Let's Hear It for the Boy as the young boy who is the first person to appear in the video. Let's Hear It for the Boy "Let's Hear It for the Boy" was the second number-one song for Deniece Williams and appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film "Footloose". It climbed to number one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 on May 26, 1984, as well as number one on the dance and R&B charts, and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was certified platinum in the US, gold in
Let It Be (The Replacements album) R.E.M.'s "Murmur", the Pixies' "Surfer Rosa", and Sonic Youth's "Daydream Nation". Eric Boehlert of "Salon" called it a "post-punk classic". Singer-songwriter Colin Meloy wrote of "Let It Be" in an edition of the 33⅓ series dedicated to the album: "I listened to "Let It Be" endlessly. The record seemed to encapsulate perfectly all of the feelings that were churning inside me [...] Paul Westerberg's weary voice sounded from my boombox and I trembled to think that here I was, thirteen and the 'hardest age' was still three years in the making." In a 2005 review, "Rolling Stone"s Christian Hoard wrote