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‘What were you like in the 1990s?’: Goo Goo Dolls song Iris is back as the trend’s soundtrack
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Singer-guitarist John Rzeznik performing with Goo Goo Dolls in New York on March 5. Iris, the band’s anthemic 1998 ballad, is being used as the soundtrack to a recent nostalgic social media trend.
PHOTO: NINA WESTERVELT/NYTIMES
Sopan Deb
NEW YORK – As Ebuka Okorie of Stanford University prepared to shoot a free throw at a recent post-season college basketball game, a hush fell over the crowd.
And then a lonely voice pierced the silence with an instantly recognisable lyric.
