Im a 90s baby but this is what I consider to be the quintessential 80s sound. Heartbreaking, melancholic chords over a driving drum beat and synth bass line. The type of record to have you crying on the dance floor while you dance your ass off 😂
@@1stwonder788 Yes, this song is both sad and heartbreaking in what we live through - all of us, with no reservations. Michael Sembello's Maniac is one of the gates to understanding the mystery of life as we know it, to my firm belief. The fire of the truth projects through the Maniac, this is for sure.
I would rather go back and live in the 80s again. It’s crazy, when we were little we thought things in the future would be awesome like flying cars, but instead we evolved…backwards. But we gotta appreciate some of the things we have now *some*
@@eriv1974 If I had the choice, I would ditch everything I know and have now, just to go back for some happiness again. It was an innocent and exciting time. In the 80s, computing was still new and perceived as an arcane, black art only a select few understood; we felt part of an elite. In popular culture, space was the new frontier (remember the Shuttle?), and we looked to the stars, not the rainforest. 😉 So I agree with you... we've _devolved_, _degenerated_, etc... I've been working in research for 20+ years and have become jaded towards the tech surrounding me every minute of my life at home and at work. Granted, it has its merits for most of us, but I perceive it as more of a curse than a blessing. For instance, "The 'Net" was a pretty safe place in the early 90s when I first roamed it; it was populated by academics, professionals and military. Now it's a digital wasteland where Script Kiddies can hack your PC and hold your data for ransom, where sociopaths can poison kids' minds, and where kids can order guns. All with nary a consequence. TBH, I'm glad I'm not a kid anymore.
Memories of my high school days when this movie came out in 1983. I was taking dance class and this movie was an Inspiration. Love the movie and this soundtrack.
Sometimes something comes around just once. Once in a lifetime something happens and you never see anything like it again. I was kid, punk rocker. It never occurred to me, on any human level, to walk into a movie theater and watch this movie. STILL haven't seen it. Just too lazy now. But this song...once in a lifetime. This is actually the first time I've even WATCHED the video hahaa.
*Michael Sembello - Maniac (1983) (Official Video) [Lyrics:] June 29, 2023** *[Verse 1]* *Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night* *Lookin' for the fight of her life* *In the real-time world, no one sees her at all* *They all say she's crazy* *Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart* *Changing movement into light* *She has danced into the danger zone* *When the dancer becomes the dance* *[Pre-Chorus 1]* *It can cut you like a knife* *If the gift becomes the fire* *On the wire between will and what will be* *[Chorus 1]* *She's a maniac, maniac on the floor* *And she's dancing like she's never danced before* *She's a maniac, maniac on the floor* *And she's dancing like she's never danced before* *[Verse 2]* *On the ice-blue line of insanity* *Is a place most never see* *It's a hard-won place of mystery* *Touch it, but can't hold it* *You work all your life for that moment in time* *It could come or pass you by* *It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance* If the hunger stays the night* *[Pre-Chorus 2]* *There's a cold kinetic heat* *Struggling, stretching for the peak* *Never stopping with her head against the wind* *[Chorus 2]* *She's a maniac, maniac at your door* *And she's dancing like she's never danced before* *She's a maniac, maniac at your door* *And she's dancing like she's never danced before* *[Bridge]* *Ooh, oh* *Oh* *[Guitar Solo]* *[Pre-Chorus 1]* *It can cut you like a knife* *If the gift becomes the fire* *On the wire between will and what will be* *[Chorus 2]* *She's a maniac, maniac at your door* *And she's dancing like she's never danced before* *She's a maniac, maniac at your door* *And she's dancing like she's never danced before* *Maniac, maniac at your door....* *Author(s): Dennis Joseph Matkosky, Michael Sembello*
Props to Jennifer's body double dancer who never got her 15 minutes of fame. She danced her ❤ out and JB got all the attention and accolades. Pro actors always get more credit than pro dancers. And dancers work way harder to perfect their craft.
Who else heard this song during that scene in Orphan First kill?? Cos fun fact: This song was ORIGINALLY gonna be used in a slasher flick called Maniac.. Go figure!!
Check the Wikipedia page for this song. They watched that movie for inspiration for the lyrics which were then modified to be appropriate for this movie. Allegedly!
I remember driving down 1 80 in California in my new car going nearly 100 mph and listening to this song. It made me want to become an actual maniac. Luckil,y I survived as did those around me. I am a grateful 72- year-old now who gives thanks for this wonderful music. God Bless !
