15 Forgotten Reasons Why 2000 Was The Best Year In Pop Music

Bianca Gracie | February 4, 2014 5:19 am

9. “Don’t Think I’m Not”  Kandi

After her R&B girl group Xscape disbanded in 1999, Kandi Burruss took the opportunity to create a solo career. Her debut single “Don’t Think I’m Not,” off her album Hey Kandi…, has all the qualities that made her previous songwriting credits on Destiny’s Child “Bug A Boo” and TLC‘s “No Scrubs” such hits. With a “two can play that game” storyline, “Don’t Think I’m Not” is an ultra-sassy tune. But even with a Billboard charting song, Kandi’s music career quickly fizzled out. Her sophomore album Kandi Koated was released 10 years later and failed to create a buzz. Now her focus is her being a celebrity housewife on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

8. “Liquid Dreams”  O-Town

Numerous boy bands popped up during this era, and many had solid tunes that were able to stand next to those of their major competitors  thanks to Lou Pearlman. He was a music mogul responsible for the early careers of *NYSNC, Backstreet Boys and LFO. In 2000 he created Making The Band, where he gathered five boys and transformed them into O-Town. Their first single “Liquid Dreams” immediately separated them from other bands due to the not-so-subtle lyrics of  ahem!  wet fantasies about women. Three years later, the band broke up and Pearlman was later sent to jail for running one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in American history. Yikes.