“The walls came down,” as Sugar Ray’s Mark McGrath told me last year. The old stylistic boundaries didn’t hold any more. Whatever type of music you loved, this year had it: hip-hop, electronica, indie rock, punk garage, country, R&B, disco sleaze.
The hits, the flops, the flukes, the obscurities. So let’s break it down: the 99 best songs of 1999, 20 years later. It was one of those pop moments when all that glitters actually is gold. Let’s put it this way: If you spend an hour at your local karaoke bar, you’re going to hear somebody belt at least one hit from the summer of ’99. So much crazed innovation, all around the margins. The radio was suddenly full of shiny new stars. 1999 was the year music exploded, the year when nothing made any damn sense, the year fans had to throw out any old-school rules for how pop worked.
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