The music supervisor in charge of GTA: Vice City (as well as the other main creative forces behind the scenes) have the most pristine taste. Hats off to them.
+Jonathan Seclow I thought this was a male artist with female backing singers for the longest time. Even when I was told it was the Pointer Sisters. I still didn't believe the lead singer was a woman. I was still thinking the sisters were singing backup for a male artist lol.
+twisag Yeap that was Ruth Pointer with the deep voice. I always thought it was Stevie Wonder singing with them but no that is Ruth saying Automatic in the background
It's 1984. I'm in Zimbabwe and I'm eight years old, sitting with Mum and Big Sis listening to Voice of America with Casey Kasem on Mum's Grundig radio. This song and Solid by Ashford and Simpson ALWAYS conjure up that memory. And Mum STILL has that radio...
Ruth Pointer's voice on this track is AMAZING. She said she wished her voice was as soulful as Chaka or Aretha. Ruth, if you see this, please know that even if you can't hit high notes like Chaka or Aretha, your low register is soulful and legendary in its own right.
@@Burgieking1 I am assuming you're being facetious LOL. There is no man singing on this song. This is a group comprised of 3 sisters from Oakland, CA. Originally there were 4 sisters but one left the group to go solo.
Amen to that my friend 👋 👋 I agree with you on that comment!!! I was always on the dance floor when this song came on, and my moves were one of a kind and original, pure Aretha, and only me!!!😉 People loved to see me dance in the club!!! From Aretha White from Bunn NC holla ok 👋👋 👋
@@rosilynmakeba1092 You got that right 💯 percent with you on that comment 👍👍👍👍💝💝💝. I love this song!!!!😀😉. Thanks for the sweet comment!!!! From Aretha White from Bunn NC. I'm just trying to keep cool these days, because as Nelly says" It's Getting Hot In Here"!!!!! You know!!!😀 LOL at myself on that one!!!!! You keep cool 😎 as well ok!!!! This heat is no joke!!!!! For real! Holla ok 😊👋👋👋👋👋✌✌✌✌✌. Much love to you and your family ok?!!!! Peace out ok!!!!!
+ILLyuh keep it 100 bruh I went to a kevin gates show and there was this bad ass chick there with cut off jean shorts with bleach blond hair that was like 2 feet tall permed out to the max and curly as shit... I was like holy shit did she just step out of a time machine??? I was going to ask her but I was pretty drunk and it was standing room only lmao but dang she was BAD!
Same brother....my lady is hanging out in our bedroom playing a game on our Steam Deck (I think Disgaea 2). 2/11/13-4/22/24 and still going strong! ;) Addendum- Hold on a minute...my girl is very much alive. I sincerely hope his is as well. Dark.
Mazroon M Friday the 13th, Nightmare on elm street, dream scape, Rambo, Aliens Colonial Marines “what are we gonna do now man!?” 21 Jump Street, Cosby, Fresh Prince, Tour of Duty. I could go on.
Rip Anita Pointer, you are reunited with your sister Bonnie. Your and your siblings contribution to music was massive. Music like this in the 80s was dance floor fillers. The melody and disco beat, its impossible to not dance to it. Thank you girls for such great tracks. Love & Respect.
Don't overlook The Pointer Sisters' contribution to Film Soundtracks like Beverlie Hills Cops, and their MAGNIFICENT Cover of Bruce Springsteen's "(I'm On) Fire".. The 80's were Theirs!
I played this in my classroom for my kindergarten kiddos, and one of them got up and started dancing. I’ll allow it !! That kid is going places!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️
I heard about that the other day! I feel for her sisters, I know they are devastated as well as the rest of their family. May she rest in peace and continuue making beautiful music in Heaven!
So wait....is that really her voice? I would think they just auto-tuned it as that was the rage in the 1980's. Kind of like that deal in the 2010's with everyone was talking like a robot (which they took from the 1980's and 1990's). Addendum- You will have to forgive me if I'm wrong. I definitely heard this song as a young kid in the 1980's as it was huge. However, I was a 1990's kid so this is probably the only song of hers I know. I started getting into music in the very early 1990's with MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Bel Biv Davoe, Poison, Guns n' Roses, ect... That led to gangster rap (I loved that shit too much) and was quite literally saved by the grunge movement. Now, I love everything but country...I can't stand it.
@Sinn0100 all I can tell you is to look at the credits on the album for a man on there, lol. Ruth was NO JOKE!❤️🔥🎶❤️🔥🎶❤️🔥 My friend from a singing group we were in was the bass. I heard this on Grand Theft Auto. She came over, and I told her that was Ruth. I made her check the album cover, lol. They used electronic typed music, but that was ALL her❤️🔥
+Dwaine Hines I've always had a deep singing voice and when I heard this song as a kid it became my everything. It's my go to karaoke song now. Such a contralto inspiration she is.
I’m 43, these songs bring tears to my eyes. There hard to listen to, I listen to them once in a blue. Prince, sos band, all reminds me of my childhood. My mom played these songs dancing around the house. She’s gone now,😢so many people r gone. Time is slipping away ⌛️⏳I was so small when the pointer sisters were popular. I almost forgot them. I loved this song.
