- (React) Today... - Ugh.
- (React) We will be reacting... - Mmm.
- (React) To the best songs that you probably forgot about
from the 2000s.
- Oh! (laughs) - Oh!
- Try me, try me, try me, try me! - Yes!
- Oh nice. - Ooh.
I don't remember what I had for breakfast today,
so I probably forgot all of these.
(Nicholas laughs)
- Listen, actively think about, maybe,
forgot about, never.
- Yeah, never forgot about. - Never!
- ♪ Uh, uh uh uh ♪ ♪ Oh, ooh ♪
- First of all, I forgot about that phone.
- ♪ Away from home ♪ ♪ Me love ♪
- ♪ Uh, uh, uh uh, oh ooh ♪ - ♪ Ah, hey ♪
- ♪ Why did you have to go oh ♪ ♪ Away from home, me love ♪
- (React) Did you guys forget this one?
- This is so 2000s. - (React) Right?
- Every part of this.
- This is gonna show my age like a mother.
- Hey, oh, it most certainly is. - Gyatt, y'all!
- But also, can we talk about the fact that the Chocolate phone
was a banger of a phone back in the day.
- You're right, you should say it.
- I have goosebumps! (both laugh)
- He was making bops, but also at the same time,
you could still play 'em, 'cause they were like PG-ish.
- Yeah, we're not talking about booties gyrating, shaking,
and going everywhere, it's like... - (React) Yeah.
- I just wanna kill myself, 'cause these girls are so pretty.
- (React) Did you know that the song is actually a sample?
- Of who?
- I was just so into it, I just don't even know.
- (React) So it samples the song from Led Zeppelin called Jamaica.
- Mmm. - Nope, didn't know it.
- (React) Let's listen to it!
- ♪ Oh, oh oh oh, oh ♪ - That sounds Jamaican.
- Oh yeah, yeah!
- Oh yes, yes, yes!
- Yeah, there it goes.
- I don't know why, I was actually confusing it with a different song,
but I definitely know that Led Zeppelin song, for sure.
- I had heard, obviously had heard Me Love first,
and then I remember hearing Led Zeppelin
when I was older, sorry. (laughs)
And then yeah, I was like wait, that's the Sean Kingston song!
- ♪ Ba ba da da ♪ ♪ Ba ba da da ♪
- Is this... - ♪ Ba ba da da, ba ba da da ♪
♪ Take a look at my girlfriend ♪ ♪ Girlfriend ♪
♪ She's the only one I got ♪ ♪ Ba ba da da ♪
- So we're sampling Supertramp.
- Oh yeah, the guy from Fall Out Boy is in this video.
- (React) Uh-huh.
- Is that the dude from Fall Out Boy?
- (React) Uh-huh! - What?
- ♪ It's been some time ♪ ♪ Since we last spoke ♪
- Look. - Wow!
- ♪ This is gonna sound ♪ - ♪ Like a bad joke ♪
- ♪ But momma I ♪ - ♪ Fell in love again ♪
- I have been in this spot, of like somebody doing my hair,
and being mad at me for being tender headed.
- I'm not gonna lie, I forgot who sings this,
who this guy is, but he kinda,
he got a little something-something, he kinda fine.
- I remember this video so well.
- Dude, music videos gotta come back to this, you know?
- I know! - This is good, bro.
There's story. - Exactly.
- ♪ I never seem to get a lot ♪ ♪ Ba ba da da ♪
- I love that he's just like...
- I don't think I've ever actually seen the music video,
but like, I love that song. - (React) Yeah.
- It was such a popular song, it was played all the time.
- Oh, is this Gym Class Heroes? No.
- (React) It is Gym Class Heroes. - Gym Class Heroes.
- (React) But in the band is Travie McCoy.
- Oh!
- Yeah, who sang Billionaire, and Matt McGinley,
and they actually met in their high school gym class.
- Oh! - Ah.
- Oh, hey! - (React) Hence, Gym Class Heroes.
- It's crazy I listed to so much of them,
but never knew any of that. - No!
- Crazy.
- Again, actively thought about? No.
Forgot? Try again.
