I had the chorus of "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" in my head and was writing obscene variants of it when I thought: what are the deep cuts on the album that had this song on it? They have to be pretty dire, right? There can't be a lot of gas left in the tank by the time we get to the last song on side two of the album that gave us "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," right? Well: the song's called "The World in Which We Live," and it's seven minutes long. It's the longest song on Mosaic, the album whose lead-off track is "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," but there's no song on the record under four minutes: Wang Chung, for a pop band, aren't super dedicated to concise statements of purpose. It takes about a minute for the singer from Wang Chung to announce -- in his whispery "Dance Hall Days" voice, not his party-time "Everybody" voice -- that "the world in which we live is peopled by people who fuck, shit, screw everybody over, don't care, swear, do things without a care, and see it everywhere and write about each other," which tells you what you're in for if you decide to stick the remaining six minutes out. Musically, it occupies roughly a Duran/Spandau zone: plenty of syncopated percussion, brassy synth, guitars that aren't themselves funky but once knew a guitar that was. The instrumental breaks remind me of Michael W. Smith's "Go West Young Man," which is a net win for me, but might not be for you, though I consider that your loss. When the singer from Wang Chung gets more worked up about his theme, the song suffers for it, though the producer is clearly on the singer's side; he offers up samples of cheering crowds and indistinct politicians to keep up with the swell. "The World in Which We Live" is a relic: it's the obligatory-social-comment song; it wouldn't go extinct until the late nineties. "The World" is neither an especially strong nor remarkably weak example of it; as post-Pathways to Glory regimented funk, it's serviceable. It is the last song on side two of the album, which position will be our theme on this site.