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

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

frogbs, i mean, it was the era of X-Files, Y2k tension, the Matrix, WTO protests, disillusionment with govt w/r/t Lewinsky stuff, conspiracy theory, David Icke, Behold a Pale Horse... it's not a stretch that music videos are gonna look that way

while you are considering what to vote for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdKTx-8EvtM

Scar Tissue is corny af and it's only the presence of Tender than prevented me from voting for it.

most of these songs are really good but as a whole this list is basic as fuck so who the fuck cares

1. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
2. TLC - No Scrubs
3. Mariah Carey - Heartbreaker ft. Jay-Z
4. Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
5. Len - Steal My Sunshine

Breaking some new ground with this unusual yet intriguing top 5.

Baby One More Time is from 1998.

Can't wait for their top 40 albums of 1999 topped by "Now 3" and "Now 2."

their album list is a bit more interesting

citizen king - better days reminds me of a mix cd they gave out at aeropostale if you bought enough cargo shorts and puka shell necklaces or something. wish i could find a tracklist. think "hooch" by everything was on there. the blue monday cover by orgy was definitely on there.

'steal my sunshine' dude employs a weird loud whisper affectation that is my most hated vocal performance ever. so voting for that.

its fun to imitate though

there was a time when I was kinda curious what other songs by Len sounded like. not anymore, oh well

I checked out the album once, I think the rest of the tracks were mainly skate-punk or something like that.

ftr "Heartbreaker" fucking sucks

'steal my sunshine' dude employs a weird loud whisper affectation that is my most hated vocal performance ever. so voting for that.

― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:21 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is soooooo otm, such an awful delivery that ruins an otherwise beautiful song.

anyone have an 'instrumental' version that just cuts his vox?

it's the b-side on the "california realin' remix" single

What was that thread, from a year or so back, where we were obsessing over a sub-genre of "pop songs with breakbeats" from this era?

'scar tissue' makes me squirm. the lyrics are embarrassing, dave matthews-grade j/o. the narrative behind the album and rhcp's ascent to wise rock survivors makes me want to barf. rhcp is like the ultimate example of the kind of band that a certain person will be like 'this band is good and i will listen to them, most of my musical opinions are contrarian and turgid' about. their boring respectability now is just so goddamn mindless considering their songs have never not been like 80% repellent with lyrics that can't stay away from being gross and can't say anything interesting or appealing even in their "mature" phase. i mean feel free to point to counter-examples anyone, i will nod and appreciate your deep listening drive and generosity of spirit, but i'm not going to follow you there lol.

feel like hating rhcp is way more acceptable than liking them

tbf most of my musical opinions are contrarian and turgid

xp haha i think that depends a lot on where a person lives

Rhcp, green day, and foo fighters all feel like the last generation that worked at rock inc. before the company went outta business so they get remembered as members of The Greats simply by outliving everyone

ftr "Heartbreaker" fucking sucks

The girl at the student house next to mine played Californication on repeat for the entire summer of 2000, and very loud too, I hate that fucking album more than I can say

very loud too

this is just the natural volume of californication

I've read quite a bit about it being the ultimate example of a victim of the loudness wars, doesn't make me hate it any less tbh.

lol I mean if u think abt it californication is just a combination of words that means “fucking california” and listen buddy fuckin a whole state is not quiet work

Summer Girls is still worst tho

and it's in the rob Sheffield list in rs too. what the fuck is wrong with these people?

ftr "Heartbreaker" fucking sucks

The remix with Missy Elliot tho, I'm fully on board with.

i always thought it was a portmanteau of 'california' and 'vacation'

the lead singer of the band Everything looks a lot like rob schneider in this "Hooch" video

a buddy of mine had that Lou Bega CD, it was low key pretty hilarious

two of the songs are straight up rewrites of "Mambo No. 5" and there's a skit (??) that involves an awful Italian accent

kinda reminds me of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, where you have a cool novelty single and then have to write a full LP but you don't really have any ideas beyond that one thing. although I liked "Tricky Tricky" a lot

i always thought it was a portmanteau of 'california' and 'vacation'

― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:31 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ur thinking of “californiacation” one letter makes a huge difference between a family trip to anaheim and a trip to make a family WITH anaheim

feel like rhcp's a better soundtrack to the buena park pirate dinner show

20. Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5

40. Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca

The 'snoball is working as a painter & decorator and the boss's radio is tuned to Capital and all they seem to play are these two songs' duo.

'steal my sunshine' dude employs a weird loud whisper affectation that is my most hated vocal performance ever. so voting for that.
― triple-washed (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 3:21 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Credit where it's due, Mike Edwards from Jesus Jones laid the foundation for this utterly indefensible style of 'singing'.

Also: please stop evoking 'Hooch' why because being reminded of that song is making me literally die.

(Countdown to me creating the 'Hooch' thread no one asked for.)

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

didn't even hesitate

xp hooch music video needs to be sectioned and polled

i'm going with miami. still get embarrassed when that song comes on. nothing on this list is 'cornier' to me.

2nd and 3rd are summer girls and god mustve spent, respectively.

xpost Okay well I just watched that video and can confidently state that that combination of sound and image is the purest distillation of evil ever delivered into the world.

literally cannot imagine any person in the last, say, dozen years going "hmm you know what I need to hear right now?! Miami by Will Smith!! Yes!!! What a tune!"

you haven't met me

lol. alas :(

although it always makes me want to listen to and the beat goes on by the whispers which is far superior