“Genius of Love” Tom Tom Club (SONIC DIVE) Part 6 Welcome to part 6 of SONIC DIVE: my new video series that tackles songs, songwriters and their legacy. SONIC DIVE Part 6 “Genius of Love” by Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love” is a 1981 hit song by American new wave band Tom Tom Club from their 1981 eponymous debut studio album. The song’s origins can be traced back to Frantz borrowing a beat from Zapp’s 1980 hit “More Bounce to the Ounce”. Belew created the rhythm guitar part, Stanley composed the keyboard melody, Weymouth wrote the lyrics and bass part and David Byrne Produced “Genius of Love” is considered one of the most popular beats in hip hop, rap, and R&B and has been sampled 182 times by has been sampled by everyone from Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (‘It’s Nasty’) to Mariah Carey (‘Fantasy’) etc Frantz and Weymouth performed the song as Tom Tom Club in the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense, as an interlude to allow Talking Heads frontman David Byrne...