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And with 2009 swiftly drawing to a close, the inevitable reviews of the decade begin...

...so it makes sense to start from the beginning! I will periodically release a review of each year, culminating in December with a list of the 100 songs that summarised the decade!

So, let us begin with the 26 songs which defined 2000 (Spotify playlist alert!)...

01. Kelis - Caught Out There
02. Samantha Mumba - Always Come Back To Your Love
03. Eminem; Dido - Stan
04. Melanie C - I Turn To You (Hex Hector Radio Mix)
05. Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
06. Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You
07. Melanie C; Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes - Never Be The Same Again
08. Britney Spears - Born To Make You Happy
09. Fragma - Toca's Miracle
10. All Saints - Pure Shores

11. Britney Spears - Stronger
12. Kylie Minogue - Your Disco Needs You
13. Radiohead - Idioteque
14. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True
15. Britney Spears - Lucky
16. Sonique - It Feels So Good
17. Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away
18. Sugababes - Overload
19. Billie Piper - Day & Night
20. Pet Shop Boys - You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
21. Moby - Porcelain
22. LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight The Moonlight (SPOTIFY, WHY ARE YOU MISSING #1s FROM YOUR CATALOGUE? Get to it thx.)
23. Britney Spears - Oops...I Did It Again
24. Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
25. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
26. Destiny's Child - Indepedent Women Part I

Mmm, I know. 2000 really hasn't aged well, has it? In fact, I'd almost go as far as saying that these songs are the few from that year that still remain listenable on their own merits...and even then, the bottom few are pushing it a bit.

Nonetheless, despite its shortcomings it did manage to provide us with some classics. Case in point at number 5 with the jungle-hip hop-gospel-funk-rock-soul genre-fuck that was Outkast's Bombs Over Baghdad, a relentless sprint of a track which was shamelessly ignored at the time (and only resurrected in 2003 a la Born In The USA for completely misguided reasons). While I can't help but think Pitchfork are being a tad over the top in their placing of the track as the greatest the decade has to offer, Bombs Over Baghdad certainly does stand as testament to the genius of Outkast at their very best.

Kelis' Caught Out There however is definitely my favourite track of 2000. A feisty call to arms to women who've 'been lied to by their men', with an appropriately disturbing backing track which conjures up images of that point just before a complete breakdown, filled with a laundry list of Kelis' man's wrong-doings and a series of biting put-downs, all of which culminate in THAT chorus, a psychotic rail against her (presumably now ex-) boyfriend, which has a peculiar power in its basal simplicity. Why go on a tangent when you really can't add all that much to 'I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW'? Insane perfection from one of THE best artists of the decade.

Still, other than that those 26, what a pathetic year. Srsly, two number ones for A1 and three for Westlife? Get out.