ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Groove Is in the Heart” by Deee-Lite [Re-Upload]
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2020
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by Todd In The Shadows
The original video was uploaded on May 29th, 2014.
Some visuals are edited due to copyright.
Video can be found here: vimeo.com/292644327
I'm not monetizing this video.
The original creator of this video has stated why his video got deleted: twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1666511279811604481?s=20
Some visuals are edited due to copyright claims.
The original video was uploaded on May 29th, 2014.
The original video can be found in the description.
I'm not monetizing this video.
Well I should certainly *hope* you're not [monetizing this video], unless your name is "Todd In The Shadows."
@@LeshaAnn people like to assume the worst in others so i just wanted to make it clear that it is not my intention to make money or success off of todd's work...
Hey, I just tried the Twitter link, nothing there now. I'd be interested to read what got the video deleted.
@@turnitloose9789 "the lady from Deelite didn't like my video and took it down, I didn't fight it"
I just think it’s weird that he’s so complimentary of this song and this is the one that gets taken down? I can’t imagine being that thin skinned
" The PlayStation game Space Channel 5 "
*inhales, exhales*
"I played it"
(X) Doubt
I mean, it was re-released on PS2, but yeah. It's still a Dreamcast game.
"I believe in the power of love" is definitely a lyric you write when you're completely out of ideas but are on a short deadline.
After Huey Lewis and Frankie Goes to Hollywood in the '80's, I bet people on the 90's were already well aware of love's power.
@@Pr0jectFM You say it as if Celine Dion didn't make a smash hit off of such cliché years after lol
Or you're an anime character
Kind of a banger though, lowkey
Yep! Dee Lite is part of that downtown NYC scene that all influenced each other through time: There's a pretty strong line from the Dee Lites and Rupauls of the early 90s to Lady Gaga later on.
That whole scene has always been so fascinating to me. Would you say the line goes perhaps even further back, albeit not as clear a path, from the 80s dance clubs..... I believe one was called the Danceteria? (If that is incorrect I humbly apologize) I am a bisexual woman born and raised in South Alabama, so I'm sure you can understand why that scene would hold such an appeal and be such a fascination!
If you haven't, check out a live version. Yes, she's just that damn good at singing. It isn't post production magic.
"Groove is in the Heart" is one of those songs that if you don't like it, you just don't like music, period.
Oh yeah. How can you *not* jam to retro funk this tight?
idk, even as someone who hasnt heard this much outside dj hero, this just sounds like one of those songs that sounds public domain despite being totally copyrighted. like "ABC" or "Tricky", the licensing fee is probably dirt cheap
I don’t like it and I am a musician
Well I don't like it and I love music. It's in that zone between funk and disco (genres I like and can't stand, respectively) that makes it kinda frustrating to listen to due to it compelling me and repelling me simultaneously. It even features Cincinnati legend Bootsy Collins, for what that's worth to me.
It's just killer from the very first note. You can't dislike it. Towa Tei has spent thirty years trying to make something almost as good.
While Deee-Lites "Groove is in the Heart" was a one hit wonder in many places, radio stations in Miami (power 96) played many of their other singles (Power of Love, Good Beat, What is Love, Runaway, etc) making them hits on the radio. ...I remember going to raves in the 90's and partying with Lady Miss Kier on the Dancefloor. Good times!
Checking in from November 2020.
I'm completely on board with Deee-Lite reminding us that Groove is in the Vote.
Unfortunately as a longtime Twitter follower of Lady Kier I have to report that her political outlook has gotten pretty bananas this past year
Like not even in a particularly obvious way, her arc seems to have been “disappointed that Bernie didn’t win the primary so I guess it’s time to get really into Prison Planet”
@@Champiness So basically no Bernie no party (basically choosing Trump)? I hope not.
@@mimmikibilly You are (alas) capable of experiencing it for yourself:
twitter.com/ladykier
@@Champiness looks like she deleted her Twitter :(
@@greenphlem no, it actually got suspended 💀
Funny enough, Todd received some Twitter backlash from Miss Kier for this video, even though the few OHW videos viewed by their respective artists were positive towards them; even the "Grandma Got Run Over" video
What??? Why????
