“The whole second verse of that song is ‘80s song titles, strung together as sentences”: No one knew about the lyrical Easter eggs I dropped into a Rihanna hit single, says songwriter Evan Kidd Bogart

When an artist drops an Easter egg into a song, we’re guessing that the hope is that, at some point, someone will spot it. That’s the whole point, right?

In the case of Rihanna’s SOS, though, it seems that an in-joke has gone unacknowledged for more than 18 years.