Urtar Reviews

  Hey everyone, been a while, but Drake, known online as Urtar Reviews here and today I am doing another worst list for 2003! My birth year! So how good an overall year for pop music do I think 2003 was? I think it might be my least favorite year of the 2000s decade for pop music. Not to say it's a terrible year, in fact there's a fair amount of songs I adore as we'll see on the best list. But the bad stuff really drags it down. Let's get into it! Before I listened to this list, I did not realize that Natasha Bedingfield's brother had hits. Years before her first song hit the Hot 100. I was totally fine not knowing that because... 10. If You're Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield Snore. Snore. I am someone who has a soft spot for late 90s and early 2000's ballads like this. And this still is so goddamn boring to me. Daniel Bedingfield is such a boring singer that just has such little personality. And the instrumentation is also boring. And the lyrics are kinda

  10. Slide - The Goo Goo Dolls I've recently realized how many childhood classics the Goo Goo Dolls have that I didn't know by name. Iris, Slide, Broadway, Name, Here Is Gone and more. I think my parents played this band a lot when I was young. Either that or I heard them a lot in public, or someone who I spent a lot of time with did. But anyway, once again a song I have a lot of nostalgia for. That guitar line is just absolutely killer, John Rzeznik just absolutely kills it on the vocals. This song is also often misinterpreted because of how upbeat it is, it's about a couple wondering what they should do because the woman is pregnant and they don't know whether they should let it get born and have to deal with supporting a child financially, or whether they abort it, and make people around them think they are killers. And her mom disown her for killing her baby Which is a topic that has certainly taken on a new light in 2024. Despite all this, it is somehow the weakes

  Hey everyone, Drake known online as Urtar Reviews here. I know I haven't posted in months, I have just not had the motivation to do anything here lately, until now of course. Anyway, I'm gonna be stepping back in time even further with a look at the end of the 90s, and the first Billboard chart year where the Hot 100 was considered an all-genre chart, and that airplay-only singles were allowed to chart. Because of this, even though for the other 90s years I am planning on allowing any song that made the top 20 of the Billboard Pop Radio for the lists to make up for the fact that they didn't allow airplay-only singles to chart, I will be sticking only to the Billboard Year End list for 1999 for this list. And any song that made the top 20 of the airplay chart in 1998 will not be eligible for 1999. Now, I was going to do a worst list for this year, but, this year gave me so few songs I dislike, and most of the ones I do I have basically nothing to say about, so I will not b

  10. Savin' Me - Nickelback Nickelback are a good band. I said what I said. I do not care about any judgements people make against me for thinking this. Rockstar made my 2007 best list and I stand by that. But this is frankly even better. Not quite their best song cause How You Remind Me exists. But this song rules. Chad Kroeger sounds absolutely haunted singing about how depressed he is and how he needs someone to show him that life is worth living. And the guitar line fits the depressing tone so well. And that is just one hell of a hook. The way he sings "show me what it's like to be the last one standing" is just so beautiful to me. Oh and also the strings are beautiful.  9. Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy are a band I have let's just say... conflicting thoughts on. A lot of their big hits from the 2000s are classics, but then This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race sucks. Or like Uma Thurman rules but Young And Menace is godawful. But yeah this