First Time Listening to Lipps Inc 🎵 FUNKYTOWN Reaction

[@isabellegarza9070]

I believe this song was played in Shrek 2. They enter the city of far far away and funky town plays. This tune was also played in several commercials.

[@mnomadvfx]

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

[@dean9620]

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.

[@Lopmejorada]

listening to funkytown: 😊 watching funkytown: ☠️☠️

[@slkjess1206]

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.

[@45Gunner556]

⁠@@slkjess1206the russian lathe incident _💀_

[@TH-rj4ds]

This song will always evoke two memories: roller skating and Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part 1

[@jerickson725]

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

[@bobkitten8150]

and Towlie!

[@larryh.5229]

Yesssss.... And Blondie😁

[@superrodder2002]

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

[@lisaprince6996]

ROLLER SKATING!!! Exactly!

[@SuperHappyflowers]

"Do you think this is a joke, or is it serious?" Joke is overstating it, but songs like this weren't serious either. Best described as tongue-in-cheek probably. There was a lot of that back then.

[@jangle4246]

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

[@carlospacocordova115]

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

[@rebellibrarian]

Plain, simple fun. 😉

[@bluebird3281]

Fun times !

[@williamjordan5554]

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

[@nealeger8154]

This song bounces back and forth between 80's electronica, and 70's disco.

[@hebber1961]

Defiantly bounces.

[@cosmicparsec9463]

This song hits different after the cartel video...

[@rojana28]

I wish that video was deleted

[@venuslicetrack]

​@@rojana28 I agree

[@rojana28]

@@venuslicetrack thank you

[@venuslicetrack]

@@rojana28 No problem

[@rojana28]

@@venuslicetrack ah it’s okay

[@patches6309]

No matter what anyone ever says? I can't ever stop picturing "Towelie from South Park" singing this! LMAO

[@slurrypumper5985]

I love it how Brad and Lex follow several musical styles from 70's disco to thrash metal.

[@MatthewC137]

I'm impressed that Brad was able to wait until the end to finally laugh 😂

[@AndrewJens]

Yes, I was "impressed" as well.

[@russe19642]

I think he was dutifully studying the video 😁

[@brainscott8198]

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

[@123jac]

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

[@paulyearley1084]

Fun Fact: the actual lead vocals are by a Black woman named Cynthia Johnson who is vastly underappreciated. There are other videos for this that feature her, fwiw Also, this came out in '80 and was literally THE LAST disco hit

[@r2d2-gj3jo]

This song was massive disco hit around the Europe, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Holland even in "Communist" Yugoslavia, I remember listening it on the Adriatic coast dancing with beautiful suntanned girls 😎

[@joaomane4831]

Especially in Mexico

[@StatisticsJason]

I remember Casey Kasem said this song was about their hometown of Minneapolis. They didn't think it was funky enough and dreamed of going somewhere else. It's amazing that little tidbit stayed in my memory for 40+ years.

[@AllieJ123]

I love when you two listen to things that I grew up on. It puts a new spin on it

[@alcopower5710]

For sure……feel the same way

[@adssadd707]

@@alcopower5710 yeaaah

[@Scott65J]

OMG you couldn't escape this song for like 6 months lol

[@MarkLindsayCNC]

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

[@jackcade68]

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

[@willfromyadkinville]

FACT!

[@Johonnac]

Had the vinyl 12” single

[@josephamoraz7990]

I pictured Brad getting up and doing the "carlton dance" to this. You know he was holding back

[@greg2976]

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

[@chapmaned24]

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

[@bobdillashaw4360]

😂😂😂

[@damonhines8187]

A classic pop-funk confection. Vocoder and everything! Perfect!

[@DeplorablesGarbage]

Memories of the 80s and roller skating every Tuesday & Saturday!

[@DeplorablesGarbage]

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.

[@hellopaulie]

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!

[@kimbermorgan1971]

@@hellopaulie 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.

[@hellopaulie]

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

[@dmck3130]

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

[@michaelakkerman407]

The Brothers Johnson- STOMP This song is slammin'!🔥🔥🔥

[@jamosensei]

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

[@ugaais]

Strawberry Letter 23 …also

[@grobinson7507]

This was released 1980, I was 16. We played the hell out of this

[@ashleydixon4613]

I still have this on vinyl from when I was a 4 yr-old kid in ‘79 when this came out. Apparently this was totally my jam, even as a little kid. 😆 I still love this song! 🔥

[@alcopower5710]

This song still hits hard 💪

[@harveyblough7204]

Considering the song came out in 1980

[@MarkFaust]

When Brad says, "It sounds oddly familiar, but I can't put my finger on it." And I'm thinking, you probably played it on Guitar Hero.

