ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! may i have your attention please? the dixie chicks. billboard s top 10 singles, all by black artists. i don t please everybody with who i am as a person. i love beyonce. is not a working telephone is it? empty shelves are all you will find at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! this is a very special moment of the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! i will always remember new year s eve, 1999, going into y2k, seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by rem. it s the end of the world as we know it, it s the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine. it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be an apocalyptic decade. happy new year! we wake up, it s 2000, we are all alive, and we are in the middle of teen pop mania. boy bands were selling so many albums.
timberland was a little more technologically dense and ethereal, where ferrone was not is out there. he did dance tracks. it was a little more gritty and it was very intricate but very rhythmically driven. pop stars figure out that you need hip-hop credit and you need a hip-hop reducer. producer. you had a grouping of hip- hop producers who were crossing over into pop charts. kanye is another one, he s working with jay-z and alicia keys and ludicrous and janet jackson.