Ron and Russel Mael of Sparks have outlasted their nearest rivals by decades. In this video I off a theory about how they've done this, with a creative approach unlike anyone else. I set this out using songs from 'The Girl is crying in her latte', including 'it doesn't have to be that way', 'not that well defined', 'when you leave', 'take me for a ride', 'it's sunny today', 'escalator' and 'nothing is as good as they say it is'.