In a 1997 interview in Billboard, he said it was a love song. Wozniak's explanations of the song's meaning have changed. Wozniak also said that "If you listen to that song, it's pretty clear it wasn't written to be a hit. According to MTV News, writing "Sex and Candy" was Wozniak's "first stab at coolness" following a childhood where he was isolated and often bullied. He also cited early grunge as an influence. In the song, he decided to combine the phrase "sex and candy" with "all these weird disco-era references that I was making up, 'platform double suede' and all that business". She said the room smelled like "sex and candy," a phrase that struck Wozniak as "weird and cool." Several years later, either in 1992 or 1993, Wozniak wrote the song in less than an hour in his bedroom at 4 a.m. While he and his girlfriend were having sex in her dorm room, another young woman walked in following coitus interruptus. "Sex and Candy" stemmed from a moment in the late 1980s when John Wozniak, who had not yet started Marcy Playground, was in his girlfriend's dormitory at Bryn Mawr College, where his father taught. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by Maroon 5 and Slothrust. A music video was directed and conceptualized by Jamie Caliri, depicting Wozniak's head protruding from a hole inside of a mountain and a crawling spider it has been interpreted in Freudian terms and compared to the work of Salvador DalĂ. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway it is the band's only hit song. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart, number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Songs chart, staying there for a record-setting 15 weeks. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Some found it sensual many compared it to the music of Nirvana. It was physically released on November 4. It was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song later, he said he does not know what the song means. Lead singer John Wozniak was inspired to write the song after a woman told him that a room smelled like "sex and candy." The song's abstract lyrics refer to the disco era and include hippie lingo. It is a post-grunge song with psychedelic elements. " Sex and Candy" is a song by American alternative rock group Marcy Playground, a single from their 1997 self-titled debut album.
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