{"id":381594,"date":"2026-01-01T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:15:07","slug":"4-non-blondes-perform-soaring-anthem-whats-up-at-rockin-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/381594\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Non Blondes Perform Soaring Anthem &#8216;What&#8217;s Up?&#8217; at &#8216;Rockin\u2019 Eve&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/4-non-blondes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_4-non-blondes\" data-tag=\"4-non-blondes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4 Non Blondes<\/a> took over the stage during Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve With Ryan Seacrest and delivered the most potent performance of the night so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWearing her signature towering hat, lead singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/linda-perry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_linda-perry\" data-tag=\"linda-perry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Perry<\/a> and her band captivated the crowd with their soaring performance of \u201cWhat\u2019s Up?\u201d \u2014 the massively popular track from their first and only album, 1992\u2019s\u00a0Bigger, Better, Faster, More! (Interesting, the song had a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/nicki-minaj-4-non-blondes-whats-up-beez-in-the-trap-remix-1235453162\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resurgence<\/a> thanks to a DJ Auxlord remix using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nicki-minaj\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicki Minaj<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBeez in the Trap.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPerry bellowed out the chorus \u2014 \u201cSo I wake in the morning and I step outside\/And I take a deep breath and I get real high\/And I scream from the top of my lungs, \u2018What\u2019s going on?&#8217;\u201d \u2014 with the same intensity and spirit she brought more than three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThis lineup for this years\u2019 Rockin\u2019 Eve includes Mariah Carey, Chappell Roan, 50 Cent, Ciara, 4 Non Blondes, Jessie Murph, Pitbull, Zara Larsson, Madison Beer, the singing voices of KPop Demon Hunters, Lil Jon, Charlie Puth, and Little Big Town.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier this month, 4 Non Blondes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/4-non-blondes-second-album-linda-perry-2026-1235481867\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that they will release a follow-up to Bigger, Better, Faster, More! The news arrived 33 years after the record\u2019s debut, with label\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kill-rock-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kill Rock Stars<\/a>\u00a0confirming it had inked a deal with Perry\u2019s 670 Records imprint to rollout a pair of LPs in 2026: Linda Perry\u2019s solo album\u00a0Let It Die Here\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/linda-perry-documentary-interview-taylor-swift-1235038397\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which shares its name with her documentary<\/a> directed by Don Hardy), and 4 Non Blondes\u2019 still-untitled second album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast year, Perry reunited the 4 Non Blondes for a series of concerts, the band\u2019s first gigs in over a decade.\u00a0\u201cPlaying some songs with 4 Non Blondes just seemed like a fun thing to do, in a way it hadn\u2019t before now,\u201d Perry previously said of the reunion in a statement for their upcoming album. \u201cI\u2019ve been behind the scenes for far too long. I want to step out to be the artist I am. I\u2019m just open to all the possibilities that I\u2019ve created around me. I manifest things all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4 Non Blondes took over the stage during Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve With Ryan Seacrest and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[162505,49,48,75,162506,162397],"class_list":["post-381594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-4-non-blondes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-linda-perry","tag-new-years-rockin-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}