Michael Sembello: Maniac

The Michael Sembello dancing hit song plus a combination of the many outstanding dance choreographies from the classic hit "Flashdance" are edited by film director Adrian Lyne in this video. If you know the movie you know what you're gonna get; to non-viewers it'll instigate your mind to get curious about the movie and you'll watch in great amazement to all the dancing, movements and rhtyms from the electrifying performance of Jennifer Beals as Alex, a blue-collar worker by day and a sensational exotic dancer at night who's chasing her dreams of entering to professional dance school. Why this merge works? It tells this exact story in the song lyrics even though most of us are either admiring Beals for all the dance moves (it's a stunt in the most complicated sequences) or just dancing around to the frantic music that never fails to impress it or cause some sensation.

A fun way to sell a great movie. There isn't much other than that and the Oscar nominated song is one of the most inspired music moments of that decade. Rumor has it Sembello almost lent this song to another movie: the slasher "Maniac" (1980) by Joe Spinell. I still think it's an urban legend but I always love this story - doesn't fit that movie at all though Sembello has said that minor changes were made in the lyrics to get its inclusion on "Flashdance". 8/10