Ultimate 2000s: Song Justice (Complete)
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I think(?) it's my last to go too and I'm completely shocked *pleasantly so* but still shocked it made top 10! I actually assumed it was out ages ago...ddd Glad taste prevailed in the end. Truly and underrated classic!
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#6
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87 points
TRY AGAIN | AALIYAH
Voted By: @londonrain (20) @WowWowWowWow (18) @sfmartin (17) @berserkboi (17) @Maria (11) @GimmeWork (4)
Year: 2000
Country of Origin: USA
Appearance: 3rd
sfmartin commentary:
Truly innovative and unlike anything anyone had heard before. Timbaland at his best and inspired similar records for the rest of the decade (a lot of them bangers – shout out to What About Us? By Brandy and Freeeeaaaak by George Michael). Aaliyah sounds transcendent throughout. A trend of all my favourite songs is unique production, which is allowed to breathe and flourish in the song, and at just under five mins this is perfect. 22 years on this song still sounds as fresh as ever. A timeless classic.
WowWowWowWow Commentary:
Sometimes I think Aaliyah would probably have been bigger than Adele and Beyoncé combined if we hadn’t lost her when we did. Maybe this world just wasn’t ready for it.
londonrain commentary:
A truly flawless song showing off Timbaland's production at its finest. There's a reason this was the first song ever to reach #1 in the US purely on airplay ahead of its commercial release: it's just that addictive. Also, the writing combination of Timbaland and the late Static Major just worked so well with Aaliyah's voice, and she has the absolute panache to pull off the air of a woman who's into a potential suitor but wants to learn more about him before committing to going out with him.
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87 points
TRY AGAIN | AALIYAH
Voted By: @londonrain (20) @WowWowWowWow (18) @sfmartin (17) @berserkboi (17) @Maria (11) @GimmeWork (4)
Year: 2000
Country of Origin: USA
Appearance: 3rd
sfmartin commentary:
Truly innovative and unlike anything anyone had heard before. Timbaland at his best and inspired similar records for the rest of the decade (a lot of them bangers – shout out to What About Us? By Brandy and Freeeeaaaak by George Michael). Aaliyah sounds transcendent throughout. A trend of all my favourite songs is unique production, which is allowed to breathe and flourish in the song, and at just under five mins this is perfect. 22 years on this song still sounds as fresh as ever. A timeless classic.
WowWowWowWow Commentary:
Sometimes I think Aaliyah would probably have been bigger than Adele and Beyoncé combined if we hadn’t lost her when we did. Maybe this world just wasn’t ready for it.
londonrain commentary:
A truly flawless song showing off Timbaland's production at its finest. There's a reason this was the first song ever to reach #1 in the US purely on airplay ahead of its commercial release: it's just that addictive. Also, the writing combination of Timbaland and the late Static Major just worked so well with Aaliyah's voice, and she has the absolute panache to pull off the air of a woman who's into a potential suitor but wants to learn more about him before committing to going out with him.
He/Him
My last song left - and what a way to go out!!!
Love to all my hunties who joined in voting this excellence so close to the top!! <333
Love to all my hunties who joined in voting this excellence so close to the top!! <333
he/him
Holding on for dear life to my last (I think) song yet to bounce!
Also an open message to anyone who dares to come for Aaliyah right now: I’ll be watching you like a hawk in the sky, and you WILL absolutely be my prey.
Also an open message to anyone who dares to come for Aaliyah right now: I’ll be watching you like a hawk in the sky, and you WILL absolutely be my prey.
Solenciennes
Staff member
What a song, what a talent. So many of Timbaland’s hits later in the decade have that question mark hanging over them, what would they have sounded like with an Aaliyah vocal instead? It’s an impossible discussion but her steely fragility has been emulated so much that you can’t help but feel confident that she would have been the biggest star in the world with the trajectory she was on… great choice.
