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...didn't know my Dad--he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking...
...songwriters of the band Fountains Of Wayne--actually did was this: they recorded a song about wanting to sleep with a friend's mother. Then they made a video with Rachel Hunter, the ex-Mrs. Rod Stewart, playing a modern Mrs. Robinson in a bikini. Naturally, Stacy's Mom became a top 10 hit--the most downloaded song on iTunes--and earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. "People are watching the video and downloading the single, but they don't know us or our record at all. It's kind of disappointing. It's a novelty...
What drove Fountains of Wayne to Stacy's Mom was the usual soul-killing nightmare of the music industry. Schlesinger and Collingwood, both 36, met as undergraduates at Williams College and soon after started Fountains of Wayne (named after a lawn-ornament store near Schlesinger's New Jersey home), adding bassist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young along the way. They signed a major-label deal with Atlantic Records in 1996 and were promptly buried by everything else on the radio. "There's this expression, Bo-Now music," says Collingwood. "It's that whole genre where singers just scream...
They also wrote Stacy's Mom. The song fits the band's general aesthetic--it's not a total sellout--but the chorus ("Stacy's mom has got it going on") is less nuanced than its best work. When Fountains of Wayne handed over the album to A.-and-R. man Steve Greenberg, who had previously signed Hanson and the Baha Men, he pushed them to make Stacy's Mom the lead single...
Collingwood is still worried about that decision. On the band's recent tour, opening for Matchbox Twenty, he says, "the hard-core fans were there, but there's a large contingent that just wants the single, or holds up the sign that says, I'M STACY'S MOM." He sighs. "I hope it doesn't haunt us." Schlesinger couldn't be happier. With the momentum from Stacy's Mom, the band has persuaded its label to do a video for its second single, Mexican Wine, in Brazil. There will be several yachts in the video and a helicopter too. "Actually...