"Disco Dancer" is a song by the American new wave band Devo, written by Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale.

According to Devo bassist and co-songwriter Gerald Casale, he and Mark Mothersbaugh came up with the idea of a character in the vein of John Travolta's from Saturday Night Fever (1977) falling "into a Rip Van Winkle sleep", and then waking up 15 years later to culture shock.

[2] He elaborated further in a 2020 interview with Pitchfork:[3] Devo used to rehearse in Marina Del Rey and, on the way there, I'd go by the Little India section of Los Angeles.

Around 1980, these Indian performers started copying things from MTV, but their versions were surreal and a hundred times better.

The video footage was recorded from two parties that the band threw, one in New York City and the other one in Los Angeles.