kontextmaschine:

One of the things I love about Toto’s Africa (1982, 4 years before Paul Simon’s Graceland) is that the very first verse is about the singer trying to bum some “world music” juju off a local and getting totally blown off

Seriously though, that song’s such a great microcosm of yacht rock “professionalism” - lyrics look good on paper but no one with an ounce of musical instinct would try to sing them, and somehow they make it work anyway.