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.
May i have your attention, please . We got a moon man. Im very ashamed the president of the United States is from texas. The dixie chicks, they can say what they want to say. Billboards top ten singles all by black artists. Rappers are the new rock stars. I dont please everybody with who i am as a person. Okay. Real staccato. Like, stick it. I love beyonce. Thats not a working telephone, is it . Hello . [laughs] empty shelves are all youll find here at tower records. Its now out of business. [dramatic music] all three, two, one. [all screaming] this is a very special moment. The first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. Please welcome no doubt. [cheering] thats great it starts with an earthquake birds and snakes and aeroplanes and lenny bruce is not afraid ill always remember new years eve 1999 going into y2k seeing no doubt on mtv playing its the end of the world as we know it by r. E. M. Its the end of the world as we know it its the end of the world as we know it i
we are like, doing that months at a time. so, toward the end of the decade, what artists like rihanna did, bled into r&b and pop and hip-hop became bigger and bigger and bigger. it became pop.