The SOS songwriter for Rihanna is blowing people’s minds with a track secret that has been utterly ignored for almost twenty years.
Along with Jonathan Rotem and Edward Cobb, E Kidd Bogart wrote the 2006 hit, and from the song’s second stanza, they had been sitting on a big Easter egg.
Examining the hit song’s details Record executive Bogart, 46, disclosed that SOS consists of number one song names from the 1980s in a recent interview with Daniel Wall.
I thought it would be really brilliant, so the entire second stanza of that song is 80 song titles linked together like sentences, he said.
“They’re all 80s hits that peaked at number one.”
E Kidd Bogart is blowing people’s minds with an Easter egg from Rihanna’s hit song SOS
Bogart wrote the chart-topper for Rihanna in 2006 with Jonathan Rotem and Edward Cobb
The songs that are included are “Take On Me” by A-ha, “I Just Died in Your Arms” by Cutting Crew, “Melt With You” by Modern English, and “Head Over Heels” by Tears For Fears.
Among the tunes included are Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel and Kim Wilde’s You Keep Me Hangin’ On.
People are astonished after seeing a video of Bogart’s astounding statistic go viral on social media.
One wrote, “This is probably one of the coolest facts about her songs,” in their X post.
“HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS,” another person wrote. Someone please edit Wikipedia right away!
“This makes me love the song even more,” remarked a third person.
A fourth person said, “He has been waiting 20 years to have the chance to tell us about the inside joke.”
“That’s pretty amazing, honestly,” said a fifth.
Unpacking the song in a new interview, he revealed that SOS comprises of number one song titles from the 80s
SOS topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks (Rihanna pictured in 2006)
Def Jam Recordings released SOS on Valentine’s Day of 2006.
Utilizing a stereo two-bar loop from Soft Cell’s song Tainted Love, the song became Rihanna’s first number one single on the chart and was an instant hit, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three weeks in a row.
In addition to penning SOS for Rihanna, Bogart also penned Britney Spears’ songs Love Me Down and Everybody, Beyoncé’s Halo, and Hello.
The 36-year-old Rihanna spoke candidly earlier this week about parenthood and the reasons she views it as a “Olympic sport.”
Over the previous two years, the owner of Fenty Beauty and her partner A$AP Rocky welcomed two children into their family.
After giving birth to a newborn boy named RZA in May 2022, Rihanna became a first-time mother. In August 2023, she welcomed a second son named Riot Rose.
When asked about what it’s like to be a boy mom in a recent red carpet interview with Access Hollywood, the Umbrella hitmaker replied, “It’s an Olympic sport for real.”
“I love it so much, I literally just look at them and live through them, and I’m amazed by every new thing they discover, even their boundaries,” Rihanna exclaimed.
She also clarified that she is learning from her two sons in addition to them from her.
The businesswoman remarked, “They’re teaching me how to be their mom, just as much as I’m teaching them how to be in this world and guide them as best I can.”