millenial nostalgia songs (aren't what they used to be) *NO PHONE ALERT*

there's probably a proper thread for the transition period or interzone of the late 90s and early 00s, which i associate mainly with saturated, sunny, big-budget videos in pop, hip-hop, and rock alike - and yet also with the nu-metal peak and all its visual and sonic angst. lot of stars whose careers or cultural impact didn't really get escape velocity from that era. whether you wind it up with 9/11 or the iraq war as non-musical landmarks seems to be an open question.

this thread is where i first bumped into this notion (framed as a "mini-decade"): The song that represents the END of the 90s as silly as "decade" stuff is, i think if you're gonna play that game you do need this mini-decade cause otherwise neither the "90s" or the "00s" add up to a coherent and unitary whole.