"Big dick spammer" be damned!
On with the show... It's a mini-timeslip moment again!
We've been Cast Away [geddit?!] two decades back in time - to January 2001. In the news that month: the age of consent in the UK was finally equalised for gay and straight men to 16, the killers of eight-year-old Victoria Climbié (her great-aunt and partner) were sentenced to life imprisonment, George W. Bush was inaugurated as President of the United States, an earthquake in Gujarat killed between 13,805 and 20,023 people, Tony Blair's closest ally and "spin-doctor" Peter Mandelson resigned amid a scandal about a fast-tracked passport application for a billionaire Labour donor, and Philippine President Joseph Estrada was overthrown and replaced by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. In our cinemas: Meet the Parents; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Sexy Beast. On telly: I Love the '80s, Phoenix Nights, Judge John Deed, and ITV's News at Ten returned after a two year hiatus.
...all that, and a small, unassuming, rather geeky website launched that was destined to change the way the world got its information forevermore - Happy Birthday Wikipedia!
But what was in our charts on this auspicious occasion? "Big Bum" J-Lo had crashed straight into the #1 slot with Love Don't Cost a Thing, and also present and correct were Steps, Fragma, Feeder, Texas, Santos [nope, me neither] and the loathsome Eminem. However, the song that the delightful Señorita Lopez had unceremoniously knocked off the top was this fantabulosa dance classic, by far the best song in the charts at that moment:
How terrifying is it to think that song is twenty years old?! How can that be possible?
Somehow, I don't remember any of the news, but that Rui da Silva track flung me back to The Loft - Norwich's only gay club at the time) - and its hot, sweaty, sticky dancefloor!
ReplyDeleteGosh, a gay club in that there Norfuck? Whatever next?! Jx
DeletePS A club wasn't a proper club unless you stuck to the floor while waiting at the bar...
P.S. That's quite the gif!
ReplyDeleteThere's some odd people out there... Jx
DeleteI don’t remember any of this! Vaguely recall News at Ten returning. I went to Ibiza in 2001, that’s it, that’s all I recall!
ReplyDeleteSx
You'd have been dancing to Rui da Silva and Fragma, then! Jx
DeleteWithout Wikipedia, where would students steal their essays?
ReplyDelete...and get inaccurate (or at least dubious) facts! Jx
DeleteWow I Love this track so much !
ReplyDelete20 years ago - Not possible
Time flies when you're having fun, they say.
DeleteAlso big that year were S Club 7, Geri Halliwell, Nelly Furtado, Basement Jaxx, Supermen Lovers, Lady Marmalade from Moulin Rouge, Flawless by The Ones, Murder on the Dancefloor and Can't Get You Out of My Head. Aaargh! Jx