Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "All She Wants to Do Is Dance" is a 1984 song recorded by Don Henley and became a Billboard Top 10 hit in March 1985, peaking at number 9, and also became his second song to top the Top Rock Tracks chart. The song was originally released from Henley's Building the Perfect Beast album.The lyrics are a personal commentary, critical of then-modern American culture for being more concerned with self-gratification and hedonistic behaviors (e.g., dancing, partying, promiscuity, recreational drug use, etc.) than with serious issues such as domestic and foreign policies of their government.[citation needed] Ironically, it became a popular dance song, reaching #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.The commercial U.S. 7" vinyl version has a slightly different intro than the LP version from Building The Perfect Beast.John Leland from Spin magazine wrote about the 12-inch single version of the song saying "...this mother whomps from the git with punchy electronic drums and a mix that keeps one foot off the ground for a full seven-and-a-half minutes. Henley's post-hedonist vision of apocalypse is twisted".. }
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- All_She_Wants_to_Do_Is_Dance abstract ""All She Wants to Do Is Dance" is a 1984 song recorded by Don Henley and became a Billboard Top 10 hit in March 1985, peaking at number 9, and also became his second song to top the Top Rock Tracks chart. The song was originally released from Henley's Building the Perfect Beast album.The lyrics are a personal commentary, critical of then-modern American culture for being more concerned with self-gratification and hedonistic behaviors (e.g., dancing, partying, promiscuity, recreational drug use, etc.) than with serious issues such as domestic and foreign policies of their government.[citation needed] Ironically, it became a popular dance song, reaching #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.The commercial U.S. 7" vinyl version has a slightly different intro than the LP version from Building The Perfect Beast.John Leland from Spin magazine wrote about the 12-inch single version of the song saying "...this mother whomps from the git with punchy electronic drums and a mix that keeps one foot off the ground for a full seven-and-a-half minutes. Henley's post-hedonist vision of apocalypse is twisted".".