In July 30, as part of our turn-around series, NPR Music released a list of 200 Greatest Songs created by women and non-women
A binary musician who made his debut in or after January. 1, 2000.
Today, Ann Bowles looks at the immediate ancestor of the list: the artist\'s career began in the late 1990 s, but its influence continues to the 21 st century.
Here\'s a bit of historical hindsight: The Millennium bug is real, just not as we thought it would be.
Anyone who has been staring at the screen in 1999 will remember the quiet panic about whether a \"Y2K\" computer failure would destroy world data --
Infrastructure systems.
This did not happen;
The canned food in the doomsday-modified bomb shelter was probably thrown into a casserole during the next family holiday.
However, some things did change in the early months of 2000.
It happened on the pop charts:
Carlos Santana\'s \"smooth\" week reign features a gentle, mumbling catLate call
Rob Thomas, a 90-year-old rock fan, finally gave in under the power of Kristina Aguilera\'s \"what girls want.
What do girls want is a powerful ballad that deeply symbolizes the Y2K moment, and when the younger generation is immersed in the fundamental restructuring of society and neural networks in emerging times, the old forms of expression are being reshaped.
On the one hand, Aguilera\'s manifesto is old
Fashioned: She reinforced her teen pop music with 1960 soul folds and the song\'s sensitive lyrics (and monogamous)
The tough guy probably came from Maybelline.
Striped lips of Shangri-LaLa\'s. But the title-Chorus of bearings-
List of prerequisites for highest self-delivery
Guarantee, leading to the central assertion that \"what makes me happy makes you free --
This shows purely and profoundly where cultural feminism will go in the new millennium, especially in music.
Fire made by women to reshape the medium-term rock
1990 has calmed down.
Many people say that the spirit of movement like the feminist riot Grrrl is common
Chosen by a capitalist \"girl power\", this pressure has ruined their aggressive potential.
In retrospect, we can see how artists like Aquilera appeared in the last few years of 1990, not only did they touch on the innovation of becoming a millennial music center,, it addresses feminist concerns about autonomy, happiness, and self.
Complex and broad determination
A variety of ways, in the way that is still being played, to reset the parameters of women as agents of their own expression and values.
In the first half of the 1990 s, the turmoil at the rock scene felt like a paradigm shift for many, but it was indeed a pattern of explosion: a series of outbreaks caused real damage, but it has only partly reached the cultural foundation of pop music.
In this broken landscape, there are all kinds of artists who have accepted the challenge of expressing themselves.
Realize women in very different ways.
The information sent by these artists is mixed.
Some people seem to be almost retrograde: the tanned teen pop singerand-
The young Queen, Britney Spears, was nervous and expressed a self
The nature of self-confidence is hard to understand as complete self.
It was cultivated, but today\'s popular rebels fully claim it from Taylor Swift to Lord to Charlie XCX.
Others have explored how to fight rock women in less open, ungovernment genres of music, reinvent old norms, rather than abandon them.
Dixie Chicken embodies this in the countryside: The trio played classic country romantic fantasies with songs like \"cowboy, Take Me Away\", but with-
The national anthem of domestic violence \"Goodbye count\"-on the same album.
Today, Miranda Lambert and Cassie Musgraves are performing the same balancing act.
In R & B, the fate of the child to reflect the girl-
Group ideals by being forthright about how independence feels for women who still have a strong emphasis on their traditional sex appeal to men.
The same jitters are staged in an increasingly sophisticated way in the music of today\'s vandals like SZA and Kali uches.
At the end of 1990, did the gender issue represent a rebound, or did it take the necessary step towards the center?
There are still differences on this point.
But most pop historians will agree to mark the turning point with this platform.
Sandals footprints of Spice Girls.
In 1996, the British quintet sparkled in the scenery and seemed to embody the spirit of the fierce era at that time --
Rulers like Polly Jean Harvey or Queen Latifa are actively opposed.
Hot girls career
Setting up the national anthem \"Wannabe\" jumped up in advance with dizziness: I clearly remember hearing it for the first time in a room at a British hotel, coming out of the TV, just like the explosion packs from these cute but absolutely normal pop music --
Girl hanging out in a fantastic nightclub.
They shout for the friendship of women!
They kissed the boys and went on!
One of them is the jogging pants and sports bra!
I was the most combative rock singer of the time.
Hop, but there is an idea that the unity of women is not just for the boldest and most bohemian.
The hot girls are distant, but not too much.
Their huge popularity heralds a new wave of American teen pop and is also led by a tricky sweetheart, Britney Spears.
Britney has become number one today. name-
Only the goddess respected by dance music experts, because she is willing to take risks with experimental producers while having the center of the pop music charts.
As a feminist idol, Britney\'s problem in 2018 was almost as big as when her real schoolgirl out mouth made her a star. . .
Twenty years ago, the baby was once more.
She is still one of the most attractive pop singers of our time, not only because she is the indelible voice of the pop music giant, but also should be respected, however, in the face of every famous celebrity, her longevity can be created.
However, since a public failure in 2008 made her an official popular tragedy, a debate has been heated about whether Spears is her own main agent for success or an exploited asset, she herself is now becoming an artist in a way that will clarify the issue.
The story of Britney Spears is perfect for women to overturn the story of the dominant 1990 male power structure.
Nevertheless, her importance as a musical and cultural influence is undeniable.
Like Elvis, Britney Spears embodies a huge shift in American culture-not to the original rock culture cultivated, but to stay away from it and enter an era dominated by new technologies, people began to question the nature of authenticity.
Britney Spears is a voice combined with new technologies that embodies some of the essential features of our time.
Every artist who works in the field of pop music thinks with her.
Britney Spears\'s disturbing iconography masks the extent to which other women changed pop music before and after her appearance.
