Connection
Points of connection
- The verse of each song starts with a two-bar phrase, starting on the "and" of 1, ending on beat 3 of the second measure, and repeating twice
- The second measure in each phrase opens by traversing scale degrees 4̂-3̂-4̂-5̂ using eighth notes
- Both songs are in the same key (E mixolydian)
- Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran recounted in a 2021 interview that Michael Jackson called him in 1984 to propose a collaboration, but the band declined