I'm Gonna Get You (Bizarre Inc Song)
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"I'm Gonna Get You" is a song by English
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group
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, featuring collaborative lead vocals by English singer
Angie Brown Angie Brown (born 13 June 1963) is a British singer and songwriter from Brixton, South London. Brown is a co-artist on the hit single " I'm Gonna Get You" (1992) by Bizarre Inc. She performed on a number of recordings with Bizarre Inc as lead ...
. It was released in September 1992 by
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as the second
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from the group's second studio
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, '' Energique'' (1992). The song contains lyrics from " Love's Gonna Get You" by
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, and a sample from "Brass Disk" by Dupree. "I'm Gonna Get You" proved to be a hit on the UK Singles Chart in October 1992, peaking at number three and later being certified silver by the
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(BPI) for sales in excess of 200,000 copies, and it also reached the number-three position in the Netherlands in January 1993. The track failed to reach the top 40 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and ''Cash Box'' Top 100 but topped the ''Billboard''
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chart as well as the Canadian ''
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chart.


Background and release

English singer and songwriter
Angie Brown Angie Brown (born 13 June 1963) is a British singer and songwriter from Brixton, South London. Brown is a co-artist on the hit single " I'm Gonna Get You" (1992) by Bizarre Inc. She performed on a number of recordings with Bizarre Inc as lead ...
was singing in a club called Singers one night and was spotted by a talent scout. She told in a 2025 interview, "A talent scout came up to me afterwards and she said, 'Can you sing like
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?' I said, 'Yeah, yeah, sure. I can sing like Jocelyn Brown.'" She was introduced to the boys from
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in a studio and they played the track for her with Jocelyn's vocal from " Love's Gonna Get You" from 1985. The group asked Angie to sing like Jocelyn, instead of using a very expensive sample from the original. She recorded her vocals and nailed it in about 20 minutes, but didn't expect the song to perform so well from a commercial perspective. At the time,
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was a new territory to her, and Brown didn't understand why they wanted to do a mash up with the track, "I just thought, let me get the money and run." Three months later people started calling her, telling her that she was in the charts and that she would be performing on the ''
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''. The song had debuted on number 17 on the UK Singles Chart on 11 October 1992 and would become a massive hit.


Critical reception

Ned Raggett of
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complimented the song a "noted smash, with great diva vocals from
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(one of her earliest star turns) and a simple but still sweeping string section reminiscent of
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's orchestrations at their best".
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from ''
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'' wrote, "Fabrication of
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's dance nugget ' Love's Gonna Get You' is steeped in
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sensibilities without sacrificing commercial appeal. Added potential comes via Angie Brown, who gives the U.K. act a marketable face. Maddeningly catchy chorus will likely spark a successful foray into the top 40." Marisa Fox from ''
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'' noted that the trio "layers bass-heavy rhythms under warm disco choruses, making butt-burning dance music, not teen-bleep
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." She concluded that "
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would surely be proud." Richard Smith from ''
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'' praised the song as "an absolute masterpiece of compression, saying everything it needs to say in just three-much repeated lines and it's still so sexy you half expect bodily fluids to start oozing out of the hole in the middle of the record."
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from ''
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s ''RM'' Dance Update found that the
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based trio "go back to the classic 1979/81 disco sound for this soulful rack. Mandi James from ''
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'' wrote, "Bizarre Inc have hit the jackpot yet again with the schoolgirl crush of 'I'm Gonna Get You'. Camp as you like, 'I'm Gonna Get You' tickles and teases with flirtatious vocals proving that Bizarre Inc are at their very best when they follow their gut instincts and head blatantly for the mainstream rather than darting around on the underground." Rupert Howe from '' Select'' stated that "the evergreen sound of the
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with new tracks like the garage style 'I'm Gonna Get You'." Josh Baines from ''
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'' complimented the song as "great".


