Whadda Want From Me Emotions In Motion Everybody Wants You Billy Squier

Whadda Want From Me Album: Don't Say No (1981)
Emotions In Motion Album: Emotions in Motion (1982)
Everybody Wants You Album: Emotions in Motion (1982)
by Billy Squier

Don't Say No is the second studio album released on April 13, 1981. It stands as Squier's biggest career album. The album hit the Top Five on the Billboard album chart and remained on the chart for over two years (111 weeks). Track 7 is Whadda You Want from Me.

Emotions in Motion is the third studio album by American rock musician Billy Squier. It was released on July 23, 1982, and was Squier's second consecutive Top Five disc on the Billboard album chart. It contains the hit song "Everybody Wants You", which peaked at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 6 weeks.

"Emotions in Motion" is a 1982 single which was featured on his platinum selling album of the same name and released as the first single from it. The song is notable for featuring Queen members Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor on backing vocals. The former would later collaborate again with Squier, on his 1986 single "Love Is the Hero".

At the time of its release, "Emotions in Motion" received only modest chart success in the US and was later overshadowed by his next single "Everybody Wants You", which became a significantly bigger hit. The single fared better in Canada and remains his second-best charting song there right after "The Stroke".

Emotions In Motion's music video, which was shot at the same location as "Everybody Wants You" and just like Squier's others, is mostly a performance piece and received heavy rotation on MTV. Halfway through, it features a brief scene featuring him showcasing a stripper-style pole dance.

"Everybody Wants You" appeared as the opening track of his multi-Platinum 1982 album Emotions in Motion, and was released as the second single (following the title track) from that album, reaching #31 on the Cash Box Top 100 and #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It became, however, a much bigger hit on AOR (Album Oriented Rock) radio, gridlocking the top spot of Mainstream Rock charts for six weeks straight. The song's music video also remained in heavy rotation for months on MTV.

Everybody Wants You has been covered by artists such as the American hard rock bands Puddle of Mudd, Damone and The Unband, whose version appeared on the soundtrack to the 2000 film Scary Movie.

Canadian indie rock band Tokyo Police Club performed a version of Everybody Wants You in August 2010 for The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series.

Everybody Wants You was used as The Fabulous Ones' (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane) entrance theme during their time in the Memphis-based Continental Wrestling Association from 1982 to 1985.

The 1983 film Bad Boys uses Everybody Wants You in the start of the movie where Sean Penn sits in his room strumming guitar with this song playing on his radio , his mother tells him to turn it down and he just turns up the volume.

Everybody Wants You was used in the episode 13 (title: 'Standards and Practices') of season 1 of the drama The Closer.

In 2004, a mashup of "Everybody Wants You" and "Emerge" by Fischerspooner was included on the Queer Eye soundtrack.

Everybody Wants You is used the first couple seasons of the TV show Burn Notice, including being used in a promotional ad for the second season.

Everybody Wants You is used in the 2012 film Battleship.

Billy Squier - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Jeff Golub - lead guitar
Alan St. Jon - keyboards
Doug Lubahn - bass
Bobby Chouinard - drums
Dino Solera - saxophone
Freddie Mercury - backing vocals
Roger Taylor - backing vocals