I've Had the Time of My Life was written for the 1987 film Dirty Dancing and performed by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, becoming the film's defining finale song and winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The scene pairs the song with Johnny and Baby's final dance, including the famous lift, and that association has kept it in popular culture for decades. Online, short clips are reused for celebratory edits, parodies and dance tributes, because the chorus alone signals triumph and romance without needing the full scene.