CHIC: STILL UNIQUE?
"If you're a fan of Chic," they exclaimed way back when, "consider yourself unique." Well, no more. You may have laughed at the group who taught the world Le Freak (c'est Chic), a mid-'70s dance craze whose Detroit mutation—the Freaky Deakey—was so nasty that it could result in death if performed with an inappropriate partner.
CHIC: STILL UNIQUE?
DAVID KEEPS
"If you're a fan of Chic," they exclaimed way back when, "consider yourself unique."
Well, no more. You may have laughed at the group who taught the world Le Freak (c'est Chic), a mid-'70s dance craze whose Detroit mutation—the Freaky Deakey—was so nasty that it could result in death if performed with an inappropriate partner. I laughed too. But we never realized that it was a warning shot of Bernard Edwards's and Nile Rodgers's wizardry as songwriters and soundcrafters. If you loved Bowie's "Let's Dance," Debbie Harry's "Backfired" or anything by Sister Sledge, your agenda's already been amended by the Chic Organization. They even produced the best records Carly Simon ("Why") and Diana Ross ("Upside Down" and "I'm Coming Out") released during the '80s.