"Sunglasses at Night" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Corey Hart. It was the first single to be released off his debut album, 1984's First Offense, and became a hit single in the United States, rising to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1984. The song is considered by many to be a classic of 1980s pop rock and New Wave music, combining an unflagging synthesizer hook, characteristic arpeggio, rock guitar, obscure lyrics and a punk undercurrent throughout the song.
The song is included in numerous hits collections of the period, especially in the U.S., but it was not as popular throughout the rest of the world at the time. Peaking at #24 in Hart's native Canada, it was not a hit in Europe and failed to chart at all in the UK.
In 2002, 19 years after the original version release, the song was re-recorded, with Original 3 as the producer of the 2002 remake.
* The song was covered in electro style by Tiga and Zyntherius in 2001.
* Former N- Sync singer JC Chasez featured the song's signature synthesized hook throughout "Come To Me", a track from his 2004 album Schizophrenic, for which he credited Hart as a co-writer.
* In 2006, the song was covered by rap group The Federation with rappers E-40 and Keak Da Sneak, retitled as "I Wear My Stunna Glasses at Night", a reference to the popularity of "Stunna Shades" within the hyphy movement. 2007 saw covers by Dj Size feat. J. Lourenzo and Francis Soto (nu metal version), plus a mashup by UK mashup artist Cheekyboy of Justin Timberlake's Sexyback using elements of this song.
* Divine Brown samples the main riff in her 2008 song Sunglasses, and near the end of the track she says the tag line, "I wear my sunglasses at night". Voodoo & Serano covered "Sunglasses at Night" in 2009.
The song made #50 in VH1's 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs of all Time.
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