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7 Early 2000 Songs That Totally Don't Mean What You Thought

The 2000s aren’t usually remembered as a decade of full of pop songs than don’t mean what you think they mean. Because — and I say this with love, as a dedicated fan of all things early aughts, from Ashlee Simpson’s singing career, to painfully flat-ironed bangs, to those matching denim outfits Justin and Britney wore to the VMAs — the pop songs of the early ’00s were not very subtle. I mean, “Sk8r Boi” isn’t secretly about the tragedy of soil erosion, you know?

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7 Early 2000 Songs That Totally Don't Mean What You Thought

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The 2000s aren’t usually remembered as a decade of full of pop songs than don’t mean what you think they mean. Because — and I say this with love, as a dedicated fan of all things early aughts, from Ashlee Simpson’s singing career, to painfully flat-ironed bangs, to those matching denim outfits Justin and Britney wore to the VMAs — the pop songs of the early ’00s were not very subtle. I mean, “Sk8r Boi” isn’t secretly about the tragedy of soil erosion, you know?