MMMBop

Todd plays "MMMBop" on the piano

HANSON - MMMBOP A one-hit wonder retrospective

Todd: I did not want to do this.


 * Video for "MMMBop"

Todd (VO): When I sold my four exclusive One Hit Wonderland requests on Patreon, I did not really think it through. And that's how we got here.

Todd: "MMMBop".


 * Hanson: Mmmbop, ba duba dop
 * Ba du bop, ba duba dop
 * Ba du bop, ba duba dop
 * Ba du

Todd (VO): The reason I didn't want to do this is not because I don't like "MMMBop"—you'll hear my opinion on the song in a second. I didn't want to this because Hanson...

Todd: ...are not one-hit wonders to me.

Todd (VO): Yeah, I've bent the definition of "one-hit wonder" more than once doing this show, but I would never even have considered Hanson for this. I asked my requester if she could please pick someone else, but she really had her heart set on me doing a Hanson episode, and...

Todd: ...you know me, I'm a soft touch, I'll do anything for my fans if they give me money.

Todd (VO): So, yeah, we're doing this, even though again, they are not one-hit wonders.

Todd: [beat] Or are they?

Todd (VO): I mean, I know they had other hits. I do. But if you asked me to name any of those hits or song them, I couldn't do it. Most teen pop stars can point to an array of hit singles. [Album covers of "greatest hits" by...] There were a ton of Backstreet Boys songs, N*SYNC songs, [clip of "Story of My Life" by...] when the whole One Direction thing is over—...

Todd: ...which maybe it is, I don't know.

Todd (VO): But when it is, people are still gonna remember more than one song by them. You know, there's the one about how they love you, girl, [brief clip of "What Makes You Beautiful"] the other one about how they love you, and so on.

The Hanson discography, meanwhile, is completely dwarfed by this one solitary tune whose name isn't even a real word. So it's really no surprise that I get this request so very often.

Todd: Still, like I said, I'd never do it usually.

Todd (VO): Because I totally remember them having other hits, even if no one else does. So this is a one-time thing here. I am breaking my rules just this once to bring the biggest...

Todd: ...not really but kinda one-hit wonders of the '90s, [picture of...] except for Vanilla Ice. Let's do it.


 * Hanson: Mmmbop

Before the hit

Transcript in progress