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UTUSN

(77,427 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:59 PM 8 hrs ago

1993 rock hit "What's Up"

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/1993-hit-song-named-best-193155136.html

.... Spotify compiled a list of the most popular female rock hits with some distinguishable names in the game and in the top five ranking. The San Francisco-based band, 4 Non Blondes, took the No. 1 spot with their song "What's Up?" that released in 1993 by Interscope Records. It was written and produced by lead singer Linda Perry, and was released as the second single of their debut album Bigger, Better, Faster, More. ....

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AloeVera

(4,109 posts)
1. Pleasantly surprised.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:04 PM
7 hrs ago

Thought it was just me crazy about that song. It's my go-to screaming rock-out stress release!

UTUSN

(77,427 posts)
2. For me (out of touch), knew the song back then without knowing who-what-whatever. Now know.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:16 PM
6 hrs ago

AloeVera

(4,109 posts)
3. I was "out of touch" for most of the nineties!
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:03 PM
5 hrs ago

My lost decade. But I've tried to catch up.

Thanks for posting one of my fave songs!

UTUSN

(77,427 posts)
4. Hah! - for me, name the decade I was out of touch. Just hear things that pick me.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:26 PM
5 hrs ago

And I don't do lyrics, don't know what the songs are about, just *melody* for me! I've been shocked when I found out "Goodbye Stranger" is about some a-hole f***ing across the country! And now loving "Creep" feeling like, wow *creepy*!










AloeVera

(4,109 posts)
5. Now that you mention it, I don't seem to do lyrics much either.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:43 PM
4 hrs ago

It is all about the melody with a few exceptions for me too.

I never realized that about Goodbye Stranger! Geez. Ugh.

And now I have to look up "Creep". Never heard of it. Still out of touch, sigh.

UTUSN

(77,427 posts)
6. Oh, allow ME! - my other prob is being a LibArts/EngLit type, so when words
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:51 PM
4 hrs ago

are "creepy" it's like ART. Who would hang with Emily DICKINSON?! - well, besides us.

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AloeVera

(4,109 posts)
7. Well HELLO fellow liberal arts type!
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:11 AM
4 hrs ago

Well met indeed.

It's been years since I read her poetry. Lots of stuff I need to read and do in my twilight years ha ha.

Ah Radiohead, also from the 90's I see, though they formed earlier. One of the bands I missed entirely though the song rings a bell. That song is real though, there is pain and yearning there. Maybe hatred and envy mixed in? The Cry of the Incel? But it rocks, really pulls you in to the mood!

AloeVera

(4,109 posts)
9. I have regrets too.
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:38 AM
3 hrs ago

Wish I had said no to the rat race. It gave me and mine a comfortable life but not one truly well-lived. Oh well, it's a common story and mine is not finished yet!

I laboured in finance and policy in government. Looking back on it now - just ugh..

Hope yours was not so painful.

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