PARTY MUSIC 1 | A PLAYLIST WITH THE BEST PARTY SONGS TO GET THE YOU GOING 🥳️

• Who doesn’t know ABBA? The wonderful Swedish band that get us up out of our chairs with all their songs. Don’t make me confess the number of times my mother has seen ‘Mamma Mia‘ movie. Truth is that the film is very cool.
• ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!‘ wasn’t ABBA’s biggest hit, but it is without a doubt one of their most listened to party songs.
• Although ABBA resisted at first, Madonna managed to convince them to sample the song on her ‘Hung Up‘ track. She had to send an emissary to Stockholm with a letter pleading and telling them how much she liked their music.
• For those of you who are a bit of music geeks (like me 😅), know that the legendary chorus was played with an analog synthesizer called ARP Odyssey.

• I know! You started nodding in the moment the song played. I can’t help it either 🤣 It gives you that Friday feeling.
• Of course, it’s Cher’s greatest hit, even though, the songwriter, Diane Warren, recounted that Cher hated the song at the beginning and had to force her to sing it:

I held her leg down during a session and said, ‘You have to record it!’

• It seems that Cher’s response was very subtle “Fuck you, bitch! You’re hurting my leg! Ok, I’ll try it”. She ended up loving the songs, just like everyone else.
• The video is also memorable. It was filmed with real sailors who kept calling Cher ‘ma’am‘. It would be the last time that the Navy allowed one of their ships to be used for a video clip, due to the controversy that arose over Cher’s sexy outfit.

• Fedde Le Grand is one of those musicians who doesn’t stop playing at festivals and clubs after more than 20 years of career and dozens of dance hits. This Dutch DJ knows very well how to make people move, not least he has been considered on several occasions as one of the most innovative deejays.
• In this great song, ‘Sparks‘, he featured his compatriot Nicky Romero, well known for tunes like ‘Toulouse‘ or ‘I Could Be the One‘.
• Also collaborating we can find Matthew Koma, who, despite starting his musical career in Punk rock, moved towards electronic music, with the luck that he was invited to sing this track, which is still played at all clubs.

• Tina Cousins is a British singer who was known in the 90s as “The Dance Queen”.
• She released ‘Pray‘ just after her famous collaboration with DJ Sash! on ‘Mysterious Times’.
• ‘Pray‘ was a major hit on the charts worldwide becoming a dance anthem, as well as a gay symbol of the end of the millennium.
• By the way, Tina Cousins featured in a Rolling Stones video. There is an urban legend telling that Tina pushed Mike Jagger into a pool because he accidentally hit her with the elbow when she was passing by him at a party 😱

• Coti is undoubtedly one of the most prolific singer-songwriters in Argentina.
• From a very young age, he knew that music was his life, so he worked hard until he became a composer for great artists such as Sergio Dalma, Julieta Venegas or Alejandro Lerner. He also wrote Diego Torres’ hope anthem ‘Color Esperanza (Hope Colour)‘.
• Coti was sure that at some point he would have his opportunity to release his own music, and so it happened with the self-titled debut album ‘Coti‘ that was a huge success in Spanish-speaking countries. The album included ‘Antes que ver el sol (Before the sunrise)‘, a perfect song to party in a bar with your friends.
• By the way, the chorus of the song goes “antes que ver el sol, prefiero escuchar tu voz (before the sunrise, I prefer to hear your voice)” but the original version was “…prefiero escucharte a vos (I prefer to hear you)”. ‘Vos‘ is an Argentinian idiomatic expression that means ‘You‘, but it was changed to reach a wider audience. I’m sure it would have succeeded anyway, don’t you think?

• Black Eyed Peas ‘The E.N.D.‘ album means ‘The Energy Never Dies‘. It’s a plea of what you will find in the record.
• ‘I’ve Gotta Feeling‘ is their flagship song. The music prompts you to kickstart the party.
• Not many know that the song was not only written by Will.i.am (member of Black Eyed Peas), but French DJ David Guetta, who even featured in the video and was essential for the track. Many parts of his “Love Is Gone” are used in ‘I’ve Gotta Feeling‘. Just listen to the first notes and you will realize 🎵
• Black Eyed Peas broke the record for most consecutive weeks at #1 in the rock era with this song. 20 weeks in all.
• The band described the song as a:

college anthem for people looking forward to escaping life’s pressures by going out and having a ball

• There are a couple Yiddish expressions in the track: “Mazel Tov” and “L’chaim (to life)”.

• Don’t tell me that you haven’t jumped along with your friend in a bar, shouting “La, la, la, la, …”, to the sound of ‘I Will Survive’. Of course! it’s the quintessential party song.
• We are specially into Hermes House Band cover because they added the indispensable “la-la-la” to the track, altering the sound a bit to make it more modern. It has kind of a House vibe.
• Hermes House Band is a band from the Netherlands, formed in 1984 by members of the Hermes society. They follow a rule that everyone who finishes their studies must leave the band. Imagine how many members they have already had! 👫👫👫👫👫👫👫
• Gloria Gaynor 1978 original song has a funny story behind. It was written by 2 Motown producers, Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. The latter was fired and while he was spending some time watching TV he heard one of his composition. He took it as an omen and started jumping on the bed singing ‘I’m going to make it. I’m going to be a songwriter. I will survive!“.
• ‘I Will Survive‘ became an anthem in the gay community, but its reach extends much farther. It has been reproduced in more than 20 languages, and as you could expect, it is one of the most popular Karaoke songs 🎤