OMG THIS IS AMAZING!!! IRENE CARA - FAME (REACTION)

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  • @darlas5762
    @darlas5762 2 года назад +121

    'Fame' is the theme song for the 1980 movie of the same name. Set in New York City, it chronicles the lives and hardships of students attending the High School of Performing Arts from their auditions to their freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years.

    • @marcos7801
      @marcos7801 2 года назад +10

      I didn't go to that high school but I attended its sister school Music & Arts High School. I graduated in 1981. I heard they held auditions for the movie at my school's auditorium, but I learned of it too late. I know the gospel choir was in a scene in the movie, howbeit a short scene. I also knew Gene Anthony Ray who played dancer Leroy Johnson since elementary school. He used to always dress in fancy clothes. Unfortunately he lived a wild life of partying, drinking, and drugging. He died of a stroke and complications from AIDS in 2003.

    • @dsusan17
      @dsusan17 2 года назад +8

      It was also a T.V. series.

    • @reshaud81
      @reshaud81 2 года назад +6

      I love the movie Fame and the TV Show too!

    • @Organicme1
      @Organicme1 2 года назад +2

      Loved that and flash dance!

    • @idea1407
      @idea1407 2 года назад +1

      And followed by a TV series.

  • @atomcraft4067
    @atomcraft4067 2 месяца назад +6

    Irene could dance, sing and act. She was a triple threat. Such an inspiration. I hope that the future generations don't forget her name. Fly high Irene!

  • @jannigirl
    @jannigirl 2 года назад +58

    She got the energy because she was young!!! LOL That kind of dancing and energy was normal in our day!!! Give a listen to Out Here On My Own by Irene. Not all the dancing but a great voice singing an amazing ballad!!

    • @kathylee1261
      @kathylee1261 2 года назад +4

      Word!

    • @paulmercogliano5816
      @paulmercogliano5816 2 года назад +4

      Yes, Jan! Great song suggestion!

    • @eviekelpie1
      @eviekelpie1 2 года назад +3

      I'm 60 and do dance classes 5 hours a week lol

    • @ckobo84
      @ckobo84 2 года назад +1

      We all were young at one time. The vast majority of us weren't exactly a dynamic ball of energy even then. 😂

    • @alexakl6445
      @alexakl6445 2 года назад

      I had the soundtrack to "Fame" and, yes, "Out There on My Own" is excellent!

  • @54nomore
    @54nomore 2 года назад +33

    This very talented singer/songwriter of Afro-Puerto Rican and Cuban American heritage became an international sensation back in the 1980's. With her having a major role in the movie "Fame." And singing the title song of the blockbuster movies of both "Fame and Flash Dance." Made her an international star all at once. Brilliant!
    She won the Oscar for her song she wrote "What a Feeling" for the movie "Flash Dance." And in 1981 the song "Fame" which she sung also won the Oscar for "Best Original Song."
    Note: I was close friend with the Asian girl Peggy Li who was in the movie and played a small part with one line that was very colorful. She was a student at the very famous "High School for The Performing Arts" in New York City. Which was where the movie was filmed at.

    • @askmewhy51
      @askmewhy51 2 года назад +3

      She was Puerto Rican and Cuban from the Bronx

  • @janabraam7963
    @janabraam7963 2 года назад +60

    This is from the movie FAME. 2 other songs you should listen to from that movie, "OUT HERE ON MY OWN" by Irene & "I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC", which is sung by the entire class of students. Simply amazing!! You should watch the song clips from the movie. I'm so enjoy her voice!

    • @scottarooni
      @scottarooni 2 года назад +2

      I think the entire soundtrack is fire! 😁

    • @willowb1527
      @willowb1527 2 года назад +1

      Oh yeah I do all the songs from the movie. And the TV show. But I love the body electric. And the song when they were all in the cafeteria. I love that one, shady sadie. And I hate that they tried to remake FAME.. But yeah Out here on my own and the Body electric. We're so great. ♥️♥️♥️

    • @scottarooni
      @scottarooni 2 года назад +4

      @@willowb1527 Oh yes, "Out Here on My Own" and "I Sing the Body Electric" are great songs. The cafeteria song you mentioned is called "Hot Lunch Jam" and I LOVE that song, too! I also love "Red Light" by Linda Clifford. Her vocals are incredible! I never saw the new FAME, but I doubt it could be better than the original.😁

  • @willie417
    @willie417 2 года назад +15

    yes that's Irene Cara Broadway actress, dancer and singer/songwriter

  • @themajicman745
    @themajicman745 2 года назад +26

    She got her start in the 1970's movie called "Sparkle" with Phillip Micheal Thomas from the 1980's TV show "Miami Vice" The brothers loved us some Iren Cara.

