35 years ago today this song came out and changed the way I live

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April 20, 2019 6:57 PM

Someone stole my brand new Chevrolet!

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April 18, 2019 1:20 AM

I like this version better.

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April 18, 2019 1:25 AM

R3, that's super fun, I had no idea

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April 18, 2019 5:17 AM

Eddie Fucking Murphy. He ruins everything.

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April 18, 2019 8:22 AM

he does, but the song endures

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April 18, 2019 3:26 PM

Back in 1985, I was just burnin', from doin' that new time dance. But after years of plastic surgery it's barely noticeable.

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April 18, 2019 3:29 PM

The Pointer Sisters' music is so joyful and ebullient. It brings back such great memories.

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April 18, 2019 4:05 PM

I became the woman I am now

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April 18, 2019 5:42 PM

My favorite song of theirs.

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April 18, 2019 5:51 PM

They're totally gurning off coke. Ah the 80's...

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April 18, 2019 6:00 PM

I was pile driven to this song.

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April 18, 2019 8:46 PM

The background on the song is pretty interesting:

According to Allee Willis, "Neutron Dance" was written in hopes of being placed on the soundtrack of the film Streets of Fire: "We were told that there was a scene on a bus that was leaving town after there had been this nuclear holocaust, and that a '50s doo-wop black group was going to be at the back of the bus that the lead couple was escaping on ... Danny Sembello and I just met that day ... I was very disinterested in songwriting at that point, and I'm writing with this kid who's never had a record before, and I just wanted to get him in and out. He was a phenomenal keyboard player, and I just said: 'Play the most common sounding old fashioned '50s black music bass line that you can think of.' And he just started doing the [rhythm for "Neutron Dance"]. And I'm someone who could write a melody to a spoon falling on the table. So I literally sang that melody down. First time down, he just kind of followed and went to the right places. And then I said, Let's just write this quick lyric ... we're taking a half an hour on the lyric, and this thing's gonna get done."

Willis adds that the lyric theme of "Neutron Dance" was due to "all this stuff going on in my life: I don't want to take it anymore, I'll just stay here locked behind the door. Just no time to stop and get away, because I work so hard to make it every day. Really a lyric about all these things falling apart in your life, and you know what, just get it together and change your life." According to Willis while working on the lyrics with Sembello she looked through a window and saw someone attempting to break into her car: while running outside to scare off the thief Willis called out to Sembello: "Someone stole my brand new Chevrolet", and the line was included in the song.

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April 18, 2019 9:15 PM

The line “I’m just burnin” came when Allee’s pussy had a yeast infection.

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April 18, 2019 11:28 PM

I was an "extra" in that video. Watched it three times and still can't spot me.

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April 18, 2019 11:38 PM

Many of us first heard the Pointer Sisters on Sesame Street, singing the catchy Pinball counting song.

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April 19, 2019 7:09 AM

I recall watching this uplifting message from them on sesame street also

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April 19, 2019 4:50 PM

Wow r20! I do remember that. Never knew it was the Pointer Sisters though.

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April 20, 2019 4:24 AM

I was working in market research back then....

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April 20, 2019 6:51 AM

I was working in a coal mine

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April 20, 2019 4:35 PM

I was getting pile driven!

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April 20, 2019 6:38 PM

I love The Pointer Sisters. It's kind of amazing to think that when this song hit, they were in their mid-to-late 30s. That would never happen today with ageist radio.

Also, love their harmonies. You don't hear this type of singing anymore on pop songs. It's all autotuned, monotonous, personality-free singing.

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April 20, 2019 6:45 PM

The Sisters' electro-funk phase all started in 1982 with "I'm So Excited." But it was only a moderate hit when released that year. It wasn't until a slightly remixed version was included on their next album and re-released that it made it into the Top 10 at #9. I think being included in the popular movie National Lampoon's Vacation, contributed to the repopularization of the song.

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April 20, 2019 6:55 PM