50+ Music<p>"Maniac" is a song from the 1983 film <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Flashdance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flashdance</span></a> that was written by Dennis Matkosky and its performer, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MichaelSembello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MichaelSembello</span></a>. The original idea for the song came to Matkosky while watching a news report on a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/serialKiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serialKiller</span></a>, which inspired gruesome lyrics that he and Sembello expanded upon after finding a 1980 horror film with the same name. When Flashdance director <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AdrianLyne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdrianLyne</span></a> grew attached to the demo of the song used during filming. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvYQ1TNbf2g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=qvYQ1TNbf2</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p>