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