Release and Reception
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| PopMatters | favorable |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | favorable |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Virgin Encyclopedia | |
| Yahoo! Music | favorable |
The album became her best-selling album ever, currently double platinum, at over 2 million copies sold in the U.S. and shifting about four million total worldwide. It also became her second consecutive number-one album in the U.S., spending in addition three weeks at number one in Canada on the RPM 100 national albums chart. As well as the aforementioned Grammy Award for "Hot Stuff" (Best Female Rock Vocal Performance), the song "Bad Girls" was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Disco Recording. "Dim All the Lights" was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and the album itself was nominated for Album of the Year.
The year 1979 ended with Casablanca releasing a Donna Summer greatest hits double-album, which also included a couple of new songs, one being the hit single On the Radio. For her next studio album, Summer wanted to branch out into other formats of music but she and the label could not come to an agreement on her musical direction. Summer instead opted to sign a new deal with Geffen Records, the then-new label formed by David Geffen. Her first album with Geffen Records was more rock/new wave oriented, a format Summer had always liked, not to mention there had been a "disco backlash". In the meantime, Casablanca chose to release more singles from the Bad Girls album; "Sunset People" and "Walk Away". "Walk Away" became a moderate hit reaching the top 40. Casablanca/PolyGram also released a special edition compilation entitled Walk Away - Greatest Hits 1977-1980, which featured a selection of her hits from the Bad Girls period and the preceding years. In 2003 Universal Music, owners of the Casablanca/PolyGram back catalogue since 1998, re-issued Bad Girls as a digitally remastered and expanded deluxe edition.
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“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
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“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
—Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)