Dionne Farris – “Hopeless”
On a killer soundtrack like the one for the film Love Jones, it’s hard to pick a favorite song, but who doesn’t love the easy-going and laid back “Hopeless”? Farris actually had more than one big hit, so technically she was a two-hit wonder, (see the acoustic-heavy “I Know“), but “Hopeless” was the song that garnered her the most love thanks to the classic film, and still causes folks to sit back and reminisce. The song did big things in ’97, and ten years later she released a new album–For Truth if Not Love. However, it’s pretty clear that the ’90s were her golden years.