Music in this episode: Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (1982) Manu Dibango - “Soul Makossa” (1972) Manu Dibango - “Mouvement Ewondo” (1972) A Taste of Honey - “Boogie Oogie Oogie” (1978) Manu Dibango - “Electric Africa” (1985) Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (home demo)” (1979) Fugees - “Cowboys” (1996) Will Smith - “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” (1997) Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz (feat. Chauncey Black) - “Startin’ Somethin’” (1998) Björk - “I Go Humble” (1998) Missy Elliott - “Intro/Go To The Floor” (2002) Rihanna - “Don’t Stop the Music” (2007) Charles Hamilton - “Brooklyn Girls” (2008) Geri Allen - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (2013) References My MusicRadar column about this song Nelson George - Thriller: The Musical Life Of Michael Jackson Manu Dibango and Danielle Rouard - Three Kilos of Coffee: an Autobiography George Echu - “Multilingualism as a Resource: the Lexical Appropriation of Cameroon Indigenous Languages by English and French” Ben Zimmer - “Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa” Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe Rss
