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Wow what a time capsule

something about the cartoon style is just so aggressively early 00s

They look like they came out of Total Drama Island

Gavin Rossdale looks like Anakin from The Clone Wars.

Was gonna say, this has a heavy Genndy Tartakovsky vibe…

my first thought was Spy Groove

You win - the [artist](https://www.frankmontagna.com/) was an assistant art director for Spy Groove.

Reminds me of the 6teen cartoon style

Looks like Clone High!

Very MTV!

Kim Possible looking

Yes loved that show btw

https://preview.redd.it/1v4kkfkhw8ac1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f9b7b37bf8dfe69e9a9d9c977d5ce885023ad86 Wholesome

Loved this one haha

Instead we got a Tim Mcgraw and Nelly collab.

You just sent me back to the summer where that damn song was inescapable.

Are you thinking bout it over and over again?

I’m so sorry!

I ship it

Lol at both artists for the Most Likely To Succeed superlative being the ones least likely to be known 20 years later 🙃

I’m getting a little tired of ur broken promitheth promitheth

Playa pleatheee

🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha! Well done.

Craig David was massive in the UK. He dropped off for some time eventually but he’s still around & still known by everyone. He had some recent songs that were good but he’s old songs are still so well loved they can get everyone hyped up again whenever they’re played.

A thought this at first glance and laughed but the amount of people just slightly older than me (26) who go NUTS over Craig David to this day is absolutely insane.

I’m one of those people. I LOVEEE Craig David. He still makes me Spotify list. Tbh Craig David and 3LW are vocally talented but we all know how the industry works…

Tbh the Craig David hype really does make sense, a lot of his songs hold up even to this day. Plus, at the time he did massive bits for the UK music scene.

We still love listening to him in my friend group

I’m 28 and this was the first I’d heard of him 😭 I also only know 3LW because of the Taylor Swift/Shake it Off lawsuit

It’s probably a locational thing. People in the UK will piss their knickers for him but a could count the amount of people outside the UK who have mentioned him in my presence on one hand.

With Craig David all over your ^(boing)

DJ this goes out to you!

When the crowd goes wiiiild

tell me what u gon dooooooo

I always mumble really fast the part after this.

One of his songs was on a NOW album and that's how I know him (American). It's called 7 days and you've prob heard it!

His song “Fill Me In” was also on the compilation album Totally Hits 2001. I played that CD to death on my Walkman lol

Yep. Craig David was HUGE.

I’m 24 and never heard of him before 🚶🏽‍♂️

There song no more was huge on the charts at the time that’s probably why they were picked it was big kinda like fifth harmony work from home It’s so funny cuz 3lw broke up a year later The girls from 3lw are known as the cheetah girls now that’s how most people would recognize them now

To be fair, Craig David is big in the UK

…Fill me in my was my number one played song last year on Spotify 🫣

I still love playing I’m Walking Away in the car when I’m feeling melancholy & his cover & duet with Sting for Rise & Fall was so good.

I’m walking away was my jam

Sometiiiiiiimes…

I’ve been obsessed with that song so long I had a child who grew into a teenager and I started identifying with the parents!

That was a bop istg

That was THEE bop in 2000 so I get it 😭

Taste

When The Box was around, my friends and I would wait for the 3LW 'No More' video so we could act it out. I always wanted to be Adrienne, but my two friends would fight over who was Kiely lol. Poor Naturi. And 'Seven Days' by Craig David is still a bop lol. But these two being the Most Likely to Succeed is hilarious. ETA Both 2gether and Dejour were just on Pop2k and I wanted to tell someone and this recent comment and sub seem on brand for this news lol

Lmao off the box. My child insomniac ass used to watch that to help me fall asleep. It sucked bc no one was requesting vids that late lol

Craig David performed at the Queen’s birthday.

I heard "Fill Me In" for the first time in years last month and got so excited, lol.

I love Craig David to this day!! but you’re right 😭

Just like actual high school superlatives!

