Trivia / Men Without Hats

• Creator Killer: Sideways, the band's attempt to jump on the grunge bandwagon, was such a flop that it didn't even get an international release, and they went on a decade-plus-long hiatus.
• Referenced by...:
  • X-Men: Apocalypse was filmed in Montreal and is set in The '80s, so the song playing in the background of the deleted mall scene is "The Safety Dance" as a nod to a Montreal '80s band.
  • In The Newsreader episode "No More Lies", "The Safety Dance" is heard when Helen Norville and Dale Jennings take part in a photo shoot.
• Two-Hit Wonder: Often thought of as the textbook case of One-Hit Wonder, but by the definition of "one hit wonder" (only one song to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100), they actually were not, as "Pop Goes the World" hit #20. The band had more chart success in their native Canada.

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