The article celebrates the 200th issue by curating a list of significant cultural works from the 21st century. Each selected item represents a year and showcases the evolution of culture over the past 25 years. Notable entries include the reality TV phenomenon Big Brother and the musical influence of mashups like A Stroke of Genius. The list illustrates how various forms of media, including television, film, music, and video games, reflect societal changes and trends within this timeframe.
Reality TV has loomed over pop culture for the past 25 years, and Big Brother's DNA can be found in every last Real Housewife or Love Islander. But, as bad as some of the TV that followed in its wake was, BB was in its first outing at least a genuinely radical social experiment.
The Guardian declared this mashup of Hard to Explain and Christina Aguilera's Genie in a Bottle the song that defined the 2000s, and 15 years later, it still feels predictive. Witness the way that someone like PinkPantheress inserts whole choruses from other songs into her thoroughly modern dance-pop.
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