Funny, I hadn't listened to this in forever and I was just thinking about what a great solo it is , too. Not EVH tier or anything, but perfect for the song.
The sad part of the music video is that she _(Jennifer Beals )_ was only for the close-up shot, most of the dancing were done by Marine Jahan _(French actress and dancer),_ gymnast Sharon Shapiro _(NorthAmerican)_ and the break-dancing was done by _Richard Colón ( AK Crazy Legs)._
I’m a 90’s kid. I remember finding Flash Dance around 10/11 in my parents VHS collection, that moment blasted me in puberty. Never to look back at my toys again 😂
The dancer, the directing, the visual impact, the song; what an artistic masterpiece. Is it just me or are the arts dead in 2024? When's the last time you have seen something so beautiful and inspirational?
@@ThatGuyz82 I totally agree. I hate it. But, at least we can still appreciate the golden age of entertainment. My son is 19 and he agrees that the best music was before his time lol.
@@huhummmmmmm ok I'm open minded but then you need to provide some examples. Show me something new that impresses me, if you want. In this case it would have to be a movie with good music and dancing
From a time when music production and engineering was solely in the hands of true professionals who really knew their tools and their role in the process.
My mom gave me as a gift for my 9th birthday in 1983 the soundtrack cassette of this movie I still keep it 41 years later, and Maniac song is my number 1 in my cardio workout routine. Missing the 80’s too much
Gracias a la vida nací en los 70s... Y pude crecer y vivir los 80s y su increíble música. Quisiera estar nuevamente en esa época y borrar completamente de mi cabeza la basura de hoy en día.
Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night Lookin' for the fight of her life In the real-time world no one sees her at all They all say she's crazy Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart Changing movement into light She has danced into the danger zone When the dancer becomes the dance It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire On a wire between will and what will be She's a maniac, maniac on the floor And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac on the floor And she's dancing like she's never danced before On the ice-blue line of insanity is a place most never see It's a hard-won place of mystery touch it, but can't hold it You work all your life for that Moment in time, it could come or pass you by It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance If the hunger stays the night There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat Never stopping with her head against the wind She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire On a wire between will and what will be She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know) And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before Maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know) And she's dancing like she's never danced before
I just saw the movie that inspired this song, the 1980 slasher film, Maniac. So when I hear the chorus on this song, in my mind, I see "He's a maniac. He just moved in next door. He'll kill your cat and nail it to the floor." As for me, I was on the tail end of summer break 1983 getting ready for senior year at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix when this song topped the Top 40 in August '83.
I was born in 1990 but I'm still listening to the 1980s. I always love the 1980s music. Along with the 1990s and the 2000s, the 1980s is one of my favourite decades for music all time. It never gets old and it will always be a timeless classic. It contains flashing images/lights and it may cause seizures. It may not be suitable for some viewers who has seizures as we know. Anyway greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
I did not grow up in the 80’s but this song was sooo iconic that my drill sergeant forced our entire platoon to sing this at the top of our lungs in 2006 at Fort Benning Georgia. Gotta love the U.S. Army basic training. HOOAAHH! lol. That’s how famous this song is. Still relevant 20 years after. I will never forget that. We all joined in and loved it. Exercised our butts off at 6:30 in the morning. That’s what I think of now when I hear this song. 😂.
Maniac" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance that was written by Dennis Matkosky and its performer, Michael Sembello. The original idea for the song came to Matkosky while watching a news report on a serial killer, which inspired gruesome lyrics that he and Sembello expanded upon after finding a 1980 horror film with the same name. When Flashdance director Adrian Lyne grew attached to the demo of the song used during filming, his music supervisor Phil Ramone requested lyrics more appropriate for their story of a dancer and worked with Sembello to produce a new version for the soundtrack.
Yeah a life without social media mobile phones where people actually got up went out and had fun not sat at home surfing through your social media postings I miss the 80/90s
Loved this movie when it came out in theaters. I was in High School and that off the shoulder sweatshirt look Alex wore became ALL the rage around the world! Lol
I was a streetdancer...still dance but much slower! I miss the clubs, clothing and originality! Today everything is cold, soulless!! I miss the 80s so bad. If someone told me I could go back but only live 5 years....BYE!! That's how much I detest today's world!!
