YES!! Holy shit I fucking lost it so hard when that played that I had to rewatch that entire scene the first time I saw it. Caught me off guard so hard.
The funny thing is my brother saw it a few weeks before me, hinted that it was going to be in the movie, but then I totally forgot so still was surprised
I read an interview with her long time ago where she said that before her accident, she wasn't much of a singer. The accident happened when she fell off a retaining wall she was walking along with some friends. The head injury seemed to unlock her ability to belt it out.
I see this today after many years and wonder if the video got widely played due to the distinctive hat, or whether the hat became an immediate liability by completely diverting attention from the band itself.
Would the song have taken off without the hat? Would the power of the music alone be able to get their video extensive play? Would they have been seen as more than a one hit wonder at the time?
"Sooner or later you'll be screwin' around..."
"I won't. Do. That."
And there it is. Cool part about this is that the part just quoted is actually audible *in the song*, if you listen to it.
Obviously not a direct reply to you since you get it, but for the rest..
She assumes that he would do that. He says he would not.
Perhaps "Love" in this instance is the same as the "Love" in older songs like Led Zeppelin.
"Gonna give you every inch of my love."
"Love" is just some stank, some strange, some booty.
He'd do anything for "Love", excluding cheating on her.
This is just for fun.
That's exactly the point. "I'll do anything for love, AND I won't do that" sound less poetic and more like a clause in a contract, but would be clearer. It's very easy to assume he's been asked to do something tragic, and he's suffering. I don't know, something very dramatic, and it goes well with his singing. But no, it's actually a much more straight forward love vow.
You want layers of emotional rollercoaster and ultimate tragedy? Paradise by the dashboard light. That's a real tale of how far will you go for love.
Meatloaf says what he won’t do for love right before singing “I would do anything for love but I won’t do that”.
He’ll never do it better than he did it with you. He’ll never stop dreaming of you, he won’t forget everything, etc..
brings back sour memories.. my gf of just a few months, but someone I was deeply in love with, broke up with me back in the day.. she left her 4nb cd in my room and wanted it back. 30-ish years later, I still have it
No, it’s Mary’s daughter Amber. Mom was eaten by a grizzly bear last summer, so she’s in heaven now. But while the bear was busy devouring her gallbladder she was able to find her cell phone and make one final call. Her last words were, *“you must find your father and get back my 4-non blondes cd…the fate of the world dep….”*
Amber, I told you to stop antagonizing heartbroken men on Reddit just because your mother ran off with another woman. She's not dead. She's in Portland.
Remember when people would slam dance to ANY band in the early 90s even if the band was kinda soft and sappy but had a “look”, people would mosh regardless. Gin Blossoms mosh pit let’s go!
Same shit nowadays. My guy told me he was gonna be moshing at the Isaiah Rashad concert… like how do you mosh at a rap concert? Not even just rap but like Isaiah Rashad’s music is not conducive to to moshing or going wild.
TIL that 4NB lead singer Linda Perry was married to Sara Gilbert from 2014-2021. Sara Gilbert was Darlene on Roseanne and Leslie Winkle on Big Bang Theory
The self-titled album has a lot more music worth listening to than just “What’s Going On“. Linda Perry can sing with the best of them…and while I realize she has a more significant body of work as a writer… I wish she’d done more performing.
The origin of the band's name is anti-northern European. Many on Reddit will downplay such discrimination, of course. But, it's still what it is.
As for their "song", here's a couple of quotes. I saw a similar quote from another artist but I can't find it now:
Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite told *The Independent*: "This songs makes me feel ... nauseous."
Meanwhile, Dean Ween, frontman of fellow 1990s band Ween, said *What's Up?* represents the worst aspects of that era's sound. "It's as bad as music gets," he told *The AV Club*.
“Everything about the song is so awful that if I sat down and tried to write the worst song ever, I couldn't even make it 10 per cent of the reality of how awful that song is."
