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| Length = 4:25 (album version) 4:00 (edit with dialogue) 3:30 (radio edit) | Label = Work | Writer = | Producer = Mumble C (Marc Costanzo) | Last single = "Trillion Daze" (1997) | This single = "Steal My Sunshine" (1999) | Next single = "Feelin' Alright" (1999) }} "Steal My Sunshine" is a song by Canadian band Len, co-written by band member Marc Costanzo and featuring on their third album ''You Can't Stop the Bum Rush''. The backdrop is based on a sample of a short instrumental portion of Andrea True Connection's 1976 disco single "More, More, More". Supposedly inspired by The Human League's 1981 synthpop hit "Don't You Want Me", the song's vocals alternate between Marc and Sharon Costanzo. Mumble C (Marc Costanzo) produced the track. Gregg Diamond, who was given songwriting credit as the original composer of "More, More, More", died three months before the album was released. The indie pop track became a sleeper hit when radio stations began playing it in March 1999, four months before Len planned to release their album. "Steal My Sunshine" had a commercial single release in July 1999. It received positive reviews from music critics, and its chart success has made Len a one-hit wonder. The song earned a nomination for "Best Single" at the Juno Awards of 2000. ==Background== Marc Costanzo went to a rave during a time when he and his sister Sharon had gone several months without speaking.〔("Let the Sunshine In" ). MTV News. July 1, 1999. Retrieved October 2, 2008.〕 While out, he was listening to old disco music with friends and heard Andrea True Connection's "More, More, More".〔Brunner, Rob. ("'Steal' this hook" ). ''Entertainment Weekly'', issue 501, page 69. September 3, 1999. Retrieved October 2, 2008.〕 Marc decided to loop part of the song's bridge and wrote "Steal My Sunshine". When he returned home, he presented the song to Sharon. The two recorded it on an 8-track 1/2 inch recorder, and she threw the reel in a closet.〔 Marc stated that "Steal My Sunshine" did not make much of an impression on him, so Len did not originally plan to include it on ''You Can't Stop the Bum Rush''. The master recording was under his bed, so the group was almost unable to find the song.〔 When producing "Steal My Sunshine", Marc Costanzo wanted to make a song similar to The Human League's 1981 synthpop single "Don't You Want Me".〔 As a result, the song's structure is characterized by alternating between male and female vocals from Marc and Sharon.〔Hay, Carla. "Work's Len 'Bum Rushes' charts". ''Billboard'', volume 111, issue 31, page 9. July 31, 1999.〕 The lyrics are mostly nonsensical, including lines such as ''Now the fuzzy stare from not being there on a confusing morning week impaired my tribal lunar speak'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Steal-My-Sunshine-lyrics-Len/3B38285C27C2A10B482568C70029993B )〕 yet have been interpreted as reflecting the extremes of an adolescent love affair.〔Scherman, Tony. ("Recordings; High-Quality Bubble Gum" ). ''The New York Times''. August 8, 1999. Retrieved October 2, 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steal My Sunshine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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