Real Man of Genius

Well here's another throwaway Saturday morning post wherein I spout nonsense because no one is reading anyway.

I was telling my husband about my admiration for Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath. Wait, what?

I told him that I like the way McGrath is realistic about his place in the entertainment world. McGrath was interviewed in People Magazine about the title of Sugar Ray's humorously named new album Music For Cougars and acknowledged that he and his bandmates are too old to even be considered by Cougar standards. (The name of the album was probably chosen to get attention.) 

The interviewer then asked if McGrath felt that he lost any rock cred by being a correspondent on Extra, and McGrath replied, in so many words, that Sugar Ray was never a serious band to begin with. Quote: "People can say I'm kind of a douche...I get it." A rare and refreshing kind of candor and honesty and for this I salute you, Mark McGrath. Even if the album is getting lukewarm reviews.

The husband, surprisingly, agreed and raised me one by relating how McGrath has long been a savvy marketer and businessman. In fact, he said, McGrath and crew gained national popularity by doing a remake of a song that Howard Stern wrote when he was 11 years old called Psychedelic Bee, which naturally got Howard to put him on the air. Sugar Ray recently issued an album which includes the song as a thank you to Stern.