The mesmerizing efficiency of "Whatever You Like" has echoed in my head for a week now. After listening to it alot, I noticed many parallels between it and "Emotion In Motion," another song about providing for your woman (whether by popping bottles or just holding on all night).
In "Emotion In Motion"'s basic, nursury-esque beat (also like other T.I. songs) Ocasek favors succinct robot beats. The Cars, though occasionally vibrant, had a synthetic subtext that developed into cold, precise perfection. On his own, Ric vanquished rock tones, replacing its blood and sweat with a silicone circulation. The switch from guitar and rock to synth and precision is mostly propelled by the beat. And I love it.
(In 2003, I listened to "You Might Think" at least ten times as my roommate sat next to me in our 8'x20' room. After he mentioned, "So, you like that song a lot, don't you?", I brought out the headphones. My murder would have been entirely justified had I completed my fifteen remaining listens out loud.)
T.I.'s debut with "Rubberband Man" - wild as the Taliban- is much more euphoric and spontaneous than "What You Know," which is as methodical and catchy as "You Might Think," The hypnotic "Whatever You Like" has a snare and outro which could been sampled from a Cars song and is rhythmically cold while lyrically gentle. Years later, T.I. is converging on the same point that Ric Ocasek ended up on.
*"Live Your Life" is a pretty good song that doesn't bear any resemblance to the Cars. So this only really goes so far.
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