Best Albums of 2000

Ancient American culture history lesson: The infamous “wazzzuppppp” Budweiser commercial came out in December 1999, and by the year 2000 I’m pretty sure it had infiltrated the vocabulary of every single male person in their teens or below to the point where nobody from that generation can ever say the words “what’s up” again without thinking about it. Marketing has become one of the great evils of the modern world, but you can’t really deny how much this one shining example brought us together. I had entire 4th grade friendships build on this single word. It’s a rallying cry for Millennials, and in my mind it was the wazzupp commercial on December 20, 1999 that caused the actual Y2K cultural apocalypse.

2000 was the beginning of the next big revolution in music distribution, when the internet started taking over from CD’s, when the passing of the Y2K scare made people believe computers weren’t actually something to be feared. From the lens of 2025, it’s hard to believe we actually convinced ourselves that the entire world needed to be connected, and that such a networked world would lead to a spread of knowledge the world had never seen. Here’s hoping that the current technology scares are just as insubstantial as Y2K.