"I Feel Like Dancin'" is a song by American

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band All Time Low. It is the first single from their fourth studio album '' Dirty Work'' (2011) and is co-written with

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's Rivers Cuomo. The single was released in the United States through

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as a digital download on April 5, 2011. On May 23, the music video for "I Feel Like Dancin'" was released on Vevo exclusively. Both the song and the video satirize the mainstream music industry. "I Feel Like Dancin'" was released to

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on June 14, 2011. The song reached No. 13 on the

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chart. To promote the single, the band flew to the UK and performed it along with a cover of

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's hit single " Hold It Against Me" on

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's Live Lounge on 24 May.

Track listing

Music video

The music video of this song

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today's music industry, and shows how music videos no longer relate to what the song is actually about. It begins with the group sitting with a record company executive, who is the band's actual manager. They begin to discuss making a music video, and the band states they "Have some good ideas". The executive tells them that All Time Low will use his methods for making a successful video. Method one is

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, and he surrounds the band members with

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products. Method two is to sell sex to the viewers, and dress the group like the members from ''

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''. Alex, Zack, and Rian are surrounded by bikini-clad girls, while Jack is awkwardly placed next to two scantily-clad men. The final method used by the executive is stealing people's ideas. He puts costumes on the band from various popular music videos. Some of the music videos that are being targeted include "

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" by

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, " Baby" by

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, "

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" by

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and " California Gurls" by

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. At the end, All Time Low is left feeling disgusted, and they go home. Some have compared the video to

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's music video for "

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Charts

References

2011 singles Songs written by Rivers Cuomo Song recordings produced by Butch Walker All Time Low songs Songs written by Alex Gaskarth 2010 songs Interscope Records singles {{2011-single-stub