Popular Culture
The song is heavily sampled in the 2010 single, "Check It Out" by will.i.am and Nicki Minaj
The song is featured in the film Take Me Home Tonight starring an ensemble cast with Topher Grace and Anna Faris.
The song was the inspiration for Bappi Lahiri's song "Koi Yahan Aha Nache Nache" from the Mithun Chakraborty movie Disco Dancer.
In 2009, Robbie Williams titled his eighth album Reality Killed the Video Star The album was produced by Trevor Horn. Robbie also performed the song live in the BBC Electric Proms that year, with Horn playing bass.
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”
—Judith Malina (b. 1926)