11/24/2023 0 Comments 4 non blondes misty mountain hop![]() ![]() ![]() iirc "dancing days" was the only other promo track off of this, and not only is that a slightly more competent rendition, it's a slightly less beloved Zep song in the first place, so less of a sense of "travesty" attached. #3 "misty mountain hop" was a single, with a long and painfully mugging-heavy video, which surely gives it a boost in people remembering and disliking it. #2, 4 non blondes winning reflects them being a loudly terrible one-hit wonder, long a target of imho legitimate mockery both on ILM and in pop culture generally. #1 this whole album is a mediocre cash-in by the label, so there are no wrong votes. ![]() Nonetheless i think there are at least a few other factors here which should be taken into account. mind you, i don't think sexism is an irrelevant thing to bring up in relation to which acts get cred, which ones get passes for their earnest and embarrassingly 90s alt signifiers and which ones don't, especially when we're talking about cover tunes of a sort of classically "dude" band - i'm willing to believe that at least some of the negative response to some of the covers stems from a sense of "wrongness" which is consciously or unconsciously gendered. both acts have a lot more cred, with me and i think with ILM, than 4 non blondes. I dig hootie's hits and have a lot of fondness for sheryl crow's self-titled album from around this same time. What's the takeaway from this, though? are straight "pick one" polls like this just fundamentally a bad idea, prevalent only because they're easier to implement than ranked lists? should we all spend more time pondering the relative merits of darius rucker and sheryl crow before talking about songs we hate? personally i think the hootie number should've ranked higher, on par with sheryl crow, because in both cases we're talking about terrible musicians doing terrible versions of terrible led zeppelin songs - and i do think darius rucker is probably worse than sheryl crow. Yeah i understand where you're coming from - this is why discussing pervasive gender prejudice is so pernicious because you can't discuss the whole without talking about specifics. ― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine) (also, I have never understood the dislike for 4 Non Blondes or "What's Up," I like Sheryl Crow a lot, and if someone tries to tell me either artist is worse than fucking Hootie and the Blowfish or Stone Temple Pilots then I fundamentally do not understand that worldview, even though it's foisted upon me daily by the music canon) Again, it's not any individual instance so much as the overwhelming, suffocating aggregate effect. ![]()
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