She Blinded Me With Science - 2009 Remastered Version

When Songfacts spoke with Thomas Dolby in 2011, he told us that he wrote this '80s classic so he could direct a video using a silent movie motif in the style of the old Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton films. Said Dolby: "This was just when music videos were starting to come to the fore, and I was very keen to try out my talent as a music video director. I saw music videos as really a silent movie with a soundtrack, and so I managed to persuade my record company to let me take a shot at writing and directing one. I came up with a script, as it were, just like visiting a home for deranged scientists and this sort of mad professor type played by Magnus Pyke and all these loonies around the place. And a gorgeous Oriental assistant whom I was madly in love with. So that was how the song 'She Blinded Me With Science' came about. I was pretty much writing it to accompany a video."

This song is about a scientist who falls in love with his lab assistant. Dolby told Songfacts it's "probably about the most frivolous song that I've ever written," but he still loves it. "When I play it now, I still get a big kick out of it. I mean, I'm perfectly proud of the song, and it's got a great groove and loaded with hooks. And when I play, it's iconic, I think, for many people. Especially people who were around the first time. It makes people very happy," said Dolby. He adds, "I have no regrets over that because I think that it provided a sort of starting point for people to get into the more serious, more personal aspects my music." Want to jump into more Thomas Dolby? Some of the songs he suggests are "Screen Kiss," "Budapest Blimp" and "I Love You Goodbye."

Dolby calls the character he created in this a "Slightly forlorn mad scientist." He says some of his personality is in the character.