I Predict

{{Infobox song

| name = I Predict

| cover = Sparks - I Predict.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Sparks

| album = Angst in My Pants

| B-side = Moustache

| released = 1982

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = New wave{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-predict-mt0007241884|title=Sparks - I Predict|work=AllMusic|access-date=23 December 2014}}

| length = 2:56

| label = Atlantic

| writer = * Ron Mael

Russell Mael{{cite web|title=discogs.com|url=https://www.discogs.com/Sparks-I-Predict/release/821702|website=discogs.com|accessdate=June 16, 2021}}

| producer = Mack

| chronology = Sparks

| prev_title = Funny Face

| prev_year = 1981

| next_title = Cool Places

| next_year = 1983

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|TH5USLpPa_0|"I Predict"}}}}

}}

"I Predict" is a song by American new wave duo Sparks. It was released in 1982 as the first single from their eleventh studio album Angst in My Pants, although an effort was made to release "Eaten by the Monster of Love" as a second single. The group promoted the single with an eclectic performance on Saturday Night Live (SNL). They also performed "Mickey Mouse", another Angst in My Pants track.

It was their first single to ever enter the Billboard Hot 100 charts in America.{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/sparks/chart-history/hsi/|title= Sparks Hot 100 |publisher=billboard.com |access-date=11 July 2021}}

Music video

A music video made to accompany the single featured Ron Mael in drag doing a striptease dance performance in a Los Angeles nightclub while Russell lip syncs the lyrics to the song. The music video is sometimes erroneously credited to David Lynch,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/i-predict-mt0007241884|publisher=AllMusic|title=I Predict|last=Thompson|first=David|access-date=May 23, 2016}} but the book Talent is an Asset: The Story of Sparks credits the video to be done by Steve and Doug Martin in the style of Lynch.{{sfn|Easlea|2009|p=185}}

Due to the more "mature and inappropriate sexual themes" and "adult nature" of the video, MTV usually only played it during nightly hours or at midnight.