Private eye or Private Eye may refer to:
Film and television
- Private Eye (TV series), a 1987-1988 American series based on the film
Literature
Music
- "Private Eyes" (song), the title song
Private Eyes is a 1996 drama by Steven Dietz about deception and broken trust, labeled by the author as a "comedy of suspicion", as the story is brought in multiple layers and the audience is repeatedly tricked to believe that the current situation is real. It is sometimes considered an homage to Tom Stoppard's 1982 The Real Thing, a play with the same theme and techniques.
Story
Husband and wife Matthew and Lisa are rehearsing a two- or perhaps three-person play. The British director Adrian uses his position of power to instantly seduce the "strikingly beautiful" Lisa and for a month or so Matthew desperately tries to deny their brazenly open affair or fantasizes about revenge. Then, Adrian's wife Cory tracks him down and Lisa turns out to be just another notch on his belt, after which all go their separate ways. In the brief final scene, Lisa approaches Matthew many years later, both declaring to have thought about only each other ever since.
This simple storyline is hidden in multiple, often conflicting layers, leaving the audience with doubts what part to believe (and some may even doubt the outline above). Like the beginning of Stoppard's play, the first scene is revealed to be the play the couple is rehearsing, with the additional twist that this play-in-a-play is about an audition and an affair between a director and an actress. The entire first half turns out to be a wistful version of how Matthew would have liked to expose the affair of his wife, as told to his therapist Frank (whose role can be played by a man or woman).
"Private Eyes" is a 1981 single by Hall & Oates and the title track from their album of that year. The song was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from November 7 through November 20, 1981. This single was the band's third of six number one hits (the first two being "Rich Girl" and "Kiss on My List"), and their second number one hit of the 1980s. It was succeeded in the number one position by Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," which was in turn succeeded by another single from Hall and Oates, "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)."
Background and writing
In an interview with American Songwriter, Daryl Hall states: "That’s a real Janna Allen [co-writer and sister of Sara Allen] song. Janna, and I, and Warren Pash wrote that. Warren and Janna wrote most of the song, and I took it and changed it around – changed the chords. Sandy [Sara Allen] and I wrote the lyrics. It’s a real family song, the Allen sisters and me."
The single carries a similar rhythm to the duo's number one hit from earlier that year, "Kiss On My List," with the difference being a handclap chorus that has made the song an audience-participation favorite at live Hall and Oates shows. It was one of the duo's first songs to appear in heavy rotation on MTV.
Podcasts:
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Private Eyes
by: Daryl Hall & John OatesMack 10 Scarface---You Delinquent
From The Player's Club Soundtrack
Voice: What the fuck?
Mack: I'm tired of playin' with yo' ass nigga today you gone die.
Voice: Aaaagh agh
[Mack]
I went from Inglewood to H-Town tryin' to put the hustle down
but I could already tell these bitch niggas wanna clown
like I'm the new jack of the city but I ride like nina roll
I can see now one eighty seven got to be the penal code
I'm fed up that's it that's all fuck that get it get it
since he bullshitted ran with it
a murder must be committed
Now the kidnap got to go down
In other words I got to steal him
then put the pistol to his grill
cock the hammer back kill him
[Face]
We finna (get him) once we (get him)
gotta make a statement
He fucked the family
man to respect 'em we gotta waste him
No hesitatin' heat him up leave him on the pavement
then find his momma so she can help us find her baby
Nigga are you crazy?
We don't bullshit when it comes to payday
they fuck with Face they
don't let me catch you on the highway
or in public places we dumpin' on ya like that
Nigga You Delinquent we on yo' ass like that
Chorus
You Delinquent muthafucka give up the pink slip
We got to kill who you drink with
We got to blast who you think with
A money murder
A money murder
We got to hurt ya
We got to hurt ya
[Face]
Caught his ass slippin' at a parkin' lot
red dot marks the spot
I'm trippin' on how hard he got
he got some bitches in the front seat smilin'
When asked about the paper he owe he kept drivin'
paid us no mind hit the corner in the 5.0
dippin' disrespected pimpin' Mack 10 trippin'
loadin' up the stainless .44 grip
the trigger off his finger finna start clickin'
[Mack]
Aww fuck overlaps with>Ain't that a bitch
this nigga actin' like I'm some type of sucka
I'll tell you what Face you drive
when I blast this muthafucka
Done took my last weed crop money
so you know we through G
Dog I been around too many hogs
to let a punk nigga do me
I give a fuck what you claim
where you from who you know
nigga touch my dough fa sho
ya get a blow from the .44
So let his neck go Brad
it ain't no need to choke the nigga
just close ya ears get back homeboy
I'm finna choke the trigga
gunshot>
[Face] whispering> Aiight there he go gunshot>
there that bitch go gunshot>
come on come on let'sgo gunshot>
heyniggalet'sgoniggalet'sgoniggalet'sgo
Chorus
[Mack]
If a rider need his heat 'cause it's cold outside
we gets money worldwide we stay down to ride
So I stuff the clip of the .45 cause I gotta survive
the niggas that's jive they end up dead on the rise
all pissy shitty victims of the Hoo Bang Committee
when Mack Face get down it's like a polinity
Straight rulers of the city hit the stick now we bent
blowin holes in what you think with
of niggas that's Delinquent
[Face]
Hey so when a nigga shoot you nine man,
a nigga gon need to get that money, whatI'msayin'?
When a nigga shoot you half a bird,
a nigga gon need to get that money.
Nigga wadn't bullshittin' when he fronted it to you.
So don't bullshit when it come to payin a muthafucka.
Aiight? You Delinquent.
Can I get my muthafuckin' ends nigga?
Chorus
We got to get you for that dollar bill (2x)
We got to get you for this dollar bill
We got to get yo' ass dollar bill
A money murder
A money murder
We are going to hurt you nigga.
A money murder
A money murder (Give it up)