Sonic Prophesy: The Enduring Influence of Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ in Club Music

Yeah. I love a story that David Bowie had told about Brian Eno hearing the song when they were working in Berlin together, and Brian running in and playing it and saying, this is the sound of the future and predicting that this would be the sound of what we would hear in the clubs for decades to come. And it absolutely is. I mean, it’s a song that every time I go out, I hear it. Like, it’s constantly playing, like it’s always in the mix. It’s hard to not play it and see everyone absolutely lose their minds on the dance floor. And it. It is very much the sound of. Of what the platonic ideal of a club music is totally just that sort of synthesized pulse. So many different types of international music come together in this song. Donna Summer, such an eclectic kind of singer with so many different kinds of tastes. She winds up in Germany making this futuristic robot disco record.