I'm with you on this ❤. Back then was so much far better than today. Young adults growing up today don't know what living and real fun is. The times have changed to much
God I this brings back memories in year 8 when the tv series flash dance was on. Break dancing was the thing, the Rubix cube was thing. Coca Cola yo yo,s every kid had one doing walking dog tricks with them. Frizzbies we’re going off, someone was always playing cricket in there back yard or somewhere. Paper planes were the go. God they great days.
Haha, I definitely had a cricket set in the backyard for a time and a Duncan yo yo. Also those balsa wood airplanes, and every once in a while someone would get one of those big-ass Styrofoam planes with the 4ft wingspan
@@jmcbastard9665 are yes yes those bolsa planes were awesome. And the big winged polystyrene ones wow yeah they were cool. I also liked those Royal show planes. Tried to always go there every year and buy one.
There is no CGI in any of this....The actress and all the dancers pulled of these moves with hard work and training....Insane. This film reminds me of my mom growing up. Cheers to all those tough ladies and single moms out there! You rock!
its good that she was able to be a dancer, because she was a reaaaallllllllyyyyyyyy bad welder lol, no way she would have kept that job doing structural steel. none of her welds would be close to code.
Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night Lookin' for the fight of her life In the real-time world no one sees her at all They all say she's crazy Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart Changing movement into light She has danced into the danger zone When the dancer becomes the dance It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire On a wire between will and what will be She's a maniac, maniac on the floor And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac on the floor And she's dancing like she's never danced before On the ice-blue line of insanity is a place most never see It's a hard-won place of mystery touch it, but can't hold it You work all your life for that Moment in time, it could come or pass you by It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance If the hunger stays the night There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat Never stopping with her head against the wind She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire On a wire between will and what will be She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know) And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before Maniac, maniac, I sure know And she's dancing like she's never danced before She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know) And she's dancing like she's never danced before
Negative Nancy....Since the ones old enough have actually seen the movie, in the theaters, not Blockbuster like you, actually know what the movie was all about.
@@armybeef68 He's just talking about the lyrics. He's saying "Dancing like she's never danced before" makes it sound like she's either dancing harder than ever, or with the skill of either someone who's never danced before.
This song never fails to take me back to the early 80s and i was born in 85...such an amazing decade in everything from music to movies And more..damn i wish I was born just 10 yrs earlier
I'm that lucky guy born in '74. There was so much great stuff happening - new wave, Hip Hop & heavy metal were emerging, and the icons of the previous era - Hendrix, The Doors, Zeppelin, etc. - still loomed large - you could still get a firm grasp of the Rock & Roll and pop culture from decades past. And then movies like Gremlins and Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, the Rocky movies, all the well-known slasher films, TV shows like Knight Rider, the A-Team, Miami Vice, Mtv, Saturday morning cartoons, plus video games and arcades, Dungeons and Dragons, skateboarding and BMX... Man, any of those things were great in and out themselves, but to be a kid at that particular time and have it all resonate with you the way it only can when you're a kid? Let me tell you, it was exactly as great as you think it was.
@@jmcbastard9665 im sure It was but while I wish I was born 10-15 yrs earlier and sometimes earlier than that I can't deny that the 90s was an amazing time be a kid coming up with SNES & Genesis..Mortal Kombat,Street Fighter 2, some of the best Mario games ever,PS1 & N64 and some of the greatest games of all time,Pokemon, Digimon Saturday Morning cartoons were amazing and I count myself very lucky to be apart of pretty much the last generation to come up before the internet and cell phones were ubiquitous..when MTV and Bet actually played music videos, no social media and much more..the 90s was also an amazing time for movies and music too and toys man i mean is it just mean or does Christmas just not feel like Christmas anymore?..it hadn't got me since the 90s ..maybe it's cuz that's when I was a kid but I think it's more than that..i can't be the only one that feels that way
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This song is so good that at 0:56 my brother fell on the floor and couldn’t stop uncontrollably dancing
I hope he's ok
@@ClassicVideos80s oh don’t worry he’s sleeping now I think all the dancing wore him out 🤣
@damianwojcikiewicz3951 cry about it
@damianwojcikiewicz3951na następny raz: polskie „z czegoś” nie przekłada się na „from” tylko na „about”
@@awsomegamer8277 💀
Who's still listening in 2024!!?? You know music!!
Listen to the Rising Insane version of it. I was stumped ahaha
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Me
Me!!!
Dude, i'm still in love with Jennnifer Beals.....
im jealous of people who lived in the 80s
85 here but man there's so many times i wish l was born just 10 yrs earlier
I was in my teens and early 20s in the 80s. Best time ever 💕
I was born in 1986. I don't remember the 1980s.
Jealousy is as cruel as the grave.
@Joe's World 🥲🥲🥲
I miss the 80s😢❤
It truely was the peak of modern civilization in so many ways...
Brother of the same era, i am 43 years old and i hate how the world has become.
Me too
Uncle Rico?
Me To
Im a 90s baby but this is what I consider to be the quintessential 80s sound. Heartbreaking, melancholic chords over a driving drum beat and synth bass line. The type of record to have you crying on the dance floor while you dance your ass off 😂
I thought I was the only one who sensed some sadness in the melody of this song
@@1stwonder788 you’re not crazy. If you slow this down and take out the dancy drum groove it’s a sad minor chord progression
@@1stwonder788 Yes, this song is both sad and heartbreaking in what we live through - all of us, with no reservations. Michael Sembello's Maniac is one of the gates to understanding the mystery of life as we know it, to my firm belief. The fire of the truth projects through the Maniac, this is for sure.
It's not from the 90s....It was recorded for the movie Flashdance 1983....
I was 13 years old when this song came out. Love it!
"2024" Those thigh high leg warmers were everything 🙌 🔥
This is one of my all time favorite song! I can still jam to it after almost 40 years!
🙌 🙌 🙌
check out Carpenter Brut's cover
Уже 40 лет прошло, бро.😎👍
40 years ago, it peaked at #1 in Billboard, well in the Hot 100.
40 years now haha
Man I wish I could time travel back to the 80s just for a moment
Just for a moment? I'd gladly stay there and get away from all the crap today... 😐
I would rather go back and live in the 80s again. It’s crazy, when we were little we thought things in the future would be awesome like flying cars, but instead we evolved…backwards. But we gotta appreciate some of the things we have now
*some*
@@eriv1974 If I had the choice, I would ditch everything I know and have now, just to go back for some happiness again. It was an innocent and exciting time. In the 80s, computing was still new and perceived as an arcane, black art only a select few understood; we felt part of an elite. In popular culture, space was the new frontier (remember the Shuttle?), and we looked to the stars, not the rainforest. 😉
So I agree with you... we've _devolved_, _degenerated_, etc...
I've been working in research for 20+ years and have become jaded towards the tech surrounding me every minute of my life at home and at work. Granted, it has its merits for most of us, but I perceive it as more of a curse than a blessing.
For instance, "The 'Net" was a pretty safe place in the early 90s when I first roamed it; it was populated by academics, professionals and military. Now it's a digital wasteland where Script Kiddies can hack your PC and hold your data for ransom, where sociopaths can poison kids' minds, and where kids can order guns. All with nary a consequence. TBH, I'm glad I'm not a kid anymore.
1983🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@eriv1974 The internet is the 👹 1983 please and thank you!
Memories of my high school days when this movie came out in 1983. I was taking dance class and this movie was an Inspiration. Love the movie and this soundtrack.
I was born in 1983😊
Sometimes something comes around just once. Once in a lifetime something happens and you never see anything like it again. I was kid, punk rocker. It never occurred to me, on any human level, to walk into a movie theater and watch this movie. STILL haven't seen it. Just too lazy now. But this song...once in a lifetime. This is actually the first time I've even WATCHED the video hahaa.
I feel privileged to have been apart of this era.
Meisterwerk
Me too with amazing song of 80s😊👍❤️
This song came on my car’s radio today and I blasted it while dancing like a wild woman in my seat!
Naughty girl
I bet you saw that coming
Too bad I was not there!
i thought this was aha take on me but there both upbeat
Can't blame u girl
This Song Went To Number 1 On The Billboard Hot-100 Chart In 1983.
What a Feeling did too for several weeks. The biggest song of year not by Police or Michael Jackson.
@@W81Researcher При чём тут Джексон? Это написал Michael Sembello.
Let's go kimiko!
The 80's were bad-ass. Got epilepsy? Tough break, fella.. don't watch MTV.
1983 I was 10 years old, listening to tunes like this on a pocket transistor radio with headphones! 😀
*Michael Sembello - Maniac (1983) (Official Video) [Lyrics:] June 29, 2023**
*[Verse 1]*
*Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night*
*Lookin' for the fight of her life*
*In the real-time world, no one sees her at all*
*They all say she's crazy*
*Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart*
*Changing movement into light*
*She has danced into the danger zone*
*When the dancer becomes the dance*
*[Pre-Chorus 1]*
*It can cut you like a knife*
*If the gift becomes the fire*
*On the wire between will and what will be*
*[Chorus 1]*
*She's a maniac, maniac on the floor*
*And she's dancing like she's never danced before*
*She's a maniac, maniac on the floor*
*And she's dancing like she's never danced before*
*[Verse 2]*
*On the ice-blue line of insanity*
*Is a place most never see*
*It's a hard-won place of mystery*
*Touch it, but can't hold it*
*You work all your life for that moment in time*
*It could come or pass you by*
*It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance*
If the hunger stays the night*
*[Pre-Chorus 2]*
*There's a cold kinetic heat*
*Struggling, stretching for the peak*
*Never stopping with her head against the wind*
*[Chorus 2]*
*She's a maniac, maniac at your door*
*And she's dancing like she's never danced before*
*She's a maniac, maniac at your door*
*And she's dancing like she's never danced before*
*[Bridge]*
*Ooh, oh*
*Oh*
*[Guitar Solo]*
*[Pre-Chorus 1]*
*It can cut you like a knife*
*If the gift becomes the fire*
*On the wire between will and what will be*
*[Chorus 2]*
*She's a maniac, maniac at your door*
*And she's dancing like she's never danced before*
*She's a maniac, maniac at your door*
*And she's dancing like she's never danced before*
*Maniac, maniac at your door....*
*Author(s): Dennis Joseph Matkosky, Michael Sembello*
So glad they decided to use this song in the new episode of The Boys
Just finished watching that hope there's a season 4
@Joadan Romero it’s getting filmed right now
Came out the year I graduated High School in 83'. 1981.1982.1983. Best years ever for Pop music. It was an awesome time for sure.😊
The movie came out the year I left school. Not seen it for years but the soundtrack is fantastic. Pure '80's classic.
What´s the neme of the movie?
@@xsbgtr Flashdance.
映画「フラッシュダンス」の挿入歌。
ノリノリなところが好きです。
Wish I could’ve experienced the 80’s!!!😢
Yes I'm miss it soo much. It was crasy ...
Ja jesam, neponovljivo😊😊❤🎉
m63 we had the best music ever
It’s that bass line for me…… I’m gonna sit down and bang it out….
I grew up in the 80s. It was the best!
01/01/2024 I’m here rocking like a maniac🔥 yes, I’m pretending to do the workout 😂😂😂♥️
Yo its almos August 2024 , who's stil listening 🎧🎧🎧🎶
Dn she was HOT 🔥❤
And She's still hot 🔥 ❤️
In my opinion, she still is!
Orphan First Kill anybody?
Me too!! The audience was cackling in that scene where Esther put on shades and smoking cigs in a car while this song was blasting. I love it!!
@@SaRENRampaiger Yess!! I love watching a film in the cinema, always a blast
Props to Jennifer's body double dancer who never got her 15 minutes of fame. She danced her ❤ out and JB got all the attention and accolades.
Pro actors always get more credit than pro dancers. And dancers work way harder to perfect their craft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Jahan
@@voiceofduum8634 THANKS
She didn’t do any of the welding either
@@lr3521 🤣 facts
Anyone here in May 2024 ?..…. I'll wait!!!❤
Me 😜, I was born in ‘83
I was 15yrs in 1983, best time ever. 😁😜
Stay happy
❤️
I am with you
Who else heard this song during that scene in Orphan First kill?? Cos fun fact: This song was ORIGINALLY gonna be used in a slasher flick called Maniac.. Go figure!!
Meee!!🙋🏻♀️
Check the Wikipedia page for this song. They watched that movie for inspiration for the lyrics which were then modified to be appropriate for this movie. Allegedly!
the first ever men of culture were fans, and once again we gather to pay homage to epic 80's flashdance bangers.
I remember driving down 1 80 in California in my new car going nearly 100 mph and listening to this song. It made me want to become an actual maniac. Luckil,y I survived as did those around me. I am a grateful 72- year-old now who gives thanks for this wonderful music. God Bless !