[@rwfrench66GenX]

LOL, I was in 8th grade when this song came out and it was such a transitional time in music! Van Halen just hit the scene like a year or two before this came out, Donna Summer had a huge album called On The Radio out, Michael Jackson had a huge album called Off The Wall, there was another famous one hit wonder played with Funky Town called "Pop Muzik" by M, just M. Bette Midler starred in a movie called "The Rose" which was loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin and the song "The Rose was very popular. John Travolta starred in a huge disco movie called "Saturday Night Fever" that had a huge double album soundtrack that had a bunch of hits for a lot of artists by the Bee Gees, Yvonne Elliman, Tavares, and others. Then MTV came out in the 80's and the first video they played was by The Buggles called "Video Killed The Radio Star" and even though MTV only had like 70 videos when they first started like 30 of them were by Rod Stewart! You guys should definitely check out some Rod Stewart! He first started in a band called Faces and they did a cover of The Temptations song "(I Know) I'm Losing You" and while I love the Temps version this live version is pretty raw!

[@kevincaulder9001]

Next up. THE GROOVE IS IN THE HEART by the Dee-Lite. Or I'M SO EXCITED by The Pointer Sisters.

[@susanbotwinski5584]

This is awesome. Omg Lex! I love your animation because it was exactly like the feeling. My words can't convey how funny and enjoyable this was. I'm a huge fan. Thanks for your time. I love these songs you guys react to.

[@daviddow8150]

This was a late 70's roller disco classic.

[@GeneOh]

Brad, you do know that damn near all (Over 90%) of the beats for Rap are stolen from earlier songs from other bands right?

[@WiselikeJ]

Lol where did you get that math from?

[@dawg897]

@@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.

[@WiselikeJ]

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

[@dawg897]

@@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.

[@PCH-op8lq]

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

[@W4ll_fl0w3r]

lmao OMG Brad's face as he's trying to remember when/where he'd heard the track lol.. sidenote... it's used in a bunch of commercials

[@tp3922]

This is one of those disco hits that I actually like.

[@LordEriolTolkien]

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

[@man_down511]

@@LordEriolTolkien my foot tapping

[@LetItBeSummer-1]

Disco was late 70s & I was there for all of it! This song was a huge hit at the time. It’s so singable, funky, upbeat, danceable. Awesome

[@ashemobaby]

Whenever this comes on the radio it’s a vibe.

[@johnsparks8083]

This tune was the last "disco" song to go big on the charts.

[@chapmaned24]

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

[@betsyduane3461]

No it wasn't

[@doylescordy]

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.

[@johnsparks8083]

Miss Ross is considered "Motown". Not disco.

[@doylescordy]

@@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.

[@footballlover9207]

Please check out the cover of this by Pseudo Echo! You won't be disappointed!

[@chocolate_squiggle]

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

[@macker33]

The girls are from a german late night music show called musikladen, the dance troop are called the gogo girls. Theres another song on youtune thats way more risky than this called Lets all chant. Another classic.

[@ansjovisnl9059]

The blond dancer and singer is Debbie Jenner, an English/Dutch woman. Soon after this she became more famous with her girlband named Doris D. and The Pins, especially in the Netherlands.

[@pauld.cullenjr.7934]

Funky, whimsical, with a touch of new wave early synth stuff. A real transition song from the 70s to the 80s. This was middle school vibe. Can't say I ever saw the video before - some of the videos on youtube are brand new content matched to old songs.

[@kinglarrythefirst]

Lex' impression of certain song parts is the best damn thing about your whole channel, I swear. 😂😂😂 LOVIN' IT!!

[@daveborder7751]

The video is not by the artist-this was a European music show from the 1970's & 1980's where they used dancers/glamour models for live videos or made their own videos like this one-often wearing see through tops like this & many times topless female dancers.

[@fewwiggle]

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

[@BunniMonster]

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

[@fewwiggle]

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

[@daveborder7751]

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

[@fewwiggle]

@@daveborder7751 Thanks!!!

[@klm23.98]

Lex got it right away💖

[@commenceenavoirmarre]

A big classic hit !! We got the record of that when I was kid; really like it !! I never saw the video before ! LOL the begining of dance music.

[@th.burggraf7814]

Funky Town - probably the most famous Cartel video ever made. ...and one of the cruelest as well.

[@andyj639]

Oh how I love this record. Just brilliant. Such fun.

[@Mauiman122]

OMG They played this alot over in dance bars in Japan while I was station there while in the Marines. If they had dancers they had this playing - the other big one was "Super Freak" - thanks for the flash back

[@tonywilkinson6895]

I love all genres of music,disco,rock,reggae,punk even opera.😀👏🏻

[@1992WLK]

If you saw Shrek 2, it's played on there.

