I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

Infobox Single
Name = I Don't Feel Like Dancin'


Artist = Scissor Sisters
from Album = Ta-Dah
B-side = "Ambition"
Released = September 4, 2006
Format = 12", CD, Maxi-CD
Recorded = Discoball: May 2005-2006
Genre = Pop
Dance
Length = 4:48
Label = Polydor
Producer = Scissor Sisters
Last single = "Filthy/Gorgeous"
(2005)
This single = "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"
(2006)
Next single = "Land of a Thousand Words"
(2006)

"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" is the first single from the second album by the American pop band Scissor Sisters, "Ta-Dah". It was written with Elton John, who provides piano for the song, and was the band's first top ten single in Australia and Canada.

ong information

The single was made available on most download services on July 19, 2006 and was released as a CD single on September 4. It became the band's first UK Number 1 single and topped the charts for four consecutive weeks. It ended the year as the UK's fourth best selling single of the year. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40_2006.shtml Top 40 Singles of 2006] , from BBC Radio 1 website ]

The song's tempo, arrangement, use of falsetto vocals, and subject matter have been compared by reviewers in "The Guardian" and "The Sun" newspapers to Leo Sayer's 1976 hit "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing".

One of the band members mentioned in a UK radio interview that the song is about staying in at home at night instead of going out Fact|date=February 2007.

Graeme Garden, in December 2006, had to sing along to this song in the round "Pick-up Song" on BBC Radio 4 radio comedy show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue". Graeme is the father of John "JJ" Garden, who is the live keyboardist for the band, and also contributes to certain album tracks as a writer and/or performer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Graeme was able to keep time with the track perfectly.

The song was in the UK Singles Chart for 27 weeks.

The German video-clip show "MyVideo Show" uses the song as its theme.

It was performed live at the BRIT Awards 2007.

The song has a segment after the first chorus that was composed on the Commodore 64 using the on board SID sound chip in the computer.

The song has also been covered by "Rockgrass" band Hayseed Dixie. The band covers rock/pop songs using a bluegrass style. Don't feel like Dancin' was on their 2007 album "Weapons of Grass Destruction."

Music Video

The Video uses a combination of stop/start technology and background/foreground illusions, there are also animated talking heads of the various band members and at the beginning and end, a person goes to an advertised poster with the band member's heads on it, moving.

The Video takes place on this poster.

Chester McKee, a contestant on I'd Do Anything appears at the start of the video.

Track listing

*10" VinylSquare Picture Disc 1705497
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Album Version)4:48
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Linus Loves Vocal edit)4:02

*UK CD 1 1705491
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Album Version)4:48
#"Ambition" 4:39

*UK CD 2 1707529
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Album Version)4:48
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Linus Loves Dub)5:54
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (video)

*International CD Single
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Album Version)4:48
#"Ambition" 4:39
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Linus Loves Vocal edit)4:02
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" Video
*UK iTunes Digital Single
#"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (Radio Edit)
#"Ambition" 4:39

Official Remixes

#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Erol Alkan Carnival of Light Re-Work)
#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Linus Loves Vox)
#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Linus Loves Dub)
#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Linus Loves Vocal Edit)
#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Paper Faces Mix)
#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Teenage Badgirl Mix)
#I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (The Young Punx Remix)

Charts

Chart positions

References

*Colombian Singles Charts: http://www.americatop100.com/english/colombia/index.htm

External links

* [http://www.scissorsisters.com Official Site]
* [http://www.idontfeellikedancin.com/forum # 1 UnOfficial Community & Fansite] - www.idontfeellikedancin.com
* [http://www.undergroundillusion.co.uk/ Underground Illusion - The Ultimate Scissor Sisters Database]