FEATURE:
Twenty-First Century Bliss
IN THIS PHOTO: The White Stripes in 2001 (their second album, De Stijl, came out in 2000)/PHOTO CREDIT: Pieter M. van Hattem
The Very Best Billboard Hot 100 Hits, Singles and Album Tracks from the Year 2000
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I have already written a feature…
that collated the very best songs from 1990 so that we can look back thirty years and remember the brilliance! As we are in a new decade, I actually wanted to go back twenty years and see how this century kicked off. After the 1990s ended, artists had that responsibility keeping the momentum going and, not only were there some great albums; there were some smashing songs that still sound incredible today. I might do another decades/decade-starting feature, just so we can see how previous decades have started, and whether 2020 has the same promise. Even if you were not alive in 2000, you will still love the cream of the crop from the start of the twenty-first century – a year that seemed futuristic years previously and, now, seems so far away. Here, in a handy playlist, is a year that provided the world with…
IN THIS PHOTO: Kelis
SO much top-notch music!