Nicki Swift

Many stars rise to fame, but not all of them are able to stay shining. Teen heartthrobs grace every era with their stunning good looks and their charming personalities, but sometimes the roles they play in the entertainment industry prove to be short-lived. Of course, some of them manage to maintain their fame and transcend their teen idol status, such as Justin Timberlake and Leonardo DiCaprio, but many others wind up fading away without being able to ever recapture the fame and attention they were once able to command by simply making a public appearance.

There are a handful of celebrities that grace the childhood memories of their most ardent fans and will forever be cherished in spite of their inability to clamor back to the top of their game. Legends like Elvis Presley and James Dean will forever be commemorated for the impact they had during their time in the spotlight. Other famous faces have fallen from the pedestal fans had originally put them, due to drama, controversy, or serious allegations that have tainted their image. Here are some heartthrobs that once dominated the headlines but have since not figured out they simply aren’t famous anymore.

Hanson’s MMMBop days are behind them

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Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson rose to fame with their catchy hit song “MMMBop” in 1997. Isaac was 11 years old when the song first came out. Taylor was 9 and Zac was only 6. Their song was played on every major radio station and quickly took ownership of the No. 1 spot on the charts. The brothers were admired for their good looks and quickly became recognized among the hottest heartthrobs of the ’90s. Hanson would go on to reap the benefits of a hugely successful career, and unlike other entertainers, they continued to steer themselves in their very own direction.

Hanson is no longer mesmerizing fans with their boyish good looks and musical fame, but that’s purely on their own accord, as revealed in a 2018 interview with The Washington Post. Danny Goldberg signed Hanson while he held the position of chairman at Mercury Records. “They beat the system,” Goldberg said. “They used it, they got what they wanted out of it and then they’ve done things completely on their own terms, without worrying about any other metrics except their own.” Goldberg went on to discuss Hanson’s decision to fade away. “They could have done other things to make more money, but they put their personal happiness and contentment first,” he said. The brothers have pursued their own paths but remain bonded. “Zac has been a visual artist, Isaac’s done some producing. I love to work with other artists’ songwriting,” Taylor told Entertainment Tonight.

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1. The Hanson brothers — Isaac, Taylor, and Zac — came up with the infectious chorus to their worldwide number one hit “MMMBop” when they were just 13, 11, and 9 years old, respectively.

The chorus was originally meant to be a backing vocal part for another song, but it didn’t quite fit. It was very catchy, though, and as Isaac told Songwriter Magazine, he didn’t forget it. “I was definitely the one who kept bringing up the idea: ‘Hey, remember that idea? That was really cool.’”

A couple of years later, an older and wiser 13-year-old Taylor wrote the song’s first verse. The three brothers then completed the rest of the song together.

Isaac added, “When we did the final version, it was very clear that it was very catchy and really stuck out as an idea and melody that was going to stick in people’s heads. It stuck in our heads, so it’s reasonable to think it would stick in other people’s heads too.”

Listen to Hanson’s “MMMBop” here:

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Monkeypox’s rebrand to the much cooler Mpox has significantly increased cases of earworms from Hanson’s 1997 hit song MMMBop. Afflicted persons can generally only remember the truly catchy chorus which loops itself continually, drowning out the usual interior monologue, which humans use to distract themselves from things they are supposed to be doing.

A potential treatment is being developed in which the verses of MMMBop are fed into the cerebral jukebox to dilute the chirpy chorus and render it less potent. A patient who is a keen horticulturalist did not respond well to the treatment, after being fed the lyric ‘Can you tell me? (If it’s going to be a daisy or a rose?) You say you can, but you don’t know’. The horticulturalist said they can tell a daisy and a rose by the leaves on the plant and other salient features.

A follow up treatment in which Hanson’s Christmas album will be administered is struggling to attract volunt-ears.

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“We’re paying for it to go on a truck halfway across the country,” said Hanson, best known as a singer and keyboardist for the rock band that shares his name. “That means the good stuff is too expensive. We’ve got to bring food home.”

Food on the Move, a charity Hanson founded in 2014 to distribute food to the hungry, has already raised about $5 million from corporate and charitable partners, officials said. The group hopes to raise another $2.5 million from the public before breaking ground on the urban farm.

Some of the farm’s produce will be distributed to Tulsa grocery stores, while the rest will support Food on the Move’s distribution programs, officials said. The farm will also serve as a “living classroom” to train a new generation of hi-tech farmers, they said.

The educational component will help make the farm’s impact “long-lasting, for decades and decades,” said Tulsa County Commissioner Stan Sallee, explaining why the project received a $1 million allocation from the county’s share of federal American Rescue Plan funding.

“We were really dialed-in on making investments that would be transformational,” Sallee said. “We at Tulsa County very quickly supported this project.”

The urban farm will mark only the first phase of Food of the Move’s long-term vision, officials said.

The group eventually hopes to develop a community hub to offer cooking classes, health assessments, outdoor concerts and other events, officials said, while other future developments would include a “model market” to develop successful business practices for urban grocery stores.

“This isn’t a Food on the Move project. This isn’t a Taylor Hanson project,” said Food on the Move CEO Kevin Harper. “This is a Tulsa project.”

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Dee Snider and Twisted Sister performed at the first Rocklahoma music festival in Pryor in 2007. Snider recently used social media to praise the 1997 debut album of the Tulsa pop-rock trio Hanson.

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