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Nostalgia & Now

153. The Music Moments That Defined 2003: 50 Cent, Beyonce, Outkast, & More!

Nostalgia & Now

Kelli Williams

News, Society & Culture, Entertainment News, Tv & Film, Personal Journals

4.8660 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week Kelli is diving into the music moments that defined 2003. From 50 Cent’s complete takeover and Beyoncé stepping into solo superstardom to the domination of OutKast, Sean Paul, Evanescence and more. Kelli revisits the songs, albums, TRL moments, and chart records that made 2003 one of the biggest years in music history.


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0:00.0

We're gonna dance like it's 2005. Come on, get up.

0:04.8

Put it time to feel a talk, nostalgia now, biggest fan in the crowd.

0:11.0

Uh-huh, uh-huh, it's lookin a bitch.

0:16.0

What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of nostalgiaostalgia in now. As always, it's your host,

0:21.0

Kelly Williams. And before we get into the year 2003, I do need to talk about meeting

0:26.4

Hayden Penitier because it truly meant everything to me. And when you hear this story

0:31.2

told almost the exact same way on Beyond the Blinds, on the Kiki, please don't judge me.

0:36.2

Please still laugh at the jokes. I don't know if there

0:38.3

will be any jokes. But on Tuesday night, Donnie, Troy and I all went to Barnes & Noble in Union Square.

0:46.7

And we met Hayden. And Hayden did like a little sit down with Michael Strayhan. And it was just

0:51.8

really great to hear her in person. i think when she does like the big

0:56.6

interview she gets nervous so her voice is like extra shaky and it was funny you could tell she was

1:03.3

nervous like as she was walking to the stage she was very like stiff her hands were clenched but the

1:08.2

second she stepped on that stage, it was like everything dropped.

1:12.1

Like she was able to put her mask on as after Hayden Penitier, and she did an incredible job.

1:18.8

She did answer one of my questions.

1:20.7

So I wrote down, if you could have a theme song to describe your life, what would it be?

1:25.4

And she said, Issues by Julia Michaels, I think, sings that song.

1:29.1

And it was just a funny moment.

1:30.6

Everybody kind of laughed.

1:32.0

And one thing I did notice, so we were probably in the ninth row, I would say.

1:37.5

We were about halfway in between all the rows of the chairs.

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