Why Me? (Irene Cara song)

"Why Me?"
"Why Me?"
Single by Irene Cara
from the album What a Feelin'
B-side	"Talk Too Much"
Released	October 1983
Recorded	1983
Genre	Post-disco; synth-pop; dance-rock; Hi-NRG;
Length	3:55 (single edit); 4:37 (album version); 7:03 (12-inch mix)
Label	Network; Geffen; Epic;
Songwriter(s)	Giorgio Moroder; Irene Cara; Keith Forsey;
Producer(s)	Giorgio Moroder
Irene Cara singles chronology

"Why Me?" is a song written by Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, and the song's performer, Irene Cara, that was the first official single to be released from Cara's 1983 album, What a Feelin', making it the follow-up to the songwriting trio's previous project for Cara, "Flashdance... What a Feeling". This new collaboration, however, was described as having more of a hard rock edge and had lyrics that conveyed the difficulties in a relationship.

Although Moroder was criticized for having borrowed from his older material, Cara received praise for her performance. The song reached the top 20 on the pop charts in the US and was even more successful in Australia and a few European countries, where it peaked in the top 10.

Cara plays a woman given two happy endings in the music video for the song. She goes from audition to audition in New York and finally makes a name for herself while at the same time leaving a controlling romantic partner and finding a new love interest. Although the song was released in October 1983, the music video did not debut on MTV until December of that year.