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3 mar 2009 · REMASTERED IN HD! Official video of Marcy Playground performing Sex And Candy from the album Marcy Playground. Buy It Here: http://smarturl.it/p5pz1x Like Marcy Playground on...
- Background
- Composition
- Critical Reception
- Commercial Performance
- Music Video
- Cover Versions and Usage in Media
- Track Listing
"Sex and Candy" stemmed from a moment in the late 1980s when John Wozniak, who had not yet started Marcy Playground, was in his girlfriend's dormitory at Bryn Mawr College, where his father taught. While he and his girlfriend were having sex in her dorm room, another young woman walked in following coitus interruptus. She said the room smelled like...
"Sex and Candy" is a post-grunge song with elements of psychedelic music that lasts for two minutes and fifty-two seconds. It has a slow tempo and down-tempo chords. Its abstract lyrics reference "double cherry pie," "disco superfly," "disco lemonade" and "platform double-suede". and "drawling" vocals from Wozniak. The track's refrain is "I smell s...
According to Zachary Houle of PopMatters, "Sex and Candy" has a reputation for being the only good song in Marcy Playground's catalogue; Houle disputed the notion while praising the song. Bayer of The A. V. Club said that "There is something powerful in the simplicity and straight-forwardness of the song" and that its "chorus still sounds as captiv...
"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997. The Marcy Playground album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker Morgan J. Freeman for the soundtrack of his film Hurricane Streets. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was...
Background
The song's music video was directed and conceptualized by Jamie Caliri. Wozniak admired Caliri's surrealist artistic sensibility as well as the video he directed for Morphine's "Early to Bed". According to Wozniak, Caliri infused the video for "Sex and Candy" with various hidden meanings.The video for "Sex and Candy" took a week to film in October and was Marcy Playground's first video.
Synopsis
The video begins with a shot of synthetic hills with a checkerboard pattern on them. Wozniak's head appears, protruding from a hole inside one of the hills. A hook descends from the sky and lifts up a glass cage, releasing a spider who crawls toward Wozniak. Two men are shown in a room with a dresser. Wozniak is then seen in front of an arch; a shoe attached to a string lowers from the arch and men try to grab it. The same men pull strings out of a wall. The video ends with Wozniak lying in a...
Reception
Wozniak's father, a developmental psychologist, analyzed the video in Freudian terms, seeing it as a representation of a wet dream. He believed that the hole Wozniak's head was in represented the womb, the spider Wozniak's loss of innocence (which he is both afraid of and drawn to), and the puddle at the end of the video to be a symbol for semen. Chad Childers of Loudwire deemed the video reminiscent of the art of Salvador Dalíand called it one of the "most romantic rock music videos". He saw...
"Sex and Candy" appeared on the soundtrack albums for the films Hurricane Streets (1997) and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008). The song is included in "Polka Power!", a polka medley from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Running with Scissors (1999). Will Hines of Vulture deemed Yankovic's rendition of "Sex and Candy" the comedic highlight of the medley...
"Sex and Candy" – 2:54"The Angel of the Forever Sleep" – 4:53"Memphis" – 2:373 feb 2019 · Lyrics:Hangin' round downtown by myself And I had so much time To sit and think about myself And then there she was Like double cherry pie Yeah there she was...
10 set 2008 · Sex and Candy By Marcy PlaygroundHangin round downtown by myselfAnd I had so much timeTo sit and thinkAbout myselfAnd then there she wasLike double cherry pi...
REMASTERED IN HD! Official video of Marcy Playground performing Sex And Candy from the album Marcy Playground. Buy It Here: http://smarturl.it/p5pz1x Like...
15 set 1997 · Sex and Candy Lyrics. [Verse 1] Hanging around, downtown by myself. And I had so much time to sit and think about myself. And then there she was, like double cherry pie. Yeah, there she was,...
21 feb 2006 · Sex & Candy [2006] by Marcy Playground released in 2006. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
