New Year's Eve and it's hard to believe
another zodiac has gone around.

While you drank yourself high on hoping
and watched the ceiling spin from the ground.

Counting down from ten it's time
to make your annual prayer.

Secret santa in the sky
when will I get my share?

Then you tell yourself
what you want to hear.

Cause you have to believe.

This will be my year.

This will be my year...Semisonic


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Saturday, January 10, 2004

I don't know how to feel about how slick all the Fountains of Wayne videos are starting to become. Though I think the concept for the Mexican Wine video is funny I am afraid that they are going to become "the band that regurgitates other people's ideas" or the band that "taps into '80's nostalgia to get people to pay attention" or worse they'll become the Offspring.

What the hell am I babbling about? According to MTV.com...

Fountains Of Wayne Spoof 'American Idol,' Jay-Z For New Clip
01.07.2004

Fountains of Wayne's Jody Porter on the set of "Mexican Wine"
Photo: S-Curve

After having been spoofed on "Saturday Night Live" and every late-night talk show, "American Idol" will get another comedy licking courtesy of Fountains of Wayne, who mock a televised talent show in their new video for "Mexican Wine."

The power-popsters' video for the second single off Welcome Interstate Managers opens with the pseudo show's host announcing last week's returning champions, Katie and Linda Lipschitz of Piscataway, New Jersey. Asked what song they'll perform, the 10-year-old identical twins shout, " 'Mexican Wine' by Fountains of Wayne!" and break into song.

Although Katie's on harpsichord and Linda's playing guitar and "singing," it's Fountains singer Chris Collingwood's voice we hear.

"American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest had agreed to participate in the video, which was shot in Los Angeles in December, but scheduling conflicts prohibited his appearance, according to the band's spokesperson. Chris Applebaum (Britney Spears, Kid Rock), who also directed FoW's "Stacy's Mom" video, helmed the satire.

The scene shifts to the deck of a "Big Pimpin' " yacht for the song's second verse, where Collingwood, bassist Adam Schlesinger, guitarist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young are performing for a fabulous crowd amid a line of dancers. The bandmembers also mingle with the crowd until a pillow fight between nubile young ladies breaks out.

The set then changes to a mock-up of Duran Duran's "Rio" video, complete with a scuba-diving swimsuit model sipping a glass of Mexican wine underwater.

The final scene returns to the talent show's soundstage, where little Linda Lipschitz stands behind a makeshift kitchen counter. Her sister is absent until Linda removes the lid from a big, simmering pot. There she finds Katie's head, framed by black beans — à la Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" video — and singing the remainder of the song as the judges rejoice.

"Mexican Wine" is expected to surface at radio beginning January 20, with the video airing at the end of the month.

—Joe D'Angelo


posted by JustKeepMum on 10:42 PM