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#Music Videos
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Blink-182 — All the Small Things
The perfect parody disguised as a perfect pop song. Blink-182 conquered TRL and the Billboard Hot 100 by mocking the very boy-band videos they shared the countdown with, with a "na-na-na-na" hook so contagious it rewired a million brains. Won Best Group Video at the 2000 MTV VMAs and became the guitar riff every beginner learned.
"Beautiful Soul" (Jesse McCartney)
I don't want another pretty face. The blond swoop of hair, the earnest guitar-pop chorus, the song scrawled on a million middle-school binders — Jesse McCartney's debut single was the official crush anthem of 2005.
"Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
Amy Lee's voice pierces through a dark, orchestral surge; Paul McCoy's shout answers it back. That trade-off — her ethereal plea met by his aggressive roar — became the signature of Evanescence's breakthrough. The song exploded in 2003, hitting #5 in America, #1 in the UK for four weeks, and perfectly captured a moment when goth-tinged rock finally cracked mainstream radio.
Ciara
The First Lady of Crunk&B. Ciara arrived in 2004 with "Goodies" and a run of singles that owned school dances for half a decade — icy vocals over crunk beats, and choreography so sharp the music-video channels basically belonged to her.
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Missy Elliott
A shape-shifting visionary who moved between producer, rapper, and video icon — the futurist behind "The Rain," "Get Ur Freak On," and "Work It," whose jaw-dropping videos defined how hip-hop looked in the early 2000s. Simultaneously avant-garde and wildly successful.
"Mr. Brightside" by The Killers
The Killers' debut single — written after Brandon Flowers found his girlfriend in a Las Vegas bar with another man. Released in 2003, it peaked at No. 10 on both the US and UK charts, and then simply never left: by 2026 it had logged more than 500 weeks on the UK singles chart, a communal scream at weddings and stadiums that outlived its own decade.
MTV
MTV's 1990s golden era transformed the channel from music-video jukebox into a cultural force, with Total Request Live (TRL), The Real World, Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV Unplugged, and a rotation of music videos that defined the decade's soundtrack. Music Television delivered exactly what it promised: a place where youth culture, music, and rebellion converged on cable.
"Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes
A seven-note riff that sounds exactly like a bass — played by a band with no bassist. "Seven Nation Army" peaked at #76 on the Hot 100, then quietly conquered every stadium on earth. Millions chant it at games today without knowing they're singing The White Stripes.
"All Star" by Smash Mouth
Somebody once told me — you know the rest. Smash Mouth's 1999 radio staple peaked at #4 on the Hot 100, but immortality arrived in 2001, when it played over Shrek's opening credits and fused itself permanently to a green ogre. The internet did the rest.
Blink-182 — What's My Age Again?
The lead single that announced blink-182 had arrived, with a melody so immediate it felt like it already existed. A five-minute kitchen-floor composition that would define the band and give them their first MTV staple. The line "nobody likes you when you're 23" became the most quotable moment in pop-punk, even though Mark Hoppus was 26 when he wrote it.