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Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” Is Being Adapted for TV

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  1. Melody Bot

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    Lesley Goldberg, writing for The Hollywood Reporter:


    The Plain White T’s No. 1 hit “Hey There Delilah” is being adapted into a scripted TV series.

    The Grammy- and Tony-nominated band is teaming with Lively McCabe Entertainment and Primary Wave to develop a scripted romantic dramedy based on its chart-topping single about a long-distance relationship.

    I’ve got nothing.

     
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  2. Buscemi knows best

    You owe me a Sausage McMuffin

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  3. RileyWitiw

    more like absolutepop.net Supporter

    Wow what do you think the theme song will be?
     
  4. Zilla

    Trusted Supporter

    I just learned this song was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid. Wow, he's come a long way since then.
     
  5. gbuffers

    England.

    Just... so... weird.

    I get if someone listened to Hey There Delilah and thought "I should make a TV show about a long-distance relationship" but why specifically about the song?

    Will Delilah live in New York City? Will her boyfriend be a musician who will pay the bills with his guitar? Will he walk to her if he has no other way? Will he be 1,000 miles away? Will they fix the grammatical error in the song title? So many questions that need answering!

    Still a good song. Overplayed when it finally hit the mainstream, but when I go back and listen I appreciate it again now.
     
  6. Former Planets

    Aaaachem!

    I heard Lifetime was creating a TV movie based on “Face Down” by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus as well.
     
  7. Zilla

    Trusted Supporter

    "Cupid's Chokehold" - Gym Class Heroes
     
  8. kelseyleigh

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    10 years too late?
     
  9. [removed]

    Trusted Prestigious

    Well it became a single forever after it was released so this is fitting haha
     
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  10. Serh

    Prestigious Prestigious

     
  11. SuNDaYSTaR

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  12. Serh

    Prestigious Prestigious

    This show was a mistake just for reminding me of RJA
     
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  13. tempttherevenant

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    Good for them. :thumbup:
     
  14. Former Planets

    Aaaachem!

    Do you feel like a man when you push them around?
     
  15. smoke4thecaper

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  16. serotonin

    who told you this room exists?

    At the time that this album came out, I heard a rumor that the song was about this girl I knew that he had apparently been with on tour. I have zero indication that any of it was true, nor does it matter but I knew she was a girl that hung around the scene often and she had a photo with him at a show. The story was told to me right before my friends played me the song, well before it became popular, so the story always just stuck in my head.

    Anyway, it is really weird that they are making a TV show about this song.
     
  17. AlwaysEvolving21

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    ‘Stop’ is a fantastic album. Alkaline Trio’s Halloween at the Metro show was my first show ever at the Metro in Chicago, but PWT’s were my second show ever there. Armor For Sleep opened up for them too!

    So crazy thinking about this!
     
  18. RileyWitiw

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    "California" - phantom planet
     
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  19. Zilla

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    Just to clarify, it was about runner Delilah DiCrescenzo. The lead singer ran into her at a party and told her he would write a song about her. She had a boyfriend and they never went out. But she did go with the band to the Grammys because of it.
     
  20. Phil507

    Resident NYC snob Supporter

    Honestly, the only time I've ever listened to a song and thought the plot should be adopted into a film/tv show was "The Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe.
     
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  21. Kingjohn_654

    Longtime Sunshine Prestigious

    What about "Albuquerque" by Weird Al?
     
  22. contra11mundum

    I hate spoilers. Supporter

    This is America
     
  23. Zilla

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    I want someone to get the rights to OMC's "How Bizarre" so they can make a show out of that and finally give that story a proper ending.
     
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  24. Iamhollywood315

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    I was sitting in an empty terminal at MSP airport when this song came on a couple weeks ago. I was like really? Ithought people were long over this song and wondered if they were still a band
     
  25. personalmaps

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    I had heard a story that the song was about a girl who had broken up with him wayyyy before he wrote the song and it was a really creepy stalker song that made her life difficult. Seeing some posts above, I guess I heard wrong?