Rapture (song)
Rapture (English " rapture" ) is a song by Blondie from 1981, which was written by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein.
History
Rapture combines the directions New Wave, Pop, Funk and contains in the second half extended rap passages. Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 was the first successful hip- hop song. Rapture was next Kurtis Blows The Breaks of the second rap song, which received a gold record and the first, which was a number -one hit. In the Rapzeilen there are references to the hip-hop pioneers Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash.
The publication took place on 12 January 1981, in the United States was the song a number one hit.
Use in popular culture
- The song is used in hip- hop film Wild Style (1983).
- He appears in New York ( 1999) in the film A Night.
- The song is used in the film after 7 days - (2007 )
- Blondie's version is played in the TV series Nip / Tuck.
- Rapture is heard in the film Shame ( 2011).
Music Video
The music video was filmed in Manhattan 's East Village. At the beginning of the video, a man dressed in white is (played by Fab 5 Freddy ) dancing to a window; there takes place a party. During a walking tour Deborah Harry sings the song there as well as in the inner city, and saith to the DJ the party. Afterwards, some scenes repeat in fade-outs. In the city the members of Blondie and the white male dressed to go to a club, which they leave at the end. In 1981 this was the first rap video that aired on MTV.