corniest selection on the ringer's "40 best songs of 1999"

These lists always miss “Windowlicker” which is one of the finest singles and music videos of the 90’s let alone 1999.

The coda alone puts all these “top 40” to shame.

i do sincerely applaud the restraint it took to leave 'blue (da ba dee)' off the final list.

“Steal My Sunshine” places on both the Ringer and Spin lists and neither write-up mentions the dialog. That’s the best part of the song!

the correct answer is that it's all corny and 1999 was the corniest year of all of history

1999 was not a great year for me but I can’t blame the music

How have I never heard that sunscreen song until just now? What a piece of shit.

Love about 30 of these, including some corny ones.

Corniest? Sure, “Mambo No. 5” and “That Don’t Impress Me Much”, but also “Maria, Maria” and “Heartbreaker”. I’ve never liked “Heartbreaker”, so I guess I’ll vote for that one. (The *NSYNC probably qualifies, but I hardly remember it as it wasn’t a hit over here.)

How have I never heard that sunscreen song until just now? What a piece of shit.

― Mr. Snrub

Is that the Baz Luhrman song? He is like a reverse alchemist, he turns gold into shit.

"heartbreaker" is good af, get outta here

These lists always miss “Windowlicker” “NORTHERN LITES” which is one of the finest singles and music videos of the 90’s let alone 1999.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, July 30, 2019 5:15 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

fixed

29. NSYNC - God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You

this is the correct answer, this is like half a step removed from "butterfly kisses"

Corniest song title

Can't stand Northern Lights, completely put me off SFA.

Sunscreen is too dull to be corny.

'God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You' aka 'God is a Tender and Considerate Lover'

apparently that song is about their moms, which makes it approx 1 million times worse

Eww

Was it one of N*Sync's or one of the Backstreet Boys' moms who wrote a quicky bio about how hot and desirable her son was?

ok since this isn't a poll for the "best" song (so many of these are stone cold classics, at least 70% of the list) I've gotta go with N*SYNC's "God Must've Spent A Little More Time On You" which I don't remember but assume is from their Xmas album, and there is nothing cornier than Xmas albums.

your love is like a river, peaceful and deep
your soul is like a secret that i never could keep

^^^ obviously horrible song, were there no better 1999 nsync singles to choose from? looking at wikipedia now, there weren't, though i kind of like "i drive myself crazy." also flappy it wasn't from their xmas album! it was one of the final two singles from the s/t, which came out in 1997 ffs, it's a really arbitrary inclusion

16. Whitney Houston - It's Not Right, But It's Okay

if we were voting for best songs

was thinking about doing a best songs for this when this closed, cause there are some bangers on here for sure.

I thought it wsd best songs also Shania is great gtf

"heartbreaker" is good af, get outta here

it's probably my age but i would enjoy listening to most of these songs

it's a total fantasy rip and it still slaps

xp

I thought it wsd best songs also Shania is great gtf

Yeah I love that Shania song.

when i was a 9-year-old in 1999, i have to say my least favorite one of these was cher's 'believe,' but i've come around on that one a bit. not to liking it, but to appreciating it as cheese and a pretty good choice for karaoke.

it's also kinda mind-boggling how huge that song was, considering cher hadn't topped the charts since 1973.

I just relistened to "Believe" and holy cow it does not sound as good as I remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMY0k0-D9JQ

The "Dance!" moment in the sunscreen song is as good a contender for corniness circa '99 as any.

I just relistened to "Believe" and holy cow it does not sound as good as I remember

How good did you remember it sounding?

A low moment in my psychic history was hearing "Believe" for the first time and thinking "it's too bad Cher could never have a hit today, even when she's trying really really hard to." Not only was I wrong, but then I had to listen to the song day in, day out for a half-year.

After some thought I really don't see how this can't be "Summer Girls" - just excruciating to listen to, then & now.

this was my first thought, there's something so cynical about that song, the first boy band tune that felt like a straight cash-in

but then I saw "God Must've Spent a Little More Time on You" which must've come out the summer of '99 because I remember that tune being #1 on TRL like every single day...corniness is basically that tune's only trait. it sounds like something that would've come from one of those manufactured bands on the Disney channel, with all those little *doink* noises everywhere

i love "believe"

also this was the year I turned 13 so the videos for "What's It Gonna Be?", "That Don't Impress Me Much", and to a lesser extent "Steal My Sunshine" were iconic to me for a different reason

Just learned that the Buffy episode that clowns so hard on Believe was released a week before the single even came out.

https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Living_Conditions October 12, 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song) October 19, 1998

Oh fuck. nevermind

lol

Mobb Deep - "Quiet Storm" is great and weirdly out of character for this list

OK lol I actually pressed play on frogbs's video.

xp Deeply out of character.

No Sandstorm no credibility.

believe is amazing

voting for red hot chili peppers, the corniest artists itt

they might be, but i don't think "scar tissue" is v corny

'Thong Song' is the corniest (if 'corny' means "closest to '99 and the song got stuck in '99").

Len and TLC are the best.

there was something weird going on with the music videos at the time, I remember watching a ton of them on MTV back then and like half of them were set on some crazy spaceship with the singers appearing in skintight outfits straight out of the original Star Trek. maybe it was just a side effect of CGI getting a little better (lmao) but I'm kind of curious how this started. was it Michael Jackson?

len, juvenile, new radicals, and sisqo are all timers for me

yah those plus odb and fiona are my faves

also that LFO song is the worst

hah I wonder if Mark Mothersbaugh got a big royalty check for that one

God Didn't Spend Nearly Enough Time on You

lol

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Len - Steal My Sunshine 2

you fools

two motherfuckers tried to steal my sunshine

for some reason I heard "Tender" in a bar at the weekend and there is not enough contempt for that godawful week-long dirge here. seriously personally offended that The Thong Song got more votes than it

also add me to the list of people who never, uh, got "You Get What You Give"

PS "Steal My Sunshine" is great of course

"hooch" is summer 98, why is it discussed here

― billstevejim, Monday, August 5, 2019 11:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is why it finally received its own (semi-)dedicated thread.

The crazy town is obv the best

oopa wrong thread ... although sort of the right thread

i wouldn't have put it past these listmakers to have deemed "butterfly" a 1999 song