Great Alt-Rock One-Hit Wonders of the 90s: Part 2
b'Creating art is hard\\u2026if it wasn\\u2019t, everyone would do it\\u2014and everyone would be successful at doing it\\u2026even those who can create art\\u2014the people with the right stuff\\u2014have a finite supply of good stuff within them\\u2026\\n\\nTake Margaret Mitchell, for example\\u2026she wrote exactly one novel\\u2026but that novel was \\u201cGone With The Wind\\u201d\\u2026Pulitzer Prize, a classic movie with multiple Academy Awards, 30 million copies sold, endless adaptations\\u2026it even got her face on a stamp\\u2026in short, \\u201cGone With The Wind,\\u201d first published in 1937, was and still is, a cultural phenomenon\\u2026\\n\\nBut that\\u2019s all she ever did\\u2026ol\\u2019 marge hit it out of the park on the first pitch and that was it\\u2026one novel\\u2026she is perhaps the greatest literary one-hit-wonder of all time\\u2026\\n\\nMaybe that\\u2019s all she had in the tank\\u2026or maybe she looked at all the success she got from just that one novel and said \\u201cright\\u2026my work is done her\\u2026anything else I do will just be a letdown\\u2026I\\u2019m stopping while I\\u2019m way ahead\\u201d\\u2026totally understand that\\u2026\\n\\nOther artists, though, keep trying after that one hit\\u2026but for whatever reason, the magical pixie dust that they managed to harness that one time disappears forever\\u2026\\n\\nMan, to get a taste of standing on the mountaintop only to be denied it ever again\\u2026but\\u2014and let\\u2019s be clear about this\\u2014at least they made it to the top of that mountain, even if it was just once\\u2026and if they\\u2019re lucky, that one trip can sustain them for the rest of their careers\\u2014the rest of their lives\\u2026\\n\\nThis is another program featuring those who got to the top just one\\u2026its great alt-rock one-hit wonders of the 90s, part 2\\u2026.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'