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"I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" is a popular disco song recorded by Alicia Bridges in 1978. It went to number five on the Billboard charts, and also achieved success in Europe.
The song was co-written by Alicia Bridges and Susan Hutcheson in 1977 for Bill Lowery, founder of Southern Music.
1994 Re-Release
In 1994, the song gained renewed interest after being featured in the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The song was also re-released on the Australian charts, where it was a modest success. Because of its association with the film, the song is closely linked with gay culture. A new music video was produced featuring the film's star Hugo Weaving.
In popular culture
- In The Simpsons episode "Homer's Phobia", Homer dances to the song. In another episode, "I'm with Cupid", Apu taught a parrot to sing "I Love the Nightlife" with clever new lyrics to Manjula. Marge was impressed although she hates the song; Homer admits that he hates it as well. It was also featured in the episode "A Milhouse Divided", with Luann Van Houten humming it while burning Kirk's storage boxes. It also can be heard in the 2008 episode "Mypods and Boomsticks" in Studio 54 when Itchy travels back to Studio 54 in the "Itchy & Scratchy" short.
- In the 1979 horror-comedy film Love At First Bite, the vampire Dracula and his would-be bride dance to the song in a disco. However, the 2007 DVD release of the movie features a different song in the relevant scene.
- It was re-recorded by Latin singer La India as a track on the soundtrack for the film The Last Days of Disco.
- In the Steve Martin movie Sgt. Bilko, the Colonel sings this song while tending his garden.
- In the Jeopardy! round of the May 29, 2006, episode of Jeopardy!, the last two categories were I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE (about cities at night) and I GOT TO BOOGIE (about famous escapees).
- The members of the MTV Jackass crew danced to this song along with the audience members during their MTV 24-Hour take over.
- In The Fairly OddParents episode "Land Before Timmy", Timmy says while he's asleep, "I like the nightlife, I gotta boogie".
- Featured in the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
- Alicia Bridges has released Say It Sister 2007 featuring her original version of "I Love The Nightlife". She has also released a remastered and remixed version of "I Love The Nightlife" under her label "Alicia Bridges Music".
- Christian Weston Chandler, a noted homophobe, favourited the music video for this song despite her being a lesbian and the song being associated with 'gay culture'.
References and notes
- More information about Alica Bridges and her subsequent releases of various remixes of this song and others can be found on the "Alicia Bridges" page.