You should do another video with bands like Ra - do you call my name Revis - caught in the rain Crossfade - cold Clutch - electric worry Kings of Leon - sex on fire The Mooney Suzuki - alive & amplified The heavy - how do you like me now The gaslight anthem - 45 My darkest days - pornstar dancing Cavo - champagne
@KC-oz1yc2 жыл бұрын
James Blunt wasnt really a one hit wonder, his next few albums did well in the charts internationally, including number 1 in UK and but he never replicated the success of his first album and single featured here
@KC-oz1yc2 жыл бұрын
@@doomztay Kings of Leon is a bad example they were already a big band (outside the US) and playing at major festivals before Sex on Fire. Use Somebody was another major hit from the same album. They continued to be one of the biggest bands in the world since then
@doomztay2 жыл бұрын
@@KC-oz1yc most ppl only know sex on fire and use somebody though. Maybe they're just not as huge with other songs in the US.
@KC-oz1yc2 жыл бұрын
@@doomztay But in the years since then they've had multiple number 1 or high charting albums in the US and internationally, a number of Grammy nominations and other awards. You dont archive all this by being a 1 hit wonder. Yeah single wise it seems Iike they didn't do anything as major but it's not about all about hit singles, album sales matter too, and a few other criteria that show your still relavant in music.
@EPICLIGIT2 жыл бұрын
“The sole is the nipple of the foot” I’ve been awake exactly 32 minutes and I’ve decided that’s enough for today. Thanks.
@reaperofthegrey72942 жыл бұрын
i never took 1985 as incel. the lyrics seemed like a woman who was a cool kid back in 1985. but time has moved on shes now a mom, her kids dont think shes cool. but she still lives her life like its still 1985
@codyscards66982 жыл бұрын
That's how I took it. Like she felt like she lost her way a little but still loved to rock
@jamesdraco092 жыл бұрын
I agree. it's mostly told from the woman's perspective
@bradedwardsphotography44712 жыл бұрын
Came here to say the same thing. It’s written about a former cool chick who has a boring life now and always wishes she could go back to 1985. The song isn’t about them not getting the girl at all. Otherwise great video though. I love this series.
@mikekristin72012 жыл бұрын
Can confirm, I was born in 85 and my mom watches this video and waxes nostalgia about the good days. Extra points because she was a hairdresser and I had a mullet because of her until I was 8 lol
@aboutabrad2 жыл бұрын
Yea its a song about this girl Not the narrator
@RandomJot2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't exactly call Bowling For Soup a one-hit wonder; they also have High School Never Ends, Punk Rock 101, Girl All The Bad Guys Want, all arguably as well-known as 1985
@thatseasyforyoutosay2 жыл бұрын
Phineas and Ferb as well
@bjaanderson2 жыл бұрын
@@thatseasyforyoutosay Can't believe I forgot that one.
@brettfolkerth76122 жыл бұрын
The general criteria for a "hit" in the US is to make it on the Bilboard Top 40. 1985 is the only one that did.....
@noremad88z682 жыл бұрын
I also disagree with the incel take on the song. I always viewed it as they wrote a song about a woman who was having a mid life crisis type of thing and missed how things were in the eighties.
@freestfroggy2 жыл бұрын
@@brettfolkerth7612 if thats the case then bands like blink 182, my chemical romance n pretty much every pop punk band other then like 2 bands would be 1 hit wonders
@Kingylfc1232 жыл бұрын
James Blunt is a living legend and doesn’t take himself too seriously he gets a thumbs up from me 👍🏻
@FURTHER_ADO2 жыл бұрын
You cornballs throw around terms like " living legend" around too liberally. James Blunt isn't a legend. Nobody gives a shit about him.
@RichardtheLionHeart6452 жыл бұрын
If you haven't seen his appearances as a guest on Top Gear it's definitely worth looking up. The guy is hilarious.
@Kingylfc1232 жыл бұрын
@@RichardtheLionHeart645 I have as a matter of fact 😂
@FURTHER_ADO2 жыл бұрын
@@RichardtheLionHeart645 doesn't make him a living legend
@mikekirby20852 жыл бұрын
His twitter feed is amazingly hilarious. Its basically watching him execute people verbally when they try to mock him. Then he mocks himself far more than anyone else could.
