Daryl Hall & John Oates – Maneater

“Maneater” – Single by Hall & Oates from the album H2O, B-side “Delayed Reaction”. Released in October 1982
Recorded: December 1981 at Electric Lady Studios (New York City, New York).

This song is about a very seductive woman with expensive tastes that she uses men to satisfy. Much like the line “Her mind is Tiffany twisted” in the Eagles song “Hotel California,” the lyrics to this song use a luxury brand to develop the character as she is described as “a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar,” referring to the high-end automobile.
This was a showcase song for Hall & Oates sax player Charles “Mr. Casual” DeChant, who appears in the video during his solo.

The song spent four weeks at #1 in America, making it the biggest US hit of the ’80s to feature a sax solo.

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Daryl Hall John Oates - Maneater (Official Video)04:25

The video for this song was a disjointed affair, which was typical of 1982 in the early days of MTV. Hall & Oates took little interest in their videos, so directors hired by their record company could get away with just about anything. “Maneater” is mostly tight shots of the band performing in what looks like an after-hours champagne room, with occasional shots of a girl juxtaposed with a panther. Daryl Hall said in the book I Want My MTV: “Somebody decided the ‘Maneater’ video wouldn’t be complete unless we had an actual panther, a man-eating animal, in the video. It appeared for a second and a half in the video and probably cost $10,000.”

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