    • @jrasicmark1
      @jrasicmark1 2 года назад

      Somehow I missed Sparkle; I'll have to look for it. But, going all the way back, Irene was in a Broadway musical as a child and is on the album (though I can't think of the name of it right now; it isn't one that's well known today and hasn't been revived), but she was also on the Electric Company TV show on PBS as a child (it was kind of like Sesame Street, but for older kids). On the show, there was a singing group of kids who were called the Short Circuits, and she was one of them.

    • @themajicman745
      @themajicman745 2 года назад +1

      @@jrasicmark1 Here's the 1976 movie "Sparkles" featuring Irene Cara from the RUclips.......ruclips.net/video/ezW_RMZ9wbw/видео.html

    • @Rbhawk3rd
      @Rbhawk3rd Год назад +1

      She got her start long before then. I used to watch her as a child on the electric company with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno. She was on the show in a band called short circuit.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 Год назад

      @@Rbhawk3rd It was Short Circus

  • @brynneholt1990
    @brynneholt1990 2 года назад +24

    Amazingly talented. Won an Oscar for co-writing What a Feeling from Flashdance. Check out Sparkle, too.

  • @judyseeley5284
    @judyseeley5284 2 года назад +33

    Love Irene Cara, this and what a feeling are my favs from her, remember watching her live on tv hit series solid gold, she got some moves

  • @mattiaswibom4788
    @mattiaswibom4788 2 года назад +10

    The energy is off the charts in this performance

  • @rvprossjjlrzar
    @rvprossjjlrzar 2 года назад +4

    Irene Cara became one of my favorites singers when Fame came out. She was so talented and beautiful.

  • @centuryrox
    @centuryrox 2 года назад +3

    Man, I had the hots for her bad back in the early 80s...back in my much younger days. The hair, the face, the body, the voice! 😂😜

  • @patrickmurchison9145
    @patrickmurchison9145 2 года назад +6

    Irene was/is a TRIPLE THREAT....Singing, Dancing and Acting!!! She played the title character, Sparkle Williams in "SPARKLE," a film set in Harlem during the late 1950s and early 1960s about a female singing group!!!For the 1980 movie "Fame" Irene was originally cast as a dancer, but when producers David Da Silva and Alan Marshall and screenwriter Christopher Gore heard her voice, they re-wrote the role of Coco Hernandez. As Coco Hernandez, she sang both the title song "Fame" and the film's other single, "Out Here on My Own."

  • @bencolquitt7828
    @bencolquitt7828 2 года назад +16

    Irene Cara, she is a amazing talent awesome singer and a beautiful lady. WOW!! just love her. great reaction guys and have a great day.

  • @joemacinnis1972
    @joemacinnis1972 Год назад +7

    I love Irene. This song is so uplifting and happy.

  • @miltonslocum8957
    @miltonslocum8957 2 года назад +19

    Great reaction guys! As others have suggested, you really need to see the movie. The dancing she does in the movie will blow your mind🤯

  • @jessicalee7119
    @jessicalee7119 2 года назад +3

    This song rocks!!! If you don't feel like dancing and smiling your face off listening to this ~ you're in a coma !!!

  • @markeast9221
    @markeast9221 2 года назад +4

    Wow , Now that girl has Talent ! What an Entertainer

  • @Phoenix85006
    @Phoenix85006 2 года назад +2

    Beautiful and talented Irene Cara! Check out her videos for Why Me, Breakdancing and Out Here On My Own and her biggest hit What A Feeling!

  • @fmtalks1543
    @fmtalks1543 2 года назад +10

    This and "Flashdance What a Feeling" were played to death on radio when they were out!

