| Over My Head | |
| Cover: | Toni Basil - Over My Head.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Toni Basil |
| Album: | Toni Basil |
| Released: | 1983 |
| Recorded: | Radialchoice/Chrysalis |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Mike Chapman |
| Prev Title: | Shoppin' from A to Z |
| Prev Year: | 1983 |
| Next Title: | Street Beat |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
"Over My Head" is a song by American singer Toni Basil. It was featured on her self-titled 1983 album,[1] and reached number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100[2] and number 4 on the US Dance chart.
"Over My Head" was the second single from Toni Basil's 1983 album Toni Basil.[3] The song was released as a 12" record by Chrysalis and Virgin Records.[4] The song was also featured on her 1994 greatest hits compilation The Best of Toni Basil: Mickey & Other Love Songs.[5]
A music video for the song was released, directed by Basil and Michelle Simmons.[6]
The video starts with Basil dancing in front of several paperback mystery novels, before being zapped into one of the books. She is suddenly featured in a dark room, clad in vampire-like fashion. She then appears on the cover of another mystery novel, before she is shown stuck on train tracks as a train flies over her. The train suddenly becomes a plane. Basil finally escapes the books and continues dancing in front of them.[7]
The video was nominated for "Best Choreography" at the first MTV Music Video Awards, in 1984. The video lost, however, to Michael Jackson's "Thriller."[8]
The song reached number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending a total of 6 weeks on the chart; it was her final single to reach the Hot 100. The song also went to number 4 on the US Dance chart.[9] "Over My Head" was the final charting single that Basil's record label, Radial Choice, had before folding in 1984.[10]
| Chart (1984) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 81 | |
| US Dance Songs | 4 |