It is a rare for songs to involuntarily elicit actual physical reactions from their listeners. These songs beg for an effect; in fact, they don't wait - they stick a gun to one's head and demand a dance move or two.
In many ways, this is the ultimate goal any song strives for: to transform itself from an object to a catalyst, or even a subject. In a time when music gets analyzed to death, dissected to its core elements, and drained of all life, it is refreshing to have songs that escape intellectualization and live purely in the realm of the physical.
"Groove is in the Heart" is one of those few songs which exude pure joy and places an involuntary smile on its listener's face. It is a song where the hipster head-shake-and-foot-tap seem woefully inadequate. It does not pretend to be anything more than a tune designed to bring people to the dance floor. And for its sheer bliss and lack of pretension, the world (or at least, the dance floor) is a better place for four minutes.
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