“You Can’t Stop The Beat” — From Hairspray

No Words, No Song
5 min readFeb 13, 2021
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There’s no question of you sitting around on your sofa when “You Can’t Stop The Beat” comes on. From the moment those sparky horns fire up for the intro, you want to be on your feet.

“You Can’t Stop The Beat” sets the standard by which all other songs labelled “infectious” needs to be measured.

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No Words, No Song

Without words, it’s just a nice tune. Add words — now you’ve got a song. And songs can change your world. I write about some that changed mine.