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	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of ''[[MTV News]]'' called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005 \|archive-date=July 9, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184801/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of ''[[MTV News]]'' called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005 \|archive-date=July 9, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184801/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay ~~Chart’s~~ 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ~~‘Monsters’~~ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>		In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart's 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, 'Monsters' New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>

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	==Cover versions and usage in media==		==Cover versions and usage in media==
	[[File:Maroon 5 2016.jpg\|thumb\|right\|[[Maroon 5]]'s cover of "Sex and Candy" received critical acclaim.]]		[[File:Maroon 5 2016.jpg\|thumb\|right\|[[Maroon 5]]'s cover of "Sex and Candy" received critical acclaim.]]
	"Sex and Candy" appeared on the soundtrack albums for the films ''[[Hurricane Streets]]'' (1997) and ''[[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]]'' (2008).<ref name=allmusic/> The song is included in "[[List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys#"Polka Power!"\|Polka Power!]]", a [[polka]] medley from [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s album ''[[Running with Scissors ("Weird Al" Yankovic album)\|Running with Scissors]]'' (1999). Will Hines of ''Vulture'' deemed Yankovic's rendition of "Sex and Candy" the comedic highlight of the medley.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/an-insanely-thorough-and-expansive-ranking-of-every-weird-al-polka-medley.html\| title=An Insanely Thorough and Expansive Ranking of Every Weird Al Polka Medley\|first=Will\|last=Hines\|magazine=[[New York (magazine)\|Vulture]]\|date=January 6, 2015\| access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> "Sex and Candy" was used in "Scratches," an episode of ''[[True Blood]]''{{'s}} [[True Blood (season 2)\|second season]]. Sheila Dichoso of ''Paste'' wrote that the episode's use of the song was one of the show's "best musical moments."<ref>{{cite web \|work= [[Paste (magazine)\|Paste]] \|url= https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/06/the-12-best-music-moments-from-true-blood.html \|last= Dichoso \|first= Sheila \|title= The 12 Best Musical Moments from True Blood \|date= June 26, 2011 \|access-date= March 7, 2019}}</ref> [[Jimmy Fallon]] parodied the song with Halloween-themed lyrics during a ''[[Weekend Update]]'' sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.<ref name=disturb>{{cite web\| url=https://diffuser.fm/marcy-playground-sex-and-candy-disturbing-songs/\| title=Marcy Playground 'Sex and Candy' – Disturbing Songs People Love\|first=Joe\|last=Robinson\|publisher=[[Townsquare Media\|Diffuser.fm]]\|date=June 7, 2013\| access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" appeared on the soundtrack albums for the films ''[[Hurricane Streets]]'' (1997) and ''[[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]]'' (2008).<ref name=allmusic/> The song is included in "[[List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys#"Polka Power!"\|Polka Power!]]", a [[polka]] medley from [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s album ''[[Running with Scissors ("Weird Al" Yankovic album)\|Running with Scissors]]'' (1999). Will Hines of ''Vulture'' deemed Yankovic's rendition of "Sex and Candy" the comedic highlight of the medley.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/01/an-insanely-thorough-and-expansive-ranking-of-every-weird-al-polka-medley.html\| title=An Insanely Thorough and Expansive Ranking of Every Weird Al Polka Medley\|first=Will\|last=Hines\|magazine=[[New York (magazine)\|Vulture]]\|date=January 6, 2015\| access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> "Sex and Candy" was used in "Scratches," an episode of ''[[True Blood]]''{{'s}} [[True Blood (season 2)\|second season]]. Sheila Dichoso of ''Paste'' wrote that the episode's use of the song was one of the show's "best musical moments."<ref>{{cite web \|work= [[Paste (magazine)\|Paste]] \|url= https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/06/the-12-best-music-moments-from-true-blood.html \|last= Dichoso \|first= Sheila \|title= The 12 Best Musical Moments from True Blood \|date= June 26, 2011 \|access-date= March 7, 2019 \|archive-date= March 8, 2019 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081659/https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/06/the-12-best-music-moments-from-true-blood.html \|url-status= dead }}</ref> [[Jimmy Fallon]] parodied the song with Halloween-themed lyrics during a ''[[Weekend Update]]'' sketch on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.<ref name=disturb>{{cite web\| url=https://diffuser.fm/marcy-playground-sex-and-candy-disturbing-songs/\| title=Marcy Playground 'Sex and Candy' – Disturbing Songs People Love\|first=Joe\|last=Robinson\|publisher=[[Townsquare Media\|Diffuser.fm]]\|date=June 7, 2013\| access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref>