Prior to her, there was Gwen stefanney, who loved the fact that each cool kid\'s favorite Spice Girl Mel C was wearing sportswear --
Function because they are sexy, who sings all the restrictions she faces as a woman
There is no doubt that the male band in \"Just a Girl. \" (
Stefani, like several others who made their debut in 1990, became our list as her solo career officially began in 2000. )
There are jewelry, singing the hot song \"Who Will Save Your Soul\" about addiction and sexual exploitation of young women, which critics think is a flower in her teens --
Notebook rambling.
A year later, Fiona Apple revealed her sexual trauma and its consequences --
Her song \"sullen girl\" was an instant decades before its label-
But who? slender)
Physique seems to be inconsistent with the feminist concept of the times.
On 1998, Australian pop singer Natalie imbrulia sang \"I\'m a little torn\" and her loose hoodie in the \"rip\" video sent a message to her glam squad --
The enhanced eyes send out another one.
Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether these ingen are sending mixed messages or the complexity of sending signals.
Something similar has happened to R & B because the powerful TLC has led a new round of fashion-
The empowering version of the expression of women is not as intense as in fashion\'s 1992 liberation of your mind.
\"Can the way women are empowered break the status quo from other aspects and enter into the engine of the patriarchal system? The girl-
TLC ushered in a group renaissance, with solo artists such as Brandi, Mia and Monica showing how this could happen.
At the same time, Missy Elliott and Aaliyah are changing the position of R & B in which, through clever samples, a feminist language that is intuitively female and de facto is created, sometimes it sounds like a new way of singing and lyrics but never really nonsense.
In 1998, the son of destiny joined these trendsetters-a group that will not only launch the career of the New Millennium Music Queen Beyoncé Knowles, but it\'s better than anyone else to blend the tasks of the classic soul woman and talk to the power of men in a funky way
A new way to jump sounds and music arrangements. (
It\'s not surprising that Elliott is the producer of the group\'s landmark 1999 album, written on the wall. )
Some women are in the middle of the wild
1990 and more choreographed 2000 focus not on confrontation, but on building views that can be open to the world as a whole.
Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill set the golden standard for this approach, and their songs respect the reality of black women, even if they contradict the traditional idea of women\'s liberation.
Jennifer Lopez, who will later become a pop force as powerful as he was in the early daysto-
In 2000, through the integration of the \"Post-90 s\" Gucci charm, a new road was opened in Latin cross-border pop music.
Jump with the Street
The intelligent energy of Latin freestyle and salsa dance.
List of types-
Continuing from this period, including enough legends, NPR\'s list has crossed a logical 20-year replacement since 2000, and the highest month can easily select versions 1998 and 1999. (
That\'s one of the reasons we jumped 2000.
The focus of this list is: we want our constituents to stay in the current focus and not be influenced by nostalgia for this moment and its superstars. )
In the country, except for Dixie Chicken, Shania Twain
Who became the architect of her star better than more early accounts, who credited her to the time --
Husband and producer Mutt Lang
By bringing voice not only to women with sexual self-confidence, but also to rock, the genre itself has changed
They love the suburban middle class, and their audience is like small towners.
Gillian Welch actually invented more hand-made branches of the country, and the United States, by reinvesting in folk traditions, made the tradition clearer as an outsider.
As a New England music student, she and her partner, David Rawlins, entered the world of root music, inherited closely without hindrance and became the ideal reviver of the Internet age.
Meticulous archival explorers who build their own world of sound, this is not a copy of the past, but a means to let it penetrate into the present: time travel as mindfulness exercises.
In terms of independent music, Neko Case-
An artist on the record who does not want to be included in the gender --
A list-based like a table-
By rejecting the limitations of genre, poetry, set a new standard for song writingchorus-
Poetry and linear narratives have laid the stage for imaginative inquiry by artists like Joanna Newsom and deméberis who later accepted the tone.
Most of these women were misunderstood or criticized when they appeared, but still underestimated as the main innovator. (
Badu and Hill are exceptions, and they answer the most serious questions in the 1990 feminist movement in pop music --
A strong demand for the perspective of women of color. )
In the early comments I regret now, I myself mistaken Welch and her partner David Rawlins for a tight supplier
This is a costume drama that requires their intervention very much, not an Inquirer.
Generation X music lovers like me, who taste the revolution on the lips of cheeky idols like bikini killer Catherine Hannah, I can\'t always see how the artists of the next decade don\'t give up the full-scale project of reinventing pop music, but, proving that this effort does not form a form, nor will it be controlled by a sound, as many of us like the noise of our own group.
With a soft voice like chanteuse Dido, his 1999 debut, No Angel, became second-place --
England\'s best-selling 2000 album, looks like a one-off sweetness, with less meat than we get from our favorite rock singer or rapper.
However, the sound of the singing words, such as \"I just want to feel safe on my own skin\", now feels more relevant, so many women say the same thing in dangerous areas of social media.
Not long ago, other peak times like the beginning of 1970 or the end of 1980 were also ignored, because in the wider history of pop music, these times were too commercial or wandering.
Compromise and that step-by-step experiment could be mistaken for a dilution of more open provocation.
History often unfolds in an arc, not because real life is like this, but because the storyteller who wrote it yearns for the dynamic narrative pull that this structure provides.
Some cycles end on the lower side of the circle.
But the other word is \"Foundation \".
\"New voices, new genres, new ways of thinking about music, and what it means to be a woman when new freedoms and old evils seem to collide frequently: all these factors are on the brink of the millennium.
At that time, children in high school and high school, perhaps even just entering adolescence, were artists who were carrying out another round of music revolution --
Challenging gender norms and genre boundaries, male peers are required to be responsible for blowing up s * with homemade explosives *.
It is from the thorny legacy of these women that they cut off their fuses.