“Steal My Sunshine”: How Len Made the Greatest Summer Anthem Ever

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Look, 1999 was a weird time for music, make no mistake — I mean, Mambo No 5 happened that year. But something else happened in music that year, too, and it came right out of Toronto at the start of that summer: a quirky, indelible earworm of a song performed by an oddly charming brother-sister duo. “Steal My Sunshine” would be the lead single from Len’s third album, and major label debut, You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush — a much more genre-fluid album than their first two. A quarter century later, “Steal My Sunshine” remains one of THE all-time great summer anthems. This video explores how Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” went from movie soundtrack placement, to sleeper hit, to one-hit wonder, to possibly the most enduring summer anthem of all time, from ANY country.

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