Are those Tevas? Yeah. They're Tevas.
Mark McGrath. What is he? Singer? Bad hairdo-haver? Tons of ass-getter? TV host? He’s all of those things, and I also think he saved some dude’s life at a Red Lobster once. But before he was all those things he was the lead singer of Sugar Ray and this was their first hit, 1997’s Fly.
Hard to get mad about this song. I don’t know why statues would crumble before him, though. I bet they won’t let him go to Italy. Or Easter Island. And I bet there aren’t any statues on the set of A Current Affair or whatever show he hosts. And how did that happen? Why did he switch? Got tired of singing? Someone blackmailed him (albeit poorly)? Maybe he realized that by saying he was “25 years old” in his biggest hit was gonna bug the shit out of him when he was 38. Like he is now. So rather than be all sad and crippled and foolish running around singing lyrics that no longer apply, he decided to get a cushy job hosting some foolish show and is set for life cause he had some pretty good songs.
You’ve won this round, Mark McGrath. But I found the sound from A Current Affair and linked it down there so suck on that! Pics and links after the jump. Current Affair sound is here somewhere.
Sugar Ray – Fly
All around the world statues crumble for me
who knows how long I’ve loved you
everywhere I go people stop and they see
twenty-five years old my mother God rest her soul
I just wanna fly
put your arms around me, baby [x2]
I just wanna fly
put your arms around me, baby [x2]
dance a little stranger, show me where you’ve been
love can make you hostage wanna do it again
there’s no time to think about the starting or the end
we’ll find out I’m told, my mother she told me so
I just wanna fly
put your arms around me, baby [x2]
I just wanna fly
put your arms around me, baby [x2]
I just want to fly- [x2]
[Bridge]
all around the world, statues crumble for me
who knows how long I’ve loved you
everyone I know has been so good to me
twenty-five years old, my mother God rest her soul
I just wanna fly
Put your arms around me, baby [x2]
I just wanna fly
Put your arms around me, baby [x2]
I just want to fly- [x2]
This is a fun song, all boppy-like. Your Easter Island remark made me LOL.
Wow. I just learned more about Mark than I ever thought I would. 🙂
So he’s like the antidote for Lot’s wife or something, right? ‘Memba her? She had to take a quick peek back at Sodom and Gomorrah before she left and then BAM! She’s a pillar of salt/stone/etc.
Could Mark fix that or just make her crumble into table salt that scatters in the wind?
Awesome. Just pure awesome!
I interviewed Mark, and the rest of the Sugar Ray guys, for some magazine or another back when Lemonade and Brownies came out. I found him to be charming, in a sort of obnoxious kind of way. And I don’t mean that badly – in my world, obnoxious is an asset.
@ Janiss:
Can I somehow hypnotize you into things? Like, I don’t know, bringing your celebrity friends here or at least telling me how to pretend to be legit to trick people into letting me interview them?
I used to make boys all around the world crumble for me well before Marky Happycakes was hosting Extra or Inside Edition or Current Affair or whatever it is he does these days. WHONGGGGG!
@Acadia – I have no tips – I was working for an actual, legitimate hard copy magazine at the time, and had just come off a longterm editorial gig where I met and connected with dozens of major label publicists. So getting interviews was pretty easy, since I generally already had an assignment, or could get one on a moment’s notice. I don’t do all that much of that anymore, and I don’t really have any real celebrity “friends,” unless you count Brian Forsythe from the ’80s cult hard rock band Kix. I happen to be engaged to him. Oh, and I have a famous cat, but you know that.
Back in the day, I kind of thought Mark McGrath was hot. Then I saw him the Scooby Doo movie, and yeah, not so much anymore.