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One guy, one acoustic guitar, and a song about a girl who turned him down. Two years after it appeared on an album, it was the #1 song in America — and the real Delilah had to live with being everyone's idealized dream girl.
"Your Body Is a Wonderland" was the song every college guy with an acoustic guitar learned in 2002, and the one Blender later put on its worst-songs list. In between, Mayer quietly turned into a serious blues guitarist, one Rolling Stone later ranked among its 250 greatest.
![Video thumbnail — Michelle Branch - Everywhere [Official Music Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HLCasyAh7ic/maxresdefault.jpg)
A teenager who wrote her own songs and played her own guitar in a sea of choreographed teen-pop — Michelle Branch's "Everywhere" was the anti-TRL anthem that somehow became peak TRL. That driving guitar, the spy-on-the-cute-neighbor video, and the fact that she wrote it herself made her the authentic alternative of fall 2001.