	[[Maroon 5]] released a slow, soul cover of the song as a bonus track on the album ''[[V (Maroon 5 album)\|V]]'' (2014).<ref name=idolator/><ref name=maroon/> ''Bustle'' deemed it the best song on the album and praised it for sounding different from Maroon 5's earlier work,<ref name=maroon/> while Idolator said the cover "is a well-executed reminder that the late '90s were, well, completely awesome."<ref name=idolator/> A version of "Sex and Candy" serves as the opening track of [[Slothrust]]'s ''Show Me How You Want It To Be'' (2017), an EP of cover songs. Slothrust's arrangement of the song includes a [[classic rock]]-style guitar solo.<ref name=slo/> Beth Bowles of ''Exclaim!'' enjoyed the cover, calling it "haunting and raw, closely comparable to the original but threaded with Slothrust's signature smoky grunge."<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/slothrust-show_me_how_you_want_it_to_be\|last=Bowles\|first=Beth\|title=Slothrust Show Me How You Want It to Be\|work=[[Exclaim!]]\|date=November 10, 2017\|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>		[[Maroon 5]] released a slow, soul cover of the song as a bonus track on the album ''[[V (Maroon 5 album)\|V]]'' (2014).<ref name=idolator/><ref name=maroon/> ''Bustle'' deemed it the best song on the album and praised it for sounding different from Maroon 5's earlier work,<ref name=maroon/> while Idolator said the cover "is a well-executed reminder that the late '90s were, well, completely awesome."<ref name=idolator/> A version of "Sex and Candy" serves as the opening track of [[Slothrust]]'s ''Show Me How You Want It To Be'' (2017), an EP of cover songs. Slothrust's arrangement of the song includes a [[classic rock]]-style guitar solo.<ref name=slo/> Beth Bowles of ''Exclaim!'' enjoyed the cover, calling it "haunting and raw, closely comparable to the original but threaded with Slothrust's signature smoky grunge."<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/slothrust-show_me_how_you_want_it_to_be\|last=Bowles\|first=Beth\|title=Slothrust Show Me How You Want It to Be\|work=[[Exclaim!]]\|date=November 10, 2017\|access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>

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	==Commercial performance==		==Commercial performance==
	"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets\|''~~Hurricane Streets'']]~~. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film ''[[Hurricane Streets]]''. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>

	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of [[MTV News\|''~~MTV News'']]~~ called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005 \|archive-date=July 9, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184801/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of ''[[MTV News]]'' called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005 \|archive-date=July 9, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184801/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>		In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>

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	"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets\|''Hurricane Streets'']]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets\|''Hurricane Streets'']]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>

	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of [[MTV News\|''MTV News'']] called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of [[MTV News\|''MTV News'']] called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005 \|archive-date=July 9, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184801/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>		In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>

