Night Fever

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This week I chose to analyze the song "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees. I love the Bee Gees and their music!!


"Night Fever" is one of my favorite Bee Gees songs. In my mind, this is your typical disco, dance song. The drum is at the heart of the music, defining the beat of the song. This is what makes "Night Fever" a disco song. This song is very catchy and easy to dance to. I can imagine people dancing the night away at a discotheque, on a colorful dance floor and with lights everywhere whenever I listen to this song. 

This song has very simple lyrics, as disco songs typically do. "Night Fever" is about someone dancing at the disco and they catch the 'night fever'. In other words, the person dancing meets someone there who changed their whole world and now the person singing sees how great discos are. This song is really cool because it talks about joining the disco craze that was sweeping the nation during the 70's. 


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  1. JacksonChavezMarch 23, 2021 at 2:55 PM

    I'm not a disco fan persa, but i enjoy many of these songs as well. I did my blog on the "Good Times" by Chic. Mainly for the same reason that it had a drum that pumped the rest of the song. Cool blog! Night fever huh.

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