This refrain reflects the theme of the whole piece, the boyfriend is the genius coming and going, the girlfriend is static, delirious when he's around, lonely when he's not. I really love the way the normal rhythm of the phrase "gen-i-us of love" is completely distorted, making "genius" trisyllabic followed by the two beats "of love", creating an asymmetrical 3/2 metric as the flow of syllables come to an abrupt stop. The stacatto scratching of the name "Bohannan" and the other riffs thrown in make it an homage to the "evolution of funk", as someone briliiantly stated, in the same vein as "Groove is in the Heart" and presumably out of the same musical milieu. ![]() With references to the rough underbelly of a musician's life, the female voices are just so incredibly upbeat and delightful, emitting a giddiness at the level of Japanese high-school girl. Once it gets in your brain it will never leave, it will just set up a little home there and always be there to cheer you up. ![]() General CommentThis song so rocks!! One of the reasons I love it so much is that it's more than catchy, it's infectious. Who needs to think when your feet just go ![]() With a hippie-the-hip and a hippie-the-hop Who needs to think when your feet just go? What you gonna do when you get out of jail?įeels like I'm dreaming, but I'm not sleepingĬlinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
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