Neneh Cherry

She was a one hit wonder decades ago. And the song has aged terribly.

She knew the right place in a composition to put a jazz piano.

Will you stop scratching and play me a freakin beat.

She's had many albums - and she was not a one hit wonder.

Her later music is better anyway - Homebrew is a masterpiece.

R1 No it has not. Nene Cherry walked so DeeLite could run so Doja Cat could sprint.

DeeLite sounded completely different. They had some great jams.

I like you, R5. You’re smart. Odd as hell, but absolutely no dummy.

[quote] She's had many albums

But she only had one hit, thereby making her a one hit wonder. It's not a death sentence or a judgment. It's just a fact.

American buffalo are land dwellers.

"Woman" it's such a fantastic song

Why isn't anyone posting her beat?

There was always something so unlikable about her. Hard and humorless. She got a TON of hype when Buffalo Stance came out, though. She was going to be the next Madonna or something, as ridiculous as that sounds now.

Jody Watley was going to be the next Janet Jackson. Maybe that's what you were thinking of.

No r13 Neneh Cherry got a ton of hype as the next big thing in music. Then she fizzled.

Was she the Norah Jones of the late 80s?

[quote] Why isn't anyone posting her beat?

Because we are not voyeurs.

R15 No. she was a dope MC. And these chicas rockin lace fronts, Mac foundation, thousand dollar hair extensions, could not compare to the natural beauty of Neneh Cherry.

R7 Thanks.

What’s “MC”, precious? What’s “MC”?

R18 You have to be kidding me. You must be a young zillenial. Because I know even my elder gays know MC is just an alternate name for a rapper.

I love that song and to me it still sounds modern

I never had much of an angle on her. But, I really wasn't looking. I honestly don't know a lot about her, though remember the time when she was a thing and the music.

I hate when people abbreviate things like a texting teen, but come on, r18! An MC is an MC! It stands for Master of Ceremonies, but generally has a different meaning in rap/hip hop.

Thanks for sharing that, r21. So, basically, you were alive at the same time as her. Good to know.

She was part of a much bigger scene and fashion movement that isn't quite recognisable to the US. She was a muse for the late Judy Blame, representing a style and mood that was taking over London at the time. Her career was rather steady rather than a bomb (Remember her duet with Michael Stioe? ) and she comes from a musical family where uncles, brothers, and daughters have all had decent notable careers. She's extremely respected in both music and fashion, with Kim Jones inviting her to shows all the time because he loves her so much. She's impressive, even if she wasn't out to impress you.

Her collaboration with Youssou N’Dour (7 Seconds) is sublime. She is not a ‘one hit wonder’.

What exactly is a Buffalo Stance? Is that street slang for something?

"As one of the founding fathers of the Buffalo Boys collective – a gang that included ringleader Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry and photographer Jamie Morgan – Judy Blame was a scene-shaking art director, stylist and designer who’s left behind an inspiring legacy."

R22 It actually means the same thing in hip hop. MC is just an old school term alluding to the days when rappers use to perform with a DJ at house parties. The rapper was the “master of ceremony” when on the mic.

I'm not sure what country you're posting from, young lady at r25, but in the US, she's a one hit wonder. I'm sorry you're having such a hard time with this. I hope you get the help you need.

By all accounts she is an absolutely lovely person and has aged exquisitely.

I dig Neneh but she is indeed a one hit wonder. Her brother is too.

I think it just means someone demeanor. Like it’s how someone might be standing on the corner but with some attitude involved, their steez like when people used to say steel-lo.

Love her, but she should have never allowed this shit to see the light of day.

To anyone with a knowledge of late 80s/90s music Neneh Cherry is in no way a one hit wonder

Manchild is as well known as Buffalo Stance in the UK, Kisses On The Wind was a top 10 single in the US, there's 7 Seconds which was a massive worldwide hit, Buddy X and Woman.

