I don't know who that person was, and if he asked permission from Hall and Oates to use that line.
I see way too many purists here, much like those who stan over the prog rock Genesis when Peter Gabriel was shaving the front part of his head because he wanted to be the first trans Mohican. Usedtobecamelot from UsThe bass and sax alone make it for me.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Roba Music Verlag GMBH, Royalty Network Writer/s: Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen Oh, watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out Ooh, the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart She's deadly man, she could really rip your world apart The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar Ooh, she's sitting with you but her eyes are on the door So, I put some music to it and that was how I wrote my first song.Nothing is new, I've seen her here before And this poem, of course, was about a topical news subject. It was the early days of the singer-songwriter and especially topical songs. But at the time, Bob Dylan was just starting. You should maybe put some music to it.” It had never occurred to me to do that. My English teacher took me aside because he knew that I played guitar and he said, “Wow, this is really good. And my English teacher - I got an A on the poem. And I wrote a poem about the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was happening at the moment. I do know that when I was in seventh grade, I was in an English class and our assignment was to write a poem. Where do you think that skill comes from for you, personally? That’s what songwriters do and that’s what makes it so unique.
The beauty that songwriters and the skill that songwriters seem to have is that they can take things that are happening in the world, whether they’re emotional or physical or literal, and they can somehow translate that into music and some sort of musical expression that people can relate to. That’s why I like American Songwriter so much because the magazine can really get deep and delve into the psyche and the motivation that songwriters seem to have and really explain and expose songwriters on their process. That particular song? Well, all the songs are magical, in a way, because they all came from nothing. Is there something that’s particularly magical to you about the song “Maneater” after all these years? And that is really what the song is truly about. New York City became the maneater, the city that would chew you up and spit you out. So, what we did was we transpose that initial idea and use New York City in the ’80s as a metaphor.
But neither Daryl nor I wanted to write a song that was anti-women or negative toward women. It was the juxtaposition of this great beauty with this foul mouth that really kind of sparked an idea to me that she would chew you up and spit you out. I got the idea for the song because there was a woman who was very - she was beautiful but had a very foul, you know, vocabulary. Well, it was about New York City, after the fact. There are lots of rumors, but I have to ask, is “Maneater” really about a woman or New York City? We discussed the literal meaning of the chorus, whether he knows any actual maneaters and from where his gift of songwriting might originate. We caught up with one half of the duo, John Oates, to ask him about the origin of the song and the meaning behind the song’s subject.
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