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#5
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103 points
FREAK LIKE ME | SUGABABES
Voted By: @Solenciennes (20) @sfmartin (20) @beyoncésweave (19) @Rogue (17) @Ugly Beauty (13) @SophiaSophia (13) @Maria (1)
Year: 2002
Country of Origin: England
Appearance: 15th
sfmartin commentary:
Just an explosive, stratospheric, blow your wig off, banger. Inspired amalgamation of Freak Like Me by Adina Howard and Are Friends Electric? by Gary Numan. I much prefer the radio edit to the version that appeared on Richard X album. I find it has more energy and better mastering but each version has its charm. I have been obsessed with this song ever since it was released. Each of the girls vocals works perfectly. Conveying the perfect blend of flirtation and fierceness. The video is also a delightful tribute to Buffy and vampirey stuff around the time of release. For me it’s all about the Breakdown after Heidi’s “IT’S ALL GOOD FOR ME-EE”, it obliterates my soul every time and sends me into space. I am a Girls Aloud superfan but this is the best Girl Band track of all time.
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103 points
FREAK LIKE ME | SUGABABES
Voted By: @Solenciennes (20) @sfmartin (20) @beyoncésweave (19) @Rogue (17) @Ugly Beauty (13) @SophiaSophia (13) @Maria (1)
Year: 2002
Country of Origin: England
Appearance: 15th
sfmartin commentary:
Just an explosive, stratospheric, blow your wig off, banger. Inspired amalgamation of Freak Like Me by Adina Howard and Are Friends Electric? by Gary Numan. I much prefer the radio edit to the version that appeared on Richard X album. I find it has more energy and better mastering but each version has its charm. I have been obsessed with this song ever since it was released. Each of the girls vocals works perfectly. Conveying the perfect blend of flirtation and fierceness. The video is also a delightful tribute to Buffy and vampirey stuff around the time of release. For me it’s all about the Breakdown after Heidi’s “IT’S ALL GOOD FOR ME-EE”, it obliterates my soul every time and sends me into space. I am a Girls Aloud superfan but this is the best Girl Band track of all time.
Solenciennes
Staff member
Wow, all the way to number 5! Glad to see it. A little while ago I was going through a phase of doing some Sugababes deep dive stuff and when I came to looking at Freak Like Me, it is such a potent combination of secret ingredients. Keisha and Mutya were what, 16/17 when Siobhan left the band and they got dropped? They could have gone back to school, really, the incentive to carry on was surely just ambition and fumes at that point. Heidi had been knocked back so many times already, ditching Atomic Kitten before it got going, having a solo career not materialise... again, could have gone and got a day job and left the dream to wither but carried on. So they had that underdog thing going for them. Richard X combining a '90s R&B track that made very little waves in the UK and a '70s synth-pop hit, guaranteeing that anyone familiar with one original song probably wouldn't have been familiar with the other one, so for all intents and purposes it was new but familiar to someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of music.
The Adina Howard aspect tied in with much of the R&B leanings of their first album, and channeled that underground-turned-mainstream success that was linked with the UK Garage movement through that mash up of those two songs. I think it would be much harder to recapture that kind of energy in the streaming, Shazam era where you could probably suss out the origins of a mash up quickly but back in the day it was fascinating to learn how the track came to be. The music video matches the energy of the song, it's giving warehouse rave. The kind of underground, exciting mystery that the song's built on. I think it's a fair comment to say between Atomic Kitten (Overload/Whole Again), Girls Aloud (Round Round/Sound of the Underground) and Misteeq (Freak Like Me/Scandalous), they had all the other pop groups of the day trying to keep up with their visuals. And, I think, you can credit Freak Like Me for earning them that BRIT award win for Best Dance Act seeing as they performed it live the same night.
The Adina Howard aspect tied in with much of the R&B leanings of their first album, and channeled that underground-turned-mainstream success that was linked with the UK Garage movement through that mash up of those two songs. I think it would be much harder to recapture that kind of energy in the streaming, Shazam era where you could probably suss out the origins of a mash up quickly but back in the day it was fascinating to learn how the track came to be. The music video matches the energy of the song, it's giving warehouse rave. The kind of underground, exciting mystery that the song's built on. I think it's a fair comment to say between Atomic Kitten (Overload/Whole Again), Girls Aloud (Round Round/Sound of the Underground) and Misteeq (Freak Like Me/Scandalous), they had all the other pop groups of the day trying to keep up with their visuals. And, I think, you can credit Freak Like Me for earning them that BRIT award win for Best Dance Act seeing as they performed it live the same night.
