What’s the deal with “Man, it’s a hot one”? What elevates this blithe, half-muttered, temperature-based remark to the pantheon? Could part of the attraction be doubt? “When I listened to the lyrics and heard, ‘It’s a hot one,’ those lyrics are outside of time and gravity,” Carlos himself observed to Rolling Stone in 2019. “I thought we had entered a place of immortality. But with all respect to Rob, I said, ‘I’m having a little challenge believing you that what you’re singing is true.’”