But let's forget the AWFUL, AWFUL charity single cover of Love Can Build A Bridge - whoever thought Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Neneh Cherry would be a good combo, especially with vile old racist Eric Clapton on guitar?

R17 “ chicas rockin lace fronts, Mac foundation, thousand dollar hair extensions, could not compare…”

You described Beyonce

r34 I'm American, I was around back then, and she was a one hit wonder. Her other songs may have had some radio play, but Buffalo Stance was her only real hit.

She was NOT a FUCKING ONE HIT WONDER. Just because your radio station in Cooter's Holler didn't play her music does not make her a one hit wonder. She had several chart hits in the US, including two Top Ten songs.

team one hit wonder

Her brother's song was a better OHW.

One hit wonder team

r37 it wasn't Cooter's Holler, it was the NYC Metro area. And Buffalo Stance was her only hit. I can't even name any of her other songs.

She was one of those artists who got a TON of hype as the new big star and then she fizzled quick. Yes, she still put out music but she never got any real attention after that.

Number eight.

Number eight.

Her second album "Homebrew" was far better than the pop confections on the first album.

She wasn’t willing to play the game..

Still making phenomenal music today.

I always felt like she had the baby and wasnt that into stardom as much as just making her music. She was very authentic and its possible she was mismanaged or stifled by her record company...but all these questions are a great reason for a book. Like Sinead, its incredible to have such name recognition all tgese decades later and I imagine she'll easily get talk show bookings. And Sales doesn't make an artist...ask Van Gogh...though ask him loudly as he's a little deaf.

And for those of you who actually know your musical history, long before Raw Like Sushi Neneh was in Rip Rig + Panic

R47 well said.

Like several other favorites of mine - Tracey Thorn, Alison Moyet, Aimee Mann, Kirsty MacColl to name but a few - Neneh found the whole being packaged and processed part of the record business distasteful and lacking, and went off on her own path.

^^Wow, that's really fascinating.

Duetting with Matt Johnson on The The's Slow Train To Dawn

A bit of Buffalo Stance was sampled from a song full of samples.....

Guest vocals on a great Groove Armada track

This queen is really going to die on this hill. We've never heard of these other songs. She's a wonderful, one hit hit wonder.

this one hit wonder shall not be compared to sineaf. my god the retarded stanning is really something

Neneh was very full of herself and her posse at the time including insufferable old gay Judy Blame and the late, talented Ray Petri. Her husband Cameron McVey is the driving creative force. She also has two musical nepo babies Tyson (in utero during her one hit wonder) and Mabel.

It's fine and cute and a sign of catholic taste to be a passionate fan of a B or C or D list artist who is a has been, or a never was, or a one hit wonder. But the watery-eyed sparkle pony hyperbole and delusion is really of a kind.

WEHT to Datalounge's Willy Cartier and Gia Carangi Stans?

Right after Buffalo Stance she went out on tour before it was cancelled saying she had Lyne Disease. The story was that she was nowhere near ready to tour and her shows were terrible so the record company made up the Lyne Disease excuse. Videos of her live performances in that time bear this out. She had little charisma and no performing ability.

R35 I didn’t merely describe Beyonce. I described most of the urban/rap gals in the industry who swear they are “baddies” and don’t look shit like their original selves. It is true that Bey rocks everything I named but she does it in a way when she enhances her natural appearance. Beyonce is an over the top diva, comes with the territory. This is Bey at 16; she was a natural beauty too.

Two US Top 10 hits in 1989. Plus Seven Seconds was massive everywhere but here.

That eliminates the one hit wonder tag. But sure Jan.

These are probably folks who pine for more Ashanti records.

Dude she was a one hit wonder. Yall are being matter of fact as fuck. When the public collective conscious only knows your one hit you are a one wonder. Doesn’t matter that some later single peaked at number 8 for for like two weeks. She may have had more sustained success in England but here in the states she is a one hit wonder and I fucks with Neneh, my mom was a huge fan.

