This disco classic is about a woman who has better things to do than listen to her man's empty platitudes. She tells him to kiss off, and that she's going to get some "action" at the disco, where she can boogie all night.
Bridges wrote this with her songwriting partner Susan Hutcheson. The pair met in Atlanta in 1976 and signed a publishing deal with Bill Lowrey, owner of Southern Music. He financed Bridges' solo album, which contained songs written by the pair. It was picked up by Polydor Records, which released "I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)" as a single. The song was a huge hit in dance clubs and charted not just in America but throughout Europe - it reached the top of the charts in France and Germany.
The song wasn't written as a disco tune; Bridges and Susan Hutcheson wrote it as an R&B song, but it was discofied to meet the prevailing trend. Hutcheson explained in a 1979 interview with Sounds: "That wasn't cut at all with disco in mind. Disco was just where I was gonna go after I'd told this man to leave me alone, it wasn't meant to be the theme of the song. We do love the nightlife in the sense that we love to be awake at night when its quiet and we can do some bizarre and productive thinking. But actually I don't care for discos at all."
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