He was most critical of the sound of the song and its lyrics, stating that "the swinging '60s funk-pop sound of his latest effort might not be the most original, and the lyrics are cheesier than a tube of Primula", but praised it for being "unashamedly fun." Music video Ī music video to accompany the release of "Dance with Me Tonight" was directed by Marcus Lundin.
Hit the Floor magazine awarded it five out of five, calling it a "great do-wop 50s style number that will no doubt reach the uppermost rankings of the chart." Robert Copsey of Digital Spy, however, gave the song three out of five stars. The single received mixed reviews from critics upon its release.
In 2013, the song was nominated for a Ivor Novello award for Most Performed Work. When we wrote that song we knew that was the direction." The brass section was provided by the Blackjack Horns : Nik Carter – Sax / Jack Birchwood – Trumpet and Steven Fuller – Trombone. We decided the ‘white boy soul’ sound was really me and we wrote 'Dance With Me Tonight', which solidified where we'd go. The ska/reggae vibe put me in a place but I don’t want to be the same artist over and over and over again because people get bored. In an interview with Music Week in September 2011, he also added that it was the soulful, Motown feel of the song that was to influence the direction of the In Case You Didn't Know album as a whole, and that he was keen to reinvent his sound from his previous album: "We had to change slightly and I looked at myself. Everytime I meet a girl they're like 'Just add me on Facebook, or Tweet me', and it's like why don't we go out on a proper date like we used to back in the early 2000s, go for a proper drink and get to know her? So I went into the studio and just went, 'OK, I wanna write a really old, classic song about seeing a really fit girl in a club and taking her out on a date.'" Lyrically, Murs has said that the song was inspired by his frustration with modern-day dating, in particular the incessant use of social networking websites: "I'm sick of Twitter and Facebook, you know, I want to meet a girl in a club or in a bar. Murs wrote the song with Claude Kelly and Steve Robson in the spring of 2011, following their successful collaborations on the first album including his debut number one, " Please Don't Let Me Go". He’ll say: Are you married? We’ll say: No man,īut you can do the job while you’re in town.Problems playing this file? See media help. Even though the song never specifically mentions Christmas, it quickly became a holiday standard. Smith’s friend and musician Felix Bernard took the lyrics and composed a melody to go with them. Smith stared out his window observing kids playing innocently in the snow and wrote a poem evoking feelings of the carefree days he once knew. The lyrics were penned in the 1930s by Richard Bernhard Smith, who was suffering from tuberculosis at the time and holed up indoors. But much like “Jingle Bells,” the song wasn’t actually written for the holiday season. “Winter Wonderland,” with its vivid cold weather imagery, seems like it was tailor-made to sing around Christmastime.
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