# Someone to Love - FoW (spoilers)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-to-love-fow-spoilers/401739>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 26, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-to-love-fow-spoilers/401739 "2007-04-26T15:41:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-to-love-fow-spoilers/401739/1 "2007-04-26T15:41:49Z")

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First of all, **Traffic and Weather** (or whatever that album’s called :)) took a little getting used to as it is slightly different from Utopia Parkway and WIM (although more similar to them than to FoW.) It seems they are doing a mix of a parody and homage to a “Fountains of Wayne Album” rather than a straight-up FoW album, much like 12 Golden Country Greats by Ween is a slightly-gentle skewering of country.

But did anyone notice that on _Someone to Love_, Beth MacKenzie shares a last name with Father MacKenzie of _Eleanor Rigby_? And that both songs are about two people, who by pop-song conventions would normally be with each other by the end of the song, but are not? Do you think this was planned or just a coincidence?