Markus Baer is a professor of organizational behavior at the Olin Business School at Washington University. Did your resolution have to do with being more creative? Maybe you’re an artist of some kind maybe you want to be more creative at work, or in the kitchen at home. Should we be celebrating them instead?ĭid you make a New Year’s resolution this year? Most people do. Our culture tends to ridicule one-hit wonders. I mean, it hit me where it hurts, you know? Justin BERG: Once artists reach that first hit, then the time for creativity is over.Īnd we’ll hear from some creators who’ve read that research. We’ll hear from researchers who have studied one-hit wonders. Markus BAER: Creativity is extremely difficult to predict. We’ll investigate the science of creativity. The day you have a hit, you’re like, “Well, I guess it’ll just be that way.” And the day after you have a hit, you’re like, “God, I don’t want this to be my whole life.” NELSON: The day before you have a hit, it doesn’t sound so bad. Today on Freakonomics Radio: what’s it like to be a one-hit wonder? In a Rolling Stone reader poll, “Flagpole Sitta” was ranked one of the top 10 one-hit wonders of the 1990s. They made three albums before they broke up the hit came from the first one. NELSON: I mean, the idea of such a notorious figure as Snowden listening to that song, A, at all B, while in exile and also C, like, that was 2015 did you say? So that’s, like, 17 years after it was a hit.Īs it turned out, “Flagpole Sitta” was the band’s only hit. And guess what song was playing in the background? Yep:
showing the American whistleblower Edward Snowden, at home in Russia, making dinner with his girlfriend. In 2015, a video surfaced on the tabloid website T.M.Z. It was used as the theme song of the long-running British T.V.
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It was played in the 1999 movie American Pie, which itself was a huge hit. Like a lot of hit songs, this one endured. I don’t know that we got much of an ovation - it wasn’t our idea. They played the song during the seventh-inning stretch and then said, “Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the band are here.” Like, we stood up at Wrigley Field. NELSON: We went to see a Cubs game when we were in Chicago at one point. Sean Nelson was the lead singer in Harvey Danger. Sean NELSON: There was a long period of my life where I had to sing that song, like, four or five times a day. “ FLAGPOLE SITTA ”: Paranoia, paranoia, everybody’s coming to get me. The song is “Flagpole Sitta,” by a Seattle band called Harvey Danger. “ FLAGPOLE SITTA ”: I’m not sick but I’m not well. It was the year of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to Northern Ireland.įEMALE NEWSCASTER : After a generation of bloodshed and decades of division and acrimony, George Mitchell ushers in what the whole island hopes will be a new era of peace.Īlso in 1998, if you were anywhere near a radio, you would have heard this song: MALE NEWSCASTER : In 1998, the founders of Google set up workspace in a garage in Menlo Park, California, and became incorporated. It was the year Google officially became a company. In case you don’t remember 1998, or in case you weren’t around yet, that was the year President Bill Clinton claimed he “did not …”īill CLINTON : I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
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