@piramaniak2 жыл бұрын
James Blunt is genuinely hilarious, his twitter trolling is god tier! Also apparently ‘You’re beautiful’ is about him seeing a pretty woman whilst he was high as balls on mdma riding the London Underground 😂
@roflc0re2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact about James Blunt. He practically prevented WW3 when he refused to attack Russian soldiers at the Pristina Airfield in 1999.
@HasanibnSabah2 жыл бұрын
Delayed it, perhaps...
@trvshbxvt31462 жыл бұрын
Please do a full vanilla ice video! His legacy is fascinating and his reality tv era has a lot of interesting stuff to get into as well.
@peterw28802 жыл бұрын
Kriss Kris’s would’ve absolutely slayed in the tiktok era. Ahead of their time
@testingmyaudioaddiction34522 жыл бұрын
James Blunt literally told people to stop playing that song at weddings because he wrote it from the perspective of a stalker. One of the most misunderstood songs of all time.
@evanmaunders56882 жыл бұрын
Brother I’ve witnessed a couple first dancing to “every breath you take” by the police. Some people don’t listen hard enough
@testingmyaudioaddiction34522 жыл бұрын
@@evanmaunders5688 or, even worse, they don’t care.
@SconnerStudios2 жыл бұрын
No, that would be pumped up kicks. Nobody listens to the lyrics.
@hamm89342 жыл бұрын
I was at a wedding a year ago and they walked out of the church to Hey Ya! by Outkast. If you’ve never read the lyrics, please do. It’s about a dead marriage and divorce. Lol
@micro-babe2 жыл бұрын
@@evanmaunders5688 My fiance went to a wedding where the groom's last name was Jones and the first dance was, "Me and Mrs. Jones."
@Dreadlock12272 жыл бұрын
Shaggy definitely isn’t a one hit wonder. Other than Boombastic, he also had Angel which was and still is really popular, among others as well as being featured in lots of stuff. He’s had a really successful career outside of It Wasn’t Me
@pakxenon2 жыл бұрын
Angel and It Wasn't Me was top 1 for an entire year in my city.
@austintrousdale23972 жыл бұрын
Today’s episode: One-hit wonders who had multiple hit songs! 🎉🎆🎇
@AlligatorArms2 жыл бұрын
Yeah he’s had a ton of hits…”Oh Carolina” actually made the Alternative/Modern Rock chart in 1993, somehow.
@goatfromhell6662 жыл бұрын
Shaggy is awesome. Just ask the 5000+ guys that try to sound like him.
@goatbrain52782 жыл бұрын
I think 1985 is about a woman going through a midlife crisis, longing for the 80's, don't think it's an incel thing. Fuck! Never thought I'd be standing up for Bowling for Soup, I've also changed 😞
@Litpu2 жыл бұрын
It’s actually a cover, however, the lyrics were updated in their version.
@themadthrasher50002 жыл бұрын
Lol literally ONLY Finn would come up with that interpretation of it. Nowhere in the lyrics does it express anything remotely close to incel stuff. As you said it’s plain as day that it’s just about a middle aged woman that misses the days of her youth and imagines what could have been.
@BaronLector8 ай бұрын
Perfectly timed. Just as you introduced the song "Right Now" by SR-71, KZbin played an ad for Wright State University: "Right Here. Right Now. Wright State."
@chelseajacques_2 жыл бұрын
7:37 as someone who works in photography industry and regularly do shoots at weddings, I can confirm that the James Blunt song is played at almost every white people wedding I've worked at. :P
@JM-fo1te2 жыл бұрын
Man, I can't help but cringe eeeek
@michellediduch29552 жыл бұрын
Yikes. People aren't that original, are they?
@scottbrower90522 жыл бұрын
What a horrible reality. 🤢🤮
@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters2 жыл бұрын
1985 is just about nostalgia. It's not about their gender dude. It applies to anyone living in the past, why does is have to be interpreted as a sexist thing? It's really not, not everything is sexist Finn.
@abigailjean73752 жыл бұрын
Coz Finn is a doofus
@SconnerStudios2 жыл бұрын
I hate to say it, but it's like he's slowly becoming the complete opposite of the right wing reactionaries like TheQuartering or SaltyCracker. I always love the analysis, Finn has truly is some of the best analyses on the internet, but this weird obsession of calling everything incel is becoming predictable. And it's weird because he doesn't do it for anything else. He rarely talks about race/lgbt (He's yet to acknowledge Noahfinnce despite him being a rising star), etc. but every single video at this point will have something about misogyny.
