"I Feel Love" is a song by the American singer-songwriter

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. Produced and co-written by

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and Pete Bellotte, it was recorded for Summer's fifth studio album, '' I Remember Yesterday'' (1977). The album concept was to have each track evoke a different musical decade; for "I Feel Love", the team aimed to create a futuristic mood, employing a

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. "I Feel Love" was released as the B-side to the single " Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", which reached number 20 on the US ''Billboard'' R&B chart. Two months later, the single was reissued with the sides reversed. "I Feel Love" reached number one in countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and on the UK Singles Chart. It reached number three in West Germany and number six on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "I Feel Love" became popular during the

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era, influencing acts such as

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and Blondie. The ''

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'' named it one of the most influential records, laying the foundations for

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. In 2011, the

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added it to the

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as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important". It has been covered by acts including

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, while

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sampled it on her song " Summer Renaissance" from the 2022 album ''

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''.

Recording

In 1970s Munich,

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, led by the producers

and Pete Bellotte, had produced a number of

hits, including Donna Summer's 1975 single " Love to Love You Baby". Summer had moved from the US to Munich to perform in the musical ''Hair'', and had become a successful session vocalist. Moroder described her as "an incredibly talented singer, who could improvise but was also very disciplined". For Summer's fifth album, '' I Remember Yesterday'' (1977), the production team wanted each track to evoke a different musical decade, such as '40s swing, '60s

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s, and '70s

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and disco. For the final track, "I Feel Love", the team wanted to create a futuristic mood. Whereas most disco recordings had been backed by orchestras, the team produced "I Feel Love" with a

borrowed from the classical composer Eberhard Schoener, aided by Schoener's assistant, Robby Wedel. Wedel demonstrated how to synchronize the elements using a

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, a feat Moroder described as "a revelation". Wedel's help with the technically complex synthesizer proved essential and Moroder described him as the "unsung hero" of the project. "I Feel Love" was recorded on a 16-track tape recorder, with the various parts programmed on a sequencer. As the Moog went out of tune quickly, it had to be recorded in bursts of 20 or 30 seconds before being retuned. To create the

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sound, the team took

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generated by the Moog and processed it with an

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. As the Moog could not create a satisfactory

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sound, the kick was played on a drum kit by the drummer Keith Forsey. Aside from the vocals, the kick is the only element not played by a machine. The lyrics were written by Bellotte. Summer recorded her vocal in one take. In contrast to the deeper

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of most disco vocals, Summer sang in head voice.

Composition

"I Feel Love" was the first song to combine repetitive synthesizer loops with a continuous four-on-the-floor bass drum and an off-beat hi-hat, which became a main feature of

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and

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music ten years later. Unusually for a disco track of the era, Moroder composed the backing track and bassline before the melody. He introduced variety by altering the key at regular intervals and layering Summer's vocals. Each note of the bassline is doubled by a

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. The unmodified bassline plays through the left channel and the delayed repetition through the right, creating a flickering,

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-like effect. "I Feel Love" is in the key of

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, with electronic

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flavor, and choruses and interludes. The album version has a length of 5:53. It was extended to 8:15 for release as a 12-inch maxi-single, and is included on the 1987 compilation '' The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles''. The song was edited to 3:45 on the 7-inch format, the fade-in opening sound reaching maximum volume sooner and fades out before the third verse and final choruses. This version has been included on a large number of greatest hits packages and other compilations issued by PolyGram,

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and others, such as 1994's '' Endless Summer: Greatest Hits'' and 2003's '' The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer''. A new edit of 3:20 was released on Donna Summer's first compilation album '' On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II'' in 1979.

Critical reception

According to the singer

, during the recording of his

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, his collaborator

"came running in" and told him he had heard "the sound of the future". According to Bowie, Eno accurately predicted that "I Feel Love" would change the sound of club music for the next 15 years. ''

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'' said the song "establishes a mood first, then builds on it" and praised the "captivating" synthesizer. The critic Vince Aletti wrote that "the pace is fierce and utterly gripping with the synthesizer effects particularly aggressive and emotionally charged". He predicted that the track "should easily equal if not surpass" the success of "Love to Love You Baby" in the clubs.

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, the creator of the Moog synthesizer, was critical, saying:

Sales

"I Feel Love" peaked at number six on the US ''

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chart the week of November 12, 1977. It reached number nine on the Soul Singles Chart in October 1977. Its 1995 remix peaked at number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play chat. In the United Kingdom, "I Feel Love" peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart in July 1977, a position it maintained for four weeks. The 1982 and 1995 remixes of the song peaked at number 21 and number eight on the UK Singles Chart respectively, and sales of these physical singles totaled 956,400. According to the

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, together with digital sales, "I Feel Love" has sold 1.07 million copies in the United Kingdom as of June 2013, making it Britain's 103rd best-selling single of all time. Elsewhere, "I Feel Love" also topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands, and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Canada, West Germany, New Zealand, Norway, the

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, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland.

