March 2002 - Atmosphere (photo album)

I was 3 in early 2002. Remember some images but don't remember it clearly. Must've been fun being a teen in the early 2000s.

This was the month I turned 3. I have a few vague memories of 2002, but not sure if any are from March of that year or not.

what do you mean by dream

wasn't really exaggerated, its just that some of the fashion looks were phasing out, those songs that I posted for March 2002 had a sound that was different than their normal y2k sounding ones,  Nsync's gone was really a JT record and was produced by The Neptunes (the hot new producers at the time) and sounded like nothing they did before, yes there were some y2k artists on their but the majority of their sound had changed to adapt with the times, the mood did a complete 180 in weeks leading and in the weeks after 9/11 it just was not the same at all. It was the point of no return for the culture. You never really heard y2k teen pop on the radio again back to back to back after September 2001.

no not really, The only real one from that list is BSB,  Vengaboys was relegated to being played in Six Flags commercials as a joke, Mandy Moore had 1 album in 2001 and did poorly and got almost 0 airtime.
Even Jessica Simpsons new album which came out in September ish 2001 had 1 hit that lasted 3 1/2 weeks and peetered out. Tons of Kiss stations were getting rid of teen pop in rotation.  TeenPop was already seen as uncool and thats why you had Nsync and Britney Spears have their hits produced by the Neptunes  (Girlfriend, Slave 4 U) a more mature sound.  The last time Teen pop would back back to back was in late Aug-early September when the VMAs (MTV had a TRL countdown on Kiss stations)  were playing the best of the year songs. If you look @ the radio charts for the 2001-2002 school year you will see teen pop hardly gets any radio play. Even MTV 1 and 2 stopped show teen pop music videos in the morning. I remember because I was there lol and you were 2 lol

so you were about the same age I was, lets look at the top 13 charts for March 2002  ( The Full listing)
Um I am not trying to be condescending, I am just trying to state that the majority of the 2001-2002 school year was
void of teen pop hits. No need for that unnecessary put down jab on Thanksgiving of all days,Thanx...

Anyways here is March 2002's top 13 rotation radio play,broken down by song type



- What's Luv? 
Fat Joe Featuring Ashanti - an R&B joint pretty consistent of core 2000s type of r&b

Escape 
Enrique Iglesias - pop song with urban flavor (in no way does this sound like teen pop)

Blurry 
Puddle Of Mudd - typical 2000s post grunge song

A Thousand Miles
-  A early 2000s singer/songwriter/alt  trope song
Vanessa Carlton


In no way do any of those top 16 songs have any teen pop influence, Girlfriend by Nsync is a Neptunes produced song, has
a totally different flavor then any of Nsync's previous hits and has the Neptunes trademark R&b and Hip Hop stylings. They are
not even wearing any teen pop y2k fashions in the video either,  Nelly also did a remix for the track as well. The Neptunes were
the people all of the former teen pop acts went to to have a more mature sound and stray away from the genre, this was also the
song that bridged JT from Nsync to solo act.





In regards to Overprotected by Britney Spears, that song got very poor airplay due to Clear Channel banning Britney's music shortly before 9/11
due to touring deal going south. It was not a song that stayed or charted very well except for maybe outside places (this is considering USA charting)

"In the United States, on the week of May 4, 2002, "The Darkchild Remix" peaked at number 86 on Billboard Hot 100, "
From the Wikipedia


B2K's song  was released on July 17, 2001 (during the end fade out of the y2k era)  and got heavy rotation on 106 & Park shortly after.
That song reappeared briefly in the charts due to the VMAS coming up in a few weeks,  MTV had a radio countdown that aired on Kiss stations
across of the united states. Also I will say Uh huh does not really sound teen pop at all.


Here is the rest of the charts for March 2002 and hardly anything screams teen pop




Ill give you BSB and Ill even give u B2k as a pass, I don't wan't to create an argument with you on here, however
I can't have someone saying March 2002 still had a total y2k vibe when it clearly didn't.

I wouldn't say the NOW CD's were a sign of peoples popularity rather then the company getting the top hits of the past few months and putting it on a CD, I think also being in the United States might have a little bit different effect on music then Australia, not sure how it was for you guys over there. Having been a teen in 2002 I can tell you people were calling Teen pop lame washed up and stupid + I started hearing it less and less
of songs of it on the radio and MTV music videos.

Wikipedia also adds to my statement as well, there you have it