First Time Listening to Lipps Inc 🎵 FUNKYTOWN Reaction 

I just watched it, it ain’t that bad. Just some guys that suck at getting a job done. Unprepared bafoons. Don’t get it twisted tho, that is messed up to a very high degree, and they all deserve to be brought to real justice.

⁠@@slkjess1206the russian lathe incident _💀_

Also a very funny dancing roller hockey performance from Bryan Cranston in an episode of 'Malcom In The Middle'. There are no words 🤣🤣🤣

It's also in that notorious cartel video... The one how the cartel is torturing some guy... his entire face has been flayed off, his arms have also been cut off and they're cutting him with a boxcutter. That video got known as the "funkytown" video cause they're torturing him while this song plays in the background.

I wish that video was deleted

​@@rojana28 I agree

@@venuslicetrack thank you

@@rojana28 No problem

@@venuslicetrack ah it’s okay

Absolutely, couldn't go to a roller skating rink without hearing it. I can see the colorful strobe lights in my head right now!

and Towlie!

Yesssss.... And Blondie😁

Ya, and Donna summers "I feel love" is the other one That takes be back to the roller rink

ROLLER SKATING!!! Exactly!

Defiantly bounces.

Yes, well said. "Tongue-in-cheek" was part of the fun.

Your description is probably right but I just call this dance music. Just music to get you up and movin’.

Plain, simple fun. 😉

Fun times !

It's not an attempt at comedy. It's meant to be money-making dance music. It is what it is.

Yes, I was "impressed" as well.

I think he was dutifully studying the video 😁

@@russe19642 He really wanted to know the true meaning behind the song....like where IS Funkytown located? Missouri?, Florida?...

He was concentrating on the breast of the dancer; he has a dirty mind just like me.

...or more... Then again, maybe it just seemed that way at the time...

1979 summer at the boardwalk. Every tee shirt place would blare this.

FACT!

Had the vinyl 12” single

Lol where did you get that math from?

@@WiselikeJ don't know your rap history. DJs would sample current songs for their raps. (no og tunes) big case in point back in 76 with Sugar hill gang and the song Rapers Delight. ( I know google says 1980, will explain) they released the recording in 75/76 with in 2 years they where sued by the management of the group "Le Chic" for copy write infrigment of their song "Good times" and Sugar hill gang could not sell any more or have their song played on radio stations. it was not until 79/80 that they could legally release their album rap till years latter. in 79. that is why all the info is incorrect about its release date. (I still have the 1976 album that I won in a radio call in contest when I was in the 8th grade.and in 79 I was working tor the mouse in orlando.) as an 8th grader I memorized the full version. so did my friends and we would see who could do the long version with out messing up. and radio stations talked about it and the fact there was a "gag order" on the law suit as well. so the Official release date is 1979. the point is rapers did not use their own music. and it was ok as long as it was "Live" and not recorded for sale as "orginal" music. so sampling others music for rap was at the very heart of rap. everyone knew the beat all the raper had to do was add his / her rap on top of it. that is also why "Blondie" "rapture" is considered the first crossover using rap in the mainstream. which was released in early 1980. so until rappers started writing and short sampling to get around legal issues. most rappers did use others music for their raps.

@@dawg897 what are you even responding to? All I said was 90% of the beats being stolen music is ridiculous math…

@@WiselikeJ no. back in the day it was 90% -100% stolen music. so it was not ridiculous math. and a 20 sec music sample today is on the edge of being legal.

@@mattbecham597 Rock n' Roll says hello. Jazz waves from above. Soul and Funk. All flavor, no saltine-based origins.

He was digging it in his mind! What guy wasn't! lol. You are right!

omg, yes. I knew he reminded me of someone. Carlton!!

😂😂😂

Especially in Mexico

For sure……feel the same way

@@alcopower5710 yeaaah

Using keyboards became popular during the 80s. 70s gives you pure hard rock no bubble gum. You had to be able to play guitar, bass, the drums and have a singing voice that won’t drive people from the house.

Yes, it took me back to the roller rink too. I was 10 years old and that was the year I had a fuzzy perm and would only wear purple. Good times!

@@hellopaule a kindred spirit! I had the frizzy perm and purple obsession about this same time! I would go skating wearing my Flashdance half -shirt and thought I was queen of the rink 😂😂 It was a few years after this song was out, but it was always played at the skating rink for years.

@@kimbermorgan1971 We were really feeling ourselves. Haha. ❤️

The only other song that trumped this one on the rink was Kim Wildes' Chequered Love

Don't forget, "Get the Funk Outta My Face"

Strawberry Letter 23 …also

This song still hits hard 💪

Considering the song came out in 1980

I think you're right. There was a sudden transition with this song.

No it wasn't

No it wasn't. Diana Ross's disco song "Upside Down" reached #1 on the charts after "Funkytown". "Funkytown" was #1 in May-June of 1980, and "Upside Down" hit #1 in September of 1980.

Miss Ross is considered "Motown". Not disco.

@@johnsparks8083 She did disco too. Look the song up on Wikipedia and the genre is listed as "disco". It reached #1 on the Disco Charts.

I hate it, but can't stop groovin'. Goddamnit

@@LordEriolTolkien my foot tapping

Oh I was trying to remember their name, I grew up early 80's so I only knew that version.

There is good music today, the music INDUSTRY is doing its best to ignore it though. They'd rather have predictable drama queens than real not-so-predictable artists.

@@jamesredman1263 I agree. I was like half kidding. I find good music but I have to dig for it. But growing up in the 70's-80's, great music was everywhere.

I guess Brad had never seen any of the workout videos from the 70s, Jane Fonda...

A "friend of mine" is wondering what the name of that show might be :-)

@@fewwiggle It was called Musikladen and the dancers were the show's Go-Go Girls. Debbie Jenner did the miming

@@BunniMonster Thanks, I'll let my friend know.... :-)

@@fewwiggle Musikladen-it took over from Beat Club in the early 1970's.

@@daveborder7751 Thanks!!!

It's impossible to enjoy it any other way! I'm giving your comment thumbs down and screw those who gave a thumbs up!

That cartel vid hits diffrent...

@@steelionx9255 my sweet summer child, if you only knew

@@steelionx9255let me explain, there was a cartel vid of them doing their “work” on someone with funkytown playin in the background. I never watched it but I seen the thumbnail, it’s bad

Yes. I think younger generations think that racier styles are a modern thing. But women burned their bras and wore miniskirts in the 60's. Even the flappers of the 20s were not modest. I think the difference is that the body parts were natural back then and so were beauty standards. Small boobs and bums were still sexy. Now those body parts are having to be extra juicy, even if it means surgery.

This is one of the only disco songs I liked. Its fun. Memorable beat.

Disco Demolition.

Obviously only in America ha ha

That is one fascinating piece of information. I never knew that. Thank you

So what was wrong with Disco? That genre got a lot of people dancing.

@@joetijerina8185 It wore out, style got old

“THE” video? Like the 🔪?