Holiday

Album: Madonna (1983)
Charted: 2 16
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  • Holiday, celebrate
    Holiday, celebrate

    If we took a holiday
    Took some time to celebrate
    Just one day out of life
    It would be
    It would be so nice
    Everybody spread the word
    We're gonna have a celebration
    All across the world
    In every nation
    It's time for the good times
    Forget about the bad times, ooh yeah
    One day to come together
    To release the pressure
    We need a holiday
    If we took a holiday (mmh-ooh)
    Took some time to celebrate (c'mon let's celebrate)
    Just one day out of life (holiday)
    It would be
    It would be so nice

    You can turn this world around
    And bring back all of those happy days
    Put your troubles down
    It's time to celebrate
    Let love shine
    And we will find
    A way to come together
    Can make things better
    We need a holiday
    If we took a holiday (holiday)
    Took some time to celebrate (celebrate)
    Just one day out of life
    (Just one day)
    It would be
    It would be so nice

    Holiday, celebrate
    Holiday, celebrate

    If we took a holiday (oh yeah, oh yeah)
    Took some time to celebrate (c'mon let's celebrate)
    Just one day out of life (holiday)
    It would be
    It would be so nice

    Holiday Writer/s: Curtis Hudson, Lisa Stevens
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Spirit Music Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 14th 1984, Madonna performed "Holiday" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #25 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and eight days later on January 22nd, 1984 it would peak at #16 for two weeks}...
    Four months earlier on September 18th, 1983 it reached #1 {for 5 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play* chart...
    * It was the first of her record-setting forty-three #1s on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
  • Leo from Westminster 1, MdHoliday is a brilliant save-the-world anthem of someone-Madonna is her name-who cries "Let's all make our lives better and have Peace and Love!" Easily the most enduring of her First/Virgin early Zohar/Kabbalah hits. After Holiday, Michigan was never again the same!
  • Kevin from Mobile, AlThis song is part the soundtrack of my childhood. I grew up in the projects, but during that time you could hear songs like this one on Black radio stations.
  • Jeff from Long Island, NyThis is in my opinion the best of Madonna's early dance pop. The jazzy piano solo in the outro by Fred Zarr definitely made it stand out compared to other songs of the type (and time).
  • Jason from Tampa, FlWednesday, 19 January 2005

    Legendary pop singer Madonna is reportedly suing R&B songstress Mary J. Blige, Aftermath producer Dr. Dre and rapper Eve for copyright infringement.

    A publishing company claims that Blige's recent song "Not Today," featuring Eve and produced by Dre, too closely resembles Madonna's classic 1983 hit "Holiday."

    According to court documents, the company alleges that parts of "Not Today," which was featured in the film "Barbershop 2" starring Eve and Ice Cube, includes several obvious instances of reproduction. Legendary pop singer Madonna is reportedly suing R&B songstress Mary J. Blige, Aftermath producer Dr. Dre and rapper Eve for copyright infringement.

    A publishing company claims that Blige's recent song "Not Today," featuring Eve and produced by Dre, too closely resembles Madonna's classic 1983 hit "Holiday."

    According to court documents, the company alleges that parts of "Not Today," which was featured in the film "Barbershop 2" starring Eve and Ice Cube, includes several obvious instances of reproduction.

    New York musicologist Judith Finell, an expert witness on copyright infringement, compared the two songs and concluded that "Not Today" is similar enough to "Holiday" and warrants further investigation.

    "Both the pitches and the rhythms sound closely related," Finell told the Associated Press. "I don't think they're identical, because Madonna's song is in what we call 'major key' and Mary J Blige's song is in a �minor key.�"

    The publishers of Madonna's song could receive at least $15 million if the case goes to trial and jurors determine that "Not Today" sounds notably similar to "Holiday."
  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnVery much a disco song, still holds up today.
  • Soutiman from Mumbai, IndiaThe Holiday Rap was very very good actually and more danceable than Madonna's Holiday
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesXavier: I loved the rap version by MC Miker G and Deejay Sven - absolutely hilarious! Using exactly the same music but with radically altered lyrics, "Holiday Rap" was an unlikely No.2 hit in the UK in September 1986 and became a huge hit all over Europe. Don't think Madonna herself was that impressed with it though...
  • Jake from San Mateo, CaShe performed "Holiday" on Solid Gold when it popular then at the time...
  • Marto from Sydney, AustraliaMadonna performed this during live aid
  • Xavier from Noisy Le Sec, FranceA rap version by MC Miker G and Deejay Sven was an European hit in 1986, topping the charts in France, Germany, Italy Netherlands and Switzerland.
  • Connor from Woodbridge, VaA commercail plays this song, sang my madonna, to get peopel to come to their beach resort. Madonna still makes money off this song
  • Ross from Brisbane, AustraliaThis song has charted in the UK on 3 seperate occasions, reaching number 6 in 1984, number 2 in 1985 and number 5 in 1991.
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