The song was used in the 1983 film flashdance.
Maniac dance floor.
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.
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.
When the dancer becomes the dance.
Sembello had originally written the song as a horror theme after watching a slasher film possibly 1980 s.
When a dancer becomes a dance it can cut you like a knife if the gift becomes the fire on a wire between will and what will be she s a maniac maniac on the floor and she s dancing like she s never danced before she s a maniac maniac on the floor and she s dancing like she s never danced before on the ice build iron sanity is a place most.
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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.
Maniac is a song performed by michael sembello.