Ironically, "Pop Muzik" became the epitome of pop music, when it became the #1 song in the U.S. on November 3, 1979. It spent one week at #1. This song, along with "My Sharona" by The Knack, and "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles, are actually 1970s hits that are commonly mistaken as 1980s hits. Each of those three songs were hits in 1979. In fact, "My Sharona" was the #1 song of 1979, spending six weeks at #1, beginning August 25, 1979. By the way, if you want to see another music video with ironic, deadpan faces, check out "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung. That song is Wang Chung's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 (#2; December 27, 1986), but if you watch the video, the duo don't seem to be having much fun, judging by the expressions on their faces.
Before MTV, there was HBO's "video jukebox" ,This song. like Video Killed the Radio Star, was the first song played on Jukebox. This was just before MTV began.
This is part of the New Wave response to popular music in the late 70s/early 80s, at the same time as punk rock. Like how The Ramones, Talking Heads and DEVO all started around the same time.
This was a huge hit back in the late 70's, it's absolute not my style, but an absolute banger back then, can't get it out of my head until today, thanks for covering it.
It’s a song that I wouldn’t change the channel for something else and I don’t know why…. I always cranked it up because of a great beat with double time!
This was one of the first songs that used the new (1978-79) pitch correct feature in the studio. It was similar to an early type of auto tune. It would shift the pitch of out of tune singers to match the key of the music. You can really hear the effect on the "Pop Pop Pop music" part. It almost sounds electronic. This was when people started to cheat at music, and MTV was soon to follow.
I want to say I remember hearing this regular beginning of the 80's at the roller rink, along with a handful of other stuff, like Lipps Inc: Funkytown and Kool & The Gang - Celebration, come to mind, being played a lot while everyone was skating around.
M was a new wave band and they were making light of pop music songs which were prevelent on MTV back then another strange band from that era was the flying lizards they had a hit called Money
Brad is on it here. It's sarcasm. That is why they all show no emotion. The idea is pop music is commercialized repetition. At the end of the video, the woman hands him (the DJ) a 45, he hands it to another woman who tosses it. What that means: The music industry is a machine where songs go in, get processed, then get tossed aside for the next product song to consume. Don't think, just consume. PS: Pop stands for popular.
I *love* this song... have since the first time I heard it (back when it was released). This is right at the leading edge of 80s music... such a fantastic time.
To this day, when some company tries to impress by listing where their international offices are, my brain always goes "…everybody talk about pop muzik!"
3:47 - For the kids who don't know, those are 45-rpm records they're tossing. I recall Lex thinking the "I have my 45 on" lyric in Sheryl Crows "Soak Up The Sun" meant she was packing. That little 45 -rpm record is what she was referring to. They have 2 songs on them that are picked from a full album to be sold as a "single". The "A-side", commonly a hit single & the "B-side", a lesser known single from a full album, & sold as singles on a 45 record. In some cases the B-side is a song that wasn't released on full album or was only released in another country for some reason. The more you know....
All of a sudden she's playing a 45 rpm outdoors in the sunshine? She would much more likely be rocking on to a radio or a portable unit. She could also rock on with her acoustic guitar, a Gibson J-45.
This song is sung from the perspective of a disc jockey spinning records at a dance club. This being 1979, the Pop Music of the time was the finest disco in all the land. While on the surface, the song is about enjoying the sound and losing your inhibitions on the dance floor, M (Robin Scott) sees a far deeper meaning in the track. In disco music, he saw people coming together from all over the world, and the DJ was their voice of authority giving them direction. He explained to Melody Maker: "At the end of the track, I say 'Do you read me Loud And Clear.' It's very pushy. I'm not sure that I like to be spoken to like that, but I get the feeling that people want to know that someone is in control. I see everybody in the disco like being in an enormous army which is waiting to be told what to do. They've all rallied under this call, and now they're sweating out their hang-ups there." M's backing musicians were known as "The Factor." He said they were more of an "organization" than a band. M is very much a one-hit wonder in America, where this was his only chart single. He hit #33 in the UK with a follow-up song called "Moonlight and Muzak," and a 1989 remix of "Pop Muzik" made it to #15 there. M went on to collaborate with Oscar-winner Ryuichi Sakamoto on some lesser-known pop music. (Songfacts.com)
Yeah, leave it to the Europeans to have an underlying dystopian POV. Not that it is a bad thing, especially with considering a couple of generations nearly destroying the continent, twice, within 50 years.
