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[MUSIC] Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love"
Aug. 29th, 2008 03:21 pmWhen I first heard Mariah Carey's 1995 song "Fantasy", I remember thinking that, wow, that funky rhythm was something really original that made the dreary song worth listening to as background! That juxtaposition was unsettling. Thus, you can imagine my relief when I found out that "Fantasy" was built around a sample from the Tom Tom Club's much superior 1981 "Genius of Love".
"Genius of Love" sounds preternaturally cheerful, with the funky rhythms (prodyuct of the song's narrator, perhaps, who sings "I'm in heaven/With the maven of funk mutation") and the cheerful animated music video (shown above) and the call-and-response stylings. It is: It is so cheerful that phrases like "With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend/There's no beginning and there is no end/Time isn't present in that dimention" can coexist alongside "I surely miss him/The way he'd hold me in his warm arms/We went insane when we took cocaine." Let's not forget how the entire song is set up by the question "What you gonna do when you get out of jail?"
"Genius of Love": Faintly sleazy, but still wonderful.
"Genius of Love" sounds preternaturally cheerful, with the funky rhythms (prodyuct of the song's narrator, perhaps, who sings "I'm in heaven/With the maven of funk mutation") and the cheerful animated music video (shown above) and the call-and-response stylings. It is: It is so cheerful that phrases like "With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend/There's no beginning and there is no end/Time isn't present in that dimention" can coexist alongside "I surely miss him/The way he'd hold me in his warm arms/We went insane when we took cocaine." Let's not forget how the entire song is set up by the question "What you gonna do when you get out of jail?"
"Genius of Love": Faintly sleazy, but still wonderful.
