"Excited" is a song by the British band M People, released in September 1992 as the fourth and final single from their first album, Northern Soul (1991), though it only appeared on the re-release.

After three Top 40 hits, where each single had charted lower than the one before, M People went back into the studio to record some new tracks for a 1992 re-release of their first album.

On its third, top 40 offering, singer Heather Small bounces over a lively, Philly soul-influenced groove with a performance that is, by turns, giddy and hearty.

The US video, filmed in summer 1994 between the second and third albums (Elegant Slumming and Bizarre Fruit), shows all members of the band, including the Bizarre Fruit musicians: Andy Gangadeen on drums, backing vocalists Paul Johnson and Lynieve Austin and percussionist Shovel, who at this point had become full member.

Halfway through the song and leading towards the middle eight of “You and me, so excited”, the revellers one-by-one start to jump into the pool and continue to have fun.

The artwork for the CD single is simply 16 differently shaded red rectangles laid out in a 4 x 4 pattern with two of the boxes coloured a starkly bright yellow.

The US artwork also has the same 16 differently shaded red rectangles laid out in a 4 x 4 pattern but two of the yellow boxes are in a different arrangement; one is in the bottom right corner on the 12-inch (bottom centre right on the CD single) and the other is mid-centre directly above the centre banner and contains an image of the Elegant Slumming album cover sofa portrait of Pickering, Johnson and Shovel because the single was on the US version of that album.