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	==Background==		==Background==
	"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.<ref name=high/> While he and his girlfriend were having sex in her dorm room, another young woman walked in following [[coitus interruptus]]. She said the room smelled like "sex and candy," a phrase that struck Wozniak as "weird and cool."<ref name=billboard/> Several years later, either in 1992 or 1993,<ref name=high/> Wozniak wrote the song in less than an hour<ref name=av/> in his bedroom at 4 a.m.<ref name=lovesong>{{cite web \|work= [[MTV News]] \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/400091/marcy-playgrounds-wozniak-holds-virtual-chatfest/ \|last= Devenish \|first= Colin \|title=Marcy Playground's Wozniak Holds Virtual Chatfest \|date= June 25, 1998 \|access-date= March 5, 2019 }}</ref> 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".<ref name=high/> He also cited early [[grunge]] as an influence.<ref name=beatles/> 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.<ref>{{cite web \|work= MTV News \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1431675/marcy-playgrounds-lonely-minnesota-blues/ \|title=Marcy Playground's Lonely Minnesota Blues \|date= November 24, 1997 \|access-date= March 5, 2019 }}</ref> Wozniak also said that "If you listen to that song, it's pretty clear it wasn't written to be a hit. It's just a quirky little weird song."<ref name=nickelback>{{cite web \|last= Kaufman \|first= Gil \|work= MTV News \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1528431/where-ya-been-dream-wake-up-sex-burns-marcy-playground/ \|title= Where Ya Been? Dream Wake Up, 'Sex' Burns Marcy Playground \|date= April 11, 2006 \|access-date= March 5, 2019 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181124054932/http://www.mtv.com/news/1528431/where-ya-been-dream-wake-up-sex-burns-marcy-playground/ \|archive-date=November 24, 2018 \|url-status=~~live~~}}</ref>		"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.<ref name=high/> While he and his girlfriend were having sex in her dorm room, another young woman walked in following [[coitus interruptus]]. She said the room smelled like "sex and candy," a phrase that struck Wozniak as "weird and cool."<ref name=billboard/> Several years later, either in 1992 or 1993,<ref name=high/> Wozniak wrote the song in less than an hour<ref name=av/> in his bedroom at 4 a.m.<ref name=lovesong>{{cite web \|work= [[MTV News]] \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/400091/marcy-playgrounds-wozniak-holds-virtual-chatfest/ \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111331/http://www.mtv.com/news/400091/marcy-playgrounds-wozniak-holds-virtual-chatfest/ \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= March 6, 2019 \|last= Devenish \|first= Colin \|title=Marcy Playground's Wozniak Holds Virtual Chatfest \|date= June 25, 1998 \|access-date= March 5, 2019 }}</ref> 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".<ref name=high/> He also cited early [[grunge]] as an influence.<ref name=beatles/> 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.<ref>{{cite web \|work= MTV News \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1431675/marcy-playgrounds-lonely-minnesota-blues/ \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190306111334/http://www.mtv.com/news/1431675/marcy-playgrounds-lonely-minnesota-blues/ \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= March 6, 2019 \|title=Marcy Playground's Lonely Minnesota Blues \|date= November 24, 1997 \|access-date= March 5, 2019 }}</ref> Wozniak also said that "If you listen to that song, it's pretty clear it wasn't written to be a hit. It's just a quirky little weird song."<ref name=nickelback>{{cite web \|last= Kaufman \|first= Gil \|work= MTV News \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1528431/where-ya-been-dream-wake-up-sex-burns-marcy-playground/ \|title= Where Ya Been? Dream Wake Up, 'Sex' Burns Marcy Playground \|date= April 11, 2006 \|access-date= March 5, 2019 \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181124054932/http://www.mtv.com/news/1528431/where-ya-been-dream-wake-up-sex-burns-marcy-playground/ \|archive-date=November 24, 2018 \|url-status=dead}}</ref>

	Wozniak's explanations of the song's meaning have changed. In a 1997 interview in ''Billboard'', he said it was a love song. While he enjoyed "classic" love songs by [[Cole Porter]] and [[The Beatles]], he found most love songs that were on the radio during the 1980s formulaic and boring. Wozniak described "Sex and Candy" as his attempt to compose a love song which "didn't follow the typical formula, especially with the lyrics."<ref name=billboard>{{cite magazine \|last=Bambarger \|first=Bradley \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QkEAAAAMBAJ&q=marcy+playground+sex+and+candy&pg=PA87 \|title=The Modern Age \|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|page=87 \|date=November 8, 1997 \|issn=0886-3032 \|access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref> When asked about the song's meaning in 2015, he said "It means so many different things, and so many different parts of it came from so many different places" before saying:<ref name=high>{{Cite web\|first=Shawna\|last=Ortega\|title=Marcy Playground: Songwriter Interviews\|url=https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/marcy-playground\|work=Songfacts\|date=August 27, 2015\|access-date=March 4, 2019}}</ref>		Wozniak's explanations of the song's meaning have changed. In a 1997 interview in ''Billboard'', he said it was a love song. While he enjoyed "classic" love songs by [[Cole Porter]] and [[The Beatles]], he found most love songs that were on the radio during the 1980s formulaic and boring. Wozniak described "Sex and Candy" as his attempt to compose a love song which "didn't follow the typical formula, especially with the lyrics."<ref name=billboard>{{cite magazine \|last=Bambarger \|first=Bradley \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QkEAAAAMBAJ&q=marcy+playground+sex+and+candy&pg=PA87 \|title=The Modern Age \|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|page=87 \|date=November 8, 1997 \|issn=0886-3032 \|access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref> When asked about the song's meaning in 2015, he said "It means so many different things, and so many different parts of it came from so many different places" before saying:<ref name=high>{{Cite web\|first=Shawna\|last=Ortega\|title=Marcy Playground: Songwriter Interviews\|url=https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/marcy-playground\|work=Songfacts\|date=August 27, 2015\|access-date=March 4, 2019}}</ref>
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	==Composition==		==Composition==
	[[File:Nirvana around 1992.jpg\|thumb\|220px\|right\|"Sex and Candy" was compared to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]] (pictured).]]		[[File:Nirvana around 1992.jpg\|thumb\|220px\|right\|"Sex and Candy" was compared to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]] (pictured).]]
	"Sex and Candy" is a [[post-grunge]] song<ref name=idolator>{{cite web\|first=Mike\|last=Wass\|url=http://www.idolator.com/7533134/maroon-5-sex-candy-cover-marcy-playground?edge=1\|title=Maroon 5 Covers Marcy Playground's '90s Classic "Sex And Candy": Listen To The 'V' Bonus Track\|publisher=[[Idolator (website)\|Idolator]]\|date=August 28, 2014\|access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref> with elements of [[psychedelic music]]<ref name=beatles>{{cite web \|work= [[MTV News]] \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1495/marcy-playground-score-with-sex-and-candy/ \|last= Vena \|first= Jon \|title=Marcy Playground Score With 'Sex And Candy' \|date= October 10, 1997 \|access-date= March 4, 2019 }}</ref> that lasts for two minutes and fifty-two seconds.<ref name=allmusic>		"Sex and Candy" is a [[post-grunge]] song<ref name=idolator>{{cite web\|first=Mike\|last=Wass\|url=http://www.idolator.com/7533134/maroon-5-sex-candy-cover-marcy-playground?edge=1\|title=Maroon 5 Covers Marcy Playground's '90s Classic "Sex And Candy": Listen To The 'V' Bonus Track\|publisher=[[Idolator (website)\|Idolator]]\|date=August 28, 2014\|access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref> with elements of [[psychedelic music]]<ref name=beatles>{{cite web \|work= [[MTV News]] \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1495/marcy-playground-score-with-sex-and-candy/ \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044407/http://www.mtv.com/news/1495/marcy-playground-score-with-sex-and-candy/ \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= March 6, 2019 \|last= Vena \|first= Jon \|title=Marcy Playground Score With 'Sex And Candy' \|date= October 10, 1997 \|access-date= March 4, 2019 }}</ref> that lasts for two minutes and fifty-two seconds.<ref name=allmusic>
	{{cite web \|website=[[AllMusic]]\|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/sex-and-candy-mt0005498926 \|title=Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground \|access-date= March 5, 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805053457/http://www.allmusic.com/song/sex-and-candy-mt0005498926 \|archive-date=August 5, 2015 \|url-status=live}}</ref> It has a slow tempo and down-tempo chords.<ref name=beatles/><ref name=rs/> Its abstract lyrics reference "double cherry pie," "disco superfly," "disco lemonade" and "platform double-suede".<ref name=av/><ref name=paste/> and "drawling" vocals from Wozniak.<ref name=billboard/> The track's refrain is "I smell sex and candy."<ref name=wapo>{{cite news\|last1=Joyce\|first1=Mike\|title=A Romp With Marcy Playground\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/11/03/a-romp-with-marcy-playground/ee0dfd31-0669-444b-bec4-d287f7580238/\|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]\|date=November 3, 1999\|access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> Jon Vena of MTV News described the track as "radio-friendly".<ref name=beatles/> Nathan Smith of the ''Houston Press'' stated "Sex and Candy" was perfect [[crossover music]], as its edgy, sexual lyrics were suitable for rock radio, while it was still "pussy enough for adult contemporary."<ref name=love/>		{{cite web \|website=[[AllMusic]]\|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/sex-and-candy-mt0005498926 \|title=Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground \|access-date= March 5, 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150805053457/http://www.allmusic.com/song/sex-and-candy-mt0005498926 \|archive-date=August 5, 2015 \|url-status=live}}</ref> It has a slow tempo and down-tempo chords.<ref name=beatles/><ref name=rs/> Its abstract lyrics reference "double cherry pie," "disco superfly," "disco lemonade" and "platform double-suede".<ref name=av/><ref name=paste/> and "drawling" vocals from Wozniak.<ref name=billboard/> The track's refrain is "I smell sex and candy."<ref name=wapo>{{cite news\|last1=Joyce\|first1=Mike\|title=A Romp With Marcy Playground\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/11/03/a-romp-with-marcy-playground/ee0dfd31-0669-444b-bec4-d287f7580238/\|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]\|date=November 3, 1999\|access-date=March 6, 2019}}</ref> Jon Vena of MTV News described the track as "radio-friendly".<ref name=beatles/> Nathan Smith of the ''Houston Press'' stated "Sex and Candy" was perfect [[crossover music]], as its edgy, sexual lyrics were suitable for rock radio, while it was still "pussy enough for adult contemporary."<ref name=love/>

