2005 Was Bananas 

You can tell Fantano was getting stuffed in lockers when these songs were hot and the mere sound of these tracks bring back old trauma

You would’ve put Hollaback Girl in S tier if the words were “this shit is melons”

Fun fact: “Candy Shop” was number one on the Hot 100 for nine consecutive weeks. Blocking both “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Since U Been Gone” from hitting number one.

I think the lyrics to Hollaback Girl were intended to be a little cringe tho. The song is written with the context that Courtney Love was talking smack about Gwen, Gwen thought that was some high school behavior not becoming of adults so she wrote a song that sounded like it was made in high school, marching band and everything. I think that's the part that makes me love it.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams is even better when my mom is butchering it on karaoke. Love you mom 💙

This is the last evidence I need to declare that if Fantano had this channel in the 00's, American Idiot would've been today's MBDTF.

2005-2008 was the corniest, tackiest, and trashy era in pop music. I love it.

I’m surprised Feel Good Inc didn’t make it. I remember hearing that all the time on the radio back in 05

Born in 99, and 2005 is when my child mind started to remember lyrics and songs.

Calling Boulevard of Broken Dreams "soulless" and "boring" may be the most offensive thing you've ever said

I liked "Since You've Been Gone" well enough in 2005, but singing it at a karaoke bar a few years ago reminded me how wonderful (and strangely cathartic??) this song was. This is an S tier song for me.

Can't believe Anthony was talking about cringe in Hollaback Girl and didn't talk about the video where before the song starts, Gwen says "SUPER KAWAI!!"

Hollaback Girl gives me flashbacks of 12 year old me cuddling up next to a portable heater, eating Chef Boyardee, while my parents drink and fight in the kitchen. While I watch MTV videos, trying to escape from the madness. Good times. Good times…

I miss when black male producers worked on pop albums and expressed a feminine but hit making side to their production. This Gwen album and Loose come to mind. Diddy’s danity kane stuff. You can hear these conceptual and complex ideas in mainstream pop and giving it an elevated feeling. That only makes sense that hiphop and rnb experts would craft some of the biggest chart toppers of the 2000s

I am absolutely bewildered and befuddled that Sugar We’re Goin Down didn’t make this list. Fall Out Boy was popping off in 2005.

"Since you been gone" being an outlier for Kelly is certainly correlated to the fact that is was written and produced by Max Martin

I have always loved the acoustic guitar on Hollaback Girl, its so eerie almost it always grabs my attention, and how the horns join in on it for the 2nd time.

I seriously think We belong together's lack of lush instrumentality actually works TO ITS BENEFIT My gooooood does Mariah sound classy AF on that song, absolute banger and even with the 'dry' layering on the back of the track her vocals still blow my mind to this day and hit like a ton of fucking bricks Arguably the best R&B song of all time, at least Top 10 for me

All the things you said about Behind These Hazel Eyes are the complete opposite for me. I mean, the opening drums, the chorus, the bridge, the VOCAL PERFROMANCE, they're all perfect for me. A complete BANGER. I even prefer it than Since U Been Gone although i also love that song. BTHE is one of those 2000s songs i come back into more than any other songs in that era.

you are definitely not bimbofied enough for Dont Cha, that song is sucha vibeee

Fun Fact: Mario's Let Me Love You was actually ghost written by Ne-Yo before he became a house hold name the following year

the trumpet section is so gorgeous on hollaback girl and i will stand by that with my life

I could never but Kelly Clarkson in the D tier after the phenomenal vocal performance she gives on that song. 😅

0:00 Intro 0:43 Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes 2:10 The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha ft. Busta Rhymes 3:13 50 Cent - Candy Shop ft. Olivia 4:20 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 5:38 Kanye West - Gold Digger ft. Jamie Foxx 6:54 Ciara - 1, 2 Step ft. Missy Elliott 7:47 Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone 8:54 Mario - Let Me Love You 9:44 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl 11:21 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together 12:36 Outro

It’s weird cause my fav. part of music is the production. “We Belong Together” is one of those rare tracks where low production actually made the song amazing. Brings back memories of being 14 with fantasies of having my heart broken. That’s why it’s an S tier song.

Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces cuz melon gave Behind These Hazel Eyes a D Tier 🥲

I wish feel good inc could’ve made the list.

As an apple, I can confirm that 2005 was indeed Bananas!

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams got to be at least B-tier IMO. I would personally put it in A, but I view B as a good compromise

You eviscerated We Belong Together….I’m on my knees sobbing

Behind These Hazel Eyes is S tier.