Legacy

In a 2017 feature on the song's 40th anniversary for ''

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wrote that "I Feel Love" had a significant impact on all genres for the next decade, including rock-leaning genres such as

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and new wave, and subsequent sub-genres of the

style the song had pioneered, including

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, house, techno, and

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. He wrote: "If any one song can be pinpointed as where the 1980s began, it's 'I Feel Love'." In 1996, ''

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'' named "I Feel Love" the 12th-greatest dance single, writing: "Whenever, however you hear this tune, it's guaranteed to make you smile, shut your eyes and trance out. The first electronic disco masterpiece, disco diva Donna and Moroder's finest, trippiest moment." In 2013, ''Mixmag'' named "I Feel Love" the 19th-greatest dance track.WHAT IS THE GREATEST DANCE TRACK OF ALL TIME?

, 2013 In 2006, '' Slant'' named it the greatest dance song, writing:

No longer would synthesizers remain the intellectual property of prog-classical geeks. And, separated from its LP context and taken as a Top 10 single, it didn't just suggest the future, it was the future. Cooing ascending couplets of an almost banal ecstasy, Summer's breathy vocals still dwelled in the stratosphere of her own manufactured sensation.

In 2011, ''

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s Richard Vine ranked the release of "I Feel Love" as one of 50 key events in the history of dance music, writing that it was "one of the first ongsto fully utilise the potential of electronics, replacing lush disco orchestration with the hypnotic precision of machines". In 2015, '' Time Out'' named it the 12th-best "party song", writing: "Sometimes a song comes along that’s so innovative that it changes the shape of the musical landscape for decades, whilst also getting you to shake yo bootay. This timeless, Giorgio Moroder–produced disco anthem from 1977 did exactly that, becoming the first purely electronic jam to make it big and pretty much inventing dance music in the process." (The article has been reworked several times over the years, moving "I Feel Love" up to number 5 and then removing the song entirely.) In 2023, ''Pride Life Global'' ranked it as one of the best gay anthems. In 2022, ''

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'' ranked "I Feel Love" number 1 in their list of the "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" and in 2024, they ranked the song No. 52 in their "

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" list. In March 2025, ''

'' magazine ranked "I Feel Love" No. 1 in their "The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time" list.

Accolades

(*) indicates the list is unordered.

Track listings

* US 7-inch # "I Feel Love" – 5:53 # "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" – 4:25 * US Promo 7-inch # "I Feel Love" – 3:42 # "I Feel Love" - 3:42 * 12-inch maxi # "I Feel Love" – 8:15 # " Love to Love You" – 16:50 * Single-Side - 12-inch maxi # "I Feel Love" – 8:15 # " Theme from ''The Deep'' (Down, Deep Inside)" – 6:06

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Patrick Cowley remix

In 1978, American disco and Hi-NRG DJ Patrick Cowley created a 15:43 remix of "I Feel Love" which became a popular "underground classic", available only for members of the Disconet remix service. Cowley used loops to keep the bass-line going for extended passages of overdubbed effects and synthesiser parts. In mid-1980, Cowley's mix was released with the title "I Feel Love / I Feel Megalove" and subtitle "The Patrick Cowley MegaMix", but only on a limited vinyl pressing by the DJ-only subscription service Disconet. Since this pressing was not available to the general public for commercial sale, it became highly sought after by collectors. In 1982, it was released as a 12-inch single in the UK market by

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, backed with an 8-minute edited version. With this wider release, "I Feel Love" became a dance floor hit again, five years after its debut. A further-edited 7-inch single reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart. The Patrick Cowley mix was out of print until it was released on the bonus disc of the 2003 UK edition of ''The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer'' and the

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compilation album ''Grand 12-Inches''. It also exists on the 2013 double disc ''I Feel Love: The Collection''.

1995 and 2013 remixes

Following 1993's '' The Donna Summer Anthology'' and 1994's ''Endless Summer: Greatest Hits'', both released by PolyGram, "I Feel Love" was re-released on the PolyGram sublabel

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in a newly remixed form as a single in 1995, including mixes by Masters at Work and production duo Rollo & Sister Bliss of UK electronic group

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– and also new vocals by Summer. The single became a UK number 8 hit, the second time the song had entered the Top 10, and the '95 Radio Edit was later included as a bonus track on PolyGram France's version of the ''Endless Summer'' compilation. The 1995 release also peaked at number 80 in Australia. In 2013, a remix by Dutch DJ

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was released together with remixes by other DJs of other Donna Summer songs on the remix album '' Love to Love You Donna''.

