Kenny Loggins, Danger Zone | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 46^th edition of Throwback Vibez (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins. 

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 46^th edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Danger Zone”, performed by Kenny Loggins.

Five words: “Highway to the Danger Zone.” The 80s are alive and well on “Danger Zone”, among the biggest hits by Kenny Loggins. “Danger Zone,” which appears in the 1986 box office smash, Top Gun, peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, one of five top-10 hits by the rock/pop artist (“Footloose” gave Loggins his sole no. 1 hit).  The legendary Giorgio Moroder and Thomas Whitlock penned the record, with Moroder producing.

Regarding sound, the 80s aesthetic – the vibe –  is constructed by pummeling drums, ripe guitar riffs, and keys. “Danger Zone” is a groove-fest from the onset. While the sound is a bright spot, even brighter is the amazing Kenny Loggins.  His voice is on-point, PERIOD.  Furthermore, Loggins delivers plenty of tuneful melodies throughout.  Additionally, the lyrics are fun, whether it’s “Revvin’ up your engine / Listen to her howlin’ roar” (verse one) or “She got you jumpin’ off the deck / And shovin’ into overdrive.” Woo! Of course, no moment is more tuneful than the chorus (excerpted above), which continues with lyrics like “Gonna take it right into the Danger Zone” and “Ride into the Danger Zone.” The ‘Danger Zone’ is dangerous to the nth degree on “Danger Zone” one of the epic 80s gems.

Kenny Loggins // Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow – The Greatest Hits of Kenny Loggins // Sony Music Entertainment // 1997

Kenny Loggins, Danger Zone: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 46 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Sony Music Entertainment; OpenClipart-Vectors, Speedy McVroom via  Pixabay]