{"id":772113,"date":"2026-07-19T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772113\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:37:20","slug":"3-pop-songs-from-the-1990s-that-borrowed-more-from-classic-rock-than-anyone-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/772113\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Pop Songs From the 1990s That Borrowed More From Classic Rock Than Anyone Realized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These three pop songs from the <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/1990s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1990s<\/a> have a lot to thank classic rock for, even if fans don\u2019t realize it. Whether they are covers or just borrow heavily from the genre\u2019s classic sounds, these pop hits should give rock its flowers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/3-songs-that-sound-like-driving-home-on-a-summer-night-in-the-1990s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[RELATED: 3 Songs That Sound Like Driving Home on a Summer Night in the 1990s]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tVideos by American Songwriter\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTorn\u201d \u2014 Natalie Imbruglia <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784468238_989_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Imbruglia\u2019s 1990s pop ballad is a cover of a song originally performed by the rock band Ednaswap. That alone should have pop fans giving rock its due. But even after being popified, \u201cTorn\u201d has a lot of rock elements. The simple guitars and quiet production evoke the rock of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell you couldn\u2019t be that man that I adored \/ You don\u2019t seem to know, or seem to care what your heart is for \/ I don\u2019t know him anymore,\u201d Imbruglia sings in this 1990s pop song. With a few production changes, this song could be a throwback rock hit. The driving chorus is classic rock magic hidden beneath pop production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d \u2014 New Radicals<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783988051_761_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Though the New Radicals are technically rock, the success of \u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d earned them a power pop classification. If you dig into it, this 1990s song has way more to do with classic rock than it does with radio-friendly pop. Sure, it has a melody that any pop star would be lucky to have. But it also draws on classic rockers who filled stadiums decades before this song came out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWake up, kids \/ We got the dreamers disease \/ Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees \/ So polite, we\u2019re busy still saying please,\u201d the lyrics to this existential rock song read. It might not sound like the genre\u2019s basic sound on the surface. But underneath, this song isn\u2019t too far removed from what we consider classic rock.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Star\u201d \u2014 Smash Mouth<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784468240_194_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Again, Smash Mouth might technically be rock, but their universal appeal makes them genre benders. On paper, this song seems very 1990s. It has very little to do with any other era of rock or pop. But that\u2019s not entirely true. If we can remove the context of this song, we can find something akin to British Invasion rock. <\/p>\n<p>The garage rock attitude and powerful guitar riffs are the exact same building blocks used by rockers of that era. \u201cWell, the years start comin\u2019, and they don\u2019t stop comin\u2019 \/ Fed to the rules, and I hit the ground runnin\u2019 \/ Didn\u2019t make sense not to live for fun,\u201d are lyrics that could\u2019ve worked just as well in the 1960s as they did in the 1990s. <\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic, Inc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These three pop songs from the 1990s have a lot to thank classic rock for, even if fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[50829,88,216,17172,2156],"class_list":["post-772113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1990s","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}