Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff"

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

If you’re trying to bring a wild man back home, have we got the song for you. This week on One Song join Diallo and LUXXURY as they break down Donna Summer’s 1979 hit “Hot Stuff.” They discuss Donna Summer’s theater roots, discover a secret sax, and analyze where the disco ends and the rock begins in her genre-blending banger. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to RocketMoney.com/onesong today. Get to Insurify.com to compare car insurance quotes in real-time and start saving today! Have you ever dreamed of starting a business? Go to tailorbrands.com/podcast35 for 35% off all Tailor Brands services today. Songs Discussed: “Hot Stuff” - Donna Summer “I Feel Love” - Donna Summer “Sunset People” - Donna Summer “Bad Girls” - Donna Summer “Our Love” - Donna Summer “Blue Monday” - New Order “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” - Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” - Kiss “Miss You” - The Rolling Stones “Emotional Rescue” - The Rolling Stones “Street Player” - Chicago “The Bomb” - The Bucketheads “Love To Love You Baby” - Donna Summer “One Blue Morning” - Amon Düül II “Rasputin” - Boney M “Daddy Cool” - Boney M “The Number One Song In Heaven” - Sparks “Axel F” - Harold Faltermeyer “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” - Gary Portnoy “Dream Police” - Cheap Trick “Hot Stuff” - Hatsumi Shibata “New New York” - Tes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Two, three, four
0:01.7	Sitting here marking ourselves up, baby,
0:05.6	live from Harvey Studios.
0:08.4	How about some one song staying on topic?
0:12.1	I'm talking one song just for an hour.
0:15.6	Gotta have some one song.
0:17.4	It's a fun podcast.
0:19.6	Talking about one song, Somebody missed a fun podcast. Talk about one song.
0:21.6	Somebody missed on a summer.
0:26.1	Luxury today's song is a hip-shaking, fist-pumping, genre-blending banger.
0:31.0	It's this artist's second number one hit at the time.
0:34.1	And amazingly, it's the first time a female artist had two songs in the Billboard
0:38.1	Top Three. That's right, Diallo. This song was performed by an artist who is known as the
0:42.4	Queen of Disco. But with this song, she won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal
0:47.3	Performance. A disco queen and a rock star. I love it. That's right. Yes, she was a musical
0:52.4	shapeshifter indeed, whose work with Italian producer, Georgia Maroder.
0:55.9	We all love to love.
0:57.3	Yeah, we do really love Georgia Maroder.
0:59.3	And if you still haven't guessed it,
1:00.7	this song is what we would call a sexy strut of a ditty
1:03.2	that makes you want to bring a wild man back home.
1:06.1	How do you like that?
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