In The Year 2005

In 2005 we graduated highschool and both went off to university which put an entire country between us. It should be mentioned that this had no adverse effect on our friendship since all we do is talk on the fucking phone anyway. Music was a pretty big deal this year too, since it was the only thing keeping us from breaking down into tears on buses and in classrooms.

Song of the Year
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone

I can't think of another song that came out this decade that did a better job of getting regular kids and hipsters to forget the bullshit and rock out together.

DL:Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone





Anything Gwen Stefani Released This Year
- It was too hard to narrow it down to one song. Everything she put out off her solo effort was amazing.
Ciara feat. Missy Elliot- 1 2 step
- I know it’s kind of weird, but this is honestly the song that helped me stop being a pretentious indie fuck and remember that I actually enjoyed hip hop.
DHT - Listen To Your Heart
- This song only made the list because I distinctly remember Kristine singing it over the phone is a bizarre British accent on more than one occasion.
Jennifer Lopez - Get Right
- The closest she came to a comeback. I swear we never taped this video off tv and learned the dance. I never bought the single. And our favourite wasn't Latina J. Lo.
Madonna - Hung Up
- Confessions is pretty much my favourite pop album of the 2000s. Jsyk.
Destiny's Child - Soldier
Everything Mariah Carey Released This Year
- Mariah Carey was back in a big way with The Emancipation of Mimi.
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
The Killers - Mister Brightside
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Missy Elliot - Lose Control
Gavin Degraw - I Don't Want To Be
- Kristine's dad knows who this person is, and in an effort to make him sound cool, he let her know. Also, something about One Tree Hill.
Tegan and Sara - Where Does The Good Go?
- Anyone who's ever come across me either in real life or on the internet if probably aware of the fact that I'm a huge Tegan and Sara fan. Thanks to the Grey's Anatomy soundtrack, and hell of a lot of other people were this year too.
Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
Lindsay Lohan - Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)
Stars - Your Ex Lover Is Dead
THIS WAS THE YEAR WE FELL IN LOVE WITH KANYE WEST!!!!!!!!
T.I!!!!
-That's how I wrote those points down while we were coming up with this list, and that's how I'm keeping them. We're all about professionalism on this blog no one reads.

In the Year 2004

Grade 11 SUCKED. Nothing happened. How do we better represent year that nothing happened, then by choosing an Evanescence song as our song of the year.

Evanescence - My Immortal

DL: SAWRY, we don't have one, 'cuz neither of us were willing to shell out $14.99 to buy an Evanescence CD.

Usher feat. Alicia Keys - My Boo

• Alicia Keys stepped away from her piano, ditched the braids, and stomped her foot in the middle of Times Square. Fun fact: SAMANTHA RONSON MAKES A CAMEO IN THIS VIDEO. We found that out this year and died.

Hey Ya - Outkast

• Polaroid announced that you shaking will not develop your pictures faster. Fun fact: The final batch of polaroid film was sold at Urban Outfitters. Obvs.

Britney - Toxic

Jojo - Leave (Get Out)

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

Modest Mouse - Float On

Kelis - Milkshake

• Mean Girls changed the way I look at this song. As it should.

Twista - Slow Jams

• The first official appearance of 'Ye in my life. Also? first official appearance of Jamie Foxx on a song. I wish the latter never happened.

In the year 2003

In 2003, I slowly became a little less AZN, dyed my hair back to brown, became a little more Filipino, and bought 50 Cent’s “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.” It was my go to record when I was angry with my parents, and just wanted to freak them out with the sound of guns going off. This was also the year I decided it would be in my best interest to pursue a career in rap, and become Shady Aftermath’s first female rapper.

But don’t be mistaken, I took my first step into hipsterdom by proclaiming “You can’t put me in no box man!” and took Hilary Duff’s music seriously. I own all three of her CDs including one of her greatest hits.

Song of the Year: 50 Cent - In Da Club

DL: 50 Cent - In Da Club

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life

• When I first found out that they were kind of a Christian rock group, I couldn’t help but die from laughter

Dido - White Flag

• -Favorite memory: my mom blasting this shit while she drove me to school (yes I was 16 and still getting driven everywhere. That fact remains and I’m 22. JEALOUS?)

Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now?
Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Britney Feat. Madonna - Me Against the Music

• Probably my favorite Britney CD after Blackout. I promise I never tried to learn this dance more than.... 100 times.

Liz Phair - Why Can't I?

• Why couldn’t we NOT GET AWAY FROM THIS SONG THIS YEAR?

R. Kelly – Ignition

• This song will never be the same.

Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

• And look at them now.

Hilary Duff - So Yesterday
Linkin Park - Numb
Fabolous feat. Tamia - Into You
Chingy - Right Thurr

In The Year 2002

2002 was a big year for me. It was the year I threw on a pair of chucks, my lock and chain, and went to my first Warped Tour. It was the year I first started going to concerts on a regular basis, the year I got my first electric guitar, and most importantly, the year I became a ~punk~.

So who better to represent this very serious transition that the great Canadian Philosopher, Avril Lavigne?

