They’re Out There Somewhere
By Mitch Berg
So it was 20 years ago today that “Mmm-Bop” by “Hanson” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
You remember it:
I was married and had three kids to take care of at the time, so I didn’t have much time to be the music snob I’d been ten years earlier. I thought it was bubblegum – but bubblegum with enough of a groove that I couldn’t not like it, really.
And apparently I”m not the only one.
Because the Hanson brothers are doing a 25th anniversary show.
At the First Avenue.
And it’s sold out.
May 25th, 2017 at 3:27 pm
Wouldn’t their voices have changed by now? And wouldn’t their audience have, like, grown up?
May 25th, 2017 at 4:50 pm
Hence 1st Ave and not MOA. You gotta be able to drink to go hear those earworms.
May 25th, 2017 at 7:57 pm
BB: Yep. And if you see vids of them lately, they do “Mmmbop” a couple steps down from back in the day.
JPA: I heard some of the stuff they were doing 10-15 years ago. Wasn’t bad at all.
May 25th, 2017 at 10:19 pm
Holy mother of g*d, they are at their 25th? I am so old.
May 25th, 2017 at 10:29 pm
I was entering the summer of my 5th grade year, they were the flavor of the month , before nSYNC and right after Ricky Martin, before he came out , I think. I was too big a sports fan to give a crap
May 30th, 2017 at 4:01 pm
Mitch: I don’t think I could take it. It would make it even creepier.