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Rolling Stone ‘New York Lonely Boy’: Inside That ‘Girls5eva’ Simon & Garfunkel Homage
How the sitcom’s creators and the folk duo the Milk Carton Kids came up with the show’s breakout song
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Early this year, Joey Ryan, half of the indie folk duo the Milk Carton Kids, received a text from his friend Sara Bareilles. No surprise there she, Ryan and Ryan’s musical partner Kenneth Pattengale have known each other for over a decade. This time, Bareilles asked if she could pass Ryan’s contact info along to some TV people she was working with. “I said, ‘Sure, of course, what is it?’ ” he recalls. “And she goes, ‘They want someone to do this song and it’s supposed to sound like Simon and Garfunkel.’ And we were like, ‘
Ellen about how her youngest son,
Matthew, had the politest first words ever.
“He says, ‘No thanks,’ all the time,”
Ellie revealed. “I feel like I should get a medal because I’ve raised him to be so polite. Isn’t that cute?”
Ellie also revealed that
Matthew is super strong for a baby, too, and she says he gets it from his dad.
“My husband has a similar strength, he never works out, but he’s incredibly strong. I think Matthew has inherited that super strength,” she shared. “I have to wrestle him to change his diaper. It’s unbelievable.”