During her three years in the Rock Steady Crew,she saw breakdancing break into the mainstream via films likeFlashdanceandBeat Street. Roxanne Shanté Fourteen-year-old Lolita Roxanne Shanté was neighbors with hip-hop luminary DJ Marley Marl, who asked her to lay down a response track while the...
Despite this being the only song Michael Sembello is known for, it was a huge song for him – mostly thanks to the movie “Flashdance.” It was the number-one film of 1983, and Sembello's song was added to the cultural consciousness forever. The song actually came from the 1980 slasher...
This bouncy Strokes-ish jam speaks to the pandemic-era angst of going down the rabbit hole of self-analysis. Hayley Williams sings about the existential worry of feeding off friction and disorder while doing a deeper dive that’s not fully the healthiest thing in the moment., That said, thi...