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20 points: Jamelia - Superstar
19 points: Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
18 points: All Saints - Black Coffee
17 points: Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
16 points: P!nk - Who Knew
15 points: Gwen Stefani - Cool
14 points: Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra - Touch Me
13 points: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
12 points: MGMT - Kids
11 points: Róisín Murphy - Let Me Know
10 points: Rihanna - SOS
9 points: Noisettes - Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go)
8 points: Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
7 points: Steps - It's The Way You Make Me Feel
6 points: Amerie - 1 Thing
5 points: Groove Armada feat. Mutya Buena - Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)
4 points: Samantha Mumba - Always Come Back To Your Love
3 points: Lasgo - Something
2 points: Richard X vs. Liberty X - Being Nobody
1 point: Daft Punk - One More Time
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20 points: Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
19 points: M2M - Don't Say You Love Me
18 points: Gwen Stefani - Cool
17 points: Saint Etienne - Method of Modern Love
16 points: Céline Dion - That’s The Way It Is
15 points: Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
14 points: Vanessa Amorosi - Steam
13 points: Louise - 2 Faced
12 points: The Corrs - Breathless
11 points: Victoria Beckham - Let Your Head Go
10 points: Girls Aloud - Jump
9 points: Mikaila - Emotional
8 points: Girls Aloud - The Loving Kind
7 points: H & Claire - All Out of Love
6 points: Erasure - Here I Go Impossible Again
5 points: Sugababes - Conversation's Over
4 points: Pop! - Can't Say Goodbye
3 points: Steps - Here and Now
2 points: Shania Twain - Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon)
1 point: Taylor Swift - Fearless
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20 points: The Pussycat Dolls feat. Snoop Dogg - Buttons
19 points: Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight
18 points: P!nk - Who Knew
17 points: Janet Jackson - All For You
16 points: Paul Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
15 points: Gwen Stefani - Cool
14 points: Girls Aloud - Call The Shots
13 points: t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
12 points: Britney Spears - Everytime
11 points: Madonna - Sorry
10 points: Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
9 points: Nelly Furtado - Maneater
8 points: Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
7 points: Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
6 points: Lady Gaga - Poker Face
5 points: Sam Sparro - Black & Gold
4 points: Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone
3 points: Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
2 points: Agnes - Release Me
1 point: Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor
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Today @2014 is my fave mod as the only user on this forum I can trust to stan Black Coffee as much as I do. Could have said the same thing to @VivaForever and The Loving Kind if only I had better taste and voted for it too, alas...
And it's clear @4Roses knows how to appreciate a sweeping ballad alongside their filthy bops, and I very much respect that! Who Knew and When You're Gone always seemed like sister songs to me, I'm always flat on the floor by the last chorus ddd
And it's clear @4Roses knows how to appreciate a sweeping ballad alongside their filthy bops, and I very much respect that! Who Knew and When You're Gone always seemed like sister songs to me, I'm always flat on the floor by the last chorus ddd
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20 points: Aaliyah - Try Again
19 points: Destiny's Child - Say My Name
18 points: Sugababes - Ace Reject
17 points: Mary J. Blige - Be Without You
16 points: Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
15 points: Sugababes - Push The Button
14 points: Mýa - Case Of The Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do)
13 points: Brandy - Come A Little Closer
12 points: Sara Bareilles - Gravity
11 points: Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
10 points: Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)
9 points: Mariah Carey - I Stay In Love
8 points: All Saints - Rock Steady
7 points: Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough
6 points: Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
5 points: P!nk - Most Girls
4 points: Alicia Keys - Fallin'
3 points: Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
2 points: Kelly Rowland - Work (Freemasons Radio Edit)
1 point: Delta Goodrem - Electric Storm
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20 points: Britney Spears - Gimme More
19 points: Britney Spears - Break The Ice
18 points: Rihanna - Rude Boy
17 points: Lily Allen - The Fear
16 points: Mariah Carey - Don't Forget About Us
15 points: Nelly Furtado - Maneater
14 points: Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
13 points: Madonna - Hung Up
12 points: Missy Elliott feat. Ludacris - One Minute Man
11 points: Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
10 points: Mariah Carey - I Stay In Love
9 points: Lily Allen - Not Fair
8 points: M.I.A. - XR2
7 points: Kylie Minogue - Slow
6 points: No Doubt - Hella Good
5 points: Madonna - Music
4 points: Aaliyah - Try Again
3 points: Lady Gaga - Poker Face
2 points: Gwen Stefani - Cool
1 point: Lady Gaga - Alejandro
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20 points: Sugababes - Freak Like Me
19 points: t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
18 points: Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
17 points: Aaliyah - Try Again
16 points: Britney Spears - Gimme More
15 points: Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No...