Take Sindead O Connor for example. She is technically a one hit wonder but isn’t remembered as such because she continued to release acclaimed albums that still sold pretty decent and continued to tour very successfully for the rest of her career. And her one hit was bigger than most artists top 4 hits. She became one of the most prolific indie artists of all time.

[quote] This queen is really going to die on this hill.

The chart queen who only likes what others has validated for her, maybe.

I give no fucks about the charts. I love her music and am looking forward to the book.

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GODDESS!!!

GODDESS!!!

Sublime.

Buffalo Stance is a timeless classic, but any other song that charted somewhat in the US at that time is now long, long forgotten over here.

Lots of things don't really make it over the pond here.

Think of all the time she'll save only having to do UK press for this book

I don't understand how 7 Seconds was #1 or high in the charts in literally every other country except for the US. Very odd.

R70 Unique or artsy black type black artists have always had tricky success in the states. That’s because we have a huge black fan base which is both a blessing and curse. The 15% of the population of blacks in America can be similar to middle America flyover expecting artists to be in certain box. Music is so racialized here in states, especially back then. Programmers will often play based on the artists race rather than the song’s true genre. And before someone comes for me obviously there are exceptions.

Kim Carnes is technically a one hit wonder because Bette Davis Eyes is the only song of hers that is still in the collective consciousness. I know she had a few other songs that charted, but they're not remembered.

R1 R8 But why mention it if it's not important? So bands like Velvet Underground or The Ramones are no hit wonders. They must suck even more then, according to you

It’s all relative to an extent. I think of amazing artists that are among the top selling of all time like Pearl Jam. They technically have no hits. No significant Billboard ones anyway.

If she had cranked out a few more clones of Buffalo Stance, she could have cemented her name recognition in the US. Instead, she presented herself with different types of sounds which made it difficult for her to breakthrough US audiences again

Where's the autism troll when you need him for this queen?

Robin Beck is a one hit wonder.

Her career was like an unopened door.

We don't know him/her

And we don't care to find out

Gotye summed it up well.

I was a No Hit Wonder.

R80 lol 😆 I knew Goyte was going to be a one hit wonder. Great song but I just knew it.

[quote]Jody Watley was going to be the next Janet Jackson.

Jody was better than Janet. At least her songs were original and not just other people's songs with new lyrics.

Kisses On The Wind was better than Buffalo Stance. And her Cole Porter song for that AIDS charity album was slamming.

Fun fact: Buddy X was written about Lenny Kravitz.

My absolute favorite though was Heart. Such a beautiful video!

Cole Porter cover/reimagining of I've Got You Under My Skin

Jody was prettier than Janet naturally that’s for sure.

R84 oh snap. Neneh was spitting. Wow remember a time when female rappers used to rhyme about conscious stuff. Now it’s all sex and materialism. Though this Doja song kinda puts you in the mind of early 90s hip hop. It’s dope.

That's all good and well, but did she ever do an album of standards? Is she really a legend if she hasn't done an album of standards?

[quote] I know she had a few other songs that charted, but they're not remembered.

Um, no. You don't get to change the definition of something because you feel like it.

^^ The tism is strong in this one

wth knows what tism means?

Some sad, fat cunt is trying to say I'm autistic because I'm challenging her bullshit.

Stomp your hooves all you like, but I'm neither autistic nor a stan. You're just full of shit.

r91 were you even around back then? Cherry was a one hit wonder. I remember it clearly.

R92 I was indeed around back then, and I remember BOTH of her chart hits when they were played on American Top 40, which is, was and will always be the charts.

You or others not remembering a song does not mean it wasn't a hit.

Anyway.....

There was something off putting about her.

Always wanted to see this movie....

[quote]You or others not remembering a song does not mean it wasn't a hit.

Nobody remembers her other songs. Buffalo Stance was her only big hit.

Marky Mark had a few songs that charted, but Good Vibrations was the only hit that anyone remembers.

