I wouldn’t believe you because the beat/instruments are very 2000s Timbaland-y.

I now looked it up and The Neptunes (Pharrell) produced it, which makes sense because of the weird, idk, syncopation on the beat. I take back Timbaland because if he made the beat the instruments would stand out more and be more annoying (not that I’m annoyed, I just don’t know how else to describe it).

I’m not music educated, so idk if my words are right.

I also feel like the singing is 2000s RnB style, but idk if that’s just bias from knowing it’s old, the instrumentation, or how the vocals are produced. I can’t really name that many modern RnB woman singers so I don’t have a good comparison frame. Compared to HER or SZA the vocals aren’t that produced, Kelis is more imperfect and slightly raspy which i think would be edited more these days.

If you’re showing me the video yeah it’s damning

Other than that eh maybe IDK you can make the argument that the milkshake chorus is very catchy and the exact kind of thing that would hit on tik Tok but it also smacks of 2000s in the production and writing outside of that

It’s a very 2000s kind of horny and that’s the real nail in the coffin for me

Also respect to a classic hard to divorce my ingrained cultural knowledge, I don’t know if I can truly give an honest answer because of this. If you ask me to examine I think I can catch it if I wasn’t looking out for it i’d probably take your word for it but I’d find it weird that it was popular outside of the chorus.

music hasnt changed in the last 20 years so yes

Even if I somehow never heard the song, how would I have not heard references to the song?

No, can’t make songs like this anymore because of woke.

i think the lyrics and video premise are a bit timeless

but i think the backing is dated