10 One-Hit Wonders That Defined The Early 2000s

6. Evan And Jaron - "Crazy For This Girl"

Sure, we were technically out of the 90s, but that didn't mean we were completely giving up those specific kind of bland, pop rock ballads that Blessid Union of Souls and Vertical Horizon had popularized. Not just yet, anyways.

We had a bunch of light-rock balladry filling up the airwaves in the early part of the century, but none of the artists behind them ever seemed catch on. BBMak scored a couple of hits, LFO stretched their "Summer Girls" cred into the 2000s with "Every Other Time," and Nine Days (they did "Story of a Girl") stuck around for only a little longer than their name would suggest.

The least successful of them all was probably Evan and Jaron, who really tested the bounds of cheesiness in the adult contemporary landscape. "Crazy For This Girl" was pure schmaltz, using a cornball string section and piano riff that would embarrass the Goo Goo Dolls. But it was our schmaltz. We owned this song in 2000.