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	===Reception===		===Reception===
	Wozniak's father, a [[Developmental psychology\|developmental psychologist]], analyzed the video in Freudian terms, seeing it as a representation of a [[nocturnal emission\|wet dream]]. He believed that the hole Wozniak's head was in represented the womb, the spider Wozniak's loss of innocence (which he is both afraid of and drawn to), and the puddle at the end of the video to be a symbol for semen.<ref>{{cite web \|work= [[MTV News]] \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1431674/marcy-playground-get-freudian-in-new-video/ \|title=Marcy Playground Get Freudian In New Video \|date= January 28, 1998 \|access-date= March 4, 2019 }}</ref> Chad Childers of ''Loudwire'' deemed the video reminiscent of the art of [[Salvador Dalí]] and called it one of the "most romantic rock music videos". He saw it as depicting a romance between Wozniak and the spider.<ref>{{cite web\| url=http://loudwire.com/marcy-playground-sex-and-candy-romantic-rock-music-videos/\| title=Marcy Playground, 'Sex and Candy' – Most Romantic Rock Music Videos\| work=[[Loudwire]]\| first=Chad\| last=Childers\| publisher=[[Townsquare Media]]\| date=February 14, 2013\| access-date=March 4, 2019\| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910073415/http://loudwire.com/marcy-playground-sex-and-candy-romantic-rock-music-videos/\| archive-date=September 10, 2015\| url-status=live}}</ref>		Wozniak's father, a [[Developmental psychology\|developmental psychologist]], analyzed the video in Freudian terms, seeing it as a representation of a [[nocturnal emission\|wet dream]]. He believed that the hole Wozniak's head was in represented the womb, the spider Wozniak's loss of innocence (which he is both afraid of and drawn to), and the puddle at the end of the video to be a symbol for semen.<ref>{{cite web \|work= [[MTV News]] \|url= http://www.mtv.com/news/1431674/marcy-playground-get-freudian-in-new-video/ \|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043958/http://www.mtv.com/news/1431674/marcy-playground-get-freudian-in-new-video/ \|url-status= dead \|archive-date= March 6, 2019 \|title=Marcy Playground Get Freudian In New Video \|date= January 28, 1998 \|access-date= March 4, 2019 }}</ref> Chad Childers of ''Loudwire'' deemed the video reminiscent of the art of [[Salvador Dalí]] and called it one of the "most romantic rock music videos". He saw it as depicting a romance between Wozniak and the spider.<ref>{{cite web\| url=http://loudwire.com/marcy-playground-sex-and-candy-romantic-rock-music-videos/\| title=Marcy Playground, 'Sex and Candy' – Most Romantic Rock Music Videos\| work=[[Loudwire]]\| first=Chad\| last=Childers\| publisher=[[Townsquare Media]]\| date=February 14, 2013\| access-date=March 4, 2019\| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910073415/http://loudwire.com/marcy-playground-sex-and-candy-romantic-rock-music-videos/\| archive-date=September 10, 2015\| url-status=live}}</ref>

	==Cover versions and usage in media==		==Cover versions and usage in media==

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	==Commercial performance==		==Commercial performance==
	"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets]]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart and would finish as the number one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets\|''Hurricane Streets'']]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>

	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that ~~"Sex and~~ ~~Candy"~~'s ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of MTV News called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a one-hit wonder. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''Stylus Magazine'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of [[MTV News\|''MTV News'']] called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>

	In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to Alternative Airplay), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>		In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>

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	"'''Sex and Candy'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] group [[Marcy Playground]], a single from their 1997 [[Marcy Playground (album)\|self-titled debut album]]. It is a [[post-grunge]] song with [[psychedelic music\|psychedelic]] elements. 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. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song; later, he said he does not know what the song means. It was released to radio on the week of September 15~~, 1997 and was physically released as a single on November 4~~, 1997.~~<ref>https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Marcy+Playground&titel=Sex+And+Candy&cat=s</ref>~~		"'''Sex and Candy'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] group [[Marcy Playground]], a single from their 1997 [[Marcy Playground (album)\|self-titled debut album]]. It is a [[post-grunge]] song with [[psychedelic music\|psychedelic]] elements. 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. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song; later, he said he does not know what the song means. It was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.

