The 90s were one hell of a decade. Here are a couple of underrated one-hit wonders that will give you a blast from the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cBarbie Girl\u201d by Aqua<\/p>\n
This one\u2019s fun. You might recognize \u201cBarbie Girl\u201d from its recent resurfacing on social media. If you don\u2019t, though, this is literally the definition of a 90s hidden gem.<\/p>\n
As band member Soren Rasted explained to Rolling Stone<\/a>, the catchy song actually came to be after he took a visit to an art exhibit, of all places.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we were writing songs for the first album,\u201d the songwriter explained, \u201cI went to an art exhibition at a store in Copenhagen. They\u2019d taken a bunch of Barbie dolls and made a planet out of them. It looked like a big, round ball. It made me think of, \u2018Life in plastic, it\u2019s fantastic.\u2019 I thought that was a great line. Then I wrote, \u2018Come on, Barbie, let\u2019s go party.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll For You\u201d by Sister Hazel<\/p>\n \u201cAll For You\u201d was Sister Hazel\u2019s debut single, and it\u2019s still their biggest hit even years later. As band founder Ken Block explained to American Songwriter<\/a> in 2021, this song was inspired by wondering what would happen if you truly committed and went all in on someone, relationship-wise.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea was about not just what was going on in my own life, but with people all around me,\u201d he explained. \u201cWhere they weren\u2019t sure about where their relationships were going, where they had one foot in and one foot out, and they kept getting back together.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne Headlight\u201d by The Wallflowers<\/p>\n This song is pop-rock, groovy, and oh so 90s.<\/p>\n