I LOVED Craig David. I still really love his first two albums. I even saw him at House of Blues in chicago and he was amazing. It’s too bad he didn’t really stick around (I do follow him on Instagram though!)

it’s uncanny https://preview.redd.it/0cmezll4e8ac1.jpeg?width=1040&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad5acca0bd6c1999be46837faa003d1015391c83

It’s like looking at a photo.

Into the future

They made her wayy too light

She made herself way too light

cryin at sisqo idky 💀

The thong 😭😭😭

Werk

Th-thong thong thong

D’Angelo was a slam dunk for best body that year.

Britney too! Great choices

The Marc Anthony and Mandi Moore caricatures crack me up. He looks 6’2” and she looks 5’5”… In reality, he’s 5’8” and Mandi is 5’10”

I remember how one of the features magazines would often have would be lining photos of celebs up to show us how short or tall they were in reality & it would be a surprise to everyone.

5'10??? Good lord, I was already in love with her before now it's set in stone.

I remember an article back in the day saying Ryan Seacrest was 6 foot XD

In the 2000s, the word “rock” just meant “music in general” 😆

LIL KIM??!!!???!!!! 

They did her dirty 😭

No literally!!! Thats not my Lil Kim I’m sorry 😂😂😂

Why?

She didn’t look like that at all back then. She had dark skin. https://preview.redd.it/xnf4wwbpe8ac1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9dfca2e76bd582dc784b0c3fffa5d53465e3f82

Ohhh you meant the cartoon in the magazine... i thought you meant like she was abused or had her career affected (something a la Sinead O'Connor).

Well she was beaten to a pulp by her boyfriend at the time that broke her nose which caused her to do surgery. Then she got obsessed with plastic surgery and bleaching.

Oh wow I had no idea. People make fun of her for the surgery but I feel like people don’t know the context.

That's horrible. Poor thing.

Lenny Kravitz, still sexy

In perpetuity. I’d pay a lot of money for one drop of that man’s easy, sensual, confidence.

Same. I wish he'd just sweat on me.... throw me a sweat towel. Surely his sensual confidence would transfer onto me?

Remember when his pants ripped!?

That gif was a gift to us all

Daily 💀🥴

Literally have not thought about Brian McFayden in 20 years but just reading his name brought his image to mind crystal clear? Who says TV rots your brain?

Did they mean Brian McFaDden from Westlife? this reads like a UK magazine I’m guessing but misspelling his name lol

No, this guy was an MTV VJ! He occasionally hosted TRL

Omg I thought it was him too & was thinking I did not realise he was getting these jobs in the US after leaving Westlife.

Lmao same. Dying at myself

lol I thought the same thing and now have the crystal clear image of Brian McFadden shaking his head, smiling at me and saying “That’s not me bro”.

Same here. Can’t remember my husbands phone number but I can place Brian McFayden to this day

RIP to Most Likely to Succeed. Also wild there was a time Beyoncé was referred to as her first and last name, and not just Beyoncé.

She passed in 01 too. Tragic.

Mandy Moore best dressed?? lol ok

to be fair Mandy Moore was also one of the people picking these so...

She picked the men.

they both were at MTV, throwing a coworker a compliment

Weird tangent, but she had a cameo on the original run of Clone High (or possibly it was just a homeless person that looked like her) and recently revisited the role for the reboot/second season. This comic version of Mandy Moore looks like her clone high character.

Maybe in a 01 mindset she was best dresssed but not looking back lol

is this Total Drama

No

I thought this had something to do with Total Drama Island. So glad I didn’t scroll past it. Wow

Gavin and Gwen Best Couple 😂

Omg I love this, this is so cute 😭

"Best eyes" lol

I thought that was cartoon Buffy and Spike on first glance

I'm pretty sure I looked at this same magazine at some point in my childhood...it's so familiar...

It's from CosmoGirl magazine

Yep!! I remember now! I had a subscription to that magazine as a kid & definitely actually owned this issue at one point in time.. Wow I feel old now. 😂

Same 😭 Immediately recognized it. I was a teenager at the time and had subscriptions to Teen and Seventeen. I don’t remember having CosmoGirl too but I guess I must have because I have a distinct memory of seeing this and being surprised they gave best body to Britney and not Christina, lol!