  • @eviekelpie1
    @eviekelpie1 2 года назад +3

    Irene Cara is also an actress. She starred in Fame and Roots, The next generation

  • @UppityOne
    @UppityOne 2 года назад +10

    Irene Cara is one of my favorite singers. I loved EVERY song she has sung. I used to dance in my living room pretending to be her. You should watch the YT version of this song with clips of the movie, “Fame”.

  • @freda9809
    @freda9809 2 года назад +21

    She got the energy from dancing, singing and acting. She could also write lyrics. I remember going to the drive-in to watch 'Fame' when the movie came out.

  • @palmirasanchez
    @palmirasanchez Год назад +1

    Irene Cara is my heart. I really miss her. Great music you guys thank you. Our Latina princess💙

  • @douglastaggart9360
    @douglastaggart9360 2 года назад +4

    I forgot how pretty irene carra was this brings back so many good memories.

  • @nathans3241
    @nathans3241 2 года назад +5

    I still have a 'major crush' on Irene Cara. It would have been nice to see more of her over the years.

  • @rarabarak825
    @rarabarak825 2 года назад +5

    First of all. That whole Fame Soundtrack was dope! Check out Out Here On My own sung by Irene Cara, I Sing The Body Electric sung by the cast. We played that cassette tape out until it busted lol.

  • @michaelway7936
    @michaelway7936 2 года назад +4

    Ah to be 21 and talented as she was(and is)she is special and not surprisingly she won an Oscar 3 yrs.later for singing a song for the movie Flashdance.

  • @cbreez40
    @cbreez40 2 года назад +7

    You've guys did Irene Cara before..it was Flash Dance.. Irene starred in The movie Fame and in the original movie SPARKLE

    • @eviekelpie1
      @eviekelpie1 2 года назад +1

      She was also in Alex Haley's Roots, the next generation. Regarding Alex Haley's slavery roots

  • @long-timemusicenthusiast2243
    @long-timemusicenthusiast2243 2 года назад +2

    Hi Shawn & Mel, I think you would enjoy the film & the tv show, for the dancing as well as the singing !! :)

  • @Pinylyn
    @Pinylyn 2 года назад +4

    You need to see this movie. I was a kid when this came out and I thought Irene Cara was everything.

  • @kathylee1261
    @kathylee1261 2 года назад +3

    And I did cry. Thank you!

  • @debratroeak77
    @debratroeak77 2 года назад +4

    The first time I saw Irene Cara was on What’s Happening in the 1970’s. She will be always remembered by me as a beautiful, young and confident woman. What a feeling is another great song by her.

  • @truth4grace580
    @truth4grace580 Год назад +2

    What an incredible performer, singer, dancer! You can feel her energy, Powerful! Sadly that no longer exist today. She was Classy, Beautiful, Sexy, Talented, and could really sing without being rounchy. What a special soul. God bless her.

  • @harpergras
    @harpergras 2 года назад +10

    She was a great dancer as well as a great singer...She could dance with the best of them back in the day...She was in two great movies in the 70`s-" Sparkle " and " Aaron Loves Angela ".

  • @bakercarl8518
    @bakercarl8518 2 года назад +5

    One beautiful lady inside and out. Midnight Special showing another great live act. Once again making my day.

  • @markcastellanet9672
    @markcastellanet9672 2 года назад +1

    This song is such a confidence song. My girls and I will song this song at the top of our lungs, especially when it gets to the bit about remembering our name.

  • @garyarnett1220
    @garyarnett1220 2 года назад +3

    Theme from the movie Fame, Irene co wrote the song, which won multiple awards. She did it again a couple years later with the theme to the Movie Flashdance which did even better,

  • @nrmnnk4057
    @nrmnnk4057 2 года назад +2

    She was cast in the 80s classic FAME, and played Coco dancer/singer looking for bright lights in New York City. She sang this song and more on the sound track of this movie, and you can see why, she had a voice on her. I am just surprised she never made her singing pay off after this movie, as this was a blockbuster hit everyone played and knew who she was back then.

  • @rhondanelson7218
    @rhondanelson7218 2 года назад +1

    This was the song. There was also a TV show called fame. The sound track for that series was amazing the theme song was fame by Irene Cara.

  • @emanuelsanders2030
    @emanuelsanders2030 2 года назад +1

    Just one of the many, many feel good songs of the 80's!

