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Twenty Twenty: A Pop Culture Podcast by Message Heard

Nov 17, 202053:22Society & Culture

Pure Shores by All Saints. Independent Women by Destiny’s Child. Can’t Fight the Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes. These chart-topping tracks are some of the year 2000’s most memorable pop hits — but none of them would exist if...

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