@dustywaynemusic62972 жыл бұрын
@@SconnerStudios being the opposite of The Quartering is a good thing though
@SicSemperTyrannisx92 жыл бұрын
I relistened to the whole song to make sure I wasn’t missing something. His take is way off. It’s just a fun song about someone a bit stuck in their past.
@austintrousdale23972 жыл бұрын
Finn’s trying to “trigger” the viewers who aren’t quite so socially adept.
@Neon_Rust2 жыл бұрын
Surely some of these can't be considered "one hit wonders" unless they were just successful in the UK but not the USA. James Blunt also had Goodbye My Lover (I assume this was a hit in America too because of the scene in The Office), High, and Bonfire Heart. It's weird to think he's probably killed people. Anyway for all the people he has annoyed with You're Beautiful (I maintain that it's a great pop song) he earned their fandom with his Twitter account. Follow him. He's hilarious. Bowling For Soup had a fair few hits in the UK, I wouldn't even say 1985 was the biggest here: Girl all the Bad Guys Want was certainly bigger here. Then there was: The Bitch Song, Emily, Punk Rock 101, Almost, High School Never Ends all got decent air play. In the UK Shaggy also had a fair few hits although It Wasn't Me and Mr Boombastic were probably his biggest. Oh Carolina, In the Summertime, Angel, Luv Me, Luv Me and Me Julie; were all popular.
@elzurdorodriguez66502 жыл бұрын
James Blunt also has '1973'
@jenniferkreisz76392 жыл бұрын
This commentary has got me in stitches! The James Blunt Intel stealth “I’ll just sit here watching you while you sleep” is all too creepy and relatable
@aimeeaztec46012 жыл бұрын
The MBA is polished sure but it’s here where Finn shines so bright. Listening to this guy jamming about vanilla ice is pure KZbin gold! Awesome job Finn!
@RafitoOoO2 жыл бұрын
I watched James Blunt live once when he was opening for Elton John and honestly the guy is really good. He has some really good songs like Same Mistake and 1973.
@joshuabergen842 жыл бұрын
The symbolism of the James blunt video is that he's shedding his layers as he opens up about his feelings for her. And the jumping the cliff is him shooting his shot and barring his naked soul.
@globetrekker862 жыл бұрын
“If you see bare soles, that’s even better.” James is baring his *soul*, so to speak
@spankynspronkle64132 жыл бұрын
He has a guitar pick so he can play wonderwall 😂💀… I’m dead lol
@sandomonium98492 жыл бұрын
James Blunt's real surname is Blount. He dropped the O to became Jay & Silent Bob's favourite rapper!!
@YouTubenostalgia9142 жыл бұрын
I never knew anybody who wore their clothes backwards, but all us real trash had the "Bugs Bunny/Taz wearing their clothes backwards" t-shirt.
@mxwx512 жыл бұрын
I don't think calling BFS one hit wonder is quite fair. They had a hit with "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" before this and had a few other successful songs as well. Plus the Phineas and Ferb Theme song! 🤣 They are still grinding today.
@brianmckennamusic94342 жыл бұрын
Saw them in concert a few years ago. They put on a great show.
@mxwx512 жыл бұрын
@@brianmckennamusic9434, no doubt! I saw them (for the 2nd time) with RBF in 2019 and it was a great time. They are a lot of fun to watch. I wouldve preferred to be on the Mest leg of that tour, but Nerf Herder wasn't bad. Funny enough, the first time I saw BFS was with American Hi-Fi. 🤣
@dxfifa2 жыл бұрын
one song hit 24 on the charts
@FearTheTurle212 жыл бұрын
Great video, but to be fair to Bowling For Soup, 1985 isn't at all about the singer being bitter with the woman and wanting her to be with him. It's about the woman being bitter with how her own life turned out and just looking back to the 80s when she was having fun and had a different idea of her own future. It's just from her perspective, not the singer. Kinda unfair to lump it in with the other incel songs. The others, yeah, definite incel vibes even though they're good songs lol
@taylorhewitt70252 жыл бұрын
Yup, BFS had a few s tier albums in the 00’s in my books. Drunk Enough to Dance has songs like Emily, Life After Lisa and Surf Colorado that are low key pop punk bangers. They were far from a one Hit Wonder as well with Girls All the Bad Guys Want as an obvious example (Which came out before “1985”) and Punk Rock 101. I love all of Finn’s videos and will continue to subscribe but objectivity should reign supreme to avoid personal biases tainting the message.
