Stupidest 90s hit songs (and also some good ones)

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I think this is a decently festive idea for a thread.

I could start by mentioning virtually everything by Hole, but let's pick this ridiculous neckbeard band instead:


You can suggest your own, as long as they were from the 90s and can be termed a hit (they don't need to have been #1 for weeks, like the terrible song in the OP; just relatively known)

Then there are also the intentionally stupid songs. Bloodhound gang is infamous for those:

 
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If I wanted to start talking about dumb songs that somehow become popular, I'd be here the rest of the week. But if you're looking for just one, I think it has to be this.

I remember sitting in a bar in Ohio and somebody put this song on, and half the people in the place got up to do the dance, and I literally did a beer spit-take and said "What the [frack]?" out loud. Fourteen weeks at #1. Again I say, "what the [frack]?"

 

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Must be the worst decade for music radio ever.

Off the top of my head:

Aqua – Barbie Girl

Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe

Hanson – MMMBop

Kriss Kross – Jump

Ace of Base – All that she wants
 
Hanson :vomit:

Kriss Kross were decadent, but a bit funny (maybe cause I was still in elementary school )

There was also:


I recall a friend in the last year of elementary school, who had in his room posters of both Iron Maiden and Army of lovers :P
 
Ironsided said:
Must be the worst decade for music radio ever.
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People say that about every decade, though. Commercial radio is the problem. I could probably turn on my local "Hot 100" right now and within a few minutes hear something that makes me want to get waterboarded.



p.s. I thought "Barbie Girl" was meant to be farcical, and I kind of enjoyed it on those terms. That was one of those songs I'd put on at the bar after I'd had a few, just to get a rise out of people, and I kind of felt like the band and the singer had to be in on the joke. I mean, they had to be... didn't they..? :scared: (I would have thought the same thing about "Macarena", that whoever put it on was just having a laugh, but then everybody got up and did the dance. That's a lot of commitment for a little drunken tomfoolery.)
 
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I wonder what I am missing...
 
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Kyriakos said:
Yes. It was a screen-grab of your post (your video isn't available in Greece #1) :D
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I posted "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba. If that's unavailable in Greece, I envy you.
 
Ironsided said:
Kriss Kross – Jump
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Hey that's a choon. Let's not get too wiggedy wiggedy wiggedy wack.

Ace of Base – All that she wants
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Was ruined for me when I was told that what she wants, "another baby" is just meant to be a lover, and it's not about her desire for impregnation and motherhood.

EgonSpengler said:
p.s. I thought "Barbie Girl" was meant to be farcical, and I kind of enjoyed it on those terms. That was one of those songs I'd put on at the bar after I'd had a few, just to get a rise out of people, and I kind of felt like the band and the singer had to be in on the joke. I mean, they had to be... didn't they..? :scared:
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Yeah definitely. Popular writeup for Barbie Girl is a good one:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2014/04/aqua-barbie-girl/
 
Kyriakos said:
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Thank you Youtube comments for reminding me where I know this from - the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie I was watching when I was probably about five :D

Anyway I see your Shampoo and raise you Vanilla.


Link to video.
 
Okay, the song itself pre-dates the '90s. But this is the most listenable version, that came out in 1992. The Emeralds are a Canadian dance band - waltzes, polkas, that sort of thing (my mother and her second husband used to go dancing when this group would play in some local-ish venue).

The Bird Dance (aka the Chicken Dance) isn't a bad song in and of itself. It's cheerful to listen to. The stupid part about it lies in the actual dance itself.

Here's The Emeralds' version (no actions shown):



Now here are the actions (only video I found is an old one by some of the Lawrence Welk people - and don't those smiles look forced):



I guess it's fair to say The Bird Dance is the "Macarena" of the older generation (dunno if it's still popular at weddings, but it was in the past).

I don't dislike the song itself, and made a point of learning to play it on the organ (I figured out a setting that sounds like an accordion). My grandmother and dad enjoyed it, and I have several Emeralds cassettes. There's some good stuff on them, for the waltz/polka aficionados.

But that dance really is ... undignified? Silly? Dumb? Yeah, those are good ways to describe it.
 
EgonSpengler said:
If I wanted to start talking about dumb songs that somehow become popular, I'd be here the rest of the week. But if you're looking for just one, I think it has to be this.

I remember sitting in a bar in Ohio and somebody put this song on, and half the people in the place got up to do the dance, and I literally did a beer spit-take and said "What the [frack]?" out loud. Fourteen weeks at #1. Again I say, "what the [frack]?"

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This would have been my suggestion.
 
Angst said:
This would have been my suggestion.
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Sorry, man. Here, you can have this one, instead. :smug:

EDIT: I've just given myself a laughing fit. Wow, this song is even worse than I remembered. :lol: Someone in the YouTube comments posted, "That time Vanilla Ice, Rick James, Kenny G and George Michael started a supergroup." :lol:

 
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