Now That's What I Call The '00s (2017, US Edition)

https://now.lnk.to/00s

compare and contrast to the uk edition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%27s_What_I_Call_the_00s

Smooth is from '99 but hey I'm voting for it

'Poker Face'

man i got so excited every time a new NOW! came out, was really hooked on them from Vol. 2 thru 9 or 10. idk who to vote for here- either Sugar We're Going Down, Party in the U.S.A., Oops I Did It Again, Poker Face, Hot in Herre.... damn! i don't know!

Probably Fall Out Boy but I'll listen to the Destiny Child song again. (I honestly have no memory of what it sounds like.)

The UK version is a 3-CD set?

Maroon 5, "This Love"
Santana ft. Rob Thomas, "Smooth"

Good lord, back to back... Sheer terror.

Voting Kelly Clarkson.

Voted Kelly, considered Gaga.

I was scanning through this going "wow, what a great track list" and then I saw "Hey There Delilah"

oops

also looking at the UK list is making me giggle (MIKA especially)

I was told that Mika was on UK X Factor recently - if this is true, then holy shit they must be stuck for guests.

sugar we’re goin down

miley just over gaga and nsync

I'm calling BS on this - there's only one track with Flo Rida on it. Everyone knows there was a law - since abolished - that said he had to be on at least 20% of all singles in the '00s.

easily "Party in the USA"

Having looked at the US tracklist my immediate assumption was that the US version would be better but no they fucked up. So many weird choices for huge artists - Girls Aloud/Sugababes especially.

Kudos at least to the US version for not putting 'I Gotta Feeling' as track one.

question

I've grown to like I Gotta Feeling

great:

Nelly Furtado, "Promiscuous"

good:

Nelly, "Hot in Herre"
Flo Rida ft. T-Pain, "Low"
Destiny’s Child, "Independent Women Pt. 1"

meh:

Joe ft. Mystikal, "Stutter (Double Take Remix)"
NSYNC, "Bye Bye Bye"
Lady Gaga, "Poker Face"

bad:

Britney Spears, "Oops, I Did It Again"
Katy Perry, "I Kissed A Girl"
Maroon 5, "This Love"
Kelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone"
Miley Cyrus, "Party in the USA"
Fall Out Boy, "Sugar, We’re Going Down"

unforgivable:

Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling"
Santana ft. Rob Thomas, "Smooth"
Plain White Ts, "Hey There Delilah"
The Fray, "How to Save a Life"
Hoobastank, "The Reason"

Have we polled any of the classic NOWs? Now 3 was my favorite as a kid (though I probably preferred the first and second editions of Totally Hits to any NOW)

Anyway this is a nicely representative track list of the good bad and ugly of the decade. The only song in here that I don't know deeply in my bones is "Stutter," which I still remember.

I think I've got to go with Hot In Herre, which is still an unassailable party track, but Since U Been Gone is brilliant

The worst: Any of the "rock" songs, which couldn't lick Since U Been Gone's boots. I Gotta Feeling is also terrible--songs are supposed to sink their hooks into you by crafting memorable melodies or lines, not by drilling a single phrase into your mind like a jackhammer by repeating it 100 times

unforgivable:
Santana ft. Rob Thomas, "Smooth"

dude

Sorry Frogbs, it's an insufferable 'tune'

Hot in Herre

I didn't really fall in love with "I Gotta Feeling" until I saw the video, which starts out as the expected dayglo "oh hey we are partying woo" nonsense that comes across in the song but devolves by the end into the unavoidable carnage of people who get out of control, throwing a sinister light on the whole thing and making the manic forced quality feel more like an intentional critique than an accidental overreach.

I doubt this is how they put the song together but that's how it started coming across to me.

re: NOW polls - some dude did a huge series of them a few years back, comes up pretty quick in google though the punctuation may make it hard for ilx search

re: NOW polls - some dude did a huge series of them a few years back, comes up pretty quick in google though the punctuation may make it hard for ilx search

re: NOW polls - some dude did a huge series of them a few years back, comes up pretty quick in google though the punctuation may make it hard for ilx search

oops sorry. bug posting from flagging.

i actually like all of these songs! i hadn't heard "stutter" in ages until recently and mystikal's verse had me pissing myself

since i'm having trouble picking a clear favorite among these i will vote for that

xp to djp i've gotten that vague sense about "i gotta feeling" too altho i doubt it's intentional

The horror, the horror. This was about the time I got off the pop music bus.

