GROOVE IS IN THE HEART

"'Groove Is in the Heart'" (1990) is one of the most famous songs by the dance music band Deee-Lite. It is included as the eighth track on their first album, ''World Clique''.
"Groove Is In the Heart" is a funky, cheerful love song that compares the new feelings of infatuation with hearing a good ("groovy") song. Essentially a house music track, it also features elements of disco, funk and hip-hop. The backing track was built around many samples (one of them from Herbie Hancock's track "Bring Down the Birds" on the ''Blowup'' soundtrack), and even included a slide whistle. Parliament-Funkadelic legend Bootsy Collins played bass guitar and provided guest vocals, and the rap is provided by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest.
An immediate smash in nightclubs, the song crossed over to pop radio and after going to number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, it eventually hit number four on the Billboard Hot 100. It managed to peak at number-one for one week in Australia in November 1991.
In the UK, the record was equally popular and was released as a double A-side with "What Is Love", and eventually reached number two during the summer of 1990. Its second-placing was due to a new rule instituted in the UK Singles Chart in the 1980s, which settled any "ties" over chart positions due to equal sales: the single whose sales had increased most from the previous week would reside above the other. In September 1990, "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band and Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart" sold enough copies to be the joint number-one, but because of the new ruling, Deee-Lite were relegated to the number two spot and "The Joker" topped the chart. Following the controversy and complaints from Deee-Lite's record company, WEA, the rule was scrapped and joint positions were once more allowed.

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Music video

Use in other media

Film

Video games

Music video

The song was accompanied by a psychedelic music video, with Deee-Lite, Q-Tip and Bootsy Collins superimposed over a cartoonish background of various shifting shapes and colors. The video opens and closes with quotes by the band: Lady Miss Kier has an opening dialog consisting of "faux-French" originally spoken in the song's A-side, "What Is Love?",^[1] and the ending features Collins saying, "I just wanted you to know that groove ''is'' in the heart, and Deee-Lite have definitely been known to smoke... on stage, that is!" and Lady Miss Kier exclaiming "Deee-groovy!"

Use in other media

Film

''Note that this list is incomplete.''

★ ''Can't Hardly Wait'' (1999)

★ ''Lost and Found'' (1999)

★ ''Charlie's Angels'' (2000)

★ ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'' (2007)

Video games

★ ''Singstar'' - Playstation 2 (2005)

★ ''Boogie'' - Wii (2008)