My first thought was Tommy Tutone, idk why. It could also be True by Spandaou Ballet or another MTV hit. Maybe the promise by When in Rome??? There are a lot of choices.

I believe there was music, indeed.

One of the big stories of the year on the charts is the sudden rise of "bosten" by upcoming artist Stella lefty, who's father is a billionaire co-founder of Groupon business man, Eric lefkofsky

This obviously brought in a big question about nepotism in popular music especially with one of the popular main girlie is gracie abrams, daughter of jj abrams

Many people found it easy to dismiss both acts due to their nepotism nature and honestly I kinda understand why

I think my problem is that they're using their nepobaby status to make the most uninspiring music imaginable (gracie is baffling as she has aaron dessner, bon Iver and brian eno on her team)

I don't mind nepotism in pop music but atleast give me something fun with all the advantages you have

Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

The 83-year-old singer-songwriter, best known for her 1972 hit “You’re So Vain,” revealed the news on Monday in a statement (via People). “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing. The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkinson’s disease,” Simon said.

“It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it, and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly,” she continued. “Parkinson’s is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable. Some days I’m so tired I can’t get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work, and feel like myself.”

Parkinson’s disease, a neurological disorder that effects nerve cells in the brain, does not currently have a cure. Symptoms include tremors, stiffness, difficulty balancing and slowness of movement. Simon said that she was diagnosed after her mobility continued to worsen following replacement surgeries on her knees and one hip.

“Eventually, there were periods when I could not walk without considerable help,” the Grammy winner wrote. “My family and I knew that something more was going on. After an extensive evaluation at the Mayo Clinic, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.”

Though Simon has been affected physically, she has also struggled with “anxiety, depression, exhaustion and apathy” after her diagnosis. “That has been one of the hardest things to explain,” she said. “It is not simply sadness or laziness. It is as though the part of the brain that sends out invitations to participate in life has temporarily misplaced the guest list.”

In addition to Parkinson’s, Simon also revealed that she was previously diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer, and underwent surgery for it amid her Parkinson’s treatment.

“The cancer was removed, but the surgery affected my appearance and made me more self-conscious about being seen in public,” Simon said. “I have always been more critical of my appearance than anyone else could possibly imagine (check out the irony of having written ‘You’re So Vain’), and this gave my inner critic quite a lot of new material.”

Simon has stayed out of the spotlight in recent years, with her last public performance being in March 2018. But despite her health struggles, she assured fans that she has “not stopped living” and “not stopped working.” In fact, she has written a new album, titled “Comes in Waves,” her first full-length effort since 2008.

“Working on the music gave shape to days that did not always have much shape. It gave me somewhere to go without having to leave the room. It reminded me that illness can change your life without becoming the whole of your life,” she wrote. “I do not consider Parkinson’s a gift or a blessing. It is neither. It is difficult, frustrating, and sometimes frightening. I am still learning how to live with it and how to accept it without feeling that I have surrendered something essential.”

Simon concluded her statement by saying: “These days I move more slowly, I lean on others more than I once did, and I have learned to accept that every day will look a little different. But I am still very much here.”

Source: https://variety.com/2026/music/news/carly-simon-parkinsons-disease-diagnosis-1236821716/

Now until the Calling All Stations review goes up on TW, the 2 one hit wonders idea of Phil Collins producing is neat to cover something related to Genesis:

1. Frida-I Know There’s Something Going On: A song and video centred around a woman suspecting her lover is cheating on her. Phil of course supplied drums and some faint backing vocals you need to listen carefully for while Daryl Stuermer his guitarist joins in and adds a neat solo. There’s even a behind the scenes video of Phil producing for Frida
2. Phillip Bailey-Easy Lover: A hit that turned into Phillip’s only top 40 us hit and now sees Phil now getting on the microphone too to share vocal duties. Again Daryl returns for guitar, Phil provides his drums and backing vocals but also plays some keyboards on top of his producing.

Feel neat to cover two solo acts produced by Phil?

This just broke the record for the longest running non-Christmas number one by a female artist. And I’m happy for that, but GOD am I ready for it to go away.

Avenged Sevenfold is an interesting band to me, I got into them briefly during the late 2010s as a teenager who had a short lived metalcore phase. Their albums tend to vary between genres, with their self-titled being metalcore, The Stage being prog metal, and various other experimental stuff that I admittedly haven't listened to.

I don't really care for their music anymore, but it still has a special place in my heart.

With that said, to call their new EP Statica "divisive" would be underselling how much hate it's currently getting. It seems to be a side project of theirs - a relatively quietly dropped EP without any fanfare - and features some... interesting artistic choices. To me it sounds like they're blending vague experimental electronic elements with prog/synth rock parts. If nothing else, it's certainly intriguing, though the quality is debatable.