"Since U Been Gone" is nice, I guess.

that hoobastank song is the worst thing i've ever heard

i mean, it's even worse than "hey delilah"

The UK version is so so much better, how is OUTKAST - HEY YA not on the US version? It felt to me like the biggest song of the decade:

The Black Eyed Peas : "I Gotta Feeling"
Lady Gaga : "Poker Face"
Katy Perry : "I Kissed a Girl"
Take That : "Shine"
JLS : "Beat Again"
Duffy : "Mercy"
Lily Allen : "The Fear"
MIKA : Grace Kelly"
Girls Aloud : "The Promise"
Sugababes : "About You Now"
P!nk : "So What"
Kaiser Chiefs : "Ruby"
Coldplay : "Viva la Vida"
Sam Sparro : "Black and Gold"
David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland : "When Love Takes Over"
Rihanna featuring Jay Z : "Umbrella"
Cheryl Cole : "Fight for This Love"
The Fray : "How to Save a Life"
Plain White T's : "Hey There Delilah"
Razorlight : "America"

Madonna : "Hung Up"
Amy Winehouse : "Rehab"
Gnarls Barkley : "Crazy"
Gorillaz : "Dare"
Franz Ferdinand : "Take Me Out"
The Killers : "Mr. Brightside"
Nelly Furtado : "Maneater"
Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean : "Hips Don't Lie"
Justin Timberlake : "SexyBack"
The Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes : "Don't Cha"
Kelis : "Milkshake"
Oasis : "The Importance of Being Idle"
Orson : "No Tomorrow"
Stereophonics : "Dakota"
The Fratellis : "Chelsea Dagger"
Tony Christie : "Is This the Way to Amarillo"
Elton John : "Are You Ready for Love"
Corinne Bailey Rae : "Put Your Records On"
James Blunt : "You're Beautiful"
Westlife : "You Raise Me Up"

OutKast: "Hey Ya!"
Robbie Williams: "Rock DJ"
Kylie Minogue: "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
S Club 7: "Don't Stop Movin'"
Britney Spears: "Oops!... I Did It Again"
Liberty X: "Just a Little"
Atomic Kitten: "Whole Again"
Daniel Bedingfield: "If You're Not the One"
Blue featuring Elton John: "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
Will Young: "Leave Right Now"
Ronan Keating: "Life Is a Rollercoaster"
t.A.T.u.: "All the Things She Said"
3 of a Kind: "Baby Cakes"
McFly: "Five Colours in Her Hair"
Busted: "Crashed the Wedding"
Melanie C: "I Turn to You"
Fragma: "Toca's Miracle"
The Shapeshifters: "Lola's Theme"
Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor: "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)"
Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham: "Make Luv"

Also both versions are missing all the neptunes productions. No Gwen Stefani? No Kelis?

Where's Usher? Where's Daft Punk? Come on!

Wait I see Kelis in the UK version.

Still the US version is bullshit considering it doesn't have Usher - Yeah and Outkast - Hey Ya those are great songs and they were bigger than many of those things in here.

According to Billboard the 3 songs that were at 1 the most weeks are:

Mariah Carey - we belong together
Usher - yeah
Flo Rida - low

the two top spots are neither in the US nor the UK version smh

UK one can be cut down to a better 1- or 2- disc version

voted Britn0r, just over Independent Woman

Top of my head other great to good songs that were huge (or felt huge but am too lazy to check their actual chart positions) and are missing:

T.I. - Whatever You Like
Kanye West - Golddigger
Eve feat. Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
Linkin Park - In the End
Avril Lavigne - complicated
jimmy eat world - the middle
50 cent - in da club
Sean Paul - Get Busy
Beyonce feat. Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris - Yeah!
Daft Punk - One more time
Gwen Stefani - hollaback girl
Missy Elliott feat. Ciara and Fat Man Scoop- Lose Control
Sean Paul - Temperature
Cassie - Me & U
Gwen Stefani feat. Akon - The Sweet Escape
Beyonce - Irreplaceable
Lil Wayne feat. Static Major - Lollipop

The UK version is a 3-CD set?

it was released in 2000... i'm assuming no connection between the two sets other than the name.

