10 Perfect Albums That Defined The 2000s

The difference between the pop scene at the start of 2000 and the end of 2009 is like night and day. Whereas most of us were still riding the wave of the '90s at the turn of the millennium, the end of the decade was where the club-centric music really took hold, with bangers that made us want to go to the parties that never seemed to end. And in the midst of that party atmosphere, a woman named Gaga showed us where pop music was going to be headed.

Almost coming off like an answer to the styles of David Bowie, The Fame is the perfect snapshot of what Lady Gaga has always been about, from regular party songs to some of the sharpest songwriting that the pop world has seen in the decade. While you might have had some great songs from the likes of Kelly Clarkson a few years prior, you weren't going to see anyone drop something like Bad Romance any time soon.

It's not like Gaga didn't wear her influences on her sleeve either, with the bubblegum pop of Eh, Eh or the straightforward power ballad on Speechless, which feels like a long forgotten Queen song that was never able to get made. Though it may have seemed like a novelty at the time, this is where the Little Monsters first started to congregate.