[2] Kershaw explained the song to Number One magazine in September 1984:[3] "Dancing Girls" is about a bloke a bit down on his luck.

He's got a job and everything but he's bored sick with the routine of getting up, going to work, coming home, watching the telly, going to bed ... in the end he's saying, "For God's sake, bring on the dancing girls!

[4] The external street scenes for the music video for "Dancing Girls" were filmed in the dead-end section of Woodberry Grove, Finchley, North London.

[3] It depicted Kershaw as the subject of the song's lyrics, an advertising executive,[5] imagining himself dancing with a group of middle aged dancers, including a six foot tall traffic warden, deliberately juxtaposed against Kershaw's 5'3" (160 cm) frame.

[3] 7" Single (MCA NIK 3)[6] 12" Single (MCA NIKT 3)[6] There were four different UK 12" releases for "Dancing Girls", all sharing the same catalogue number Reviewer Paul Sinclair of website "Super Deluxe Edition" said of the song:[8] ...third single "Dancing Girls" is an outstanding piece of pure electro/synth pop that walks in the shadow of little in that era.Lisa Kalloo of Somojo2 said:[9] Dancing Girls captures the essence of teenybopping yesteryears.