While the movie Xanadu doesn’t quite scream "future," it was way ahead of its time. Hello psychedelic light bursts and neon auras! I watched a clip last night and suddenly realized that the rollerskatin’ movie about a girl who makes dreams come true may have made the mashup come true as well.
The film, out in 1980, has a rather long sequence where Gene Kelly and Michael Beck (of Warriors fame) imagine what type of music their roller rink will feature — a bandstand or "a great rock ‘n’ roll band — this is the ’80s!"
A type of dream sequence begins as characters in each of the imaginary bands jam and grind independently until suddenly their stages begin to intermingle as do their tracks. By the end of the clip (6 minutes and 14 seconds into this YouTube clip), the bands have become one awesome remix. Could Olivia Newton-John’s disco fever flick have introduced the mashup?
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