By 2001, he was a household name, dropping the slow-tempo, vallenato “Dejame Entrar” with an alternative twist.

In the late ‘90s, Carlos Vives single-handedly revolutionized the tropical scene with his modern take on traditional vallenato and cumbia music. Spoon, “Everything Hits at Once” (Did not chart) The “Pony” sex symbol once said he hoped the world would remember him for this vulnerable ballad, and boy, do we ever. From the simple, memorable lyrics - dedicated to his daughter, ex-wife and lost loved ones - to the gentle, almost childlike Rhodes melodies repeatedly sampled over the last 20 years (including on Pop Smoke’s “What You Know Bout Love,” a recent Hot 100 top 10 hit for the late rapper), the track continues to tug on our collective heart strings. While we may never know why the title is “Differences” rather than the fan-endorsed alternative, “My Whole Life Has Changed,” what we do know is that in August 2001 Ginuwine gifted us with a quintessential R&B love song. The gorgeous first single from Songs From the West Coast, produced by Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard, evoked the warmth of John’s classic early work - but while sonically inviting, the lyrics offers no resolution, just a palpable emptiness.

Though John’s longtime songwriter partner Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, “I Want Love” felt brutally autobiographical for John as a man “dead in places,” plaintively longing for an impossible love. Twenty years later, the horns that open “Livin’ It Up” remain an undefeated soundtrack to the start of a weekend. In the middle of a three-year run in which Ja Rule was a part of seven top 10 hits on the Hot 100 chart, “Livin’ It Up” served as his giddiest smash, a toast to the party life that juxtaposed a weightless flip of Stevie Wonder’s “Do I Do” with Ja’s thick-as-molasses flow. “Never Had a Dream Come True” is an unabashed solo showcase for standout Jo O’Meara, who soars over some textbook turn-of-the-millennium pop production with dramatic ad libs ( “no no no no!”), and a thoroughly satisfying key change ripped straight from the diva playbook. It’s a torch song that reads like a lightbulb joke: The British pop group had a full bench of members, but it only took one to land the group’s sole U.S. S Club 7, “Never Had a Dream Come True” (No. But then again, the internet would have you believe that nothing from Shrek ever really does, including “All Star,” Smash Mouth’s much more enduring hit also featured in the film. Made an inextricable part of countless Gen Z youths via its inclusion on the original Shrek soundtrack, i ts verging-on-cheesy organ line and karaoke-ready vocals never lose their charm. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 by The Monkees in 1966, Smash Mouth brought the pop-rock perennial into the 21st century with a glossy, mainstream radio-friendly face lift.

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