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Hi, this is Carl Mcintosh from Loose Ends
and this is, I Went Viral.
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Okay, so my viral song is called You Can't Stop the Rain
and it came out in 1985.
Okay, so the song, it's about karma.
It was, it's about when things start happening
when you've done certain things and basically
when your moment comes when you've got a payback
and there's nothing you can do about it.
So it's kind of, it's quite, it's quite dark actually.
But, I guess, you know, we were feeling ourselves
at the moment that there when we roll it.
And so we just went with it, we just loved the vibe
and it was basically about rain coming down
and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
Yeah, what it was, in 2019, I had my lawyer said,
called me up and said that there was someone wanted
to use the song or a song.
He wasn't even very clear about it.
He said, someone wants to use one of your songs.
Do you want me to clear it?
So I said, yeah, go ahead, what is it?
He said, I think it's You Can't Stop the Rain
or something like that.
But you know, in England, Loose Ends is not a big act.
My lawyer is probably thinking, ah, this is some,
some little thing that's gonna happen.
And I never gave it no thought.
And then two years later, it was basically everywhere.
And that I, at first I forgot that I cleared it.
At first, I was like, oh, cause people are telling me like,
Carl, your song is everywhere.
And I was like, really, oh, I wonder what's happened there.
And some people were saying things like,
you better go and check your royalties.
You know, you better go and check
you bet these people got some money for you, you know.
But I'd already cleared the song but I didn't really realize
because when they brought it up,
they didn't really actually say
that the program is gonna be called such and such
and it's gonna be produced by 50 Cent or anything like that.
It was just, someone wants to use your song in a film.
And I love synchronization.
I've always thought when we were writing the songs
that this music could be used for synchronization.
To be fair, there's been a few different versions
of the song.
I think Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal, the basketball player
he did a version of the song and he changed the rain,
R-A-I-N to R-E was it, I-G-N, you know, reign as in,
you know, his success, you can't stop his success,
which I thought, oh that's a little bit of a twist.
But you know, nowadays everything is a story
and you can make a story out of anything.
Funny enough, how they have used it in BMF is kind
of how it was written because it was written about karma.
And it was written about when things happen
or when you've made certain choices
and then it actually turns around back on you.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
So he was going around killing people, Lamar, the character.
And he was actually saying, Hey, this is your time.
This is, so it was kind of how we wrote it,
but just not quite like that, we didn't have murder in mind.
So, you know, it wasn't very popular in the pop charts,
but we started out in 1981, we were called Loose End
and the group was initially about 15 people in the group.
And then eventually we got rid of everyone else.
Steve is the, was the leader of the group.
And he made everyone else go, I think Steve realized
that I initially joined end as a bass player.
I think Jane and Steve were walking down the street
and they saw a hair salon called Loose End.
And so Jane said, oh, that would be,
that would be great for a band.
So they called themself Loose End.
But then there was this production trio
called Stock, Waterman and Aitken.
They actually tried to sue us.
They had a production company called Loose End Productions.
So when they heard of Loose End, now, they was like,
well you gotta drop the name.
You know, we don't like this, blah, blah, blah.
So we just put our heads together.
And after two or three days, we came up with an S.
I mean, that, that is so true.
It was just, we was trying to figure
out how we gonna get round it.
And in the end, it was just to put the S on it.
It's, it's overwhelming.
I've seen about 20 videos where people are,
you know singing it and doing reels.
Is it reels?
What they call it.
And I, I just can't believe it.
I am totally surprised by it
that people are so taken by this song.
I've never thought it, this big surprise.
And I guess that's part of going viral, isn't it?
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