(Brian laughs)
- ♪ I've been waiting all day ♪ ♪ Here for ya bae ♪
- Oh my God, JoJo! Oh.
- How dare you even suggest! - Okay.
- Suggest I would forget about Miss JoJo!
This is my JoJo! Sorry Siwa.
This is my JoJo!
- JoJo. This song is so good.
- ♪ I never thought that anyone ♪ ♪ Could make me feel this way ♪
- ♪ Hey, woah ♪
- (React) You forgot about it?
- I'm sorry. - Get out!
- I'm so sorry. - Right now.
It is the end of you and me! - Leave! (laughs)
- ♪ Get out ♪ ♪ Right now ♪
- ♪ It's the end of you and me ♪
- ♪ It's too late ♪ ♪ And I can't wait for you to be gone ♪
♪ 'Cause I know ♪
- ♪ About her ♪ ♪ And I wonder ♪
♪ Ha-ha-ha ♪
- ♪ The lies ♪
♪ You said that you ♪ ♪ Would treat me right ♪
- It was like a hit, everywhere you went.
- ♪ Was just a waste of time ♪
- It was like everywhere you went. - Ugh, JoJo.
- Dude, that... - JoJo.
- That one brought you back. That one brought you back.
- Dude, I didn't know I was sitting next to JoJo!
Jesus!
The way you embodied that! (Erin laughs)
- You caught me because of the fact that I was like (gasps)
I actually haven't heard this one in a while.
- Do you remember that song?
- I don't, okay, so I didn't even realize it was this song
until the chorus, so that's why the whole verse...
- Oh no way!
- I was like damn, what's this song?
(Erin laughs)
- I've seen Miss JoJo perform live.
- (React) Okay, so how old you think she was when she released this?
- 16.
13. (bell rings)
There we go. - What!?
- Try me again.
- (React) Yeah, isn't that crazy?
- Me and Miss JoJo, about that.
- (React) Yes you are. (laughs) - About her, and I wonder.
- I was wearing like Hot Topic tutus and [censored].
(React laughs) Hair in pigtails, I don't know,
I was going through it, man. - Hot Topic.
There's something I haven't heard in a minute.
- ♪ Black dress ♪ ♪ With the tights underneath ♪
- ♪ I got the breath ♪ ♪ Of the last cigarette on my teeth ♪
- Let's go, 3OH!3!
- Babe, I'm from the 303 area, baby!
- ♪ She's got money from her parents ♪ ♪ In a trust fund back east ♪
♪ T-t-t-tongues ♪
- Hey! - ♪ Always pressed to your cheeks ♪
♪ While my tongue is on the inside ♪ ♪ Of some other girl's teeth ♪
♪ T-tell your boyfriend ♪ - Dude, you're good!
- ♪ He says he's got beef ♪ - How do you know ever lyric?
- ♪ That I'm a vegetarian and ♪ ♪ I ain't [censored] scared of him ♪
- ♪ She wants to touch me, woah ♪
- Aww, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ - ♪ She'll never leave me, woah ♪
♪ Woah, oh oh ♪
- ♪ Don't trust a ho ♪ (laughs)
- ♪ Never trust a ho ♪
- ♪ Don't trust a ho ♪
- Oh, we need to make a music video, you and me, like that.
That's crazy. - Oh yeah.
- ♪ Shut your lips ♪ ♪ Do the Helen Keller ♪
♪ And talk with your hips ♪ ♪ I said, shush girl ♪
- Problematic. - ♪ Shut your lips ♪
- Entirely.
- ♪ Do the Helen Keller ♪ ♪ And talk with your hips ♪
- Conspiracy theory: Did Helen Keller exist?
I don't know.
- Ooh, do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips is a line.
That's a choice. (laughs) - (React) That's a choice. (laughs)
- No, don't apologize. - That was like, my first boyfriend.
I was like 15. - Yeah.
- We thought we were so cool, 'cause we loved 3OH!3,
and they were so hard, but they were so [censored] white.
- ♪ It's been so long ♪
- ♪ That I haven't seen your face ♪
- You got me again. - ♪ I'm tryna be strong ♪
- Oh. - Oh man.
