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The story behind one hit wonders

🕑 Added 2023-10-06 06:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Alexis DeLucia

the way i listen to Just The Girl weekly only 3 min in listening and this is my fave ep so far

Deirdre Cronin

I just cannot relate to your Olivia rodrigo opinion Shannon 🤣 I like her fine but she has more songs than anyone that I’m like uhhhhhhhh I’ve heard this before…

schulmanatrix

You better believe my Barbies were expert scissorsers

schulmanatrix

Unfortunately I love the masked singer

schulmanatrix

I was going to say, Chris Isaak is sooo not a one hit wonder

Miranda

Another please!!! loved this episode, brought back so many memories like cmon THE CLICK FIVE?! lmao the thing with one-hit-wonders is you’ll really only hear their songs in passing from time to time because most of their names aren’t easily remembered/known. Reading through the comments a lot of ppl may not consider some ppl to be one-hit-wonders, but perhaps to the general public they are. Kinda interesting to think about how music tastes can be so specific and niche!! Anyways thanks for reminding me to push someone in the pool at school reunion lmao

Karly Crawford

When I was a kid I thought the entire Aqua album was about Barbies and would listen to it when I played with mine lmao

shanna mehrdad

The first time I heard lovefool was also a college acapella group it was my middle school art teacher’s daughters group and she would play the cd in class all the time

Bridget Leslie

FYI Chris Isaak’s Christmas album is literally the BEST Christmas album of all time imo. Y’all absolutely have to listen to it this season 🫶🫶🫶

Eva

Shannon pls do an ep on the Beckhams!!

El Flo

Could you say Stars Are Blind by THE Paris Hilton is a one hit wonder?

LizardKing

Adam Schlesinger also wrote the songs for Crazy Ex Girlfriend with Rachel Bloom! And he died of Covid in 2020

Chrissy

Doses & Mimosas by Cherub is my fav 1 hit wonder it is SO good 😭

Jessica

nj want a Spotify playlist of these

peerie

Same though, Kelsey and Seventeen Forever were major bops for me

RJ

I can’t be the only one that thinks of new girl with she’s so high 🤣 I do love that song though

ali

unfortunately shake it is not a one hit wonder to me because i looooved that whole album growing up. i thought it was so wild that trace cyrus & mason musso were in a band together while their siblings were on a hit disney show! not to mention trace cyrus dating brenda song. the lyrics on that album are really creepy if you give it a good listen tho. so many of the songs are like, “you’re so young we shouldn’t be doing this.” 🤢

ali

okay but i love pop princess by the click five 😭❤️

Shelby

Edit to add: middle aged women everywhere will be wishing scorn upon you for saying Chris Isaacs was a one hit wonder 🤣 one of his other hits Bad Things is the theme song of True Blood and it absolutely slaps.

Shelby

Gotye has so, so many other hits as well! I’m Australian so I’m guessing his other music didn’t make it to the US like it did here. His breakout hit is called “Heart’s a Mess” and is worth a listen.

Bippity Boop

Blu cantrell was not a 1 hit wonder, she was a 2 hit wonder

Shelby

Absolutely adore your music eps Shannon! I’m Australian but the same age as you and seem to have similar music tastes. She’s So High by Tal Bachman is one of my faves as well. Would really love to hear more music focused episodes in future 💕

Paige

Also worth noting, the entire Aquarium album HITS - especially Dr Jones! Maybe that’s mostly because it’s the first cd I ever owned 😅

Paige

I think the songs seventeen forever and Kelsey are the best songs from Metro Station’s album as opposed to shake it

Cat

Please share your BPD playlist I desperately need it

emomaggie

ME TOO!!! I genuinely love Fountains of Wayne

Kahlee Alexandra

Kelli told me to tell you that Hinder has 3 hits, Lips of an angel, get stoned and better than me 😅

Lucy

You should do euro trash girl as a secondary song by Cracker (low being the primary song) !!

CalmDownDanielle

I grew up listening to this crazy cd I kid you not I found on the side of the road all scratched up and it has the spoof of ice ice baby which is rice rice baby and baby got back which was baby got jack, and some crazy Elmo shooting Barney track and then this other one that was Burt and Ernie smoking weed

Mickey

You’re not weird for thinking that about Barbie. She’s based off of a German doll and character who is a callgirl lol

Mary

Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen is a great one hit wonder but…her music is so good! She definitely shouldn’t be considered a one hit wonder since her albums have a ton of great songs. Justice for Carly Rae Jepsen

Marina Dabaghian

Okay but Welcome Interstate Managers is my favorite album of all time highly recommend

Melissa

I like the topic but the music audio clips are much louder than the podcast. The audio for this podcast is just much lower than most so I have to turn it up much higher than I would. Maybe I’m just going deaf lol

Monica

There's no one hit wonders anymore they all get turned into stars that are heavily backed by the music industry

Zoe Reinus

Sleeper songs - Miley Cyrus - never be me Noah Cyrus - stand still ( not that any of that album really took) Noah Kahan - orange juice and of we were vampires

Nikki Pressley

Omg please make a spotify playlist with all of these

Meg Hall

The lead singer of Fountains of Wayne, Adam, was the cousin of actor Jon Bernthal. He died of Covid at 52 😔

Erin

Bitter Sweet Symphony in Cruel Intention 🤤

Monica

You said jefferee star and that makes me want a shannan perspective on all the beauty guru/ Shane Dawson shit that happened

Erin

Omg that haddaway song altered by brain chemistry

Erin

Baby Got Back was fucking groundbreaking tbh

al

perfect by selena gomez is the ULTIMATE sleeper song, i will not be taking any questions about it at this time !!!

Kasandra

Yes agreed!!

Kasandra

I love these episodes and jamming out to songs I love but kind of forgot about!

Parva

I was so obsessed with the Click 5 in high school. Do you remember Check yes juliet? I think it was a different band but it had a similar vibe.

Michelle Silva

You have to make a spotify playlist with the songs of this episode!!!! 😱

Bronagh

“Somebody that I used to know” by Gotye is the ULTIMATE one hit wonder if you’re gona do another episode

Corinne Huntley

Bittersweet Symphony always makes me feel like the main character at the end of a 90s/early 00s teen movie. And that’s what I’ve always wanted to be.

Petal

Vh1 top 40 one hit wonders of the 90s is an excellent watch if you can ever find it online! Steal my sunshine was on the list, the artists said being a one hit wonder was the best they were so chill with it lol

Corinne Huntley

Ass all the way.

Yana Tretyakova

We need a Spotify playlist 🙌🏼💕

Imogen Watson

Omg also- the whole album that bittersweet symphony on is sooo emotional and amazing- the drugs don’t work is my favvvv

Imogen Watson

Can confirm she’s so high was soooo popular in Australia and I think it it one of my favorite songs too!!I thought the singer was Australian until right now😂