Song of the Day 3/26: Daryl Hall & John Oates, “Out of Touch”
Want to know why Donald Trump thinks the U.S. is winning its war of choice in Iran? Look no further.
Each day since the start of the war in Iran, U.S. military officials compile a video update for President Donald Trump that shows video of the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours, three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said.
The daily montage typically runs for about two minutes, sometimes longer, the officials said. One described each daily video as a series of clips of “stuff blowing up.”
They also said he gets other briefings. Yeah, right. I’m sure he pays careful attention. Out of touch is a charitable way of saying “demented egomaniac with the attention span of a gerbil.”
“Out of Touch,” the lead single from their 1984 LP “Big Bam Boom,” was the sixth and last No. 1 single Daryl Hall and John Oates had in the ’80s. Unlike most of their latter-day hits, it was primarily written by Oates, who said he came up with the chorus while fooling around with a synthesizer he didn’t know how to use.
Unlike many of their earlier videos, the duo got a big budget for this one. The final shot of them inside a bass drum prompted Oates to recall, “We were looking at each other between takes saying, ‘So this is what it’s all come to! We are at the top of the pop music world, and we’re sealed inside a bass drum at 3 o’clock in the morning in a warehouse in Queens.’ ”
