Canada’s Alex Simpson has brought together three gay icons for one epic pop track.
The 23-year-old Toronto DJ posted a mashup of Madonna’s 2005 hit “Hung Up” and Cher’s brand new cover of the ABBA classic “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight).”
Online, a lot of people are loving it.
“There are really no words (besides flawless, epic, iconic, legendary) to describe how perfect this is,” gushed Jordan Miller at BreatheHeavy.com. “Alex Simpson, you are my hero.”
Patrick Crowley at billboard.com called it a “brilliant” mashup and “a club-ready diva showdown, where the living legends interpolate over an euphoric soundscape.”
In a comment on YouTube, Sina Manon said simply: “what a time to be alive. iconic.”
Simpson said his mashup was played more than 500,000 times in its first 48 hours online. On YouTube, it garnered more than 145,000 plays in three days.
Cher released her version of “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” on Thursday as the first single from her forthcoming ABBA cover album, Dancing Queen, out Sept. 28.
Turn it up and get ready to dance: