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Despite the French songwriters, the songs lyrics were all in English as Morali and Belolo used American lyricists. On the first album, they brought in songwriting legends Phil Hurtt and the aforementioned Peter Whitehead. For the next three albums (and on other Can't Stop Productions such as Ritchie Family and Patrick Juvet) lead singer Willis was the lyricist.
 
Their original career was derailed by 1980's ''Can't Stop the Music'', a musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker. It is a pseudo-biography of the group which bears only a vague resemblance to the actual story of their formation. ''Newsweek'' described the movie like this: "''Can't Stop the Music'' ushers in a whole new concept in entertainment -- it's the first all-singing, all-dancing horror film; the ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' of the disco era." This movie, along with ''[[Xanadu (Film)|Xanadu]]'', inspired [[John Wilson]] to created the [[Golden Raspberry Award|Golden Raspberry Awards]] to <s>dis</s>honor the worst that Hollywood had to offer, and contributed to rendering the movie musical genre [[Deader Than Disco]] (how apropos) for about twenty years.
 
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=== '''Village People has examples of:''' ===
 
* [[Backed Byby the Pentagon|Backed By the Navy]]: The music video for "In The Navy" was shot on deck of the USS Reasoner in San Diego, the Navy not only didn't charge the group a dime but helped shoot the video. It was planned to be a recruitment bid but objections were raised about taxpayers supporting a controversial group. [[What Could Have Been|Oh the]] [[Hello, Sailor!|irony.]]
* [[Dance Sensation]]: Most significantly, the "Y.M.C.A.". It has become an [[Ascended Meme]] by the official [http://ymca.net/about-us/ YMCA website], which uses the dance on their "About Us" tab.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: A POV shot up the Indian's loincloth in ''Can't Stop the Music''.
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* [[Manly Gay]]: At least when it was new and fresh. It has become retroactively more [[Camp]] as it has aged.
* [[Wrestling Doesn't Pay|Music Doesn't Pay]]: Despite the acclaim they still have to work as policemen/construction workers/etc.
* [[Nobody Over 50 Is Gay]]: Back in the 1970s, it was still fairly common for folks to assume that everyone was straight, and the Village People's [[Transparent Closet|blatant]] [[Manly Gay]]/[[Faux Yay]] theatrics were not yet universally [[Gaydar|recognized]] by the audience. Possibly the most extreme example of this was the '''Department of the Navy''' backing "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw In the Navy]" as part of a television ad campaign for Navy recruitment.
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]
* [[Repurposed Pop Song]]: "Go West", which uses notes from the Soviet national anthem. [[Pet Shop Boys]] did a cover version which became more popular and was used in a few commericals.
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