4 Non-Blondes "What's Up" vs Edie Brickell "What I Am"

Hatgoggles

Imagine a Linda Perry/Steve Tyler screech duet

i love that this poll is on ile

Finally, a Tyler Perry that white people can understand.

holy lol

great songs both

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:11 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

screaming at the top of my lungs

best “What” song from this era: Haddaway’s “What Is Love”

Or Tribe's "What?"

Whiney otm

Whiney otm

Lol whoops

The remix of “what I am” with the soul2soul/“loaded” beat rules

assumed bump was for https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/06/linda-perry-non-blonde-pink-christina-aguilera-dolly-parton-gwen-stefani-courtney-love

looking at the Guardian took me a few times to not read it as Legendary Hat Maker

I have What's Up stuck in my head this morning and I want to die

^fav Nirvana b-side

4 Non Blondes - What's Up (Official Music Video)
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grocery store last night, place is basically two big rooms/areas and i guess they have two different sound systems. "What's Up?" was coming out of the speakers in the frozen/meat room; near the front, by the juice bar, another speaker was pumping out something where the lyrics got muffled out by the aisles of canned goods, but this chunky, thunky beat was coming through --- the kind of thing that 90s Yamahas keyboards would include as a "rap" or "hip-hop" beat, like bassy RZA drums with no spooky samples. anyway they were really locking together well, the BPM didn't synch completely so not everything worked but it sorta grounded and slowed down "What's Up?" in a way that i think really helped it a lot. maybe the best it's worked for me in years.not sure "What I Am" would be susceptible to this process, as its coffee-shop rhythm section is so much a part of the songwriting itself.

The unusual name of the band came from an experience the group had in the Bay Area with a blonde family. According to Christa Hillhouse, "Right next to us, there's a trash receptacle with a piece of pizza on top and the kid wanted to pick it up. The mom said, 'No, it's probably dirty, what with the pigeons and people.' And she stared right at us. We were Non Blondes."[8]

The experience and the name became a symbol that they didn't fit the California stereotype.

not sure "What I Am" would be susceptible to this process

just came across the existence of this thanks to an aside in David Cavanagh's Creation book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq3RJaAgh3U

great find. wow the Mad Magic DJs really burned the midnight oil on that one, huh?

hell yeah, balearic my friends