# Witness The Awe-Inspiring Power Of Music!!! - Site: Analog Industries - Author: Chris Randall - Date: 2010-04-26 - URL: https://analogindustries.com/2010/04/witness-the-awe-inspiring-power-of-music/ I have a challenge for you today. Watch this video (you only have to get through the first chorus; I'm not that cruel) and then see if you can go the whole rest of the day without singing the refrain. Better yet, every time you come in to contact with someone else during the course of the day, sing the refrain and see if the other person claps - clapsclaps. Unless they're of that age that seems to get their entire musical database from Guitar Hero, they'll pick it up, guaranteed. And then they will, in turn, spread it to others. I'm left wondering if we had the ability to chart this, what it would look like. The few hundred people that read this on Monday morning go and get at least a couple other people humming this song all day. And then those people get a couple people each, and so on. I wonder how big a start it would take for me to be walking down the aisle of our local grocery store and hear someone else that isn't connected to me in any way, shape, or form singing it. Music is a powerful thing. Unrelated to the topic: am I the only one bugged by the fact that the drums in the intro are totally off by a quarter note? Or the fact that Darryl Hall isn't actually singing, so he's kickin' the straight-up 80s lip sync? Or that John Oates has the most awesome mustache in the history of mustaches? His mustache is so awesome, he could get away with wearing a pink sport coat. That's how awesome. ## Comments (10) **synthetic** (2010-04-26): My RSS popped this up before bedtime, damn you. Damn good songwriting. CP-80! How is yours working? You owe us an Eventide-soaked piano solo. **quantize** (2010-04-26): NEVER snigger about H&A, those silk suited MF'ers could write insane hooks! **MrBiggs** (2010-04-26): I've been watching a lot of 80s videos recently -- going back and revisiting high school I guess -- and I'm in shock at how no one, NO ONE, is even remotely pretending to actually be playing or singing the parts. I had no idea I was so gullible when I was fifteen. Even here, the keyboard player just stops playing even though you can still very much hear the electric piano, and starts singing the backgrounds. What's especially great is on some the lamer videos where the lead singer will actually lip-sync the delay effects. I love that. **Funkish Bass** (2010-04-26): The snare is actually a quarter note out bit the keyboard is dead on from the start. Hilarious from the first note. But what musicianship! **Mad Al** (2010-04-26): I have to wonder why they even bother giving Darryl Hall a microphone, given that everybody else in the band is lip syncing without one. Yes, that's a nice mustache. I'm pretty sure Freddy Mercury was shopping at the same place in those days. Still, it's no Joe Stalin... **Chris Randall** (2010-04-26): @Funkish Bass: It's funny, because I was half asleep when I wrote the post, and I originally wrote "quarter note." Then I previewed it, and I'm like "you know what? The first fucking comment is going to be 'that was a half-note, asshole'" so I changed it. Not sure what got in my head. In any event, I think it's actually 3 quarter notes. Have a look at when he plays the grace. And John Oates has the same knack Andrew Ridgely had, inasmuch as he's able to earnestly play _something_ throughout the song, but it bears no relationship to what's coming out of the speakers. This is common to all H&O videos, even the live ones. -CR **Heretic_D™** (2010-04-26): I can't watch that video without immediately thinking of this Psych commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-SngQAUcU **theshamblers** (2010-04-26): Darryl Hall's shoulder pads have shoulder pads. Yikes! **seancostello** (2010-04-26): Ha! It isn't stuck in my head! Now I have "Your kiss, your kiss, is on my lips" stuck in there. Take that, Chris Randall! Oh, wait. Now it's "Private Eyes" again. Fuuuccckkk. **ungeheier** (2010-04-26): I hear she's a maneater... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-OO0xqTe4