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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Stacy's Mom |
| Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:58:04 -0600 |
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I remember reading an interview where Chris dissed "Leave the Biker" as a
novelty song too. Maybe he's not as fond of the more overtly jokey numbers.
I don't find anything about "Stacy's Mom" that is inconsistent with their
basic style -- marrying their empathetic tales of losers with '70s and '80s
AM radio style rock. Certainly they've played the Cars card before on a
number of songs. Maybe the chorus booms a bit louder on this track, but
it's not an anamoly (sp.?).
I also wouldn't call "Stacy's Mom" a novelty song -- I reserve that for
parodies or The Chipmunks or "Disco Duck" -- a humorous lyric does not
automatically qualify a song as a novelty song.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: "Frank Padellaro" <kingradio@pumpingstation.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Stacy's Mom
>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:51:29 -0600
>
>Anyone who lives in my town has heard Chris' drunken ramblings about his
>misgivings regarding the work of his band and especially his cowriter,
>while hanging out at the local bar. It is kind of lame to feel that way,
>and then try to make yourself feel better by denigrating what you do and
>the people who like it. It is a novelty song, but what's so wrong with
>that? My favorite song when I was 9 was "Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder"
>
>An interesting aside, I was downstairs in the stockroom of the music store
>I work at, and one of the drum teachers was teaching a 13 year old kid his
>favorite new song from the radio. The tune? You guessed it! Stacy's Mom.
>
>I hope the cash and the Grammys help all the pain go down better :)
>
>Frank.
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Andrew Chalfen <chalfen@pobox.upenn.edu>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:41:22 -0500
>
> >
> >>Chris Collingwood thinks he made a deal with the devil..."It's a novelty
> >>song," says Collingwood.
> >
> >It's almost a relief to know that Collingwood is having second thoughts
> >about this tune. I'm not a FOW fan, though I can appreciate why people
>dig
> >the band's attention to songcraft and suburban life themes. That said,
> >when I first heard Stacy's Mom, I thought, wow, that's quite the cynical
> >bid for getting a hit, especially with that sugary Rick Springfield
> >"Jesse's Girl" chorus coupled with some Weezeresque guitar growl slapped
>on
> >for the kids. It's like it was written by the HitMaker 3000 Songbot. I
> >can't image Chris' humiliation and bleak irony involved in having to play
> >that thing night after night, knowing that most of the audience is there
> >for a novelty song and not for the real stuff that's close to his
> >heart. It's funny how Schlessinger is all into the trappings of fame and
> >image making while Collingwood is just cringing at the whole thing. Must
> >make for an interesting band dynamic.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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