Man take me back to the 80s, Simply lovin it.. I miss those days of high school. Life was so simple, not perfect, but a little simpler to be a teenager having fun, crashing house parties, having good clean fun, very little trouble. This was around 1983 or 1984. My junior year in high school..Miami Vice, Jeri curl days. A huge Pointer Sisters fan back then I was, House parties, skate ring days. You name it, the 80s to me was clearly one of the best decades ever period. RIP Anita Pointer. Great range with Ruth Pointer also in her tone of voice on this one. Greatly appreciated and definitely missed. Thank you so much. Great times and memories.
Agreed! I was an elementary into junior high school kid in the 80s. Skating on Saturday mornings with my neighborhood friends to Cyndi Lauper, USA for Africa, Michael Jackson and Weird Al, dancing with the same friends to the "Ghostbusters" theme song, seeing "Back to the Future," "Top Gun" and "Dirty Dancing" and other classic movies in the theater, riding in my mom's car without seat belts and going for bike rides without helmets, "only" 30 channels on cable, MTV when it played videos, Atari 9000....would not trade it for the world! My mom loved the Pointer Sisters back in the day, she had the "Jump" album on cassette tape.
Lyrics, vocals, arrangement and production on this song are collective perfection. So many layers of technical awesomeness. When I hear this song it's automatic exhilaration.
To be fair, they got a ton of radio time in their day, but not so much anymore, which I will never understand. Their songs are just classic, timeless, and so enjoyable! This one broke the mold for pure awesomeness, though. :)
@@jackspencer8680 lol, why is everything in your world black, you sound just like your typical fucking millennial some people in the black community has issues with seeing past colors and being open minded 70s 80s and 90s were just a fire time for all music. I'm Talkin this song I'm talking Phill Collins I'm talking Tupac biggie George Michael's *people* music no colors talent.
Grand theft auto vice city anyone? I remember playing this as I drove threw the streets avoiding the police and running over pedestrians every chance I could to end with a final big jump
Ruth was the diva contra-Alto of the 80's. Range is just a thing but the beauty and richness of her tone quality was just so intoxicating. Love ya, Ruth.
i'm slightly more partial to the 70s, but i'm approaching "older'n dirt" hahahahaha ... heck, i could even argue a case for the 60s ;) the 80s are of course way up there for me though ['84 hs grad] cheers
I was born in 1983 but to me the 1970s had the best music, but the 1980s is in second place for me. And the 1960s is in third place, and the 1990s is in fourth place.
Yes that is a true Statement facts I was born in the 1979 I remember my mom's playing this song all the time and 80 and 90 music was the best and im a 41 year old man I still miss my childhood on good music 💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏😔😔😔
Yes it truly did, great comment cause those were the best of times and songs like it truly did define those days. man I miss days those as a teen. great times and great memories. I am definitely old skool 4 life.
It really was! Even back then, as a child, I think I knew I was hearing something that had jumped ahead in time musically. And I LOVED it. Four decades later, it still rocks like nothing else, so I guess I'll now call it timeless.
rock star games: teaching kids about good music and how to properly setup and cater your own organized crime syndicate. I live gta so much. A game that actually has taught a lot of people a lot of resourcefull information.
TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY 40 YEARS AGO TODAY (November 1, 1983): The Pointer Sisters (June, Anita, and Ruth) released their album “Break Out” (#6 R&B album charts; #8 pop album charts; #9 in the UK). (The group’s remix of their 1982 hit “I’m So Excited” was later added for the 1984 album’s re-release, replacing “Nightlife.”) [11/1/2023]
This jam came on the pharmacy sound system the other day when I was on line. I started singing like a fool. The girl behind the counter who was young enough to be my daughter started giggling. This generation just doesn't know good music. That, and I'm old as shit. :(
Yep, that's it is and always will be...their music is great and definitely one of the early trend setters of the women's group during the 70s and 80s that paved the way for future groups that came along as well.
you should have broken into a full choreographed dance and also sang along to this song while it came on in the pharmacy. you would have gone viral. in the pharmacy Ile.
I love the 80's music very much!!! ...especiallety this song, recorded in the year 1984, today almost 28 years ago. Thumps up if you agree!!! Thanks for post it!!!
You'd be hard pressed to find an 80's tune with cooler synths than this song has....people forget that The Pointer Sisters were one of the greatest synthwave groups in history. That, plus the beautiful layering of the vocals mixed with two different drum machines creating a very unique sound
A great blend of 80s sounds - synths, funky guitars, electro sounds, and the vocals of the ladies. I grew up in that 80s era, and I loved how synthesisers and keyboards were fully embraced by all the pop acts of that decade. It was a great departure from the rock of the 70s.
Oh my gosh me too. For so long I thought a male sang this one until I came across it on GTA and it made an impression on me that I got to find it and listen to it again. I actually typed "It's totally Automatic" trying to find it here in RUclips.
I absolutely agree and I don't know what they are waiting for a huge petition of devotees the ladies have some of the biggest party anthems of that era!!?
They needed Ruth Pointers low,deep vocals for this song which was a success. The other sisters could not get low like her and those saying her voice is manly or scary don't understand Ruth needed to be able to control her voice and sing this song in that range and good thing she did because she made the song a success.I can't see anyone else singing this song like her.Anyhow love the Pointer Sisters.