А я живу в России и у меня нет машины, тем не менее эта песня вызывает восторг у меня🎉🎉🎉
@@ЛешаНаумов-м3мit unites all generations, I’ve never found someone that dislikes this song
Yes it makes me drive faster roof down exhilarating
@@ЛешаНаумов-м3мпесня прекрасна, но, америка уже давно не такова. США на пике осталась в 80 тых - 90 тых. Сейчас идёт упадок.
What kinda "car" were ya in might I ask🤔🤷♂️🤨HMM..!!??
I think this guitar solo in a synth-pop song has more balls than some of the guitar solos in a hard rock song 😀
Funny, I hadn't listened to this in forever and I was just thinking about what a great solo it is , too. Not EVH tier or anything, but perfect for the song.
It _is_ a great solo and would easily make a tune in itself. Gotta love that slide at the end.
The sad part of the music video is that she _(Jennifer Beals )_ was only for the close-up shot, most of the dancing were done by Marine Jahan _(French actress and dancer),_ gymnast Sharon Shapiro _(NorthAmerican)_ and the break-dancing was done by _Richard Colón ( AK Crazy Legs)._
WoW ! Thanks for Informing..
Good music for workout time
So true
I’m a 90’s kid. I remember finding Flash Dance around 10/11 in my parents VHS collection, that moment blasted me in puberty. Never to look back at my toys again 😂
The dancer, the directing, the visual impact, the song; what an artistic masterpiece. Is it just me or are the arts dead in 2024? When's the last time you have seen something so beautiful and inspirational?
They are dead. Post Modernism has destroyed art and especially what is defined as an artist.
@@ThatGuyz82 I totally agree. I hate it. But, at least we can still appreciate the golden age of entertainment. My son is 19 and he agrees that the best music was before his time lol.
@@premiumGenX Says everyone ever of the next generation. A bit more self awareness would be useful.
@@huhummmmmmm ok I'm open minded but then you need to provide some examples. Show me something new that impresses me, if you want. In this case it would have to be a movie with good music and dancing
@@huhummmmmmmculture has been steadily declining for the past 800 years so it’s a natural observation.
From a time when music production and engineering was solely in the hands of true professionals who really knew their tools and their role in the process.
This is so absolutely true.
Petition to make this Kimikos Theme Song
My mom gave me as a gift for my 9th birthday in 1983 the soundtrack cassette of this movie I still keep it 41 years later, and Maniac song is my number 1 in my cardio workout routine. Missing the 80’s too much
Like a maniac listening to that song 😅
Me Too!!!✨️🇦🇷✌️✨️😇💪🔵🔴😎🥃♀️✨️🐦⬛✨️🥰🤣💋✨️
Gracias a la vida nací en los 70s... Y pude crecer y vivir los 80s y su increíble música. Quisiera estar nuevamente en esa época y borrar completamente de mi cabeza la basura de hoy en día.
Michael Sembello was SO tallented, he played the piano, guitar, lead vocalist, you name it !!
Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night
Lookin' for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all
They all say she's crazy
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart
Changing movement into light
She has danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes the dance
It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
On the ice-blue line of insanity is a place most never see
It's a hard-won place of mystery touch it, but can't hold it
You work all your life for that
Moment in time, it could come or pass you by
It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays the night
There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know)
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
Maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know)
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
I just saw the movie that inspired this song, the 1980 slasher film, Maniac. So when I hear the chorus on this song, in my mind, I see "He's a maniac. He just moved in next door. He'll kill your cat and nail it to the floor." As for me, I was on the tail end of summer break 1983 getting ready for senior year at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix when this song topped the Top 40 in August '83.
Just the way i remembered it 1983 😁😁😁💙💙💙
Micheal Sembello....its no wonder he has Stevie Wonderish vibes as he played guitar for him. Wonderful vocalist and well as muscian.
and then at 3:02 he just shreds
That's Michael
Mais alguém do 🇧🇷 que também ama essa música maravilhosa? 🎉😊
Brotei😂🎉
This will never age. Brilliant.
Back when music videos were totally awesome 🙌
Maravillosa canción. Los '80 fueron lo máximo.
Mon Coeur!
👀the boys
Who is here for the boys?
Oi
Been lookin for the name of this song and gotta thank Voughtify lol Bruno Mars should sample dis and gv us a 21st century hit
nope, totally for the chick
I'm here for Malcolm in the middle
For the music
I was born in 1990 but I'm still listening to the 1980s. I always love the 1980s music. Along with the 1990s and the 2000s, the 1980s is one of my favourite decades for music all time. It never gets old and it will always be a timeless classic.
