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

"holy crud what i am is an 80s song?"

What I Am, Love Shack, and Funky Cold Medina - The BIG HITS of the 80s. https://media1.giphy.com/media/l0HlOqGDHGBorDPqM/100.gif

https://reverb.com/item/1095989-gianini-craviola-1979-natural-brazil-not-korea

That video made me sad. She obviously has a cold and it's messing with her ear.

I feel like I can at least appreciate "What I Am" on the basis that it might be one of the most 90s sounding songs of the 1980s. Like it feels almost 5 years ahead of its time.

this was a good post - "What I Am," with worse production & different clothes, would have sat real nice next to Crazytown & Sugar Ray's "Someday" and a bunch of other mid-tempo mildly stoned jams, and then they could all be thrown into the same trash can

Come my lady
Come come my lady
Are you what you are or what?

https://d3uepj124s5rcx.cloudfront.net/items/1k2Z1H0y0a3y393s2G0w/4-non-dogs.jpg

man, what's up with that?

Everybody playing what I am my jr yr of college was a fake deadhead ecstatic that touch of grey was on radio hit and finally a deadhead friendly young band and let's hack man.

my freshman year roommate knew the what i am guitar solo NOTE FOR NOTE. what a pantydropper eh boys

So glad I hit that sweet spot between Edie Brickell and Jewell for my college years. LICK MY LIPS I'M ON FIRE

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
And I scream at the top of my lungs, "What's going on?"

argh

good lord, that spring break performance is dire. band and audience both seem bored and tired, and perry cannot adjust whatsoever to a different vibe/scale of audience. not sure a laid-back, beachy good-time version of "what's up" is possible but it would have been worth it to try.

I was just going to ask about that really fucked up acoustic guitar, can't search the thread on my phone but shocked of that hadn't been brought up yet.

Also the mocking of the envelope filter guitar solo the other day got me listening to a bunch of 70s versions of "Fire on the Mountain" which has been good.

Thanks, y'all, for helping me focus my hate.

Touch of grey was a the shitty mulch imo, seemed like he inev conclusion

This stupid bar has played both in the last hour

Hate to be a bummer, but it's possible you had an unexpected and deadly accident and are now in the bad place.

It’s true

I love how it was uncool in the 90s to name your song after the chorus and What's Up is my favorite example and on an unrelated note my least favorite song of all time

yeah I like what I am more

Alfred you definitely bring up a good point that Edie pioneered that college radio reared hippies market niche that Matthews et al took to the bank

i hope he was really drunk when those songs played

Why is the 4NB song so bad and hated? It's inarguably chock full of hooks. I think they're GOOD hooks. I like the unabashed use of acoustic guitar which you really don't hear much in top 40. The sentiment is corny and maudlin, sure. Is that what people hate about it? It's hard to call it hackwork, Linda Perry has an extensive catalog of good songs. WHAT'S UP is basically what I'm asking.

kinder at 9:43 11 Mar 17

What's Up is brilliant

What's Up is bad enough that an earthquake was unleashed to attempt to kill the band before they could record it. a bit harsh if you ask me but there it is.

hmm this story checks out. am i going to hell for liking this song

kinder I applaud your courage

I try
Oh my god do I try

Don’t try

In What I Am, Edie Brickell sings "I know what I know if you know what I mean? D-do ya?", but at first I thought she was singing "D-derriere."

On a different note, I don't think I had ever put together until just now that her future husband had a song called "I Know What I Know" on Graceland. I mean, I knew his song but didn't catch on that she also had the title in her lyric.

I PRAY EVERY SINGLE DAY
FOR REVOLUSHUHHHHH-AHHHH *turns into pteradon, eats unlucky baby, flies into the sunset*

― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, August 5, 2013 1:52 PM bookmarkflaglink

My son's girlfriend loves 'What's Going On' so I am now not allowed to say bad things about it.

but I pray, oh, my God, do I pray

You should pull a reverse "Rude" and show up at your son's girlfriend's house and break up with her for him.

She's really nice she just likes a bad song.

My rudeness extends to commenting out loud on the size of Linda Perry's mouth and speculating on whether she or Steve Tyler could eat the biggest whole orange.

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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