She Blinded Me With Science

"She Blinded Me With Science" is a New Wave song by British musician Thomas Dolby, released in 1982. It first appeared on the album The Golden Age of Wireless. It is a quirky, playful synth-pop song featuring synthesizer sounds. Most of the effects and the bass line were made with a Moog synthesizer. At the time, this was no easy task. Speaking with Songfacts about this song in a 2011 interview, Dolby said: "When I started out writing songs, synthesizers were still quite a rarified luxury. They were quite hard to get hands on and quite hard to operate. And when you did, there was still quite a lot of resistance in the mainstream to music made electronically. And so that was a natural place for me to be, because I wanted to be challenged and stimulated like that." The song's chorus, "She blinded me with science," plays upon the colloquial British expression "to blind [someone] with science," meaning to deliberately confuse someone by giving the impression of highly complex knowledge. In the song, however, the phrase is interpreted as a straightforward reference to the natural sciences. The song features interjections from the British scientist and TV presenter Dr. Magnus Pyke, who repeatedly shouts "Science!" and delivers other lines in a deliberately over-the-top "mad scientist" voice, the most famous line of which was, "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!" The song was showcased as part of Dolby's appearance at the South by Southwest 2007 music festival.

It's poetry in motion She turned her tender eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as any harmony Mmm - but she blinded me with science "She blinded me with science!" And failed me in biology When I'm dancing close to her (Blinding me with science) - science! I can smell the chemicals (Blinding me with science) - science!) "Ssss-science!" Mmm - but it's poetry in motion And when she turned her eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as any harmony She blinded me with science (She blinded me with science) And failed me in geometry When she's dancing next to me (Blinding me with science) - science! I can hear machinery (Blinding me with science) - science! It's poetry in motion And now she's making love to me The spheres're in commotion The elements in harmony She blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) And hit me with technology (Good heavens Miss Sakamoto - you're beautiful!) I don't believe it! There she goes again! She's tidied up, and I can't find anything! All my tubes and wires And careful notes And antiquated notions But! - it's poetry in motion And when she turned her eyes to me As deep as any ocean As sweet as any harmony Mmm - she blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) She blinded me with