Maniac On The Dance Floor Song

Maniac is a song performed by michael sembello.
Maniac on the dance floor song. Maniac appears during an early scene in flashdance and is used as the backing track of a montage sequence showing alex jennifer beals training strenuously in her converted warehouse. She s a maniac maniac on the floor and she s dancing like she never danced before she s a maniac maniac on the floor and she s dancing like she never danced before. Just a steel town girl on a saturday night lookin for the fight of her life in the real time world no one sees her at all they all say she s crazy locking rhythms to the. It can cut you like a knife if the gift becomes the fire all the while you re stuck between what s will and what will be.
Sembello had originally written the song as a horror theme after watching a slasher film possibly 1980 s. The song was used in the 1983 film flashdance.