The bad girls of M2M have broken their babies' hearts and now they're begging themselves for forgiveness on this second single from Shades of Purple. Like "Don't Say You Love Me," it's got a slightly dark allure to its verses that explodes into the kind of sweeping, hooky chorus you would expect of Scandinavians. Though not as big as their debut, "Mirror Mirror" was a Radio Disney favorite, and M2M eventually toured with Jewel to support their second album, before being dropped by their American record label.
Best bit: the way the music drops out under "say I'm sorry" in the second verse
The music video... features the brunette getting dirty in a field while the blonde is trapped in an attic like she's Bertha Mason.
With its catchy electropop beat and sassy tale of dumping a no-good boyfriend that treats her horribly, Willa Ford's second single seemed to have all the right elements to appeal to audiences that made "I Wanna Be Bad" a hit. Instead, it failed to even chart on the TRL countdown that gave Willa her start, marking the beginning of her slide into oblivion.
Best bit: “Sometimes I wish that I could be the person that you are/Just for a minute, long enough that I can break your heart”
The music video... includes a screamo breakdown where Willa channels her inner Courtney Love and smashes a Playboy guitar.
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.
Dream is the original Danity Kane—Diddy's first attempt at girl group domination, sans the reality TV show and back when he still had the P. Being that this was a Diddy production, it was inevitable that: 1. The (mostly white) group would have an urban edge, and 2. He would shoehorn himself into the proceedings somehow. Those two elements came together on this "remix" to Dream's second single, which, like almost all remixes of the era, was actually an entirely new hip-hop song with the same name. (See: basically the whole J. Lo era.) It also features an awkward white rapper who has never been heard of before or since, and yet it completely knocks.
Best bit: It's an all-around excellent track that builds to delectable climax with Ashley's "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" on the middle eight.
The music video... includes a disturbingly large amount of 16-year-old Melissa grinding on Diddy.
I stan so hard for Dream. I even knew about their comeback as a soul/ funk group called LadyPheonix without the lead vocalist and then their reality show that was never picked up, but the trailer gave me life
He Loves U Not better be top 5 to undo the butchering of This Is Me
I stan so hard for Dream. I even knew about their comeback as a soul/ funk group called LadyPheonix without the lead vocalist and then their reality show that was never picked up, but the trailer gave me life
Yesssss!!!! Poor Ashley working as a waitress... I wanted this so bad.
Diana was kinda the pretty one wasn't she? Even Diddy knew this and modeled his ingenue/acolyte/sexslave of half-a-decade later to resemble her somewhat.
Holly's a cutie too, but that Estefan nose does her no favors.
