Dancing With the Devil (Flavia song)

Dancing With the Devil is the debut single by Brazilian recording artist Flavia, which was released when she was eight years old. The song was released on 11th July 2010, and was featured on the collaborative album, Street Pop Vol. 1. For some radio stations which have a policy against religious content, the song was re-recorded as Dancing with a Demon.

Background
In January 2010, Flavia was signed to Favelopia for her eighth birthday. In order for her to receive media popularity, her mentor, Mask Torn, and her father, Assa Darson, agreed to write a song for Flavia to sing and release by the summer of 2010.

The song was written by both Mask Torn and Darson, whilst the instrumental was produced by Xtreme D. Talking about writing the song, Mask Torn said in an interview "I wanted to make an easy-to-sing song. She is just a kid, so I didn't want to give her too much."

Music video
The music video was filmed, according to Mask Torn, in April 2010, and uploaded to the emimusic YouTube channel on 7th May 2010. In the video, Flavia gets possessed by what appears to be the devil when she comes across and picks up a piece of meteorite. When possessed, Flavia goes on a rampage in the streets, doing things like locking people in their cars, breaking windows to pieces and hypnotising several animals to wreck the city. The video has over 70 million YouTube views as of February 2018. It was deleted from the emimusic channel in 2014, and was uploaded to the newly-created FlaviaVEVO (albeit stretched to 16:9 and shortened).

There is a “dance cut” seen on MTV in the Island of Sally, which is intercut with scenes of Flavia dancing in a red and black striped T-shirt, black jeans and with devil horns on her head. There is also a full version of the dance cut, taken from the MTV Uncut channel in the same country. This was apparently in order to make people not focus entirely on how she ripped off "Get Ready For It".

A “twisted version” was leaked, where Flavia murders her school rival, played by Mary Lee. It has a red overlay and is blurred in some shots. Some scenes are 21:9 for extra drama. Flavia was not actually holding the gun nor smoking the cigarette. The video is often mocked on the internet for being very unrealistic. It is also banned in some countries because it ripped off the music video for "Get Ready For It" by Zara Dawson.

Promotion
Flavia performed an early version of the song on Kickstart on 24th April 2010. She later appeared during Kickstart the Gunge that day, releasing the gunge over Ericka Streets (which was usually done by Spy Fandel).

The song was used in advertisments for Dr. Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training: Can You Stay Focused? and South Korean washing machine ads.

It appears as a bonus track on most editions of Seeing Stars.

Track listing

 * 1) "Dancing With the Devil" (Main Version)
 * 2) "Dancing With the Devil" (Extended Version)
 * 3) "Dancing With the Devil" (Karaoke Version)