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News Roundup: Hanson on ABC’s Greatest Hits
Hanson performing last night on ABC’s Greatest Hits has gotten a lot of attention from various media outlet, even getting them to trend on Facebook! Here are a few of the articles related to the performance:
Hanson “Greatest Hits” Video: Watch “MMMBop” Acoustic Performance! [Gossip Cop]
Is Hanson Releasing New Music? “MMMBop” Is Turning 20 & They Have An Amazing Surprise For Fans [Bustle]
Stop Everything! Hanson Are Going to Perform “MMMBop” [Pop Sugar]
MMMbop de Hanson cumple 20 años y es hora de que lo afrontes (+ Videos) [E!]
TV highlights: Hanson performs throwback songs on ABC’s ‘Greatest Hits’ [Washington Post]
Hanson Performs ‘MMMBop’ on ‘Greatest Hits’ — But It Doesn’t Sound the Way You Remember It
Get ready to have “MMMBop” stuck in your head all over again. Hanson, the trio of music-playing brothers best known for their smash 1997 single, hits the stage for a surprisingly emotional performance of the tune on ABC’s Greatest Hits.
A sneak peek exclusive to Us Weekly shows the guys playing an acoustic rendition of “MMMBop” on the Thursday, July 7, episode, which comes 20 years after the song’s original, self-produced 1996 release. The tune went double platinum, earned a pair of Grammy nominations and led to the band’s posters adorning the walls of teens everywhere.
Also appearing on the July 7 episode are Meghan Trainor, the Backstreet Boys, Coolio, Jewel, John Legend, LL Cool J andCeeLo Green.
Greatest Hits is a summer series featuring iconic artists of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with contemporary hitmakers. Each episode focuses on the biggest songs from a five-year span.
In an interview with Vulture in March, the now-grown Hanson boys — Isaac, 35; Taylor, 33; and Zac, 30 — revealed that cover versions of the tune don’t typically get the song quite right.
“You know why? People can’t sing the chorus right,” Isaac said. “Most of the time they syncopate it wrong.” Tough crowd!
Hanson rocketed into the pop-music stratosphere with their debut album, MMMBop, released in May 1997 when they were mere tykes — youngest member Zac was just 11! Later releases haven’t quite had the commercial success of their first one, although their most recent album, Anthem, was released in June 2013 and added to their long list of collections to land in the top 40 of the Billboard 200.
Watch the toe-tapping performance in the video above.
Greatest Hits airs on ABC Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.
Hanson Has Big Plans for the 20th Anniversary of “MMMBop” (Yes, It’s Really Been 20 Years)
(video at the source!)
The Hanson brothers aren’t really amazed that they’re all in their 30s—that’s kind of how time works, you know?—but they understand the Internet’s fascination with the fact that they are so much older now than when they first became famous.
“I think we broke onto the pop culture scene as young kids and I think people make that connection and have that association. I think a lot of the ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe it’s been this long since a song came out’ is that people see themselves,” Taylor Hanson, now 33, tells E! News on the set of ABC’s new summer series Greatest Hits. “They go, ‘Oh my gosh, has that much time passed?'”
The brothers will perform “MMMBop” on tonight’s episode of Greatest Hits—a song they’ve embraced in the nearly 20 years –yes, two decades!—since the song was released. “We have never run from our past. We definitely still sing ‘MMMBop’. When we do concerts, we still play old songs,” Zac explains.
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“Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long,” confesses eldest brother Isaac Hanson, now 35.
After tonight’s blast from the past on Greatest Hits, where they’ll perform alongside Echosmith, you won’t have to wait too long for new material from the Oklahoma brothers.
Says Isaac, “We’re doing random shows around the U.S. What we’ve really got our sights on is next year, and 20 years since our first record, which we’re really excited about.”
Press play on the video above to find out when you can expect a new Hanson album, and tune in to their performance on Greatest Hits at 9 p.m. on ABC.
Weekend TV: Tulsa’s Hanson hits the stage for ‘Greatest Hits’ on ABC plus the ‘Outlander’ season finale
Tulsa’s Hanson performs on “Greatest Hits: 1995-2000,” airing at 8 p.m. Thursday on ABC, channel 8, cable 1008. In addition to an acoustic performance of “MMMBop” off its 1997 album, brothers Zac (left), Isaac and Taylor will also collaborate on stage with Echosmith. BYRON COHEN/ABC
‘Greatest Hits’
Get ready to celebrate the greatest hits of the 1995-2000 musical era, including “MMMBop” by Tulsa’s Hanson. The second half of the 1990s launched huge careers for the biggest names in pop, rap, hip-hop and rock music. Watch this show for collaborations with Backstreet Boys and Meghan Trainor, Coolio and CeeLo Green, Jewel and Tori Kelly, LL COOL J and Wiz Khalifa, John Legend singing Lauren Hill, an acoustic performance of “MMMBop” by the Hanson brothers, plus a Hanson-Echosmith collaboration.
Relive the original “MMMBop” atbit.ly/hansonmmbop.
Tuesday Trivia
Taylor’s muse for the 2015 gallery was the cube.
During the recording of “I Want To Take You Higher”, what (food) did the guys sing about?
Hanson Celebrate the 4th
For the 4th of July Hanson has headed overseas to entertain members of the US Navy on bases there. They played a show in Chinhae, South Korea on July 1 and 2 shows in Guam on July 3rd and 4th (that we know of) As we previously reported, the shows in Japan were canceled due to a mourning period.
Check out some videos and photos from the shows under the cut!
HNET Newsletter July 1, 2016
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#hansonglobalwatch
Several groups of Hanson fans are looking to unite the fan base and do the same thing either at the same time or on the same day. This was started by the Hanson fans in South Africa and fans in Brazil and New Zealand will be participating as well.
On July 16 (Saturday) watch Underneath Acoustic Live and Anthem Live in New York starting at 2pm in South Africa time (8AM EST time) you can tweet about it using the hashtag #hansonglobalwatch
Any questions – contact robinbond on hanson.net
FIRST LOOK: HANSON & ECHOSMITH PERFORM ON JULY 7 “GREATEST HITS” EPISODE
Hanson and Echosmith perform together on the July 7 “Greatest Hits.” Here’s a first look!
Earlier this month, ABC confirmed that Hanson would be performing on the July 7 edition of its “Greatest Hits.”
What the network’s press release did not acknowledge, however, was that Hanson is joined on stage by fellow sibling band Echosmith.
The network formalized that news Monday by virtue of releasing new photos from the taping. Several of those photos feature the two acts collaborating on the “Greatest Hits” stage.
While this represents ABC’s first formal confirmation of the pairing, Echosmith fans have known about it for some time. The band Tweeted a set photo last month.
The July 7 “Greatest Hits” focuses on the hits of the period between 1995 and 2000. Other confirmed performers include Backstreet Boys (Meghan Trainor), Jewel (with Tori Kelly), Coolio (with CeeLo Green), LL Cool J (with Wiz Khalifa) and John Legend (performing two Lauryn Hill hits).
Details and photos of those performances are available here. ABC’s first look photos of the Hanson’s performance, as well as its Echosmith collaboration, follow:
