one two three my baby don t mess around because she loves me so and i know for sure it s barely a hip-hop song, really. i m not sure what it is. but it s got this kind of frothy 60s vibe. it sounds like something motown might have put out when they were doing their sound of young america. hey ya hey ya next thing you know, everyone is singing this one line shake it like a polaroid picture. shake it shake it shake it like a polaroid picture polaroid was the instant camera, and the picture came out, and for some strange reason as the image was forming people would do this. they would shake it. as if that was going to make it happen faster. so he says that line in the song, and suddenly everyone s doing that. you had this cultural moment that everybody feels they need to be part of. now you know you ve really tapped into something, and that s what outkast is. if you re going to do
this is a very special moment. the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! that s great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes lenny bruce is not afraid i ll 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 r.e.m. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be a very apocalyptic decade. happy new year! so we wake up, it s 2000,
grab you it can creep up inside you and consume you rihanna had this incredibly ambitious idea of what pop music was. and kept redefining herself as the edgiest, nastiest, most sophisticated pop star out there. it s raining more than ever know that we ll still have each other you can stand under my umbrella umbrella. i don t think there s probably a person in the whole world that doesn t know that song and wasn t walking around going eh, eh, eh, for like months at a time. stand under my umbrella ella ella eh, eh, eh toward the end of the decade with artists like rihanna, the danceable riffs of hip-hop led into r&b and pop. and hip-hop became bigger and bigger and bigger. it became the top.