OK, my ever-so-clever friends, riddle me this - identify the following song:
- One-word title
- Begins with "M"
- Soft rock
- One-hit wonder
- Male singer
- 80's timeframe
- The two lines of the chorus repeat once, making up the entirety of the chorus
Edited to add:
thespian guessed correctly - it was "Maniac," by Michael Sembello. I'd heard it on the radio yesterday afternoon, then, in my aged state, I'd forgotten what it was, but remembered those little snippets, so since it had been driving me crazy, I figured you all could alleviate my Alzheimer's. (I remember weird stuff about things, like what side of the book a particular sentence was on, or that I last saw my glasses in something blue or whatever.)- Current Mood:
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Hmm. maybe not. It fits everything but 'one word title' though.
Lyrics here
Music Video (on a spanish-language site) here
One-word title: check.
Begins with "M": check.
Soft rock: maybe. certainly wasn't cutting edge.
One-hit wonder: Michael Sembello.
Male singer: check.
80's timeframe: from the Flashdance soundtrack; doesn't get more 80s than that
The two lines of the chorus repeat once, making up the entirety of the chorus:
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
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
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
But again, 2-line chorus, repeated twice to make the whole chorus.
In other words, if this isn't randomly it, I don't think there's enough information to answer this.
Alan? Is this the one you were looking for?
Pop Musik by M (1979)
both fit to one degree or another...