TRL September 10, 2001

"breathe" is my favorite michelle branch single and is pretty much a 100 percent perfect song imo

I just listened to the song and was like, wow she really sounds like LDR. And it's not even the same Black Keys dude!

None of them.

I don't remember how any of these sound and maybe I should be grateful considering the presence of Puddle of Mudd in the list.

2. P. Diddy & the Bad Boy Family - "Bad Boy For Life"
3. P.O.D. - "Alive"
4. J. Lo ft. Ja Rule - "I'm Real (Remix)"
5. Sum 41 - "Fat Lip"

i only remember these ones (and even then "i'm real" is really nondescript and i can only sort of opaquely remember it)

"crush" > "everywhere" > "ugly" > "this is me (remix)" > "fat lip"

the original non-remixed "this is me" (which was being played on trl earlier and i believe went #1 at one point) would have been my favorite of them all tho

i voted 'Alive' - for me it's completely tied down to that time, fall 2001, along w/ 'Youth of the Nation' and 'Boom.' the premise of the 'Alive' video was some Final Destination shit iirc, like there's a big bus crash and car accidents and these people barely survive and it's like 'omg life comes at you fast, it can change at any moment, value every second,' and of fucking course it was reevaluated after 9/11 to be unintentionally meaningful. i would've voted 'Fat Lip' because it's a better song and i still blast it semi-reg

Whoa. Someone who's not me did one of these!

i picked this date because all these songs/videos - and others like 'How You Remind Me,' 'Chop Suey!,' 'IZZO (Hova),' 'Stay Together for the Kids,' and that Ryan Adams song with the Twin Towers in the background are burned into my brain. I watched a lot of MTV after 9/11. the VMAs happened on 9/9/01 - I vividly remember seeing the videos for 'Hash Pipe' and 'Get Ur Freak On' for the first time that night. that was also the night I found out Limp Bizkit was a band and not a rapper. a couple weeks later MTV repurposed an all-star cover of 'What's Goin On' that was originally supposed to be about AIDS for 9/11 first responders relief.

The Elton John video "I Want Love" with Robert Downey Jr was def in heavy rotation.

VMAs that year was def on a Thursday night - Sept 6. There was a very brief half-assed Aaliyah tribute. Pretty sure this was the same day they taped most of the video for "What's Going On" since a large fraction of the contributors were also present at this show. A good poll (if it hasn't been done already) might be to choose the worst post-9/11 reaction song since all of them were flaming garbage.

I fondly recall being 11 and knowing these songs, but Bubba Sparxx' Ugly is the only one that really holds up. One of my favorite music videos of all time.

I'm surprised that Puddle of Mudd track was pre-9/11

My 6th birthday! I think i got stung by a bee that day.

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damn i'm old af

what is/was TRL?

"ugly" is all time timbo

xp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Request_Live

ah gotcha.

that was the 'why they hate us' vmas. missy dedicated 'one minute man' to aaliyah, britney and the snake, macy gray's 'MY ALBUM DROPS' dress, alicia keys doing (lol) 'für elise' into 'fallin,' DAPHNE AGUILERA

i watched it in canada

anyway the obvious winner here is the dream song. they had some jams

I might recognize them if I heard them, but I genuinely have no idea what any of these songs are. Carson would be so ashamed.

the riff in bad boy for life bangs

Yes. It's ridiculous. I got a Yamaha RS7000 that summer and I remember the first beat I made with it was unintentionally a BB4L rip-off. It's so jerky and the sound quality is terrible, it just needs a saxophone solo.

don't think cuz i'm iced out i'ma cool off

i think this was the last year that i watched a lot of mtv, including lots of this show

"Alive" on instinct, having not heard it in 15 years. Listening now it holds up IMO.

The drums on 'Bad Boy for Life' are soooo nasty.

#3 an eerie title considering

i heard "alive" on the radio today coincidentally, hadn't heard it in ages. i liked it better in 2001.

i heard "alive" on the radio today coincidentally, hadn't heard it in ages. i liked it better in 2001.

further proof we are living in a simulation

i have had "fat lip" stuck in my head since this poll started

hell yea

The chorus of "Alive" sort of always reminded me of the chorus in Paul McCartney "No More Lonely Nights."

hahaha i kinda hear it

oh wow

lol

Don't hear that at all

I'm surprised anyone else hears it. When I first heard the chorus, it sounded really familiar & '80s. And I've never been able to figure out a closer cognitive match.

Puddle of Mudd was a good band.

enjoy that FP

they had some good singles

oh hey whadya know another one

god this list is depressing. it is certainly the late 90s. the ugliest trashiest year for pop imo. pretty sure this is the year i decided fuck the this i am only listening to Beck and indie rock from now on.

certainly not

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voted for dream!!

the boy in that Michelle Branch video is very very cute

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
feel so alive
FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
i can't deny you
I FEEL SO ALIVE!

Voted for "Fat Lip." Mostly for the PG13-version-of-Gummo vibe of the video.

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