The accompanying music video for "Ooops Up" was directed by Liam Kan and is in both black-and-white and colours. He called it "a sort of cover of the Gap Band's "Ooops Upside Your Head" mixed with a dodgy reinterpretation of " Little Miss Muffet"." Music video Tom Doyle from Smash Hits declared it as "one of the best attempts" in matching the brilliance of their debut, "The Power". Already one of the most danced to songs in the country." A reviewer from Newcastle Evening Chronicle named "Ooops Up" one of the best songs of the World Power album. ĭavid Giles from Music Week felt it has "a shuffling rhythm distinctive enough to earn them another big success." Gene Sandbloom from The Network Forty described it as a "powerful bass busting track combining rap and song. Another editor, Andrew Smith, called it "juddery funk". Bill Coleman from Billboard commented, "Sizzling hip-hop jam should help act maintain " the power" over club and radio jocks." Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report wrote that "reaching into The Gap Band songbook, this powerhouse outfit comes up with the perfect remake, giving it a glowing nineties treatment." Push from Melody Maker remarked that the song "was an attempt at something a little different" than sticking around with the same formula as " The Power". The song was awarded with a gold record in Australia (35,000), Austria (25,000), Sweden (25,000) and the US (500,000), and a silver record in the United Kingdom (200,000).ĪllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton noted that the song is a "remake/takeoff" of the Gap Band's nonsensical funk riff " Oops Upside Your Head". On the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs chart, it peaked at number four. Outside Europe, "Ooops Up" reached number-one on the RPM Dance/Urban chart in Canada, number four in Australia, number five in Zimbabwe, number eight in New Zealand and number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It stayed at that position for two weeks. In the latter, the single peaked at number five in its third week on the UK Singles Chart, on 24 June 1990. It entered the top 10 also in Belgium (4), Denmark (10), Finland (4), Italy (3), Spain (6) and the UK. And it reached the number two position in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and West Germany. Like its predecessor, "Ooops Up" was very successful on the charts on several continents, peaking at number-one in Greece. Its music video was directed by Liam Kan. The narrator talks about it and everything that went wrong during his day.
Lyrically the song is about Murphy's Law. The single was a world-wide hit and reached number-one in Greece. The song is a re-working of " I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Ooops!)" a 1980 hit by The Gap Band, with which band member Penny Ford was a former backing singer. Though it failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at number two on its Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart), the song hit the top ten on the US R&B and disco charts and became a big-seller overseas where it peaked at number six in the UK in 1980 and number six in the Netherlands." Ooops Up" is a song by German Eurodance group Snap!, released in June 1990 as the second single from their debut studio album, World Power (1990). The single became an international hit for the group upon its late 1979 release. In 1987, a 12" remix was released in the UK with a dub version B-side. It was later released once again as the B-side to some copies of the remix version of "Party Lights". Then in 1980, due to its popularity, it was flipped and re-titled with just "The Boys Are Back in Town" as the B-side. In the UK, the track first surfaced in mid-late 1979 as the B-side of the 12" release of "The Boys Are Back in Town" / "Steppin' (Out)". In France, the single was a 7" with no B-side. In the Netherlands, the 12" B-side was "The Boys Are Back in Town".
In the United States, it was a 12" with the B-side being "Party Lights". The single was released in several countries in different formats. " I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops!)" Ronnie Wilson, Rudy Taylor, Robert Wilson, Lonnie Simmons, Charlie Wilson
"Party Lights" / "The Boys Are Back in Town" (Netherlands)."The Boys Are Back in Town" (UK MER22/X22).
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