Electric Youth (song)

"Electric Youth" (Atlantic 88919; Atlantic UK A8919; Atlantic Japan 09P3-6130) is the seventh single from American singer-songwriter-actress Debbie Gibson, and the second from her second album Electric Youth (LP 81932). Produced by Fred Zarr and engineered by Phil Castellano for BiZarr Music, Inc., it became one of her most famous songs, peaking at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 and fourteen on the UK Singles Chart. Douglas Breitbart was executive producer.

Gibson had written the song as a statement about how young people of that era were seen and how their ideas were often ignored. As a teenager herself, she was a firm believer that the beliefs and ideas held by young people were just as important as those held by adults and the song reminded people of this. It also reminded them that the current youth would become the next generation of adults.

Music Video

The music video was directed by Gibson and Jim Yukich and was nominated for a moonman at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction in a video.

In 2006, elements of the music video (particularly the silhouette dance clips) were parodied by Cobie Smulders in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother for her character Robin Sparkles' own 1980's hit single, "Let's Go to the Mall."^[1]

Track listing (Special DJ release, Atlantic UK A8919A)

"PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE"
"Electric Youth"

A. Special DJ Edit (3:37)

B. LP Version (4:55)

Track listing (Atlantic DM 86427)

"Electric Youth"

1. (Deep House Mix/7:35)

2. (Shep's House Dub/5:51)

3. (LP Version/4:55)

4. (The Electro Mix/6:37)

5. (Electric Dub Gone Haywire/6:31)

"We Could Be Together"

6. (LP Version/5:33) (Mislabelled Campfire Mix this DM)

_{Both songs written by Deborah Gibson - Music Sales Corp., ASCAP}

References

↑ Video on YouTube

Debbie Gibson

Studio albums	Out of the Blue (1987) Electric Youth (1989) Anything Is Possible (1990) Body, Mind, Soul (1993) Think with Your Heart (1995) Deborah (1997) M.Y.O.B. (2001) Colored Lights: The Broadway Album (2003) Ms. Vocalist (2010/2011)

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits (1995) Lost in Your Eyes and Other Hits (1999) Memory Lane, Volume 1 (2005) Memory Lane, Volume 2 (2005) Rhino Hi-Five: Debbie Gibson (2006)

Singles	"Only in My Dreams" (1986) "Shake Your Love" (1987) "Out of the Blue" (1987) "Foolish Beat" (1988) "Staying Together" (1988) "Red Hot" (1988) "Lost in Your Eyes" (1989) "Electric Youth" (1989) "No More Rhyme" (1989) "We Could Be Together" (1989) "Without You" (1990) "Anything Is Possible" (1990) "(This So-Called) Miracle" (1991) "One Hand, One Heart" (1991) "One Step Ahead" (1991) "Sure" (1991) "In His Mind" (1992) "Losin' Myself" (1993) "Eyes of the Child" (1993) "Shock Your Mama" (1993) "How Can This Be?" (1993) "Free Me" (1993) "For Better or Worse" (1995) "Didn't Have the Heart" (1995) "Only Words" (1997) "Moonchild" (1997) "Only in My Dreams 1998" (1998) "Naturally" (1998) "What You Want" (2000) "Your Secret" (2001) "Naked" (2005)

Collaborations	"Voices That Care" (Various artists, 1991) "Hip Hop" (Chris Cuevas, 1991) "Someday" (Chris Cuevas, 1992) "You're The One That I Want" (Craig McLachlan, 1993) "Light the World" (Peabo Bryson, 1999) "Someone You Love" (O'Neill Brothers, 2006) "Lost in Your Eyes" (Acoustic Version) (O'Neill Brothers, 2006) "Say Goodbye" (Jordan Knight, 2006)

Videos	Out of the Blue (1988) Live in Concert - The Out of the Blue Tour (1988) Live Around the World (1990)

Films	My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (1999) Wedding Band (2001) Soulkeeper (2001) Celeste in the City (2004) Coffee Date (2005) Body/Antibody (2007) Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus (2009) Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011) Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark (2014)

Related articles	Discography Electric Youth Albums Songs

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