"Stacy's Mom"
Single by Fountains of Wayne
from the album Welcome Interstate Managers
Released	October 21, 2003
Format	Digital download, CD single
Genre	Power pop
Length	3:19
Label	Virgin
Writer(s)	Adam Schlesinger, Chris Collingwood
Certification	Gold (ARIA)
Peak chart positions
#14 (Australia) #21 (US Hot 100)
Fountains of Wayne singles chronology
"Denise" (1999) "Stacy's Mom" (2003) "Mexican Wine" (2003)

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"Stacy's Mom" appeared in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (#21) and was one of the first songs to reach the #1 spot on the "Most Downloaded Songs" list of the iTunes Music Store. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance at the 2004 awards. The video reached #1 on both MTV's TRL and VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown. The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into ITunes. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal has been awarded since 1966. ... The 46th Grammy Awards were held on the February 8, 2004. ... MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ... TRL may stand for: Trail Total Request Live, a television show on MTV. Tomb Raider: Legend, the latest game in the Tomb Raider franchise. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... VSpot Top 20 Countdown is a weekly television show on the VH1 cable network. ...

Music

"Stacy's Mom" was written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger. Stylistically it is pure power pop. It begins with an intro inspired by (but not the same as) the intro to "Just What I Needed" by the Cars. Overall it presents the listener with a very accessible melody starting with a I - IV - I - IV chord progression in E major, and launches into a crescendo as a segue to the refrain that is complete with vocal harmonies. Standard rock instrumentation comprises the orchestration: drums, bass, guitar, vocals, and keys.^[1] Chris Collingwood, born in 1968 in Pennsylvania, is a founding member of the power pop band Fountains of Wayne. ... Adam Schlesinger (born October 31, 1967) is a songwriter, composer, and record producer. ... Power pop is a long-standing musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop music. ... A chord progression (also chord sequence and harmonic progression or sequence), as its name implies, is a series of chords played in order. ... Also see: E minor, or E flat major. ... Crescendo may mean: In musical notation, crescendo refers to a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ... Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble) or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ...

Subject matter

"Stacy's Mom" is about a boy's adolescent fantasies about a female friend's mother. The boy spends time with the friend in an attempt to get closer to her mother in a reversal of the Lolita story and a nod to the MILF concept. The part in the video in which Stacy, the friend of the boy, is laying out in the sun with red heart-shaped sunglasses is also possibly a reference to Lolita.^{[original research?]} Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. ...

Music video

Stacy catches the boy masturbating in the bathroom.

"Stacy's Mom" became a hit widely due to its music video, directed by Chris Applebaum, which features several comedic scenes illustrating the boy's attempts to get closer to the object of his affections and fantasies, played by model Rachel Hunter. In the video, Stacy is played by Gianna Distenca and the boy is played by Shane Haboucha. It also pays homage to the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High; near the end of the video, the young boy begins to masturbate by the bathroom window after staring at Stacy's mother come out of the pool in her red two-piece bikini. Before he reaches the point of ejaculation, Stacy opens the door and catches him in the act — differently from the character Linda of Fast Times at Ridgemont High — she leaves, closes the door behind her, then laughs, believing that he is thinking of her. The video ends with the bathroom door closed, still with the sign Ocupado (Portuguese and Spanish for "occupied") hanging on the doorknob, which Stacy had ignored when she entered. Image File history File links Shane_Haboucha_(caught_by_Stacy). ... Image File history File links Shane_Haboucha_(caught_by_Stacy). ... Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... Chris Applebaum is a music video director, who previously directed music videos for many pop sensations including Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, Willa Ford, Jessica Simpson, Natasha Bedingfield, and Lisa Loeb. ... Rachel Hunter (born September 9, 1969 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a fashion model, actress and reality TV show host. ... Haboucha in Stacys Mom music video Shane Edouard Haboucha (born November 27, 1990 in Los Angeles, California) is an American child actor. ... For a description of the medieval homage ceremony see commendation ceremony Homage is generally used in modern English to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom you feel indebted. ... // This is the year of film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which will become the highest grossing movie for almost 15 years (until Titanic), earning double or triple against any major film of the 1980s. ... Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen-comedy film written by Cameron Crowe (adapted from his book) and directed by Amy Heckerling. ... Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ... bikini briefs, from Roman London. ... Ejaculation is the ejecting of semen from the penis, and is usually accompanied by orgasm. ...

Influences

Adam Schlesinger says "Stacy's Mom" was a tribute to The Cars, which explains its intro (similar to "Just What I Needed"). Cars frontman Ric Ocasek thought that the intro was a sample from "Just What I Needed"^[2] but the band says they performed it in the studio and just "got it right." Fountains of Wayne had asked Ocasek to be in the video for the song. Schlesinger explains that while Ocasek acknowledges that he "politely declined", he actually just never responded to the request. Schlesinger holds no ill feelings and expresses the highest regard for Ocasek.^[3] The Cars were an American rock band, fronted by Ric Ocasek, that emerged from the early punk scene in the late 1970s. ... Just What I Needed is a song by the band The Cars. ... Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ...

There remain several references to The Cars in the song's video: a license plate reads "I ♥ RIC", a reference to Ric Ocasek; and the recreation of the Fast Times scene, which featured The Cars' "Moving In Stereo". The narrator stutters on the final words of various lines, similar to the stuttering style employed by Ocasek. One of the boys at the beginning also wears Ocasek's signature hair, tie, and sunglasses. Further links to The Cars and New Wave music are given by the magazine Nu Wave that is featured in the video, the Roland Juno-6 keyboard (a synthesizer of the 1980's), and the record sleeve showing 'Stacy's Mom' in a car, in homage to a number of Cars' album covers.^[4] Ric Ocasek (born Richard Otcasek on March 23, 1949, in Baltimore, Maryland) is the former vocalist and frontman for The Cars and a producer for several other groups, including Bad Brains and Suicide. ... The Roland Juno-60 is a popular analogue 61-key polyphonic synthesizer produced by Roland Corporation in the early 1980s and a successor to the slightly earlier Juno-6. ...

Spoofs and commercialization

Following the success of "Stacy's Mom", a band called Uncle Izzy^[5] released a spoof of the song named "Stacy's Dad", where a girl fantasizes about Stacy (now a boy)'s father. In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ...

In addition, a Christian parody band called ApologetiX released a song named "JC's Mom" (on their album New And Used Hits) describing Jesus Christ's mother, Mary, having a growing son, and his journey as a boy. ApologetiX from left to right: Karl Messner, Keith Haynie, Bill Rieger, and J. Jackson. ...

In 2005, "Stacy's Mom" was used in a commercial for Dr Pepper. In this case, the boys (part of a local youth sports team) adore "Stacy's mom" – because she brings the desired soft drink. Dr Pepper is a caramel-colored, carbonated soft drink marketed in North America by Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB), a unit of Cadbury Schweppes. ...

Parody band Frances Dogfish parodied "Stacy's Mom" with "Stacy's Grampa", describing a young boy in love with an old man with a bladder problem.

Webcomic xkcd published a note from Stacey's dad [sic]^[6] xkcd (pronounced ecks kay see dee) is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe,[1] a former NASA roboticist,[2] and a native of Chesterfield, Virginia (although he currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts). ...

In 2004, Bob Ricci released "Mrs. Claus," a parody about visiting Mrs. Claus on Christmas Eve while Santa is away.

Notes and references

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External links

• "Stacy's Mom" lyrics at LeosLyrics.com
• FountainsOfWayne.com
• Youtube video