On 20th March 1979, M released the single POP MUZIK.
The most successful release from the ‘M’ project masterminded by English musician Robin Scott, POP MUZIK was the second single from ‘M’’s debut album ‘New York • London • Paris • Munich’ (which got its title from the line in this song's chorus, "New York, London, Paris, Munich, everybody's talkin' 'bout pop music.") and reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart and number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
It was held off the number one spot by Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’.
The song is often categorized as New Wave, and considered one of the first singles in that genre to top the Hot 100. It was also one of the first synthesizer-driven tracks to top the chart.
“Robin Scott, who wrote, produced and sang lead on this track, attended Croydon College Of Art, where he became good friends with Malcolm McLaren, the man who brought us the Sex Pistols,” wrote Songfacts.
“In 1969, he got a record deal and released a folk album called Woman From The Warm Grass. He walked away from this record deal and turned to electronic music.”
“In 1977, he moved to Paris and worked with the female punk band The Slits. In 1978, he became "M" when he released the song "Moderne Man" on his own label: Do It Records. The song dealt with identity, so he decided to create the alter-ego M, which he called "a cynical reflection of contemporary politics." He also felt it had a strong curiosity factor, and he thought that symbols were trendy at the time. He explained that "M" could also mean "Mirror," which was reflecting the present.”
“This song is sung from the perspective of a disc jockey spinning records at a dance club.”
"At the end of the track, I say 'Do you read me Loud And Clear.' It's very pushy,” explained Scott. “I'm not sure that I like to be spoken to like that, but I get the feeling that people want to know that someone is in control. I see everybody in the disco like being in an enormous army which is waiting to be told what to do. They've all rallied under this call, and now they're sweating out their hang-ups there."
M's backing musicians were known as "The Factor." He said they were more of an "organization" than a band.
“The video for this song gave it a big push in the UK, where it aired on ‘The Kenny Everett Video Show’. With a £2000 budget, he combined performance footage with some fancy (for the time) switcher effects to create one of the few early high-concept videos of the sort that David Bowie and Queen were making.”
[Intro]
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
(Get up, get down)
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
[Verse 1]
Radio Video
Boogie with a suitcase
You're living in a disco
Forget about the rat race
Let's do the Milkshake
Selling like a hotcake
Try some, buy some
Fee fi fo fum
Talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
I want to dedicate it
Everybody made it
Infiltrate it
Activate it
New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Sing it in the subway
Shuffle with a shoe shine
Mix me a Molotov
I'm on the headline
Want to be a gunslinger
Don't be a rock singer
Eenie meenie miney mo
Which away you want to go
Talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
Right in betweenie
Eenie meenie
Right in betweenie
You know what I meanie
Hit it
Now you know what I'm saying
Talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
All around the world
Wherever you are
Dance in the street
Anything you like
Do it in your car
In the middle of the night
Dance in the supermart
Dig it in the fast lane
Listen to the countdown
They're playing our song again
I can't get "Jumping Jack"
I want to hold "Get Back"
Moonlight, Muzak
Knick knack paddy wack
Talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
It's all around you
They want to surround you
It's all around you
Hit it
New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
Talk about Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
Pop Pop Pop Muzik
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