Chart performance

"I'm Gonna Get You" peaked at number one on both the ''
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chart in the United States. In Europe, it entered the top 10 in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In the latter country, the single peaked at number three during its fourth week on the UK Singles Chart, on 18 October 1992. Additionally, the song was a top 20-hit in Belgium and Ireland, as well as on the
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, where it peaked at number 19. On the
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, it reached number seven. In North America, "I'm Gonna Get You" peaked at numbers 47 and 46 on the US ''Billboard''
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and ''Cash Box'' Top 100 charts, respectively. In Australia, the song reached number 158. "I'm Gonna Get You" was awarded with a silver record in the UK, after 200,000 singles were sold there.


Live performances


''Top of the Pops'' and ''The Voice UK''

"I'm Gonna Get You" was performed on ''
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'' in 1992. In 2014, Brown sung the song in an audition for ''
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''. Though it brought many audience members to their feet, none of the judges turned around even though
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noted that the song had inspired part of the
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". He said it was "one of isfavourite songs and enever thought ewould get to meet the person who sung it". He elaborated: The fact that Brown had not been selected made the audience and TV viewers furious, with one viewer branding it a "disgrace".
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also performed a cover version of the song during her time on the
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.


Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single. Angie Brown told in a interview, "If you look at the video, I'm sort of behind the feeds and stuff, but I'm in it, I'm in it. There's loads of dancers and I guess if I was the record company, I would do that. I wouldn't want to give Angie Brown too much, you know, because it's not the Angie Brown show. There was a girl roller skating, there were DJs, and the boys from Bizarre Inc. I think, were clicking away." "I'm Gonna Get You" was later made available on
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in 2013 and had generated eight million views as of early 2025.


Impact and legacy

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and
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from ''
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had resulted in "a million fantastic, brutally poppy
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tracks with loads of sampled screaming divas", like "I'm Gonna Get You". ''
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'' included "I'm Gonna Get You" in their list of "Ten Actually Good 90s Jock Jams" in 2010. ''Porcys'' listed the song at number 75 in their ranking of "100 Singles 1990-1999" in 2012, adding, "Well, why do I think it's such a good job? Firstly, the level of energy produced for over five minutes does not settle down even for a second. Secondly, samples straight from Joselyn Brown are used in a thoughtful and extremely catchy way. Thirdly, Angie Brown's vocals cause chills around the third cervical vertebra. It is more than a confession, it is a musical expression of female stubbornness and an offer that cannot be rejected." ''
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'' put "I'm Gonna Get You" at number-one in their list of "21 Diva-House Belters That Still Sound Incredible" in 2014. ''
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'' listed the song at number 20 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of the '90s" in 2017. ''
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'' ranked it as one of the 30 best songs in their "The 30 Best Vocal House Anthems Ever" list in 2018, noting, "With its call and response lyrics, electrifying piano line and shining rave sensibilities, this one's still a certified banger! It hits like a shot of liquid serotonin in the dance, with the assertive tone of Brown’s vocals grabbing dancefloors by the scruff of the neck and thrusting them into overdrive." And in 2019, "I'm Gonna Get You" was included in their ranking of "The 20 Best Diva House Tracks".


Track listing


Charts


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Certifications


Dave Audé version

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interpolated the song in 2015, writing and adding new verses. With vocals by
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member
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, Audé's version charted at number one on the ''Billboard''
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chart.


See also

*
List of number-one dance singles of 1993 (U.S.) ''Billboard'' magazine compiled the top-performing dance singles in the United States on the Hot Dance Music Club Play chart and the Hot Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart. Premiered in 1976, the Club Play chart ranked the most-played singles ...
* List of number-one dance singles of 1993 (Canada) *
List of number-one dance singles of 2015 (U.S.) These are the ''Billboard'' magazine's number-one dance songs of 2015 on the Dance Club Songs and the Dance/Mix Show Airplay. The Hot Dance Club Songs was first published in 1976, ranking the most popular songs on dance club based on reports fro ...


References

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