  • @jerickson725
    @jerickson725 2 года назад +1

    This brings back so many great memories of 1980 when I was in H.S. Thanks for the great reaction 😊.

  • @user-qr4qq1gw7k
    @user-qr4qq1gw7k 10 месяцев назад

    Irene Cara! She had young people all over this World trying to up there musical game to a new level!!! Thanks!!

  • @lmagdangal4842
    @lmagdangal4842 2 года назад +2

    She is fly as hell and her voice is beyond

  • @manjeetsidhu2022
    @manjeetsidhu2022 Год назад +2

    RIP Irene, thank you for our childhood memories! We will remember your name 💕

  • @joe80ss
    @joe80ss 2 года назад +2

    Great song, great film.

  • @christisheeks6334
    @christisheeks6334 9 месяцев назад

    This was the theme song for a movie about a performing arts school. Debbie Allen was probably the most iconic actor, she played a dance instructor. She is a famous choreographer, actress, director, etc. The rest of the cast, other than a few professors, were young up and coming talents. Irene Cara was a stand out star, she could sing, dance, and act. RIP Irene, I loved your voice! ❤❤❤

  • @alexakl6445
    @alexakl6445 2 года назад +5

    She was such a big star in the early 80's and my first memory of her was in a children's show on PBS called "The Electric Company " - some of you might remember that. Morgan Freeman got his start there and Rita Moreno was in it too . But Irene Cara - so adorable, beautiful, talented. I wonder whatever happened to her. PLEASE watch the movie "Fame" that this is the theme song for. She stars in it - it's really well done.

  • @cynthiatafoya8633
    @cynthiatafoya8633 2 года назад +2

    Hello SHAWN & Mel. Irene Cara has ballad “ANYONE CAN SEE”. Released in 1982. Search “Anyone Can See” (Live in Japan 1985). 💕👌🏽.Love your show. My 1st & only reaction channel!! 🔥

  • @carmeloruiz6021
    @carmeloruiz6021 2 года назад +2

    Irene Cara is a puertorican singer and dancer. She is also a choreographer. She was the main character of the movie called Fame, as the song. The movie was so famous than they made the television series. Later she did another dancing movie called Flash Dance and she sang the theme called What a feeling and you reacted to that one. She is pure energy.

  • @wjb7486
    @wjb7486 2 года назад +4

    Love love her! Thanks for sharing

  • @lingoman1
    @lingoman1 2 года назад +4

    Those moves are Cuban moves. You should watch the move by the same name. Good dance moves. Good story. Be sure to watch the original first.

  • @Abri412
    @Abri412 Год назад

    I've known this song forever, but never knew who it was, until the early 2000's when my bf who was 5 years older than me looked at me like I was crazy and told me "That's Irene Cara. She's rock'n'roll." That was his highest compliment to any artist, regardless of genre. Many rock groups were not rock'n'roll, but Irene Cara was.

  • @cathyortiz1280
    @cathyortiz1280 2 года назад +6

    You should see the movie "FAME!" It's a classic!! The TV show was FIRE 🔥 too! Never missed it. Janet Jackson was on it for awhile before she made it big.

  • @larrydaugherty2605
    @larrydaugherty2605 2 года назад +3

    Awesome song. Love it

  • @renee176
    @renee176 2 года назад +1

    They adopted the movie to TV and it was a series for a number of years. Some of the same actors in the movie where in the TV series also. It was one of my favorite TV shows at the time!😊

  • @lisamayreed6399
    @lisamayreed6399 2 года назад +2

    Takes me back!😊💜

  • @susanhicks2300
    @susanhicks2300 2 года назад +1

    FAME was and is one of my favorite movies ever. Irene Cara was in this movie too. See this movie yourselves either on your own or react to it. The movie soundtrack is amazing. Red Light and Hot Lunch are too fun.

  • @shellcross
    @shellcross 2 года назад +1

    I remember being a teenager back during the 80's watching "Fame" on tv here in South Africa.

  • @sarablack2547
    @sarablack2547 2 года назад +6

    youth that's where she got the energy lol.all that bouncing around reminded me of a young sarah jessica oarker in footloose!
    irene also did the theme song for 80's movie flashdance called what a feeling.
    there is a brill scene in the movie fame were a kid whose doing music his dad who drives a yellow cab pulls up outside the school with speakers mounted on his cab and plays this song all the kids come out and stop traffic by dancing in the street.

  • @chicagocubs71
    @chicagocubs71 Год назад +1

    Rip To Actress & Singer Irene Cara Escabera aka Coco from the original Fame Movie!!! My Condolences & Sympathies Go To The Escabera Fam. A New Yorker that made her Cuban/Puerto Rico Pride to the top. Thank U Irene!!! U Will Be Missed But, Ur Music Will Continue To Move On For A Long Time. God Bless The Escabera Fam!!!

  • @delorespetree3243
    @delorespetree3243 2 года назад +3

    Love this song

  • @julielynn10
    @julielynn10 2 года назад +12

    So talented. The video version for the tv show is better quality and amplified her voice.

  • @PauloRoberto-nq1fb
    @PauloRoberto-nq1fb Год назад +1

    Canta demais Irene Cara.

  • @GinaGeeILuvu
    @GinaGeeILuvu 2 года назад +2

    Irene Cara was Fame the movie and this is the title song from that movie! The movie was about a performing arts school and it was also made into a hit tv show but Irene was not in the tv show but Janet Jackson was! Irene also has a big hit with the theme song for the movie, Flashdance, called What A Feeling!❤️❤️

  • @Dollywood623
    @Dollywood623 2 года назад +1

    I’m so happy Irene Cara music is finally getting RUclips reactions❤️ Her song from her movie Fame, “Out here On My Own” is my favorite jam from her❤️🔥

  • @darrenmiller6927
    @darrenmiller6927 Год назад +1

    That movie was huge. I was headed to 16 years old and loved it. Didn't make it to New York til I was 22 but when I saw this movie I knew I had to get there one day.

  • @stewartmatthews1551
    @stewartmatthews1551 2 года назад +2

    Oh wow that was good

  • @angelagoodwin5758
    @angelagoodwin5758 2 года назад +5

    Please Listen to Out Here On My Own. It's also on the Fame soundtrack. You'll love it.

  • @barbkennedy9382
    @barbkennedy9382 2 года назад +1

    Irene Cara was quite a singer, songwriter (Flashdance-What a Feeling co-writer), Dancer, and actress who won a Grammy in 1980 for 'Best Pop Vocals' from the movie and song "Fame" ...Please consider reacting to Taylor Dane..." I'll Always Love You" or "Love Will Lead You Back" or "Love Will Be Your Shelter" Great voice and seriously under-rated songbird. I love and enjoy your channel, so genuine. Hagn

  • @lynnhumphrey0223
    @lynnhumphrey0223 2 года назад +2

    she is also an actress watch Sparkle, and the Movie ,Sister, Sister from 1982

  • @richardlyle721
    @richardlyle721 Год назад

    RIP Miss Irene Cara. This was in the soundtrack of my Senior year of High School; therefore it is sad. thinking that this lovely lady is gone.

  • @keetahbrough
    @keetahbrough Год назад

    getting through childhood was a lot like drowning on my own in the deep end but when Irene Cara came out with this stuff.. I was a pre-teen, and in an extreme amount of emotional pain. Physically, I was strong, and took dance lessons.. although I experienced really nasty bigotry with ballet dancing and dancers. I naturally gravitated towards the arts, although I was never given a chance to develop. Irene Cara made me dream, of the future I wanted for myself, and I had never done that before. So for me, Irene is responsible for waking me up emotionally to the good stuff.. she saved my soul. xo RIP Irene.. I will always love you.

  • @bobbierobinson6269
    @bobbierobinson6269 2 года назад +1

    Love the song and movie. She was also in DC Cab playing herself and sang the theme song.

  • @NowVs1980s
    @NowVs1980s 2 года назад +1

    This movie inspired me to be a dancer. I lived my dream as one too. So blessed ✨🙏🏾💜💜😍

  • @Rbhawk3rd
    @Rbhawk3rd Год назад +1

    Love me some Irene. RIP Queen. Back when you had to have real talent.

  • @crystalpistey-lyhne3406
    @crystalpistey-lyhne3406 2 года назад +1

    I ❣️ Fame The Two movies and the TV Show!PS I 💜 Irene's voice!

  • @texasray7301
    @texasray7301 2 года назад +3

    She also sang the theme song to the movie D.C. Cab it has Mr. T. in it from 1983.