@cultreader97512 жыл бұрын
@Taylor Hewitt Wasn't "High School Never Ends" a hit from them as well?
@taylorhewitt70252 жыл бұрын
@@cultreader9751 Yep, it’s almost a spiritual successor to 1985. Do yourself a favour and listen to Drunk Enough, A Hangover and Burrito all the way through. The production from Butch Walker is top notch. Jaret has incredible songwriting chops as well with melodic refrains like the bridge on “I’m Gay”. While I’m gushing about this band I’ll also throw in tracks like Ohio, Trucker Hat, Val Kilmer, Epiphany and Shut-up and Smile that are infectious as hell.
@FearTheTurle212 жыл бұрын
@@taylorhewitt7025 Totally agree. A Hangover You Don't Deserve is my favorite BFS album. I played that album non stop for a solid year when it came out and still love it today. Every song on it is a banger.
@danielcoldwell91372 жыл бұрын
The commentary on how Chad vanilla Ice Is, had me absolutely crying 🤣
@mistahbeardo2 жыл бұрын
"Bowling For Soup is a one hit wonder" There's Finn's one controversial take per video. "1985 has incel undertones" Nevermind. It's a female mid life crisis song and was ahead of it's time because mostly men got mid life crisis songs at the time. I interpreted BFS in the video as a representation of her inner demons. BFS doesn't interact with the main characters at all but instead represents the thoughts manifesting. Besides she can't be pining for 2000s punk and 1985 at the same time lol.
@mwilkins16442 жыл бұрын
90s Vanilla Ice is just Gigachad without the beard
@brendanoriega99032 жыл бұрын
Finn fanboying over Vanilla Ice is one of the best things I’ve witnessed today lmao
@sumdude1162 жыл бұрын
You're Beautiful is actually about when Blunt was high af on drugs after he got out of the military. He said this in an interview he just saw this guy and his gf and kind of followed them. Drugs are bad mmkay. This dude is awesome and hilarious. Look up his Twitter he roasts himself, shits on his own music. and roasts people who hate him lol. But yeah this song was about him being all strung out on drugs and just following this couple all depressed. Not really a fan of his music but that dude is a legend! He's very self aware and knows that a lot of people just don't like him.
@TheAutoxgalant722 жыл бұрын
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get the cuck/incel vibes from 1985. Even re-listening again, I can't get anything out of it that suggests it. To me it plays and reads like a story of a woman who settled too early and is regretting not getting out and living her life the way she really wanted to, now the world is totally changing and she's realizing she didn't get the chance to live her dreams causing her to get stuck in romanticizing the 1985 era. Which I think is why it was so popular as kind of a get out and live anthem.
@Daeis1382 жыл бұрын
I don't care who you were, when V-Ice dropped Ice Ice Baby in the 90's, you were about it. That song slapped hard. I've seen him live probably 4 or 5 times both has hip hop and nu-metal and he puts on a fantastic show.
@Shad0wPh0enixXx2 жыл бұрын
When fin says " I was 7 in 1985" then there's me a 24 year old who wasn't even a twinkle in my dad's sack lmao
@eman541322 жыл бұрын
I have a very specific memory of listening to that Flavor of the week song and trying code red for the first time, which was a big deal because it was the first flavored mt dew. I was like 8 at the time. A few weeks ago I was drunk and wanted to see if that actually lined up and code red came out within like 2 months of that song coming out.
@ADHDean.2 жыл бұрын
"demoted for being too funky" killed me 😂 take a thumbs up Finn
@camerondodge20702 жыл бұрын
As much as I disagree on the meaning of "1985", he's absolutely right about one thing: No one will ever be as cool as Vanilla Ice.
@whitespyder92 жыл бұрын
Shaggy isn't a one-hit or even two-hit wonder. In addition to "It Wasn't Me" and "Boombastic", he also had "Angel". James Blunt also had a second hit - "Goodbye My Lover".
@heroicspatula2 жыл бұрын
James Blunt would agree with you Finn. He's said he hates that people think it's a love song, when it's very clearly about a drug addict stalking a girl on the train.
@hansele6662 жыл бұрын
especially when the lyrics don't go ”i was flying high" in this censored version other than ”fucking high" in it's original version
@IansModRite2 жыл бұрын
Unless somebody has come out and said so specifically, I don’t think 1985 is an incel song. I think the message it’s trying to tell is one of a women who is bitter she’s not cool anymore like she was in the 80s. She wants to bring back the music she loved and the culture she was a member of.