Fine, r93, you win. Neneh Cherry was bigger and had more hits than Madonna and Mariah Carey combined. Are you happy now?

Is Animotion a one hit wonder?

[quote] Neneh Cherry was bigger and had more hits than Madonna and Mariah Carey combined.

No, R98, that's not correct either. No one is claiming anything along those lines.

Not at all related to this thread:

Early warning signs for an ASD include repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests, activities, and emotional regulation

R100 How very clever of you.

I refer you to my reply at R91.

Was she separated at birth from Rae Dawn Chong?

I have never understood what it is that some people like so much about her. Her voice is utterly unremarkable and her music, very much a product of its time. The only things that separate her from other pop starlets is that she writes most of her material and many of her songs are pretentiously "deep" and "socially conscious". Furthermore, she is one of those artists who try to excuse their less-than-impressive compositions by claiming that they're so avantgarde, experimental and sophisticated, that oi polloi could never understand them, which reeks of misplaced pedantry.

OK, she was pretty and exotic, but so where many other singers at the time; it's not like she had this unique look that nobody else had, so I don't get the admiration. Also, if she is responsible for the rise of that talentless slag Doja Cat, all I can say is that her legacy is one of pure shit.

R91 😆 “Stomp your hooves all you want”. Imma start using that.

Well, if we've lost the Spencer's Gifts crowd, we've lost it all.

R103 She is rapper first; not a singer. The fact that she is rapper who also could hold a melodic note made her uniquely talented. And her songs weren’t fake conscious. Her flows and lyrical content was top notch. I’m listening to the records. She was good. And her music had this new wave sensibility underneath the hip hop samples like with synth and post disco dance. And he’s was beauty. Better looking naturally than Janet, Madonna, and Mariah Carey. Only Whitney was on her level of beauty; Neneh was just more exotic looking.

She was beauty*

This is peak DL neurodivergence. She is not even worth a footnote in the history of 80s music and yet we’ve got more than a hundred replies on this thread. Even threads about Hasbeenyoncé barely register 100 replies here.

R108 It must been something because even though she had didn’t sustained commercial success, she still put out music that touched people’s lives. Honey we ain’t Walmart. We are Gucci and the indie thrift shop in the Village. If you want Walmart get off DL.

It must mean-* somehting

I’m simply reposting

It must mean something because even though she didn’t have sustained commercial success, she still put out music that touched people’s lives. Honey we ain’t Walmart. We are Gucci and the indie thrift shop in the Village. If you want Walmart get off DL.

I’ve always loved 7 Seconds, her duet with Youssou N’Dour.

"Raw Like Sushi" is a great album that's aged very well. Actually, this was my favorite song off it.

The video for "Heart" was directed by David Fincher.

[quote]Jody was better than Janet. At least her songs were original and not just other people's songs with new lyrics.

You should lay off the crack. Some of Janet’s songs had samples, but so did a myriad of other artists’. Jody’s solo American debut was made possible by the success of Janet’s Control, and the totality of her body of work pales in comparison.

R115 yea I was thinking most of Janet’s signature songs aren’t even samples. She really didn’t sample until the Velvet Rope era and the Joni Mitchell stuff. That stuff also has a very neo soul vibe and is considered her best work. What Janet had was the genius duo of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

[quote]Honey we ain’t Walmart. We are Gucci and the indie thrift shop in the Village. If you want Walmart get off DL.

What you is talmbout, girl? Put down the mafuckin pipe and stop caping for this nobody.

I liked Buddy X, which was supposedly about how Lenny Kravitz used to cheat on Lisa Bonet.

R117 😆. Boy bye. That was funny though.

R118 she and Lisa were besties? I can definitely see that.

The oozing, festering autism/neurodivergence gash really IS fucking annoying, aren't they?

Never really noticed or experienced it before in any thread but it's been all over this one like Chrissy Metz on a talk show couch.