Good point. A lot of people don't realize Ruth sang lead on several other PS songs, including Neutron Dance. Here she really pushed herself, to great effect.
valentinomonroe1 what the hell are you a music critic or something .respect my sisters from oakland california .and we dont need your analysis on her vocals clever man .
I agree with you. My wife is Latina from Chile, so half the time we watch Univision (Spanish channel). I noticed that the female news broadcasters don't try to make their voices artificially higher. There are some really sexy sounding women. Here there is this idea that a women should always sound like they are still sixteen years old. For me nasally voices are annoying. Sooo .. I am agreeing with you that a woman can have a great voice in the lower range and not "be a man".
nimrod geronimo did you short circuit or something?? LOL random weird replies like yours are what keep the internet alive. Good thing OP doesn’t give a shit about the mini stroke you had there.
One for the ladies with deep voices like myself. Not the stereotypical high pitched voice. Totally made it work! Catchy song for sure,it will be stuck in your head for days!
The beauty of letting each member get their fair share at singing lead. You got ultimately more variety and hits from the one group. When styles changed, or the key of the song was lower or higher one of the girls would step up front and rock it. All girl groups should operate this way.
@@atomicwendyNot factual at all, completely opinionated. Generation bias dictates that there will never be an objectively best decade of music, as the answer will always change depending on what year the person you ask was born. This applies to all generations, past, present, and future.
@atomicwendy lmfao I agree with you Wendy there is always a Debbie downer but I'm here to say this song and the rest of the 80s definitely WAS the best decade for music. so much passion, diversity, creativity and truly soulful dance beatz!!!
I got to meet and dance it up with these fabulous women starting in 1974 at the Cabaret After Dark in San Francisco. They weren't big yet and still singing in their Father's Church in Oakland. Then they started to work on a recording career and would perform live shows in the Show Lounge on the first floor at the Club. Afterwards they would come upstairs to the giant disco and we would dance till 2 a.m. Loved these women!!
Jennifer Lewis brought me here from Black-ish season series ....that woman knows her stuff and I believed her when she said Automatic is the greatest music of all time
Ms. Ruth's baritone voice made this one of their best songs ever! I remember being a little girl in the 80's trying to mimick her unique and fabulous tone. 🎶
The music supervisor in charge of GTA: Vice City (as well as the other main creative forces behind the scenes) have the most pristine taste. Hats off to them.
Lazlow picked the music. He left though.
Glide into a Miami club in the 80s in aviator shades, a pastel-colored Armani suit and boat shoes.
This song was in Vice City?
@@joshuaattractsmoney yep, if you play the radio station "Fever 105"
@@sugarspell1306 🤣❤dang ok. Thata what's up. That's the power of music. It lasts forever
Who listenin 40 years later❓️
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Me. Loved this song as a kid. 45 now😂❤.
All of Us!❤
This cAT
i banged a lil ol blonde hooker to this song last weekend
RIP Anita Pointer. Thank you and your sisters for the timeless hits 💕🎵
🙏🏿 just heard
Was looking for this comment 💔
RIP 🙏
🙌❣️💃👼🎶🎵🎶🎵💙📻🌹☄️🕯️
Always loved this song in GTA: Vice City. Rip Anita
Never gets old. Ill randomly play at a party and people still dance to it lol. Timeless.
It's a Jem of a track. A floor filler, no matter the situation!
Just randomly thought of it… which brought me here!
Great song great singers. Rest in peace to June Bonnie and now Anita pointer
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@@otdreamer193 true
This has to be one of the most unique coolest songs ever recorded. Haven't met too many people who don't like it's just that great
I still rock this song in my car and I'm 45 lol
I play this song to the pub and nightclub crowds, NO ONE has yet NOT danced to this.....IT IS THAT GOOD.
@@B1GK1NG I'm ,43 and this is my youth
Amen. Love these ladies!♡
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 still a banger in 2021
Ruth Pointer's lower vocal range is not to be messed with.
Agreed, I thought she was Phil Collins first time I heard it
+Jonathan Seclow Phil Collins? I luv Phil but he doesn't exactly have a deep voice. Her baritone voice is more along the likes of Barry White. LoL
+Jonathan Seclow I thought this was a male artist with female backing singers for the longest time. Even when I was told it was the Pointer Sisters. I still didn't believe the lead singer was a woman. I was still thinking the sisters were singing backup for a male artist lol.
twisag Me too. I had to see the video to believe it. Haha.
+twisag Yeap that was Ruth Pointer with the deep voice. I always thought it was Stevie Wonder singing with them but no that is Ruth saying Automatic in the background
It's 1984. I'm in Zimbabwe and I'm eight years old, sitting with Mum and Big Sis listening to Voice of America with Casey Kasem on Mum's Grundig radio. This song and Solid by Ashford and Simpson ALWAYS conjure up that memory. And Mum STILL has that radio...
Very Impressive and Touching story...hoping that you and your family are Safe and Well. Greetings from N.Kentucky USA Y'All 🇺🇸
This is my "new" favorite song from the 1980s as featured on "Get Into The Groove" on Sirius XM Studio 54 Radio! 🎵
Such a cool song, great beat
Tell us about Rhodesia
@@oscarharris3687 Not much I can tell you, mate. We moved there from the UK in 1982 when I was six years old, and it was already Zimbabwe then.