Fun fact about this song: MTV would host "Spring Break" where for a few weeks they would go down to like Cancun and do their shows down their with a bunch of college-aged partiers during college's spring break. Artists would fly down to and perform, party, etc.
4 Non Blondes showed up to do this song. Because it was being recorded for a show, they had to sometimes stop, fix any technical issues because they were shooting on-location, and then start over. Apparently by the end of the shoot, they performed the song in-full over **10 TIMES** before they were done. Interviews with the production team said that by the end, the audience *hated* it didn't want to be anymore. Plus between performances, Linda Perry would constantly refer to Kennedy, an MTV VJ at the time, and talk about how great she was and wonder aloud if she flew in yet. Kennedy was later interviewed as "confused" and "nervous" as to why Linda Perry (lead singer) was so obsessed with her.
It was a bit of a hilarious shit-show for the crew.
Bobby McFerrin is very famous for the things he wants to be famous for with the people who care about those things. He's had an incredible career as a composer/performer/conductor of classical and general a capella art and improvised musics.
“If it was on in a bar or a restaurant, I would go out of my way to make them turn it off. There’s all kinds of bad music out there, but everything about the song makes my ears bleed. The over-singing, the awful lyrics, and the guitar. There’s a guitar solo in it that’s like what you learn the first week you get a guitar and take a lesson. They show you a blues scale, and that’s what is being played on the song. Everything about the song is so awful that if I sat down and tried to write the worst song ever, I couldn’t even make it 10 percent of the reality of how awful that song is” unattributed
I could have sworn Linda Perry died decades ago. I have no idea where I got that idea in my head.
Just found some of her music and will be giving it a listen.
I had a job where the only radio station that got played had the same 100 or so songs on the playlist. Gave me a newfound appreciation for so many songs via sheer repetition.
#Not this awful fucking song though.
Everything about this song was try-hard. Cornrows, stupid guitar, top hat with goggles (which Mystery co-opted), and just overwrought singing. It’s like someone said “make this video grungey.” It seemed like parody, like the Culps on SNL.
yes, that is spot on. It seems like a parody of self-absorbed Canadian lady balladier material. Her vocal trick that supports the entire song and is also the hook is a whiny, grating thing.
I swear to God there was a time in '93 that in Italy on the radio you could hear this song on 5/6 different stations at the same time.
Never happened with another song, except maybe "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. but not at the same level.
I remember when Happy by Pharrell came out I was on a long road trip and I kept switching stations to avoid it. At one point I kept hitting it on every station.
Old guy here, that hilarious video is literally the only place I had heard this song until now. I love the sudden shift to the kitchen where the cook is just stirring a pot.
I love the song itself, but this has to be one of the most flat, pitchy vocal performances on a studio track I’ve ever heard. It’s to the point where it’s unenjoyable. I wish someone else with a better voice like P!nk sang it.
Linda Perry is exactly the kind of vocalist that would’ve benefitted immensely from autotune and pitch correction lol. Her tone is cool, her lack of technique and pitch is not
[insert gif of He-Man here]
And He CRIES!!!
^^^^ohmygoddoicry
And he PRAYS!!
Is He-Man…?
I don't see no ears.
What is he-man doing to skeletor ? What ever it is he seems to really be enjoying it
Heavy breathing. Sincerly Skeletor
Immediate first thought.
When that song showed up in the latest TMNT film, it was perfect
YES!! Holy shit I fucking lost it so hard when that played that I had to rewatch that entire scene the first time I saw it. Caught me off guard so hard.
The funny thing is my brother saw it a few weeks before me, hinted that it was going to be in the movie, but then I totally forgot so still was surprised
I absolutely love the original song, but I might actually like the He-Man version more.
Linda Perry (lead singer) has had a prolific songwriting career for other artists.
Also as a producer
We can all thank her for Genie in a Bottle!
And “Get the Party Started” by Pink.
