“Bad Day” by Daniel Powter Named One Hit Wonder of the Decade
Ntini’s replacement here will be Friedel de Wet, the athletic
Durban-born paceman who so nearly snatched the Centurion Test for his team
with a spell of three wickets in four overs.
England
won the toss and made the bold decision to bowl first. While heavy cloud
cover around Newlands could help the ball to swing, there is also the danger
that the wet outfield might take the shine off the ball quickly.
Paul Collingwood was ruled fit despite concerns over his left index finger,
which he dislocated during fielding practice before the final day at Durban.
The man called up as cover, Michael Carberry, will have to wait for another
shot at a Test debut.
This, of course, was no ordinary pond, as you could tell with one glance at the snow falling against the backdrop of the most famous green wall in sports. It couldn't have been a more picturesque winter scene at Fenway Park, where the Bruins will face the Philadelphia Flyers Friday in the NHL's third annual Winter Classic outdoor game, but as the NHL well knows, six degrees can separate yesterday's winter wonderland from what could be today's soggy mess.
League officials can do little but scan the skies in Boston, where forecasts call for 34 degrees today with a 40% chance of some kind of precipitation, possibly frozen rain that could throw a wrench into the Classic. That forecast is actually improved from a day before, and the league is going full speed ahead into today's game - but should a second wave of Thursday's snowstorm arrive, the NHL could be looking either at a reprise of the snowy success in Buffalo two years ago or at its first-ever rain delay.
One report out of Fenway Thursday suggested that if bad weather arrives during the game, the league could cut it short to two periods and still make it an official game - which would be a shame, eclipsing Bug Selig's tie in the MLB All-Star Game in 2002, given that this game counts.
Indeed, both the Bruins and Flyers need the two points as they try to right their ships following varying degrees of struggles early in the season. Boston has won four of its last five, while a Flyer win would make them 5-0 on their current six-game road trip - so there is serious business afoot.
Just not Thursday.
“When I walked in this morning I felt like a kid,” said Bruins winger Steve Begin, who played for Montreal in the frigid 2003 Heritage Classic outdoor game in Edmonton, and who was making his first visit to Fenway. “I was taking pictures, I went on the field; it was really fun.”
“I think I had a smile on my face the entire practice,” said Philly's Scott Hartnell, who hastily bought a digital camera Thursday morning to capture the experience with his family.
Should the elements come into play during the game, they may have a greater effect on the skaters than the goalies. Boston's Tim Thomas said he actually had an easier time picking up the puck against the natural light, while the accumulating snow made a number of players feel as though they were stickhandling through mud. “You know how we get a little dusting of snow in the normal rinks when you play indoors,” Bruins defenseman and former Ranger Derek Morris said. “Today it piled up to an inch and a half before you knew it. Try stickhandling through that.”
Added Bruins winger David Krejci: “I was hoping for snow, but after this today I'm going to say no.”
The NHL kinda knows the feeling.
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Of all the songs Billboard may have chosen for their One Hit Wonder of the Decade, Daniel Powter's “Bad Day” was probably not only the biggest of the one hit wonders but the most appropriate for a decade Time magazine labeled the Worst Decade in History. It was one of those songs, like “Come On, Eileen” and “Right Round (You Spin Me),” songs that, although they may not have launched the artists who sang them into continuing superstardom, they did manage to place them in a special place of social memory in perpetuity. Whether you remember the song from its original hit run in 2006 or from the results shows of American Idol Season 5, the lyrics of “Bad Day” stayed with you.
“Bad Day” by Daniel Powter was certainly one of those kind of songs that win games of Trivial Pursuit and “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Even Wikipedia's last line in their “Bad Day (Daniel Powter Song)” entry introduction asserts: ” Despite the song's massive worldwide success, Powter failed to release any more pop hits, proving to be a very successful one-hit wonder.”
Billboard ranked the top One Hit Wonder songs of the decade, choosing tunes from the years 2000-2007, and announced them Monday, December 7. Daniel Powter climbed to the top of the list just like he shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Bad Day” in April 2006 and stayed there for five weeks. And even though Billboard named the song the #1 Hot 100 song of 2006 and called it “one of the great discoveries of the year,” Daniel Powter's follow-up album (”Bad Day” was released off of Daniel Powter's eponymous 2005 album but was slow to chart), “Under The Radar,” failed to chart. He released several singles after “Bad Day” but never re-entered the Hot 100.
Other One Hit Wonders of the Decade that reached #1 on the charts, ranked 2-6, included Terror Squad's “Lean Back” (August 2004), Crazy Town's “Butterfly” (March 2001), MIMS' “This is Why I'm Hot” (March 2007), D4L's “Laffy Taffy” (January 2006), and James Blunt's “You're Beautiful” (March 2006).
The rest of the Top 10 One Hit Wonders of the Decade all were No. 2 hits as well. Gnarls Barkley hit it big with “Crazy” in July 2006 to come in at #7 for the decade. Blu Cantrell's “Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)” was #8 and made it to No. 2 in July 2001. Another American Idol tie-in came in at #9 on the Billboard One Hit Wonder of the Decade list with Bo Bice's “Inside Your Heaven,” which peaked at No. 2 in July 2005. And rounding out the Top 10 was Dream's “He Loves U Not” which nailed the second slot in December 2000.
Some may disagree with Billboard's choice on aesthetic grounds (James Blunt's song is an earful of disgusting sweetness and chalkboard-grating vocals, for instance), but their reasoning cannot be denied. At least all the other artists (except for Crazy Town) had songs that made it into the Hot 100 afterward (just not very far), making “Bad Day” not only a true one hit wonder for Daniel Powter but the biggest single hit of the decade.
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Source:
Billboard.com
