The "Fairweather Johnson" President

What a forgotten Hootie and the Blowfish album and POTUS have in common.

In his excellent Trainwreckords series, about albums that destroyed or badly damaged careers, Todd in the Shadows examined the failure of Fairweather Johnson, the little-remembered follow-up to Hootie and the Blowfish’s 1994 mega-blockbuster Cracked Rear View. After a strong first week, it quickly slipped down the charts, sold a fraction of its predecessor and produced no major hit singles.

Todd makes an interesting observation about the rapid rise and fall of Hootie and the Blowfish: they were the band for everybody, and therefore the band for nobody.