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The Hansons on a London rooftop: three brothers for a mmmbop-duba.
Photo: Mike Prior/Redferns/Getty Images
Remember the three little brothers with the Nirvana memory hairstyles and the magically fun hit MMMBop?
Today the Hansons are grown up, remember with horror many a crowd of fans - and are glad that their big hit is not as depressing as its lyrics.
Want to get in a good mood right away?
Then crank up "MMMBop" by the Hansons.
You can find the song and video here.
"Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah!"
(Editor's note: Or something like that.)
Depri stanzas between popcorn popcorn
It's amazing that 25 years after the release it still works like it did the first time, isn't it?
Maybe you feel more melancholic?
Then how about this melancholy mind game: We all lose friends in our lives and nobody knows who will still be there for us when we are old and grey.
By the way, that's the part of »MMMBop« that nobody really listened to: the verses between the popcorn popcorn.
"If we hadn't already had the chorus, 'MMMBop' would have been a really depressing song," recalls Isaac, the oldest Hanson brother - then 17, now 41 - in an interview with the "Independent".
Nirvana Memory Hairstyles
Long before Harry Potter sayings like
Expecto Patronum
or
Petrificus Totalus
, where the sound is more important than the meaning, the Hansons enchanted the world with their magical babble in »MMMBop«.
The Dubadop rocket rose to number one in the charts in several countries.
In Germany she stayed there for 18 weeks.
The three brothers with the Nirvana memory hairstyles became world stars with a hit.
The good mood sounds didn't come out of nowhere, the three brothers remember.
Her role models ran up and down the family's car radio.
They were the doo-wop and rock 'n' roll hits of the 1950s.
These include evergreens of onomatopoeia such as »Splish Splash« by Bobby Darin and »Who put the Bomp« (Editor's note: »... in the bomp, bah bomp, bah bomp? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? «) by Barry Mann.
The sudden fame of the three brothers, who thought of the chorus while brushing their teeth before school, didn't turn out as cool as their fans might have imagined.
You've traveled the world.
"But," says Zac, "we were so young that we couldn't do much on our own." In addition, Isaac adds, there were always between 25 and 150 fans waiting in front of the hotels.
And the three were just too easily recognizable.
“We were three very young, very American, long-blonde-haired kids,” Zac recalls.
"Our life was 'A hard Days Night' - only screaming girls and stomping crowds aren't silly, they're terrifying."
About two-thirds of their lifetime later, the three brothers have made their peace with early, all too early fame.
Today they sometimes play their first and only world hit with a huge orchestra.
And the friends have - contrary to what was feared in the sad lines of "MMMBop" - stayed.
For Isaac, that's the fans who still come night after night, year after year, to see and hear all of the band's songs.
On these evenings, "'MMMBop' is just the cream and the cherry on top".
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