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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | FOW's Bright Future in Hits |
| Date | Mon, 05 May 2003 01:16:25 -0500 |
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> Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 19:55:39 EDT
> From: DanAbnrml9@aol.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re:
> Message-ID: <13.1c2d36f5.2be7027b@aol.com>
>
> In a message dated 5/4/03 7:01:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> kremer@shore.net
> writes:
>
> > I would have picked "Bright Future in Sales" as the radio hit from the
> > new FoW album, but I realized this morning (as I was playing it in a
> > child-filled paint-your-own-pottery studio) that the choruses begin with
>
> > "I'm gonna get my shit together." Oops!
>
> The problem with this song, I think, is both the profanity-laced chorus
> and
> the fact that it's about a typical FOW topic, which is to say that most
> normal people might find it either too obscure or too nasty. "Stacy's Mom"
> is
> a pretty generic topic (the subject matter's been covered before,
> everywhere
> from "The Graduate" to "American Pie") and the Cars-isms make it easy to
> identify with musically. --Jason
>
Granted that they're the two catchiest songs on the new FOW album,
but both "Bright Future in Sales" and "Stacy's Mom" pass the memorability
test. It's now been five days since I've last heard either one, and yet both
choruses still run through my head with regularity. Of course, Andrea and
Jason are right that "Bright Future in Sales" has no future at all as a
possible single, but if sheer stick-in-your-head staying power still has any
effect in what determines a hit single in Top 40 radio, "Stacy's Mom" has
got it going on.
Gregory Sager
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