I was curious about this, since Todd is a pretty positive and nice guy. I tried listening to this as if I was the one being talked about. It could be the part where he said she has a drag queen name and thought she was just a really convincing drag queen, but no because "she's all woman, obviously." Then the part where he said it's nice to have straight people being represented in this genre (may not realize that was a dumb joke and not an actual opinion from him). There's also an implication that having Bootsy Collins on the song is what really made it big. I guess she might also take offense at being portrayed as preachy or no longer relevant except in some circles. She's an activist to this day for women's rights, LGBTQ+ issues, the environment, etc. and it's really important to her. That's really all I heard that felt negative or antagonistic.
There can be a disconnect between eras when it comes to the style of comedy and commentary. Older folks sometimes just think they're being made fun of, not realizing this is the style of discourse (some of it, anyway) in online media.
Source: I am one of those "older folks", (turned 51 anyway) this year, and I can see how people who were in their 30s when I was in my early 20s might not "get" Internet tone and culture. many of my "peers" don't understand it either. I watch these because I respect the hell out of Todd and his critical style, he gets it. I guess I get it too, I just hope it stays that way lol
I just chalk it up to "You can't go showing our content even if you are positive, Fair Use be damned!"
Then she got suspended on Twitter so who knows what happened there.
Towa Tei actually did some pretty cool and great stuff after going solo. His career's been very Japan centric since the 2000s. But among his other works, he's collaborated with a lot of A-list music acts there, notably including the late (😢) Yukihiro Takahashi from YMO.
They even formed a pretty sweet supergroup for a few years with a crazy powerhouse of musicians/producers, most of who comprised the megastars of the "Shibuya-kei" jpop subgenre. That genre, incidentally, is like a whole vibe that delivers on the promise of Groove Is In the Heart 😏
So, I guess at least Towa wasn't the problem. Heh.
Pizzicato Five is one of the best. God what a time for music 1989-1990 was
Yeah I had a vague memory that Todd really glossed over his career, you'd think working with Kylie fucking Minogue of all people would be worth a mention, let alone all of YMO separately and sometimes a couple of them together
I really don't know how much I vibe with his solo work but hell anyone who kept giving the late great Takahashi work deserves some level of credit
@@bloonface mind you the first time they worked together Kylie’s career was basically on life support after less than stellar sales and getting dropped by her label and the second time she was in treatment for breast cancer and that was on top of Kylie just being underrated/still unknown in the US despite Can’t Get You Out of My Head so I can understand him brushing that fact under the rug.
Towa Tei has a pretty great discography.
Future Listening & Sound Museum are great albums, I also liked his latest, LP, and the score/soundtrack he did for the Netflix anime Super Crooks is a pretty good listen, really highly recommend those albums as a starting point.
Towa also made a song called Folknova with a brazilian artist which was sampled by j dilla for a tribe called quest's song Find A Way, interesting since q-tip was on groove is in the heart. it all connects!!
Deee-Lite was a huge part of my childhood, my mum had and still has an eclectic taste in music and World Clique was on heavy rotation while she drove, so I heard it a lot as a child. Not a single miss in that entire album. Every song slaps.
It's dance music for people who can't dance; that's part of its success. People who can't dance love it.
Missed the sampling from Bring Down the Birds by Herbie Hancock which was the core of the track
YES. YEEEEES
10:41 - I guess it should have been expected that Lady Miss Kier would take the original video down. It's weird that a dance music artist that dresses as colorful as she does doesn't want any exposure. Her loss, really. I was introduced to The Buggles, Bobby McFerrin and Dakota by Todd In The Shadows.
bruh I fucking LOVE this song
I always felt weird for loving it, but this raised my confidence in loving this guilty pleasure
"Power of Love" was a huge club hit.