- It's been so long, he's right. - Akon, huh?
- Dude, Akon is a... - Oh my God.
- He had a really good era. - He did!
- Of amazing tracks, dude.
- It's only because I listened to so many of his other songs.
- He always had a little synth, dancing situation.
- Oh everything. - Oh my God.
- ♪ I wanna make up right now ♪ ♪ Now now ♪
- ♪ I wanna make love right now ♪ ♪ Now now ♪
- Wish we never broke up ♪ ♪ Right now now now ♪
- ♪ We need to link up ♪ ♪ Right now now now ♪
- When you listen to the words of the song,
it sounds like he's just lonely on a Friday night.
- A whole movie in this too.
- He did! - This is what I'm talking about!
- All these videos look the same back then too,
'cause they were all like sepia.
- ♪ We need to link up ♪ - ♪ Right now, now, now ♪
- Excellent, excellent. - Woo!
- Oh my God.
- Does he say we need to link up right now?
- Right now, now, now, now, now!
- Yeah, right now! - (React) Right now!
- We gotta link up. (Erin laughs)
- What, he just came in, did what needed to be done.
- And then went to Africa.
- (React) Got his bag and left. - Dipped.
He was like thank you America, goodbye!
- ♪ Three little birds ♪
- ♪ Sat on my window ♪ - Hey!
- ♪ And they told me I don't ♪ ♪ Need to worry ♪
- This is one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar.
- Okay, I'm gonna tell you right now, this song right here,
all of your research that you did for this video,
validated right now.
- God, I haven't heard this song in forever,
this lady I was dating at the time, she would play this all of the time.
- Oh my God!
- I could listen to this like outside.
- I know!
- Any weather, whether it's raining, like, it doesn't matter.
- Yes, yes, yes, exactly! - In the car, on a bike.
- This is the perfect song to listen to while riding a bike.
- (React) 100%. - Just...
- ♪ Tell me your favorite song ♪ - Cruisin'.
- ♪ You go ahead ♪ ♪ Let your hair down ♪
- Woo! (Erin laughs)
- ♪ Faded jeans ♪ - ♪ I hope you get your dreams ♪
- Oh, I love this song.
I've loved this, literally like, for so long.
- I wanna ride a bike, but we are in L.A.,
and that is dangerous. - Very. (laughs)
- Very dangerous to do.
It's like girl, put your... Like woo, woo, beep, ah!
- (laughs) Yeah. It's like...
- Ugh. - Aw.
- Thank you for bringing that back into my life.
I'm gonna have to listen to it. - That was so good.
- (React) Right?
- ♪ According to you ♪ ♪ I'm stupid, I'm useless ♪
- Wow, this is deep, deep.
- ♪ I can't do anything right ♪ ♪ According to you ♪
- I can't even react.
- Girl, I wasn't in a relationship at this point, at any point, like,
I was too young, but I was like yeah!
According to him!
As I was fully, like in love with women.
Good luck, girl, good luck, babe.
- I thought it was Avril Lavigne for a second.
- You know what?
It's like Avril... - Carly Rae Jepsen type thing.
- It looks like Avril Lavigne and Debby Ryan mixed together.
- ♪ But according to him ♪
- ♪ I'm beautiful, incredible ♪ - ♪ He can't get me out of his head ♪
- I'm obsessed with the hat.
- ♪ According to him ♪ - I'm obsessed with the hat.
God, aw, I wanted one of those so bad!
- Dude, look how many guitars are in that one scene.
- Wow.
- I love just the freaking Guitar Hero [censored] happening.
- The camera angle with the guitar.
- They couldn't afford a tripod.
- Ooh, it's a fire track, huh?
- It's just like...
- Dude, 'cause it's like according to you,
but then according to him, you know?
- Yeah. - According to who?
- Orianthi, the singer of the song.
- Okay, I was like who the hell is this, by the way? (laughs)
- Yeah.
- (React) She played guitar with several stars.
- Period.
- (React) Such as Prince and Carrie Underwood.
- Work.
- (React) And she was chosen by Michael Jackson...
