Quickly slipping this one in here and out of the way before the full details of the abuse allegations ruin his music forever... but during the 2000s I was introduced to the dark side by a wonderful goth friend who looked upon me and my Now! CDs with disdain. Many bands flooded my library during this period of time (Placebo, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, A Perfect Circle, AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, and the like) but one of my favourites - perhaps for its extravagant presentation, for its absurd Satanism-dabbling rhetoric, or just because it was so viscerally jarring - was Marilyn Manson. This track was an eye-opener for me as a teenager and still slaps
In 2010, noise pop fully took over thanks to M.I.A. and the debut from Sleigh Bells: their brash, unapologetic and explosive music really shook things up and probably ruined a million dodgy speakers in the process. Their debut album kicks off with this, and I can fully understand why 50%+ of listeners would recoil in horror and dismiss it as shrill and awful, but... it paved the way for two wonderful albums (and two crap ones) and kicked pop music in the ass.
Before Solange started releasing albums that would be incredibly overhyped and hailed as the second coming, she was resigned to dropping the occasional single that was utterly charming. In 2008, she teamed up with Freemasons to drop "I Decided", which was a swing-inspired masterpiece. Four years later, she teamed up with Dev Hynes to release this and an EP called True, and it was even better; the song is a summery, hazy masterpiece that just relaxes me in a way that few songs can.
Ireland's Samantha Mumba was a huge popstar for such a brief period of time and it's absolutely criminal. This - her debut single - was a huge hit and even cracked America, reaching the dizzy heights of #4 at a time when Britney, Xtina and co. were dominant. Over here, it was only held off the top of the charts by Eminem's The Real Slim Shady. She was teasing a comeback at the tail end of 2020, and that's lovely, but I'm forever besotted with the year 2000 and this song being played on rotation on my Walkman
I'm sure some purists will regard 1980s Kylie as her peak but... they are fundamentally wrong and everyone with a brain knows that she was truly at the height of her powers in the 2000s. In the year 2000 itself, she cemented herself as the queen of the gays by dropping Light Years, an album that contained not only Spinning Around, not only Your Disco Needs You, but also this latin-tinged dance anthem. Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" held it off the top spot, which is fair, but I can't help but feel this should've been another of Kylie's many, many #1 hits.
I've already thrown in one of their later singles, but Passion Pit really took off and were taken to the hearts of many an indie fan thanks to this in 2008. Sampling the Irish singer and harpist Mary O'Hara's piece Óró Mo Bháidín and turning it into something unrecognisable is firm evidence of their prowess at electronic experimentation during their early days. Sleepyhead sounds like absolutely nothing else; it is a thumping, eerie, unique masterpiece.
NME called this the song of 2006 and - in a pretty stacked year - it's definitely a contender. Hot Chip have been releasing fantastic music for almost two decades now, but it all started off with this (they did have a 2004 album but I've never listened to it, sorry x)
I'm still baffled by the Scissor Sisters' complete and utter domination of the UK charts from 2003-2010 and yet being completely ignored by their native US. I remember being so intrigued by frontman Jake Shears' style in this video (enough so to suppress the very obvious fact that he looked ****ing hot in it). The song channels Elton John so severely that the man himself would later go and provide a piano performance on another song (yet to come in this list )... and it's just a wonderfully gay time isn't it?
So many songs I've picked for this have come with a heavy heart because of a suicide, and Simone Battle's just as this song was taking off and hitting the charts was especially devastating. 'Ugly Heart' is one of those perfect pop songs: catchy, rhythmic, full of fascinating different elements, and performed impeccably by all 5 girls... so perfect, of course, that paler imitations of it would happen a year or two later.
I will never be able to put into words just how much Missy Elliott deserves the world. Her videography is truly up there with Michael Jackson's, and her production and singles are not far behind. In 2001, she took a bhangra sample and kicked off a rebirth of hits influenced by the genre (Punjabi MCs, anyone?), and - together with Timbaland - set about shaking up pop for the entire decade. I have one more song of hers I've placed higher, but the very idea of a song being better than Get Ur Freak On is laughable, isn't it? Thank god I only named 100 of them.
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)... and it's just a wonderfully gay time isn't it?
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