"Sex and Candy" is a cipher wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce. It's Marcy Playground's first, last and only Billboard Hot 100 hit, spending a record-setting 15 weeks atop the industry trade publication's Modern Rock Songs chart, yet despite the 1997 single's cultural ubiquity, it is so opaque - so maddeningly inscrutable - that no one has any earthly idea what it's about, including the song's writer.
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