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).