At some point, he decided to ditch the plastic triplets of AmerieвЂ™s 2002 debut and to become some superfly crack-up of Madlib and Teddy Riley. go-go drummer now crafting 21-gun salutes for DestinyвЂ™s children. Her Haley was named Rich Harrison, a former D.C. Rachel Stevens hit in вЂњBlah Blah Blah.вЂќ The resultвЂ™s a bit stylistically incontinent-cabaret piano, house tempos, Miami bass, acoustic balladry, ValentineвЂ™s strident vocals-where the Brit stuff tends to the province of auto-tuned wisps, with little spikes of genius.ДЄmerie feels more American: She came careening into our hearts on the cometвЂ™s tail of a Meters loop. In fact, Bloodshy & Avant (BritneyвЂ™s вЂњToxicвЂќ) recycle the exact Glitter Band electro sashay they parlayed into a U.K. The rest of Chain Letter is certainly equally up-to-date, except it got lost on the way to the club and wound up in England, of all places.Д¬hain Letter is less an r&b record than the kind of genre-hopping, вЂњyour favorite mix tapeвЂќ pomo pop record the Sugababes or Girls Aloud have perfected. вЂњGirlfightвЂќ is pitched at the darker end of Lil JonвЂ™s broken Euro-rave presets and comes with the usual side of greasy leers. вЂњThis song is for those women who got beef with another bitch.вЂќ Those are the first words you hear on Brooke ValentineвЂ™s debut album. TheyвЂ™ve just happened to release albums at roughly the same time in a genre with no new Missy-sized personalities looming on the horizon and lots of blank slates pushing some dudeвЂ™s kept-wifey fantasies. None of the following artists sport trash bags, genderfuck, or date the worldвЂ™s most famous rapper. IвЂ™m not saying we should be constructing an alternate canon of ordinariness. Regular folks donвЂ™t need to convince editors of the relative worth of Brand X. Critics like larger-than-life personalities because they make our lives easier. So I assimilated assertive female pleasure, self-determination, and all that good stuff early on.Д«ut she also played a lot of Anita Baker, which is less a lesson in paisley post-feminism than in being happily subdued with Glade air freshener. She dosed us with Teena Marie to counteract my dadвЂ™s curriculum of Yes and Genesis. My mother gave me many things: love, a roof over my head, a genetic lack of ankles.

Yes, that does sound like a lot of fun, doesnвЂ™t itвЂ¦? And now itвЂ™s time to begin to compile this yearвЂ™s best songsвЂ¦ (Spotify link below.)Д 07 вЂ“ The Rumble Strips вЂ“ Girls and Boys in LoveД 10 вЂ“ The New Pornographers вЂ“ The Slow Descent into AlcoholismД 11 вЂ“ VHS Or Beta вЂ“ CanвЂ™t Believe A Single A WordД 14 вЂ“ Pete And The Pirates вЂ“ She DoesnвЂ™t Belong To MeД 20 вЂ“ Kanye West вЂ“ Gold Digger (feat.If Teedra Moses had kept 'Dip It Low,' you might have heard of her before now. IвЂ™ve made the list from scratch, going through thousands of songs from that decade and without looking at the previous top 500 list I made a couple of years ago. This is a remake of the best-of-00s list, expanded to 1000 songs.

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