Showing posts with label Linda Perry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linda Perry. Show all posts

Monday, June 09, 2025

Music Monday: What's Up, Again?

Well, if this song isn’t just wildly relevant – again. Linda Perry and her 90s band 4 Non Blondes reunited for only the second time in the past 30 years at Bottlerocket in Napa last month. And, of course, they played the group’s humongous hit “What’s Up?” Now, we all know Linda has had a wildly successful career as a producer and songwriter behind hits like Pink’s “Get the Party Started,” Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and a host of other artists from Adele to Alicia Keys. And, us sapphics will of course remember when she was married to Melissa, doh, that's a perimenopause brain typo! Sara Gilbert for 10 years, from 2004 to 2014. But there’s just something about “What’s Up?” that continues to be such a clarion call for our times. Like, what the fuck is going on? And, yes, let’s all pray for a revolution. Happy Monday, kittens.

p.s. I also admire Linda’s commitment to humongous hats. Like, don’t get it twisted, she was the O.G. well before Pharrell.

Monday, September 25, 2023

Music Monday: Dolly & Linda

I love the ageless Dolly Parton. I love the seemingly equally ageless Linda Perry. And together on a cover of “What’s Up?” I mean, what’s not to love? Except the brutal fact that this cover is 30 years old. THIRTY. 4 Non-Blondes released that hit in 1993. I know, I can feel that one in my knees. In fact, it makes me feel as ancient as a fossil on the Dorset coast with dreams of being dug up by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan (deep “Ammonite” cut anyone?) Anyway. Still a good song though. Happy Monday, kittens.