@Yungbronson2 жыл бұрын
A vanilla ice video would be fire as long as you bring up the turtle rap 🐢
@geoffmoore18282 жыл бұрын
“James Blunt wrote ‘You’re Beautiful’ about Vanilla Ice.” 😂 🤣 😂 my sides!
@taylorhewitt70252 жыл бұрын
Would love to see an interview with any of these artists! Specifically Jaret of BFS and Ice.
@DjDolHaus862 жыл бұрын
James Blunt is actually a pretty cool guy, a friend of mine worked in a large local venue doing the lighting and so he had backstage access to pretty much any act that came in. It was generally mid tier pop acts and 80s classics as it was a small shitty city but when we'd go out drinking on a saturday night we'd swing by and generally make a nuisance of ourselves trying to talk to all these various acts. We met James Blunt backstage in the kitchen area and he seemed really cool, he had great banter and was fully aware of how sick of him a lot of people were because it was basically impossible to escape him on TVradio, he even gave me a signed CD for my mum because she was in his key demographic. Other notable people we met were Lionel Richie who was super nice, Madness were pretty cool and we shared a joint with someone from UB40
@leeannasloan22922 жыл бұрын
Great comment...I always imagined Lionel would be cool as hell.
@jamesarnold23992 жыл бұрын
If it wasn't for Vanilla Ice we wouldn't have Eminem.
@TotoDG2 жыл бұрын
The see-through drumkit in Flavor Of The Weak reminded me of those translucent Gameboys, where you could see all the electronic bits inside it.
@joelkalin97642 жыл бұрын
The line "Don't try to compare us to another bad little fad" in "Jump" is a diss to the group ABC. Also popular at the same time.
@zstarzzz78 ай бұрын
I notch my eyebrows. But I didn't get it from these cats. 🤣 Hopsin gets the credit for this one.
@kodyolerud2 жыл бұрын
Speaking of strange wedding songs… I know someone whose first dance song was “Lips of an Angel”
@dustywaynemusic62972 жыл бұрын
I saw a bride and groom dance to that stupid "sitting at a bar" song by Rehab once.
@kodyolerud2 жыл бұрын
@@dustywaynemusic6297 what on earth 😭
@micro-babe2 жыл бұрын
I said this on another comment but my fiance once went to a wedding where the first dance was, "Me and Mrs. Jones."
@MrNiceguyofficial2 жыл бұрын
Am i the only one that thinks the main bassline of ice ice baby is much doper than the queen sample?
@probablylarsulrich56542 жыл бұрын
We aren't allowed to admit that publicly
@stephaniewandell37212 жыл бұрын
Best Easter egg in the 1985 video, is the wife is Tawny Kitaen from the Whitesnake videos.
@XiiJWCiiX2 жыл бұрын
The very first rap cassettes I ever owned, I got for my 12th birthday in 1992. They were "To the Extreme" and "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em". Still know every track on both sides!
@theeclecticlifewithsam2 жыл бұрын
I saw Lit and American Hi-Fi in concert when I was in undergrad. Great show from both bands. We used to drive to Philly to see New Found Glory and eat cheese steaks! Thanks for bringing back the memories.
@millerhxc2 жыл бұрын
I love Vanilla Ice's nu-metal era. Hard To Swallow is an underrated masterpiece, in my opinion.
@Thomsonthetube2 жыл бұрын
Even as a kid hearing this song I remember thinking, "she caught him on camera and he's STILL denying it???"
@jimothymayhorn2 жыл бұрын
Bowling for Soup is a one hit wonder band now?
@petrinafilip962 жыл бұрын
American Hi Fi's best song is "The Art of Losing", even though it's a bit of a Ramones ripoff. It was actually featured in American Pie 3 and Malcolm in the Middle.
