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KUnlimited
Since: Sep, 2020
21st Apr, 2022 11:34:14 AM
Even outside the wiki, the term One-Hit Wonder refers to songs, not albums, so I'd say that example was misuse.
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BoltDMC
Since: May, 2020
22nd Apr, 2022 01:19:22 AM
Agreed — cut it.
thelivingtoad
Since: Apr, 2015
22nd Apr, 2022 11:27:08 PM
OK. I got rid of it when I saw it, I was just looking for consensus that what I did was the right thing.
supernintendo128 added an example to One Hit Wonder.Rock Music about an artist only known for one album. That term, and the page itself, traditionally refers to artists known for one song, not an album. The article itself describes songs not albums, most references I can find about the term describe songs not albums too. The term for an artist known for only one album seems to be "One Album Wonder". A One Album Wonder is a very different thing from a One Hit Wonder for songs: A "one album wonder" might have multiple hit songs from one album but then never have any others (Hootie & the Blowfish or Lauryn Hill, for instance) and none of those artists are listed on the One Hit Wonder pages.
I removed the example because it seemed to me to be a misuse of the trope and its long-held definition, but now I'm wondering if "One Album Wonder" or something to that effect could be its own trope or own subsection.
What do you all think should be done? Was this Remo Drive example about an album a misuse of the trope, or should One Album Wonder acts be listed in a new subpage? At the very least, I think listing album examples alongside the song examples could become very confusing very fast.
Edited by thelivingtoad