What makes someone autistic because they still a fan of Neneh Cherry. I know mad people from the both coasts who continued to fuck with artists once they faded away from public consciousness. And no I am not the Op. What it is these elders resent any black woman who isn’t singing Motown standards or jazz. It’s fucking sickening yo. And no I’m not the OP.

[quote]What it is these elders resent any black woman who isn’t singing Motown standards or jazz.

Nobody said that. And everybody who can remember Neneh Cherry *IS* an eldergay. Buffalo Stance was 36 years ago FFS.

And yes, as far as the public is concerned she was a one hit wonder.

[quote]She really didn’t sample until the Velvet Rope era and the Joni Mitchell stuff.

Are you kidding? Rhythm Nation and janet were full of samples/rip-offs.

R124 Like what. I’m not a huge Janet fan I just know popular music. Most of the singles weren’t samples.

[quote]Are you kidding? Rhythm Nation and janet were full of samples/rip-offs.

You sound bitter. Neither album had any more or any less samples than what everyone else was doing. Sampling was, and still is, a thing, dear.

Good point r124. Let's talk about artists with real staying power and not forgotten except for some desperate cash grab memoir.

Janet liked this so much that she based Rhythm Nation entirely on it

Jesus.

I would never have expected a pitched battle over Neneh Cherry.

For what it's worth I remember all of her charted songs from Raw Like Sushi: Buffalo Stance (which I used to dislike, but which has grown on me); Kisses on the Wind (a masterpiece); and Manchild (excellent).

She looked and acted like a black Heather Chandler and I mean that as a compliment.

I suppose you could call her a one-album wonder, as nothing she did quite made the impact RLS did, but more power to her for staying active and recording on her own terms.

She's still a beautiful woman.

She had a great voice,

Rhythm Nation - Sly Stone

Alright - Lyn Collins

Best Things In Life Are Free - George McCrae

What'll I Do - Rolling Stones

That's The Way Love Goes - James Brown

If - The Supremes

You Want This - The Supremes, Kool & The Gang

New Agenda - Stevie Wonder

And, R129? As has been stated, many artists back then and today, some of the biggest, sample songs. It is a common practice. Let me guess, you’re that thing from the HAG’s thread, aren’t you?

That is why Janet is mostly forgotten today.

Ok and. Only two of those songs are singles, and they’re not all from the same album. Your tried it. As previously stated most of Janet’s signature songs are not samples. How the fuck does every fkin music thread end up a war about Janet anyway. Who brought her up first: Janbot or the haters.

[quote]That is why Janet is mostly forgotten today.

Only on Earth 2.

"Buffalo" was black American slang in the late 80s for a young person who was drug-free or morally "straight". The term comes from the "Buffalo soldiers" which was the slang for black American soldiers during the Civil War. "Buffalo cowboys" referred to the same soldiers moving out west to work as ranchers.

The women hang in a Buffalo stance because, although they're young, attractive, out on the streets and interacting socially, they're not sex workers or interested in propositions related to same.

I did! It was supposed to be a joke about Jody Watley.

When I say elders I’m talking 60+. I don’t consider Gen X elders.

Janet had 10 Hot 100 #1s:

When I Think of You

Miss You Much

Escapade

Black Cat

Love Will Never Do (Without You)

That’s the Way Love Goes

Again

Together Again

Doesn’t Really Matter

All For You

Only two of them contain samples.

Time to runaway......

Neneh was a pathetic ripoff of Rebbie Jackson, against whom she could never hold a candle. I’m talking vocals, I’m talking looks, artistry, godliness, I’m talking mafuckin poetry. I’m not gon just sit here all quiet like and let you play so dirty in Rebbie’s face. What we not gon do is erase and besmirch Rebbie Jackson. That’s what we not gon do.

Jody Watley’s sister was an anal porn queen who performed under the name “Midori”.

Mabel, Neneh's daughter, has had a pretty good pop career, at least in the UK. I also like Neneh's sister, Titiyo, who had some European hits in the 00's.

