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I’m thinking Bad Boys will top this?

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In this thread I will not countdown all of my favourite things about the 00's. Instead I will discuss them as I feel like ranking a decade of music/iconic moments will just not do it any justice!

 

 

Iconic moments in Pop music

 

 

Let's get the elephant out of the room right (see what I did there)

 

Ofcourse one of the most iconic moments of the 00's in my eyes has to be THE BEAST winning the X-Factor in 2008. I didn't know about Alexandra

until she broke through and scord a top 10 hit with Bad Boys in The Netherlands. I'm still mad her career never quite took off outside of the UK,

but I'll just blame Syco for that.

 

 

Oh gosh this moment. The absolute mess that Alexandra was, the panting, the tears, the mental breakdown, everything was such an emotional load.

Her journey was something else. From stranding in the Judges houses before she came back with a flawless cover of Whitney Houston's

Saving All My Love and broke through the next rounds. When I watched back her X-Factor journey I broke down in tears (no lie)

during her judges house moment with Cheryl. Homegirl just wanted it so bad.

Luckily she got through and she smashed it out of the ballpark with her performances, while being compared to the likes of Whitney, Mariah and Beyoncé.

 

Her performance with Beyoncé remains THE most iconic performance ever on X-Factor

(excluding guest performances) and solidified her status as an exceptional performance. I mean, if you can hold your own next to Beyoncé, your idol,

while being the nervous wreck she was in that performance. Good lord, I woulda fainted :cheeseblock:

 

BUY MAH ALBUM

 

 

i never really got that much into her music but she was definitely thrown under a bus and deserved a lot more success than she got. I remember being really surprised at her winning (not by the final but when I looked back) as she hadn't been on my radar!

Alex was pretty cool and a really good singer. Radio 1 dropped her after Broken Heels though which I never understood and she was so marketable.

 

Elephant was awful though. Trend chasing that didn’t pay off.

I'd argue that Alexandra performing with Beyoncé is the single most iconic XF moment and performance.. including the guest performances! A real moment and the point where I'm sure she secured the victory over JLS. :wub:

I'd argue that Alexandra performing with Beyoncé is the single most iconic XF moment and performance.. including the guest performances! A real moment and the point where I'm sure sye secured the victory iver JLS. :wub:

omg :cheeseblock:

Stan a biT sis.

Most iconic songs

 

So let's let the music do the talking shall we? We'll start with 3 of my very favourites till this day.

 

 

This song is not just a fave of mine, but also a fave of the world. It's catchiness has made this into a legend.

 

This was not only for its chart performance. It became one of the biggest hits of 2007,

entering the top 10 of the year end chart in 15 countries, including the UK, US and The Netherlands.

It's certificationslist is longer than my kissing-list and it even made Jay-Z tolerable to the pop public. A bonafide classic.

It became the song that turned Rihanna the superstar that she is today.

 

Fun fact: During its reign on top of the UK charts the UK experienced severe storms and rainfall, which caused The Sun to jokingly

hint at the 2 being connected. However, the UK was not the only nation to be cursed. New Zealand experienced the worst storms in

its history with tornado's and such. But Romania also had the driest summer in years until Umbrella hit the top 10 of the charts

and weather turned around to create the worst storms in years.

 

 

 

Oh look another sog Jay-Z features on. Could this be a theme? Just kidding, the guy kows how to spot a hit and hop on it.

Crazy in Love marked the start of Beydomination and to this day she still has it. I didn't think much of this at the time,

but overtime this has become such an iconic hit that you cannot help but pop that pussy to it. Everytime this comes on

in the clubs even the straights know it. You go Bey!

 

It was #1 in the US and UK but also smashed the top 10's in various other western nations.

 

Controversial opinion: The slowed down version gives this so much depth, I almost prefer it to the original

 

 

Many believe this is Amy's debut single. I myself thought this as well. Her first album "Frank" was a succesfull album but failed to spawn any hit singles

Then came Rehab. The song is literally about a refusal to go to rehab, which should've rang a few alarms. This was my first time hearing her voice

and it was just such an unique sounds and her look was such a LOOK as well (I mean that HAIR).