Taking Automatic into 2023, I'll never let go of the 80's
Nostalgia al 100 por 100 recuerdo mi adolescencia y no sabia que pointer sister cantaba esta joya que vale 100000000000000 clasicos
Never let the 80s Go!!!!!
80's fo life
Ruth Pointer's voice on this track is AMAZING. She said she wished her voice was as soulful as Chaka or Aretha. Ruth, if you see this, please know that even if you can't hit high notes like Chaka or Aretha, your low register is soulful and legendary in its own right.
@@Burgieking1 I am assuming you're being facetious LOL. There is no man singing on this song. This is a group comprised of 3 sisters from Oakland, CA. Originally there were 4 sisters but one left the group to go solo.
You hit the nail on the head!
Absolutely beautiful
It was a perfect blend. You can't even fathom another voice or higher octave doing the solo. It wouldn't sound right at all...
They put us Men in our places.
June Died In 2006 And Bonnie Died In 2020. R.I.P. June And Bonnie. Will Be Truly Missed But Not Forgotten!
alls left is Ruth and Anita.
They killed it Everytime.
I didn't know Bonnie died this year.
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Ho!! I didn't know that 😥
God give strength and comfort to family.
this song could be 100 years old it still sounds fresh & original
Still grooving to this in 2024. Three absolute queens.
That hook. That vocal. *Damn.*
Amen to that my friend 👋 👋 I agree with you on that comment!!! I was always on the dance floor when this song came on, and my moves were one of a kind and original, pure Aretha, and only me!!!😉 People loved to see me dance in the club!!! From Aretha White from Bunn NC holla ok 👋👋 👋
This was the jam!!
@@rosilynmakeba1092 You got that right 💯 percent with you on that comment 👍👍👍👍💝💝💝. I love this song!!!!😀😉. Thanks for the sweet comment!!!! From Aretha White from Bunn NC. I'm just trying to keep cool these days, because as Nelly says" It's Getting Hot In Here"!!!!! You know!!!😀 LOL at myself on that one!!!!! You keep cool 😎 as well ok!!!! This heat is no joke!!!!! For real! Holla ok 😊👋👋👋👋👋✌✌✌✌✌. Much love to you and your family ok?!!!! Peace out ok!!!!!
There’s just nothing like this being made or performed today!! ❤️❤️
I would be satisfied if all 6 minutes of this was just the hook XD
Sometimes I wish I could go to a dope 80s themed party and just vibe out to tunes like this.
ILLyuh keep it 100 Meeeeeeee tooooooo!!!!
+ILLyuh keep it 100 bruh I went to a kevin gates show and there was this bad ass chick there with cut off jean shorts with bleach blond hair that was like 2 feet tall permed out to the max and curly as shit... I was like holy shit did she just step out of a time machine??? I was going to ask her but I was pretty drunk and it was standing room only lmao but dang she was BAD!
Aisha Walker we should start a 80s theme house party lol
codemiesterbeats damn I know. I'm a sucker for curly kinky hair lol
+ILLyuh keep it 100 writers cared about the music then
Forty years ago, The Pointer Sisters were "Automatic"! They were spot on!
RIP Anita Pointer!
2024-1984 me and my sweet woman danced to this tune at our wedding. She is upstairs and I still love her.
Old songs like these are timeless
Current songs are forgettable.
Good deal.
With all due respect, just upstairs or UPSTAIRS?
@@tilasole3252 I'm glad you asked. I was wondering the same.
Same brother....my lady is hanging out in our bedroom playing a game on our Steam Deck (I think Disgaea 2). 2/11/13-4/22/24 and still going strong! ;)
Addendum- Hold on a minute...my girl is very much alive. I sincerely hope his is as well. Dark.
She killed this Joint.
Everyone slept on Ruthie!
Ruth was the truth, the 80s version of t boz.
This generation need to know that ruth pointer was doing this before t boz was born. Nuff said
Carlton King
U better say what u said!
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Ruth's deep voice is the real deal.Ruth really killed this joint .
Summer of 84 was the best music ever!!!!!!!!
The whole decade in the summers of the 80s were GREAT.
@@bqkmg2037 I agree. The summer of '86 (the summer between my junior and senior year) was the best. I had my driver's license, and it was my freedom!
Yesssss....I agree totally.
Movies too! Ghostbusters, Terminator, Purple Rain, Beverly Hills Cop, Footloose, Temple of Doom, Karate Kid, Spinal Tap. What a year!
Mazroon M Friday the 13th, Nightmare on elm street, dream scape, Rambo, Aliens Colonial Marines “what are we gonna do now man!?” 21 Jump Street, Cosby, Fresh Prince, Tour of Duty. I could go on.
Rip Anita Pointer, you are reunited with your sister Bonnie. Your and your siblings contribution to music was massive. Music like this in the 80s was dance floor fillers. The melody and disco beat, its impossible to not dance to it. Thank you girls for such great tracks. Love & Respect.
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You think she gone see this
Don't overlook The Pointer Sisters' contribution to Film Soundtracks like Beverlie Hills Cops, and their MAGNIFICENT Cover of Bruce Springsteen's "(I'm On) Fire"..
The 80's were Theirs!
... AND JUNE!!!!
Ruth is the only sister who is still alive
RIP Bonnie, Anita and June Pointer aka The Pointer Sisters🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I played this in my classroom for my kindergarten kiddos, and one of them got up and started dancing. I’ll allow it !! That kid is going places!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️
love it!
Look Out Dancing With The Stars Here Comes One Of JChesser77 Kindergarten Students
Your a great teacher 🙏🏻
Was it the video of the little boy dancing 🤣, he was jamming
@@CHTT458 Yes
Bonnie Pointer passed away. May God comfort her sisters.
RIP Bonnie Pointer. ☹️
Another great group from an awesome music era!
Ouuhhhh!!!!,Really???I`m really Sorry!!Bonnie:-Thanks a lot,by such a wonderful Legacy!!!.R.I.P.
...and God takes another wonderful one. RIP Bonnie. x
I heard about that the other day! I feel for her sisters, I know they are devastated as well as the rest of their family. May she rest in peace and continuue making beautiful music in Heaven!
RIP
Ruth was BORN to sing this song. We lower-register girls grew up loving, imitating, and hoping to be this! TY Ruth!
So wait....is that really her voice? I would think they just auto-tuned it as that was the rage in the 1980's. Kind of like that deal in the 2010's with everyone was talking like a robot (which they took from the 1980's and 1990's).
Addendum- You will have to forgive me if I'm wrong. I definitely heard this song as a young kid in the 1980's as it was huge. However, I was a 1990's kid so this is probably the only song of hers I know. I started getting into music in the very early 1990's with MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Bel Biv Davoe, Poison, Guns n' Roses, ect... That led to gangster rap (I loved that shit too much) and was quite literally saved by the grunge movement. Now, I love everything but country...I can't stand it.
That register is everything and brilliantly displayed on this song
@@Sinn0100that is indeed her
@Sinn0100 all I can tell you is to look at the credits on the album for a man on there, lol. Ruth was NO JOKE!❤️🔥🎶❤️🔥🎶❤️🔥 My friend from a singing group we were in was the bass. I heard this on Grand Theft Auto. She came over, and I told her that was Ruth. I made her check the album cover, lol. They used electronic typed music, but that was ALL her❤️🔥
To me this was the best pointer sister song, Ruth Pointer nailed this.
+Dwaine Hines I've always had a deep singing voice and when I heard this song as a kid it became my everything. It's my go to karaoke song now. Such a contralto inspiration she is.
+Dwaine Hines Ruth is great, June is the most underrated singer of the Four Sisters
Dwaine Hines I guess you could say that Ruth Pointer grew some balls.
No sir Jump was their best song
Or maybe "Dare me"
I’m 43, these songs bring tears to my eyes. There hard to listen to, I listen to them once in a blue. Prince, sos band, all reminds me of my childhood. My mom played these songs dancing around the house. She’s gone now,😢so many people r gone. Time is slipping away ⌛️⏳I was so small when the pointer sisters were popular. I almost forgot them. I loved this song.
MAG 777
I'm with you in this sentiment. My condolences for your loss tho.
Jenuwin Moore thank u❤️
MAG 777
You're very welcome my dear.
I'm 47 and feel same. We are a rare breed of cold war/nuclear war looming in the back of our every thought kids. Our music brought hope and good vibes
Mag 777 ur not alone me too I feel you 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
It just lifts my spirits like it did in 1983. Thank you ladies .
TIMELESS CLASSIC TAKE ME BACK TO CHILDHOOD IN THE 80s 💯🤞🏿
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Great music
Man take me back to the 80s, Simply lovin it.. I miss those days of high school. Life was so simple, not perfect, but a little simpler to be a teenager having fun, crashing house parties, having good clean fun, very little trouble. This was around 1983 or 1984. My junior year in high school..Miami Vice, Jeri curl days. A huge Pointer Sisters fan back then I was, House parties, skate ring days. You name it, the 80s to me was clearly one of the best decades ever period. RIP Anita Pointer. Great range with Ruth Pointer also in her tone of voice on this one. Greatly appreciated and definitely missed. Thank you so much. Great times and memories.
Michael Ivory, Sr. Highly agreed.
Michael Ivory, Sr. Good times man
Michael Ivory, Sr. I miss Those days to Brother...
Michael Ivory, Sr.
I was 28-29 in 83’-84’ it was a great time!!
Agreed! I was an elementary into junior high school kid in the 80s. Skating on Saturday mornings with my neighborhood friends to Cyndi Lauper, USA for Africa, Michael Jackson and Weird Al, dancing with the same friends to the "Ghostbusters" theme song, seeing "Back to the Future," "Top Gun" and "Dirty Dancing" and other classic movies in the theater, riding in my mom's car without seat belts and going for bike rides without helmets, "only" 30 channels on cable, MTV when it played videos, Atari 9000....would not trade it for the world! My mom loved the Pointer Sisters back in the day, she had the "Jump" album on cassette tape.
Lyrics, vocals, arrangement and production on this song are collective perfection. So many layers of technical awesomeness. When I hear this song it's automatic exhilaration.
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Hello friend have you seen John Ramirez story,Evangelist 💌💌
Yes!
You said all🥰👏🏿
Amen!
Dang, I was blasting this song all night yesterday too. RIP 💔
The rhythm guitar and the bass BVs are severely underrated.
Love this.
These ladies was among the groups who's music really ruled the 80's.
jder06 Too bad this sort of great music no longer exists.
+jder06 these fine ladies are legends
+Mary Kate Daniiher Synth Pop is making a comeback.
jder06 A big YES on that one. Totally
They better recognize.
GTA Vice City memories...
Who is still listening to this groovy song in 2023!! 💐💕 RIP Anita 🙏💔
2024 🎉
Me in NYC
Me too 👍😃 best song of pointer sisters. Very funky ❤️🤩
All of us who were around when this song first came out.
I am. Great song. @@slactweak
This song is nothing less than amazing after all this time.A timeless classic
The Pointer Sisters are one of the most Amazing Groups especially vocally and Underrated. They deserve more radio time. 😉
To be fair, they got a ton of radio time in their day, but not so much anymore, which I will never understand. Their songs are just classic, timeless, and so enjoyable! This one broke the mold for pure awesomeness, though. :)
And to be inducted into the R & R Hall of Fame.
Yes!
My favorite group! Exactly
This song was a big hit in 1984 reach Number 5 on billboard on the Hot 100 was one the radio heavy then.
The 80's ...THE BEST ...PERIOD !
That's true
80' the best, no doubt!
Yes
@@michaelivorysr.9868 80s was the best for cool black music, 90s were the best for positive and cool black music
@@jackspencer8680 lol, why is everything in your world black, you sound just like your typical fucking millennial some people in the black community has issues with seeing past colors and being open minded 70s 80s and 90s were just a fire time for all music. I'm Talkin this song I'm talking Phill Collins I'm talking Tupac biggie George Michael's *people* music no colors talent.
40 years and still a great song!
2024 and still loving this!
The Pointer Sisters were awesome! This is one of my favorite songs by them. It makes me feel nostalgic for the 80's
Just another damn FINE '80s song!
Hello Lisa
super theme of the 80s, classic, they will never go out of style.
It should be a soundtrack of BH1
❤
I am Chicago South and North and i still listen to this track 40 years later...still one of my favorites
Grand theft auto vice city anyone? I remember playing this as I drove threw the streets avoiding the police and running over pedestrians every chance I could to end with a final big jump
Yes
@C. Haze xD
Yes I played that game and I've played this song to avoid being caught by the police, then they shoot you and try to chase you off the road.
Funny number 69!1!1!1!
Video games ruining beautiful songs of the 80s.
DAMN !!! ONE OF THE BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME !!! AND TIMELESS.
raymond falls, sr. Yes.!
Yes I totally agree...
raymond falls, sr. I don’t know “of all-time”, but a good song. 👍
Yeeeeees!!!!!!!
Heard this in the supermarket and broke out in full dance mode.. such a timeless banger!!!!
*I HAVE DONE THAT VERY SAME THING IN THE GROCERY STORE MYSELF!!!* *KINDRED SPIRITS.* 😎👍
Ruth was the diva contra-Alto of the 80's. Range is just a thing but the beauty and richness of her tone quality was just so intoxicating. Love ya, Ruth.
One of the best songs ever and is still a bop to this day , this song instantly made me a fan of the pointer sisters and I do not regret it at all. ❤
The glorious '80s!!!!!
If you don't think the 80's had the best music, you weren't alive in the 80's.
i'm slightly more partial to the 70s, but i'm approaching "older'n dirt" hahahahaha ... heck, i could even argue a case for the 60s ;)
the 80s are of course way up there for me though ['84 hs grad]
cheers
I was born in 1983 but to me the 1970s had the best music, but the 1980s is in second place for me. And the 1960s is in third place, and the 1990s is in fourth place.
CORRECT
I'd rank music as (from best to least):
1970s
1980s (very close second)
1990s/1960s (tied)
1950s
1920s-40s
2010s
2000s
Yes that is a true Statement facts I was born in the 1979 I remember my mom's playing this song all the time and 80 and 90 music was the best and im a 41 year old man I still miss my childhood on good music 💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏😔😔😔
One of d best female group in d 80
Rest in eternal peace Anita Pointer 1948-2022🕊️🙏🏾🕊️🙏🏾
The song defined the good times of the 80s and I truly miss life before cell phones
Yes it truly did, great comment cause those were the best of times and songs like it truly did define those days. man I miss days those as a teen. great times and great memories. I am definitely old skool 4 life.
@@michaelivorysr.9868I was born in 1978 and I miss being a kid at that time.
😢😢😢#Me2
No way to control it... My love for this song is completely... Automatic...!!!
Heard this song for the first time today and I’m in love. 80s pop is AMAZING!!!
The 80's were great
Welcome to the party!
Yeah the Pointer Sisters were the real deal during Disco too.
They had a great team to help them transition to the New Wave.
@@travisdonaldstanley6420 they are not the only one.
Nothing beats 80's music. It was a great time to be in your 20's. Hard to describe how great it was, wish I could turn the clock back...
This song was so far ahead of its time. One of the greatest hits of the decade...
It really was! Even back then, as a child, I think I knew I was hearing something that had jumped ahead in time musically. And I LOVED it. Four decades later, it still rocks like nothing else, so I guess I'll now call it timeless.
For people who didn't get to see the 80's, GTA Vice City gave us great 80's hits like this = We can now experience 80's nostalgia. :-)
rock star games: teaching kids about good music and how to properly setup and cater your own organized crime syndicate. I live gta so much. A game that actually has taught a lot of people a lot of resourcefull information.
i drive around in gta v jamming this and others from the series :)
Tommy Vercetti remember the name!
Mr.Vercetti93 Jajaajajja ilove tomyyyy 100 pre te amree :*v 😂😂😂😂😵😨😵😱😪😭😭😭😫😭😫😭😫😫2009
Kendall A true
Ah! reminds me of my childhood :) 1984 ♥
Ruth Pointer's voice makes this song so cool. One of those 80s tracks that instantly take you back to that decade with memories galore.
YES!
Would have been amazing if she & Alison Moyet (Yazoo) did a song together. Both have very lovely unique voices.
I agree
Indeed😢
TODAY IN MUSIC HISTORY
40 YEARS AGO TODAY (November 1, 1983): The Pointer Sisters (June, Anita, and Ruth) released their album “Break Out” (#6 R&B album charts; #8 pop album charts; #9 in the UK).
(The group’s remix of their 1982 hit “I’m So Excited” was later added for the 1984 album’s re-release, replacing “Nightlife.”)
[11/1/2023]
This song is considered the #1 essential, iconic, legendary, epic, and epoch song of the 1980’s.
Soooooo True!!
absolutely right
#99luftballoons
Agreed!!!
No lies told here...
She come in smooth af with that deep ass voice. 😂😂😂Everybody know this is a CLASSIC!!
From 1984 to 2024 still hot 🔥
wow I was born in 82 I remember my mom playing this song when I was a kid over an over I didnt mind I thought it was a great song..still is😜😛
Rockey 314 ....same here! Momma kept this on replay! 🥰💯🎶🔥🎶
You're mom has really good taste in music 💯
Born in 81! Same deal!
This jam came on the pharmacy sound system the other day when I was on line. I started singing like a fool. The girl behind the counter who was young enough to be my daughter started giggling. This generation just doesn't know good music. That, and I'm old as shit. :(
No one will ever know what good music is, unless they sit on our lunch table. I am only 23 that's my problem.
I would do the same... And do a bootleg version of the *robot*
Yep, that's it is and always will be...their music is great and definitely one of the early trend setters of the women's group during the 70s and 80s that paved the way for future groups that came along as well.
you should have broken into a full choreographed dance and also sang along to this song while it came on in the pharmacy. you would have gone viral. in the pharmacy Ile.
Baby we are only as old as we let ourselves be. Shoot every time i hear one of my jams i'm a different age. Git it git it!!
I miss these ladies. They made some of the best music I ever heard.
This song is still hot as hell. RIP Anita Pointer 😥😥😥
I love the 80's music very much!!! ...especiallety this song, recorded in the year 1984, today almost 28 years ago. Thumps up if you agree!!! Thanks for post it!!!
1980s music was a whole other by itself. I'd say music has reached its peak at that decade.
You'd be hard pressed to find an 80's tune with cooler synths than this song has....people forget that The Pointer Sisters were one of the greatest synthwave groups in history. That, plus the beautiful layering of the vocals mixed with two different drum machines creating a very unique sound
Yes indeed!
A great blend of 80s sounds - synths, funky guitars, electro sounds, and the vocals of the ladies. I grew up in that 80s era, and I loved how synthesisers and keyboards were fully embraced by all the pop acts of that decade. It was a great departure from the rock of the 70s.
Brothas and sistas, don't act like we're still not jamming to this in the 2023! God I'm old, 53 this past December.😘
Yessir! I was 10 years old when this came out. Sounds just like yesterday!😂
Naw. You ain't old. Still groove bruh.
I'm 56! Going on 57! Still groovin'!
Not just my favorite Pointer Sisters song, but one of my favorite songs of all time!
Oh my gosh me too. For so long I thought a male sang this one until I came across it on GTA and it made an impression on me that I got to find it and listen to it again. I actually typed "It's totally Automatic" trying to find it here in RUclips.
Mine is "fairytale" but any will do!
Yep, me too!
Me too .. as a life long metalhead, this song gets much play on my iPhone
heard this at the grocery store today and was jamming out. this song is f'ing awsome. never would have guessed it was the pointer sisters.
Thanks for defining the 80s with your great talent and bringing so much joy , the pointer sisters, R.I.P Anita.
I will always love this jam it reminds me of my younger days in the 80s summer heat
WHO is still listening to this in 2019??
INJURYCOMP + Me Jan 16,2019👍🏾
INJURYCOMP Not me; “honest!” Hahaa! Just kidding; there’s something that I just love about this song!🥰🤩⭐️🌹🔥🌇❤️👍🏻✌🏻☺️
Me
Meee
🙋🏾♀️
They should easily be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I absolutely agree and I don't know what they are waiting for a huge petition of devotees the ladies have some of the biggest party anthems of that era!!?
oh but nooooooo...rappers were more important than ROCK AND ROLL groups...
Are already in there?????
There would would've give it to punks like Snoop Dogg.
They were induced in 2005
What a song! Brings me back to the good ol' days. 😊 The Pointer Sisters were so beautifully talented. RIP Anita and Bonnie 🕊❤
I’m so thankful I grew up with my mum and dad’s music ❤😊
Representing for 1993. But I swear I lived in the 80's.. This is definitely a jam.
