Summer Girls
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"Summer Girls" is a song by the pop group LFO that reached #3 in the US on August 17, 1999.
The song's writer, Rich Cronin, said that the song included numerous inside jokes, and that he never anticipated its success. He claims this is due to the fact that the song was made strictly for a demo tape, but was leaked to a radio station. Many of the song's rhyming lines appear to be randomly inserted. It is considered the most popular song of the boy band.
"Summer Girls" is often identified by one of the lines in the chorus: "I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch" and "You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch." The song was also featured in the movie Longshot, in which LFO appeared.
Cultural references in the song include: Cherry Coke, Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin, Alex P. Keaton, New Edition, Footloose, New Kids on the Block, Beastie Boys, Larry Bird, William Shakespeare, Abercrombie and Fitch, Michael J Fox, Cherry Pez, Paul Revere, Kevin Bacon, Mr. Limpet, Chinese Food, pogo sticks and Candy Girl, Fun Dip.
Rapper Eminem parodies the song's chorus in his song, "Marshall Mathers", from his 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP.
Music video
"Quality" is not an adjective that would be applied to the music video for "Summer Girls", nor for any other music videos in LFO's oeuvre. The video features the three gentlemen in the band, dressed like classic late-90s vintage d-bags, on a pier of some sort and later a beach. Our dignity-free trio walks around flirting with bikini-clad girls, some of whom are implausibly cute given the trio of men in question. Many, however, would more likely be classed as "anorexic" by 2008 standards. At one point in the video there's some break dancing. The guy with blond hair "raps" to the camera, demonstrating the remarkable ability to deliver lines like "When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet/Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets" with no evident impulse to kill himself.[1]
Track Listings and Formats
Maxi-Single
- Summer Girls 4:17
- Summer Girls [Instrumental] 4:17
- Can't Have You 4:02
References
- ^ Morreale, Maria (October 18, 1999), "The real deal on making LFO's 'Summer Girls' video.", Scholastic Scope, 48 (4): 14
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