I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" is a song by American pop band Scissor Sisters. It was released in July 2006, as the first single from their album Ta-Dah. It was written by Jason Sellards, Scott Hoffman and Elton John, the last of whom provides piano for the song, and was the band's first top ten single in many countries. The song scored the band their only number one in the United Kingdom to date and is one of their signature tracks.
"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" | ||||
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Single by Scissor Sisters | ||||
from the album Ta-Dah | ||||
B-side | "Ambition" | |||
Released | July 19, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2006 | |||
Studio | Discoball | |||
Genre | ||||
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Label | Polydor | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Scissor Sisters | |||
Scissor Sisters singles chronology | ||||
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Content
The song's tempo, arrangement, use of falsetto vocals, and subject matter have been compared by reviewers in The Guardian and The Sun to Leo Sayer's 1976 hit "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". The song also features a rhythm piano that makes reference to "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" by The Four Seasons.
Music video
The video, a cinematographic melange, is staged as an animated bill poster for the band, located outside Phoenix Cinema in North London. As a young boy (Chester McKee, a contestant on I'd Do Anything) gazes into the poster, the camera zooms in and the poster fills the frame, suddenly animating into complex motion and dramatic scenes, before pulling out and the image returning to a still bill poster at the end.
The video was created using a combination of digital compositing techniques including stop/start technology and background/foreground illusions and was directed by Andy Soup with Independent Films, with producer Verity White and director of photography Alex Barber.
Post production was by flame artist Ben Robards at Absolute Post, and editor Amanda James at Final.[1]
Track listing
Ten inch vinyl square 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
United Kingdom CD 1 (1705491)
- "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" (album version) – 4:48
- "Ambition" – 4:39
United Kingdom 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'" (music video)
United Kingdom 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
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
Decade end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[57] | Platinum | 70,000^ |
Belgium (BEA)[58] | Gold | |
Germany (BVMI)[59] | Platinum | 300,000 |
Sweden (GLF)[60] | Platinum | 20,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[61] | Gold | 15,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[62] | Platinum | 600,000 |
^shipments figures based on certification alone |
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