1 Thing by Amerie is one of my favourite songs ever. Surprised it wasn't higher in the year-end charts.

Let Me Love You was such a classic. Glad it got its due respect here

Man it sucks that Mario didn’t pop off commercially. I think he’s an amazing singer and has very enjoyable songs. His d.n.a. album is very stylistic and creative albeit a bit outdated. Idk who will see this but if you like that type of music, definitely check him out

I think I get your complaint about "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" but it seems like the production exactly as you describe it fits the song, doesn't it? It's a desolate song on a drab, derelict landscape with lyrics that match. I don't even mind the guitar chord progression going "around the world" with E, G, D, A. All cowboy chords, by the way, as I've heard them called. I could say those four chords are as standard and rote as they come but if you can still bring some fire, bring something new then I'm pleased. Maybe I'm easily pleased. I love it when Pearl Jam does it for the epic solo part and chorus to "Ahh ohhh uhhhhh hhhuu uhhhh I'm still alive oooh ooo oh woah!" LOL, you have to sing that in your head as you read it. Now you can't get it out. Gotcha, b*tch! I don't care. It's a grunge song about surfing (the PJ song) which is probably the last thing we do up here but Eddie wrote it on his board in San Diego and there's room in grunge for outsiders. We are outsiders! Everything above the northern California border is the wilderness. Tucker Carlson doesn't even know that Olympia is in Washington- thinks it's in Oregon even though it's our capitol. Oh well, I guess I have to forgive him down there in the Californian capitol of Sack-and-Leno.

2004-2006 are my favorite years for music.. Mostly because of the alternative and rock genres.

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DAD HELP THE TOILET WONT FLUSH?!?!?!?

'We Belong Together' on the B row? I have to laugh. The beat goes hard and SHE goes hard, she's belting AND rapping. One of her very best songs.

When a song teaches you how to spell a word and you sing it every time you spell it that song is S tier.

i was 9 yrs old this year and it was the year i really started to get into music. i had all these songs off limewire saved on my Sony PSP. candy shop got me into rap. i didnt like gold digger at all. ironically and unfortunately, kanye became my favorite artist. i made a music video with all my neighborhood friends to 1, 2 Step lol.

2005 was the year I was old enough to really get into music, so now we’re really getting into the nostalgia times

in 05' I used an instrumental version of Ciara's "My Goodies" to do a rap for my 5th grade social studies class in the white suburb i grew up in and my teacher said it was fire

Maybe it’s just me but Candy shop is B tier not one of 50’s top 5 tracks but I can’t agree with Melon’s opinion but let’s agree to disagree ig Edit: I really appreciate Melon’s words on Mario’s Let Me Love You

S TIER!!! S TIER!!!! We Belong Together is one of the most timeless, catchy and repayable songs of all time. I'm sorry Melon but I'mma respectfully disagree on that one. Arguably the best R&B song ever.

I'll never get Antknee's American Idiot hate. What a good album

This is the one Childish Bimbino sang about, right?

Can't wait for him to do this 2005 ~ 2010 tier list, pretty much my pre-teen/teenage years (and also the time I was more in touch with mainstream pop radio hits) Pure nostalgia mixed up with cringe

Since U Been Gone is only so good because Dr. Luke and Max Martin admittedly ripped the whole thing off of "Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

It's interesting to think of the ranking from a credits point of view. "Don't Cha" was produced by Cee-lo Green, while both "Candy Shop" and "Let Me Love You" were produced by Scott Storch (and written by Ne-Yo).. Speaking of writers, Dr. Luke was involved with Kelly Clarksons D-Song (lol) while Max Martin was in for "Since You Been Gone" and could be one of the reasons for the lil extra pop behind it. Pharrell/Neptunes did "Hollaback Girl" besides other probably musically richer collaborations with Gwen Stefani ("Can I Have It Like That?"). Jazze Pha did the Ciara track and also other pretty good productions for her debut. Jermaine Dupri did the song for his good friend Mariah and though the critique is pretty much on point, some of it is just by choice as the (drum) sound of SoSoDef was just that back then and he succeed greatly with it. Also, Johnta Austin also wrote quite a lot of other good R&B songs besides "We Belong Together", just not that as successful, sadly.

Lotta nostalgic shit from this year till about 08 or 09.

2005 was absolutely bananas!!!! Fantano has kidnapped me and makes me listen to Death Crips or something on loop and feeds be pieces of vegan bananas

Agreed 100% about We Belong Together. I actually never really liked this song until I heard her 2021 Valentine's Day version of it with live instrumentation and it made all of the difference. That is the only version of the song for me.

Sure Hollaback girl doesn't have greatest lyricism, but L.A.M.B. is a non stop BANGER once after rich girl

Unpopular opinion: We Belong Together is just a lesser version of Breakdown. Mariah Carey has so much better. It’s Like That should have been the big hit from that album.

Some of the best mainstream songs of 2005: Hung up by Madonna Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz Karma by Alicia Keys ( was released as a single in november 2004 but charted more in 2005) Loose Control by Missy Elliott

Fun fact: Hollaback Girl was written as a Courtney Love diss.

Orange is the new Banana

I mean you said that green day was too soft during that time but had some really bangers on American Idiot like the title track, Jesus of Suburbia, Letterbomb that really showed that they still had that edge. not exactly the same as the 90s and after American Idiot is where their sound as a band started to diminish for me anyway.