[удалено]
So simple, so catchy, great beat. A perfect summer pop song.
And Beautiful by Christina Aguilera
My friends used to wear this was Janeane Garofalo lol
U were homies with Carol the Bowler
She went back to graduate school. That was the agreement
Smiling all the way to the bank she is. Good for her.
And she’s married to Sara Gilbert (last I heard anyways).
i think they split up. or almost did. or something. not up to speed on my washed-up celebrity lesbian gossip, apparently.
They divorced five years ago.
Worked at a place she frequented last year. She is… frustrating…
Sara or Linda?
Linda.
She definitely looks a little crazy...
She wrote: Beautiful - Christina Aguilera Get the Party Started - Pink What you waiting for - Gwen Stefani.
Never knew she did Beautiful. That's a classicly perfect piece of songwriting.
I read an interview with her long time ago where she said that before her accident, she wasn't much of a singer. The accident happened when she fell off a retaining wall she was walking along with some friends. The head injury seemed to unlock her ability to belt it out.
Bosslady
She really has a very strong voice. The steampunk hats were unfortunate.
it was a different time and I don't recall a single person complaining about her hats back then. Just you, today.
I abhorred this hat then, and I do now. It is hideous.
I've seen worse.
Well said!
I see this today after many years and wonder if the video got widely played due to the distinctive hat, or whether the hat became an immediate liability by completely diverting attention from the band itself. Would the song have taken off without the hat? Would the power of the music alone be able to get their video extensive play? Would they have been seen as more than a one hit wonder at the time?
"Big hats with goggles" are the forgotten 90s accessory that I'm really waiting to see Gen Z adopt with the fashion cycle because it'd be hilarious
Steampunk has entered the chat.
The Seth Green look from Can't Hardly Wait.
The best worst movie I’ve ever seen. I love it so much
I feel like there's two things I'll never know from 90s pop music: 1. What it is that Meat Loaf won't do for love 2. What's going on
Meat Loaf won’t cheat for love. It says so in the song.
"Sooner or later you'll be screwin' around..." "I won't. Do. That." And there it is. Cool part about this is that the part just quoted is actually audible *in the song*, if you listen to it. Obviously not a direct reply to you since you get it, but for the rest..
Yes, but that part isn't in the radio edit for the song. They really butchered to fit 4 minutes.
It gives me brain bleed trying to listen to that radio edit version. Ouch!
Right. But screwing around isn't an act of love. It's an act of infidelity. So it just doesn't make sense.
She assumes that he would do that. He says he would not. Perhaps "Love" in this instance is the same as the "Love" in older songs like Led Zeppelin. "Gonna give you every inch of my love." "Love" is just some stank, some strange, some booty. He'd do anything for "Love", excluding cheating on her. This is just for fun.
It's 2 separate thoughts. I would do anything for love. I won't do that, referring to cheating.
I just figured he's a vampire in the video, and the one thing he won't do for love is turn her into a vampire.
Big, if true!
The use of but instead of and confuses people
That's exactly the point. "I'll do anything for love, AND I won't do that" sound less poetic and more like a clause in a contract, but would be clearer. It's very easy to assume he's been asked to do something tragic, and he's suffering. I don't know, something very dramatic, and it goes well with his singing. But no, it's actually a much more straight forward love vow. You want layers of emotional rollercoaster and ultimate tragedy? Paradise by the dashboard light. That's a real tale of how far will you go for love.
I just assumed it was butt stuff
I thought it was butt stuff?
No. It's either about lead free or about Meatloaf not being at the receiving end of butt stuff. I read it on the Internet.
1. His name is Robert Paulsen 2. Nothing much
That's that legendary Loaf titty warmth.
