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Salsa royalty — Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Sheila E., Tito Nieves and more — convened in 1994 to cut the theme for the Bronx film I Like It Like That. Two years later a Burger King ad campaign turned their "I Like It" into a Top 40 hit two years after the fact.
Written by guitarist Matt Slocum and sung by Leigh Nash, this track from Sixpence None the Richer's 1997 self-titled album went nowhere at first. Everything changed in early 1999 when Miramax picked it for She's All That and it landed on Dawson's Creek's soundtrack the same spring. The song detonated, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May and becoming an instant 90s classic.
Activision and Neversoft's skateboarding game, first released in 1999, about chaining tricks into massive combos and collecting the letters S-K-A-T-E across increasingly iconic venues. The punk, ska, and hip-hop soundtrack defined the era. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000) is widely considered the series' peak and one of the best games ever made.