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.