![]() Now commerce seems to have caught up - dance music and hip-hop are now what reign on the charts, right? Tina and I have always put art before commerce every time. Rock and roll was what you played to make money. When the Tom Tom Club started out, dance music and hip-hop were not considered mainstream. ![]() We spoke with Frantz to find out how it feels to still be ahead of the game, even after 30 years. Tonight the band, who initially formed as a Talking Heads side project, perform “Genius” on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and tomorrow they’ll reclaim the stage at New York’s Irving Plaza, bringing their career full circle: Tom Tom Club was the first band to play the storied venue back in 1978. This month the band - comprised of husband and wife duo Chris Frantz (drums) and Tina Weymouth (bass) - celebrate their 30th anniversary by reminding the world that, as much as “Genius of Love” has become ours, it’s really still theirs. The signature cartoonish backbeat has been sampled by everyone from Mariah Carey (“Fantasy”) to Mark Morrison (“Return of the Mack”). Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love” is one of the most ubiquitous songs in all of pop music.
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