Attributes | Values |
---|
type
| |
sameAs
| |
has title
| |
has format
| - 12-inch single
- Gramophone record
|
has language
| |
Subject
| - 1983 singles
- Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number-one singles
- Number-one singles in South Africa
- Songs about dancing
- 1982 songs
- Music videos directed by Tim Pope
- Men Without Hats songs
|
abstract
| - %22The Safety Dance%22 is a song written and recorded by Canadian new wave band Men Without Hats. It was initially released in Canada in January 1983 as the 2nd single from the band's first full-length album, Rhythm of Youth. The song was written by lead singer Ivan Doroschuk after he had been kicked out of a club for pogoing.The song entered the Canadian top 50 in February 1983, peaking at no. 11 on 14 May. In the meantime, %22The Safety Dance%22 was released in the US on March 16, but did not enter the US charts for a few months. When it finally did, the record became a bigger hit than it had been in Canada, peaking at no. 3 in September 1983. It also reached no. 1 on Cash Box, as well as no. 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart. %22The Safety Dance%22 similarly found success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at no. 6 in early November, and entering the New Zealand charts in November, eventually peaking at no. 2 in early 1984.%22Weird Al%22 Yankovic parodied the song as %22The Brady Bunch%22 in his 1984 album %22Weird Al%22 Yankovic in 3-D.
|
schema:datePublished
| |
homepage
| |
musicbrainz
| |
Musicbrainz GUID
| - 30f2076b-8637-4988-9e09-81a9f1f7a6a5
|
mo:performer
| |
universally unique identifier
| |
wikipedia
| |
schema:releaseDate
| |
bpm
| |
mo:duration
| |
isrc
| |
track number
| |
schema:album
| |
schema:award
| |
wsb:allMusic_page
| |
wsb:deezer_artist_id
| |
wsb:deezer_page
| |
wsb:deezer_song_id
| |
wsb:explicit_lyrics_count
| |
wsb:gain
| |
wsb:has_explicit_lyrics
| |
wsb:iTunes_page
| |
wsb:language_detected
| |
wsb:rank
| |
wsb:record_label
| |
wsb:recording_description
| |
wsb:song_summary
| - [%22we can dance we can dance doing it from pole to pole%22,%22we can dance we can dance everybody look at your hands%22,%22we can dance we can dance everybody's taking the chance%22,%22woh safety dance yeah the safety dance%22]
|
wsb:title_without_accent
| |
wsb:topic_probability
| |
wsb:arousal
| |
wsb:has_emotion_tags
| |
wsb:has_social_tags
| |
wsb:valence
| |