Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Title of song: Freak of the Week Artist: Funkadelic Title of album: Uncle Jam Wants You Year of first release: 1979 Trivia: Description of music: Complete tabs at [external site with complete tabs] Songwriters: George Clinton, P. Bishop???, Dewayne McKnight Memorable Lyrics: "She's a big freak, tell by the company she keeps/She's a disco lovin' mama, at the disco's where you'll find her/Gotta be, she got to be freak of the week, yeah" "Don't give her that one move groovalistic,/That disco sadistic,/That one beat up and down it just won't do." Complete lyrics at the Motherpage This song is about a disco fan who loves to dance. She is the titular "freak of the week," perhaps a reference to the fleeting nature of fame in the disco music scene, where only a handful of artists ever achieved more than a brief moment of fame. Personnel: Critical response: This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.