Sunglasses At Night
Music video
Music video
The music video reflects the original vision of a police state, with scenes of Hart in a prison cell, without sunglasses, being strong-armed by police officers and paraded past various citizens wearing their regulation shades. Near the end of the video, Hart is brought to the office of a female police officer, played by Laurie Brown, who later became the host of The NewMusic as well as a VJ on MuchMusic.
Cover versions
The song was covered in electro style by Tiga and Zyntherius in 2001.
Former *N Sync singer JC Chasez featured the song's signature synthesized hook throughout "Come To Me", a track from his 2004 album Schizophrenic, for which he credited Hart as a co-writer.
In 2006, the song was covered by rap group The Federation with rappers E-40 and Keak Da Sneak, retitled as "I Wear My Stunna Glasses at Night", a reference to the popularity of "Stunna Shades" within the hyphy movement. 2007 saw covers by Dj Size feat. J. Lourenzo and Francis Soto (nu metal version), plus a mashup by UK mashup artist Cheekyboy of Justin Timberlake's Sexyback using elements of this song.
Divine Brown samples the main riff in her 2008 song Sunglasses, and near the end of the track she says the tag line, "I wear my sunglasses at night". Voodoo & Serano covered "Sunglasses at Night" in 2009.
Skepta of Boy Better Know sampled the chorus and the song's signature synthesized hook in his song titled "Sunglasses at Night".
Rob Gee covered the song on his Album The Great American Melting.
Popular culture
The song became the background theme for the viral video "My New Haircut", as well as for the multiple amateur versions which followed.
The song is used in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
The song made #50 in VH1's 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs of all Time.
The song also made #23 in Blender magazine's 50 Worst Songs Ever.
The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which names each episode after an '80s hit song, named an episode after this song. The episode portrayed addiction to gambling.
In the song "Nappy Heads - (Remix)" from Fugees album Blunted on Reality, Wyclef sings, "I wear my sunglasses at night, to spy on my girlfriend" at 4:12 and 4:22. He references the song again on the Fugees album The Score on the track "How Many Mics?", between 3:26 and 3:29.
Ludacris sampled the song in his mixtape The Preview, hosted by DJ Drama, on a song titled "Secret Song" featuring Tity Boi.
It is sampled in the song "Blinded by the Sun" by Gym Class Heroes.
It was the plate-appearance music during the 2008 MLB All-Star Game for a Milwaukee Brewers outfielder named Corey Hart.
In 2009, Denver based artist SAIGE recorded a version of the song, and gained a fair amount of local success from the track.
In the 1985 film My Science Project, a police officer asks character Vince Latello (played by Fisher Stevens) why he wears his sunglasses at night. He answers, "Because when you're cool, the sun shine [sic] on you 24 hours a day."
The web series Dorm Life references the song - the RA of the floor sings it whenever he is drunk.
It is sampled in the song "Sunglasses At Night" by Skepta and is credited.
The song is used in Korean KIA Sephia 1993 commercial.
Suburban Noize rapper The Dirtball uses the phrase "I wear my sunglasses at night" during an interlude in his 2008 song "Nightshade".
References
^ Laurie Brown
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M
^ Run for Your Life! It's the 50 Worst Songs Ever! from Blender.com
^ Free Music: Blunted on Reality by Fugees - Rhapsody Online
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Corey Hart
Albums
First Offense (1983) Boy in the Box (1985) Fields of Fire (1986) Young Man Running (1988) Bang! (1990) Singles (1991) Attitude & Virtue (1992) Corey Hart (1996) Jade (1998)
Singles
"Sunglasses at Night" (1983) "It Ain't Enough" (1984) "She Got the Radio" (1984) "Lamp at Midnite" (1984) "Never Surrender" (1985) "Boy in the Box" (1985) "Everything in My Heart" (1985) "Eurasian Eyes" (1986) "I Am By Your Side" (1986) "Can't Help Falling in Love" (1986) "Angry Young Man" (1986) "Dancin' With My Mirror" (1987) "Take My Heart" (1987) "In Your Soul" (1988) "Spot You in a Coalmine" (1989) "Truth Will Set You Free" (1989) "Still in Love" (1989) "A Little Love" (1990) "Bang! (Starting Over)" (1990) "Rain on Me" (1990) "92 Days of Rain" (1992) "Baby When I Call Your Name" (1992) "Always" (1992) "I Want (Cool Cool Love)" (1993) "Black Cloud Rain" (1996) "Tell Me" (1996) "Third of June" (1996) "Someone" (1996) "So Visible (Easy to Miss)" (1998) "Break the Chain" (1998) "La-Bas" (with Julie Masse) (1998)
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