[@72KingDavid]

Free the nips on steroids. That’s a quote right there lol. My mom totally had this on vinyl back in the day and this song took up an entire freaking album if memory serves. Man, those vinyl records back then carved my love for music so much. So glad vinyl is making a comeback, wish today’s music was worth hearing though lol.

[@jamesredman1263]

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.

[@72KingDavid]

@@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.

[@kenqb5450]

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

[@seandobson6221]

I love the 80s so much this is priceless and true cheesiness of music videos when they first came out. I watched the very first MTV music video and at the time it was groundbreaking. It’s was the Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star. I’m aging myself here.

[@10SecondZ06]

This is such a great song 💪. My dad jammed this when I was a kid and I loved it lol.

[@cherylhaynes3960]

Lol @ thingy thing! Lex couldn’t be more adorable!

[@fabulousnobody3557]

Yaaaaaassssss!!! This was DEFINITELY a roller skating song! Whoop Whooooooop!!🕺💃🎶

[@renjivargis804]

Brad n lex i m sure both of you enjoyed this greatest hits disco song eith high quality muzic, coz uou both are new genration.

[@pettyeddie2000]

This is literally every Friday and Saturday night at the roller skating dens in my teenage years. I couldn’t skate for squat backwards but I was a speed demon going forward. Unfortunately that meant finding a girl who was willing to skate backwards every time a couples skate came up. lol. Once again you brought back some great memories. Thank you !!! ✌️

[@emilymartinez6961]

We use to stake to this at the roller rings, so many good memories, awesome times 🤟

[@franklinzappa7043]

🙋🏻 from Colorado USA.... I was born in 1963 and my Generation Experienced so many different Fantastic Genres of Music through Decades and Decades of the Greatest Musicians and the Greatest Live Concerts ever. 🤘😎.

[@KDeCesare]

Good job on reacting to the actual video. When you're doing 80's music, you gotta get the goofy video vibe mixed in there for the complete feel.

[@enoughalready3657]

Lips inc is late 70s In the UK they played it on the fairground rides

[@tilemonkee5510]

LMAO!!! I (sadly) remember rollerskating to this! I mean, I was just a wee'un, but what a flashback! Thx for the laughs,guys!❤

[@greypossum1]

Yes. This is how they dressed back then. Your mum almost certainly had an outfit or two like these.

[@johnhansen4561]

Disco began in the mid 70s. All we really had back then was Top 40s AM radio and by mid to late 70s pretty much all they played was disco. Thank God when Foreigner, Boston, and Kansas came on the scene.

[@wompa70]

Love it love it love it!

[@bethkahn8278]

I haven't heard this in forever! Skating rink!!! Sneaking a smoke outside.

[@Falconer1128]

Groove Is In The Heart by Deelite will absolutely blow your mind! Please try it.

[@janesawyer3495]

This song came out at the very end of the disco era. Great song.

[@lloydieization]

I personally think this song was the birth of electronic music (Techno, house etc..) in the mainstream.. I was hooked to this type of music when I first heard the song I think back in 1981 when I was 6 (yes it use to take years sometimes before music moved between countries back then) Kurtis Blow - The Breaks - was also out and had these new electronic beats too.

[@rasul01]

Wasn't 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer already a mainstream hit before this? That's a very electronic song.

[@terrylandess6072]

I always liked this song - nice change between happy major chords and darker minor chords. I never knew there was a video - and now I wish I still didn't.

[@Thestoryinthesounds]

“THE” video? Like the 🔪?

[@rumbleyoungmanrumble5369]

If you want to see the Robot done properly, watch Dancing Machine by The Jacksons

[@JerryTitus]

It hit spring of 1980.... it was on the radio every 15 minutes when I was in AF basic, May-July 80. 'See through' tops at discos were the thing in the late 70s, early 80s.... lots of the 'free love thing' going on for a short while.... thsi was a staple in discos through the 80s... you heard at least once every night.

[@wandersonoliveira263]

Yo, you guys should check out some new wave. Give a try to Rock Lobster by the B-52's. Is a pretty fun song. You can check the music video, which is live, cause the lyrics are not the most important here.

[@patriceschmitz521]

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

[@10SecondZ06]

Lex is so damn lovable. Brad is a lucky man!

[@tamraanne4066]

This was one of my Band flag corp tryout songs. Would have been about 78 or 79. Love it!

[@Eric4471066]

The lead singer of Lipps, Inc. Is a black woman by the name of Cynthia Johnson. Not the white woman appears in the video. The song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the early summer of 1980. By the way, this song also went to #1 in 25 countries all over the world. This song is global wide!!!

[@dipsydoodle7988]

This song was such a massive hit. We danced our butts odd for sure.

[@alex35agm]

Great song with a cool video.Can't help but feel like dancing to this.

