Υπάρχει μια ιδιαίτερη γοητεία στις στιγμές που ο χρόνος ακουμπάει το τέμπο ενός τραγουδιού και το μετατρέπει σε ανάμνηση. Το «What a Fool Believes» των The Doobie Brothers είναι ακριβώς αυτό: ένα κομμάτι που κουβαλάει τη μελωδία του τέλους μιας δεκαετίας και την απαλή νοσταλγία μιας νέας εποχής. Η έκδοση σε επίσημο μουσικό βίντεο σε HD μας επιστρέφει στα φωτεινά στούντιο και στα απλά, αλλά εκφραστικά πλάνα του late 70s — με τον Michael McDonald να δίνει την χαρακτηριστική, μεταξένια φωνή του και την μπάντα να κινείται με την άνεση των μουσικών που ξέρουν καλά το σθένος τους.
Οι Doobie Brothers, μια αμερικανική μπάντα που γεννήθηκε στην Καλιφόρνια στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1970 από τους Tom Johnston και Patrick Simmons, εξελίχθηκαν πολύ πέρα από την πρώτη τους ροκ ταυτότητα. Με την προσθήκη του Michael McDonald στα μέσα της δεκαετίας, απέκτησαν μια πιο σόουλ-προσανατολισμένη ηχοχρωμία — αυτή ακριβώς η σύνθεση ιδεών και φωνών οδήγησε στο «Minute by Minute», το άλμπουμ που έφερε το «What a Fool Believes» στο προσκήνιο. Στην πορεία τους οι Doobies σφράγισαν την ιστορία της ροκ με κλασικά τραγούδια όπως τα «Listen to the Music», «Long Train Runnin’» και «China Grove», κερδίζοντας πολυπλατινένιες πωλήσεις, πιστούς οπαδούς και σημαντικές μουσικές διακρίσεις.
Το «What a Fool Believes», γραμμένο από τον Michael McDonald μαζί με τον Kenny Loggins, κυκλοφόρησε ως single στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1978/στις αρχές του 1979 και σκαρφάλωσε στην κορυφή του Billboard Hot 100 στις 14 Απριλίου 1979 — ένα αξιοσημείωτο γεγονός, καθώς ήταν από τα λίγα μη-disco τραγούδια που έφτασαν στο νούμερο 1 εκείνη τη χρονιά. Η σύνθεση συνδυάζει πιασάρικες, σχεδόν jazz-προσανατολισμένες αρμονίες με μια μαλακή, soulful ερμηνεία· οι στίχοι αφηγούνται μια κοντινή, ανθρώπινη ιστορία μεταμέλειας και επιθυμίας, συσκευασμένη με κομψότητα.
Αν και το πέρασμα του χρόνου άλλαξε πρόσωπα στη σύνθεση της μπάντας και έφερε αποχωρήσεις και απώλειες, η μουσική τους παραμένει ζωντανή σε ραδιόφωνα, σε συλλογές και πάνω απ’ όλα στις συναυλίες τους. Το μουσικό αυτό βίντεο λειτουργεί σαν ένα μικρό φωτογραφικό άλμπουμ — απλές σκηνές, ζεστό φως, και μία ερμηνεία που θυμίζει γιατί αυτά τα τραγούδια αντέχουν. Για όποιον αγαπά τη μουσική που ενώνει δεκαετίες, το «What a Fool Believes» είναι μια τρυφερή υπενθύμιση ότι μερικά τραγούδια γίνονται κομμάτια της δικής μας αφήγησης.
Δεδομένα τραγουδιού:
Artist: The Doobie Brothers
Song title: What A Fool Believes
Album: Minute by Minute
Country: United States
Released: 1979 (single)
Genre: Soft rock / Blue-eyed soul
Charts Peak Position: #1 Billboard Hot 100 (April 14, 1979)
Music Video: The Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes (Official Music Video) [HD]
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😂great tune
Okay I guess I‘ve found the best song ever. That‘s literally an eargasm!
Vozeirão!
My time
Jesus Christ is the sole owner of the kingdom
I will always love M.M. ❤
Genios! Qué bien suenan! Ídolos!
