Renaissance is the seventh studio album by American disco group Village People, released in 1981 by RCA Records.

[1][3][4] David Hodo, the "construction worker", recalled in a 2014 interview with PopMatters that the RCA executives were "passing around ideas" for how to re-style the group.

One idea was for each member to wear a colorful, monochromatic fringed leather bodysuit, which Hodo deemed "awful".

[5] The second look that the label proposed, which the group agreed to, was a "New Romantic look, which was [like] Adam Ant and Spandau Ballet.

[1] Christopher Bickel of Dangerous Minds retrospectively deemed "Food Fight" a "stupefying punk rock masterpiece", comparing its style to Devo and "Weird Al" Yankovic, and opined that, "had the Village People followed Renaissance with an album full of songs in the 'Food Fight' vein, they easily could have been the greatest fake punk band of all time.