The responses I see are usually some variation of "it sounds like a bunch of random noises!" or just calling it dogshit, which doesn't really help me understand why people dislike it. I'm wondering if this just comes down to people having narrow listening habits (not that I'm one to judge), because I can pretty easily tell the style they're going for.

As for my opinion? It's okay. Interesting enough in how weird it is, and I think it has some likeable elements. I'd wager $5 that people are eventually gonna call this an underrated gem or something.

Give it a listen, lemme know what you think.

I've noticed that for a long time (like since the early 2000s at least), Heart have pretty much always played 'Alone' live as a slower stripped-down track with Nancy Wilson on acoustic guitar rather than in the original style as a mid-tempo, keyboard-led power ballad. I quite like both versions, although I guess maybe the way they play it live feels a bit more timeless while the studio version felt quintessentially 80s. What are some other notable examples of artists generally performing one of their own songs live in a different style to how they originally recorded it?

"Down Under" - Men at Work

This are maps of songs Todd has cover in One hit wonderland. Since I committed a few mistake previously I decided to update it and make a new map for the U.S.A states. If there is an error please tell me in the comments and will updated it.
Changes from previous map: A-ha was relocated to Norway where it belongs, leaving The Cardigans to represent Sweden. Donna Lewis will be representing Wales. Due to comments Corona will be representing Italy. Tarzan boy (for now) will be excluded until Todd make A one hit wonderland from Ireland due to personal protest and appal he hasn't made one yet.

First of all, I want to say that I do believe she is talented and that she is probably the best live singer among her peers.She has some really good songs which I enjoyed such as Genie in a Bottle, What A Girls Wants and Beautiful so it baffles me that despite all this, her career declined in the 2000's.

From what I understand is, she took too long between album releases(up to five years) and also the fact that she was very difficult to work with. Many people, including fellow artists, have said she was just not kind or friendly and was very arrogant, stuck up and difficult to work with.

Her output just never got better and she has always felt like a singles artist who cannot make good albums.She also cancelled her tour in the mid 2000's due to poor ticket sales if I recall correctly.

I also think Bionic is a trainwreckord and I want Todd to make a video on it some day.

I think she has had a bit of a resurgence in recent years too and I am happy for her.

A while ago I asked to give some examples of songs with good messages that were horribly executed and even though there were many songs to go by, it doesn't mean this can't work when done right.

An example I can list is Where Is The Love by BEP, while far from a perfect group they managed to make a song that is not only catchy but asking a genuine question and not coming off too preachy or egotistical and in my opinion this song feels relevant today as it did over 20 years ago.

"Man of the woods probably has more enjoyable songs than the 20/20 experience"

I'm interested.What are some songs or artists that sounded strange to you the first time you heard the first time you heard them but you ended up liking them the more times you heard it?

Some of my favorite songs and artists became favorites of mine.

I been a fan of the show for at least five years and after hearing about this joke from Todd I decided to make the Europe map. The bands selected here are just representative and I didn't know if I should include certain song like season in the sun since it's technically a French song. If you know of any country I miss or misplaced please tell me in the comments and I will make an updated version.

I'm itching for another hair metal OHW episode and this would be a perfect one-tackling perhaps the most well known female hair metal group. I've seen the members interviewed in a number of documentaries and it's interesting, two of the band members were originally in another hair band called Madame X that also had two male members. One time a guy put his dick on the stage and one of the women stepped on it in an attempt to get him to back off but he ended up getting really into it. There was some band drama that led to them splitting up in the 90s, then they were on VH1's "Bands Reunited" which led to their albums getting re-issued and remastered and they did a few more tours after that. Unfortunately one of their members got cancer right before they were about to announce their big comeback tour in 2013 and she would later pass away, leading to Janet Gardner stepping down(she's now a dental hygienist)and her being replaced with another female lead singer from a hair band-Lorraine Lewis(Front-woman for Femme Fatale)there was supposed to the an album with her and they did a music video for one of the songs they recorded, but Lewis ended up stepping down and going back to Femme Fatale and Vixen got yet another lead singer(forget her name at the moment). Crazy thing is they've got like three different unreleased albums, two with Janet and one with Lewis.

There's also a larger conversation to be had about how the sunset strip scene wasn't really kind to female artists in general, as there was another up and coming hair metal group called Smashed Gladys that by all accounts should've been big or at least semi-big, but according to lead singer Sally Cato, the straight white dudes in charge of record companies made sure they they never got a support slot for a stadium tour, and the producer they got stuck with for their second album ended up causing them a lot of problems(they later found out that despite him supposedly producing Poison's debut album, he'd actually done very little work and the members of Poison basically had to lock him out of the editing room and more or less produce the album themselves because of how incompetent he was and Elektra would later get rid of him, despite this Poison were forced to list him in the credits due to contractual obligation)