Imagining Neneh's people getting the Google alert for this thread and discovering this incessant, petulant bitch fight. 🤣🤣🤣

They'd probably say, she's a one hit wonder.

Fuck those Google alerts. We're now searching for Midori anal porn queen videos

145 responses, not nearly enough of them cunty, and no one's even brought up why she has retained cultural relevance amongst a select group - without her and Cameron's money and support both Massive Attack and Portishead would never have happened (members of each on the first two albums), and even you pedantic little pissants have to agree that both of those acts were significant, or am alone on this hill?

Also, Neneh's third album was relegated to a sub-Virgin subsidiary here in the States, so it was just never gonna happen for her here.

"Lookin' good hanging out with the Wild Bunch"

She and her whole brood moved to Park Slope and were burglarized/terrorized at gun or knife point, and this freaked them out enough that they went back to Europe - I would think this could be in it. She always seemed very real, and who wouldn't want to raise their kids in an old school house in Sweden if given the option?

[quote]145 responses, not nearly enough of them cunty, and no one's even brought up why she has retained cultural relevance amongst a select group - without her and Cameron's money and support both Massive Attack and Portishead would never have happened (members of each on the first two albums), and even you pedantic little pissants have to agree that both of those acts were significant, or am alone on this hill.

McVey was also a producer on All Saints and Sugababes first albums.

This thread is bonkers. But I am enjoying it.

The poster upthread has it right. The music scene is terribly segregated in the US. You have to experience it to believe it.

R15 Norah was boring. Neneh was cool.

TL;DR I'm so old. No idea who this is but wanted to post something this evening.

“One Hit Wonder” is a derogatory term for an artist. It might be factual they had One Crossover Hit, but their level of talent makes it no “Wonder.” Neneh Cherry had one crossover hit, but she is a talented artist, so it isn’t a surprise or wonder how it happened.

June 1989 - what a summer of pop for mini gays

mini gays = ? Gay teens?

If Kate Bush can be great so can Neneh.

You bash our mainstream black women for being trite. Then you bash our alternative black women for being irrelevant. Not on my watch.

Would never have defined Neneh by a "hit" anyway.....musically she's more on the continuum of Bjork et al.....no hit wonders, as it were.

Some basic bitch Auntie Anne mall queens with terrible taste think if a song didn't appear on the charts it didn't exist.

[quote]“One Hit Wonder” is a derogatory term for an artist. It might be factual they had One Crossover Hit, but their level of talent makes it no “Wonder.” Neneh Cherry had one crossover hit, but she is a talented artist, so it isn’t a surprise or wonder how it happened.

Buffalo Stance was a complete hybrid song - rap/hip hop over an electronic pop dance track. It was produced by Tim Simenon of Bomb The Bass.

Manchild, Kisses On The Wind and Inner City Mama were all rap/hip over a soul beat. Manchild and Soul II Soul's Back To Life compliment each other perfectly.

Monie Love was a British rapper who had some hits with rap over a soul beat (It's A Shame was FANTASTIC), and Betty Boo went with the rap over pop/electronica and was more successful.

De La Soul didn't have any big hits in the US but were huge in the UK. 3 Feet High & Rising is considered an absolute classic album.

Like Cherry it was melodic socially conscious hip hop.

Wasn't Jody Watley's Friends the first top 10 hit for a singer and featured rapper in the US?

[quote]Would never have defined Neneh by a "hit" anyway.....musically she's more on the continuum of Bjork et al.....no hit wonders, as it were.

It's a shame Bjork's biggest hit was a cover version. I recognise the names of her singles but can't hum one other than Play Dead.

I’m interested as she was in a very creative group of tastemakers, musicians, designers and club freaks in London. This was when the Face, ID magazine and music converged, creating a cultural movement. Should be an interesting read.

R159 De La soul had hits on the black charts in the states tho.

I would love for Neneh and the Queen to do a collab.