@@rebeccalipps23 Bit of a stretch Rebecca; as a 19 year old European, at the time I was aware of 2 great wars, but unaware of my own responsibility of my own blame for them. As for dystopia you're kidding, right?! Most of us thought that we'd put war to bed and the only way was up. Cheeky ironic, catchy pop song about pop songs is the A to Z here.
@@paulluna8099 Indeed. But not really mainstream. This was a much more commercial and mainstream techno/disco/pop mix than anything that came before. And what is more important, it came at the right time - at the dawn of MTV. This is one of the first records I ever bought and heralded a new age, compared to the music my dad was listening to.
@@paulluna8099 There were a lot ahead of this. As you say Kraftwerk were in there from the early 1970s onward and "Popcorn" by Hot Butter (actually a hit in 1972) - although yes, their version was a more multi-phonic version of an earlier 1969 version by composer Gershon Kingsley. But long before that there were acts who had great success with records which majored on synthetic sounds - notably Johnnie and the Hurricanes who had a series of international top ten hits in the very late 1950s and early 1960s. Hits like "Runaway" by Del Shannon and later George Harrison's solo "Wonderwall" album from 1968 (no, nothing to do with the Oasis hit of the same name) and of course 1971s "Won't get Fooled Again" by The Who are other examples of commercially successful synth music long before significant new tech developments and a wider public acceptance took it to mainstream dominance in the early to mid 1980s a dominance for which hits like this one by "M" and othert hits by "New Musik" (like "This World of Water") and tracks put out by the german Hansa team and also producer Gregg Diamond (various band names) led the way. In the UK synth kings like Nik Kershaw and Howard Jones had numerous big hits with tracks featuring sounds that a decade before only Kraftwerk fans would have lauded.
British Pop ! The 80s invasion blasted off in the USA along with MTV launch in 81. It was Worldwide. I heard this song in Australia, when I was in the military.
I remember the first time I saw this video back in the 80's when it came out. I came home tripping balls on a Friday night. I turned on the TV and the weekly show, Friday Night Videos was playing this video. I don't think I ever laughed so hard in my life.
This is my first time hearing the original, and holy hell is it different. The one I have heard is (I believe) 3rd Party's version on the Night at the Roxbury soundtrack. That version is probably disco, and much more expressive than this version. Definitely NOT a mockery of pop music, as this version seems to be.
It just goes to show you, in the late 70's and early 80's All you needed was a good camera, a set, your instruments, and a crew to set it up, and a few hundred dollars to pay them and BINGO! You have your video!!
I was 10 in '78 with Silent Generation parents in a non-musical household. This was one my first introductions to New Wave along with Cars the doo wopesque stanza was a definite hook.
You have fully nailed this! This was a one hit wonder but it also was commentary on the state of pop music in the late 70's. This was just at the emergence of New Wave music. But I think this song hit number 1 on Billboard!
Iconic song from my favorite time of music! New Wave!! One of my all time favorites, I did an animation school project to this song. So fun. Other songs I relate to this one are: Cars by Gary Numan, Video Kliled the Radio Star by The Buggles, Let's Go by The Cars, Drivers Seat by Sniff 'n' the Tears, Whip It by Devo, everything by The B-52s etc... etc... ❤️
It is not true, I am British and I remember many videos that were shown on TOTP in the early 70s (they probably did it before) including some made by the BBC itself
I'm so old lol, I can clearly remember buying this single and Blondie's "Heart Of Glass" in the record department of my local Woolworth's back in the summer of 1979! Great memories!
