Girlfriend Australia - April 2016__

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Jess has not

been retouched.

@GF_Jess

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JESSICA LYNCH

PHOTOGRAPHY

JEM CRESSWELL & GETTY IMAGES

Blast

O

ne morning

after waking up,

shuffling to the

shower, force-

feeding myself an

extra strong coffee and blasting

music on Spotify in a

last-ditch attempt to wake

myself up (I am not a morning

person, clearly), I happened to

stumble upon an AMAZING

playlist called ‘Jams of 2000s’

and the nostalgia came

flooding back.

I can already tell you’re

thinking, ‘WTH is she on

about? I was BORN in the

2000s!’ Trust me guys. It

was an important era in pop

culture history. So listen up.

Setting the scene

It was the year 2001,

and while you were

learning how to walk...

*The rapper Sean Combs,

a.k.a. ‘Puff Daddy’ became ‘P.

Diddy’. Followed shortly by

‘Diddy’.

*Long before she

became the glamazon

that married Kanye and

named her child after a

direction, Kim

Kardashian was

Paris Hilton’s lowly

assistant who

was forced to clean

out her obscenely

pink wardrobe.

Who knew?

*Ultimate celeb

coupleBritney

SpearsandJustin

Timberlakewore

matching denim-on-denim

ensemblestotheAmericanMusic

Awards. And it was fantastic.

#neverforget.

The tunes

It was also an amazing time for

R’n’B music. I remember getting so

excitedeverytimetherewasanew

So FreshCD compilation featuring

allthelatestbangerstoplayatthe

next sleepover with the gals (and

later awkwardly dance to with boys

at the school disco).

Since I’m sure the majority of

you would have been babies at the

time and therefore unable to fully

appreciate the lyrical genius that

was “My hump, my hump, my

hump, my hump”, I’ve included the

bestsongstolistentoRIGHTNOW.

Srsly tho, add them to

your playlist. You can

thank me later.

Oh, and be sure to

Tweet me your faves

(orjustmake

funofmy

music

taste,

whichever

suits you)

to @jesska

lynch.

Enjoy

all the

noughties

goodness,

friends!

from

the

Britney and Jutin

are double denim goals

past

The (enterta ment)

world accordin to Jess.

Remember when Kim K

was less famous than

Paris Hilton?

Jess’

top

tunes

from the

noughties!

“Yeah” – Usher f t.

Lil Jon & Ludacris

“I’m Real” –

Jennif er Lopez

and Ja Rule

“Wha t’s L u v”

• Fat Joe f t. Ashanti

“P.I.M.P”

• 50 Cent

“Get Low” – Lil Jon f t.

The Eastside Boyz

Jess x

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