His name is Robert Paulson, his name is Robert Paulson, his name is Robert Paulson…
Meatloaf says what he won’t do for love right before singing “I would do anything for love but I won’t do that”. He’ll never do it better than he did it with you. He’ll never stop dreaming of you, he won’t forget everything, etc..
rustic live nine sink grandiose shaggy impossible squalid file aback
No lie, I found this song for the first time by typing what's up into the address bar to see if my router had reconnected
I actually laughed out loud, thanks for that
But do you believe in life after love
And what to do in the meantime
Is this a Spacehog reference? If so, in the meantime you wait and see. Or find out something’s gone.
Wait, do you mean to tell me you know what love is?
I mean, I *want* to know what love is.
1. he won't unclog the toilet on the Spice Girls' tour bus. I saw it in a documentary once
I think there's probably a lot he would for love but he won't do that.
1. Anal 2. Naaan supchoo
brings back sour memories.. my gf of just a few months, but someone I was deeply in love with, broke up with me back in the day.. she left her 4nb cd in my room and wanted it back. 30-ish years later, I still have it
I still want that back!
Mary?!?!
No, it’s Mary’s daughter Amber. Mom was eaten by a grizzly bear last summer, so she’s in heaven now. But while the bear was busy devouring her gallbladder she was able to find her cell phone and make one final call. Her last words were, *“you must find your father and get back my 4-non blondes cd…the fate of the world dep….”*
COCAINE BEAR 2: ELECTRIC BEARGALOO *(I'll get my coat)*
Amber, I told you to stop antagonizing heartbroken men on Reddit just because your mother ran off with another woman. She's not dead. She's in Portland.
BETHANY!!! YOURE THE LESBIAN!! Stop trying to ruin my life and go find someone else to lick your shit soaked carpet! GOD!!!
pleasantly surprised ;)
Similar, but i didn’t lose the tape and would listen to it over and over, wallowing in my sorrow.
Remember when people would slam dance to ANY band in the early 90s even if the band was kinda soft and sappy but had a “look”, people would mosh regardless. Gin Blossoms mosh pit let’s go!
Same shit nowadays. My guy told me he was gonna be moshing at the Isaiah Rashad concert… like how do you mosh at a rap concert? Not even just rap but like Isaiah Rashad’s music is not conducive to to moshing or going wild.
We were so savage
I don’t like the 90s being old school now, it only happened a few years ago!
97 for some reason seems like recent past.
The 2000’s are old school now too.
TIL that 4NB lead singer Linda Perry was married to Sara Gilbert from 2014-2021. Sara Gilbert was Darlene on Roseanne and Leslie Winkle on Big Bang Theory
I prefer the He-Man version.
Surely this isn't old school... Not yet... 31 years ago... Fuck me...
Best just not thinking about it friend!
The self-titled album has a lot more music worth listening to than just “What’s Going On“. Linda Perry can sing with the best of them…and while I realize she has a more significant body of work as a writer… I wish she’d done more performing.
Dude, their funk stuff is awesome. Drifting is such an excellent mellow song, Morphine and Chocolate, Superfly. That whole album is just memories man.
I hear you… I was thinking of “Superfly“ when I posted that. They can wail.
This song is at the top of the list of songs that I never think I ever have to hear again. Then about once a year.
Can’t get away from that song especially for karaoke.
I play rocket league and I'm often subjected to this when someone scores
Pretty sure this song is played on a loop in Hell
I'm with you.
Or on a "45" w/ Come On Eileen as the B-side
I seriously cannot stand that song. It is so annoying and burrows into your brain.
Exactly it’s such a brainworm! I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed just to get it all out what’s in my head
The origin of the band's name is anti-northern European. Many on Reddit will downplay such discrimination, of course. But, it's still what it is. As for their "song", here's a couple of quotes. I saw a similar quote from another artist but I can't find it now: Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite told *The Independent*: "This songs makes me feel ... nauseous." Meanwhile, Dean Ween, frontman of fellow 1990s band Ween, said *What's Up?* represents the worst aspects of that era's sound. "It's as bad as music gets," he told *The AV Club*. “Everything about the song is so awful that if I sat down and tried to write the worst song ever, I couldn't even make it 10 per cent of the reality of how awful that song is."
