If anything, own it! Everything about this song is brilliant, from the twinkly production to Diana Ross's backing sample and, of course, the skilled verses of all three rappers. With this song, Notorious B. Both this and "Hypnotize" were released after the hip-hop icon's tragic death in So, in full transparency, it took me a few years to finally discover her masterpiece, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Listen, if I hear one more "No Scrubs" cover, I might lose it. The TLC discography is vast, and their impact goes far beyond the one song everyone seems to choose at karaoke. Case and point: "Waterfalls," a bop in equal measure to their most popular hit, albeit with a message that requires a bit more reflection. We're meant to be wary of chasing the dangerous waterfalls that could end up hurting us—no need to move too fast.
Unless, of course, you're running away from another ukulele cover of "No Scrubs. Zig-a-zig-ah, am I right? Even if you aren't going through a tumultuous breakup, this song will make you feel things. Can't think of one. Could I even consider myself a proper Sad Girl without discussing this song? I love "Dancing On My Own" as much as the next girl that is to say, a whole lot , but this more pared-back version of Robyn is just as powerful. Her album, Jagged Little Pill, was angry and funny, planting a feminist seed in my brain that she would continue to sun and water into my adult years.
There are only a handful of pop songs that feel otherworldly, and this is one of them. For Madonna, "home" is several places, but in her music it always comes back to just one: the dance floor. Sheryl Crow won Record of the Year in for this sunny jam, and it's easy to remember why as soon as you turn it on. The song just feels like an escape—the kind of tune you blast with the car windows down as you get the hell out of town. I love The Cure, and there's a reason "Friday" is one of their biggest hits.
Listen if you want to ignite your inner goth teen. OMG, Ace of Base. To me, nothing sums up the decade more than this Swedish pop group. I love songs that sound upbeat but have darker lyrics when you take a closer look, and this one fits the bill.
Plus, the overall messaging set some solid relationship standards for when I was a few years older. Still applicable. The decade may have started with alt-rock, grunge, and hip-hop, but it ended on a very pop moment with groups like LFO bringing the world sparkly if not super deep ditties you probably still know the words to. The song is one of the finest crafted in famed producer Max Martin's bubblegum factory, which is to say Leonty and Ash are about to go on a first date.
We interviewed them beforehand and afterward, separately, and had them rate their date. Were they initially attracted to each other? Would they see each other again? Her favorite collaborators? Her sisters, Mariya and Miya. By Jenny Singer. By Talia Abbas. By Christopher Rosa. Rewards Free Stuff Promos. Topics 90s music nostalgia madonna britney spears. Road Test. I'm So Tired. Nick Levine. Up until , Andre and Big Boi operated in more avant garde waters: The ATliens seemed downright extraterrestrial, and that made them a favorite among true fans.
This is their coming out party to the bigger musical world, and all anybody could do in response was throw their hands in the air and wait for the duo to take over the world.
Beck hit the scene with "Loser," but he became the Beck we know with Odelay , a Dust Brothers-produced masterpiece of deep grooves, goofball prose and endless bleeps and blops. Lead single "Where It's At" is the collision of both Becks: Here, the folksy stoner hip-hop comes to life overtop a squealing, joyous synth keyboard groove, giving rise to one of pop music's most enduringly singular figures.
Long before becoming a staple of dorm-room posters, Wu-Tang was a scrappy crew rising out of the slums of Staten Island. Twenty years on, it's still bracing. Elastica's eponymous debut album became a chart-topping phenomenon in , and "Connection" is the jewel in its crown. Songwriting frontwoman Justine Frischmann may have pinched the opening riff from Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" which later got the punk band a songwriting credit , but there's no quibbling with the way she reworks it into a sexy and kinetic Britpop gem.
Oh, and let's not forget "Connection" always sounded great soundtracking Dom Joly's turn-of-the-millennium comedy show Trigger Happy TV. Without the riot grrrl movement, our culture would look very different. In other words: kickass. Were The Prodigy "proper" dance music? Who cares? It was big, not-at-all clever and loads of fun.
The crossover song that gave the titans the keys to the stadium. Ever licked a window? Richard D James aka mind-fucking electronica genius Aphex Twin clearly has, as this demonically twisted slo-mo banger demonstrated.
Cunning bastard. Certainly not the band's most aggressive or melodic song, "Black Hole Sun" remains Soundgarden's most quintessential tracks thanks to its eerily apocalyptic lyrics and the late Chris Cornell's uncanny ability to perform verbal gymnastics with his vocal cords. It's as if David Lynch wandered down from Twin Peaks to dabble in Seattle grunge: a rollickingly complex symphony of crunchy guitars, tripped-out lyrical content and rock-star bravado.
The opening "Bo knows this" might be pure '90s, but everything else here is lightyears ahead of the game. It was catchy, we all wanted to be one of them and we all learnt that catsuits should only be worn by Victoria Beckham.
Josh Jones. HOVA became a household name with this genius breakout sampling a hook from children's musical Annie. In a way, "Hard Knock Life" was a changing of the tide, one that kept hip-hop's boastful ways but gave the money-obsessed genre a rougher sheen and a more experimental bent in the production booth. Jay-Z would eventually transition to hip-hop's Daddy Warbucks, unleashing a game-changing string of hits that closed out the '90s in style, then it was on to the next one decade, that is.
The Pumpkin's epic two-disc followup to their breakout Siamese Dream included several chart-bothering singles, but "" is Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at its most endearing and enduring.
How long can you talk about sex without mentioning anything explicitly filthy? Hayley Joyes. Painfully earnest and impossibly dorky, Weezer would spend the decades following its debut album chasing hits and losing its shoegazey identity in the process.
But when "Undone" hit the airwaves in , it wasn't just some oddball proto-hipster basement rock. It was the antithesis of the biting, gnarled grunge movement: A fuzz-rock anthem that would come to define a new era of youth that seemed perfectly content to be wallflowers… angsty, awkward, disaffected and restless ones, sure, but wallflowers nonetheless. Boyz II Men is the cultural phenomenon that somehow nobody talks about anymore: A Motown-backed, vocally driven boy band with swagger to spare.
More crucially — and tragically — it also paved the way for acts like NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys to rip off their style wholesale like some sort of frosted-tip Elvis Presleys.
But they never topped "Motownphilly. Britney's debut single was a game-changer, helping to usher in a new generation of brilliantly bombastic teen-pop, often crafted by Swedish songwriting genius Max Martin. The video featuring La Spears in school uniform is iconic, obviously, but let's not overlook the fact that the song itself remains pure pop perfection.
Even if its key lyric, "hit me baby one more time," doesn't completely make sense. This was the song that set The Fugees on their path to world domination: a hip hop hit built for chart supremacy. By the time it had finished its chart run, Wyclef, Lauryn and Pras were part of the furniture. I was expecting a torrent of terrifying electro, but then this came out of the speakers and entranced me.
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