Steal Sunshine facts
While investigating facts about Steal Sunshine, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Len, the band that recorded "Steal My Sunshine," had a $100,000 budget for the music video and spent so much of it on alcohol that they broke the hotel service elevator trying to lift it all.
Len's iconic 90s music video for "Steal My Sunshine" came about after the band decided to spend their entire $100,000 music video budget on alcohol and partying in Florida during Spring Break, without a storyboard or plan.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Steal Sunshine I managed to collect.
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The music video for Len's "Steal My Sunshine" had budget of $100,000, most of which was spent flying the band and 24 of their friends to Daytona beach to get drunk and party.
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Founding member of Broken Social Scene, Brendan Canning, played for 90s one hit wonder band, Len (known for Steal My Sunshine)
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The air potato, Dioscorea bulbifera, is an invasive twining vine with big heart-shaped leaves that can engulf the canopies of trees, eventually killing them. It steals sunshine, water and nutrients from the plants that actually belong here. The air potato leaf beetle is being used to fight plant
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There's a Vice sticker featured prominently in the "Steal My Sunshine" video. From 1999.
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The backdrop in the song Steal My Sunshine samples the 70's song "More, More, More" by Andrea True Connection.