Just as you shall not compare Neneh to Sinead, you shall keep Bjork out of this, as well.

Neneh, Sinead, Bjork, Polly Jean, Tori.

Neener neener neeener

Might I suggest the comparison you seek is Meshell Ndegeocello. Or Solange Knowles.

R166 Solange doesn’t rap but she is the truth. I love her four part harmonies too. This song is brilliant.

R166 Meshell is a great comparison, too. A welcome suggestion.

I don't care for rap, don't know all of Nenahs output, but I loved Buffalo Stance and Kisses on the Wind. I view her as an artist, not a one hit wonder. What she did with "Under My Skin" was fantastic. And, yes, I'm in the US, heard both Buffalo and Kisses on the radio almost too much, and knew she was more artistic than most of her peers. Not a one hit wonder but also more of an artist than a chart-obsessed singles act like Janet, Debbie, Paula, or any of the ladies US audiences were fawning over in 1989. You could tell she was a creator. And then didn't she get Lyme disease?

This One Hit Wonder has everything: Lyme disease, gentrification horror story, teenage rape, high school drop out.

I don’t know why people are acting like one hit wonder is such a disparaging term. Bigger wrists with more well known hits get the label. Sisqo is considered a one hit wonder despite the fact that his 2nd single actually reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; the Thong Song didn’t and he also was the frontman of one of the most popular male r&b groups on black radio in the late 90s.

[quote] I don’t know why people are acting like one hit wonder is such a disparaging term.

It's all my fault.

And ours!

We'll own up to our piece.

I think the one hit wonder tag makes one think of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Starland Vocal Band, Los Del Rios, Haddaway - instances where the hit was so impactful and immediate - and overplayed - that it triggers a negative response.

New York, London, Paris, Munich

It was a very effective classic R1 response. Set up the tone of the thread and elicited lots of snarky banter.

Warned you decades ago on my one big hit.

Don't know why y'all got fresh with me

Here's an actual one hit wonder.

With a not-totally-dissimilar voice.

Here's anOTHER actual one hit wonder.

I typed it correctly the first time, thank you.

Step by step

Heart by heart

Left right left

They all fall down

Like one hit wonders

We all know Deee-Lite. Technically they are a one hit wonder. The hit is in reference to a cross-over chart topper. It in no way means that the artist didn’t produce other great music.

R182, Martika’s Prince co-penned “Love…Thy Will Be Done” was another top 10 Hot 100 hit for her.

"Love... Thy Will Be Done" is a thing of beauty.

Ay Neneh, Call me Maybe.

Well, we've gone to Martika. Next we'll discuss Corinne Drewery before we slide all the way to the bottom of the barrel when Belinda Carlisle is mentioned......

Don't you rag on Corrine Drewery and Swing Out Sister or I'll fucking cut you stem to stern

R188 is bout to BREAK OUT!

Corinne Drewery, the third rate Basia. Who was herself a fifth rate Sade.

You are the herpes on the genitalia of Datalounge, r190.

Nobody has asked me if I'm OK.

Nena does not belong to the same pop era. Plus she was a QAnon adjacent covidiot a few years ago.

ça va, Nena ?

Are you talking about Neneh Cherry, R193? Or Nena, the Luftballoons Kraut bitch?

Great song, R194, but she was just baby Mylène Farmer and this is becoming way too random given that the thread was inspired by Neneh Cherry.

Sade remakes the same god damned album every few years and people proclaim it as brilliant. Yeah, the first time it was brilliant. But as even she sang, "It's never as good as the first time." It's been fourteen years since her last "new" album. What takes her so long to write new lyrics about the same topics to the same old music?

Sade was brilliant but really beyond albums 1, 2 and 4 one could buy the band's greatest hits and be set.

And speaking of one hit wonders

and of course

and also

Get Here and Kiss My Ass If you caaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

The thing is, this thread helped me realize that a lot of those hits by "one hit wonders" were better than anything many of those multiple hit wonders ever put out.