Deee-lite truly produced some of the best dance tracks ever
When the song came on during college parties everybody got on the floor!
The title track of their first album, World Clique, to me is on par with Groove is in the Heart, it's a shame that one didn't serve as a follow up. Their performance on SNL was flawless and Bootsy was even there!
I absolutely agree!!! Totally should have been a single!!!!
It's funny you should say that, as World Clique is the only track on the album I thought was not so great, and that I always skip. Will have to go back and give it another listen.
It's sort of amusing, even touching, that Todd is so INDIGNANT that Dee-Lite didn't have a long career, but what DJ act did, in terms of the pop charts? Dee-Lite might have been bigger stars post-2010, I suppose.
Thank you for reuploading this, I've been binge watching OHW for the past few days and I was wondering why there was no deee-lite video. I've always loved Grove is in the Heart since I was a kid but I was particularly interested in hearing Todd's take on the band since I recently learned one of my friends actually dated Deee-lite's manager around the time they got big so I actually have relatively few degrees of separation from them oddly enough
Here's something about that second album where they went all political that Todd failed to mention: two of its tracks feature future Trainwreckords alumni Arrested Development, another band whose second album flopped for being way too preachy.
In retrospect, Arrested Development and Deee-Lite absolutely feel like two sides of the same vague cultural scene that existed in the first few years of the 90's that sought to revive the whole flower power thing and other 60's countercultural movements like Afrocentrism and promote a sense of positivity and wholesomeness in the face of darker, edgier, and more irreverent stuff like gangsta rap and grunge, and would ultimately be crushed by said edgier subcultures as the 90's progressed, with the only survivors of this whole scene being the acts that themselves were on the more chill, irreverent side of things like A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul - i.e., bands that promoted good vibes while not being extremely in-your-face about it like Arrested Development and Deee-Lite. Todd said in the Arrested Development Trainwreckords episode that "if you wanted to listen to Arrested Development, they made it seem like you had to put down the 'Gin n Juice'. And when people are forced to choose between Snoop Dogg and you, you're gonna lose every time" and I feel like that's pretty much what happened with Deee-Lite's second album as well - if you wanted to keep listening to Deee-Lite, you had to stop listening to jock jams. And surprise surprise, most people chose the more fun option.
Militant acts had popped up at the end of the Reagan Era, but enough people weren't ready for stuff like Public Enemy and Rage Against The Machine, so a fun, playful act like Dee-Lite being political like bands in the 60s turned a lot of prospective fans off.
as a jpop fan, hearing todd talk about towa tei as like an after thought is kinda crazy
I appreciate that you do this
i'm happy to help :)
Todd saying that the singer herself took his video down is such a funny revelation
especially considering he says more positive stuff about her and her music than he does about others in a lot of other videos
@@dellavanilla She's still working, and is a music teacher. He also get DJ Towa Tei's name wrong first thing, and does [multiple] tired jabs at their sexuality. It's not even the review; it's just bad facts.
How did i not realise Deelite was the B52s? I'm literally speechless. I was into both bands and was around back then. What in the actual hell.
some things to note about the space channel 5 lawsuit, for one, it was a sega dreamcast game, and for two, she lost the case for a few reasons being: 1. even though she was contacted about doing promotion for the game when it released in the uk she didn't sue until three years after it got released, 2. the character and game was heavily inspired by anime to the point the protagonist ulala was originally a guy, 3. the devs were all japanese and had never heard of deee-lite, but even if they had, the character would be considered different enough to be transformative anyway. and for three, in the wii version if samba de amigo, they included groove is in the heart as a playable song, complete with a space channel 5 themed stage
great live band- saw them on tour with bootsy collins and some other p-funk members
And Rhythm, apparently, Is A Dancer!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
And he lives in Rhythm Nation...
Groove is in the heart was my jam as a kid in 1990. Then I forgot all about dee-lite till I was a preteen and found their (I think 3rd album?) "Dewdrops in the garden " CD in a music store for cheap, the album artwork caught my eye so I asked my mom to get it for me. I loved it! It wasn't particularly my genre but it was enjoyable and I think it sounded a bit more mature than groove is in the heart. They definitely deserved better. Kind of an interesting group.
