Would love a list of bands who became famous for one anodyne song that obscured the darkness (and often radical politics) of the rest of their work
Chumbawumba for sure
I think The Cardigans also fit this mold?
You might think The Cure would make this list with something like Friday, I’m in Love, but their weird shit was actually very popular
If you want to better understand what I mean, listening to Tubthumping and Lovefool and then listen to the rest of the catalogs of Chumbawumba and The Cardigans
It’s not merely about being a one hit wonder, it’s about going viral for an uncharacteristic moment
BTW if you don’t remember the late 1990s this trailer does a good job of giving a sense of how BIG Chumbawumba was and how weird that was
At the time I was an uncool teen who didn’t really pay a ton of attention to music and bands; I was aware of Tubthumping bc you couldn’t *not* be, and I remember hearing classmates talk about them being anarchists in hushed tones because we were dumb teens who didn’t get anarchy
Like 14-year-old me knew little about anarchy beyond the anarchy A symbol that kids would use in graffiti or whatever to be edgy, and the general sense that it meant violence and chaos, which is clearly not what Chumbawumba was actually about

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