Seven years after “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” Toby Keith rebounded from a stretch of stalled singles and reclaimed his mid ’90s dominance with a honky tonk send-off to the it-girl valedictorian who never gave him the time of day. Toby Keith, “How Do You Like Me Now?!” (No. On their sophomore LP De Stijl, the Detroit duo extended the garage rock blues of their eponymous 1999 debut, and while De Stijl was stacked with eventual classics, none were as raucously, righteously dirty as “Hello Operator.” Here Jack’s guitar sounds hot to the touch, while Meg’s drums deliver a skeletal interlude to the otherwise headbanging track - which in just 2:36 demonstrated that 20th century-style rock was alive and thrashing in the nu millennium. In a year when rock leaned into “nu” strains by bands like Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, The White Stripes sounded refreshingly, well, old.
The White Stripes, “Hello Operator” (Did not chart) Perhaps the most ingenious part of “Liquid Dreams,” though? It’s so catchy, you forget they’re singing about a wet dream.
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Its snapping beat and rolling melody made for a dynamic debut from O-Town, the first product of Diddy’s artist-scouting series Making the Band, reaching the Hot 100’s top 10. If you need a reminder of who was hot in 2000, press play on O-Town’s “Liquid Dreams.” Destiny’s Child, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Angelina Jolie, Cindy Crawford, Tyra Banks and Salma Hayek all get shout-outs in the zeitgeist-y hit (as well as a mysterious reference to “Jennifer” in the chorus - Lopez? Aniston? Love Hewitt?). That wasn’t the case, of course, but P!nk made it clear that she’d never fit into the bubblegum-pop mold of Y2K and beyond. Long before we knew her as the acrobatic performance-loving pop star, P!nk was introduced to the world as the next R&B artist to watch with breakout single “There You Go.” Due to its swagger-heavy production and soulful vocals, many thought the singer was actually a light-skinned black girl. Call it “Seven-Bit Nation Army,” with fewer distracting verses. 99, Hot 100)īy the end of the ’90s, music for video games and music for sporting events had starting overlapping to the point of being interchangeable - so it made sense that one of the ultimate mind-numbing dance anthems at the turn of the millennium should be a remix of a video game theme with a soccer chant stapled on top of it. Zombie Nation, “Kernkraft 400” (Sport Chant Stadium Remix) (No. It’s been a long time since they left you - so begin the journey back with us below, with 100 dope jams to step to.ġ00. Read our list below, find a Spotify playlist of all songs at the bottom, and check back to all week for more about the stories behind the most interesting songs and albums of 2000.
Jackson,” “It Wasn’t Me,” “Yellow,” “One Step Closer” and “One More Time” - we’ll probably see them on this list next year. 1 until the year after, we’re counting ’em for ’01. But if they didn’t hit the Hot 100 until the next year, or if they debuted in ’00 but didn’t hit No. We’re starting today with a list of our 100 favorite songs from the historically rich year, and will continue all week with a series of essays, interviews, lists and other flashbacks to the beginning of the new millennium.įirst, though, a note about eligibility: Songs were counted as eligible if they were released as singles in ’00, if they debuted on the Billboard charts in ’00, or if they hit No. With *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, a standard-setting 2000 pop release both in its cutting-edge production and its record-breaking commercial performance, celebrating its 20th anniversary - and most of us needing no excuse to take a vacation from the world in 2020 - Billboard decided the time was right for a week’s celebration of the year 2000. And a couple ’80s stars returned with dramatically overhauled sounds that demonstrated they would be staying relevant well into their third decades. R&B was modernized not only at its poppiest but also at its rootsiest, as the growing neo-soul movement experienced its greatest year of commercial and critical success. Hip-hop’s geographical axis was thrown off by a brand new rap icon emerging from the country’s center.
The 99 Greatest Songs of 1999: Critics' Picksīut the year wasn’t just about returning ’90s stars getting 2.0 updates.
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