🎵 Rihanna's 'SOS' Has Hidden 80s Song Titles In Lyrics

Evan 'Kidd' Bogart has revealed his genius concept behind writing "SOS" by Rihanna in 2006.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yes, we are talking about this song Sospirian.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Which is lifted the beat from Soft Cell's Tainted Love.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yes, Well, there's a second verse in there that the
man who wrote it Evan Bogart or Evan Kid Bogart.
I guess he's called Kid because apparently his father was
the Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Casa Blancat Curtains Records, which famously Kiss funded I did
that the man kiss.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
There you go. Well, this guy wrote this song only
twenty years ago, and he has only recently been talking
on a podcast with his daughter about what the lyrics mean.
Let's hear before we hear him. This is the second
verse of Rihanna's song Me you know, I'm glad to.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Be lay save me O my God to say you
being your arms and I now do your cam you
came and on the way right.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, those lyrics all make sense in the context of
the song, but here, interestingly is how he found those
lines and why he put them in the song.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
I wrote it. I had no idea what I was doing.
The whole second verse of that song is eighties song
titles strung together as sentences because I thought it would
be super clever. Take on me, Aha me you know
inside you feel it right now, feel it right?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Take me on.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
I could just die up in your arms tonight. I
melt with you. You got me head over heels.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Tell me.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
The boy you keep me hanging on the way, you
make me feel you came hanging on the way. They're
all number one songs from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
That's incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I had no idea no one does, no one does wow,
until now.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
All number one songs from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Whoa do in there?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Even he said, Nah.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I'd like to see Rihanna pushing her by that

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Because you would up a tree more anywhere else