WHERE ARE THEY NOW: '90s one-hit wonders

Although the band Blind Melon came up around the same time as fellow alt-rockers Nirvana and Pearl Jam, they didn't find the same amount of commercial success. But the band's song "No Rain," which peaked at No. 17 on the charts, and its music video's popular tap-dancing bee girl have lived on as some of the defining ephemera of the diverse '90s music landscape.

Blind Melon has been periodically releasing new singles over the past two years, the most recent of which, "Strikes Back," debuted on March 3.

The band's guitarist, Roger Stevens, told Guitar World earlier this year that the band had between 10 to 12 singles that will eventually comprise their fourth studio album.

"My thinking is you're better off reminding people you still exist every couple of months than reminding them once every two years," Stevens told Guitar World.

Even if you've never played the song at your own will, you're probably familiar with Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1992 hit, "Baby Got Back."

It's one of the most iconic '90s rap songs and rightfully so; it spent 28 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and sat at No. 1 for five weeks.

"Baby Got Back" also won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.

"Baby Got Back" resurfaced in 2016 when Nicki Minaj sampled the song in her hit "Anaconda."

Speaking to Billboard about his hit in 2017, Sir Mix-a-Lot said, "When I released it, gangsta rap was pretty big. I wasn't talking about shooting or killing nobody. I was just talking about something we all could agree on, or at least most of us. It's a little harder now to make something sticky. 'Baby Got Back' is a brand unto itself. I used to not want to accept that, but 'Baby Got Back' is bigger than Sir Mix-A-Lot."

In 1993, "What's Up?" cracked the charts globally and peaked at No. 2 in the US, but a year after the band hit it big, 4 Non Blondes broke up.

Ironically, the phrase "what's up" doesn't appear in the song's lyrics. The chorus of the song is actually, "What's going on?" but the band wanted to avoid any confusion with Marvin Gaye's smash hit of the same name.

Linda Perry has gone on to write and produce for a number of successful artists including Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, and Pink. Perry and record producer Kerry Brown have teamed up to create the artist collective We Are Here and have become a powerhouse in charity work.

Guitarist Shaunna Hall tours with George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic; guitarist Roger Rocha has a new band called the Goldenhearts; and bassist Christa Hillhouse is now a graphic and web designer, according to Popcrush.

Though many people probably don't know the band's name, millions of people have heard the American pop-rock duo's tune over the past 25 years.

The song soared to No 1. on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed on the chart for 39 weeks. But it came at a price: Fans and fellow musicians labeled them as sellouts and they lost a core of their alt-rock fanbase.

"We went from being the darlings of the alternative scene to a proper mainstream band," singer Danny Wilde told The Independent in 2004. "Before 'Friends' we'd been playing all these underground venues. But 'I'll Be There' was so huge that we ended up playing stadiums almost overnight."

The duo released the album "Via Satellite" in 2019 and still tours regularly but has recently been posting socially distanced virtual jams instead of performing live.

They made a stop by Paste Studio in 2019 to perform an intimate version of their hit "I'll Be There."

After releasing their mildly successful debut album "11th Song" in 1993, Deep Blue Something released "Home" in 1995 that generated the biggest hit of the band's career.

"Breakfast at Tiffany's" peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1996 and topped the UK charts as well. The band tried to carry the single's momentum onto its two subsequent releases but couldn't replicate its success — the band broke up in 2001.

Deep Blue Something also put out two singles last year: "Hide" and "Don't Stop."

Bandmember Todd Pipes (pictured) told the music website Blast Echo in 2016 that if he ever hears "Breakfast at Tiffany's" come on the radio, he has to change the channel.

"If I'm at the gym and the video comes out, I'll just have to blow my workout. I can't do it. It's so weird," Pipes told the site.

It's anarchist, it's rage-fueled, it's energetic, it's "Tubthumping." Chumbawamba's 1997 hit single has become a pump-up staple at parties and sporting events even if nobody really knows all of the words. The song climbed the charts for 22 weeks, eventually peaking at No. 2, a feat no other Chumbawamba song would ever come close to.

Since Chumbawamba's breakup in 2012, most of the band members have lived fairly quiet lives. But Alice Nutter, who left the band in 2004 because, as she told The Guardian in 2019, "if you're jumping about in your mid-40s, you look f---ing stupid," went on to become an acclaimed TV, radio, and theater writer.

While most people think of Semisonic's 1998 hit "Closing Time" as a last call anthem, singer Dan Wilson explained to Billboard in 2018 that the song is partially about the birth of his daughter. Regardless of how you interpret it, one thing is clear: It was a huge success. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed on the chart for 26 weeks.

Dan Wilson, who has continued to make music as a solo act and songwriter, has written for Halsey and Taylor Swift, among other artists. He also wrote six of the songs on The Chicks' album "Taking the Long Way," which won five Grammys.

There are few songs as recognizably '90s as "Barbie Girl." The song peaked at No. 7 and stayed on the charts for 16 weeks. It immortalized the Mattel doll of the same name in pop music forever and immediately became a hit in European discos and on US ratio channels alike.

Throughout the past two decades, the band took breaks periodically. As of March 2021, Aqua's website lists tour dates in North America and Europe for various '90s festivals.

On "Barbie Girl's" 20th anniversary in 2017, Aqua's singer Lene Nystrom told Nylon that the band remains extremely proud of the song, but that dealing with the critical response over the years has been challenging.

"It was hard to deal with all the opinions of something we made on our own," Nystrom told Nylon. "We released our baby into the world and, in America, it was a different point of view than Asia … it was very strong opinions. And that was kind of hard to deal with, everybody — especially in America — wanted me to look like 'Barbie Girl' and was quite disappointed actually when I didn't. That made me kind of rebellious, actually."

Natalie Imbruglia's take on the Ednaswap song "Torn" off her debut 1997 album "Left of the Middle" soared to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed on the charts for 44 weeks. The following year, she earned three Grammy nominations: Best New Artist, Best Pop Album, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The Australian-British singer-songwriter shared pictures of her at work in the studio with The Strokes' guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. in February 2019. The duo also worked with producer Gus Oberg, who worked on The Strokes' 2011 album "Angles."

According to NME, Imbruglia's forthcoming album, her first since the 2015 cover album "Male," was originally slated for 2020 but delayed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lou Bega rose to stardom after releasing his cover of "Mambo No. 5" on the German recording artist's debut album "A Little Bit of Mambo" in 1999. The song, which was originally recorded by Cuban artist Dámaso Pérez Prado in 1949, immediately became an international hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and various other charts around the world.

In 2017 Lou Bega released his first single in years, "Scatman & Hartman," which samples Scatman John's 1995 song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)."