I really loved their retro beats/samples. They were a breath of fresh air. The rest of their album was much better than GIITH.
He missed that Lady Miss Kier is still working and even did guest work on CX KiDTRONiK's Krak Attak 2 record ("Lady Krak PSA" with Ladybug Mecca).
As a massive drag fan, Todd calling Lady Bunny “some drag queen” is very funny to me
I was going to say "wait a minute is that the same Lady Bunny?"
Ahaha I immediately thought "Todd you have no idea."
Lady Bunny is THE. drag queen.
I, however, do not engage with forms of satanism
I was dissociating and hearing him say Lady Bunny woke me up I didn't expect this crossover episode
I was dissociating and hearing him say Lady Bunny woke me up I didn't expect this crossover episode
Todd, there PLENTLY of house singers and producers that have long careers.
@9:27 - "If you were around in 1992, would you have wanted to hear them rap about the ozone layer?"
Well . . . three years earlier, The B-52's, who you compared this band to repeatedly, did just that ("Channel Z", from the "Cosmic Thing" album) and they rocked it. Almost any topic can be sung about, as long as the song is good!
This sng came out when I was in 9th grade and DEAR GOD I was *so* in love with Lady Kier.
Happiest song of all time
Well they got Bootsy Collins so...
I disagree with you about "terrible dancing" in this video. The Lady Miss Kier is dancing excellently in this video!
She's a natural. Dmitry was just doing his own thing, you don't have to be a good dancer when you have groove in your heart ;)
"What is love" was great. There's also a hidden track at the end of that album that's good.
When they come out of nowhere that hard and disappear as fast, you always have to at least consider the possibility that they're puppets, Boney M.-style.
oh so this is where Colbert took the "xyz-Slam"-jingle from.
7:26 I just realized this part of the song was sampled by Calvin Harris (under his “Love Regenerator” alias) in “The Power of Love II”.
Towa Tei's music is actually pretty good, especially GBI with Kylie Minogue.
Heavily seconded. I literally just went back to this review after recently getting into Towa Tei via his collaborations with members of Yellow Magic Orchestra -- GBI being one of them! My jaw actually dropped when i saw Kylie on there as the second feature, haha. That same album actually also has a feature from Biz Markie, if we're staying on the One Hit Wonderland track.
Wow I haven't seen this video in years. Thanks for the re-upload.
Dee Lite had one other song I used to hear at clubs. It was called "What Is Love?" and it was pretty good.
KLF hell yeah!
i love this track. the samples, the beat and the unique cast of band members. Lady Kier is a doll in some unique way. since i hear this at work I get annoyed when most radio versions cut Q-Tip's verse, as it feels sacrilegious. their intro track from the first LP "Deelite theme" is such a jam (which for some reason, is only available on the CD version) also, their 3rd album in which they mixed in dance music with their other influences is great.
I loved the entire album. Somehow I ended up with my friend Chris' copy and I just never gave it back. It's OK, I'm pretty sure he ended up with my Peter Gabriel Security. LOL. Jesus I'm old! Anyhow, Dee Light stayed a thing on the club scene for sure.
That safe sex song lowkey sound like an Ethereal/Icytwat beat
Deee La Soul. Love it! I expected more. We were let down :(
THANKYOU
I had never heard this song until I saw this review and yet I immediately thought of Space Channel 5. It’s so obvious that they based the whole game off this one song.
It's a fun song. Still gets people on the floor at parties. People make fun of the video, as it looks cheesy and dated, but that's EXACTLY what they were going for. I love the 80s for the music, but the 90s more because I got laid a lot then. And this song is part of those good times.
Reagan + Bush killed the Groove.
😩
I heard a remix of I Believe in the Power of Love at my local Target once
The main sample comes from ‘Get Up’ by Vernon Burch.
