Illustration: Iris Gottlieb
If you’ve heard Latto’s swaggering track “Big Energy” — and after 30 weeks on the Hot 100, you probably have — you likely spotted more than a passing resemblance to Mariah Carey’s 1995 hit “Fantasy.” That’s because both songs borrow a groove from Tom Tom Club’s genre-defying smash 1981 hit “Genius of Love.”
