sound like they were definitely sampled off of some other old record too. Great stuff that has over 193,000 plays on Spotify right now.

Bob Sinclar - "Visions of Paradise"

But while there's only one tune from that legendary Dimitri mix on Spotify, the rest of them can be found on YouTube. And a few of those happen to be remixes that were done by Dimitri himself, like his "Enchanted Forest" mix of Björk's "Isobel," which prior to its inclusion on his own mix, could only be found on a 12-inch single version of "Isobel" that had only been released in France in 1995. Currently, there's only one copy of that record up for sale on Discogs, going for over $300 🤑. But the version I included here, which comes directly from Dimitri's mix, has about 7,400 plays on YouTube.

And another superb tune is Glasgow native Paul Hunter's "May the Funk Be With You," which he released as Second Crusade in 1996. This is a track that samples from two different songs: 1976's "Intergalactic Love Song," by Charles Earland, which supplies the tune's delightfully whiny and full synth, and Denise LaSalle's own 1980 song, "May the Funk Be With You," which is responsible for its lovely vocals. Older sounds blended with a modern house beat. Really excellent track that's currently sitting at a little over 85,000 plays on YouTube 😌.

Cheb Khaled - "N'ssi N'ssi (Jamming The Casbah Mix)" Bjork - "Isobel (Dim's Enchanted Forest)" Second Crusade - "May the Funk Be With You" Morning Kids - "Free Lovin'" Teddy G - "Captain Dobbey" Brand New Heavies - "Sometimes (Monsieur D's Underground Behaviour Mix)"

Check out the YouTube playlist here, and check it out on YouTube Music here.

So this new update brings us to 15 songs that clock in at an hour and 42 minutes on Spotify, but on YouTube, we're now up to 35 songs that lasts for 4 hours and 8 minutes. So you know which of these is the better option, even if Spotify is the more convenient one.

Next week, New York!

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #42: 1991

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As I've stated in previous polls, the charts used to be mostly compiled from retail sales (ranging from physical media to sheet music). This data was gathered by Billboard sending out surveys or calling record stores directly. However, in 1991 Billboard began implementing Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS). The technology first used to compile the country charts in 1990, which helped to give a more accurate picture of listening habits among country music fans. SoundScan and BDS was applied to the Hot 100 and the R&B charts in late 1991. This more objective method of music data collection will be instrumental in more country, hard rock, and rap albums reaching the top of the charts. Of course, there were still gaps in the data, as SoundScan was only able to work with stores with the technology to implement it, so sales from smaller retail venues might not have been tracked as accurately. Billboard has a more detailed article about the program here.

Speaking of rap, there is a moment in the genre's history that I would like to talk about as well. This happened in 1990, but I'm not going to let something trivial like the passage of time get in the way of me rambling about what I want. Miami bass is a subgenre of rap that grew out of (surprise) Miami, Florida. Musically, the sound is known for its heavy bass, electro and dance beat influences, kick drums, and high tempos. But the genre became rather infamous for its sexually explicit lyrics. One of the groups that came under fire for their lyrical content was 2 Live Crew.

In 1989, 2 Live crew released their third album As Nasty as They Wanna Be. A few polls ago, I talked about the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker, where the nature of explicit lyrics was brought all the way to the senate. But apparently, a parental advisory sticker wasn't considered enough for this album. In 1990, the album was ruled as obscene, making it the first album to be legally classified as such. Later that year, the members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing it. A record store owner in Florida was even arrested for selling the album to an undercover cop.

As horrible as this was, the news of the arrest made the controversy more of a matter of free speech in the eyes of the public. In 1992, Luke Records v. Navarro reached the Eleventh Circuit where the obscenity ruling was overturned. It's hard to imagine what the music landscape would look like today if that ruling went any other way, and I thought that it was an important moment to talk about as we see the evolution of music on these polls. There is a lot to this case that I couldn't get into, so I'm linking to a short MTV clip and a more detailed article about the arrest.

[duranduratulsa]

C & C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (The Sl...

90's Fest Remix of the day: Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) (The Slammin' Vocal Club Mix) #candcmusicfactory #gonnamakeyousweat #everybodydancenow #remix #gonnamakeyousweatevrybodydancenowtheslamminvocalclubmix #theslamminvocalclubmix #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas4thannual90sfest

[nancymcl]

Everybody boop now!!!

[ask-sebastian]

Musical Owl Monday - 90s

Ah, the 90s. Such a rich, iconic decade for music and one that is incredibly nostalgic for me personally.

Reminder that I welcome all genres. I anticipate a wildly fantastic mix today and have no doubts that you lot will absolutely rock my world in the best way, as you always do.

As usual, I expect to receive repeats from previous playlists, which--as always--is completely fine. I have shared quite a bit of 90s music already, so for the sake of variety I will try to respond with songs that I have not previously posted...but I am sure some of my favourites will still sneak their way in.

REMINDER: Tumblr has a limit of 10 embedded links per post, so if you send me 10 links in your ask, I cannot embed a song in my reply. I can only include a text link without a preview.

(I typically queue owls in order as I receive them, though sometimes I do mix them up if I receive multiple from the same person. Owls are typically queued a few hours in advance to when they post live, just FYI.)

Last call is 0100 BST

Anything received after that point will be added to the playlist whenever I return to consciousness tomorrow.