Check out The Pointer Sisters - Betcha Got A Chick On The Side......it's from the 70's !
Chick on the side top 10 funkiest songs ever!!!
They needed Ruth Pointers low,deep vocals for this song which was a success. The other sisters could not get low like her and those saying her voice is manly or scary don't understand Ruth needed to be able to control her voice and sing this song in that range and good thing she did because she made the song a success.I can't see anyone else singing this song like her.Anyhow love the Pointer Sisters.
Good point. A lot of people don't realize Ruth sang lead on several other PS songs, including Neutron Dance. Here she really pushed herself, to great effect.
valentinomonroe1 what the hell are you a music critic or something .respect my sisters from oakland california .and we dont need your analysis on her vocals clever man .
I agree with you. My wife is Latina from Chile, so half the time we watch Univision (Spanish channel). I noticed that the female news broadcasters don't try to make their voices artificially higher. There are some really sexy sounding women. Here there is this idea that a women should always sound like they are still sixteen years old. For me nasally voices are annoying. Sooo .. I am agreeing with you that a woman can have a great voice in the lower range and not "be a man".
@@nimrodgeronimo2397 you need an enema? Lighten Up Francis.
nimrod geronimo did you short circuit or something?? LOL random weird replies like yours are what keep the internet alive. Good thing OP doesn’t give a shit about the mini stroke you had there.
This song is nothing short of amazing. I think it's their best song. I love the deep sultry voice-- Ruth Pointer's I think.
One of the best song ever created. Then it was out in GTA and now love it even more.
New York City, Palladium 1986....great dance song! Love this song.
Heard this song on the radio and had to listen to it again.....
+Mocha Bella Radio Fever in Vice City I presume?
R.I.P. Anita Pointer. You'll be missed immensely
The Pointer Sisters are the truth. I love Ruth's vocals on this jam. One of my favorites songs ever!
The vocals are amazing on this song. A lot of their songs.
Everything about the 80s was Everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One for the ladies with deep voices like myself. Not the stereotypical high pitched voice. Totally made it work! Catchy song for sure,it will be stuck in your head for days!
Do you have such a deep voice? Because some parts of the song do not sound feminine… 🙃
R.I. P. Ruth Pointer a beautiful voice ❤️❤️🙏
Ruth is still alive. Anita is the one that passed
June 2006,Bonnie 2020 Anita 2022 RIP sisters💔🥀💔🥀💔🥀🩶🕊
Interesting duet to hear out of commonality: Ruth Pointer and Barry Gibb
1983-84 was arguably the greatest Year's in music history. Iconic records and hits came out like it was nothing to it. This record was one of em!!!
I totally (80's reference) agree with you. 82 and 85 were pretty good also. 👍
83-84-85, it was the best of the best 80's
The beauty of letting each member get their fair share at singing lead. You got ultimately more variety and hits from the one group. When styles changed, or the key of the song was lower or higher one of the girls would step up front and rock it. All girl groups should operate this way.
Blackish brought me here the songs pretty cool
Ruth pointer is one of the most underrated contraltos ever
The 80s was hands down the best decade for music in the history of the world. 💐
@@atomicwendyNot factual at all, completely opinionated. Generation bias dictates that there will never be an objectively best decade of music, as the answer will always change depending on what year the person you ask was born. This applies to all generations, past, present, and future.
@@cybersilver5816 you happy with yourself? Do people even like you?
@atomicwendy lmfao I agree with you Wendy there is always a Debbie downer but I'm here to say this song and the rest of the 80s definitely WAS the best decade for music. so much passion, diversity, creativity and truly soulful dance beatz!!!
Well . . . . I mildly disagree. The 80's were good, but nothing can compare to the 60's and 70's. Those decades of music were the best hands down!
That part
I got to meet and dance it up with these fabulous women starting in 1974 at the Cabaret After Dark in San Francisco. They weren't big yet and still singing in their Father's Church in Oakland. Then they started to work on a recording career and would perform live shows in the Show Lounge on the first floor at the Club. Afterwards they would come upstairs to the giant disco and we would dance till 2 a.m. Loved these women!!
Rex Bishop that’s awesome! They look like they would be a lot of fun
"They weren't big yet" yes they were, SESAME STREET anyone?
Wow I was born in 74 :-)
Omg so lucky🙏💃🍀🍀🌹🌹
@Eseercam no
Jennifer Lewis has said that the Pointer Sisters "Automatic" is the greatest song ever. And Ms. Lewis is always right.
Who Jennifer Lewis??
@@gregwatson8219 ...Dude, you don't know who Jennifer Lewis is!?!...She was Will Smith's aunt on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 🤔
Jennifer Lewis brought me here from Black-ish season series ....that woman knows her stuff and I believed her when she said Automatic is the greatest music of all time
Always loved this song. Especially the elongation of exhilaration.....
Ms. Ruth's baritone voice made this one of their best songs ever! I remember being a little girl in the 80's trying to mimick her unique and fabulous tone. 🎶
This song is so magical. I heard it when I was growing up, reading comics, and it still has such action to it, makes you wanna dance immediately!!!
Dude! So many songs take me right back to reading comic books in the eighties.. It's so visceral.
Cheers. So glad you said this.
Right on! I discovered this gem through gaming