Hands down, this is the finest-ever duet between a pink balloon-y cartoon character…and Jigglypuff.Īnother unfairly overshadowed pop star of the era, Vitamin C, turns in the everything-in-the-junk-drawer “Vacation,” which deserved to live forever as a child’s dance recital staple. Silly, sure, but also spectacular, it’s the absolute best track on the soundtrack and should’ve been a hit. Although the song is credited to the mysterious Mandah, it’s actually Willa Ford, before she changed her stage name to avoid confusion with the aforementioned Mandy Moore. ![]() but then i heard this song on the pokemon soundtrack.” Indeed.Īlthough B*Witched’s “Get Happy” is a throwaway track by a throwaway girl group, despite its helpful opening lyric of “Don’t be a brontosaurus,” it tees up Baby Spice Emma Bunton’s triptacular “(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind,” which became the B-side to her first (and only) solo UK chart-topper, “What Took You So Long?” Pikachus crossed that this jam resurfaces with Emma’s new music with Spice Girls, or in her role in the Absolutely Fabulous movie.īest of all is “Lullaby,” an ode to the sleep-inducing powers of the best Pokémon of all time, Jigglypuff. Even better is this true Lachey life story yanked from the YouTube comments: “i remember saying 98 degrees sucked when i was at my grandmothers house, and her and my mom where like ‘what did u just say?’ and i ended up standing in a corner for however long =\ lmao. On the fresher flip-side is 98 Degrees’s lite-funky “Fly With Me,” which soars along better than any of their true hits. Kicking off with Filipino teen sensation Billy Crawford’s cover of the theme song/slightly disturbing manifesto (“GOTTA CATCH ’EM ALLLLLLLLL!!!”), the soundtrack moves on to its first and only single, Norwegian pop duo M2M’s “Don’t Say You Love Me.” Sweet and surprisingly smart - critics loved it - the song climbed to #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and caused a minor pokéscandal: one line that mentioned (gasp) kissing was changed to protect pint-sized fans’ delicate sensibilities. Not only did it go double-Platinum in the US, but it’s shocking - (“Pika!”) - to see the murderer’s row of fin de siècle teen pop royalty assembled here: everyone from Britney and Xtina to *NSYNC and 98 Degrees. While it’s debatable whether the film holds up as anything but a hey-remember-this-battered-VHS-in-mom’s-basement pleasant memory, the soundtrack’s another story completely. Into this tumult, the North American version of Pokémon: The First Movie hit theaters.Īlthough many adults didn’t quite get the phenomenon - “It’s hard not to be charmed by kids’ obsessive allegiance to Pokémon, even if you do feel that they’re being indoctrinated into some exuberantly cryptic multimedia consumer empire designed to shut parents out,” sniped Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman at the time - younger fans were hooked by the millions. Let’s travel back to November 1999, a time marked by great sadness (the prior year’s Great Spice Rift), great uncertainty (Y2K was coming, y’all!), and great hope (who was this newcomer Jessica Simpson and why were her kisses so sweet?). Seventeen years ago, it did the same thing to the charts. ![]() The group’s official website was shut down in the summer of 2006, and in 2007, Lance Bass confirmed that the group has “definitely broken up.” They have sold over 50 million albums during their career.Unless you’ve been living under a rock-which is probably a secret Geodude-you’ve undoubtedly noticed that Pokémon has pokémastered the mobile gaming world. While *NSYNC announced a “temporary hiatus” in spring 2002, the band has not recorded new material since. Blige, Britney Spears, Nelly, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Stevie Wonder, Céline Dion and Gloria Estefan. In addition to a host of Grammy Award nominations, *NSYNC has performed at the World Series, the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games, and sang or recorded with Elton John, Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes, Aerosmith, Mary J. Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass.Īfter heavily publicized legal battles with their former manager Lou Pearlman and former record label Sony BMG, the group’s second album, No Strings Attached, sold over one million copies in one day and 2.42 million copies in one week. ![]() The group consisted of Justin Timberlake, J.C. *NSYNC (sometimes stylized as ★NSYNC, formally stylized as ‘N Sync) was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich.
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