3 One-Hit Wonders From the 1990s That Might Make You Sweat

There is something magical about music. You go to your stereo and put the stuff on and instantly your body reacts. If it’s a somber song, you might become more reflective. If it’s classical music, you might feel a rush in your heart. And if the music is energetic, you may just instantly start to dance. Or even exercise.

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Here below, we wanted to examine three such examples of that. More specifically, we wanted to look at three one-hit wonders that will get your body going. Indeed, these are three one-hit wonders that just might make you break a sweat!

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“Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by C+C Music Factory from Gonna Make You Sweat (1990)

Featuring singer Martha Wash and rapper Freedom Williams, this song makes you aware of its mission from the very title. It’s sole intention is to get you to sweat up on the dance floor. And it achieves that aim over and over again thanks to Wash’s powerful voice and the driving beat. Even the title of the album this song came out on is explicit with you. So get your headbands and gym towels, it’s gonna get damp up in here.

“Macarena” by Bayside Boys (Single, 1995))

Not unlike the song above, the global phenomomen song known as “Macarena” got maybe billions of people up and moving. While the original version of the song was released in 1993 by Los del Rio, it was the Bayside Boys who remixed the track and got it back into the Billboard Hot 100. In fact, it hit the top spot and stayed there for a whopping 14 weeks. Some have called this song the best one-hit wonder of all time. And if it is, it’s because of all the bodies the track got moving (and sweating) in the 1990s.

“Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” by Lou Bega from A Little Bit of Mambo (1999)

Speaking of the dance floor, this song from Lou Bega is meant to get couples on it, dancing, grooving, and grinding in the dark light of the late-night hours. It’s suggestive and fun all at the same time, which is how it shot up the Billboard Hot 100 charts. While the original instrumental for this tune was released in 1950, it was Bega who sampled that almost a half century later for his big solo hit. The song will get you perspiring and releasing all those natural pheromones.

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