One of the best songs ever written in my opinion. Masterpiece. The DB rock!
Yeah fulfilled bucket list saw Doobie brothers with Michael McDonald @ 3 Arena Dublin Ireland July 2025 …. didn't care whether it was vintage Doobies just to be in same Arena was good enough for me 😎 …. played great gig that night …. "What a fool believes" classic then classic now ❤😎👍.
perfection
It's funny, today I heard a song by Sabrina Carpenter, (Manchild) and guess what? the beginnig of that song is exactly the same as the beginning of this song. The funny thing is that teenagers believe they invented the wheel and ignore that everything in music has already been invented and is there for us. I invite you to compare and prove me wrong.
Skunk Baxter looks so bored
Where was the damn racism this was just beautiful music what happened to us
This is When music was good.
Love from England 2026 August ♥️🇬🇧
WHO COME FROM GTA V?
I love this song
The 60's and 70's was the best time to grow up. Music, cars and freedom ❤
Low key greatest song of all time
More than two genders…..
8/21/26
The Transcript is so wrong…. Did a Chinese person translate it! The coming AI needs to make sure all transcripts are based on accent, language’s, lingo cultures, beach cultures, bush cultures, county phonics of language, the changes and the many many ways a musical artist from the past should sound and look the same with this new AI algorithm in progress.
My parents used to dance to this whenever it came on. It was their wedding song. They left this earth far too young but this song will always live rent free in my head with the memory of them cutting a rug across the dancefloor ❤
Não me canso de escutar, eu amo essa música. 2026
Nobody will ever have his tone❤
Hola mundo 😍 otra vez por aquí ❤️
Tô preso no refrão, muito boa música.
Michael mcdonald a man of pure talent ❤
lyricss meaning: (i wrote it somewhere else but im sharing in hope its helpful)
The lyrics explicitly state he is a "fool" the entire time. The misunderstanding from other listeners usually comes from bad lyric spacing on sites like Genius, or from excluding lines and missing the big picture. The song constantly explains that this is entirely a one-sided fantasy and delusion because, to him, "it's better than nothing at all."
On Genius, the very first line annotation is flat-out wrong. For "He came from somewhere back in her long ago / The sentimental fool don't see," Genius claims they were in a past relationship. But that "past" was just a one-sided fantasy in the guy's head; they were never a couple! The next lines prove the truth.
Look at this sequence:
"She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale / Never comin' near what he wanted to say / Only to realize, it never really was"
"Mustering a smile" means she is just being polite, trying to survive an awkward conversation, and giving a fake excuse to leave. Which is totally mean if she knew, but maybe she didn't even know, or she simply didn't know better, or even knew what he feels and let him leave in his fantasy. He briefly catches onto reality and realizes it never was. But his brain physically cannot handle that level of rejection. He completely hides in denial and runs right back into his fantasy world because an illusion is better than emptiness.
To answer @ draminatakanu: When he says, "If love can come and love can go, why can't love return right now," you are missing the context. The song is written from a 3rd-person perspective. The narrator is examining the general concept of love and arguing with logic itself. He is continuing to believe his fantasy because "it's better than NOTHING." The song is confusing because it says, "Only to realize, it never really was," but the guy is so desperate that a fake smile is viewed as a sign, a chance, or a hope.
There really are people like this in the real world—people who would give anything just for a begged-for meeting and a polite smile. The song doesn't paint him as a dangerous stalker; it's about a "fool for love," which was a reality in 1979 just as much as it is today.
The lyrics lay it all out:
"What a fool believes" – The song literally labels him a fool.
"Anybody else would surely know" – A normal person would take the hint and see she isn't interested.
"No wise man has the power to reason away" – Even if the smartest person on earth sat him down with undeniable proof, they still couldn't fix his delusion.
By the time we hit the final lines— "What seems to be is always better than nothing, than nothing at all"— the lyrics show that the guy lives in a beautiful lie and prefers to choose his fantasy and illusion. He isn't just "a fool" or "stupid"— he is desperate. Having a fake relationship in his mind gives him comfort, while having nothing at all would completely break his heart.
Love his voice.
❤❤❤❤❤
This here is music never gets old😊😊😊