Rihanna Songwriter Exposes Hidden Pattern in ‘SOS’ Lyrics You Will Not Have The Ability To Unhear

Rihanna’s “SOS” is among the specifying tunes of the mid-2000s, however as it ends up, the track in fact got a substantial lift from the 1980s.

In a brand-new clip published Tuesday from a current interview with Behind the Wall, songwriter Evan “Kidd” Bogart– who made up the tune’s lyrics with Edward Cobb and Jonathan Rotem– exposed an Easter egg concealed in the 2006 hit’s 2nd verse that he states has actually gone undetected by listeners for almost twenty years.

” I had no concept what I was doing,” he remembered to host Daniel Wall. “The entire 2nd verse of that tune is ’80s tune titles strung together as sentences, since I believed it would be extremely smart.”

Bogart went on to lay out precisely how each lyric represents a tune title, beginning with “Handle me, ah-hah,” a recommendation to 1985 smash “Handle Me” by– await it– the band A-ha. Rih then sings “I might simply pass away up in your arms tonight” on the track, which compares with Cutting Team’s 1986 banger “( I Simply) Passed Away in Your Arms Tonight,” followed by “I melt with you,” which functions as the word-for-word title of Modern English’s 1982 track.

Other tune titles included in the verse consist of 1985’s “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Worries, 1986’s “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” by Kim Wilde and 1987’s “The Method You Make Me Feel” by Michael Jackson. Observe as Rih sings on “SOS”: “You got me head over heels/ Young boy, you keep me holding on, the method you make me feel.”.

As Bogart likewise explained, a lot of those concealed tunes were Signboard Hot 100 No. 1 strikes– another fitting information thinking about “SOS” made Rihanna her really initially of 14 overall No. ones (up until now) on the chart: “Handle Me,” “( I Simply) Passed Away in Your Arms Tonight” and “The Method You Make Me Feel” all reached the chart’s top.

View Bogart break down the 2nd verse of “SOS” listed below.