No Secrets may have been the ultimate tween group of the bubblegum era. After their Jimmy Neutron collaboration with Nickelodeon, they provided this peppy, propulsive track (which plays like it's some girl power anthem, even though it's just a mishmash of regressive gender stereotypes) for the feature film version of Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls, and it became a Radio Disney favorite. For conquering the trifecta of early 2000s children's entertainment, they were rewarded with a #1 smash album on the Top Heatseeker Albums chart.
Best bit: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah/Why should I change?/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah/I'm having too much fun"
The music video... was filmed in one of their backyards.
Featuring a sample of AOL's goodbye message and references to youth culture as only a grown man could write them, "The Kiss-Off (Goobye)" represents a record industry at the (quickly ending) height of its power making the most cynical play imaginable for young audiences. And yet, there's something so delightfully campy about this utterly forgotten track from 14-year-old "Growing Up Advisor" Brooke Allison. (It peaked at #28 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart.) Thirteen years on, it's hard to believe that this is really the pop music scene we were once so blessed to enjoy.
Best bit: Honestly, the entire lyric is a work of mad genius, but "My heart is signing off/direct from AOL" is something truly special.
The music video... is a relic of an era when flush records labels were willing to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on CGI-heavy visions of a brighter tomorrow for acts destined to go nowhere.