Any man matching these requirements, she says, should write to her “and escape”. She also, getting specific, wants someone who “likes making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape”. ![]() One ad catches his eye: a mystery woman is looking for a man who likes pina coladas, getting caught in the rain, who isn’t in to yoga, and “has half a brain”. So let me summarise: Holmes sings of being bored with his girlfriend, and reading the lonely hearts ads in bed as she sleeps next to him (we can leave aside the callousness of that until later). If, like me, you’re the sort of person who sings along to a song despite having only the vaguest grasp of the lyrics (“Na-na-na PINA COLADA!”), it’s possible the intricate plotline of Rupert Holmes’s hit has passed you by. And this particular track – a US No 1 on its release in 1979 (although it recharted in 1980, making it the only pop song to hold the top spot in different decades) – soon wormed its way into my psyche, partly because it was so catchy, partly because it was so annoying. I was even more enraptured by the soundtrack than the film. I rediscovered Escape (The Pina Colada Song) in 2014 while watching Guardians Of The Galaxy. If you’re not into yoga, and you have half a brain … ” ![]() And then the irresistible hook: “If you like pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain. ![]() That loping 70s riff, familiar from childhood, a parent’s mixtape or the Magic FM playlist.
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