The pop zeitgeist of 1997 can best be summed up by two people — not musicians, but video directors. At the height of MTV’s power to turn singles into chart hits, Hype Williams and Joseph “McG” McGinty ...

Truly, 1997 was the year that boy bands broke onto the mainstream. These are three pop songs from 1997 that prove boy bands' power.

Iggy Pop wrote the words over Ron Asheton’s guitar riff. Pop said he wanted to write “something big” over it. The biggest thing he could imagine was God, but he didn’t want to sing about God, so he ...