I believe it was Georgia marauder which first start of the digital sequencers that started out this semi disco thing which a whole shit load of artist shoes and clothes including Donna summers and Sparks
We had frequent lunchtime dances at my school for the grade 7s & 8s and this song always played. Awkward kids trying to look cool and lurching around to new wave. Thanks for the memories!
Wife here..Brad..Very interesting..I had this record..Wore it out..Even as a child..,I thought it was just "Pop Music Jiberish"..But.., Hey Low Key Making 💯 Absolutely!!!..This was a Hugggge radio hit..!!..Catch etc..Very Familiar..Perfect you guys!!
I love this song. It's silly, but also damn clever at the same time. I remember when the video would pop up on MTV back in the day. I always turned it up.
Ok. This is new wave punk with a little funk. Lol. Its usually fun and goofy. Similar to Similar to Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, DEVO, Empire of the Sun, MGMT, and others. New wave was blowing up during the late '70s, early '80s while disco was fading away during the late '70s and early '80s. New kind of dance music with some quirk to it. We liked this as kids when it was all new. BTW, this came out '79 and was on MTV often during the '80s. This song was poking fun at pop music. Funny that Ray Parker JR "Ghostbusters" and Huey Lewis and the News "I Want a New Drug" took the same beat a few years later and were also hits. This was M's biggest hit here in the US (they were an UK new wave band). Watch their other videos like "Moonlight and Muzak" (another semi-hit and their early '80s videos like " Official Secrets" and "That's the Way Money Goes". Those videos are weird, too.
@@group-music i believe that the Ghostbusters theme writer took out legal action against someone who allegedly stole his tune. The irony wasn't lost on me.
M aka Robin Scott. The woman in blue singing the chorus are his wife Brigit Novik aka Brigtte Vincheon. He has been active since 1968 and are 75 years old. Their daughter Berenice Scott used to play keyboards for Heaven 17. He was a friend of David Bowie and some of his works sounds a little like Bowie.
@@3DJapan It pretty much does, pretty much by design. Pop music is called that because its the one genre of music that consistently and reliably utilizes the commercially proven, popular musical formula from artist to artist. From the music, the lyrics, the artists presentation and the marketing approach. Think about it this way, the last time a Pop artist did anything new or different was when Michael Jackson introduced Broadway elements into it. That is almost 40 years ago. Controversy and sexual overemphasis meanwhile has been a thing since the 70s. In comparison, Rock music which is the least formulaic of the major modern music genres was constantly changing every decade until the early 2000s when it died off as a mainstream genre and even hip hop which is only a little less formulaic and conventional than Pop has changed in its presentation from the 80s to the 90s to the 2010s.
In the late 70's videos like this were made to be played in record stores and music departments of big chain stores. MTV saw kids standing around the screen in these stores and started up as one of the first real cable channels to focus on music in short order. Other acts started making videos before MTV as well. STYX, Journey, AC/DC, KISS, Rex Smith, Partridge Family, Meatloaf all produced videos, and some older groups had recordings of live shows and TV appearances that they released commercially when it became a thing.
This song was M's one and only Top 40 hit in America. Not only this song spent one week at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 but, the song did peaked at the #1 spot on the Billboard Disco chart during the late fall of 1979. This song was a banger indeed!!!
Prophet-5, Jupiter-8, DX-7....from around '77 through '86. Techno (Synth) Pop. Wonderful genre!!! Played all of those synths, and more over the decades. Classic sounds.
This was definitely "Pop Music" of the late 70s - early '80s. You can hear similar elements in the New Wave and other "Pop" styles. The Buggles, Blondie, Men Without Hats, Berlin, Gary Numan, Soft Cell, Men At Work, Devo, B-52s, Yaz/Yazoo, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Talking Heads, ABC, and many more
Who you gonna call ? Pop Muzik ! Yes, this was years before it. I think this was self irony, knowing exactly that the song is a ditty and disposable, tossing the 45's away. But of course songs like this get stuck to peoples' moments in life.
You’re on the right track. The song is a catchy (like pop music) tune, that very blandly makes the point that all music genres (disco, rock and roll, county, new wave, punk, etc.) are all just pop(ular) music. It’s essentially all the same. Even Mozart was a “rock star” in his day. What we refer to as classical music was the pop music of its day.
