4 Non Blondes

Linda Perry asks what’s going on—again—on New Year’s Eve with 4 Non Blondes

Linda Perry resurfaces with 4 Non Blondes to deliver their 1993 staple “What’s Up?” on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, folding three decades of collective angst into a four-minute burst of melodic catharsis. The crowd, caught somewhere between nostalgia and novelty, echoes every word as Perry leans into the chorus with theatrical exasperation.

A televised ritual veers into earnest revival as the track's plaintive wail once again demands to know “what’s going on”—a question that hangs in the air with no expectation of answer.