In fifth grade (05) we used popular songs to learn how to spell certain words. “Neighbor” was to the tune of Gold Digger haha.

Boulevard at C melon God will not forgive you Alhamdulillah

when you started this series i started sifting through old pop hits from my childhood and dont cha was one i revisited and i remember the big orchestral part in the hook being much grander and more fun but revisiting it it was so disappointing. is there another version with better production or something?

I agree with Gold Digger not being S-tier. Kanye does have better singles. I don't see why it isn't A-tier though. Probably he got tired of it after being overplayed, or like most people, doesn't feel like complimenting Kanye anymore since his actions are not worthy of it. I can't say it isn't valid

Thank you for singing them. I've been at a loss with some of these videos as I don't remember 70% of them(and I don't want to search them and fuck up my algorithm)

I'm not even a Green Day fan, but Boulevard of Broken Dreams should be higher.

I need you to review Get Rich or Die Tryin. This 50 disrespect I’ve been seeing from you is crazy.

Ready and patiently waiting for the College Park review

You take that back! Boulevard of Broken Dreams is amazing

I was in kindergarten this year. So strange to have all these songs bring me back to those bus rides hearing the radio.

The beat and production in Candy Shop should put it safely in B tier

I'm actually really lost why the Clarkson songs are in such different tiers because they're extremely similar. The biggest similarity is the guitar, drum, bass, and vocal processing. The mix is a bit different for each track, but everything is clean compressed as hell with all the sparkle and dirt completely removed. They sound like Kidz Bop instrumentals. Since You've Been Gone is more intense and a bit more impassioned, but even with that being true the corniness of each track is about the same. I almost feel like Melon is just directly contradicting himself here (which is fine, consistency is the hobgoblin of the mind etc.)

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

candy shop fuckin slaps and you know it

Can't believe you immediately changed your opinion on "Since U Been Gone" once it was included in the top 5 of Billboard's Top 500 Best Pop Songs Of All Time list. You said that the verses are as engaging as the chorus here, but in your newest video you say that the verses are filler and the song overall is a whiny boring mom rock instead of a rager. 🤨

Wow one minute in and you're already tearing 2005 apart

No way Since You Been Gone, one of the most essential pop songs ever, is less than an S tier

Maybe its nostalgia, but I would‘ve placed candy shop, 1,2 step and don‘t cha in the S row. Weirdly these kinds of songs are peak culture to me lmao

I was born in 2005!

You’re insane man I love you

Distinctly remember not being into any of this shit except Late Registration. Good year for indie/folk rock. Illinois was/is excellent.

Fantwan where did you get that hoody? I want it .... can anyone help?

I was with you till you started sh|tting on Green Day. That whole American Idiot was epic classic.

Let me love you is one of those stand out songs that just hits different imo. Great production by Scott Storch

You put Hollaback Girl over Boulevard of Broken Dreams? This shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s

I can’t lie…since u been gone was in fact an absolute banger. I went back and listened to it for the first time in years and it still sounds great

Man this was the year I got into music, I remember all these songs and music videos from MTV

I am a big Halsey fan, so I'm biased but... I like the new "Die 4 Me". I know it's reductive but I like the other songs by her that sound similar. So it's just another well made, tight, alternative pop song to me. There's much worse. Also Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" is a TOTAL BOP! That song is flawless. I was yelling at the screen for you to put it in the A category. Lol. Thank you!

Justice for the pussycat dolls omfg Don't Cha was THE song

this is why I love melon

Anthony’s impressions of Green Day are killing me lol

where does one purchase that hoodie?

Great tier list.

please do an albums everyone should listen to! keen to improve my music knowledge and discover essential albums across all genres

I mean, and this is just an observation, but one might describe 2005 as more of a few two-liters of ice cold Sprite Remix than bananas. But, I'm willing to reconsider.

Gold Digger by Ye in the B tier also makes sense because both the tier column and the single art basically share the same colour scheme

Nice tier list. Pumped when/if you enter the 90's world of tier lists. ('94 cough cough) Good day sir.

MCR releases an overdramatic but epic pop punk rock opera in the mid-2000s that takes the world by storm Anthony: “Amazing. Incredible. Deserves classic review.” Green Day releases an overdramatic but epic pop punk rock opera in the mid-2000s that takes the world by storm Anthony: “Boring. Bland. Steady. Overrated.” I love both albums to death. I can understand how someone wouldn’t like either of them though. I just think it’s strange how someone can love one album but basically hate the other album when both pretty much do the same exact thing and have the same effect. It would be like someone loving Alice In Chains’ “Dirt” but hating Soundgarden’s “Superunkown”. It’s something I’ve wondered ever since the Black Parade classic review.

I’m so ready for that Viva La Vida ranking, boys.

I can't wait for anthony to reach the 50s

That's not Mario, where's the mustache?