Reception

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for ''

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'' complimented the 1995 remix for "not to tinker too much with the near-perfect realisation of the original", stating that it "still sounds as fresh as the day it was made". Alan Jones from ''

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'' felt the Masters At Work mixes of the track are "a trifle disappointing", while praising the Rollo & Sister Bliss remix. He explained, "The Rollo & Sister Bliss mix grows and grows, picking up vocals and some nifty and airy synth riffs along the way, building into a superb house stomper. A masterful piece of work, and one that will surely launch the new Manifesto label in style." Rupert Howe from ''

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'' wrote, "La Summer needs no introduction, 'I Feel Love' being one of the greatest moments in the long and

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-riddled history of D-I-S-C-O — a sequins-and-spangles surge of Moroder-produced dancefloor dynamite with a chorus offering more uplift than a wardrobe full of wonderbras." The ''

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'' Dance Update stated, "The big guns are brought out to remix the classic disco anthem – Rollo and MAW". Helen Lamont from ''

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'' gave it a top score of five out of five, saying, "If you haven't heard 'I Feel Love' and you don't trust your aunt's taste, fear not. It's actually great! you can't help but love it, and it comes with the added bonus of watching your assorted relatives making a right fool of themselves in the living room. More power to the Queen of Disco."

Track listings

* 7-inch, UK (1995) # "I Feel Love" (

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& Sister Bliss Monster mix) – 3:50 # "I Feel Love" (Summer 77 Re-EQ '95) – 5:51 * CD single, Europe (1995) # "I Feel Love" (Rollo & Sister Bliss Monster mix) (radio edit) – 3:54 # "I Feel Love" (Rollo & Sister Bliss Monster mix) – 6:30 # "I Feel Love" (12-inch MAW mix) – 6:08 * CD maxi, Canada (1995) # "I Feel Love" (Rollo & Sister Bliss Monster mix) – 6:31 # "I Feel Love" (Masters at Work 86th St. mix) – 6:09 # "I Feel Love" (Summer '77 Re-EQ '95) – 5:51 # " Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)" ( Junior Vasquez DMC remix) – 5:53

Charts

Bronski Beat version

British

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included a medley of "I Feel Love" with "

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" on their gay-themed album '' The Age of Consent'' in 1984. The album charted in many markets and went platinum in the UK and Canada, with

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s " Smalltown Boy" and " Why?" hitting the top 10 in the UK, Australia, Germany, France, and several other European markets, as well as being popular on U.S. dancefloors.

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and as a solo artist. The 1985 remix album '' Hundreds & Thousands'' included two new recordings with Somerville and remixes of ''The Age of Consent'' songs; it was released in 1985. The "I Feel Love" medley was extended with an intro of a cover of Summer's " Love to Love You Baby" and

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's "Johnny Remember Me" with some new vocals from

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from

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; it was released as a single that hit No. 3 in the UK.

Messiah version

English electronic duo

released its version of "I Feel Love" in 1992, featuring singer Precious Wilson on vocals. This version was a top-20 hit, peaking at No. 19 on the UK Singles Chart. In the US, it was released as a single in 1994 and reached No. 15 on the US ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart in early 1995, spending a total of 10 weeks on the chart.

Critical reception

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from ''

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hit for a several seconds now. Given the influence the original '70s-era recording has had on a generation of

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rebels, it is hard to believe that no one has mustered the courage to take it on sooner. Messiah handles the track with obvious reverence, though it injects a frenzied energy that is instantly infectious. Do not miss Steveo's nifty new remix."

Track listings

* UK 12-inch :A. "I Feel Love" – 4:11 :B1. "The Future Is Ours" – 3:45 :B2. "I Feel Love (Voxless)" – 4:03 * US 12-inch maxi :A1. "I Feel Love" (Centurion Mix) :A2. "I Feel Love" (Journey of Love) :A3. "I Feel Love" (Sellout Pussy Radio Mix) :B1. "I Feel Love" (I Feel Dub) :B2. "I Feel Love" (Kiss My Beat and Move) :B3. "I Feel Love" (American Version)

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Vanessa-Mae version

Singaporean-born British singer-violinist Vanessa-Mae released a cover of "I Feel Love" in December 1997. It peaked at number 41 on the UK Singles Chart, and spent two weeks on the chart. The song was the second single from Vanessa-Mae's 1997 album ''Storm''.

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* CD1 (CDEM503) # "I Feel Love" (Single Version) - 4.23 # "Storm" (Single Version) - 3.48 # "

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" (Stradosphere Mix) - 8.15 * CD2 (CDEMS503) # "I Feel Love" (Single Version) - 4.23 # "I Feel Love" ( Klubbheads vs Rollercoaster Mix) - 8.29 # "I Feel Love" (D-Bop Saturday Nite Mix) - 8.47

Sam Smith version

British singer

released a cover of "I Feel Love" on November 1, 2019. Smith described it as a queer anthem and the "highest song" they had ever sung. The song was planned for inclusion on Smith's third studio album, ''

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'', but was removed after Smith delayed the album release.

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* Digital download / streaming #"I Feel Love" – 4:14 * 12-inch picture disc #"I Feel Love" #"I Feel Love" (Extended)

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Patrick Cowley remix

1995 and 2013 remixes

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Bronski Beat version

Messiah version

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