The surprising twist is the use of instantly recognizable keyboard samples from the Tom Tom Club's post-disco classic "Genius Of Love." "Mariah And Janet Tear Up The Dancefloor". the Rugged Man's " Tom Thum", Mark Morrison's " Return of the Mack", Ice Cube's " Bop Gun (One Nation)", Warren G's " What's Love Got to Do with It", the D-Influence Real Live Mix of Billie's " Girlfriend", Latto's " Big Energy", and Paramore's " Rose-Colored Boy", during their shows at the After Laughter Tour.
GENIUS OF LOVE MAC
Movin' On Up", Menajahtwa's "I Ain't Nasti", 50 Cent's "When I Get Out", Erick Sermon's "Genius E Dub", Mac Dre's "Chop that Ho", Dream Warriors' "And Now the Legacy Begins", T.I.'s "Down Like That", R.A. Other artists have incorporated "Genius of Love" into their works, including Public Enemy's " Leave This Off Your Fuckin' Charts", Redman's " Brick City Mashin'", Cam'ron's " Me, My Moms & Jimmy", 2nd II None's " Niggaz Trippin'", Fresh Kid Ice's "Roll Call", 2Pac's "High Speed", Seagram's " I Don't Give a Fuck", Busta Rhymes' "One", Ant Banks' "Roll 'Em Phat", P.M. Hyde's "Genius Rap" in 1981 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "It's Nasty" in 1982 Mariah Carey's " Fantasy" in 1995, and The X-Ecutioners' "Genius of Love 2002" in 2002. The song is one of the most sampled rhythm tracks of the 1980s, particularly within the hip hop and R&B genre. The single also became a club success all around Europe, and peaked at number 28 in New Zealand, the first of three Top 40 hits for the band there.
GENIUS OF LOVE TV
In 2002, it was also used in a popular TV commercial for Kia Motors. A song based on the keyboards-and-bass rhythm in "Genius of Love" was later used in a long-running TV advertising campaign in the UK by the Bird's desserts company between 19, the commercials featuring a spin on the psychedelic animation of the Tom Tom Club video using rudimentary CGI. 65 in the UK Singles Chart, while both of the other two singles released from the Tom Tom Club LP achieved Top 30 placings in the UK. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1982, becoming the Tom Tom Club's only entry on the Hot 100. 1 on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart along with " Wordy Rappinghood," and also reached No. On its release in November 1981, "Genius of Love" became a huge hit in the clubs and on the R&B and dance charts worldwide, soon earning the Tom Tom Club LP a Gold Sales Award in 1982. Chris Frantz credited the success of the single for convincing David Byrne to "soldier on with Talking Heads". "Genius of Love" became a commercial success that performed better than Tom Tom Club's previous singles.
GENIUS OF LOVE MOVIE
įrantz and Weymouth performed the song as Tom Tom Club in the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, as an interlude to allow Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to change into costume for the film's performance of " Girlfriend is Better". The lyrics also pay tribute to many notable black musicians and singers, including George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Smokey Robinson, Bob Marley, Sly and Robbie, Kurtis Blow, Hamilton Bohannon, and James Brown.
Chris (Frantz) was mad, but I really couldn't play my hand wouldn't even close. I ended up waking the assistant engineer - he was asleep under the console - and I showed him the part, and he played it. I had never played in the studio around the clock like we were doing, so I didn't even know that could happen.
As she related in a 1997 interview with, "we were given extremely limited studio time – just three days – and when it was time to do that track my whole right arm seized up in a terrible cramp, and I couldn't play. Tina Weymouth sings the lead and also co-wrote the song: although she was responsible for writing the bassline and intended to play it on record, she was forced to pass on the latter task to another musician. Although the album had not been released in North America, over 100,000 copies of the single sold as imports from Island Records UK, at which point Sire Records made a deal to release the single and the album in North America in late 1981. "Genius of Love" is Tom Tom Club's second single.
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