Some people are very snobby about pop music. It used to mean a good catchy tune but is now just what is popular (not necessarily tuneful). It comes in all shapes and sizes and quirky or arty stuff is my favourite (like Steve Harley or Boo Radleys), pop but mostly not released as singles.
I played this for my sister just a month or two ago with the note underneath it that said does this make you feel old or what? This song came out when I was about 10. I really never thought you guys would ever get around to playing it but it's hilarious that you did
This is the epitome of the New Wave sound of the late 70s/early 80s. This song came out in 1979. M was actually a DJ named Robin Scott. I had this 45 (vinyl single) when I was a kid. The video was also in heavy rotation when MTV first went on the air a couple years later.
The epitome of 80’s pop music.Satire and serious at the same time.
It's a 1979 song actually.
late 70s
Ironically, "Pop Muzik" became the epitome of pop music, when it became the #1 song in the U.S. on November 3, 1979. It spent one week at #1.
This song, along with "My Sharona" by The Knack, and "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles, are actually 1970s hits that are commonly mistaken as 1980s hits. Each of those three songs were hits in 1979. In fact, "My Sharona" was the #1 song of 1979, spending six weeks at #1, beginning August 25, 1979.
By the way, if you want to see another music video with ironic, deadpan faces, check out "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung. That song is Wang Chung's biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 (#2; December 27, 1986), but if you watch the video, the duo don't seem to be having much fun, judging by the expressions on their faces.
Also Flying Lizards' "Money" for deadpan.
Before MTV, there was HBO's "video jukebox" ,This song. like Video Killed the Radio Star, was the first song played on Jukebox. This was just before MTV began.
This song hit number one on the billboard hot 100 in late 1979. Very popular. Which is what pop stands for.
As I recall, the guy singing was a radio DJ.
Great song from the end of the disco, beginning of the New Wave Era
this was one of the first videos on MTV
OMG
I forgot about this song, I was 9 when this came out. They played this alot. This is when started to change.
This is part of the New Wave response to popular music in the late 70s/early 80s, at the same time as punk rock. Like how The Ramones, Talking Heads and DEVO all started around the same time.
This in "new wave" music.🌊🎶
1979 classic!
This was a huge hit back in the late 70's, it's absolute not my style, but an absolute banger back then, can't get it out of my head until today, thanks for covering it.
It’s a song that I wouldn’t change the channel for something else and I don’t know why…. I always cranked it up because of a great beat with double time!
This was one of the very first New Wave hits. I was in high school at the time.
Great playlist song to play in the summer.
I was 12 when this came out and it was everywhere 😂
This was one of the first songs that used the new (1978-79) pitch correct feature in the studio. It was similar to an early type of auto tune. It would shift the pitch of out of tune singers to match the key of the music. You can really hear the effect on the "Pop Pop Pop music" part. It almost sounds electronic. This was when people started to cheat at music, and MTV was soon to follow.
We used to listen to this, Whip it good, Rock Lobster etc
I want to say I remember hearing this regular beginning of the 80's at the roller rink, along with a handful of other stuff, like Lipps Inc: Funkytown and Kool & The Gang - Celebration, come to mind, being played a lot while everyone was skating around.
M was a new wave band and they were making light of pop music songs which were prevelent on MTV back then another strange band from that era was the flying lizards they had a hit called Money
My fav song as a kid. Had the 45. Still love it!
Be gentle, kids. This was 1979. I was in 9th grade. Yup, I had that 45. From there, it was Depeche Mode, VNV Nation and beyond.
Hooray! Someone finally reviewed this song...😎
Brad is on it here. It's sarcasm. That is why they all show no emotion. The idea is pop music is commercialized repetition. At the end of the video, the woman hands him (the DJ) a 45, he hands it to another woman who tosses it. What that means: The music industry is a machine where songs go in, get processed, then get tossed aside for the next product song to consume. Don't think, just consume.
PS: Pop stands for popular.
