Pop music is a funny thing: a song can be absolutely everywhere one minute, only to completely disappear from the public consciousness the next.
No decade made this more obvious than the 90s, where hits like these 10 songs seemed like they were absolutely inescapable, but seemed to just vanish once the millennium turned.
Fiona Apple won a Grammy for "Criminal," but when was the last time you remembered it even existed?
Garbage's "#1 Crush" was everybody's jam after it was featured in Romeo + Juliet, but we pretty much haven't heard it since!
Fun fact: "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia is actually a cover. Yeah.
This is kind of cheating because we've heard "Wonderwall" plenty of times since the 90s, except now it's hilarious instead of being sentimental.
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Man, I legitimately can't remember the last time I heard of Deep Blue Something.
Crazy Town imploded pretty dramatically after the 90s ended, but I'll be damned if I don't remember all the lines to "Butterfly."
Remember when t.A.T.u. were a thing? Seems so long ago now...
Whatever happened to the first four Mambos anyway? You wanna answer that one for me, Lou Bega?
It feels like only yesterday that Nine Days's "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" was in literally every teen comedy.
Is errybody in the club still getting tipssssssss? Also, has anyone seen J-Kwon?
What song do you remember from the 90s that nobody else seems to?
The world of rock music got a terrible shock this morning with the announcement that Chris Cornell, the singer of 90s grunge band Soundgarden, and more recently Audioslave, had died unexpectedly overnight. SpinCornell rocketed to fame with Soundgarden in the early 90s thanks to the popularity of grunge rock. Their biggest album, 1994's Superunknown debuted at #1 on the charts and two of their singles from it, "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun," won Grammy awards for Best Metal Performance and Best Hard Rock Performance respectively.Rolling StoneAfter the band's dissolution in 1997, Cornell went solo, releasing his album Euphoria Morning
Aladdin might very well be one of the best Disney movies out there. The songs, the story, Robin Williams... Really just everything about this movie is absolute perfection. The most famous songs in the film is "A Whole New World" for obvious reasons. It's a beautiful love song that has exploration and adventure all while managing to do a bunch of character development in the span of a two minute song. It's always been one of my favorites, and probably one of the most fun to sing along with when you re-watch the movie for the thousandth time. Something about
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Some songs from your childhood just stick out in your mind and stay with you for all of time. If you grew up in the 90s, there's a very good chance that Raffi sang a lot of those songs. Probably his most famous one "Bananaphone" has carried over the years and turned into its own little musical meme. Well, finally that meme has become a reality and you can now get your very own Banana Phone. The Banana Phone was created by Brian Brunsing, Charlie Katrycz, and Max Brown, who launched it as an Indiegogo campaign. The device itself is