 

The critics loved her, the public loved the song and this became her absolute signature song. It reached the top 10 in more than 10 nations and helped

set up the era Back to Black pefectly. The album went on to sell 16 million copies worldwide.

 

Funnily enough this song had a remix featuring... Guess who? Jay-Z! Maybe there was a theme to this post after all

That trio :o

 

All perfect in their own way.

 

I am not sure if it's true but apparently Umbrella was offered to Britney first and she refused it. Personally I don't know how would that work for Britney (probably it wouldn't) but I am glad Rihanna got it and turned her into the unstoppable hit machine :wub:

Britney would have been awful at Umbrella, I just can’t hear it.

Yeh, Umbrella is perfect for Rihanna!

 

I never knew that Jay-Z was on a remix of Rehab! Not something I'm eager to check out though!

Iconic songs #2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another batch of songs that have one thing in common. They were all connected to The X-Factor in one way or another.

Whether that is as a judge (Cheryl/Girls Aloud), a UK winner (Alexandra/Leona) or a Dutch winner (Lisa).

 

2009 saw the birth of 2 massive UK popgirls, Cheryl and Alexandra. The 1-2-punch these girls served :cheeseblock:

Alexandra debuted and performed Bad Boys on the X-Factor stage and Cheryl did the same with Fight For This Love a week later.

It'd have been nice of Cheryl to wait a little longer with her release to let both ladies shine as they were still good friends back then,

but lables probably decided this. The production of both songs still sound so damn sleek and the videos were of very high quality,

something I wouldn't expect out of some local ass UK talent show girl. Both ladies hit the European stages in the spring of the next year

and smashed it out of the ballpark.

 

Other winners of The X-Factor are Leona Lewis and Lisa Lois. Both incredible vocalists. Leona carved a beautifully underrated career for herself

and Lisa flopped into oblivion after her winners single topped the Dutch charts. Bleeding Love was Leona's "official" debut and it went on to be one

of the most remembered ballads of the 00's. It hit the upper regions of so many charts. Lisa however only had a hit in The Netherlands.

Dare I say her version of Hallelujah is up there with Alexandra's?

 

Girls Aloud RULED the 00's as one of the most succesfull girlbands in the UK. Sound of the Underground was one of the two songs that tasted a

little bit of interational succes. The other being Jump. Sound is one of their best and I would rank it probably in their top 3.

it still sounds good after all these years, albeit a bit dated.

 

Fun fact: Bleeding Love became one of the biggest Singstar classics

 

did uk xfactor/pop idol had that big impakt in Netherlands?

 

I can stan Bleeding Love and Cheryl's from that batch :wub:

Not at all! I think the only winners that had some sort of (often shortlived) succes were Alex, Leona, James Arthur, Little Mox and Girls Aloud actually!

Alexandra on X Factor was EVERYTHING. What a superstar <3

 

You know I love her off the show too, the 2 albums she gave us were amazing and her musical career now is amazing too!

 

Great to see Rehab here. Amy was a talent :'( Bleeding Love is a massive fave too.

MORE SONGS: Cheese in the club :cheer:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this section we'll talk about the cheesy sangs that make all the white girls pop that non-existing booty!

 

Cha Cha Slide is an all time classic. When this comes up every drunk bitch needs ha space and slide her way into a boys DMs. That was a classic

 

Crank Dat, Low and Gasolina are THOSE bops. They make everyone turn the f up and go crazy. If you're a DJ and want you're party to be lit?

Play these tunes. These are songs that somehow everyone seems to like, even if its just because they're drunk. That was a classic

 

And in a section about the cheesiest songs ofcourse Germany's pride and joy Cascada can't be excluded. Their bops still sound so damn fresh and

make you move to the rhythm even if you don't wanna. There is no stopping you.

I was a bit obsessed with Everytime We Touch when it came out. I even had the ringtone on my flip phone. :lol: I still haven't forgiven Cascada for denying MJ a posthumous #1. -_-

I CANNOT stand Cha Cha Slide. Too overplayed for what it was lol.

Omg it Wenatchee OFF in the work’s do in the Summer when Low came on.

 

I got very low indeed!

Umbrella is still one of my favourite songs. Absolutely iconic!!!

 

Also still non ironically listen to cascada loads :kink: