"Electric Youth" is the seventh single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from American singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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-actress Deborah Gibson

Deborah Gibson

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1987 she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, with her song "Foolish Beat" and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and...

, and the second from her second album Electric Youth

Electric Youth

Electric Youth is the second album by Debbie Gibson, released January 24, 1989 on Atlantic Records. It is the most successful album of her career, staying at the top of the Billboard Hot Albums chart for five weeks, and reaching Number 8 on the UK album chart.- Album :As with Out of the Blue, all...

(LP 81932). Produced by Fred Zarr

Fred Zarr

Fred Zarr is an American musician, songwriter and song producer based in Brooklyn, NY. CEO of BiZarr Music, Inc., he works alongside numerous singers and songwriters at his Brooklyn studio....

 and engineered by Phil Castellano for BiZarr Music, Inc., it became one of her most famous songs, peaking at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 and fourteen on the UK Singles Chart

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. Douglas Breitbart was executive producer.

Gibson

Deborah Gibson

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1987 she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, with her song "Foolish Beat" and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and...

had written the song as a statement about how young people of that era were seen and how their ideas were often ignored. As a teenager herself, she was a firm believer that the beliefs and ideas held by young people were just as important as those held by adults and the song reminded people of this. It also reminded them that the current youth would become the next generation of adults.

The music video was directed by Gibson and Jim Yukich and was nominated for a moonman at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction in a video.

Track listing (Special DJ release, Atlantic UK A8919A)

"PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE"

"Electric Youth"

A. Special DJ Edit (3:37)

B. LP Version (4:55)

Track listing (Atlantic DM 86427)

"Electric Youth"

1. (Deep House Mix/7:35)

2. (Shep's House Dub/5:51)

3. (LP Version/4:55)

4. (The Electro Mix/6:37)

5. (Electric Dub Gone Haywire/6:31)

"We Could Be Together"

6. (LP Version/5:33) (Mislabelled Campfire Mix this DM)

_{Both songs written by Deborah Gibson - Music Sales Corp., ASCAP}