Hey-yay, what’s going on? Well, 4 Non Blondes are reuniting to appear at this year’s installment of BottleRock Napa Valley music festival, scheduled for May 23-25 in California.
The lineup for the festival was announced on Jan. 13 and headliners include Justin Timberlake, Noah Kahan and Green Day; Benson Boone is also on the bill. But the big news is the presence of the ’90s rock band led by Linda Perry, best known for their hit “What’s Up?” The group disbanded in 1994 after one album. Since then, they’ve only played together once, at a 2014 charity event.
On the podcast The Allison Hagendorf Show, exclusively premiered by People.com, Perry says that “it’s the right time in my heart” for the band to get back together and she’s been manifesting this.
“I’ve been kind of putting that energy out, because I want 2025 to be my year,” she says. “I want to own this year because I feel like I’ve been planting seeds all over the place and I’m watching my little trees grow,” she notes. “We got this offer [for BottleRock] … and I’m like, ‘OK, I knew this was coming’ … I’ve told the universe I want this to happen.”
Perry says she called up the band members — even though, she says, “we don’t talk” — and asked them, “Hey, how do you guys feel about this?”
“They were excited, and so I’m gonna go hang out with them in San Francisco, rehearse and just [mess] around,” says Perry. “Not really have a plan, but just see how it feels.” She says 4 Non Blondes’ unreleased second album may see the light of day.
These days, Perry’s probably best known for writing hits for other artists, including Christina Aguilera, Pink, Gwen Stefani and Alicia Keys.
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