	Music critics mostly praised the song. Some found it sensual; many compared it to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]]. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, number 8 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100\|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart, staying there for a then-record-setting 15 weeks. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit song. 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 [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] terms and compared to the work of [[Salvador Dalí]]. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by [[Maroon 5]] and [[Slothrust]].		Music critics mostly praised the song. Some found it sensual; many compared it to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]]. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, number 8 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100\|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart, staying there for a then-record-setting 15 weeks. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit song. 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 [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] terms and compared to the work of [[Salvador Dalí]]. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by [[Maroon 5]] and [[Slothrust]].

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	"'''Sex and Candy'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] group [[Marcy Playground]], a single from their 1997 [[Marcy Playground (album)\|self-titled debut album]]. It is a [[post-grunge]] song with [[psychedelic music\|psychedelic]] elements. 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. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song; later, he said he does not know what the song means. It was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.		"'''Sex and Candy'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] group [[Marcy Playground]], a single from their 1997 [[Marcy Playground (album)\|self-titled debut album]]. It is a [[post-grunge]] song with [[psychedelic music\|psychedelic]] elements. 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. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song; later, he said he does not know what the song means. It was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997 and was physically released as a single on November 4, 1997.<ref>https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Marcy+Playground&titel=Sex+And+Candy&cat=s</ref>

	Music critics mostly praised the song. Some found it sensual; many compared it to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]]. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, number 8 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100\|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart, staying there for a then-record-setting 15 weeks. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit song. 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 [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] terms and compared to the work of [[Salvador Dalí]]. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by [[Maroon 5]] and [[Slothrust]].		Music critics mostly praised the song. Some found it sensual; many compared it to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]]. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, number 8 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100\|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart, staying there for a then-record-setting 15 weeks. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit song. 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 [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] terms and compared to the work of [[Salvador Dalí]]. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by [[Maroon 5]] and [[Slothrust]].

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	"'''Sex and Candy'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] group [[Marcy Playground]], a single from their 1997 [[Marcy Playground (album)\|self-titled debut album]]. It is a [[post-grunge]] song with [[psychedelic music\|psychedelic]] elements. 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. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song; later, he said he does not know what the song means. It was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.		"'''Sex and Candy'''" is a song by American [[alternative rock]] group [[Marcy Playground]], a single from their 1997 [[Marcy Playground (album)\|self-titled debut album]]. It is a [[post-grunge]] song with [[psychedelic music\|psychedelic]] elements. 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. In 1997, Wozniak said that "Sex and Candy" is an unorthodox love song; later, he said he does not know what the song means. It was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.

	Music critics mostly praised the song. Some found it sensual; many compared it to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]]. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, number 8 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100\|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock ~~Songs~~]] chart, staying there for a then-record-setting 15 weeks. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit song. 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 [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] terms and compared to the work of [[Salvador Dalí]]. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by [[Maroon 5]] and [[Slothrust]].		Music critics mostly praised the song. Some found it sensual; many compared it to the music of [[Nirvana (band)\|Nirvana]]. Some critics interpreted the track as a love song, and others thought its lyrics were nonsensical. Commercially, "Sex and Candy" peaked at number 2 on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]'' 100 Hit Tracks chart, number 8 on the US [[Billboard Hot 100\|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and number 1 on the ''Billboard'' [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart, staying there for a then-record-setting 15 weeks. Worldwide, the single reached the top 20 in Australia, Iceland and Norway; it is the band's only hit song. 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 [[Sigmund Freud\|Freudian]] terms and compared to the work of [[Salvador Dalí]]. "Sex and Candy" remains popular on rock radio and has been covered by [[Maroon 5]] and [[Slothrust]].

