"Tim: Chad..come here come here come here./Chad: Wow! Look at her./Tim: I know./Chad: Wow..I've never seen Sharon look so bad before./Tim: I did once before..but this is pretty bad./Chad: Yeah..what do you think she got up to last night?/(Tim and Chad laugh)/Tim: Well..I..Jared, I love you!"
Sharon explains that she was napping on a bench in the park. She was playing with her slurpee and making thin straws out of she had left. People gave her weird looks, observing her weight and making fun of her as she created frozen soda straws.. People didn't want to be around her. She pouts that it was lonely pigging out by herself.
"I was lying on the bench slide in the park across the street l-a-t-e-r that week/My sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats/An incredible eight foot heap/Now the funny glare to pay a gleaming tare in a staring under heat/Involved an under usual feet/
And I'm not only among but I invite who I want to come/So I missed a million miles of fun."
The original chorus is sung once.
In the second chorus, Marc says everything is over for him if people take away what little happiness he has. He's like regular people and people may find it difficult to see the real him. He decides to keep to himself and toughen up.
"I know it's done for me/If you steal my sunshine/Not as some and hard to see/If you steal my sunshine/Keeping dumb and built to beat/If you steal my sunshine."
Sharon and Marc alternate at the end. She chirps "my sunshine" and Marc says "if you steal my sunshine" until the end.
"Steal My Sunshine" is a terrific update of the synth pop hits of the 80s (Human League's "Don't Want You Want Me" and Animotion's "Obsession" in particular.) Marc and Sharon obviously studied the 80s and succeeded in recreating the sound. Sharon the standout, though. Her ironic perkiness suits the single and is a near perfect imitation of Susan Sulley.
The Andrea True Connection sample is subtle and used sparingly. It also adds to the nostalgic tone to the single; however the single's hallucinogenic lyrics are out of place.ED/PUB:LM
Article comments
1 - LegendaryMonkey
I know this song... I LOVE this song, actually. But I'm wondering... was there an update recently, a re-release? Because this came out in like, 1999 or 2000, I think.
Or did you just feel like picking up an older song?
-LM, confused
2 - Pacze Moj
I think we can safely assume that this is the most in-depth analysis of 'Steal My Sunshine' ever done.
I'm really not sure whether to say, "Wow," or to ask, "Why?"
;P
3 - Pam Avoledo
Legendary Monkey,
Nope, there isn't a re-release or anything. I just felt like reviewing it. I usually have to go back a couple years (or twenty, if needed) to find songs I like.
At least I finally found out the words to the song.
Pacze Moj,
LOL! I seriously look for the most ridiculous, obscure songs I can find sometimes. It's fun because I can't believe these songs actually existed on radio once.
4 - LegendaryMonkey
Awww, "Steal My Sunshine" was good, don't be that way! Yeah, it was vapid, but still great fun!
5 - Pam Avoledo
Yes, it is great fun. It's one of my favorite 80s songs not released in the 80s.
But to clarify, I had always kinda wondered what they were talking about.
6 - Shanti
Jeez, Pam - don't steal my sunshine or anything.
Or is this just ironic? ;)
7 - wonderful electric
erm... are you sure this is a review? It reads more like a literal explanaition of the lyrics. Which is kinda handy because it shows that there's no real narrative thread to the song.
But the best thing is that it confirms my initial suspicions that the female singer must be kinda minxy...
8 - PaulZ
But what is the writing on the pregnant girls belly? And is that the sister?
You're right it's the best 80's song not written in the 80's. But I need to tape the clip and watch it with a remote to catch all the stuff at the end.
9 - Good Old Grateful Dead Head
I rememeber it coming out in late 1995 or perhaps 1996. I have always believed that the predominant riff was either based on a riff from "Scarlett Begonias" or a sample of that riff perfomed by the Grateful Dead.
I also thought the "steal my sunshine" chorus was a reference to the demise of the Good Old Grateful Dead.
This next verse made me believe that the author was someone who planned to go to a show "one of these days" but never went . . . and now it was too late.
"And of course you can't become
if you only say what you would have done/
So I missed a million miles of fun."
But I'm know for my overactive imagination.
Good Old Grateful Dead Head
10 - Woffle Boi
I always thought it was the theme song to some movie...
11 - sam
i agree with Woffle Boi. i think it's from a movie too i just can't remember which one.
12 - becky
i miss them guyz, what ever happened to them? the singer he looks pretty hot doesn't he. lol
13 - Obsessed
It was from a movie called "Go," but the song was not written for the movie.
14 - Entertainment Insider
Band broke up.Brother and sister work as
accounts for a living.
Music industry lost interest in them,and although brother and sister,they seem a little to close for comfort,especially in the video for Steal My Sunshine.,
15 - Steve
Actually the song is about the siblings several year spat, and this is Mark's attempt at getting her back.
He now works as a exceptionally successful record company exec and lives in Barbados.
Don't you people have access to Wikipedia?