Did artists who made one-hit-wonders know that there was something special about their song before release? Many artists work in a flow state and attribute their art to God or some higher power because it seems to flow through them beyond their own understanding.
Did the guys who recorded Macarena wake up the next day, hit play on the tape recorder and just sit there like "holy shit. Oh my God. Oh my God."
@sixohsix “Did artists who made one-hit-wonders know that there was something special about their song before release?”
They wrote the song during a moment of inspiration and shopped it around and despite nobody wanting it they knew it’d be a hit. At least that’s my read and why I thought about it.
I also thought about Night Ranger having basically no success until the drummer wrote a song for his sister and it blew up. The band basically dissolved because of that.
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