I Can't Wait (Nu Shooz song)
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| Single by Nu Shooz | |||||||||
| from the album Poolside (original version on Tha's Right) |
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| Released | February 1986 | ||||||||
| Format | CD single, 7", 12" | ||||||||
| Recorded | 1984 | ||||||||
| Genre | Freestyle | ||||||||
| Length | 5:25 | ||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | ||||||||
| Writer(s) | John Smith | ||||||||
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"I Can't Wait" is a song recorded by American group Nu Shooz from the 1986 album Poolside. The song was originally recorded in late 1984, was featured on the band's second album Tha's Right the following year. Credits on the back of the single indicate that the Poolside LP was originally to be called "The Point of No Return." The song was remixed overseas. This remixed version is the one that appears on Poolside.
In the United States, the song reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart in late March 1986, remaining atop the chart for two weeks. Soon afterwards, the song appeared on the Hot 100 chart, where it climbed to No. 3 in mid-June of that year, and remained in the top 40 for 15 weeks. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The single returned to the U.S. charts in 2015, where it peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart.
The song's American chart run coincided with that of a Stevie Nicks song also titled "I Can't Wait".
John Leland's writeup in a Spin magazine column wrote about the single, saying: "You can listen to this record as many times as you want and still not have any strong impressions that human beings actually made it. In other words, it's the perfect disco record."
The music video was directed by Jim Blashfield. It contains animations and has a hint of the very surreal. The plot has Valerie Day singing the song sitting at a desk, repairing a coffeepot, while tools and other oddities pass into the frame and out again. Her dog sits nearby, wearing sunglasses.
A rap cover of the song, "I Can't Wait (To Rock the Mike)", by Spyder-D was released later that year.
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