Hacker News with Generative AI: Popular Culture

Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017) (narratively.com)
Twenty years ago the man who recorded one of the most successful songs of all time was thrown off a motorbike by a car in Calabar, Nigeria.
An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016) (gq.com)
Thirty years ago, radio stations and MTV put an insidiously catchy song called “We Built This City” into heavy rotation and kept it there.
Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much? A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)