Toto - Africa (
On August 1, someone very quietly registered the domain name ibless.therains.downin.africa. Head over to this seemingly complicated URL, and you'll find something brilliantly simple: the video for Toto's "Africa," playing on an endless loop.
Toto - Africa (
This website is hardly the first entity to amplify the greatness of "Africa." Especially in the last few years, the song has become a go-to pop culture reference. There's a Twitter bot, @africabytotobot, that tweets the lyrics to the song, line by line, day after day. In the first episode of "Stranger Things," the song swells in the foreground to soundtrack a heavy makeout session between Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Steve (Joe Keery), while a fall 2016 "South Park" episode had the nostalgia-leaning "member berries" perform the song. A duo named Bacall & Malo even took a reggae-tinged, electronic cover-interpolation of the song to No. 11 on the Swedish pop charts in 2016. 041b061a72