The band members step in and out of the light for their lip sync. The Hall & Oates music video opens with a woman (Aleksandra Duncan) walking down a red staircase, and the band playing in a dimly lit studio with shafts of light projecting down on them. īillboard called it a "moody midtempo piece which has the percolating bass line of a mid-60's Supremes record and the atmospheric sweep of a Giorgio Moroder film score." Cash Box said that the opening bassline resembles that of the Supremes' song " You Can't Hurry Love." Music video That's what we do all of the time", after describing how they took a similar approach with the earlier song " I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)". It's something that people can understand. But we have it in the setting of a girl because it's more relatable. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. John Oates has explained that while it is natural to assume the lyrics are about a woman, the song actually was originally written "about NYC in the ’80s. Our new single "Maneater" isn't something that sounds like anything else on the radio. And it made all the difference in the song. She said, "drop that shit at the end and go, 'She's a maneater,' and stop! And I said, 'No, you’re crazy, that's messed up.'" Then I thought about it, and I realized she was right. So we did that, and I played it for Sara Allen and sang it for her… "Oh here she comes / Watch out boy she’ll chew you up / Oh here she comes / She's a maneater… and a…" I forget what the last line was. I said, "Well, the chords are interesting, but I think we should change the groove." I changed it to that Motown kind of groove. John had written a prototype of "Maneater" he was banging it around with Edgar Winter. In an interview with American Songwriter in 2009, Daryl Hall recalled, It remained in the top spot for four weeks, more than any of the duo's five other number-one hits, including " Kiss on My List", which remained in the top spot for three weeks. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on December 18, 1982. " Maneater" is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, featured on their eleventh studio album, H 2O (1982).
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