Ohio cops released a video in May 2018 of an apartment burglary that the owner didn’t know about because she was listening to Devo’s “Whip it” so loudly.

“Whip It” was co-written by Devo’s Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh. During a 2015 interview with Rhino , Casale discussed the literary origins of the song’s lyrics.

The post The Story Behind Devo’s Surprise Breakout Hit “Whip It” appeared first on Consequence of Sound. 2020 has been a year that represents de-evolution on a global scale. The pandemic ...

Devo on How ‘Whip It’ Changed Their Lives, Meeting the Rolling Stones. ... Speaking of lyrics, there’s a nice General Boy tribute in the book, with a song he supposedly wrote on display.

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Think “Devo,” and you probably think about the “Whip It” music video with its snapping leather whip and bright red “flower pot” hats. But there’s much more to the Ohio art-rock band ...

Devo's 1980 song "Whip It" was one of the iconic tracks of the New Wave era, with the whipping in question meant metaphorically. But the band is now planning a more literal use of the imagery ...

“We were hoping that we were just a little overly paranoid,” Mark Mothersbaugh says drily, reflecting on Devo's prescient messaging and society's past half-century of de-evolution.

That next release, 1980’s Freedom Of Choice, contained “Whip It,” an unlikely hit single made up of four different pieces of music that were melded together with Gerald Casale’s lyrics ...

For those of you too young to remember and/or didn't see the movie Raising Helen, Devo was the band behind the song "Whip It" (yes, as in "whip it good") who inexplicably wore matching geometric hats.

We Are Devo remains one of the most lyrically and musically radical records to ever crack the Top 100, while their 1980 release Freedom of Choice helped pioneer […] × Skip to main content ...