Adam Schlesingerwasn’t a star.
But Schlesinger wasn’t providing the bottom; he served as the not-so-secret weapon at the center.
And he was quietly restless.
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(Fountains being summer, Ivy winter.)
It helped that he could write in seemingly any genre.
But Schlesinger could also write a pitch-perfect mid-’60s garage-rock throwback (“That Thing You Do!
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And then there wasCrazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Knowing Schlesinger, it could have been both.
Only one verse/chorus at the moment but will keep going if you dig [it].”
Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger.
Or, as Schlesinger himself viewed it, “Here’s an idea.”