I *love* this song... have since the first time I heard it (back when it was released). This is right at the leading edge of 80s music... such a fantastic time.
Kraftwerk was the OG robot band. Devo was doing the same type thing in the 70s
To this day, when some company tries to impress by listing where their international offices are, my brain always goes "…everybody talk about pop muzik!"
Glad you like it! I think of this 1979 song as precursor and a pioneer to a lot of the electronic pop in the 1980s
3:47 - For the kids who don't know, those are 45-rpm records they're tossing. I recall Lex thinking the "I have my 45 on" lyric in Sheryl Crows "Soak Up The Sun" meant she was packing. That little 45 -rpm record is what she was referring to.
They have 2 songs on them that are picked from a full album to be sold as a "single". The "A-side", commonly a hit single & the "B-side", a lesser known single from a full album, & sold as singles on a 45 record. In some cases the B-side is a song that wasn't released on full album or was only released in another country for some reason.
The more you know....
Got my 45 on is more probably a reference to SPF45 sun screen given that the song is about soaking in the sun.
Nope. 45 refers to suntan lotion.
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Nope, SPF 45 sunscreen wasn't available when this song came out. SPF 30 was the highest rating at that time.
Had “Pop Muzik” on a yellow 45 back in the day, actually
All of a sudden she's playing a 45 rpm outdoors in the sunshine?
She would much more likely be rocking on to a radio or a portable unit.
She could also rock on with her acoustic guitar, a Gibson J-45.
Thanks. I didn't know those brain cells still existed, but they're awake now.
This song is sung from the perspective of a disc jockey spinning records at a dance club. This being 1979, the Pop Music of the time was the finest disco in all the land. While on the surface, the song is about enjoying the sound and losing your inhibitions on the dance floor, M (Robin Scott) sees a far deeper meaning in the track. In disco music, he saw people coming together from all over the world, and the DJ was their voice of authority giving them direction. He explained to Melody Maker: "At the end of the track, I say 'Do you read me Loud And Clear.' It's very pushy. I'm not sure that I like to be spoken to like that, but I get the feeling that people want to know that someone is in control. I see everybody in the disco like being in an enormous army which is waiting to be told what to do. They've all rallied under this call, and now they're sweating out their hang-ups there."
M's backing musicians were known as "The Factor." He said they were more of an "organization" than a band.
M is very much a one-hit wonder in America, where this was his only chart single. He hit #33 in the UK with a follow-up song called "Moonlight and Muzak," and a 1989 remix of "Pop Muzik" made it to #15 there. M went on to collaborate with Oscar-winner Ryuichi Sakamoto on some lesser-known pop music.
(Songfacts.com)
Yeah, leave it to the Europeans to have an underlying dystopian POV. Not that it is a bad thing, especially with considering a couple of generations nearly destroying the continent, twice, within 50 years.
Did not know that, I would have guessed the same as Brad. A one hit wonder here in the UK too.
@@rebeccalipps23 Bit of a stretch Rebecca; as a 19 year old European, at the time I was aware of 2 great wars, but unaware of my own responsibility of my own blame for them. As for dystopia you're kidding, right?! Most of us thought that we'd put war to bed and the only way was up. Cheeky ironic, catchy pop song about pop songs is the A to Z here.
Wow, yet another good song I had completely forgot about.
1979 was such an interesting year for music. This was the Dawn of techno pop. I loved it! This looks silly today, but then it was edgy.
There was a couple of acts ahead of M, namely Kraftwerk and whoever created the Popcorn song in the late 60's.
@@paulluna8099 Indeed. But not really mainstream. This was a much more commercial and mainstream techno/disco/pop mix than anything that came before. And what is more important, it came at the right time - at the dawn of MTV. This is one of the first records I ever bought and heralded a new age, compared to the music my dad was listening to.
