Sunday, November 13, 2011
Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance (glamour slideshow)
All She Wants To Do Is Dance from ne033x on Vimeo.
"All She Wants to Do Is Dance" is a 1984 song recorded by Don Henley and became a Billboard Top 10 hit in March 1985, peaking at number 9, and also became his second song to top the Top Rock Tracks chart. The song was originally released from Henley's Building the Perfect Beast album.
The lyrics are a personal commentary, critical of then-modern American culture for being more concerned with self-gratification and hedonistic behaviors (e.g., dancing, partying, promiscuity, recreational drug use, etc.) than with serious issues such as domestic and foreign policies of their government. Ironically, it became a popular dance song, reaching #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.
The commercial U.S. 7" vinyl version has a slightly different intro than the LP version from Building The Perfect Beast.
John Leland from Spin magazine wrote about the 12-inch single version of the song saying "...this mother whomps from the git with punchy electronic drums and a mix that keeps one foot off the ground for a full seven-and-a-half minutes. Henley's vision of post-hedonist vision of apocalypse is twisted"
"All She Wants to Do Is Dance" has been featured in the films Real Genius, Coyote Ugly, and referred to in the book Bag of Bones.
Kool & the Gang performed a version for their 1989 album, Sweat.
American Idol winner Kris Allen performed this song in the final 8 on season 8 of American Idol.
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