“You Might Think” by The Cars

"You Might Think" was the first single from Heartbeat City, the Cars' fifth album, in 1984. Ric Ocasek wrote it and sings the lead, and Mutt Lange produced it with the band, buffing the new wave twitch into a glossy, bubbling pop machine, with Greg Hawkes' keyboards fizzing, Elliot Easton's guitar cutting in, and Benjamin Orr and David Robinson keeping the bounce locked down.

It reached number seven in the US and eight in Canada, and it became the band's first number one on the Mainstream Rock chart. The video was an early showcase for computer graphics: Ocasek pesters model Susan Gallagher by popping up in her bathroom mirror, in a periscope rising from her bathtub, as a fly and as King Kong atop the Empire State Building, while Hawkes plays a dentist as Ocasek takes a jackhammer to her tooth.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.