14 points: Röyksopp feat. Robyn - The Girl And The Robot
13 points: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
12 points: Dragonette - Fixin To Thrill
11 points: Holly Valance - State of Mind
10 points: Beyoncé & Shakira - Beautiful Liar (Freemasons Remix Edit)
9 points: Goldfrapp - Train
8 points: Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
7 points: Madonna - Hung Up
6 points: Christina Aguilera feat. Redman - Dirrty
5 points: The Knife - We Share Our Mothers’ Health
4 points: Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
3 points: Ladyhawke - Magic
2 points: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
1 point: Kylie Minogue - Slow
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Three very sexy ballots today - from dynamite classics of r&b/pop to dark & sensual~~ electro/synthpop. My favourite person of the moment is @sfmartin who joined me in voting for Ladyhawke's opus (the amount of Magic-less ballots in the 5th Winners' Rate, far too much!) Trust @londonrain to bring the best of Alicia and Destiny's Child and @GimmeWork to single-handedly carry out LilyJustice. I wouldn't want to imagine this countdown without your votes <3
She/her
Gosh those are some stunning electro-bops. What a fun decade it was was.
20 points: Sugababes - Freak Like Me
19 points: t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
18 points: Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
17 points: Aaliyah - Try Again
16 points: Britney Spears - Gimme More
15 points: Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No...
14 points: Röyksopp feat. Robyn - The Girl And The Robot
13 points: Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
12 points: Dragonette - Fixin To Thrill
11 points: Holly Valance - State of Mind
10 points: Beyoncé & Shakira - Beautiful Liar (Freemasons Remix Edit)
9 points: Goldfrapp - Train
8 points: Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
7 points: Madonna - Hung Up
6 points: Christina Aguilera feat. Redman - Dirrty
5 points: The Knife - We Share Our Mothers’ Health
4 points: Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
3 points: Ladyhawke - Magic
2 points: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
1 point: Kylie Minogue - Slow
she/her
I can now reveal that it's a matter of 13 points between #4 and #1 - coincidentally, the mentioned positions have the same number of voters - 9, only exceeded by #3 which received points from 10 participants.
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#4
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119 points
STRONGER | BRITNEY SPEARS
Voted By: @Music Is Life & Death (19) @Daniel_O (18) @MilesAngel (17) @SophiaSophia (16) @Rogue (14) @Lost In Japan. (14) @Ana Raquel (10) @livefrommelbs (8) @Ugly Beauty (3)
Year: 2000
Country of Origin: USA
Appearance: 13th
livefrommelbs commentary:
Brit got my #1 spot in the 10s version of this rate - but in the stacked 00s, 13th is as high as she's placing. That said, what a fucking song. Triumphant. Euphoric. Empowering. Bombastic. It was absolutely the moment where Britney levelled up as a pop artist for me, and has endured as one of my all-time fave songs of hers.
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119 points
STRONGER | BRITNEY SPEARS
Voted By: @Music Is Life & Death (19) @Daniel_O (18) @MilesAngel (17) @SophiaSophia (16) @Rogue (14) @Lost In Japan. (14) @Ana Raquel (10) @livefrommelbs (8) @Ugly Beauty (3)
Year: 2000
Country of Origin: USA
Appearance: 13th
livefrommelbs commentary:
Brit got my #1 spot in the 10s version of this rate - but in the stacked 00s, 13th is as high as she's placing. That said, what a fucking song. Triumphant. Euphoric. Empowering. Bombastic. It was absolutely the moment where Britney levelled up as a pop artist for me, and has endured as one of my all-time fave songs of hers.