![]() However, the song’s overplayed nature, combined with the fact that it was a cover, plus Britney Spears showing up at roughly the same time and being far more blatantly sexual, seemingly sent Natalie back to the Outback permanently. Speaking of pretty Australian girls with pouty lips, Natalie Imbruglia hit the ground running with Torn, a 1997 mega-hit that still gets played incessantly today. And then over in America, the band had a hit before I Touch Myself 1985’s Pleasure and Pain reached #12. From 1981 to 1996, nineteen of their singles charted, with six placing on the top 20. Unless you lived in Australia, because they were all over the place there. And then, with the public having grown tired of pretty Australian girls with pouty lips singing about touching themselves, the Divinyls disappeared. So it is with the Divinyls, who’s 1990 hit I Touch Myself was a huge success, reaching #2 on US charts and number 1 in Australia. Whenever you write a song about masturbation, featuring a hot girl on vocals, you are almost guaranteed a hit. It was, however the one most likely to stick in your brain twenty years later, and thus it gets the glory. In a couple cases, the song they’re most famous for was NOT even their most popular song. ![]() Most of the groups people deemed one-hit wonders actually hit the charts several times over. They were interesting for three minutes and that was it.Įxcept that’s almost never the case. That one song is usually a hook-laden earworm that won’t leave your head for the next week after hearing it, and thus most one-hit wonders are relegated to “novelty” status. Judging by the many, many, many VH1 specials chronicling one-hit wonders, it’s obvious people love the idea of a musician striking gold once and then fading away into utter obscurity.
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