2010 rather

Two more weren't this huge too? I still hear them being played nowadays at least I overhear them more than that crap of 'hey there delilah'

M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Snoop Dogg - Drop it like it's hot

These comps have never done the kind of numbers in the US that they have in the UK. Over here, they're a total afterthought and mainly designed for impulse buying at Walmart.

they sold pretty well here when they were first introduced, the first 15 or so volumes i'd say

my favorite was #6, which came out in 2001:

"Stronger" Britney Spears 3:22
2. "Gotta Tell You" Samantha Mumba 3:19
3. "Bye Bye Bye" NSYNC 3:19
4. "Around the World (La La La La La)" ATC 3:34
5. "Love Don't Cost a Thing" Jennifer Lopez 3:40
6. "Independent Women Part I" Destiny's Child 3:39
7. "It Wasn't Me" Shaggy 3:47
8. "No More (Baby I'ma Do Right)" 3LW 3:24
9. "Crazy" K-Ci & JoJo 3:37
10. "I Wish" R. Kelly 4:09
11. "Shape of My Heart" Backstreet Boys 3:49
12. "Crazy for This Girl" Evan and Jaron 3:21
13. "Yellow" Coldplay 4:28
14. "Again" Lenny Kravitz 3:46
15. "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" Fuel 3:56
16. "With Arms Wide Open" Creed 3:52
17. "Drive" Incubus 3:52
18. "Beautiful Day" U2 4:04
19. "AM Radio" Everclear

Particularly that ATC song

lol that Everclear song is so bad

surely the reason these compilations lack certain massive hits is that they're not as much the result of curating as negotiation between whoever releases the Now... series and the major labels?

as to any doubts about the intentions behind I Gotta Feeling

will.i.am stated that "It’s dedicated to all the party people out there in the world that want to go out and party. Mostly every song on the Black Eyed Peas record is painting a picture of our party life. It was a conscious decision to make this type of record. Times are really hard for a lot of people and you want to give them escape and you want to make them feel good about life, especially at these low points."

I'm not sure how many different ways "I don't think the reading I ended up with is what they intended to put across" ppl had to post to hammer the point home but apparently 2 wasn't enough.

There was a long period of time when I would have voted for Since U Been Gone in a heartbeat, but these days I like Party in the U.S.A. more.

Independent Women is a great song, but I always think of it as the 10cc mashup from the 2 Many DJs album, so much so that I forget how the original beat goes.

I actually forgot that Independent Women had the Charlie's Angels reference in the lyrics & therefore is not the timeless classic I thought it was

"actually"

haha that is my favorite part of the song

I'm not sure how many different ways "I don't think the reading I ended up with is what they intended to put across" ppl had to post to hammer the point home but apparently 2 wasn't enough.

I'm not sure why you would think I had misread those posts, I just found it a fun quote and wanted to share it.

I also found it interesting that will.i.am apparently based the chord structure on a U2 song he was working on.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oh Hoobastanks for sure, for sure

Every time I read "Hey There Delilah" I mentally insert "(She Likes Me For Me)" after

I voted,Promuscuous pretty much immediately

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i think i might've voted for britney? can't remember

oh wait no i see it was sic

i probably voted smooth.

This Love is better than the other rock songs that got voted

A decade has passed and I still don't get what's so special about 'Since U Been Gone' and why it gets so much love over here.

wow miley was robbbbbbed, thought everyone agreed that song was a mega classic always welcome at any time :(

yea it is i voted for fall out boy bc i thought party in the usa would win in a landslide im so sorry god

Katy Perry, "I Kissed A Girl" 0
Maroon 5, "This Love" 0

hard to say which of these is more annoying

no KP takes that trophy pretty easily

if it wasn't for Adam Levine's voice, giving her a run for the money