[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk]
I found a live version of this tune on YouTube, but it was just a few beats under the regular tempo. It's funny how much something like that can change the feel of a song...for the worse. It's got a good funk groove to it, and the horns are pretty tight; although, they could've just been synth parts, but they sound real. It's so funky in fact that when it was released for The Super Mario Brothers Movie, it was covered by George Clinton. I don't really appreciate his cover, though.
As much as I'd like to think this is just a fun dance tune, it has a deeper meaning. It's actually about nuclear war. It's about an Armageddon brought on my nuclear holocaust. That's why everyone would "do the dinosaur", life having ended the way it did for the ancient reptiles. It only became a dance craze due to the girls in the video and the dance they did. It scored the group a #7 hit on the Hot 100, remaining the group's highest charting single.
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