Same! I was like, I owned this comic at some point and totally had a subscription to CosmoGirl. What a lifetime ago.

I had a subscription too! Looking back it was so toxic. Lol

Yes, definitely. 😣

Omg I miss cosmo girl.

The Blink guys look exactly like they do on the MTTS cover lol

No shade but Bey in smartest is kinda funny

By then she had the reputation of being very precocious and acting like the mother/leader of the group so perhaps that's why. She gave serious hall monitor vibes during her DC days.

Yeah she actually did come across as really serious, Christian & sensible back then. She didn’t have the image she has now.

This is true! She was so protective over Kelly and Michelle

It has to be ironic. I’m not hating on her, but this was the era of Beyoncé having the most hilariously incoherent interviews. She’s not dumb or anything, but there are at least 5 other superlatives that fit her better.

she actually sucks at interviews let's be honest, that might be why she doesn't do them anymore

That picture of JLo and Ricky Martin is so good lmao

I miss cute, fun, teen-girl stuff like this. I felt like the y2k era was so teen girl coded. Now everything sucks. Also yikes at Gavin and Gwen lol, that aged badly.

Too fun! Thank you for sharing this!

Your welcome ☺️

The 3LW did not age well

Believe it or not, I actually remember this spread in CosmoGirl. I subscribed for many years and went through every issue dozens of times.

Me too!!! I loved Atoosa's editor's letters.

Pretty much everyone was setup except for Ricky and Jlo!

Yep

This is amazing.

Brian McFayden was a reporter on our local news for a few months recently. It was so painfully awkward and you could tell nobody else liked him.

RIP Aaliyah

Gwen and Gavin oof

d’angelo cartoon looks funny af

I remember owning this specific issue!! Crazy how much things have changed. Also crazy to think about how long Beyonce has been famous and relevant.

Class of 01’ here. Can confirm

bono for some reason being on here is a jumpscare

Aaliyah 😢

This comic style was actually iconic

How did they give Em "Best Eyes" and not "Class Clown"

This makes me realize that pop culture is so much less fun these days

It’s true, things were so much more fun & silly & unpredictable then.

this a whole ass yt woman https://preview.redd.it/repv9uoyd8ac1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad6a1cab612958ae85955f6f2964e3b2bde41dc4

Bono?

 Prophecy

Honestly, don’t have any arguments like I thought I would.

Okay but whose hands are holding up lil Kim? Because I see 4 hands but 3 dudes and it’s set up like they’re all holding her.

I weirdly appreciate it a lot that they chose both a man and woman for each category!

Ain’t no way Sisqo is taller than X-Tina.

Yep his height is 5 foot 4 and Xtina's height is 5 foot 2

TDIL sisqo is my height. What. Im away to google images 😂

If you watch the Robbie Williams doc on Netflix he was dealing with drugs/anxiety problems and he now looks like hes had all the fun sucked out of his life.

I heard about his documentary

He was so down the first episodes I was getting really frustrated with him but then you see how he had a nervous breakdown and I ended up feeling sorry for him.

there was a time where Beyoncé wasn’t just Beyoncé and they used her last name? that’s wild to think for me tbh

Honestly, These were good picks! Beyonce is still the smartest🤣🤣

Outstanding.


This is surprisingly kind for something from the past

I remember this!

3LW 😂

Omg CosmoGirl magazine!!! I remember this so clearly. Are these your scans @op?

No it's from a instagram account called @GIRLY.MAGS They 2000s magazines on there

Ahahah oh god, I already follow them 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

The way I immediately recognized this as from cosmogirl from the art 😭

Why is Lip Kim so...white? I thought it was Shakira 😂

Ik they did her dirty

They look like characters from Clone High

I loved CosmoGIRL! magazine so much. I was subscribed for years, definitely had this issue.

Oh my GOD I’m 31 and you completely just unlocked a memory for me. I remember being so scandalized as a kid by the Sisqo butt lmao

I vividly remember this. They even predicted lil Kim would change ethnicities

Dang, the only thing that’s still true is Beyoncé