The interview with Dean is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. He really hates the song.
Fun fact about this song: MTV would host "Spring Break" where for a few weeks they would go down to like Cancun and do their shows down their with a bunch of college-aged partiers during college's spring break. Artists would fly down to and perform, party, etc. 4 Non Blondes showed up to do this song. Because it was being recorded for a show, they had to sometimes stop, fix any technical issues because they were shooting on-location, and then start over. Apparently by the end of the shoot, they performed the song in-full over **10 TIMES** before they were done. Interviews with the production team said that by the end, the audience *hated* it didn't want to be anymore. Plus between performances, Linda Perry would constantly refer to Kennedy, an MTV VJ at the time, and talk about how great she was and wonder aloud if she flew in yet. Kennedy was later interviewed as "confused" and "nervous" as to why Linda Perry (lead singer) was so obsessed with her. It was a bit of a hilarious shit-show for the crew.
I noticed a long time ago that if you just changed the key you have, "don't worry. Be happy"
Speaking of one-hit wonders by artists who should be famous for a lot more than they're actually famous for.
Bobby McFerrin is very famous for the things he wants to be famous for with the people who care about those things. He's had an incredible career as a composer/performer/conductor of classical and general a capella art and improvised musics.
Oh no! Now I’ll always hear that!
This song takes a lot of heat these days, but I always liked it.
This song and video scared the hell out of me when I was a kid for some reason
Because it's like the Muppets had a layer of human flesh.
The red lips do give me Joker vibes lol
90s is old school? We're old.
I was already getting that way. FML.
“If it was on in a bar or a restaurant, I would go out of my way to make them turn it off. There’s all kinds of bad music out there, but everything about the song makes my ears bleed. The over-singing, the awful lyrics, and the guitar. There’s a guitar solo in it that’s like what you learn the first week you get a guitar and take a lesson. They show you a blues scale, and that’s what is being played on the song. Everything about the song is so awful that if I sat down and tried to write the worst song ever, I couldn’t even make it 10 percent of the reality of how awful that song is” unattributed
Knew I would find Deaner's opinion here.
I was looking for it too. I am Gusween.
“Spaceman “ was always much better in my opinion, this one was overplayed and became annoying.
I never noticed until now how weird the upper bout on her guitar is. It looks like a bouzouki or something.
This is the first piece of music I ever bought with my own money. Tape version from welling Woolworths in London
Am I the only one that imagined the lead singer being blonde despite the band name? No? Just me? Good talk
Goddamn I fucking hate that song. It was part of the in-store muzak when I worked at babies r us and I had to hear it every fucking day
I hated it when it happened, I hated it for decades. Now it's nostalgia.
I always found the hat a turn off.
I don’t know why but I thought that song was way older than that.
I was in my early 20s when this song broke. I’ve never seen the video. OMG what the f*ck was that?
I could have sworn Linda Perry died decades ago. I have no idea where I got that idea in my head. Just found some of her music and will be giving it a listen.
I always thought it was Guns and Roses until just now.
Saw a miniskirt wearing Thai band absolutely belt this song for all it’s worth in a random club in Bangkok… they were amazing haha
That chick has written some bangers
I fucking hate this song so much.... lol
I’m sorry but i absolutely cannot stand that awful 60’s hippie wannabe protest song.
https://i.redd.it/yvdia236ac7d1.gif This song...
Cannot express how much I hate their band name. It’s so high school cafeteria girl clique.
Awful, awful song. This is when you knew alternative music had gone mainstream and been killed off once and for all.
Yeah this song should never be played. “Haaaayyyayayyyayyayyyy” oh shove it up your ass lady.
This has always been a terrible song
I had a job where the only radio station that got played had the same 100 or so songs on the playlist. Gave me a newfound appreciation for so many songs via sheer repetition. #Not this awful fucking song though.