Worked with a guy who would always sing along to the radio, "Poop is in the mouth!"
Their song "Rubber Lover" got tons of airplay, and was part of the big transition in the early days of the AIDS epidemic to widespread condom use that is taken for granted today.
Funny thing is whenever I hear this song, I always think of Nick Swardson in the butterfly costume, dancing to this at the costume party in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry"!
Doing God's work
That's not a Bootsy Collins baseline, it's a sample from an old Herbie Hancock song.
My parents had the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack CD so i the first Deee-Lite song I heard was You Sexy Thing
What’s weird is I’ve heard a lot of these other songs in night clubs in the UK which is weird because I had no idea it was Dee Lite until now 😂
Call me nobody.
hello, nobody
What Todd calls half finished has a dinstinct feel to things like Moloko that would come 10 years later. Deee-lite were simply too far ahead
The World Clique album is a concept that flows from first track to last ... a sonically and thematically brilliant 45 min dance rave ...the sole creative oasis in the desert of 1990 ....Dear ToADD, direct your snarky appreciation toward Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam" and far more deserving 1990 crap - Ice Ice Baby....
he directs his opinions to more throwback songs here: ua-cam.com/play/PLh49uiskJWB3G4Npeq6B7Tp_t1x_QpWEo.html
Look I love Todd but he gets so many things completely wrong in this video (like saying Vote Baby Vote is an entire song when it's literally a 30 second album interlude), I'm not surprised Miss Kier made him take this down lmao
3:37 i will not stand for this Lady Bunny slander
Dig!
This you to be used in worst music/videos awards quite often in the 90s. All I was ever told is these guys are a joke hit like gangnam style
This song is on my playlist for my car. It's just a fun song. How can you not love it?
I understand why Lady Miss didn't like this when it dropped. It's sloppy and a bit disrespectful in a way that Todd has ironed out a lot over the years. I am willing to give Todd the benefit of the doubt because I have been watching him for so long and I get where he's coming from. I'm pretty sure that some of the edgier humor in this is the residue of his time with Channel Awesome. Plenty of creators who have gone on to better things have iffy videos where they try to embody the angry-comedy internet critic.
For the record, I'm pretty sure Todd took the video down himself. Kier said the video sucked and Todd profusely apologized.
I like” how do you say love “
I was having a great thursday night watching reactions to this song then this was up next..
maybe it was the wine or just me but your vibe on this video semi killed my energy like cold hand on my hot throbbing funk lol?
I don't know the content you usually produce but my honest opinion is this one was a downer dude..
I know I should have just carried on and not leave a comment but I wish you peace and happiness hope you truly find some.
it's actually not my video, it's a reupload of a video by the creator named Todd In The Shadows. he is not always negative and this is a bit older of a video compared to his other ones. i recommend to check out his newer videos if you're interested
Ahhhh. Tabitha Soren.
Memories!
Ok I can kinda see why Miss Kier didn't like this if she didn't know Todd's sense of humour or how supportive he is of LGBTQ+ communities. I guess the safe option would've been doing a collab with someone well known as a gay content creator so they could make the edgy jokes...
Like Rantasmo?
Wow. You have no clue what was really going down in the early '90s lol. While you consider them "having only one hit" as a negative thing... the scene and the culture that Dee-Lite represented rolled their eyes at mainstream music and were having an experience in the clubs, the warehouses, and the outdoors that you couldn't imagine. I doubt any of them ever lost sleep in not becoming big names in the mainstream.
Can’t believe you never mentioned the Herbie Hancock bassline.
hi, i didn't make this video. this video was made by ToddInTheShadows and i simply reuploaded it due to it being removed from his channel. if you wanna see more music reviews like this, you should check out his channel!!
*Towa Tei
Somehow I did not recognize Lady Bunny’s name the first time I watched this video. Maybe it’s because Todd clearly doesn’t know who she is?
If I Remember Correctly Sega Won The Case Against Dee Lites Due To
The Judge Saying
The Character is Not Based On You
& Japanese People Have No Idea Who You Even Are.
