I picture the Vatican employing a chipper young social-media intern named, like, Kenzie. “One Week” was a popular choice that first summer, simply because of the high degree of difficulty.Īmong work by Mozart, Dame Shirley Bassey, and Fleet Foxes, “Changes” is one of 12 songs on the Vatican’s official MySpace Music playlist. Say What? Karaoke started up that summer, and Carson was supposed to have hosted it, but couldn’t make the first tape date owing to some travel snafu, so they put me in at the last minute and I accidentally ended up hosting it for three years. Be like, be like retarded.” Anyway, I went out there and did just as she suggested, and if I have had any longevity in this business, it is because I never stopped. We realized it at the same time, and sang it right at each other: “Be. I have a long-standing distaste for the R-word and all those who use it, but let me say two things: 1) It was, without a doubt, the clearest and most useful piece of direction I ever received at MTV, and 2) it fit perfectly into the cadence of the opening lines of Vengaboys’ “We Like to Party,” which the DJ started playing at that exact moment.
I was one of the hosts, and just before I was about to run up onstage and start it off, my producer Summer pulled me aside and gave me this command: “We need big top-of-show energy for this one, so just go out there and just … ” here she waved her hands in front of her face, sputtering for a moment before settling on les mots justes, “be, like, retarded.” We had a huge, live Isle of MTV kickoff event in late May, and though I don’t remember what bands played, we may safely assume Limp Bizkit was there. Related Storiesĭave Holmes on TRL, Jesse Camp, and 1998’s Other Big MTV Moments Can you be ready to go tomorrow morning?” It was heaven. You’d get a call from your boss saying: “Hey, you’re going to live in a Club Med for the next three months. That was just the kind of thing that would happen at 1515 Broadway in those days. In the summer of 1999, MTV’s whole production department relocated to Paradise Island in the Bahamas for Isle of MTV, the most ambitious of the summer-house promotions of yore.
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You want a hit song, you need ol’ Whoops kvetching at a hapless cab driver in the video.
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There are the requisite clips from the movie and the standard shots of the actors dancing out of character in a fabulous tiki bar, but what really sends this one over the top is the running gag of Whoopi Goldberg stuck in traffic. This song was included on the soundtrack for How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the video features Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Shaggy in a suit that Steve Harvey would absolutely still wear. Shaggy featuring Janet, “ Luv Me, Luv Me” For perspective, Eagles’ Greatest Hits (1971–1975), the best-selling album ever in the United States, only has ten singles on it, and it ’s a greatest-hits compilation.ģ8.
In all, it sold over 40 million copies worldwide and spawned 12 singles. It had songs for chick-flick wine-party dance scenes (“Man! I Feel Like A Woman”), songs you will regularly hear on karaoke night to this day (“That Don’t Impress Me Much”), and not one but two songs written expressly to be the first dance at your least-imaginative friend’s wedding (“You’re Still the One,” and this). It was released in a country format in 1997, repackaged for the pop market in 1998, and then a dancier international version was unleashed in 1999. Shania’s “Come On Over” was less an album than a military campaign. If you’re looking for the moment when the Offspring just gave up and turned into the Dead Milkmen, you will find it here. The Offspring, “ Pretty Fly for a White Guy” Join me as I check out the top 40 songs on that glorious week’s pop singles chart.Ĥ0. We were in the spring of the Boy Band Moment, we were post-grunge and pre-Y2K, and we were wearing bucket hats. This week I travel back fifteen years and flip on the radio: Though the cover of Billboard’s Maissue trumpeted a rock resurgence (led by standard-bearers the Flys and Everlast), the rest of the magazine was all pop. Each week, through my Somewhere In Time column, I hop in my DeLorean GIF to a moment in our pop-culture past to reevaluate just what we as a nation thought was good.
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