The A.V. Club has launched a new series of posts dubbed “HateSong” in which they ask a number of performers about “the one song they hate most in the world.” We were excited to see Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo participated in the series as he waxes poetic on his distaste for 4 Non Blondes’ 1993 single What’s Up?.
Deaner, who is currently working on a fishing show with Les Claypool, didn’t hold back in his responses about the shittiness of What’s Up? Here’s his remembrance of the first time he heard the song:
I don’t remember where I was, or what I was doing, but I remember hearing it and thinking, “This is the most obnoxious fucking hollering I’ve ever heard in my life.” I could envision the horrible, horrible female that was singing it, and I knew that it was gonna be a hit, just by how bad I hated it. I knew that it was going to be played for years by every fucking bad girl band that came through my local bar, and sung on every karaoke night for the rest of time. I was just instantly overcome with a sense of dread, and of course it’s all come to pass. Then I saw the video for it, and the people that I imagined would be so loathsome as to make such a piece of shit of a song looked identical to what I imagined them to be in my mind.
He goes on to call the song “as bad as music gets.” Mickey also lambastes the Black-Eyed Peas, admits there’s a Maroon 5 song he likes and confuses Belly and Marcy Playground in the fantastic interview.