Based judge
What song is that over the Horton clip?
i believe it’s music that was in the movie made by the directors or producers. here’s the clip: ua-cam.com/video/WP4YNlL4TYc/v-deo.html
I met tj both at the tunnel noghclub i worked thebdoir at the tunnel he used to spin ajd shes come by to dmce she lives in nrookkyn in my neighborhood
I remember getting annoyed at the operatic vocals when I first heard this back in the day. I can't help but chuckle at it nowadays
5:32 Its Bootsy Babeh
Lady Miss Kier hated this video which I believe is the reason Todd had to take it down. I'm not entirely sure what her objection was. Maybe his dig at the band's dancing? She appears to have dropped off the internet since. The most recent references I can find are from 2019. I think she should release some new music.
i graduated in 1990 and all the music i liked was starting to underwhelm me and i was actively LOOKING for something new, "Groove" caused me to go right out and buy the album which was something i NEVER did based on a single song. and yeah unfortunately the rest of the album did not have the same magic, it was not bad but it was nothing special. to this day i still wonder what she actually looked like without all that drag style makeup and hair.
10:54 PlayStation? I thought that was on the Dreamcast. Wow, who here remembers that one? Or still has it?
He's technically correct, since both Space Channel 5 and its sequel were later ported to the PS2.
Holy fuck. Runaway was on this old ass videotape i had with a ton of music videos. I completely forgot this song existed.
I can't believe you dismissed the rap! Q-Tip is in my rapper top 3, and his guest spot on GIITH is my favourite thing he's ever done
"Vote, baby, vote!"
Of course I liked her look, who wouldn't.
Saying Lady Kier is not a good dancer is a sin, Tod
That first album is pretty damn good. I’m partial to What Is Love and Good Beat but it’s hard to top Groove is in the Heart. Wish they’d stuck around longer. Shame that Miss Kier took this video down because he was mostly positive about Deee-Lite
WMG can suck itself. i tried using this song for a reel once and it was instantly deleted. so why even have it available? WMG yall are flexing on a 90's band no one listens too anymore. how sad is this industry?
I have to say, for all the work you clearly put into this, you certainly struggle to conceal a disdain for them. Deee-Lite are even more influential today than ever with a new generation discovering them on UA-cam. Their third album - the one they have the smallest amount of support from their record label - has now surpassed the sales of the second and is now considered an absolute materpiece of house music. Your dismissal of Lady Bunny and Sister Dimension is equally offensive; as others have said, Bunny is one of the most successful drag queens of all time and came into prominence with RuPaul, the most decorated black man in the history of the Emmys.
I appreciate the fact that there are few people that knew Deee-Lite ever released anything _but_ "Groove is in the Heart." Even with six #1's on the Billboard Dance Charts, they will be most remembered for that one song. But Deee-Lite was also an integral part of a historic time in New York City ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. They could have just released their one song and said nothing else, but they felt they had a responsibility to say something of substance while the spotlight was on them. It may be one of the reasons they struggled to regain that foothold on pop music, but they represent a lot more than a cheap one-hit wonder for you to muse on.
just a disclaimer: this video was made by youtuber named Todd In The Shadows in 2014, not by me. he decided to take down this video due to Bunny requesting him to
Christmas 2016
My Todd In The Shadows world interacting with my Lady Bunny world feels insane
So....I’m really the only person who hates this song ? I’ve always found it incredibly annoying and more like memorable background music than any kind of great song, and I usually love dumb happy fun songs.
I wouldn't say I hate this song, but fortunately I wasn't around for its popularity. With that said this song kind of sucks lmao
2:38
What does he mean by "obviously", there (I know obviously beans "being evident") but, how does she not look like a woman?
i meannn considering how they mostly made club music, i think he just meant their aesthetic in sound and visuals seemed more drag influenced where it could be confused for literal drag. but once you see the lead singer herself, its a bit clearer that she indeed is a woman