@@paulluna8099 There were a lot ahead of this. As you say Kraftwerk were in there from the early 1970s onward and "Popcorn" by Hot Butter (actually a hit in 1972) - although yes, their version was a more multi-phonic version of an earlier 1969 version by composer Gershon Kingsley. But long before that there were acts who had great success with records which majored on synthetic sounds - notably Johnnie and the Hurricanes who had a series of international top ten hits in the very late 1950s and early 1960s. Hits like "Runaway" by Del Shannon and later George Harrison's solo "Wonderwall" album from 1968 (no, nothing to do with the Oasis hit of the same name) and of course 1971s "Won't get Fooled Again" by The Who are other examples of commercially successful synth music long before significant new tech developments and a wider public acceptance took it to mainstream dominance in the early to mid 1980s a dominance for which hits like this one by "M" and othert hits by "New Musik" (like "This World of Water") and tracks put out by the german Hansa team and also producer Gregg Diamond (various band names) led the way. In the UK synth kings like Nik Kershaw and Howard Jones had numerous big hits with tracks featuring sounds that a decade before only Kraftwerk fans would have lauded.
@misterstubbs1611 yup I know. There was a guy from the 1800s who developed his own version of the synth, it took up an entire room.
British Pop ! The 80s invasion blasted off in the USA along with MTV launch in 81. It was Worldwide. I heard this song in Australia, when I was in the military.
I remember the first time I saw this video back in the 80's when it came out. I came home tripping balls on a Friday night. I turned on the TV and the weekly show, Friday Night Videos was playing this video. I don't think I ever laughed so hard in my life.
M was a bit toung in cheek, they wrote this t get a POp Hit
It was after disco before electric music and one of the best MTV hits!
Catchy fun - no need to think too much about it song from the 80’s when I was in High School 😂 (released 1979)
You guys both nailed the purpose of the song so well this time.
This is my first time hearing the original, and holy hell is it different. The one I have heard is (I believe) 3rd Party's version on the Night at the Roxbury soundtrack. That version is probably disco, and much more expressive than this version. Definitely NOT a mockery of pop music, as this version seems to be.
I was just about to comment the same thing. They Nailed It.
The dance floor would fill up to this one.
It just goes to show you, in the late 70's and early 80's
All you needed was a good camera, a set, your instruments, and a crew to set it up, and a few hundred dollars to pay them and BINGO! You have your video!!
I love the shooby dooby doo wop part. Even as a kid i knew that was a sick burn on the pop music of the 50s and 60s.
I was 10 in '78 with Silent Generation parents in a non-musical household. This was one my first introductions to New Wave along with Cars the doo wopesque stanza was a definite hook.
You have fully nailed this! This was a one hit wonder but it also was commentary on the state of pop music in the late 70's. This was just at the emergence of New Wave music. But I think this song hit number 1 on Billboard!
Iconic song from my favorite time of music! New Wave!! One of my all time favorites, I did an animation school project to this song. So fun. Other songs I relate to this one are: Cars by Gary Numan, Video Kliled the Radio Star by The Buggles, Let's Go by The Cars, Drivers Seat by Sniff 'n' the Tears, Whip It by Devo, everything by The B-52s etc... etc... ❤️
Yeah Buggles.
These are all songs of rollerskating rink played
@@FUBAR1986 Yes! I went skating often growing up back then. 👍
Great play list.
Thanks for reminding me that Drivers Seat exists... off to hunt it down now 😁
One of the earliest music videos ever made for TV. 1979 was two years before MTV premired.
It is not true, I am British and I remember many videos that were shown on TOTP in the early 70s (they probably did it before) including some made by the BBC itself
Great!!!!!! This was a huge hit. It was really ahead of its time. It sounded unlike any other music.
Still does sound unlike anything else. Wonderful creation this song.
I'm so old lol, I can clearly remember buying this single and Blondie's "Heart Of Glass" in the record department of my local Woolworth's back in the summer of 1979! Great memories!
Wow, that's a good two songs.
I believe it was Georgia marauder which first start of the digital sequencers that started out this semi disco thing which a whole shit load of artist shoes and clothes including Donna summers and Sparks
This was finally used as theme music for the old Pop Up music videos programs on VH1
I've got so many mixes of this song. One of my favourites. U2 used this song as their entry song on their POP MART tour
The woman in the blue top, seen in triplicate, is Brigitte Vinchon from France who at the time was the partner of the singer Robin Scott.