I'm intelligent and bourgeois-bohemian. Don't forget me!

R203 True. Some artists only have a few decent songs. There's a long list of craptastic artists that have numerous hits and/or Grammys, etc.

I'm much more than a one-hit wonder. I'm a véritable princesse and travelled in a circus caravan fucking a horse-hung trapeze artist.

R199 That’s the song she is known for but I love this song by her from The Love Jones soundtrack.

Ironic how a thread about how (supposedly) compelling, talented, prolific, and multifaceted Neneh Cherry is has turned into a thread about basically any musician but Neneh Cherry. She was never more than a blip on the musical radar, and y’all are driving that point home 😂

R208 The rigidness is strong with this one.

Did Neneh kill your dog, R208? Did she shit in your cereal?

Nah, she was just a flop one hit wonder 🤣

Selena got shot and then she... became a one hit wonder.

Which of Selena’s hits do you consider the biggie?

R212 One hit was all it took!

Too soon, but ROFL.

Still say Neneh's a one hit wonder, but we can all agree that she can still generate enough interest for a long thread.

Something the above-mentioned forgotten has beens will never be able to do

Some of us were just yanking OP's chain. The typical hyperbole of a Stan. Masterpiece! But Neneh is cool. I liked her 2 first albums then moved on,

I loved her speech at the DNC tonight!

You know which other one hit wonder act from that era I loved? The Locomotion girl!

Carole King was the best of the one hit wonders!

[quote]Sade was brilliant but really beyond albums 1, 2 and 4 one could buy the band's greatest hits and be set.

I'm afraid I have to agree with this. I love Sade but albums 1, 2 and 4 are the only ones I've ever played on a regular basis.

R219 And that’s why you gays can’t get me out of your head.

How can we get this far and not even mention Neneh’s brother, Eagle-Eye Cherry’s one hit? They are a big musical family starting with her step-dad being talented jazz trumpeter. Who knew they are Swedish?

And speaking of Swedish, I love Robyn’s cover of Buffalo Stance, giving it a melancholy vibe. I guess they have know each other a long time. I am sure the Swedish music scene is relatively tight.

R223 I mentioned him when I stated that he like Nene is a one hit wonder.

What is considered a hit? Top 10, number 1?

R226 It’s relative but generally reaching the top ten for more than a few weeks. But some songs have a lasting legacy that then make them hits. Take for example the very well known signature song of Billy Joel, Piano Man. It only reached #25 on the Hot 100.

Also during the 90s you had quite a few songs that never reached the Hot 100 because labels were able to propel album sales by never releasing a physical single of the song, a requirement by Billboard at the time. Take for example one of the biggest ”hits” of the 90s—Don’t Speak by No Doubt. Never charted on Billboard Hot 100 but spent like 14 weeks on the component airplay chart.

What was that song about waiting for stars to fall? I loved the song about waiting for stars to fall.

R224 I’m really digging that version. I’ve listened to it multiple times back to back now.

Tanita Tikarum. Tikarum, Tanita.

It’s Tanita with a T not Tanita with an M

Because Tanita with an M goes Maneater not Tanita

I did enjoy Tanita’s late 90s lesbian angst anthem Stop Listening

Betty Boo's second album was released the same time as Cherry's second album Homebrew and both were massive flops compared to their first albums.

This was a great single though, a fun camp video with some men hired to stand around looking pretty.

What about Dannii Minogue or Lulu?

Her brother's track- Save Tonight is the anthem to my youth

It's Monie in the middle

Where's she at?

In the middle!

You put up with my butt when I wouldn't give it up

Yeah I know that really sucks but if you wait a while I'll make it up

Bomb The Bass, rock this place

I love that Maureen kept her name and didn't try and make it more glamourous or street, like Queen Mo or MoreQueen or Miss Moore

Is he a yankee?

Nah I'm a Lahndanaar!

Yeah, yeah, everybody shake your stuff.

Poetry!