Flashdance Episode #859
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Dance month continues as Cathy and Todd discuss the 1983 film Flashdance, directed by Adrian Lyne and written by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas, a movie that helped define the early-1980s MTV-style of filmmaking with its fast cuts, dance scenes, and unforgettable soundtrack. Starring Jennifer Beals as Alex, a young steel mill welder who dances at night while dreaming of becoming a professional dancer, the film blends working-class ambition and romance. They discuss why the movie became such a cultural moment, from its Oscar-winning song “Flashdance… What a Feeling” by Irene Cara to its iconic fashion and dance scenes, while also focusing on some of the film’s contradictions around female ambition, performance, and power. Last week was Footloose, next week, Billy Elliott!
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| 0:00.0 | You walk out there and the music starts and you feel it. |
| 0:04.0 | Your body just moves. |
| 0:06.0 | There's something inside of you that just clicks and you're gone. |
| 0:09.0 | It's like you're somebody else for a while. |
| 0:14.0 | Her name is Alex. |
| 0:19.0 | She works in a man's world. |
| 0:24.2 | She dances in a world of her dreams. |
| 0:28.0 | Flash dance. |
| 0:29.4 | That's about enough, right? |
| 0:30.8 | I think that's the gist. |
| 0:32.5 | She works in a man's world. |
| 0:34.5 | Dances in her dreams. |
| 0:35.7 | That's right. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:37.5 | My name's Todd Adams. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm with Zen Pop. |
| 0:39.3 | And this is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:40.3 | We are here to talk about a movie from 1983 called Flash Dance. |
| 0:45.9 | Same year the White Sox won the Western Division and then lost to the Baltimore Orioles. |
| 0:51.8 | That's my main. |
| 0:53.4 | Do you have any memories from 1983, sweetie, or not really? |
| 0:56.3 | Besides loving this album, no. |
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