{"id":482362,"date":"2019-02-18T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=795556"},"modified":"2019-02-18T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T14:00:35","slug":"flashback-the-reality-bites-gang-lose-it-to-my-sharona-in-a-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-the-reality-bites-gang-lose-it-to-my-sharona-in-a-gas-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: The \u2018Reality Bites\u2019 Gang Lose It to \u2018My Sharona\u2019 in a Gas Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy 25th anniversary to Reality Bites<\/a><\/em>, the movie that not only defined Generation X but made it cool to make out to \u201cBaby, I Love Your Way\u201d while slurping a Big Gulp. Ben Stiller<\/a>\u2019s directorial debut encapsulated what it was like to be a twenty-something in 1994, from Gap promotions and toilet-paper coffee filters to AIDS scares and coming out to your family.<\/p>\n

One of the most memorable scenes in the film is when the gang gets stoned and Lelaina (Winona Ryder<\/a>) suggests they purchase food with her father\u2019s gas card. They proceed to stock up on Pringles, Minute Maid and other munchie snacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvian is na\u00efve spelled backwards!\u201d Janeane Garofalo\u2019s character Vickie says excitedly, right before she begs the cashier to turn up the volume when she hears the signature bass line of the Knack<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMy Sharona.\u201d Lelaina, Vickie and Sammy (Steve Zahn) dance around the shop, as Troy (Ethan Hawke<\/a>) stands at the counter looking annoyed. They scream so loud at the chorus that the cashier scolds them.<\/p>\n

Released in June 1979, \u201cMy Sharona\u201d was the Knack\u2019s first single and became an instant hit, the fastest debut release to go gold since the Beatles\u2019 \u201cI Want to Hold Your Hand.\u201d Amazingly, the lead vocals were recorded in one take. \u201cThe whole thing was very spontaneous,\u201d producer Mike Chapman told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 1979. \u201cThat song took no more than three hours to record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharona Alperin was 17 years old when the Knack\u2019s late singer and co-writer Doug Fieger, who died in 2010, wrote the song about her. (She\u2019s even featured on the cover of the single in a white tank top, clutching a copy of the band\u2019s first album,\u00a0Get the Knack<\/em>.) With lyrics like \u201cNever gonna stop, give it up, such a dirty mind\/I always get it up, for the touch of the younger kind,\u201d the seductive New Wave hit might seem extremely creepy and inappropriate today. Fieger attempted to explain this in 2005, when he claimed that not only was he just 25 at the time he wrote it, but that \u201cMy Sharona\u201d is in fact written from the perspective of a teenager: \u201cIt\u2019s just an honest song about a 14-year-old boy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Reality Bites<\/em> scene the song soundtracks turned out to be one of the 1994 film\u2019s highlights. \u201cWhen we shot at night, I figured it was OK to have a cocktail first,\u201d Garofalo recalled<\/a>\u00a0last year. \u201cSo in my trailer freezer, I had vodka chilling \u2014 which didn\u2019t hurt my mood when it came to doing scenes like the dance to \u2018My Sharona\u2019 at the gas station. I remember laughing a lot doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cast of Reality Bites<\/em> will reunite<\/a> at a 25th-anniversary screening this spring at the Tribeca Film Festival. \u201cReality Bites<\/em> was a formative experience in my life,\u201d Stiller in a statement. \u201cLooking forward to seeing the whole cast, and possibly changing the ending so Michael gets Lelaina.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Happy 25th anniversary to Reality Bites, the movie that not only defined Generation X but made it cool to make out to \u201cBaby, I Love Your Way\u201d while slurping a Big Gulp. Ben Stiller\u2019s directorial debut encapsulated what it was like to be a twenty-something in 1994, from Gap promotions and toilet-paper coffee filters to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 05:28:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}