Marcia Griffiths’ ‘Electric Boogie’ Featured In ‘She-Hulk’

Marcia Griffiths and Bunny Wailer’s Electric Boogie and the Electric Slide line dance are staples at wedding receptions across the world, so it was fitting that the song appeared in the “self-contained wedding episode” of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, aired on Disney+.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series, created by Jessica Gao, sees the star Jennifer “Jen” Walters during a fight scene in Episode 6 with villain Titania—who throws the first blow. Jen, who was a little too intoxicated, forgot how to transform into her superhero self initially.

But once she did, it was game on!

DJ In-Ched-able expertly inserts Electric Boogie as the two go tit for tat on the dance floor. Ultimately, Titania slips on some ice cubes, breaks her veneers and quickly retreats out of embarrassment.

Early last year, Griffiths revealed that the Electric Boogie was first recorded as a duet by herself and her childhood friend Bunny Wailer in 1983, and later propelled by music mogul Chris Blackwell of Island Records in 1989. 

Bunny was also the writer and producer of the original song but afterward also did a second version which he recorded in solo form.  The vinyl record of the 1983 original version clearly denotes Marcia as singer and Bunny Wailer as producer, arranger and background vocalist.

Electric Boogie became her biggest hit after Chris Blackwell suggested that she should do a remix, which later rose up the Billboard charts and also became her most requested song.

“When I contacted Chris, Chris said big companies not gonna promote singles, so let’s do a remix.  So that’s when we went to the studio with the Miami Sound Machine and we did the remix,” Griffiths told entertainment journalist Anthony Miller during an interview.

She further marveled at the fact that the song and the dance has outlived so many other dance songs that came before and after it, noting that it was the Electric Slide dance which was created by a group from Washington, that made the song ultra-famous.

“The dance was what made it into what it is today… this dance has outlived the Madison, the Bus Stop the Cha-cha, the Macarena, name it.  All the weddings never complete unless they have done the electric slide.  This wasn’t even a song which was a message song.  This was just a happy song, party song, a fun song everything was spontaneous. We never sit on anything,” she explained at the time.

In July, Electric Slide was sampled by Cardi B on her new song Hot Sh*t, which featured Kanye West and Lil Durk.   According to Wailer’s former manager Maxine Stowe, the sample had been cleared by Bunny’s publisher, Tafari Music.

She-Hulk premiere on August 18, 2022, and will consist of nine episodes, concluding on October 13.