įrantz and Weymouth performed the song as Tom Tom Club in the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, as an interlude to allow Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to change into costume for the film's performance of ' Girlfriend is Better'. The lyrics also pay tribute to many notable black musicians and singers, including George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Smokey Robinson, Bob Marley, Sly and Robbie, Kurtis Blow, Hamilton Bohannon, and James Brown. Chris (Frantz) was mad, but I really couldn't play my hand wouldn't even close. I ended up waking the assistant engineer - he was asleep under the console - and I showed him the part, and he played it. I had never played in the studio around the clock like we were doing, so I didn't even know that could happen.

As she related in a 1997 interview with, 'we were given extremely limited studio time – just three days – and when it was time to do that track my whole right arm seized up in a terrible cramp, and I couldn't play.

Tina Weymouth sings the lead and also co-wrote the song: although she was responsible for writing the bassline and intended to play it on record, she was forced to pass on the latter task to another musician. Although the album had not been released in North America, over 100,000 copies of the single sold as imports from Island Records UK, at which point Sire Records made a deal to release the single and the album in North America in late 1981. 'Genius of Love' is Tom Tom Club's second single. It reached number one on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart. ' Genius of Love' is a 1981 hit song by Tom Tom Club from their 1981 eponymous debut album.

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