Maneater (Hall & Oates song)

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Maneater single cover

"Maneater" is a single recorded by American duo Daryl Hall and John Oates of their 1982 album H2O. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on December 18 in 1982. In 2006, the song and its subject matter were adapted and reinterpreted by Nelly Furtado in a recording by the same name from her album Loose. The song was sampled once more when the Ying Yang Twins featuring Wyclef and Mr. Collipark released the song "Dangerous" in 2006. The Hall & Oates original version features a saxaphone solo by Charles "Mr. Casual" DeChant (Charles DeChant).

The Hall & Oates music video opens with a woman walking down a red staircase and the band, at first motionless, then playing in a dimly lit studio with shafts of light projecting down on them. This may be an attempt to mimic a bar-dance club setting. The band members step into and out of the light for their lip sync. A young woman in a short party dress is shown in fade-in and fade-out shots along with a black jaguar hence the song line "The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar" which likely refers to a gold digger who prefers to ride in an up-scale luxury automobile such as a Jaguar (car). The song refrain is "Whoa, oh here she comes; Watch out boy, she'll chew you up; whoa, oh here she comes, she's a maneater" and Daryl Hall adds "She only comes out at night" and "The Woman is Wild."

Preceded by "Mickey" by Toni Basil	Billboard Hot 100 number one single December 18, 1982- January 8, 1983	Succeeded by "Down Under" by Men at Work