  • @christinalikoski4937
    @christinalikoski4937 2 года назад +1

    ⭐Brilliant song⭐
    This song is so inspirational and spiritual if you think about it
    Always makes me want to jump high
    Australia 💕 Christina

  • @Noir_Nouveau
    @Noir_Nouveau Год назад

    RIP to Irene Cara, it great you reacted to this earlier this year and gave her her flowers!

  • @BostonMarcus
    @BostonMarcus 2 года назад +1

    You two are beautiful people. Your smiles throughout this reaction has made my day. 🙏

  • @joelliebler5690
    @joelliebler5690 2 года назад +3

    Great tune, performance and movie!

  • @pisces228
    @pisces228 2 года назад +1

    Irene Cara was queen of the movie theme songs in the early 80s. She played Coco in the movie "Fame" and also sang this fantastic song. You also need to check out "What a Feeling" from the movie Flashdance, and the beautiful ballad "Out Here on My Own." Such a talented artist!

  • @teresatiga6648
    @teresatiga6648 Год назад

    Thank you Irene Cara! May You Now Rest In Peace! LoveU&Ur Music4ever!

  • @jhonyermo
    @jhonyermo 2 года назад +4

    Have y'all seen the TeeVee Series FAME? It was GREAT. You might want to give it a look see.
    And the Movie too!!

  • @s8150f
    @s8150f Год назад +1

    She going to live forever.

  • @kathrynkissane5144
    @kathrynkissane5144 2 года назад +7

    Gotta do Flashdance! The movie and song are amazing

  • @neonvandal8770
    @neonvandal8770 2 года назад +1

    That woman is an incredible singer - takes me right back to 1980 and watching this show and film as a kid 🖤

  • @russelbarnes7235
    @russelbarnes7235 2 года назад +1

    Had a major crush on her after seeing her in the movie Aaron Loves Angela, with Kevin Hooks. Check it out. Talented lady. Patrice Rushen you should check into. Remind Me, Forget Me Nots, Haven't You Heard? are all great songs by this musical genius. Great reaction to Irene Cara. Peace

  • @robinschulze934
    @robinschulze934 2 года назад +2

    Need to see the movie. She’s in it. “Fame” 1980!!!!! “The darker the cherry 🍒 the sweeter the berry”!!!

  • @jeannetterodriguez8944
    @jeannetterodriguez8944 Год назад

    RIP I so loved this song and her performance on Fame. Lively and lovely

  • @itsakittyting
    @itsakittyting 2 года назад +2

    It was normal to playback but pretend it was live back then, so this is probably not really live. Cordless mics didn't exist at the time. That's how she had the energy to dance. I loved this song!!! I went to the Fame concert in Holland (Europe) when I was 10 and I will never ever forget the energy!!!

  • @Geoskan
    @Geoskan 2 года назад +1

    Check out her live performance of Why Me? on Solid Gold. I had the biggest crush on this woman when I was 10, lol.

  • @kevinkimbrough8010
    @kevinkimbrough8010 2 года назад +5

    Great reaction👏👏 Please see the movie "FAME" based on her hit single. Irene also starred in the movie and had other hits. Young lady was multi-talented. Singer,actress and song-writer❤❤🧡🧡

  • @petegtorcan
    @petegtorcan 2 года назад

    This song. This movie. The soundtrack. The TV show… My 10-year-old self back then was living for all of it.

  • @spencerbutterbaugh6104
    @spencerbutterbaugh6104 Год назад

    Sad to say Irene passed away 3 days ago. She was great. Good reaction. Thank You! I had a big time crush on her and always will.

  • @willowb1527
    @willowb1527 2 года назад

    I loved that movie I still do. I loved the TV show. And I loved being told that I looked like Nicole from the fame TV show when I was young.. rest in peace to Gene Anthony Ray who played Leroy. Such a great dancer and a great actor. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @ked7426
    @ked7426 2 года назад

    Love the song, love watching Fame TV show, listen to more of her song's please. 🤗❤💃

  • @floridahiker1503
    @floridahiker1503 Год назад

    I love her voice and music. Condolences to her family. Gone too soon.

  • @lucio6389
    @lucio6389 Год назад +1

    Beautiful song beautiful reacction 💪💪