# Help with song title/artist please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022 "2004-12-21T19:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/1 "2004-12-21T19:26:14Z")
You know the one: hard driving rhythm, with a female vocal in the background hollering “I’ve got the power!” and “Everybody dance now!” Thanks all. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/2 "2004-12-21T19:28:36Z")
Well, back in high school band, we called it ‘Everybody Dance Now.’ Was it… Miami Sound Machine? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/3 "2004-12-21T19:29:38Z")
CC + The Music Factory. “Everybody Dance” That’s my best guess. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/4 "2004-12-21T19:29:43Z")
Googling yields the proper title… “Gonna Make You Sweat”. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/5 "2004-12-21T19:29:58Z")
I think you are actually talking about two separate songs. The second is [“Gonna Make You Sweat”](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/c-and-c-music-factory-gonna-make-you-sweat-lyrics.html) by C+C Music Factory. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/6 "2004-12-21T19:31:14Z")
Wow, that’s a lot of posts at one time. I still think the “I’ve got the power” is from a different song, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/7 "2004-12-21T19:37:29Z")
Hmmm…perhaps it’s a mix that was done by someone. “Gonna Make You Sweat” seems to be part of it, but the version I’m thinking of has a much stronger punch. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/8 "2004-12-21T19:38:44Z")
And thanks to google, it looks like [“I’ve got the power”](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/coyoteugly/thepower.htm) comes from “The Power” by Snap. (Warning - obnoxious popups) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/9 "2004-12-21T19:39:49Z")
I think you’re right, Lisa. The ‘I’ve Got the Power’ line is sung in a way that’s entirely similar to a line in ‘Gonna Make You Sweat’… Hmmm. Whatever the name of the I’ve Got the Power song is, it was what Minerva was singing in the board room in Hudson Hawk. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/10 "2004-12-21T20:01:27Z")
Its [Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027HU/qid=1103659293/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-9228635-6261604?v=glance&s=music&n=507846) by C+C Music Factory. Link to Amazon CD listing which shows the name of the song and has music samples. I have the CD at home and had used it a number of times in the mid-late 90’s whiile DJing weddings and parties. I occaisionaly play it lastely if the bar’s been flowing well. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/11 "2004-12-21T20:19:36Z")
**Lisa-go-Blind** is correct–you’re thinking of two separate songs, and the other one is Snap’s “The Power.” As everyone else has noted, the “Everybody Dance Now” song was “sung” by C + C Music Factory (the female vocals were actually sung by Martha Wash, but in Milli Vanilla style, she was uncredited and replaced by a lip-synching bimbo in the video). Stylistically, the two songs could flow into one another pretty easily–maybe you heard a mix containing bits from both songs. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/12 "2004-12-21T20:21:46Z")
That should read “Milli _Vanilli_,” of course. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-song-title-artist-please/281022/13 "2004-12-21T23:37:40Z")
> [@Skopo](#): > > That should read “Milli _Vanilli_,” of course. :smack: Nah, ‘vanilla’ pretty much covers it…