I still have this on 45! I loved this song when I was younger.
Still have mine too!
This and Gary Numan's "Cars" blew my 8-year-old mind when they came out.
I was 10 and they gave me a lifelong appreciation for techno and new wave.
P.S. The "pop" in "pop music" (the genre, not the song) is short for "popular", so it's the same thing. Like fan is short for fanatic.
A brilliant little pop tune. They also did a tune called Moonlight and Muzik
OMG! I’m thinking…1979 for this one? This was pre- MTV!!
Thomas Dolby She Blinded Me With Science. I'm sure Lex will love it.
GOTTA LOVE THAt VIDEO!! ROFL
We had frequent lunchtime dances at my school for the grade 7s & 8s and this song always played. Awkward kids trying to look cool and lurching around to new wave. Thanks for the memories!
Wife here..Brad..Very interesting..I had this record..Wore it out..Even as a child..,I thought it was just "Pop Music Jiberish"..But.., Hey Low Key Making 💯 Absolutely!!!..This was a Hugggge radio hit..!!..Catch etc..Very Familiar..Perfect you guys!!
Bout time someone reacted to this gem
This song was definitely part of the Pop music scene for ages. It was all over the clubs, radio, and MTV. :)
Released when I was just 11 y/o, (1979) but I loved it all through Jr. High & High school! ~ Jenn-X
This is one of those impossibly catchy songs. Still sounds great!!
I love this song. It's silly, but also damn clever at the same time. I remember when the video would pop up on MTV back in the day. I always turned it up.
Hell yeah it’s about time somebody did this…… cause we’re talking about music!!
I'm so old my grocery store. Rocks
Ok. This is new wave punk with a little funk. Lol. Its usually fun and goofy. Similar to Similar to Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, DEVO, Empire of the Sun, MGMT, and others.
New wave was blowing up during the late '70s, early '80s while disco was fading away during the late '70s and early '80s. New kind of dance music with some quirk to it. We liked this as kids when it was all new.
BTW, this came out '79 and was on MTV often during the '80s. This song was poking fun at pop music. Funny that Ray Parker JR "Ghostbusters" and Huey Lewis and the News "I Want a New Drug" took the same beat a few years later and were also hits.
This was M's biggest hit here in the US (they were an UK new wave band). Watch their other videos like "Moonlight and Muzak" (another semi-hit and their early '80s videos like " Official Secrets" and "That's the Way Money Goes". Those videos are weird, too.
Now you know where Ghostbusters’ composer got his tune.
@@group-music i believe that the Ghostbusters theme writer took out legal action against someone who allegedly stole his tune. The irony wasn't lost on me.
M aka Robin Scott. The woman in blue singing the chorus are his wife Brigit Novik aka Brigtte Vincheon. He has been active since 1968 and are 75 years old. Their daughter Berenice Scott used to play keyboards for Heaven 17. He was a friend of David Bowie and some of his works sounds a little like Bowie.
Now this is a blast from the past!
Takes me back to the roller rink!
Pop has ALWAYS been short for Popular Music.
It also works for the genre though. A Pop song doesn't mean it's popular.
@@3DJapan pop is short for popular music as opposed to more "serious" music has nothing to do with with the individuel song is popular or successful.
@@3DJapan It pretty much does, pretty much by design. Pop music is called that because its the one genre of music that consistently and reliably utilizes the commercially proven, popular musical formula from artist to artist. From the music, the lyrics, the artists presentation and the marketing approach. Think about it this way, the last time a Pop artist did anything new or different was when Michael Jackson introduced Broadway elements into it. That is almost 40 years ago. Controversy and sexual overemphasis meanwhile has been a thing since the 70s. In comparison, Rock music which is the least formulaic of the major modern music genres was constantly changing every decade until the early 2000s when it died off as a mainstream genre and even hip hop which is only a little less formulaic and conventional than Pop has changed in its presentation from the 80s to the 90s to the 2010s.
