Sunglasses At Night
Music video
The music video displays the unique vision of a police state, with scenes of Hart in a prison cell, with out sunglasses, becoming sturdy-armed by police officers and paraded past numerous citizens sporting their regulation shades. Around the end of the video, Hart is introduced to the workplace of a female police officer, played by Laurie Brown, who later grew to become the host of The NewMusic as effectively as a VJ on MuchMusic.
Cover versions
The tune was covered in electro type by Tiga and Zyntherius in 2001.
Former *N Sync singer JC Chasez featured the song’s signature synthesized hook throughout “Come To Me”, a track from his 2004 album Schizophrenic, for which he credited Hart as a co-writer.
In 2006, the tune was covered by rap group The Federation with rappers E-40 and Keak Da Sneak, retitled as “I Wear My Stunna Glasses at Night”, a reference to the reputation of “Stunna Shades” inside the hyphy movement. 2007 noticed covers by Dj Size feat. J. Lourenzo and Francis Soto (nu metal model), plus a mashup by UK mashup artist Cheekyboy of Justin Timberlake’s Sexyback utilizing components of this song.
Divine Brown samples the primary riff in her 2008 tune Sunglasses, and close to the finish of the track she says the tag line, “I wear my sunglasses at night”. Voodoo & Serano covered “Sunglasses at Night” in 2009.
Skepta of Boy Greater Know sampled the chorus and the song’s signature synthesized hook in his song titled “Sunglasses at Night”.
Rob Gee covered the tune on his Album The Fantastic American Melting.
Common culture
The tune became the track record theme for the viral video “My New Haircut”, as effectively as for the a number of amateur versions which followed.
The song is utilized in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis as element of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
The song manufactured #50 in VH1′s 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs of all Time.
The song also produced #23 in Blender magazine’s 50 Worst Songs Actually.
The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Subsequent Era, which names each episode following an ’80s hit song, named an episode soon after this tune. The episode portrayed addiction to gambling.
In the song “Nappy Heads – (Remix)” from Fugees album Blunted on Fact, Wyclef sings, “I put on my sunglasses at night, to spy on my girlfriend” at four:12 and 4:22. He references the song again on the Fugees album The Score on the track “How Many Mics?”, between three:26 and 3:29.
Ludacris sampled the song in his mixtape The Preview, hosted by DJ Drama, on a song titled “Secret Song” featuring Tity Boi.
It is sampled in the tune “Blinded by the Sun” by Gymnasium Class Heroes.
It was the plate-physical appearance music throughout the 2008 MLB All-Star Sport for a Milwaukee Brewers outfielder named Corey Hart.
In 2009, Denver based artist SAIGE recorded a edition of the tune, and obtained a fair volume of nearby achievement from the track.
In the 1985 movie My Science Project, a police officer asks character Vince Latello (played by Fisher Stevens) why he wears his sunglasses at night time. He solutions, “Since when you’re cool, the sun shine [sic] on you 24 hrs a day.”
The internet series Dorm Life references the song – the RA of the ground sings it when he is drunk.
It is sampled in the song “Sunglasses At Night” by Skepta and is credited.
The song is utilized in Korean KIA Sephia 1993 industrial.
Suburban Noize rapper The Dirtball utilizes the phrase “I wear my sunglasses at night” throughout an interlude in his 2008 song “Nightshade”.
References
^ Laurie Brown
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^ Run for Your Existence! It really is the 50 Worst Songs Ever! from Blender.com
^ No cost Music: Blunted on Reality by Fugees – Rhapsody On the web
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Corey Hart
Albums
1st Offense (1983) Boy in the Box (1985) Fields of Fire (1986) Young Guy Running (1988) Bang! (1990) Singles (1991) Mindset & Virtue (1992) Corey Hart (1996) Jade (1998)
Singles
“Sunglasses at Night” (1983) “It Ain’t Enough” (1984) “She Got the Radio” (1984) “Lamp at Midnite” (1984) “Never ever Surrender” (1985) “Boy in the Box” (1985) “Every thing in My Heart” (1985) “Eurasian Eyes” (1986) “I Am By Your Side” (1986) “Cannot Aid Falling in Love” (1986) “Angry Youthful Man” (1986) “Dancin’ With My Mirror” (1987) “Get My Heart” (1987) “In Your Soul” (1988) “Spot You in a Coalmine” (1989) “Truth Will Set You Free” (1989) “Even now in Love” (1989) “A Little Love” (1990) “Bang! (Starting up Around)” (1990) “Rain on Me” (1990) “92 Days of Rain” (1992) “Infant When I Call Your Name” (1992) “Always” (1992) “I Want (Cool Cool Enjoy)” (1993) “Black Cloud Rain” (1996) “Inform Me” (1996) “Third of June” (1996) “Someone” (1996) “So Visible (Simple to Miss)” (1998) “Break the Chain” (1998) “La-Bas” (with Julie Masse) (1998)
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