Song of the Year:
Avril Lavigne - Complicated

DL: Avril Lavigne - Complicated

Honourable Mentions:

Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
- This song I really only notable for me because I used to get really mad when people would confused her with Michelle Branch.
Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma
Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
- Kristine chose this because she couldn’t remember what year “The First Cut Is The Deepest” happened.
Eve Feat. Alicia Keys - Gangsta Lovin'
- Don’t you guys love it when Alicia tries to act so hard?
Fat Joe feat. Ashanti - What's Love
- The early 2000s were all about Ashanti collabos. We wanted to switch it up and pick one that didn’t feature Ja Rule.
Mary J. Blige - No More Drama
- Don’t even try to act like you didn’t cry in your room to this on your discman when you had a bad day.
Michelle Branch - Goodbye To You
- I should make it clear that my aforementioned rage at confusing her with Vanessa Carlton was because Michelle Branch was infinitely better.
Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come
- We’re Canadian. How could we not show Celine some love?
Eminem - Cleaning Out My Closet
Usher - You Don't Have To Call
Leanne Rhimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight
- Two Words: Coyote Ugly
P. Diddy - I Need A Girl (Part I)
Craig David - Seven Days
Cher - Song For The Lonely
Simple Plan - I'd Do Anything
- What? I told you I was a ~punk~

In The Year 2001

Ninth grade. Enough said.

Song of the Year:

Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real (Feat. Ja Rule)



DL: Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real

Honourable Mentions:
Christina Aguilera, Pink, Mya & Missy Elliot - Lady Marmalade
Janet Jackson - All For You
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
- We miss those braids
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops)
Lil' Bow Wow - Puppy Love
-We both still know all the words to this one.
Eve Feat. Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Lenny Kravitz - Again
Ricky Martin Feat. Christina Aguilera - Nobody Wants to be Lonely
O-Town - All or Nothing
- My 8th grade agenda was covered in pictures of O-Town. I'm only slightly embarrassed
S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True
- This was the soundtrack to everyone's 8th/9th grade relationship.
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
- You can look it up in the dictionary, fyi.
Outkast - Ms. Jackson
Joe - Stutter
Dream - He Loves You Not
City High - What Would You Do?
Missy Elliot - Get Ur Freak On
112 - Peaches and Cream
- We were both so hyped for this album. It's a real shame this was one of only two good songs on it. Kind of stopped buying cds for a while after that. Also, there was this girl in our homeroom who'd always say this was the song she was downloading. I kind of suspect she was lying.
Mya - Case of the Ex
Jagged Edge - Where the Party At?
- The day this became a 106 Old Skool Joint of the day I knew my youth was over.
Weezer - Island In The Sun
Backstreet Boys - The Call
Faith Hill - There You'll Be
- This song is on the list because we used it as the background music in our Neopets store. Don't act like you're not jealous. Also, it's here because I fucking hate Pearl Harbor.

In the Year 2000

After watching a few "Best Songs of the Decade" lists on TV, we felt the only way to close this year was to make one of our own. As we looked through the internets, we found that taking one song from each year would be harder than expected, particularly when looking at the first half of the decade, during which we were hormonal, ragey, angst-filled teenagers who really felt like music about love, life, and loss, really spoke to us. DUH.

The result? Yearly lists of songs (in no order) that we feel best represent that year, and, most importantly, us at the time. As you'll soon see, this is in no way some serious bidness shit, and, nor did we cry at any point in time while compiling this list (I'm not on my period). In fact, this is probably the most fun we've had over the phone in a long time.

2000: First year of high school. Enough said.

Song of the Year: Destiny's Child - Say My Name

DL: Destiny's Child - Say My Name

Honorable Mentions:

Aaliyah - Try Again

Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough For Me

• After Tahnee had broken up with her first skeezy high school boyfriend, he passed us during our school walk-a-thon, with a new girl on his back. At that point, I distinctly remember T, blasting this song and lip syncing the words. She claims to not remember this ever happening... but it remains my favourite “Tahnee-story” ever.

Melanie C - I Turn To You
Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
Papa Roach - Last Resort

• To this day, this is the song we both turn to, just before reaching the breaking point of school/life... Don’t get it twisted, suicide is not funny (to anyone else except us), but this somehow, this song makes it hilarious.

Pink - There You Go
Enrique - Could I Have This Kiss Forever (feat. Whitney Houston)
Santana - Maria Maria
Sisqo - Thong Song

• Tahnee’s eighth grade agenda consisted mostly of Sisqo and his silver head.

Jessica Simpson - I Want to Love You Forever

• Before Papa Joe talked about her boobs, before "chicken or fish", before Ashlee became more popular than her, all we knew about Jessica Simpson was that she was blond, could open her mouth really wide (pause).

Old Skool Joints: Roxbury Edition

This week's Old Skool Joint post is inspired by the failure that was my Thursday morning last week. After getting little sleep and spending a combined two hours on transit all for 20 minutes of class I threw myself down on the couch. I promised that I'd just take a little nap and then get right back to school work. This plan might have worked if I hadn't taken a minute to check what was on tv. I mean, how can anyone resist "A Night At the Roxbury"?

I caught the movie a few minutes before Will Ferrell goes to marry Molly Shannon, and it might be because I was a little delirious, or it might be because I'm right, but I decided that the sequence that follows is the greatest thing to happen in any SNL skit turned feature length motion picture. First, Chris Kattan busts up the ceremony by holding a boombox over his head, John Cusack style, and blasts "What is Love?"



Then (and I couldn't find a video) he and Will Ferrell re-enact that scene from Jerry MaGuire that we're all so familiar with, while Bruce Springsteen's "Secret Garden" softly plays in the background. Brilliant.

The point is, I think we should all take a few minutes to enjoy these songs. Preferably back to back for added comedic effect.

DL: Haddaway - What is Love? (m4a)
DL: Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden