There are the requisite clips from the movie and the standard shots of the actors dancing out of character in a fabulous tiki bar, but what really sends this one over the top is the running gag of Whoopi Goldberg stuck in traffic. This song was included on the soundtrack for How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the video features Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Shaggy in a suit that Steve Harvey would absolutely still wear. Shaggy featuring Janet, “ Luv Me, Luv Me” For perspective, Eagles’ Greatest Hits (1971–1975), the best-selling album ever in the United States, only has ten singles on it, and it ’s a greatest-hits compilation.ģ8. In all, it sold over 40 million copies worldwide and spawned 12 singles.
It had songs for chick-flick wine-party dance scenes (“Man! I Feel Like A Woman”), songs you will regularly hear on karaoke night to this day (“That Don’t Impress Me Much”), and not one but two songs written expressly to be the first dance at your least-imaginative friend’s wedding (“You’re Still the One,” and this). It was released in a country format in 1997, repackaged for the pop market in 1998, and then a dancier international version was unleashed in 1999. Shania’s “Come On Over” was less an album than a military campaign. If you’re looking for the moment when the Offspring just gave up and turned into the Dead Milkmen, you will find it here. The Offspring, “ Pretty Fly for a White Guy” Join me as I check out the top 40 songs on that glorious week’s pop singles chart.Ĥ0. We were in the spring of the Boy Band Moment, we were post-grunge and pre-Y2K, and we were wearing bucket hats. This week I travel back fifteen years and flip on the radio: Though the cover of Billboard’s Maissue trumpeted a rock resurgence (led by standard-bearers the Flys and Everlast), the rest of the magazine was all pop. Each week, through my Somewhere In Time column, I hop in my DeLorean GIF to a moment in our pop-culture past to reevaluate just what we as a nation thought was good.
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