{"id":3626,"date":"2007-03-02T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:35:14","slug":"idle-speculation-on-a-one-hit-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/idle-speculation-on-a-one-hit-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Speculation on a One Hit Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been ten years since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meredithbrooks.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Meredith Brooks<\/a> charted her only hit song, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/m\/meredith+brooks\/bitch_20091966.html\" target=\"_new\">Bitch<\/a>&quot;.  The song itself was one of those songs celebrating the essence of womanhood, or at least the essence of using being a woman as an excuse for mercurial mood swings and taunting a male if he couldn&#8217;t handle idiocy from his lover.  You know, a retread of Sheryl Crow&#8217;s &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strong_Enough_%28Sheryl_Crow_song%29\" target=\"_new\">Strong Enough To Be My Man<\/a>&quot;, but without the remorse and with a dirty word as its name.  Brooks charted with that song, but that&#8217;s it for her.  Even Alanis Morissette got more than one single from the scthick.<\/p>\n<p>So I was wondering today: Ten years later, who does Meredith Brooks hate to get mixed up with most?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/gallery\/mptv\/1319\/Mptv\/1319\/11020_0002.jpg.html?path=pgallery&#038;path_key=Baxter,%20Meredith\" target=\"_new\">Meredith Baxter-Birney<\/a>?\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\" target=\"_new\">Merril Bainbridge<\/a>, whose 1994 song &quot;Mouth&quot; also was one word long but was upbeat and fun, something a even a guy could sing without feeling dirty:\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tIAyhcQvsrQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tIAyhcQvsrQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of the book <i>Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women<\/i>:\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0385484011&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0580565\/\" target=\"_new\">Burgess Meredith<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>That one waitress at Applebee&#8217;s.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been ten years since Meredith Brooks charted her only hit song, &quot;Bitch&quot;. The song itself was one of those songs celebrating the essence of womanhood, or at least the essence of using being a woman as an excuse for mercurial mood swings and taunting a male if he couldn&#8217;t handle idiocy from his lover. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18227,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/18227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}