[@S-69888]

Two memories 1 Shrek 2 Curiosity got the best of me

[@HunterandLucynd81.]

Cartel 💀🖐🔪

[@adams9586]

I would love to see a reaction to "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic

[@dougk06245]

ya both had fun with this one !

[@lantose]

Main disco era was basically around 1975 thru 1979 as a good friend owned a discotech from 77 to 79. This song came along during the decline started around 1979 when he had to shut down.

[@lynndemmings1482]

This was the first single I bought for myself. Loved it.

[@45Gunner556]

The cartel used this song in a horrible video

[@rbodee]

Got a lot of play on the Pop radio stations. Heard it every day for about a year.

[@captsean660]

1979 - 1983 had songs that were basically disco-pop as we transitioned into the music of the eighties. Some others are M - Pop Muzik, Gary Numan - Cars, Blondie - Rapture, Devo - Whip It, Toni Basil - Hey Mickey, The Knack - My Sharona, Amii Stewart - Knock on Wood, Golden Earring - Twilight Zone, Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok, After The Fire - Der Kommissar, Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz,... There was a lot of good music other than rock during this time period.

[@robertluckstedii2207]

Disco was a mostly 70's dance craze from Europe and did sort of make it into the early 80's to finally being declared dead around 1981ish in Chicago during a White Sox double header when Steve & Garry blew up a big wooden box full of Disco albums and they blew such a big hole in the ground the 2nd game was called off as people ran onto the field and out of control. "Disco Sux" was the chant of the nite. This opened the doors for New Wave and the 2nd British Invasion of the 80's. OY! Disco... HUGS!!! :)

[@bumperu]

Blown out of my mind on Gin and tonics at the Steak and Ale in Lombard, IL. in 1976

[@edwardtoyebo9690]

Born in 64' and this was all over the dance floors, not matter the color of the crowd. Combo Disco and New Wave. One genre was heading out the door, the other being ushered in. I still love this cheesy hit, no matter now old it gets.

[@kentnottingham9635]

Being from Southern Oregon, we had to go to San Francisco to get new dance music for the club. I bout this and “Oops” from the GAP BAND during an ART CLUB field trip@Tower Records. Hard to believe after all this time, there’s a video??? Lol

[@lisaheathcock7924]

This was the jam at the skating rink!!!! 💜💜🔥🔥🥰🥰🛼🛼

[@robquince3076]

Classic disco👏👏👏👏

[@marshasilveus6319]

I was born in 79 this was my very first favorite song ever , I remember my mom had the record and I would listen to it all the time.

[@TracyfromNC]

My big disco dance song in 1980. It was disco and kinda new wave electronic dance. True story...my BFF won a wet t-shirt contest at Myrtle Beach dancing to this song summer of 80. We had $100 prize money to party with the rest of the week.

[@jaxteller4565]

This song is considered to be the final straw that broke discos back! After this song came out, everyone had enough of disco. Sporting events had anti-disco nights where fans were encouraged to bring their albums, cassettes, and 8 tracks so they could be destroyed.

[@williammanning2836]

Disco Demolition.

[@anthonymitchell8893]

Obviously only in America ha ha

[@DanAnkers]

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

[@joetijerina8185]

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

[@posesepulu3771]

@@joetijerina8185 It wore out, style got old

[@marleymae6746]

Lol. I remember this playing on radio as a kid.

[@alihankocak722]

This is a brilliant song and an iconic song that everybody loves and believes fıture❤❤❤

[@SirWrecksy]

affirmative, i will take you to Funkytown, was heading there anyway

[@lewellyncrunkmeyer1512]

I'm overwhelmed by the lyrical challenge of the song.

[@mikematusek4233]

This was 70's Disco, One Hit Wonder. It's been used recently in commercials.

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

See through dance tops. Those were the days>

[@hellopaulie]

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.

[@psilvers100]

I was born in 1952 and this is one of my favorite songs! I love this song!

[@renewilliams7600]

That was disco primetime. I was in a disco about 4 times a week in 1979. I was only 18 but in texas the drinkimg age was 18. My sister was 13 and that was her roller skating song

[@strigoi5890]

Love your channel. Thumbs up if you want these two to watch EVERCLEAR’s “Santa Monica”, “Father of Mine” and “everything is wonderful”

[@empathyisonlyhuman7816]

This song has been used so much in advertising, tv shows and movies. Its no wonder it sounds familiar even if you've never listened to the song itself. This song released pre MTV, pre cable television really. So with the dancers in the revealing tops it was the perception that this would only really been played in night club, bars, and in private viewings. So there is that element.

[@julienielsen4462]

When it came out I went with my dad to the amusement park when I was about 6. I'll always remember how he loved this song.

[@barrycohen311]

One of the first songs to use a drum machine. Drummers hated it....lol