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The year 1998 was one where people were still into boy bands and girl groups. Moviegoers were watching a family comedy where a father can talk to animals and a dramatic sci-fi movie where a father is separated from his daughter. It was also the year of the World Cup.

All of these things had an effect on music and what was making it to the top of the charts. In 2018, all of these hits will turn 20 years old, so we decided to look back on them. So what was everyone listening to — for better or for worse? Here are 25 classic songs that are turning 20 in 2018.

1. ‘The Boy Is Mine’ by Monica ft. Brandy

"The Boy is Mine" Brandy & Monica
“The Boy is Mine” | Giphy

The collaboration had Monica Arnold and Brandy Norwood singing lyrics fighting over a boy. In the music video, their feud ends with them teaming up against the cheater. It’s actually inspired by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney’s duet “The Girl Is Mine.”

The song became a No. 1 pop hit and topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer. It has an interesting legacy, given the singers feuded at the time and are still feuding. Back in the day, they reportedly refused to be in the same room together and once they were at the MTV VMAs, they reportedly got into a physical altercation.

So this led to people wondering if there is more to the song that paired them up in the first place. “People are still asking, ‘Who got the boy?’ and there was no boy!” Norwood said on HuffPost Live. “We played up the dramatics of it all, but we were 16 and 17 — there was no boy, no beef.”

But even in 2017, the two did exchange heated words remembering Whitney Houston on her birthday. We may never know the truth.

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