It contains flashing images/lights and it may cause seizures. It may not be suitable for some viewers who has seizures as we know.
Anyway greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Like si queres que este temón este en el proximo GTA!
The best soundtrack of the 80s. Flashdance, Maniac and Lady Lady are just some highlights.
Great song! Worth the epileptic seizure I began having at 0:55
I did not grow up in the 80’s but this song was sooo iconic that my drill sergeant forced our entire platoon to sing this at the top of our lungs in 2006 at Fort Benning Georgia. Gotta love the U.S. Army basic training. HOOAAHH! lol. That’s how famous this song is. Still relevant 20 years after. I will never forget that. We all joined in and loved it. Exercised our butts off at 6:30 in the morning. That’s what I think of now when I hear this song. 😂.
Pure nostalgia... this melody helps to remember the old days of the 80s
This was my absolute favorite song as a kid. This was the first 45 single that I bought. I blasted it over and over.
この曲好きなんだよなぁ……。サントラ買おうかなぁ…。
映画館でリアルタイムで見ました。劇中のブレイクダンスを踊るシーンで場内からお〜って溜息が聞かれたのも良い思い出
Maniac" is a song from the 1983 film Flashdance that was written by Dennis Matkosky and its performer, Michael Sembello. The original idea for the song came to Matkosky while watching a news report on a serial killer, which inspired gruesome lyrics that he and Sembello expanded upon after finding a 1980 horror film with the same name. When Flashdance director Adrian Lyne grew attached to the demo of the song used during filming, his music supervisor Phil Ramone requested lyrics more appropriate for their story of a dancer and worked with Sembello to produce a new version for the soundtrack.
The guitar solo
❤
41 years later, this song don't lose from this magic, and flashdance was or a pure cult movie 😊😊😊😊😊😊
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@elizabettacoppo1631 💋😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
When music was made by people with talent.
The music now literally sucks. 80’s and early early 90’s were the best in my opinion.
Orphan -first kill driving scene. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Yeah a life without social media mobile phones where people actually got up went out and had fun not sat at home surfing through your social media postings I miss the 80/90s
Absolutely 💯🇺🇲❤️
Here cause of the passing of Irene cara ,rip .
いい曲です。
The 80s were the best era to be alive. I'm an 70s kid & the 80 is my favourite
"On the wire between will and what will be." Love that line. Pomplamoose does a great cover of the song.
Loved this movie when it came out in theaters. I was in High School and that off the shoulder sweatshirt look Alex wore became ALL the rage around the world! Lol
ホワットアフィーリングよりこっちが好きなひねくれ者です
Супер!!!Спасибо за видео!!Столько приятных воспоминаний навеяло!!👍👍👍👏👏👏
Quem em 2024?
🙋🏻😘
I was a streetdancer...still dance but much slower! I miss the clubs, clothing and originality! Today everything is cold, soulless!! I miss the 80s so bad. If someone told me I could go back but only live 5 years....BYE!! That's how much I detest today's world!!
I'm with you on this ❤. Back then was so much far better than today. Young adults growing up today don't know what living and real fun is. The times have changed to much
41 years later and this track is timeless never gets old 🔥🔥🔥
Great song!... TIMELESS... ON the RADIO in NZ in 2023 👍🇳🇿🎶
whos hear from the boys
kimiko rock this .. I like her💃🕺💃👯🦹♀👣
I first heard this song in American Pie 3 where Stifler danced to it , still loving the beat !!!
Nice Song and Share from Flashdance Movie
Great MERCI from France !!!
Jennifer Beals is in this video for maybe a few seconds. The rest is the actual dancer, who is NOT Beals.
Absolutely underrated song❤
It is.
The sample for Wiz Khalifahs Black and Yellow.
HE PLAYED WITH STEVIE FOR 12 YRS. SO YOU KNOW SOME HAD TO RUB OFF✔️(CLASSIC)
This was the era that changed the production standards of both music and video. Glad to have been a part of it.
Eu não lembrava o nome da música,usei a busca do TH-cam e só com uma palavra achei! Te amo TH-cam.