- Oh! - (React) To be his lead guitarist
for his This Is It concert series.
- Oh my God, that's her!? - (React) Mm-hmm.
- Orianthi, my queen, my girl.
If Michael Jackson says you're cool, per, like.
- Per.
If Michael Jackson and Prince say you're cool.
- End of [censored] sentence. - You got them both!
- Where did this bitch go?
Like, why is she not around? That's a big track record.
- Yeah.
- Dude, that guitar frame was worth it.
- You're right, it paid off. (laughs)
- Michael Jackson watched this like yo, this girl plays guitar.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- Have her come in, let's see what she can actually do.
- ♪ Girl ♪
♪ There's somethin' 'bout me ♪ ♪ That you ought to know ♪
- (React) Do you know it? - Wow.
- Jesse McCartney!
Never not be in love with him.
- I feel bad, because swear to God,
at first, I thought it was Aaron Carter. (laughs)
- He is a fine slice of Heaven pie right here.
- He was like the Disney version of Justin Timberlake.
- ♪ Baby, take me on a journey ♪ ♪ I've been thinkin' lately ♪
- I'm out. (laughs) Don't know this one.
- I don't know this one as much,
because this was just like, as a young junior high,
I may have been even younger.
- I don't remember this song that much.
- Oh, he's so dreamy.
- You're legally obligated to know Jesse McCartney.
Like any heartthrob at the time... - (React) Mm-hmm.
- Interesting. - There was no individualism.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- Pieces of Me? Oh my God.
- Oh wow. - ♪ On a Monday, I am waiting ♪
- This is Ashlee Simpson, right? - (React) Yeah!
- Yeah. - ♪ I am fading ♪
- What do you mean forgot about this?
This was one of the most iconic moments
in Saturday Night Live history!
- (React) I have that clip for you. I'm gonna play it.
- Oh wow! - Wow, Ashlee Simpson!
- I liked the Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson situation.
Didn't she date the guy from Fall Out Boy or something?
- When we think about like, things that will ruin a career,
this song literally is just like, oh yeah.
- ♪ Oh, it seems like I can finally ♪ ♪ Rest my head on something real ♪
- ♪ I like the way it feels ♪
♪ Oh ♪
Also, that outfit is something
I could 100% see people wearing nowadays,
just saying.
- Sugar Ray? - (React) Sugar Ray?
- (Benison) Is she sleeping on the ground?
- Why does it say Sugar Ray? - (React) I just saw that too, yeah.
- Did you notice that too?
- ♪ Pieces ♪ ♪ Pieces of me ♪
- God, the way she says it is so funny.
- ♪ Pieces, pieces ♪ ♪ Pieces of me ♪
- Are you about to play what I think you're gonna play?
- (React) I am. (laughs) - Is that how it ended?
- She's feeling herself right now, by the way.
- 'Cause she's a cool girl, 'cause she's a cool girl.
- I love how they tried to turn it down
to make it seem like backup vocals.
- She's like what?
There it is. There it is!
- Oh no!
- (React) So she was caught lip syncing.
- Does she just walk off?
- I feel like now, at least at this point,
we will forgive a lot of lip syncing,
because of the fact that we just want to see the person perform.
- Well also, because a lot of it is performance, performance,
where there's a dance number, there's a sequence,
there's everything with it. - Exactly.
- ♪ They paved paradise ♪ ♪ And put a parking lot ♪
- Oh my God, yeah, yeah.
- Oh, stop it. The Counting Crows?
- (Sabrina) Oh!
- I don't know if I know this song.
- ♪ Don't it always seem to go ♪ - Oh.
- And see, I won't say that this is a bop that I have forgotten,
because of the fact that this wasn't something I had on a playlist.
- Also, was that, that girl looked familiar.
- ♪ Put a parking lot ♪ - Is that Vanessa Carlton?
- (React) It is!
- Yeah, that's Vanessa Carlton. You are absolutely right.
- I was too, I remember listening to the radio,
like in the car, but I was not able to...
- Yeah.
- You know how I know I'm getting older?
Is I listen to the Counting Crows a lot more than I used to.
