The women struggled at times to escape from the shadow of their celebrity fathers. Their second album, “Shadows and Light,” included darker songs about the mental health and addiction issues they watched their fathers go through. Perhaps as a result of this past trauma, Chynna Phillips also struggled through her own drug and alcohol addiction problems in high school, which spurred the writing of the group’s hit single, “Hold On.” The single would go on to beat out Madonna’s “Vogue” to win the No. 1 spot in the U.S. Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1990 and was later performed by the group in a cameo in the 2011 comedy “Bridesmaids” (via Rolling Stone).
Within the next decade after the release of “Shadows of Light,” the trio went their separate ways and began releasing solo records. Over time, as the women started their own families, they reconciled their differences and came together in 2001 to perform the Beach Boys song “You’re So Good to Me,” at a tribute show to Brian Wilson, according to New Castle News. In 2012, Wilson Phillips came full circle to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their formation with an album of covers by the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas called “Dedicated,” according to Rolling Stone. Now, Wilson’s daughters are getting older, and they have started to sing, dance, and harmonize just as Wilson did with her sister and Phillips as a child (via New Castle News).