@globetrekker862 жыл бұрын
Before *Karen* came to be, the side-swept blond hair immediately brought to mind Kate Gosselin
@faceofdeath2 жыл бұрын
I don’t care what anybody says, that kriss kross song is badass 🔥🔥🔥 two little kids rapping about how authentic and old school they are is still funny thirty years after I first heard it. Also my first ever concert was Michael Jackson at Wembley arena and kriss kross were supporting and that was badass as well 🔥🔥🔥
@rileyhughes56132 жыл бұрын
Dude seeing Michael Jackson is pretty incredible, how was that? I was like 10 when he died and it still destroyed me, dude was the modern Elvis
@IH8AI2 жыл бұрын
Suddenly started hearing Flavor of the Week on the radio in the last couple months and I'm totally here for it
@danielnunn8452 жыл бұрын
Great video 👍 makes me want a whole video looking at Vanilla Ice as Finn killed me on that part 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@thatseasyforyoutosay2 жыл бұрын
Go ninja go ninja go
@Trixiethegoldenwitch2 жыл бұрын
I saw Cold As Ice for the sake of reviewing it with Tony from Hack the Movies and it was a certified meme classic. I would love for you to do extensive Vanilla Ice coverage. You just need to figure out how to reintroduce him to the youtube world as a character worth knowing. You could bring his career back.
@mr.martinii36082 жыл бұрын
No. oh god no that shit needs to stay in the past
@timkirsten61842 жыл бұрын
Man I unironically loved bowling for soup when I was 12-13. They had a few great songs and albums in the 2000s
@bootska2 жыл бұрын
At 45, I still unironically love Vanilla Ice. Waiting for that video with baited breath.
@dalekay9ine2 жыл бұрын
My favorite one hit wonders are "Sex and Candy" Marcy's Playground, and "Flagpole Sitta" Harvey Danger.
@anthonyhertlein46292 жыл бұрын
Better than Ezra's another one that fits along those lines
@SportsMetalBizkit2 жыл бұрын
I want that "oh nu metal" as a notification sound, every time u upload a new video.
@robo5672 жыл бұрын
they aren’t in the video but ever since i saw mic the snare’s video on chumbawamba i’ve become obsessed with them. they’re one of the most interesting bands i’ve ever seen and a lot their material outside of their one hit is genuinely great stuff.
@greglane3342 жыл бұрын
I was quite surprised to learn they were originally an anarcho punk band. Mind blowing
@BigOwl512 жыл бұрын
Chumbawumba are awesome! I watched Todd in the shadows’ video on them and their story is super interesting.
@MilitantMe2 жыл бұрын
James Blunt makes me want to go change up my top 8 on MySpace.
@greglane3342 жыл бұрын
Tom will always be my no 1
@F2t0ny2 жыл бұрын
This comment wins.
@mgeorge487able Жыл бұрын
Yes! My very first two cassette tapes (at age 12) were Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer 😂😂
@RatelHBadger8 ай бұрын
Two big earworms 😊
@ItzGlitchyy9 ай бұрын
14:43 little fun fact for you Finn, the vocalist for Bowling For Soup actually sings on the main them for Sonic Unleashed called Endless Possibility
@johnschaffer69682 жыл бұрын
My first ever concert was matchbox twenty, American hi-fi was hanging outside the show handing out cassettes with flavor of the week. Low key wish I still had that.
@lunatikkrazieazylum62262 жыл бұрын
Always liked Rob Thomas. He is his generation's Steve Perry.
@cd45362 жыл бұрын
American Hi-fi had a song called The Break Up Song.
@mariokarter132 жыл бұрын
Shaggy is that weird kind of one-hit-wonder where he actually has multiple #1 hits. Kinda like Rick Astley.
@teetoatler0me2 жыл бұрын
For every video I take a shot whenever Finn says incel, cuck, beta, and Chad. Not sure my liver can take anymore.
@brendanoprey7622 жыл бұрын
American Hi-Fi are just reading through the Descendents playbook M'ladycore
@flibbidyx22 жыл бұрын
The funny thing about American Hi-Fi - singer/songwriter Stacy Jones had previously played drums in a couple of female-fronted bands, Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt. Funny he'd write a cringey "nice guy" song after that.
@Sweetguy18212 жыл бұрын
the thing with vanilla ice, sampling music without paying royalties was very common in tbe early years if rap. just vanilla ice was the first real mainstream rap song to feature samples and that's what got them so much heat for it.
@PunkCatLady2 жыл бұрын
My mom caught me blasting 'Flavor of the Weak' when I was like 9 or 10 and she about shit when it started saying, 'too stoned' lol
@rike11752 жыл бұрын
I don't think 1985 is about trying to get the girl to date you. I think its just about a person stuck in the past. And I don't even think that the song is saying that as a negative thing.
