Our new single “Maneater” isn’t something that sounds like anything else on the radio.
And it made all the difference in the song.” In another interview with NME Magazine, Hall also stated: “We try and take chances. She said, “drop that shit at the end and go, ‘She’s a maneater,’ and stop! And I said, ‘No, you’re crazy, that’s messed up.'” Then I thought about it, and I realized she was right. So we did that, and I played it for Sara Allen and sang it for her… “Oh here she comes / Watch out boy she’ll chew you up / Oh here she comes / She’s a maneater… and a…” I forget what the last line was. I said, “Well, the chords are interesting, but I think we should change the groove.” I changed it to that Motown kind of groove. In an interview with American Songwriter in 2009, Daryl Hall spoke about the track and its process: “John had written a prototype of “Maneater” he was banging it around with Edgar Winter. “Maneater” was written by Hall & Oates and Sara Allen, and was also produced by Hall & Oates. “Maneater” is the opening track from American duo Hall & Oates’ (Daryl Hall & John Oates) eleventh studio album “H2O”, which was released in 1982.
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