| "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" | ||||
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| Single by C+C Music Factory | ||||
| from the album Gonna Make You Sweat | ||||
| B-side | Remix | |||
| Released | December 14, 1990 | |||
| Format | CD single, CD maxi, 7" single, 12" maxi |
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| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Dance-pop, hip house, house | |||
| Length | 4:04 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) | Robert Clivillés, Freedom Williams (arr: David Cole) | |||
| Producer | Freedom Williams, David Cole, Martha Wash | |||
| Certification | Platinum (US), Gold (US), Gold (UK) | |||
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"Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" was C+C Music Factory's first hit. It was released in late 1990 in many countries and achieved a great success in U.S., Austria, Germany and Switzerland where it reached number one on the charts.
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The rap was performed by Freedom Williams and the vocal "Everybody Dance Now" by disco/house music artist Martha Wash.
The official music video features Zelma Davis lip-synching to the actual Martha Wash vocal parts.
Wash, perturbed by the fact that her image had been labeled "unmarketable" due to her girth, successfully sued to receive proper credit (and royalties). Wash's courtroom efforts spurred legislation making vocal credits mandatory on CDs and music videos.
It ranked #36 on "VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s".[1]
When it was first released, "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" was met by widespread commercial recognition, initiating the house movement of the early '90s. Topping charts in several countries, the song dominated the airwaves while its accompanying music video received constant rotation on MTV. Music critics praised "Gonna Make You Sweat" for Freedom Williams' Ice-T-like rap delivery in conjunction with Martha Wash's powerful, exuberant, post-disco vocals and deemed the song as a bona fide classic.[2] However, over the years, the song came to be used and/or referenced an innumerable amount of times by entertainment industry, to the point were it became something of a musical, pop culture cliché. By 2007, the song was criticized by Allmusic as "the lazy Hollywood 'go-to' song for supposed laugh-filled, irony-fueled dance numbers."[3]
The song held the top spot in the Billboard Magazine list of popular dance club tunes for five weeks in December 1990, and topped Billboard Hot 100 Singles list for two weeks in 1991 (February 9 and February 16.) It reached #3 in the UK in January, a full month before its American pop success. It even found success in the urban contemporary music world as it crossed over to the R&B charts where it reached number-one for a week.
It was covered in a remixed version by French DJ Bob Sinclar's 2006 song "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)" which became a huge hit in many countries.
Norwegian band Combichrist have also done an EBM remix for the compilation Das Bunker (Choice of a New Generation).[4]
The song was played in many films, including The Super, Sister Act, Man of the House, in the film Space Jam, Something's Gotta Give, the 2005 movie Man of the House, Jarhead, Chicken Little, Old School and Evan Almighty. This song was also featured in the 2005 film, Robots (film).
It was also used in TV series, such as in the episodes "The Big Four-Oh" and "Banks Shot" of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, "Meet By-Product" in King of Queens, in an episode of So You Think You Can Dance, in a 2010 episode and the 2011 season premier of The Ellen Degeneres Show, in an episode of The Office, “Cafe Disco” in which both Andy and Kelly had a dance off, in an episode of American Dad entitled When a Stan Loves a Woman, and was played twice during a 1997 episode of The Simpsons, “Homer's Phobia”, as Bart and Homer leave a steel mill that turns out to be operated by homosexuals, and during the end credits and during in the March 27, 2011 episode where the Simpsons are at a football game and the videoscreen implores the audience to make fools of themselves to the rhythmic beats of the song.
The song appears on the VH1 special I Love the '90s.
A parody of the song, titled "Come On Everybody", appears in the Squidbillies episode "Flight of the Deep Fried Pine Booby".
The video featured dancers performing in front of a white back drop. Zelma Davis lip-synchs to the recorded vocals of Martha Wash. A short clip of Double Dutch is shown near the end.
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