{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "One of the things I love about Toto\u2019s Africa (1982, 4 years before Paul Simon\u2019s Graceland) is that the very first verse is about...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/147169827958/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/147136573998/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the things I love about Toto\u2019s <i>Africa</i> (1982, 4 years before Paul Simon\u2019s <i>Graceland</i>) is that the very first verse is about the singer trying to bum some \u201cworld music\u201d juju off a local and getting totally blown off<br/></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Seriously\n though, that song&rsquo;s such a great microcosm of yacht rock &ldquo;professionalism&rdquo; -\n lyrics look good on paper but no one with an ounce of musical instinct \nwould try to sing them, and somehow they make it work anyway.<br/></p>"}