I busked 4 Non-Blondes in Union Square a few years ago as part of a thing that I was doing for another thing.
I wrote this at the time:
WHAT’S UP? (4 Non-Blondes):
My assessment: The only thing that saves this song from the land of the unlistenable is that Linda Perry chose three good chords for the only three chords she plays in the whole song – A, Bm, and D – that’s a pretty hard progression to argue with. Sometimes, when I wonder how the hell she got where she is today, I have to remember that she at least knows those three good chords, and how to put them together. That said, I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed, just to get it all out, what’s in my head, and I’m… AAAAArgh! It’s this friggin’ song that’s still stuck in my head!! It seems that out of the five I chose, it’s the one that’s most stuck in other people’s heads, too. A few people actually stopped to listen to the entire song this time – some even bouncing and singing along. Lot’s of broad, un-crooked smiles from passersby – I think we discovered a widely held guilty pleasure with this one.
Change received during song: approx. $1.75
