THE YEAR IS 2003!
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This song tells the story of a kid who has developed a huge crush on his friend’s super-hot mom. Adam Schlesinger, singer, songwriter and bassist for Fountains of Wayne, revealed in our interview that the track was actually inspired by a friend who was, curiously, attracted to Adam’s grandmother: “Well, one of my best friends told me that he thought my grandmother was really hot, that added a little bit to the song. That’s a true story. And my grandmother was pretty hot.”
- Schlesinger told us he had Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” in the back of his mind when he penned “Stacy’s Mom”: “It was a contrast of that story against a track that sounded like ’80s new wave, like The Cars or something.”
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This song was a commercial success and reached #1 on iTunes’ Most Downloaded Songs chart. In 2004, it was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance. Adam Schlesinger told us “Stacy’s Mom” “is definitely the biggest of my own band stuff.” Schlesinger added that he does not think Fountains of Wayne will achieve the same level of success they did with “Stacy’s Mom” ever again: “I think ‘Stacy’s Mom’ was a fluke thing where it was the right song and the right video, and you kind of had the novelty factor, and all that stuff. And you can’t really make that happen again.”
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Fountains of Wayne were founded by Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood, who met as freshmen at Williams College in Massachusetts. The pair were later joined by guitarist, Jody Porter and drummer, Brian Young. The band were initially called Are You My Mother? and Woolly Mammoth, before finally settling on Fountains of Wayne – a name they obtained from a garden store in Wayne, New Jersey. The group was signed to Atlantic Records in 1996 and released their self-titled debut album that same year.
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