(React laughs)
- This wasn't a song that came on and I was just like, yes!
No. (React laughs)
- I literally will go white person feral to Mr. Jones.
- Wow. - No idea.
- You don't remember that song? - (React) No?
- I only know that one chorus line,
but it's because it's from something else,
but I have no idea what this is.
- (React) Did you know that this song was actually a cover
of a Joni Mitchell song? - What?
- Oh, I love a good indie vibe.
- Will say, don't like the vocals in this one as much.
- I've heard this. - She had some hits.
- ♪ Put up a parking lot ♪
- Yeah, I have heard her version.
I don't know why it didn't ever click to me,
oh, obviously that one sounds older,
so that must be the original.
- ♪ When I met you girl ♪ ♪ My heart went knock ♪
- ♪ Knock ♪
- The Flip, the Flip.
That was, oh my God, it was LG,
that was when LG was making banger phones.
- ♪ Keep climbin' til ♪ ♪ The mountain top ♪
- Dude, this guy looks five years old.
- Why do I remember all of the phones more than the music?
- It's just, this video looks like it was shot yesterday on an iPhone.
- Look at the, again, the swoop, that's you!
- He's the birthplace!
- Damn, he started when he was a toddler, bro!
- Wow!
- ♪ My one life for sure ♪
- ♪ Let me tell you one time ♪
- I like that he has like 30 year olds at his party.
(both laugh)
- Silly string, 'cause they can't drink?
- Exactly. (laughs)
- They're like aww, no drinks, let's just have them...
- That man is 32. (laughs)
- I have such a vivid memory of his songs being on the radio,
and my mom being like this sounds like a little girl,
and I'm like shut up, no he doesn't!
- (React) How old do we think Justin was?
- Oh, pfft. - He was like 13, 12.
- Yeah, no, 12.
- (React) 15. - Dang, really?
- (React) Mm-hmm.
- He got a baby face. - (React) Yeah.
- It's really impressive that he has sustained a career for that long,
'cause that's very difficult to do. - (React) Crazy.
- As a musician.
So props to him for surviving the vocal change.
- ♪ Forgetting all I'm lacking ♪
(Brian laughs) - ♪ Starving for truth ♪
- God. (Sabrina laughs)
Is this Lifehouse?
- (React) Yeah! - Yeah, yeah.
- I think I did forget about this one.
- ♪ You take all of me now ♪
♪ I'm falling even ♪ ♪ More in love with you ♪
- Yeah!
♪ (Izzy sings gibberish) ♪
- I've heard this song not that long ago.
- ♪ Hanging by a moment ♪ ♪ Here with you ♪
- Singing is my passion. - I believe it.
(both laugh)
- I didn't realize this was so 2000,
I thought this was like later in 2000s.
I didn't realize it was 2000. - (React) 2000.
- Dude, this was, I heard this song everywhere during this time, dude.
- ♪ Hanging by a moment ♪ ♪ Here with you ♪
- I was a freshman in high school. - Damn.
- It's so crazy, 'cause that's, like the voice,
like the (vocalizes) is so prominent in that time period.
- Dude. - Everybody did that voice.
- Everyone was doing that.
- (React) Tell me, which song are you most excited to have rediscovered?
- From this? - (React) Mm-hmm.
- Ooh. - 3OH!3, low key.
I guess I have to.
- I was gonna say honestly, 3OH!3 or straight up,
I'm going to listen to a bunch of Sean Kingston.
- Sean Kingston!
Similar to Akon, came in, did what he needed to do,
got out. - Dipped.
- Good for him. - (React) Yeah.
- We just went back in time and came back to reality.
- (React) Now you're back to 2023.
- It was a journey.
- The Sean Kingston and Akon is like the playlist for the ride home.
- This is my time to shine, fuck y'all.
(both laugh) Yeah, yeah.
♪ Get out, right now ♪
♪ It's the end of you and me ♪
- ♪ I feel like ♪ - Ooh!
- ♪ I'm drowning in the ocean ♪ - Hey!
- ♪ I wanna make up ♪ ♪ Right now na na ♪
- ♪ Wish we never broke up ♪