I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

S. " Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song "I Feel Love" as "really the start of electronic dance" music. Unlike some other stars of disco who faded as the music became less popular in the 1980s and beyond Summer was able to grow beyond the genre and later segued to a pop-rock sound.

Joining a touring version of the musical Hair Donna Summer spent several years living in West Germany where Donna Summer married Helmut Sommer whose surname Donna Summer adopted as her stage name. Struggling with depression Donna Summer subsequently became a born-again Christian in 1980. Over the following years Summer followed this success with a string of other disco hits such as "I Feel Love" "MacArthur Park" "Hot Stuff" "Bad Girls" and "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)".