re: Post awesome late 90's-early 2000's pop songs

Stephen Thomas Erlewine has a great review of a complitaion that includes both All Star and Steal My Sunshine

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First off, there's Smash Mouth's "All Star," which may have been whored out to every commercial and movie between 1999 and 2001, but it's undeniably a well-crafted guilty pleasure, one that soars beyond its era. Then, there's LEN's "Steal My Sunshine," as perfect as songs get. This sun-kissed, sun-bleached blend of hip-hop, pop, disco, post-Beastie Boys cleverness, and California culture is a priceless, timeless confection that instantly calls up sweltering, shimmering beaches the second the looped keyboard plays. It's a monumentally great single, showing up everything else on this record on how good effervescent pop can be -- "Steal My Sunshine" shows that mainstream pop can truly be transcendent.

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