Movements

1996 was a succesful year for Jenny Nagy. The show Life in the City premiered to an audience of 15 milliom viewers on the 6th of September.
On February 6th, production for her 2nd studio album, titled Movements, began. Nagy decided to make the album a tribute to the 1980s. The 10 songs have at least one small part of 80's music style. The produced hired to work on the project was Mark Roswell, who had produced the successful Rosie Closs album, White Me and Go. Ron Jones felt that he'd do an excellent job working with Nagy. Roswell stated the following in an interview for Rolling Stone on July 7, 1997
"I personally enjoyed working with Jenny. She is a fun loving person, entertaining, hard to dislike, I'm so glad to have produced the album with her, it's one of the best pieces of music I've worked on. It deserved the success it got.
The musicians hired to work on the album were:
-Sam Johnson, guitarist of the band Demoms in Heaven
-Austin Robertson, a producer for Sony Music
-Steve Andersson, manager of the band Gone Love
-Michael Cross, drummer of the band None and
-Tyler Greene, producer for many pop and rock artists.
The first song to be recorded was "I Was There", recorded between April 1 and 7, 1996. April 7, 1996 remains to date the only time Nagy ever worked on a song on a Sunday; it was also the track that took to the longest amount of time to make; having to be recorded in over 70 takes. The second song to be recorded was "Calling You", which would be released as the album's third single. It was recorded between May 6 and 9, 1996. The track Dancing All Around was recorded first on May 31, it is well known for being the first song ever to use auto-tune, there is a version with no auto-tune, which Nagy personally prefers and was supposed to be released on the album, but on June 7, when the track was worked on again, Roswell suggested adding the auto-tune. Nagy was furious with Roswell, because she didn't want a change in her voice for one of the tracks. It was eventually agreed that the auto-tuned version would be released.
The opening track "Disco Ball" was recorded on July 3. The final single of the album "Secrets" was recorded on August 5 and 6. The closing track "The Last Chance" was recorded on the 27th of that month.
The lead single "Energetic Girl" was recorded on September 3rd, and became one of the most successful singles of the 1990s, selling over 13 million copies, and also one of the quickest-produced tracks for the album.
The title track was recorded on the 16th day of September. The song "I Imagine" was recorded on October 7, it was at one point, written for Elton John. The shortest track on the album, "Do You Remember When", was worked on from November 4 to 8.
Production was finished on December 2 with all the 10 tracks mentioned above being selected. Originally the album was going to have 20 tracks, then 14 before it was shortened to just 10.
The lead single, "Energetic Girl" was released on April 7, 1997, and became the most successful single to come out of the album. "Dancing All Around" was released as the album's second single on May 26th; the day of the album's original released.
The album was released on June 30, 1997. It was pushed from its original date, May 26th, so that Nagy could finish her school studies. The album sold over 19 million copies and was met with mostly positive reviews, it peaked at #1 in 19 countries and #2 in the USA, where it was certified gold.
The song "Calling You" was released as the album's third single on July 7th. It was not as successful as the previous two singles, but it managed to peak at #1 in Germany and a few other countries. "Secrets" was the final track to be released as a single, being so on August 25th. It peaked at #3 in the US and #1 in Australia, it was significantly better than the previous single but was not comparable to the first two singles.
The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 1998 Grammy Awards and the video for "Energetic Girl" was nominated for "Video of the Year" at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Track list:
1. Disco Ball 4:39
2. Dancing All Around 3:50
3. Do You Remember When...? 2:50
4. Energetic Girl 5:00
5. Movements 4:31
6. I Was There 3:22
7. Calling You 3:42
8. Secrets 4:55
9. I Imagine 3:31
10. The Last Chance 4:22
Total Length: 36:02