Hanson drops a bombshell: We've all been singing 'MMMBop' wrong

Weep, '90s kids, for we have all let Hanson down.
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Chloe Bryan
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Weep, '90s kids, for we have all let Hanson down.

The former teen pop group told Vulture this week that they've never heard a good cover of their 1997 banger "MMMBop." 

No, not even the one your college a cappella group so painstakingly arranged. 


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Not even this one by One Direction.

"People can't sing the chorus right," Isaac Hanson, 35, said. "Most of the time they syncopate it wrong."

But never fear, would-be coverers -- Hanson is open to the possibility of an adequate version emerging in the future.

"Someone needs to either make it totally their own in a genuinely unique way, or it needs to be a band that has a sensibility for old R&B. Fitz and the Tantrums could maybe do it," Taylor Hanson, 33, said.

"If Bruno Mars were interested, he'd probably find a way to kill it," Isaac added.

Bruno, please save us. We just want Hanson to be happy again ... you know, like the old days.


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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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