8 Key Components Of Female Pop Music Videos From The 2000s

This list is responsible for many unrealistic expectations of twentysomething life.

1. Bare Midriffs

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Did they make full-length shirts in the 00s? Poor Nicole loosened up her buttons and then lost her shirt.

2. Pleather Pants

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If at first you don't succeed, it's probably because you stopped wearing pleather. RIP Aaliyah

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Bonus points for fierce jumpsuits.

3. Lingerie

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The ladies of Lady Marmalade taught us if you're going to show midriff, just go with lingerie. I would also like to clarify that there are FIVE badass chicks from the Moulin Rouge (We love you, Missy).

4. Wet Hair

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Whether it was from sweat, a shower, or a sudden rainstorm on the sound stage, it felt like no one had dry hair. And P!nk didn't care.

5. Midway Choreographed Dance Sequence

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Elbows out, hair flip, hair flip, turn

6. Unrealistic Driving Scenes

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Thanks to Britney, I expected perfectly windblown hair and no city traffic when I got my license.

7. Unintelligible lyrics

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She ain't a Hollaback Girl or a Harlem Black girl. It could have been either. What is a Hollaback Girl?

8. Good Girl Gone Bad

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This theme took us all from the sugar-coated pop of the 90s to the amazing debauchery that was the 00s. How else were we to know she really isn't that innocent?