The songwriter explained that Rihanna’s SOS is full of ’80s song titles; So how many can you count?

The co-writer of Rihanna’s first number one single, SOS, has revealed that the song’s lyrics are actually the titles of ’80s hit songs.

SOS was released on February 14, 2006 as the lead single from Rihanna’s second studio album ‘A Girl Like Me’.

SOS became Rihanna’s first number-one single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three consecutive weeks.

Almost 20 years after its release, SOS co-songwriter Evan ‘Kidd’ Bogart shared surprising information about the hit song in a new interview with podcaster Daniel Wall.

During an appearance Behind the Wall In the podcast, Bogart said that the second episode of SOS consisted almost entirely of ’80s song titles ‘put together in sentences’, including hits by Michael Jackson and British rock band Cuting Crew.

SOS co-songwriter Evan ‘Kidd’ Bogart shares surprising information about the hit song in a new interview

Grammy winner Bogart, who co-wrote SOS with Jonathan Reuven ‘JR’. Totem told Wall: ‘The entire second verse of this song is ’80s song titles put together in sentences because I thought it would be very clever.’

Bogart, who won a Grammy with Beyonce’s 2008 hit Halo, then shared the names and lyrics of the songs that make up the verses in their release order.

He began with ‘Take Me (by) A-ha’ before reading the lines that went into SOS. ‘You know deep down you feel right. ‘Take me with you.’

This is followed by Rihanna, before singing the title of Modern English’s hit I Melt With You and Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels, ‘I could die in your arms tonight’ from Cutting Crew’s (I Just) Died In Your Arms ‘ follows. .

The final two 80s songs that complete the poem are British pop star Kim Wilde’s You Keep Me Hangin’ On and Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel.

A clip of Bogart revealing the true meaning of Rihanna’s SOS lyrics went viral on TikTok, with fans unable to believe they never noticed this ‘creative’ detail.

One comment read: ‘This is actually really creative. ‘It’s quite nice.’

Another person added: ‘He’s been waiting 20 years for the opportunity to tell us the inside joke.’

Appearing on the Behind The Wall podcast, Bogart said that the second episode of SOS consists almost entirely of ’80s song titles ‘put together in sentences’.

SOS was released on February 14, 2006 as the lead single from Rihanna’s second studio album ‘A Girl Like Me’.

Bogart won a Grammy for his work on Beyonce’s 2008 hit Halo

A third user admitted they thought the line ‘always felt so random’, while a fourth quipped: ‘He flaunted the song’s success by using the #1 song titles in the song.’

The Way You Make Me Feel, from Jackson’s seventh studio album Bad, peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 23, 1988.

Wilde’s You Keep Me Hang On topped the chart for a week in June 1987, but Tears for Fears’ hit Head Over Heels failed to actually secure the top spot, peaking at number three.

British new wave/post-punk band Modern English’s I Melt With You debuted at number seven on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart in 1983, but did not actually crack the top 10 on the Hot 100.

Cutting Crew’s biggest hit to date (I Just) Died reached number one in the United States, Canada, Norway and Finland, and a re-recorded version of Take On Me by Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha quickly became a hit. rose to number one. It appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 19, 1985.

Reacting to the revelation that SOS was full of references to 80s songs, one TikTok user noted: ‘This song is as old as all the songs SOS referenced when it was new.’

Another person added that SOS is the definition of “Inspired Masterpiece from the 80s” and Wall replied: “Absolutely a masterpiece.”

Several people also highlighted One Direction’s song Better Than Words as another popular example of a ‘just for the title’ song.