http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUG1aCUY2o
The video just watched is ‘Stacey’s Mom’ by Fountains of Wayne directed by Chris Applebaum, the director behind other music videos such as Mariah Carey’s ‘I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time’, The Pussycat Dolls ‘I Don’t Need A Man’ and Rihanna ‘Umbrella’. The genre of the song belongs in Pop as ‘Power Pop’. The characteristics of the video that show power pop are visuals such as cartoon like performance of Fountains of Wayne to give a retro look of their band also having a narrative in the video is quite typical of pop videos.
Through out the video the lyrics to the song match the visuals. The overall summary of the video is that it is about a young boy (played by Shane Haboucha) who makes many attempts to get closer to the women of his fantasies (played by Rachel Hunter) making a fool of himself many a times such as crashing a lawnmower into a bird table. Whilst in the mean time Hunter’s daughter (played by Gianna Distenca) keep’s trying to get the attention of Haboucha who clearly is mesmerized by Hunter. Examples of how the lyrics match the narrative is “Stacey can’t you see? You’re just not the girl for me” “I im love with Stacey’s mom”.
There is one particular example where the video cuts to the beat on the first chorus which is a straight cut to the performance of Fountains of Wayne singing the first chorus. The video starts with an electrical guitar solo with a simple beat to which this matches the visuals of a line of people who are waiting for a bus matches the music. One person’s feet in particular are tapping in time to the music. This demonstrates the introduction of the narrative also it just shows the impatience of waiting for a bus which matches the narrative.
From watching the video, you can see the ways in which the record company is looking to sell the track. The main idea being through the narrative making it comical. Also Rachel Hunter is a very well known model married to music legend Rod Stewart which can therefore create awareness for the video, allowing the number of viewers to become high, promoting to sell the track. The narrative visuals over rule the screen time of the actual band. When the band is on screen, is has used special effects to look simplistic with a hot pink back ground, and to make the band look cartoon like giving the image of the band being retro. The song ‘Stacey’s Mom’ was one very successful hit song for Fountain’s of Wayne and therefore the bands image is basically retro.
There is a reference to the notion of looking although it is not the Artist. This is because the video is a narrative video and therefore the focus is on the actors in the narrative, where Hunter is used to show sexual display. This adds comedy to the fantasies of Haboucha. Hunter’s costume implies sexual display as for the majority of the time her costumes insist of minimal clothing, also bikinis and in one scene in particular just a towel to which this scene watched the lyrics “your mom came out with a towel on” This emphasizes how mesmerized Haboucha is by Stacey’s mom. Another reference to ‘looking’ is when Distenca is wearing sunglasses and the reflection in them showing Haboucha. This implies her crush in him.
The song was written by Chris Collingwood and his reason for writing the song was to pay tribute to a band called ‘The Cars’ who had a hit single with ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’. To add to this, there are intertextual references from films from the 60’s and 80’s. The first one being the scene where Distenca is wearing red, heart shaped sunglasses, reflecting Haboucha. This is similar to the promotional picture of the film ‘Lolita’ from 1962. Another intertextual reference is the very last scene from the video where Haboucha is masturbating and Distenca walks in. This is a scene from the 1982 movie ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High. These intertextual references have been added to add comic effect and to also to keep within the connotations of creating the ‘retro’ look of Fountains of Wayne. It can also be appealing to an older audience who were aware of the films ‘Lolita’ and ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’.
Overall, the music video for ‘Stacey’s Mom’ by Fountain’s of Wayne is mainly narrative based so therefore, this one hit for Fountain’s of Wayne is a successful comical video but hadn’t really promoted the band well for further success.
The video just watched is ‘Stacey’s Mom’ by Fountains of Wayne directed by Chris Applebaum, the director behind other music videos such as Mariah Carey’s ‘I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time’, The Pussycat Dolls ‘I Don’t Need A Man’ and Rihanna ‘Umbrella’. The genre of the song belongs in Pop as ‘Power Pop’. The characteristics of the video that show power pop are visuals such as cartoon like performance of Fountains of Wayne to give a retro look of their band also having a narrative in the video is quite typical of pop videos.
Through out the video the lyrics to the song match the visuals. The overall summary of the video is that it is about a young boy (played by Shane Haboucha) who makes many attempts to get closer to the women of his fantasies (played by Rachel Hunter) making a fool of himself many a times such as crashing a lawnmower into a bird table. Whilst in the mean time Hunter’s daughter (played by Gianna Distenca) keep’s trying to get the attention of Haboucha who clearly is mesmerized by Hunter. Examples of how the lyrics match the narrative is “Stacey can’t you see? You’re just not the girl for me” “I im love with Stacey’s mom”.
There is one particular example where the video cuts to the beat on the first chorus which is a straight cut to the performance of Fountains of Wayne singing the first chorus. The video starts with an electrical guitar solo with a simple beat to which this matches the visuals of a line of people who are waiting for a bus matches the music. One person’s feet in particular are tapping in time to the music. This demonstrates the introduction of the narrative also it just shows the impatience of waiting for a bus which matches the narrative.
From watching the video, you can see the ways in which the record company is looking to sell the track. The main idea being through the narrative making it comical. Also Rachel Hunter is a very well known model married to music legend Rod Stewart which can therefore create awareness for the video, allowing the number of viewers to become high, promoting to sell the track. The narrative visuals over rule the screen time of the actual band. When the band is on screen, is has used special effects to look simplistic with a hot pink back ground, and to make the band look cartoon like giving the image of the band being retro. The song ‘Stacey’s Mom’ was one very successful hit song for Fountain’s of Wayne and therefore the bands image is basically retro.
There is a reference to the notion of looking although it is not the Artist. This is because the video is a narrative video and therefore the focus is on the actors in the narrative, where Hunter is used to show sexual display. This adds comedy to the fantasies of Haboucha. Hunter’s costume implies sexual display as for the majority of the time her costumes insist of minimal clothing, also bikinis and in one scene in particular just a towel to which this scene watched the lyrics “your mom came out with a towel on” This emphasizes how mesmerized Haboucha is by Stacey’s mom. Another reference to ‘looking’ is when Distenca is wearing sunglasses and the reflection in them showing Haboucha. This implies her crush in him.
The song was written by Chris Collingwood and his reason for writing the song was to pay tribute to a band called ‘The Cars’ who had a hit single with ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’. To add to this, there are intertextual references from films from the 60’s and 80’s. The first one being the scene where Distenca is wearing red, heart shaped sunglasses, reflecting Haboucha. This is similar to the promotional picture of the film ‘Lolita’ from 1962. Another intertextual reference is the very last scene from the video where Haboucha is masturbating and Distenca walks in. This is a scene from the 1982 movie ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High. These intertextual references have been added to add comic effect and to also to keep within the connotations of creating the ‘retro’ look of Fountains of Wayne. It can also be appealing to an older audience who were aware of the films ‘Lolita’ and ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’.
Overall, the music video for ‘Stacey’s Mom’ by Fountain’s of Wayne is mainly narrative based so therefore, this one hit for Fountain’s of Wayne is a successful comical video but hadn’t really promoted the band well for further success.
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