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	==Commercial performance==		==Commercial performance==
	"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets]]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart and would finish as the number one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets]]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart and would finish as the number one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>

	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that "Sex and Candy"'s ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of MTV News called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a one-hit wonder. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''Stylus Magazine'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that "Sex and Candy"'s ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of MTV News called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a one-hit wonder. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''Stylus Magazine'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>

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	==Commercial performance==		==Commercial performance==
	"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets]]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets]]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart and would finish as the number one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>

	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that "Sex and Candy"'s ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of MTV News called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a one-hit wonder. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''Stylus Magazine'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that "Sex and Candy"'s ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of MTV News called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a one-hit wonder. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''Stylus Magazine'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>

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	"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets\|''Hurricane Streets'']]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was released to radio on the week of September 15, 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine\|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1997/Billboard-1997-09-27.pdf\|title=The Reel Thing: Mammoth Step\|editor-last=Applefeld Olson\|editor-first=Catherine\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=109\|issue=39\|page=22\|date=September 27, 1997\|access-date=October 17, 2020}}</ref> The ''Marcy Playground'' album drew little notice until a radio station in San Diego began playing "Sex and Candy" and at the same time the song was chosen by filmmaker [[Morgan J. Freeman]] for the soundtrack of his film [[Hurricane Streets\|''Hurricane Streets'']]. As the song became more popular, Wozniak was offered money for the publishing rights,<ref name=nickelback/> offers that increased from $100,000 to $750,000. Wozniak decided that he would sell the rights to "Sex and Candy" if a buyer was willing to give him $1 million for the rights to the track and $750,000 for his next album.<ref name=nickelback/> A week after the song reached the top position on ''Billboard''{{'s}} [[Alternative Songs\|Modern Rock Tracks]], he got three offers for those amounts and sold the rights.<ref name=nickelback/> "Sex and Candy" spent a then-record 15 weeks at number one on ''Billboard''{{'s}} Modern Rock Tracks chart, and would finish as the number-one Modern Rock song of 1998.<ref name=eight>{{cite magazine \| url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7640665/1997-alternative-rock-songs-turning-20-2017 \| last=Richin \| first=Leslie \| title=20 Alternative Rock Hits Turning 20 in 2017 \| magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]] \|publisher=Lynne Segall \|date=January 12, 2017\|access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name="usrockye"/> The track peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100<ref name=eight/> and number 2 on the Canadian 100 Hit Tracks chart.<ref>{{cite magazine\| url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3560&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3560.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3560\| title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 3560\|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)\|RPM]]\|date=May 18, 1998\| access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In the US, only 175,000 copies of the single were sent to retail outlets, selling 37,500 units during its first week on sale.<ref>{{cite magazine\|title=Hot 100 Singles Spotlight\|last=Sandiford-Waller\|first=Theda\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|volume=110\|issue=15\|page=105\|date=April 11, 1998}}</ref>

	"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of [[MTV News\|''MTV News'']] called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005}}</ref>		"Sex and Candy" was the band's only hit.<ref name=nickelback/> The song became so successful that it had its own accountant. The head of radio promotion at Capitol Records, Marcy Playground's label, felt that the song's ubiquity hurt the band's career; Gil Kaufman of [[MTV News\|''MTV News'']] called the song a "career killer" and the band became known as a [[one-hit wonder]]. Wozniak said that, while he was pleased that the track "became a quintessential '90s moment," he was flabbergasted and overwhelmed by its success, adding that he would not want to produce another hit song of comparable popularity.<ref name=nickelback/> Andrew Unterberger of ''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' wrote of its surprising success, calling it "easily one of the strangest top ten hits in history ([[Pavement (band)\|Pavement]] sounds like [[Sister Hazel]] by comparison) and as much of a death knell for grunge as '[[To Be with You]]' was for [[Glam metal\|hair metal]]."<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Unterberger \|first1=Andrew \|title=Playing God with Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box \|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|website=Stylus Magazine \|access-date=July 2, 2021 \|date=June 20, 2005 \|archive-date=July 9, 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184801/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/playing-god-with-whatever-the-90s-pop-culture-box.html \|url-status=dead }}</ref>

	In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>		In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of the Modern Rock Tracks chart (which by then had been renamed to [[Alternative Airplay]]), ''Billboard'' ranked "Sex and Candy" as the 17th-most successful song in the chart's history.<ref name="Alt-35">{{cite magazine\|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/\|title=Alternative Airplay Chart’s 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, ‘Monsters’ New Top Song\|last=Rutherford\|first=Kevin\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]\|date=September 7, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Greatest-Alt-2023">{{cite magazine\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/\|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs\|archive-date=October 6, 2023\|access-date=November 10, 2023\|url-status=live\|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)\|Billboard]]}}</ref>