Move This

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"Move This"
Move This 1992.jpg
Single by Technotronic
from the album Pump Up the Jam: The Album and One World Nation
Released1989 / 1992
GenreEurodance, hip house
Length5:19 (Album Version)
3:46 (Radio Edit)
LabelARS Entertainment Belgium
SBK Records (US)
Songwriter(s)Manuela Kamosi, Jo Bogaert
Technotronic singles chronology
"Move That Body"
(1991) 		"Move This"
(1989) 		"Hey Yoh, Here We Go"
(1993)
Music video
"Move This" on YouTube

"Move This" is a 1992 hit by Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K, which reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] This song also appears on Technotronic's debut album Pump Up the Jam: The Album, which was released in 1989. While the full-length album version has a running time of 5 minutes and 19 seconds, it was re-recorded with updated synths and shortened to 3 minutes and 46 seconds for the radio edit version, this version is referred as "Bogaert's 7" Remix" on the CD single. The video version, also known as the "Hit Mix" is a 3:40 edit of the album version. The version on the album's vinyl release is the same as the original album version, but faded out starting from 4:48.

A different remix with the same structure as the European 7" remix released on Ya Kid K's album One World Nation.

"Move This" is featured in the motion picture Let's Go to Prison, starring Will Arnett and Dax Shepard, and the King of the Hill episode “Dances with Dogs”.

Critical reception[]

In 1992, Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that the "pop-juiced hip-houser was first heard on Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam" album a couple of years ago. Resurrection via a Revlon TV commercial has sparked heavy pop radio interest. Ya Kid K's rhymes are appropriately cute'n'clever, and the beats and melody are strong enough to withstand heavy competition."[2] BuzzFeed placed it at number 35 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of the '90s" in 2017.[3] Harry Sumrall from Knight Ridder said it has "the female-group sound of the '60s with a house update".[4] Diana Valois from The Morning Call described it as "a sunny blend of subtle African world beat and house music".[5] Pop Rescue deemed it "a fairly mid-tempo bouncy track", adding that Ya Kid K's vocals and lyrics "lack the power and catchiness of the earlier songs."[6]

Charts[]

Chart (1992–1993) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[7] 67
Canada (RPM) 30
US Billboard Hot 100 6
Zimbabwe (ZIMA)[8] 1

References[]

  1. ^ McAleer, Dave (2004). Hit singles: top 20 charts from 1954 to the present day. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. p. 459. ISBN 0879308087.
  2. ^ "Billboard: Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  3. ^ Stopera, Matt; Galindo, Brian (2017-03-11). "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  4. ^ "Strummer is all sound and fury". Knight Ridder. 1989-12-22. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
  5. ^ Valois, Diana (1990-01-13). "Records". p. A66. The Morning Call.
  6. ^ "REVIEW: "PUMP UP THE JAM" BY TECHNOTRONIC (CD, 1989)". Pop Rescue. 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  7. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 276.
  8. ^ * Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. Zimbabwe: singles chart book. Harare: C. Kimberley, 2000

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