"High Energy" | ||||
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Single by Evelyn Thomas | ||||
from the album High Energy | ||||
Released | April 1984 | |||
Studio | Trident (London, England) | |||
Genre | Hi-NRG [1] | |||
Length | 3:48 | |||
Label | TRS | |||
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"High Energy" is a song co-written and co-produced by Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench and performed by American singer Evelyn Thomas. The song was popular in dance clubs around the world, topping the US Billboard Dance/Disco Top 80 in September 1984. It also spent four weeks at number one in West Germany peaked at number five in the United Kingdom. It became one of the earliest successful songs within the genre of music that has come to be known as hi-NRG. On the SoBe Music compilation album Gay Classics, Volume 1: Ridin' the Rainbow, the liner notes describe the song as "...engagingly captur[ing] the spirit of the genre through uplifting lyrics tightly fused with dazzling synth work".
There are two different videos versions of the song. The original featured Thomas standing on a platform performing the song while everyone around her is dancing. The second, which was done for the American syndicated series New York Hot Tracks , featured Thomas with a different set of dancers that was filmed at a New York City nightclub, with two dancers acting out the song’s lyrics.
To 2015, the song has been extensively reinterpreted through extended mixes and re-recordings. This includes the single "Lifting Me Higher", by duo Gems for Jem, which sampled "High Energy" and topped the UK Dance Chart in May 1995. [2] [3] In 2022, American magazine Rolling Stone ranked "High Energy" number 177 in their list of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time". [4]
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