LFO

From Mark Scheerer
CNN Entertainment News Correspondent

September 1, 1999
Web posted at: 3:42 p.m. EDT (1942 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- By coming up with a little ditty about girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch clothes, the group LFO may have created the summer song of 1999.

And "Summer Girl"-singing LFO members Brad Fischetti, Rich Cronin and Devin Lima are on that wind-in-your-hair high that a chart-topping hit song can give a group.

It doesn't hurt that they have the same Orlando, Florida, producers who created Backstreet Boys and N'Sync. In fact, they recently toured with those groups and opened for LL Cool J last summer.

Cronin gets credit for the lyrics, which include names of actors, films and even other pop groups. Was it meant to be like Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"?

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"It was more (like) everything I wrote in there either means a lot to me personally," says Cronin. "Something that's stuck in my mind through pop culture -- or something that I think that anyone around my age will understand. It's almost like a lyrical yearbook to my generation.

"And at the same time, it's telling a story about an experience I had with a girl I met when I was 17. So there's so many mental hitching posts for people to, like, relate to this song, and maybe that's why it did so well."

LFO began forming three years ago when Cronin, already a hit on the Boston music scene, met Fischetti during a stop in Orlando. Cronin moved to Orlando and the two started working on their act. Last winter the two met Lima and the group was complete.

The trio is riding high on the single and are hoping the ride will last.

"The good thing about it is we're very successful right now," says Cronin. "We're so happy for that. The scary part is are we going to be this next week or next month?"

Fischetti is more optimistic. "'Summer Girls' is just the beginning," he promises. "When you see what comes next, you'll be mesmerized."