@kikiki45922 жыл бұрын
Right Now, nor 1985 were written by SR-71, they got credit for arrangments, the producer Butch Walker wrote their songs, and Bowling For Soups, along with producing, and playing on the records.
@mjjohansson17022 жыл бұрын
Vanilla Ice was cool AF. I was 10 years old at the time and it was perfect in my ears.
@voodoocustompickups25472 жыл бұрын
And if you had a problem, he'd solve it
@aprilbrown8081 Жыл бұрын
I was 12 and it was just such a moment for sure. I’d sit there with all my slap bracelets on rewinding the song I recorded off the radio over and over trying to figure out all the lyrics.
@kingchuckfinley2 жыл бұрын
Shaggy also had “Angel” which slapped hard at every damn school dance.
@anthonynajera77162 жыл бұрын
Bowling for Soup also had “Girl All The Bad Guys Want” which has mad incel energy too.
@ext932 жыл бұрын
HER NAME IS NONA SHE'S A ROCKER WITH A NOSE RING
@Braddicusfinch2 жыл бұрын
That song is the opposite of incel energy or is at least mocking incel energy and having some self-deprecating humour, that song is incredibly self-aware
@rowls8269 Жыл бұрын
If you can find a clip of James Blunts interview from Andrew Dentons “Enough Rope” you will think Blunt is the coolest bloke in the world. Speaks of his time as a Captain in the NATO army and some pretty full on stuff, but then at other times he’s bloody hilarious! Denton asks him about his song “Goodbye my Lover” and asks if it was about anyone in particular. He says yes, and Denton asks if he got her back. He replies in a perfectly delivered, “No…..but I had plenty of other takers after all the royalties on that song came in”! Or something to that effect. Hard to convey how good the response was, but the crowd was in stitches
@ChrisAngel872 жыл бұрын
@29:49 “The shells falling from his 9mm” 😂😂😂😂😂
@Theguttersayshello2 жыл бұрын
I was too young to know the 1985 references, BUT I grew up watching VH1 documentaries, so all the references hit.
@leser1music2 жыл бұрын
"He gonna knock Kris Kross out the box because he gonna be upside down!" - Ice Cold, Fear of a Black Hat
@STARPHASE2 жыл бұрын
American Hi-Fi had another one. Art Of Losing. I personally think that one is better than Flavor of the Week.
@heyslody2 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite section!!!
@aarondwood66282 жыл бұрын
I think bowling for soup where bigger here in the UK then they where in the US. All us skaters and pop punk fans loved bfs and knew most of their songs. I didn't realise they weren't as big as I thought untill recent years. That aside they're also awesome dudes they have the time.of day for their fans on and offline.
@xReclaimer34x2 жыл бұрын
Maybe but they were pretty huge in the states. No where near one hit wonders 😕
@wladi_chan2 жыл бұрын
You should do a vídeo about old videos futuristic devices!
@Scrinwaipwr2 жыл бұрын
5:52 I didn't like the song at the time but I do like how it got used by people as a soppy song despite actually about a creepy stalker. I also have a lot of respect for how James Blunt joined in on the jokes about this song.
@psychoof782 жыл бұрын
Early 90s rappers all did that walk like they had to pee while they were rapping
@maurice4823902 жыл бұрын
Bruh I love the sound not the lyrics as much but Flavor of The Week is a American Pie like 00s
@Gmarthe2 жыл бұрын
Beastie Boys went to #1 way before Vanilla Ice.
@FinnMckentyPRMBA2 жыл бұрын
First #1 single
@antiking2 жыл бұрын
1985 is about a rebellious young person dealing with the complacency of becoming an adult. Where tf did you get angry incel vibes from that lmaooo
@antiking2 жыл бұрын
I think Finn might be projecting
@d_hurl2 жыл бұрын
There's a whole mini-doc for Wasn't Me. Explains a lot of the background of it- kinda interesting.
@andrewdonaldson2752 жыл бұрын
Flavour of the weak still holds up!!
@untitled5682 жыл бұрын
No song with such incel-y lyrics can hold up.. simps like that are just too cringy
@eman21452 жыл бұрын
Shaggy's accent isn't real either. He sounds completely different when he talks and has said it was based on one of his CO's cadence while he was in the military. You can also see the actual making of the song over on Vice's "The Story of..." series
@panchovilla67192 жыл бұрын
When I went to the gathering of the juggalos for my first time in 2012, the first thing that happened as I walked through the gates vanilla ice drove by on a golf cart offering free whippits lol