He was also responsible for the phrase "one if by land, two if by sea," the latter half of which is a terrible Denis Leary movie. His father was named Apollos Rivoire, which is a great name, and this is just another Massachusetts reference in this song.
Let it go, LFO. To consume it, tear open the pouch, pull out the edible utensil, and coat it in your saliva. Then dip it into the sugar and lick the sugar off the stick. Sounds gross when we put it that way, huh? What this is : The popular beverage Coca Cola, mixed with cherry flavor. Originally, it was just Coke mixed with grenadine, but since , Coke bottlers have offered the drink in bottle, can, and fountain form.
Who this is : He played Turbo, one of the most popular characters in the film Breakin' and its sequel Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers was a breakdancer back when it was still sort of okay to refer to it as breakdancing. His routines are still fun to watch. What this is : A vertical mode of transportation that involves the traveler standing upright on a stick with a spring attached to its bottom. The user's feet are planted on a bar along the bottom of the stick, followed by bouncing along on the spring.
It is not a terribly efficient mode of travel. Who this is : Played by Don Knotts, Mr. Limpet was a man who wished to become a fish, then somehow got his incredibly lame wish granted when he fell into the water one day. We wish we were making the plot of this movie up. Many have tried to mount a remake of the film — most recently Boyhood director Richard Linklater — but it has yet to happen.
What this is : It's hard to know if LFO refers to the acclaimed novel by Alice Walker , which was also made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg , or the actual color purple , which resides on the blue-ish end of the spectrum and is created in the children's book The Color Kittens by mixing red and blue. But because this is immediately followed by "macaroni and cheese," we're guessing it means the latter.
The former would be messed up. What this is : An enormously popular dish, this usually involves elbow macaroni coated in a kind of cheese cream sauce. Or, more likely, it means the boxed dinner from Kraft foods, which you might remember from your childhood. We would like some right now. Please make it for us. What this is : Worn by Dorothy on her feet throughout the classic film The Wizard of Oz though, pointedly, not in the book it was based on , the ruby red slippers allow Dorothy to return home by clicking her heels together and saying "There's no place like home.
We would very much like to go home this deep into this article. A bunch of trees. What this is : Coniferous or deciduous, trees are among our most persistent, hardiest forms of plant life. You probably saw one today, though it's possible you did not see "a bunch of" them. Who this is : Star of many popular films and the abhorrent TV series The Following , Kevin Bacon was probably best known at the time of "Summer Girls's" release thanks to the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, in which one attempts to connect any actor on Hollywood to Kevin Bacon via six moves or less.
What this is: A film about a young man who moves to a small town and teaches the people there about the wonders of dancing, getting them to loosen up about that one time some kids died in a car accident. That young man? Also, possibly, the Kenny Loggins theme to this movie , though this seems less likely.
Like Bacon's character in the film, LFO came to bring us a funkier future, but we rejected them and live only in the distinctly unfunky present. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. LFO's "Summer Girls," painstakingly annotated. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. First, listen to the song to refresh your memory.
Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas are reunited. Six years after splitting up, the Jonas Brothers released their fifth full-length album, Happiness Begins , and redefined what it meant to be a freshly reunited boy band.
In fact, the former Disney trio were able to perfectly mesh nostalgia with a huge new musical step that brought them their biggest single yet. Aided by pop savant Ryan Tedder, the catchy, guitar-driven banger is sexier than anything the boys would have attempted back during their early days, and the pay-off has been crystal clear.
Rich vocal harmonies and an easily mimicked chorus helped it float to Number 10 on the Billboard Hot in , while its Don Letts-directed video was one of the first clips by black artists to get MTV airplay. And with their matching outfits, tight harmonies, and screaming female fans, the Teenagers set the tone for every boy band that followed in their wake. Sadly, Lymon died of a heroin overdose in He was just They wanted something with size, scope, scale and fun. In , a simple tale of kitchen-sink heartbreak was enough to elevate Take That from U.
The JoBros were as innocent as a pop group could get — like Osmonds-level innocent — grousing about conversations over instant message and text. However, the Disney-friendly, chaste Jonas Brothers were masters of a catchy pop-rock tune and toyed with rock authenticity long before One Direction famously began doing so with their third and fourth albums. What a time was, though, to be a kid, and to feel like a kid forever.
Fischetti helped pay that feeling forward. If they were alive and they listened to music, they know that song. Nobody knew what it could be at first; the song became what it became very much by accident. Inside jokes. I never thought that anyone besides my close friends would ever hear it. Five, seven years. You know what I mean? For the group, there was not as much genre anxiety then as you might imagine, and far less genre anxiety now. Back then, nobody wanted to be called a boy band.
Cronin, Fischetti recalls, was nervous, but Davis, indomitable music-biz genius that he is, instantly thought it was … fine. You guys can put it on the album. To have a song that you wrote on the album was kind of a big deal. And then, the real fluke. It was not a label priority; it was not some unseemly payola spectacle. Somebody at Z simply pulled it off the pile and played it, and somebody at New York City pop station Z, who just happened to be driving through D.
Clearly we knew it was special. But can anybody really predict exactly what the reaction to a song will be? The song was exactly the same. In the absence of a green room, they hung out near the food court. We get to a certain point, then you can see the next level. I mean, the place was—I mean, like thousands of people. As soon as they saw us coming on the escalator, they started going crazy. Our story begins in, no bullshit, Pretty white people. A preppy look. Those are the things that I associated with it.
The very white, very white look. Good luck to them. It was classic. You can play the video today, and nobody would know it was 20 years ago. It was a lot of fun to shoot. Not only because of all the girls in bikinis—honestly it was just a really fun, fun vibe. As in New York City. There were complications. To be clear, what this means is that if you listen to the LFO album chronologically, Track 2 is a tender ode to the celebrity Cronin found himself dating after the monster success of Track 1.
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