God I this brings back memories in year 8 when the tv series flash dance was on. Break dancing was the thing, the Rubix cube was thing. Coca Cola yo yo,s every kid had one doing walking dog tricks with them. Frizzbies we’re going off, someone was always playing cricket in there back yard or somewhere. Paper planes were the go. God they great days.
Haha, I definitely had a cricket set in the backyard for a time and a Duncan yo yo. Also those balsa wood airplanes, and every once in a while someone would get one of those big-ass Styrofoam planes with the 4ft wingspan
@@jmcbastard9665 are yes yes those bolsa planes were awesome. And the big winged polystyrene ones wow yeah they were cool. I also liked those Royal show planes. Tried to always go there every year and buy one.
This song only gets better with age....1983 would have to be the alltime best year for music....
Now this is truly one classic gem from the 1980"s it was such full of energy and life tonnes of choreography 👍👍❤️❤️❤️
There is no CGI in any of this....The actress and all the dancers pulled of these moves with hard work and training....Insane. This film reminds me of my mom growing up. Cheers to all those tough ladies and single moms out there! You rock!
chi nel 2022 ascolta ancora questa meravigliosa canzone del 1983 di un stupendo Michael Sembello ❤️❤️❤️? alzi la mano!!!
its good that she was able to be a dancer, because she was a reaaaallllllllyyyyyyyy bad welder lol, no way she would have kept that job doing structural steel. none of her welds would be close to code.
It's not real.
I’m 23 & 80s music brings out the dancer in me! What an era of music
Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night
Lookin' for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all
They all say she's crazy
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart
Changing movement into light
She has danced into the danger zone
When the dancer becomes the dance
It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
On the ice-blue line of insanity is a place most never see
It's a hard-won place of mystery touch it, but can't hold it
You work all your life for that
Moment in time, it could come or pass you by
It's a push-shove world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays the night
There's a cold kinetic heat, struggling, stretching for the beat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know)
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
Maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know (I sure know)
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
Tysm for the lyrics!
Thanks for posting these ridiculous lyrics 😂😊
"and she dances like she's never danced before" could either be taken as a compliment or as an insult 😂
Negative Nancy....Since the ones old enough have actually seen the movie, in the theaters, not Blockbuster like you, actually know what the movie was all about.
@@armybeef68 Calm down dude... It's a joke XD
@@armybeef68 He's just talking about the lyrics. He's saying "Dancing like she's never danced before" makes it sound like she's either dancing harder than ever, or with the skill of either someone who's never danced before.
"Hey Mr. Sembello, you sing like you've never sung before!" 🤔
Maniac was indeed the maniac song and video back in the day. Hard to believe it has been four decades since this song ripped through the music charts.
ill be 49 in November growing up in the 80s was an amazing experience.
тысяча фриспинов
:)
This song never fails to take me back to the early 80s and i was born in 85...such an amazing decade in everything from music to movies And more..damn i wish I was born just 10 yrs earlier
I'm that lucky guy born in '74. There was so much great stuff happening - new wave, Hip Hop & heavy metal were emerging, and the icons of the previous era - Hendrix, The Doors, Zeppelin, etc. - still loomed large - you could still get a firm grasp of the Rock & Roll and pop culture from decades past. And then movies like Gremlins and Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, the Rocky movies, all the well-known slasher films, TV shows like Knight Rider, the A-Team, Miami Vice, Mtv, Saturday morning cartoons, plus video games and arcades, Dungeons and Dragons, skateboarding and BMX...
Man, any of those things were great in and out themselves, but to be a kid at that particular time and have it all resonate with you the way it only can when you're a kid? Let me tell you, it was exactly as great as you think it was.
@@jmcbastard9665 im sure It was but while I wish I was born 10-15 yrs earlier and sometimes earlier than that I can't deny that the 90s was an amazing time be a kid coming up with SNES & Genesis..Mortal Kombat,Street Fighter 2, some of the best Mario games ever,PS1 & N64 and some of the greatest games of all time,Pokemon, Digimon Saturday Morning cartoons were amazing and I count myself very lucky to be apart of pretty much the last generation to come up before the internet and cell phones were ubiquitous..when MTV and Bet actually played music videos, no social media and much more..the 90s was also an amazing time for movies and music too and toys man i mean is it just mean or does Christmas just not feel like Christmas anymore?..it hadn't got me since the 90s ..maybe it's cuz that's when I was a kid but I think it's more than that..i can't be the only one that feels that way
Anyone here from The Boys? I loved the scene with Kimiko 🖤