Militus

<p class="ql-align-justify">In an interview John Oates expressed that the song “Maneater” was initially about the city of New York, although the lyrics of the song and the video make it seem like it is about a “self-interested and unprejudiced woman”, the background of the song refers to New York City in the 80s that became the man-eater, the city that would chew you up and spit you out…</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><img src="https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/media/hall-and-oates-1982-billboard-650.jpg?w=650" alt="Hall &amp; Oates Took on a 'Maneater' Today in 1982 (Watch Out Boy!) | Billboard"></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify">Daryl Hall once said: Somebody decided that 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. This South American black panther was wired to the floor so it wouldn’t attack everybody. Of course, it got loose in this gigantic studio in LA and went in the rafters, 50 feet up. Nobody could get it down. That’s when I left the building.</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><img src="https://media.tenor.com/9lIxLMfLl3AAAAAM/maneater-hall-and-oates.gif" alt="Maneater GIFs | Tenor"></p><p><br></p><p>I hope you like it!!!</p>