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21 Rolling Stone Covers That Immortalized The Year 2000

Looking back to 15 years ago, when the Backstreet Boys ruled the world and Britney Spears was not a girl, but not yet a woman.

1. The Backstreet Boys entered the millennium as the biggest thing in music.

2. Mariah Carey took a selfie like a true DIVA (aka with a lighting team, and full hair and make up), while promoting her album Rainbow.

3. We got to "hang" with Leonardo DiCaprio as he promoted his new film The Beach.

4. Carlos Santana was still riding high on the success of his album, Supernatural (aka that album your mom would always listen to in the car).

5. NSYNC were stuck in an exploding glitter factory for some reason.

6. DMX had us all dancing to "Party Up (Up in Here)."

7. The Red Hot Chili Peppers rose like a phoenix from the ashes with their album Californication.

8. Sarah Michelle Gellar was still slaying us.

9. Britney Spears promoted Oops!... I Did It Again by posing in a sexy and patriotic photo shoot.

10. Tom Green stopped singing the "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)" and decided to get serious.

11. Kid Rock talked trash while wearing a tank made of trash.

12. Christina Aguilera rocked the coolest accessory you could have in 2000, an MP3 CD Walkman.

13. Keanu Reeves was apparently a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma while talking about the upcoming Matrix sequels.

14. Blink-182 continued to be as naked as possible.

15. Gisele Bündchen was declared "the most beautiful girl in the world," but let's be honest, she still is.

16. Madonna entered her cowgirl phase to promote her new album Music.

17. Kate Hudson became the new ingénue after her break-through performance in Almost Famous.

18. Apparently we still listened to The Wallflowers.

19. Al Gore reminded us that he and his bulge were running for president.

20. "Independent woman" Drew Barrymore promoted Charlie's Angels.

21. Backstreet Boys ended the year still "larger than life."