Robin Scott was the singer with M, his daughter Berenice Scott plays keyboards with the current Simple Minds line up she is very talented,
U2 did banging version of this in the mid-90s.
I bought a whole album for this one song back in the day. Love it.
1979? Almost 45 years ago. Just stay and think about that. 45 Years?
Oddly enough my top 2 bands to listen to besides ska; this song is in all my music folders 🤘❤️
classic 80s song that was fun
Note that they spell Music with a Z. Muzik. As an editorial comment on Muzak.
Such a fun classic song! Let's go 1979--the year of the Walkman.
This is solidly "New Wave" music. It was the style to be robotic or alien. "Visitors from another world" kinda vibe.
This is a great pop track! It's slightly tongue-in-cheek but it actually sounded quite futuristic at the time. :)
This is really a Rap song.. from 1979
You both would love the axis of awesome doing "four chord song". Much love and respect plus best wishes from Australia 🇭🇲
In the late 70's videos like this were made to be played in record stores and music departments of big chain stores. MTV saw kids standing around the screen in these stores and started up as one of the first real cable channels to focus on music in short order. Other acts started making videos before MTV as well. STYX, Journey, AC/DC, KISS, Rex Smith, Partridge Family, Meatloaf all produced videos, and some older groups had recordings of live shows and TV appearances that they released commercially when it became a thing.
This song was M's one and only Top 40 hit in America. Not only this song spent one week at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 but, the song did peaked at the #1 spot on the Billboard Disco chart during the late fall of 1979. This song was a banger indeed!!!
i have a ton of 45s. the b-sides was usually the jewels a-sides were the hits!
In the UK this charted in spring of 1979.
The genre of Pop comes from "Popular" music. Nowadays if you tune into a Pop station you'll hear pop, dance, rap, maybe the odd rock song
Prophet-5, Jupiter-8, DX-7....from around '77 through '86. Techno (Synth) Pop. Wonderful genre!!! Played all of those synths, and more over the decades. Classic sounds.
@@group-music - I know. I was talking about technopop synths when the genre was young. 😊
This was definitely "Pop Music" of the late 70s - early '80s. You can hear similar elements in the New Wave and other "Pop" styles. The Buggles, Blondie, Men Without Hats, Berlin, Gary Numan, Soft Cell, Men At Work, Devo, B-52s, Yaz/Yazoo, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Talking Heads, ABC, and many more
haven't seen this video since mid 80's MTV...wow
U2 used a modern version to open their big show popmart tour in 97
I'd forgotten about this song. 😄
This song was straight 🔥🔥FIRE🔥🔥in 1979; pretty much introduced new wave music. They played the hell out of this one.
Who you gonna call ? Pop Muzik ! Yes, this was years before it. I think this was self irony, knowing exactly that the song is a ditty and disposable, tossing the 45's away.
But of course songs like this get stuck to peoples' moments in life.
You’re on the right track. The song is a catchy (like pop music) tune, that very blandly makes the point that all music genres (disco, rock and roll, county, new wave, punk, etc.) are all just pop(ular) music. It’s essentially all the same. Even Mozart was a “rock star” in his day. What we refer to as classical music was the pop music of its day.
All I know is everyone danced to this song and we loved it. It was really trippy for it's time
Some people are very snobby about pop music. It used to mean a good catchy tune but is now just what is popular (not necessarily tuneful). It comes in all shapes and sizes and quirky or arty stuff is my favourite (like Steve Harley or Boo Radleys), pop but mostly not released as singles.
To my 11 yr old self… this was New Wave 🔥🔥🔥😂
I played this for my sister just a month or two ago with the note underneath it that said does this make you feel old or what?
This song came out when I was about 10.
I really never thought you guys would ever get around to playing it but it's hilarious that you did
This is the epitome of the New Wave sound of the late 70s/early 80s. This song came out in 1979. M was actually a DJ named Robin Scott. I had this 45 (vinyl single) when I was a kid. The video was also in heavy rotation when MTV first went on the air a couple years later.