Woman of the World

Double recorded Woman of the World in 1984 with a trombone in the background that gives it a jazz-pop feel, as if the sound were traveling on a train that never reaches a station. The song was born before their album Blue (1985), but it wasn’t until two years later that they released a version for the U.S. market with a longer remix: three minutes in its original edition and five in the extended version. On Blue, a four-minute take remained, the one that best captures that trombone weaving into the melody without asking permission.

The video, filmed in motion, shows the duo inside a train car while black-and-white images blend with scenes from old films, as if the song itself were a journey through time. Though the promotion failed to push it up the charts, the trombone and that smooth yet insistent rhythm ended up becoming their trademark: a piece that sounds like 1980s Europe, with that balance between commercial appeal and experimentation that often goes unnoticed.