Before the world worried about Y2K, the summer of 1999 was already buzzing with urgency and euphoria. On this week’s Gen X 90s Top 20 Countdown, we rewind to July 17, 1999, where Destiny’s Child were demanding respect, Ricky Martin was igniting the Latin pop explosion, and boy bands ruled the charts with harmonies as glossy as the new millennium on the horizon. From Shania’s sass to Smash Mouth’s unstoppable anthem, these are the songs that defined a summer perched on the edge of history.

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Intro music by Open-Music-for-Videos from Pixabay