| "Ooops Up" | ||||
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| Single by Snap! | ||||
| from the album World Power | ||||
| Released | 4 June 1990[1] | |||
| Genre | Eurodance | |||
| Length | 3:57 (radio edit) | |||
| Label | Logic | |||
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"Ooops Up" is a song by German Eurodance group Snap!, released in June 1990 as the second single from their debut studio album, World Power (1990). The song is a re-working of "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Ooops!)"; a 1980 hit by the Gap Band, with whom band member Penny Ford was a former backing singer.[2]. It also samples "Maldòn", a 1989 hit recorded by the Guadeloupean band Zouk Machine.The single was a world-wide hit and reached number-one in Greece. Lyrically the song is about Murphy's Law. The narrator talks about it and everything that went wrong during his day. Its music video was directed by Liam Kan.
- ^ "New Singles". Music Week. 2 June 1990. p. 41.
- ^ "Charts.de: Top 100 Single Official Media Control (09.04.1990)". Media Control. Charts.de. Archived from the original on 5 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.