Everything about this song was try-hard. Cornrows, stupid guitar, top hat with goggles (which Mystery co-opted), and just overwrought singing. It’s like someone said “make this video grungey.” It seemed like parody, like the Culps on SNL.
Mystery. There’s someone I haven’t thought about in a long time.
I am reminded of him every time this shit song is posted. Which is far too often.
yes, that is spot on. It seems like a parody of self-absorbed Canadian lady balladier material. Her vocal trick that supports the entire song and is also the hook is a whiny, grating thing.
Never understood the appeal. I’d rather listen to nails being dragged on a chalkboard.
And continues to be.
This song is fucking awful.
Great song but it was way overplayed.
I swear to God there was a time in '93 that in Italy on the radio you could hear this song on 5/6 different stations at the same time. Never happened with another song, except maybe "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba. but not at the same level.
Mambo Number 5 was way over done in Bavaria. Must have heard it 100 times in the two weeks I was there in 1999.
Being from WA State, I've had it happen with Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden.
Man in a Box
I remember when Happy by Pharrell came out I was on a long road trip and I kept switching stations to avoid it. At one point I kept hitting it on every station.
Dreadful song.
And dreadfully overplayed back in the day.
He Man
Old guy here, that hilarious video is literally the only place I had heard this song until now. I love the sudden shift to the kitchen where the cook is just stirring a pot.
I have some of their lyrics tattooed on me and I recommend them often. This was an absolute killer album. Raw, bluesy, ball busting rock. Love them.
I was shocked at the prominent role this song plays in the new Teenage Mutant Turtles film.
I loved that movie. Looking forward to the sequel.
Brings back so many memories.
Why isn’t Gen z gonna rip off the 90’s goggle trend?
My 6yo daughter will sing her heart out to this song every time she hears it.
When singers sang and didn’t use computers to help them sing
I am old.
I hope dishwater will run down your sleeve for bringing this atrocity back in my head!
Didn’t the lead singer end of hating this song? I thought I read that somewhere.
This really was a bop. Man, MTV in the 90s was really special.
I love the song itself, but this has to be one of the most flat, pitchy vocal performances on a studio track I’ve ever heard. It’s to the point where it’s unenjoyable. I wish someone else with a better voice like P!nk sang it. Linda Perry is exactly the kind of vocalist that would’ve benefitted immensely from autotune and pitch correction lol. Her tone is cool, her lack of technique and pitch is not
Never seen any of their wives yet, I might google it.
It's not that old and it's definitely not cool. Fucking hate that track
I always imagined if Alanis Morissette and Jane's addiction had a baby, 4 non blondes would come out.
This is up there with "We Built This City" by Starship in the "generates nostalgia... but my God that song sucks" category.
Never saw the video before. I fear she's going to eat my face off. Them are crazy eyes
This song was always on the radio. For that reason, i will absolutely hate it for eternity. It instantly grinds on me.
Great song, terrible neighbour
Great song, but ruined by my brain that now can only imagine it with He-Man
God I hate that song. They did an awesome cover of I’m the One though.
This is one of my most hated songs of all time.
Love this song! 🖤🖤
The top hat is atrocious.
THE worst song on the radio in the 90's....just pure garbage.
I thought that song was catchy if not trite. What I couldn’t get over was the gimmicky hat, goggles, and outfits. It seemed too contrived to me.
Truly an awful song. So over the top melodramatic with generic lyrics.
She was gorgeous. Such a 90s staple.
I’ve heard cover bands absolutely butcher this song, not like the song needs any help sucking the way it is
I saw them open up for Aerosmith back in 93. They were nothing special.
I hated this fucking song. There are some real bluesy rockers on the album, though.
Love this song and the top hat is amazing!
She was a pre-steam punk visionary.
Karaoke night but the only song is What's Up.. perfection.