"She Blinded Me with Science" is a song by the English musician

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, released in 1982. It was first released as a single in the UK in October 1982. It was subsequently included on the EP '' Blinded by Science'' and the 1983 re-release of Dolby's debut album ''

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''. Although viewed as a success in both the United States and Canada, peaking at No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and 2 weeks at No. 1 in Canada's

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, the song barely managed to score among the Top 50 in Dolby's native United Kingdom, peaking at No. 49 on the

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in 1982. Dolby is often considered a

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in the United States on the basis of the song's chart success there. In 2002, US cable television network VH1 named "She Blinded Me with Science" No. 20 on its list of the "100 Greatest One-hit Wonders". While the song is Dolby's only Top 40 single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, he has had other songs that scored on the music charts. In 2006, VH1 placed it at No. 76 on their list of "Greatest Songs of the '80s". Then, in 2009, it ranked No. 13 on VH1's "100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s" list. The song was used as the theme song in the pilot episode of "

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" before it was replaced with the "Big Bang Theory Theme" by rock band

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Song structure

The song features exclamations from the British scientist and TV presenter

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, who repeatedly interjects "Science!" and delivers other lines in a deliberately caricatured

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manner, such as, "Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you're beautiful!"

Music video

The video for "She Blinded Me with Science" was conceived and storyboarded before the song was written. Dolby added the song title, wrote the song to fit the planned video, and then directed the music video. The video features

as The Doctor, at "The Home for Deranged Scientists".

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

Thomas Dolby – The Making of "She Blinded Me with Science"
on

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