"High Energy" is a song co-written and co-produced by Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench and performed by American singer Evelyn Thomas. The song was popular in dance clubs around the world, topping the US Billboard Dance/Disco Top 80 in September 1984. It also spent four weeks at number one in West Germany peaked at number five in the United Kingdom. It became one of the earliest successful songs within the genre of music that has come to be known as hi-NRG. On the SoBe Music compilation album Gay Classics, Volume 1: Ridin' the Rainbow, the liner notes describe the song as "...engagingly captur[ing] the spirit of the genre through uplifting lyrics tightly fused with dazzling synth work".