The success of the song made it clear to Cara that she was not receiving royalties that were stipulated in her recording contract, and she took legal action against her label in order to be compensated. It was awarded Gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of one million copies and won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song and earned Cara the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The song spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts around the world. The unexpected success at the box office resulted in stores across the US selling out of both the single and its parent album just days after Flashdance was in theaters. Because Flashdance was going to be released in mid-April of that year, Casablanca Records made the single available in March as a way of marketing the film to the target audience. Their collaboration was the first single to be released from the soundtrack album and received positive reviews. The song wound up being used for the scene they watched as well as during the opening credits as the main character is shown working as a welder. They felt that the dancer's ambition to succeed could act as a metaphor for achieving any dream a person has and wrote lyrics that described what it feels like when music inspires someone to dance.
Moroder had been asked to score the film, and Cara and Forsey wrote most of the lyrics after they were shown the last scene from it in which the main character dances at an audition for a group of judges. What a Feeling" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance with music by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics by Keith Forsey and the song's performer, Irene Cara. For this reason it sits way above the likes of Dirty Dancing, even without the context of the movie.īest Track: Maniac is a hectic and exciting closer here, but the peppiness of Flashdance…What A Feeling is hard to deny."Flashdance. Even if none of the tracks truly match the thrills of its two #1 hits, Flashdance genuinely works as an album. As an album, Flashdance manages to capture an era where the tropes of disco were still in the blood of musicians, while the dance genre itself had moved towards the 80s Pop that would follow. It’s certainly not Summer’ finest moment, but unlike other compilation style sound tracks, the appearance of a major star doesn’t feel unwarranted. It’s interesting though how integrated the rest of the songs are though, Donna Summer’s appearance for the bouncy Romeo feels obvious and fits nicely alongside the likes of Manhunt by Karen Komon. The Moroder written tracks are the best here, from Joe Esposito’s slow dance synth track Lady Lady Lady, to the instrumental Love Theme that make up part of Side A. From the opening iconic title track Flashdance…What A Feeling by Irene Cara we have a variety of artists delivering potential dance hits culminating in the other major hit Maniac by Michael Sembello.
Flashdance isn’t this at all, in fact being a surprisingly consistent and stylised take on Disco/80s Pop compiled by a pioneer of the genre Giorgio Morodor. I’ve never seen the film, and I was partly expecting the sort of compilation record that accompanied Dirty Dancing a few years later. I went into the Flashdance soundtrack completely blind. Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture – Various Artists – 1983įormat Listened?: Youtube (You cannot stream this album anywhere!)
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