“What’s Up?” is now in rarefied air. The 1993 smash hit from 4 Non Blondes is the most recent music to rack up a billion streams on Spotify.
“We live in a world where ‘what the fuck is going on?’ is a constant concern and a frequent question we all find ourselves asking,” the band’s Linda Perry shares in an announcement. “We voice it in conversation amongst friends and with random people we meet that share the same frustrations. It will be heard under our breath or late nights when you can’t sleep from the political anxiety we are all facing. ‘What’s Up?’ has been an anthem for people all over the world, and I am so deeply grateful it found its way through me.”
“What’s Up?” appeared on the lone 4 Non Blondes album, 1992’s Platinum-certified Greater, Higher, Sooner, Extra! After its launch as a single in March 1993, the music peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 and spawned successful music video, which was nominated for Finest Different Rock Video on the VMAs. Since being added to YouTube, the video has been considered 1.8 billion occasions.
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Perry, who left 4 Non Blondes in 1994, has endured as probably the most profitable songwriters and producers within the music business, lending her magic to artists from Britney Spears to Brandi Carlile. She’s credited on hits like Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and Pink’s “Get The Party Started” and was inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2015.
Lately, Perry wrote and produced Ringo Starr’s Crooked Boy EP in full and was the topic of director Don Hardy’s documentary Linda Perry: Let It Die Right here, which debuted at Tribeca Movie Pageant this yr.
